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首對香港父女檔完成「七日七大洲馬拉松」
World Marathon Challenge is a marathon competition that involves completing seven full 42.2 km run marathon races on seven continents in seven days.
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#利申 三十碎完成左一次行哂既馬拉松
#係睇左今期Sportsoho運動版圖雜誌而搵我既XD? #謝謝
#Sportsmanship
#DigitalArt
#Man僧
ASAKU® X Phantom Fluffy
Author：Mingkun Liu
I. Synopsis:
Phantom Fluffy is an animation created for children and teenagers, and the
story is about the daily life of Fluffy and his phantom friends. For Fluffy and his
friends, every day is a happy day with some unconventional fun and magic.
Certainly, they fight because of different personalities, but they always make it up in
the end. As BFFs, Fluffy and his phantom friends play together, adventure together,
and pull pranks together.
In this animation, all is happy and peaceful. The theme for this creation is joy,
warmth, and moral, which shall remain true no matter where the viewer is from.
II. Introduction of the Phantom Continent:
In the domain of the Epic World, the ocean is horizontal and the end of
the world is a cliff. If one falls from the cliff, he will be devoured by the endless void.
The Epic World is made up of seven continents, including the Fairies
Continent, the Elves Continent, the Phantom Continent, the Humans Continent, the
Dreams Continent, the Gods Continent, and the Mirror Continent.
The Phantom Continent is divided into three kingdoms, the Dragon Kingdom,
the Beast Kingdom, and the Mermaid Kingdom. Fluffy, our main character, lives in
the Beast Kingdom.
Everything is full of fun and magic, as warm and fuzzy as the furry animals on
Animal Planet Channel~
III. Introduction of Characters:
1. Fluffy
Race: Phantom Fox
Attribute: Water
Gender: Male
Skills: Dreams come true! All come true! 3D Unfolding!
Character Description:
Fluffy loves to draw graffiti wherever he feels like, so people scold him for this.
Ever since he received Ink of Sincerity and Magical Paint Brush, he has gained the
magic power to turn his paintings into reality, which he uses to pull pranks.
Fluffy loves popcorn most. Popcorn is a kind of food that is only
available from the Humans Continent, so he asks his friend, Secret, to buy some for
him all the time.
Stubborn, Fluffy always goes all out for whatever he wants at all costs. Even
though Fluffy seldom keeps his words, he is pretty good at getting away by playing
innocent. One day, he got himself into trouble again, and has been cursed since
then: As long as he stays in the same place, cloud will gather right above him and
start to pour soon. Therefore, Fluffy has to keep on moving constantly or hide
somewhere with a roof.
2. Samoyed
Race: Magic Lion
Attribute: Fire
Gender: Male
Skills: Cloaked in Protection, Berserk Attack
Character Description:
A reticent beast who appears quite serious, but in fact, he teases people from
time to time. Samoyed is robust so people usually turn to him for protection. Quiet as
ever, Samoyed is a great listener and keeps what he hears to himself. Manners and
art of cuisine are what Samoyed cares about.
3. Uda
Race: Bizzare Bat
Attribute: Ion
Gender: N/A
Skills: Sonic Exploration, Dozy Drowsy
Connection to this animation:
Uda is the ghost card guardian for the Fairies Holy Land, and he can also turn
into the Sun Sword, a divine weapon, to protect Asaku. Uda appears in the Wheel of
Four Seasons and Dragon Life.
Character Description:
As a perfectionist, Uda nags on things he doesn’t like the whole day. With
remarkable memory, Uda remembers everything and anything he sees, as well as
any wrongs others do to him. Uda loves reading and knows quite a great deal.
Whoever has a problem, all they need to do is consult Uda.
4. Secret
Race: Spiritual Cat
Attribute: Soil
Gender: Female
Skills: Designing and Improving, Purchasing Agent
Character Description:
Shrewd and sharp, Secret has a gift in business and she believes in profits
above all. No one knows what she is up to, and Secret likes inventing new things
and experimenting on her friends. In the whole world, she loves grilled fish most of
all.
5. Sky
Race: Shadow Wolf
Attribute: Space
Gender: Female
Skills: Shapeshifting in Shadow, Shadowing with Nose
Character Description:
Elegant and composed, Sky is a gorgeous lady. She can become
invisible and move swiftly. Talking with flowery expressions, Sky loves to collect
flowers and craft them into an accessory.
6. Sparta
Race: Divine Owl
Attribute: Wind
Gender: Male
Skills: Map Drawing, Super Vision
Character Description:
Sparta loves traveling, drawing maps during the adventure, and
keeping a journal. As a great journalist, Sparta knows everything everywhere. His life
goal is to venture over the seven continents. With the Compass of No return on his
neck, Sparta never travels a place for the second time. Meanwhile, Sparta is an
exceptional messenger.
