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fate matrix

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[ alphinaud/wol & cameos and mentions of some friend ocs, you’re gonna have to read to find out who :) ] ★ [ 5,241 words (oof) ]  ★ [ fate matrix au ]

fate: be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way

in a world where the hands of destiny are ones and zeros, at the center of the matrix was a little goddess who would soon find out that she too, isn’t immune to the pull of fate

Day ???? | 07:07am | Day of Destined Meetings

An alarm rings, beeping in an increasingly loud volume as the monitors begin booting up. As light from the screens flood the room, the sound of cotton ruffling can be heard, followed by a soft little yawn.

The girl stirs, clutching at her duvet for warmth before her eyelids flutter open. Bright violet eyes stare up at the ceiling, where the patches of glow up star stickers have lost their radiance in the midst of the fluorescent bulb lighting up. Blinded momentarily, she grimaces, before rolling onto her side and sitting up.

“Good morning, alpha.” A melodic voice chirps out merrily from her parted lips, and she raises a hand to pet the head of the stuffed chocobo that she had been laying beside. “It’s time for work again, huh?”

Stretching her arms high above her head with a final, long yawn, the girl shuffles over to the minibar that was tucked under the table, pulling the door open before grabbing a small tub of yoghurt and peeling it open to peer inside curiously.

Oh, it’s strawberry today, how wonderful! Whoever or whatever magical force is behind stocking up the minibar seems to be in her favor this morning.

Grateful now for her breakfast, the girl slides over to the front of the bed, and places her hand on the mouse after taking a spoonful of the yoghurt into her mouth.

System booting... Please enter password. >illyaskawi03112 Log in successful. Fatematrix.exe starting. Welcome, Alice. 

The monitors that surround her begin loading up window tabs after window tabs - and at the center on her main monitor, a sizeable grid of glowing icons pop up, along with a smaller, more discreet window showing a map tucked away at the corner of the screen.

Visual stimuli overload aside, the girl seemed to be completely unphased as she bites into yet another scoopful of yoghurt before setting the tub next to her white keyboard, as if this were a scene she’s had to see countless times now. 

It’s a routine, a well rehearsed routine that the girl effortlessly goes through the motions of daily. The fate matrix is ever in need of use and she, the center of it all, was more than happy to take control. 

That is, after all, the will of her late mother... the previous Alice and goddess of the fate matrix. It is simply her duty to carry on in her legacy. And as per her duty, she begins to spin the wheel of fate, clicking on the very first icon that boots up the fate matrix’s tool assistant. A bright blue pop up appears that the girl drags to the side, and text begins to appear.

Good morning, Alice. Today is a day of destined meetings. I would suggest working on getting soul mates together for the day.

Internally, Illya is delighted. Soul mates were one of her favorite types of work to focus on... and though they were rarely ever more urgent than other types of assignments like accident prevention, weather management or economic balance, it was one that often brought her a great amount of joy. 

After all, what was sweeter than nudging two souls who were meant for each other closer? It was the very concept of soul mates, and the tales of the red thread of fate after all, that drew her mother into the concept of fate and caused her to develop the fate matrix.

A soft smile graces her features, and she moves her cursor to click on the second icon, which loads for a second before breaking apart into smaller, glowing dots that scatter across the map - with two dots that indicated soul mates being linked by a dotted line. 

Time to get to work!

01:46pm

When Illya clicked on the glowing two red dots upon the map, she hadn’t expected to be shown live footage of the two targets in the very same room. 

It’s not uncommon for soul mates to have already met each other, or even be familiar with one another already despite not having made their feelings for each other known yet... but they were cases that were, in Illya’s experience, a little more difficult to work on. 

It was easy to nudge two strangers in the same direction or plant small, innocuous thoughts that would help draw two acquaintances into wanting to spend more time with their soul mate. It was far more difficult to convince stubborn people who have, despite many fateful circumstances, refused to confess their feelings to the object of their confession. 

After all, the fate matrix was capable of many things - but controlling or taking over the will of people was not one of them. 

