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“特殊性關係”
---有人羞辱你時怎麼辦?
Ko Wen-je furious over councilor's 'special relations' remark China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Tempers flared in the Taipei City Council yesterday as Mayor Ko Wen-je slammed his fist into a desk in reaction to comments made by a councilor during the afternoon session, as political haranguing over "Hatanogate" continued.
Kuomintang (KMT) Councilor Hsu Hung-ting (徐弘庭), speaking about a list of names released by EasyCard Corp. that was demanded by lawmakers on Tuesday, directed a salvo at Ko, stating: "Mayor, have you seen this list of names? Your leniency toward Tai Chih-chuan (戴季全) goes beyond the common sense of Taipei City residents. One day Neil Peng (馮光遠) will say that you and Tai have special relations (特殊性關係)."
Peng, a writer, once alleged President Ma Ying-jeou and his close adviser, former National Security Council General-Secretary King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) of the same kind of relationship. The term "special relations" in Chinese can in some occasions refer to a sexual relationship.
How to Deal With Insults and Put-Downs Neel Burton M.D.
Anger. This is the weakest possible response, and this for three main reasons. First, it shows that we take the insult, and therefore the insulter, seriously. Second, it suggests that there is truth in the insult. And third, it destabilizes us and causes us pain.
Humor. Humor is an especially effective response for three reasons: it undermines the insult, it brings the audience (if any) on side, and it diffuses the tension of the situation. Here is an example of the effective use of humor. Cato the Younger, the Roman statesman and stoic philosopher, was pleading a case when his adversary Lentulus spat in his face. After wiping off the spittle, Cato said, “I will swear to anyone, Lentulus, that people are wrong to say that you cannot use your mouth.”
Ignoring the insult. One downside of humor is that it requires quick thinking. In contrast, ignoring the insult is easier and, in fact, more powerful. One day, a boor struck Cato whilst he was out at the public baths. When the boor realized that it was Cato whom he had struck, he came to offer his apology. Instead of getting angry or accepting the apology, Cato replied, “I don’t remember being struck.”
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How to handle negative comments?
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空污--330萬人死亡
Simply Breathing the Air Kills 3.3 Million People Every Year —By James West
On Monday, buildings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were shrouded in smog as Indonesian forest fires worsened. Joshua Paul/AP
Air pollution kills 3.3 million people per year. And that number could double by 2050 if nothing is done to clean up the dangerous levels tiny particles, toxins, and ozone that blanket many countries, especially in Asia.
These are the startling new findings published on Wednesday in the journal Nature by a team of researchers led by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.
Children under five years of age are the leading victims in developing countries, the scientists say. In the West, most of the premature deaths occur among those over 30 years old. Air pollution—mainly tiny particles known as PM2.5—is known to lead to cancer, as well as to respiratory and pulmonary diseases.
The number of premature deaths linked to air pollution is higher than the annual death toll of HIV and malaria combined, according to the report's lead author, Jos Lelieveld. China has the most pollution-related deaths: nearly 1.4 million each year. The authors note that mortality linked to air pollution is "approximately an order of magnitude higher than that attributable to Chinese road transport injuries and HIV/AIDS, and ranks among the top causes of death." In other words, it's a public health crisis of massive proportions. Toxic pollution from dirty residential heating and cooking in China, as well as in Pakistan and India, is the leading cause of these deaths.
The authors of the report emphasized the rapid growth of the world's urban populations as a reason humans are breathing more of this toxic brew. Seventeen so-called "megacities" in Asia rank among the top 30 in terms of premature mortality, the leading one being China's Pearl River Delta. It's little wonder, given satellite images released by NASA this week that show how that region has become the world's biggest urban center in just 30 years. The delta now has 42 million inhabitants:
Q:
What are your opinions about the news reported that “air pollution kills 3.3 million people per year”?
Is air pollution serious in Taiwan? Is air quality good at Taipei areas?
What causes air pollution?
How to get fresh air?
If you were a city mayor what can you do to combat air pollution?
Ways to reduce air pollution?
Do pollution masks really work?
【大紀元2015年09月18日訊】（大紀元記者陳俊村編譯報導）最近一項國際研究揭示，空氣污染每年在世界各地造成330萬人死亡，其中以中國的死亡人數居首，達總人數的三分之一以上。科學家預測，如果空氣污染的情況沒有改善的話，在2050年之前，死亡人數將倍增至660萬人。
這項由美國、德國、沙特阿拉伯等國家的科學家所參與的研究，利用健康統計資料與電腦模型計算因空氣污染而死的人數。其中，四分之三的人死於空氣污染引發的中風和心臟病。
研究人員表示，空氣污染致死的人數超過愛滋病和瘧疾的總和。其中，以中國的大約140萬人最多；其次是印度，該國每年約有64.5萬人死於空氣污染；而巴基斯坦則有11萬人。
以美國而言，共有54,905人於2010年死於煤灰和煙霧等污染物質，其死亡人數排名全球第7。值得注意的是，農業衍生的空氣污染導致其中的16,221人死亡，僅次發電廠引發空氣污染所致死的16,929人。而在大多數西部地區，煤灰和煙霧主要來自交通工具所排放的廢氣。
研究顯示，在美國東北部、所有歐洲地區、俄羅斯、日本和韓國，農業是引發煤灰和煙霧的最大主因。就全世界而言，農業衍生的空氣污染導致664,100人死亡，是第二大主因，而最大主因則是開發中國家使用木材和其它燃料來烹飪或產生暖氣所衍生的空氣污染，其每年致死人數超過100萬人。
這項研究的主要作者、德國馬克斯‧普朗克化學研究所（Max Planck
Institute for Chemistry）的研究人員列李維德（Jos
Lelieveld）說，農業的主要問題是來自肥料和動物排泄物的氨氣，它會結合來自火力發電廠所產生的硫酸鹽，以及來自汽機車排放的硝酸鹽，形成煤灰這種主要的致命物質。
科學家說，農業的排放物質日益重要，卻未受到管制，像氨氣污染就能以較低的成本加以遏制，這有待人們給予更多關注。
列李維德補充說，二氧化碳是另一種污染源，也是造成全球暖化的主要氣體。如果全世界能減少二氧化碳的排放，煤灰和煙霧的水平也會降低，這將是一個雙贏的情況。
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