There have been bitter recriminations after Mariah Carey's televised New Year's Eve performance went wrong.
The pop star's live appearance in New York's Times Square was beset by problems as she complained of sound difficulties and struggled to sing.
Her representative told Billboard the producers "set her up to fail".
But Dick Clark Productions said any suggestion it would "compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd".
Carey was live on ABC just before midnight and began with Auld Lang Syne, but hit trouble during her 1991 hit Emotions.
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The principal of a Taiwanese school whose students held a mock Nazi rally for a Christmas parade has resigned.
Cheng Hsiao-ming, head of the Kuang Fu High School in Hsinchu, said he took "full responsibility" and apologised.
Friday's "rally" featured a parade of swastika banners and a cardboard tank carrying one student performing a Nazi salute.
Israel's representative called the event "deplorable" and Taiwan's presidential office has apologised.
Announcing his resignation, Mr Cheng said: "As educators, we should have taught students to have the right values. We will learn from the mistakes we made and have asked students to do so too."
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source: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/19/health/cat-culture/index.html
They're a disaster for the environment: One conservancy organization has
called cats the "ecological axis of evil." American cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds each year, and they've been implicated in dozens of mammalian extinctions. (The Australian government has funded research into the most efficient methods of cat control -- yielding products like a poison-laced kangaroo sausage called "Eradicat.")
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Material: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_saul_let_s_talk_about_dying#t-778459
Famous sport journalist Fu's request to President Tsai had aroused our society restart to thinking about euthanasia (mercy killing) .
Instead of palliative care, euthanasia is a kind of aritificial death, certain drug is going to be injected into subject's bone marrow.
Probably the subject would not feel any pain, passing away while he/she falls asleep.
In this clip, although Dr.Saul faced considerable dying patients, he still didn't support euthanasia.
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Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-38285361
For President-elect Donald Trump, the biggest issue in the US relationship with China is trade. But for Beijing, it's Taiwan.
Mr Trump and his team know this and it's becoming increasingly clear that they hope to use Taiwan as a bargaining chip to get what they want from China.
In his latest remarks, in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the president-elect suggested that the US should only continue to acknowledge China's position - that Taiwan is part of China - if Beijing agrees to make concessions.
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TIME FLIES! 2017 is right around the corner. Why don’t you share with us about your 2016? Maybe your New Year resolution or something else(like things are ridiculous、sad、happy、major event). It’s up to you!!!
I will bring laptop, you can do power point or shows us some picture or clip you can have 5~8 minutes depend on how many people we have on that day.
PS. If you really don’t have time to prepare, you can use #yearinreview2016 on Facebook, they will make you a review clip right away!
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source: https://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_how_the_blockchain_is_changing_money_and_business?language=zh-tw#t-200665
Questions:
1. Do you believe in plastic or digital money? How often do you use e-payment?
2. How do you view those intellectual right? Could we have a better business model for those idea creator?
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A study clears most seafood from any dangerous health effect five years after the nuclear disaster.
Nearly five years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, most seafood caught off the coast of Japan is safe to eat, according to a new study.
The research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said “the overall contamination risk for aquatic food items is very low” and has decreased steadily since the tsunami-stricken nuclear reactor meltdowns in 2011.
The study, by a team of researchers from several Japanese universities, may quell longstanding fears about the safety of fish caught in Japanese waters since the disaster.
“Highly contaminated foods attract people’s attention,” lead author Hiroshi Okamura told The Washington Post. “Some people cry not to eat seafoods and other people argue many foods are not dangerous.”
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There is a English mania throughout the world over decades, lots of contries list English as their mandatory subject, students can not graduate if their English proficiency do not certified. You and me are deligent English-learner, plenty of people in our society are ambitious as well. In contrast, Mandarin-which is our mother tongue-is less emphasied in our society. Please watch the short (around 10 mins) but impressive clip and share your opinion toward following questions.
Q1. What trigger you learning English? How do English really benefit you?
Q2. Last year, Mandarin test for entering college was not mandatory anymore. For instance, 10 of 11 medicine school had already abandoned counting Mandarin test score as their entrance threshold, does this phenomenon really matter?
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source: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37998577
Questions:
1. Do you think this way really makes you have greater will to go to work on time? What is the most attractive factor that could trigger your motivation to your work?
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