Illya has convinced two stubborn souls to finally open up in the past though, she was certain she could do so again - she did so with the likes of the two childhood friends, Moth’ir and Thancred... a case which she would never in a million years soon forget... or the infuriatingly obstinate refusal of a pink haired miqo’te girl to confess to her close friend and personal trainer, Haurchefant Greystone... who had been more than obvious with his flirtations for years. 

Alice, you have yet to eat your lunch. A quick break is highly suggested. 

The tool assistant sends a reminder through a text in it’s window, which Illya is swift to ignore. She can eat once she’s done with this case. 

She watched through the monitor as the pair sat on the couch, a girl with straight cut bangs and piercing red eyes lounging lazily with her back propped against the arm rest and her legs laid over her taller, lankier male friend, who seemed to be frustrated at the girl’s refusal to pay him any attention.

“Why invite me over if you’re just going to play your game?” 

“Hmph! Says the guy who invited me over to his place only to kick me out halfway through because some of his friends were going to pay him a surprise visit!”

The man lets out a hefty sigh.

“I already apologized for that. And that was over a week ago. Are you seriously still-”

“Yes, yes I am!” Without even looking up from her smartphone, the girl lets out a dramatic huff while admonishing her friend. “I don’t get why you’re so adamant about me not meeting your friends. Why, are you scared they’ll misunderstand and think I’m your girlfriend?”

“That’s- That’s not-”

From the heartrate monitor, Illya can tell that was only part of the reason for his behavior. The true reason, and an explanation that the girl understood full well why he would refuse to tell his friend was written in text in a separate window next to his heartrate monitor. 

The girl, Totomi Tomi, or better known by her stage name as Mint, was something of a minor celebrity on the internet. Known for her jovial personality and the many covers of vocaloid songs she posted on her well known eorzeatube page, it wouldn’t be a stretch to call her an idol - even if she wasn’t officially acknowledged or employed as one by some idol management company. Her friend, Estinien, and the object of her very strong feelings towards, had friends who were apparently fans of hers. 

It was for that very reason that, for her protection and to spare her the oogling of strangers, that he’d kept his friendship with the young idol a secret from others. 

In his eyes, perhaps dating her would be the quickest way to convince his friends to back off... but that would only come after they’d confessed their feelings - which they haven’t. 

“That’s not important.” Estinien finally retorts after stumbling after his words for a moment, and Illya has to resist the urge to slam her head against the keyboard.

“Ohhhh... Kay.” Mint rolls her eyes, Illya mirrors the action. 

What Illya doesn’t anticipate however, is Estinien’s next words, for as bold and uncharacteristic for an emotionally closed off man such as him.

“Why? Are you disappointed? You almost sound like you want to be known as my girlfriend.” 

Mint chokes on her spit, sputtering and gurgling out incomprehensible words until she recovers - but only barely... and now with a dark red blush plastered over her freckled cheeks.

“I-In your dreams, maybe!” Her blatant lie is apparent to all but... the ones who are present in the room. “Besides, I already have someone I like!” 

“Oh?” Illya can hear the sheer contempt from her headphones, and she grimaces at the man’s deep frown. “Do tell, who is it?”

“Wouldn’t you like to know, dunderhead!”

“Tell me. I’m curious.” 

“Nope nope nope nope nope noppetty nope! Why’d you think I would ever tell you, huh??”

Mint sticks her tongue out at the man, who scowls deeper and nudges the woman’s legs off of his lap.

“Fine. How about a bet then.”

“What bet?”

The man points to the phone she has in her hands.

“Since you’re so fond of your gacha games, and you’re always bragging about how good your luck is, why don’t we make a bet using your game?” 

Snatching the phone out of Mint’s hand despite her protests, Estinien taps on the settings button before clicking on the gacha button, the screen switching to the current limited rate up banner of a popular event character.

“If you get a character of the highest rarity within 50 draws, you have to tell me who your crush is.”

“W-why would I even agree to that?? I’ve been saving my primos for Xi-Ao you know?!” 

“I’ll pay for your pulls. It’s a win-win for you that way, no? You get free pulls from the game, I get to know who your crush is if you get a shiny new character.”