ASAKU X Phantom Fluffy Animation PV
https://youtu.be/8j0WIHPrhRw
URL
https://asaku.info/phantomfluffy/
🇩🇰 這是一篇深度報導，來自歐洲現存最古老的報紙：丹麥Weekendavisen，題目是從香港抗爭運動、香港聯繫加泰羅尼亞的集會，前瞻全球大城市的「永久革命」。一篇報導訪問了世界各地大量學者，我也在其中，雖然只是每人一句，加在一起，卻有了很完整的圖像。
以下為英譯：
Protest! The demonstrations in Hong Kong were just the beginning. Now there are unrest in big cities from Baghdad to Barcelona. Perhaps the stage is set for something that could look like a permanent revolution in the world's big cities.
A world on the barricades
At the end of October, an hour after dark, a group of young protesters gathered at the Chater Garden Park in Hong Kong. Some of them wore large red and yellow flags. The talk began and the applause filled the warm evening air. There were slogans of independence, and demands of self-determination - from Spain. For the protest was in sympathy with the Catalan independence movement.
At the same time, a group of Catalan protesters staged a protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in Barcelona in favor of Hong Kong's hope for more democracy. The message was not to be mistaken: We are in the same boat. Or, as Joshua Wong, one of the leading members of the Hong Kong protest movement, told the Catalan news agency: "The people of Hong Kong and Catalonia both deserve the right to decide their own destiny."
For much of 2019, Hong Kong's streets have been ravaged by fierce protests and a growing desperation on both sides, with escalating violence and vandalism ensuing. But what, do observers ask, if Hong Kong is not just a Chinese crisis, but a warning of anger that is about to break out globally?
Each week brings new turmoil from an unexpected edge. In recent days, attention has focused on Chile. Here, more than 20 people have lost their lives in unrest, which has mainly been about unequal distribution of economic goods. Before then, the unrest has hit places as diverse as Lebanon and the Czech Republic, Bolivia and Algeria, Russia and Sudan.
With such a geographical spread, it is difficult to bring the protests to any sort of common denominator, but they all reflect a form of powerlessness so acute that traditional ways of speaking do not seem adequate.
Hardy Merriman, head of research at the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, is not in doubt that it is a real wave of protest and that we have not seen the ending yet.
"I have been researching non-violent resistance for 17 years, and to me it is obvious that there are far more popular protest movements now than before. Often the protests have roots in the way political systems work. Elsewhere, it is about welfare and economic inequality or both. The two sets of factors are often related, ”he says.
Economic powerlessness
Hong Kong is a good example of this. The desire among the majority of Hong Kong's seven million residents to maintain an independent political identity vis-à-vis the People's Republic of China is well known, but the resentment of the streets is also fueled by a sense of economic powerlessness. Hong Kong is one of the most unequal communities in the world, and especially the uneven access to the real estate market is causing a stir.
According to Lee Chun-wing, a sociologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the turmoil in the city is not just facing Beijing, but also expressing a daunting showdown with the neoliberal economy, which should diminish the state's role and give the market more influence, but in its real form often ends with the brutal arbitrariness of jungle law.
'The many protests show that neoliberalism is unable to instill hope in many. And as one of the world's most neoliberal cities, Hong Kong is no exception. While the protests here are, of course, primarily political, there is no doubt that social polarization and economic inequality make many young people not afraid to participate in more radical protests and do not care whether they are accused of damage economic growth, 'he says.
The turmoil is now so extensive that it can no longer be dismissed as a coincidence. Something special and significant is happening. As UN Secretary General António Guterres put it last week, it would be wrong to stare blindly at the superficial differences between the factors that get people on the streets.
“There are also common features that are recurring across the continents and should force us to reflect and respond. It is clear that there is growing distrust between the people and the political elites and growing threats to the social contract. The world is struggling with the negative consequences of globalization and the new technologies that have led to growing inequality in individual societies, "he told reporters in New York.
Triggered by trifles
In many cases, the riots have been triggered by questions that may appear almost trivial on the surface. In Chile, there was an increase in the price of the capital's subway equivalent to 30 Danish cents, while in Lebanon there were reports of a tax on certain services on the Internet. In both places, it was just the reason why the people have been able to express a far more fundamental dissatisfaction.
In a broad sense, there are two situations where a population is rebelling, says Paul Almeida, who teaches sociology at the University of California, Merced. The first is when more opportunities suddenly open up and conditions get better. People are getting hungry for more and trying to pressure their politicians to give even more concessions.