Mint pulls back, hesitant and suspicion clear in her eyes, but still enough to hint at consideration.

“And what’s in it for me? What if I do pull a 5 star character?”

After much consideration, Estinien responds once more.

“I’ll let you whale for whatever character you want next on my credit card. And I’ll cosplay with you at the next convention.”

At the condition of his loss set, Mint’s face lights up with pure elation, as she snatches her phone back from her friend with a cheeky grin on her face.

“Deal! You’re so going to lose, long bean! My luck in Genshin Impact’s second to none! I can’t wait to make you cosplay sailor moon!!”

An equally devious smile spreads across the face of Alice, whose hands are swift to pull up another window tab reserved specifically for video game and gambling luck. 

She has always admittedly been favorable and gracious in giving out good draws to people who deserve it - the program she has running in the background is testament to that... And she has no doubt in her mind that the fate matrix has been generous in it’s givings to Mint, if her boastings are anything to go by. 

Mint must thusly, be a good person.... and she deserves a fate more fulfilling than virtual characters on a screen.

The girl must truly feel confident in herself, as she hits the draw x10 button without a single hesitation. 

Illya begins typing the code into the new window, and sympathy wells in her heart as she hears Mint huff in minor disappointment.

“Only one 4 star? Eh, it’s just a fluke, I have 40 more pulls and I’m close to soft pity too!”

“Good luck.” Estinien chuckles mockingly, and Mint lets out a growl before pressing on the draw x10 button again.

Nothing. The third ten pull is no better - with nothing but a single 4 star weapon to show for her efforts. Mint is evidently getting more nervous as her finger shakes, pressing down on the button that will decide her fate for the fourth time.

She was so certain she’d get a 5 star by now - she normally gets what she wants within the first thirsty pulls, and it’s a normal occurrence to even pull multiple 5 stars within the same roll... So... why?

Her 40th pull ends with two 4 star characters, a sight better than the ones before... a sign of Illya’s pity on her... but still not a condition for her win.

“Oh, someone’s getting nervous.” Estinien smirks, “You’re on your last pull away from telling me who you have a crush on.”

“H-hah! That’s where you’re wrong!” Mint exclaims, jabbing a finger at him. “The chances of getting a 5 star increases with each pull, so i’m almost a hundred percent certain I’ll get one this time!”

Mint’s heartrate monitor is going off the charts, and Illya has to intervene by lowering her vitals enough so she wouldn’t pass out from sheer nervousness. It does little to hide it from Estinien, however, who could only relish every second of Mint’s rapidly darkening blush as she finally taps on the draw x10 button one final time.

The shooting star across the screen flickers, before bursting into a shade of pink that has Mint leaning back with mouth agape, a mixture of sheer shock and terror on her expression. 

Hopelessness is all she feels as she taps, taps and taps, and the roll summary page shows naught but a single Benny - the unluckiest character in the game, grinning widely at her.

“Well, well, well. Looks like I won.” Estinien sounds way too casual and smug, unaware of the monumentally immense amount of bad fortune that had just befallen his friends. “As per our deal, you’re going to have to tell me who your crush is.”

Illya feels sorry for her meddling, and she makes a mental note to herself to bless Mint’s future rolls with as many of the highest rarity characters she could possibly afford to give without breaking the laws of probability too much... but when Mint finally breaks out of her stutter and sets her phone down on her lap, hands grasping so tightly at the hem of her skirt that her knuckles turned white, the girl knew that she’d dealt the woman a hand far kinder than if she had not.

“I-It’s...... It’s you, okay?”

07:32pm

Alice it is time for dinner. The curry will get cold if you leave it out for too long.

Illya’s tendency to ignore the tool assistant in regards to her own wellbeing was concerning, but not an anomaly. In fact, it was far more rare for the text in the pop up to be spared more than a single second’s glance from her. 

Whether it was reminders for her to eat, for her to sleep early, to hydrate or to stretch after hours hunched over her keyboard in front of glaringly bright monitors for a good whole of her day, the tool assistant’s well meaning messages would always go ignored.

It’s a natural part of it’s program, Illya tells herself, as she filters through lists of finished cases before moving on to pending ones. Much like the fate matrix, that ran on a code that was, in admittance, far more complex than even she could fully comprehend... the tool assistant ran on code. It was an artificial intelligence her mother had created during her last few months of life, something that, according to the note left in the hard drive of the fate matrix, would help Illya better slip into her role as adjudicator of fate. 

She’d remembered when she first awoke in this room and on the bed, not having any recollection of how she’d even arrived in the first place. The momentary panic and confusion had been replaced with a sense of obligation... of duty and honor when she booted up the computer for the first time to be greeted with the words from the tool assistant - as well as a lengthy message from her late mother.

We who do not belong to the realm of mortals... we who possess the blood of fate. We bear the burden of watching over the world and making sure that it is a safer, happier, better place for everyone. Only you alone can take possession of the fate matrix in my stead, and I pray you’ll forgive me for not being able to say goodbye to you in person.

Family meant the world to Illya, it has ever been that way. She spent a good amount of her childhood in the company of her parents, with little understanding of the world beneath. She had no concept of the idea of fate, of how destiny was dealt... only that her mother had a significant role to play, and that her time with her family was soon to be cut short by a crippling, unkind illness that not even the fate matrix could undo. 

Illya’s never tried stepping out of her room before. She has always assumed that it exists in some kind of void or overworld that overlooked the mortal realm. It mattered not, really... The only thing important was that mother had left this place behind, and wanted her only daughter to inherit her role as Alice.

It was with that responsibility in mind that drove Illya to stay seated in front of the monitors for as long as she has. 

Time is no longer being a concept, the rising and falling of the sun no longer visible to her eyes aside from a arbitrary number on the clock that served more as a timer for how long she has left to work until exhaustion would consume her. 

Do you not wonder what it’s like to have friends, Alice?

Recently, however the tool assistant has been sending her more and more pointless questions... questions that went far beyond the daily self-maintenance reminders that she could understand her mother programming in for her wellbeing, questions aimed to be poignant and was targeted to making her feel more isolated and alone than it did help. It was bordering on annoyance.

You could leave this room any time you wanted.

And why would she do that? She murmured to herself as she typed in code to program a heavy storm, forcing a raven haired lalafellin man to offer his umbrella to his soul mate who had been stranded under a lone busstop - a pink haired woman with olive green eyes who seemed utterly smitten with him upon first sight.

Her purpose was here, to take control of the fate matrix, to grant happy memories, to save lives, to fulfill wishes and dreams. There can be no greater and heavier responsibility to bear in the world. 

Truthfully, the reason why Illya stayed at first had solely because of her mother’s wishes... But now, it was more than that. 

Because the idea of separating herself from the fate matrix... and not being able to grant the kindness of fate that so many people in the world deserved... it was a pain that was worth her own sense of self. 

Are you not lonely? Do you not want someone to love you?

Why did it matter if she was lonely? The envy and curiosity she feels upon watching a group of friends hanging out together is nothing in comparison to the pain mortals felt from a love unrequited, or a loved one losing their life. 

She taps furiously on a historian with bright red hair and eyes, forcing him to get a wardrobe malfunction that would push him to visit a tailor where an impish lalafellin fashion designer with snow white freckles awaited him with choice words of ridicule. She tips over a telephone pole that causes two surf shop co-owners who were on a road trip to park by the roadside so that they may witness a falling star, wishes made leading to their confession. She painstakingly guides a woman with silver hair and golden yellow eyes towards a drycleaner, where she initiates easy banter with a man who she later finds out was her old schoolmate.

Juno and Ysayle, Bianca and Varis, Niqesse and Zenos, Nowi and June. She remembers the soul mates she pushes together by name, and treasures the happiness they are sure to feel from their memories as if they were her own.

Detached from their world she may be, it is through the fate matrix that she can experience a sliver of their joy and love... even if it is for a fleeting moment before she must move on to the next. 

11:17pm

One more assignment, she tells herself, eyes bloodshot and fingers sore from typing. One more case and she��ll eat before going to bed. She has done much for the day as it is... but she cannot rest until she’s closed one particular case that has her vexed for the entire day.