“But then there is also the mobilization that takes place when people get worse. That seems to be the overall theme of the current protests, even in Hong Kong. People are concerned about various kinds of threats they face. It may be the threat of inferior economic conditions, or it may be a more political threat of erosion of rights. But the question is why it is happening right now. That's the 10,000-kroner issue, ”says Almeida.
Almeida, who has just published the book Social Movements: The Structure of Social Mobilization, even gives a possible answer. A growing authoritarian, anti-democratic flow has spread across the continents and united rulers in all countries, and among others it is the one that has now triggered a reaction in the peoples.
“There is a tendency for more use of force by the state power. If we look at the death toll in Latin America, they are high considering that the countries are democracies. This kind of violence is not usually expected in democratic regimes in connection with protests. It is an interesting trend and may be related to the authoritarian flow that is underway worldwide. It's worth watching, 'he says.
The authoritarian wave
Politologists Anna Lürhmann and Staffan Lindberg from the University of Gothenburg describe in a paper published earlier this year a "third autocratic wave." Unlike previous waves, for example, in the years before World War II, when democracy was beaten under great external drama , the new wave is characterized by creeping. It happens little by little - in countries like Turkey, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Hungary and Russia - at such a slow pace that you barely notice it.
Even old-fashioned autocrats nowadays understand the language of democracy - the only acceptable lingua franca in politics - and so the popular reaction does not happen very often when it becomes clear at once that the electoral process itself is not sufficient to secure democratic conditions. Against this backdrop, Kenneth Chan, a politician at Hong Kong Baptist University, sees the recent worldwide wave of unrest as an expression of the legitimacy crisis of the democratic regimes.
“People have become more likely to take the initiative and take part in direct actions because they feel that they have not made the changes they had hoped for through the elections. In fact, the leaders elected by the peoples are perceived as undermining the institutional guarantees of citizens' security, freedom, welfare and rights. As a result, over the past decade, we have seen more democracies reduced to semi-democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes, ”he says.
"Therefore, we should also not be surprised by the new wave of resistance from the people. On the surface, the spark may be a relatively innocent or inconsiderate decision by the leadership, but people's anger quickly turns to what they see as the cause of the democratic deroute, that is, an arrogant and selfish leadership, a weakened democratic control, a dysfunctional civil society. who are no longer able to speak on behalf of the people. ”The world is changing. Anthony Ince, a cardiff at Cardiff University who has researched urban urban unrest, sees the uprisings as the culmination of long-term nagging discontent and an almost revolutionary situation where new can arise.
"The wider context is that the dominant world order - the global neoliberalism that has dominated since the 1980s - is under pressure from a number of sides, creating both uncertainty and at the same time the possibility of change. People may feel that we are in a period of uncertainty, confusion, anxiety, but perhaps also hope, ”he says.
Learning from each other.
Apart from mutual assurances of solidarity the protest movements in between, there does not appear to be any kind of coordination. But it may not be necessary either. In a time of social media, learning from each other's practices is easy, says Simon Shen, a University of Hong Kong political scientist.
“They learn from each other at the tactical level. Protesters in Hong Kong have seen what happened in Ukraine through YouTube, and now protesters in Catalonia and Lebanon are taking lessons from Hong Kong. It's reminiscent of 1968, when baby boomers around the globe were inspired by an alternative ideology to break down rigid hierarchies, 'he says.
But just as the protest movements can learn from each other, the same goes for their opponents. According to Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth, Russia has been particularly active in trying to establish cooperation with other authoritarian regimes, which feel threatened by riots in the style of the "color revolutions" on the periphery of the old Soviet empire at the turn of the century.
"It has resulted in joint efforts between Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Venezuelan, Belarusian, Syrian and other national authorities to develop, systematize and report on techniques and practices that have proved useful in trying to contain such threats," writes Chenoweth in an article in the journal Global Responsibility to Protect.
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, commentators at the New York Times, point to the social media as a double-edged sword. Not only are Twitter and Facebook powerful weapons in the hands of tech-savvy autocrats. They are also of questionable value to the protesting grass roots. With WhatsApp and other new technologies, it is possible to mobilize large numbers of interested and almost-interested participants in collective action. But they quickly fall apart again.
The volatile affiliation is one of the reasons why, according to a recent survey, politically motivated protests today only succeed in reaching their targets in 30 percent of cases. A generation ago, the success rate was 70 percent. Therefore, unrest often recurs every few years, and they last longer, as Hong Kong is an example of. Perhaps the scene is set for something that might resemble a permanent revolution in the world's big cities - a kind of background noise that other residents will eventually just get used to.
"Since there is still no obvious alternative to neoliberalism, the polarization that led to the protests initially will probably continue to apply," says Lee of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. "At the same time, this means that the anger and frustration will continue to rumble in society."
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