A pair of glowing purple dots that has been plastered on the map since morning has her thoroughly vexed... because for some reason or another, she cannot seem to gather information on one half of the pair. 

She’s able to view the other half just fine - a dashing young man who seemed to be a senior in university despite his age, having skipped two grades due to his academic prowess. He is incredibly gifted, possessing not only of superior intellect but also an artistic hand and charismatic demeanor that makes him quite popular at his school.

But no matter how much she clicked on the other purple dot, or made futile attempts to manually search for data on his other half, nothing would show up. No windows, no tabs... What was even more perplexing was that the dot hadn’t moved on the map at all. 

Illya had paid especially close attention to the purple dots ever since she’d found this anomaly in the fate matrix... she was certain she would have noted movement if there had been any at all. 

But whereas the icon of the boy had understandably been moving throughout the city of Sharlayan, the icon of his mysterious other half hadn’t, laying stagnant on a singular point of the map in the middle of what appeared to be an old apartment complex.

It was as if his soul mate just... didn’t exist at all. 

The boy didn’t have any romantic feelings for anyone, nor did it seem like there was anyone at his school that would have an attachment to him that extended beyond admiration or a short-term attraction, which she’s long learned to tell apart from genuine love. If the tool assistant had a text saying that her target simply did not have a soul mate at all, she’d have been inclined to believe it.

But the other purple dot that connected to his does not lie. If he didn’t have a soul mate, his icon wouldn’t be connected to the other. Her tool assistant wouldn’t have told her, very deliberately she may add, that he did in fact have a soul mate and that it was imperative for her to unite them.

But how was she to make two people meet when she could not even tell who the other was? It was the first time Illya’s wondered if there was even any point to her efforts. 

Desperate times call for desperate measures, then. It may be unnatural for a piece of note to fall from the sky, but it was perhaps her final chance to get the boy to meet his soul mate before the opportunity would be lost forever.

Assignments from her pending window are known to disappear all of a sudden, and soul mates who were attached and at their prime for a fated meeting for the moment often times disappear from the map entirely... a tragedy as a result to the slipping of time that the fate matrix cannot rectify... and she’d be damned if she let it happen to this case just because of a simple glitch. 

The boy, Alphinaud Leveilleur, star student of the nation’s most prestigious academy, had been walking home from his late night seminars. His position was unnervingly close to where his soul mate is, and since she could not think of any way she could naturally nudge him in the direction of the apartment complex, she writes a note posing as his soul mate and drops it from the sky.

“W-what in the twelve?”

The boy catches it in mid-air, looking at the haphazardly scribbled words on the paper. 

PLEASE HELP ME. I’M BEING HELD AGAINST MY WILL. I’M BEING TRAPPED AT _______________

She made the handwriting disorderly intentionally... just to sell the idea of a person being trapped better, of course. She’d even slathered on a small smudge of blood on the corner of the note to make it more convincing... and it seemed to have done the trick as the boy widens his navy blue eyes in alarm, head turned up in the direction of the apartment complex he stood next to.

Illya can tell he has his doubts, and she doesn’t blame him... It’s suspicious enough that the call for help would just so conveniently fall towards him as he was walking past... but he’s never known any criminal activity to have taken place in that apartment complex - Sharlayan is relatively safe compared to it’s neighbor, Mor Dhona. 

A few simple thoughts however, might just do the trick into getting him to spring into action. 

Injecting into his mind, Illya types out frantically into the text box for thought processing. 

What if this is real? What if there really is someone in need of rescuing and I just walked by without helping them? What if they appeared on the news tomorrow? I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself. What if... what if this note really is fate?

She’s preying on his upright and morally upstanding character, she knows that... and it never feels good to take advantage of a objectively good person’s kindness... But her determination to grant him lifelong happiness wins as she watches through the live feed the as the boy clutches onto the note close to his chest and begins to run into the carpark of the apartment complex before heading inside.

Zooming into the map, she sees that her target is taking the lift up to the highest floor, his heartrate skyrocketing at an alarming pace as she panics for a moment and has to manually adjust it back down. He’s nervous... and she must admit that she is too.

When he leaves the lift, his footsteps are unsteady and hesitant... But a few more encouraging thoughts was enough to get him to push forward until he’s standing in front of a door - the only door on the last floor of the complex, as it would happen.

Illya tries to look into the room, but the window that pops up is but a single black screen that has her sighing. No matter. The fact that there even was a window in the first place is progress. 

She’s gotten this far into leading him here... all he has to do is open the door where his other half is sure to be on the other side.

The boy tries to twist open the door knob, the metal rattlingly noisily in Illya’s headphones. But it doesn’t budge or give way. 

Figures that it’d be locked. How is she supposed to lead him inside? She can’t ring the doorbell because, for as odd as it is, there is none... and she cannot pull up any information on his soul mate, let alone inject into thoughts into their head to open the door. It’s far too suspicious to drop the key to the door right in front of him. 

With each second that passes, it seemed like the boy was letting his doubts begin to sway his decision to stay more and more... and Illya’s heart drops into the pit of her stomach when she sees the boy begin to step away from the door and reaching into his bag for his phone, a thought bubble popping up above him.

I should call the police, instead...

“No! You mustn’t!” Illya yells out by instinct.

“Huh???” the boy’s eyes widen once more, and to Illya’s utter confusion, he bolts forward and is now banging his fist against the door. “Hello?! Are you okay?! If you’re in there and you need help, please say something again!”

He must’ve heard a voice.... Illya mused, eyes glistening with intrigue... her voice. Did her mic turn on by accident? Or perhaps she’d projected her voice onto the door out of instinct. She wouldn’t be surprised if she did... but the most important thing is that it worked, and it got the boy to stay. 

“Y-yes! I’m... I’m in here!” Illya responds, intentionally letting out sobs into her microphone this time, “p-please help me... I-I’m really hurt and I don’t know when they’ll get back!” 

Alphinaud’s heartrate is beating faster than it’s ever had before... and Illya makes no attempts to lower it as she watches the boy grit his teeth and set his bookbag down.

“A-alright! Stand back! I’ll try to knock the door down!” 

Good thinking, Illya hums to herself in silence. The door seems old and rickety on its own... unless his soul mate has very deliberately barricaded the inside, there shouldn’t be any reason why he’d not be able to knock it down.

The boy begins to slam his torso into the door, pulling himself back before once more rushing into the door, and the sound of banging fills Illya’s headphones. It’s oddly loud and deafening... but she makes no attempts to lower her volume as she grips the edge of her keyboard in anticipation.

“Don’t worry miss! Just a bit more! I’ll get you out, I promise!” 

His sincerity touches her... and though it is wholly unnecessary, Illya is moved to speak into the mic once more... and her words causes a surge of renewed energy to flow through him.

“Yes! I believe in you! I’m waiting!”

Illya has never known what the outside of her room looked like... nor the time or space that occupied it. It was never necessary, she’d convinced herself... She was simply content with watching the outside world through the lens of the fate matrix while playing the ultimate puppet master.

She has never smelled the outside air, never seen the light of the sun, never once touched the hands of another... not since she arrived here.

When the door to her room clattered noisily onto the ground, so loudly that she could not chalk it up to being a result of the projection in her headphone, the girl spun around... and stared with wide, bewildered and confused eyes at the boy in front of her - clear without the pixels of the screen obscuring him... clear and oh so very real.

Beads of sweat trickling down his brows from exertion... his usually neat fitting uniform disheveled from strain... 

And in his clear blue eyes was the reflection of herself, staring back at her as if they were a window to her future.

“Y-you.... you are....?”

The tool assistant of the fate matrix sends another text, which goes unread and ignored by Alice once again. 

You watch over the fate of others. But even you aren’t immune to the hands of fate.

[recentanimenews]

Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human Novel to be Re-imagined as Anime Film by Polygon Pictures

    Renowned Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel Ningen Shikkau (No Longer Human) will get its

futuristic-sci-fi anime film adaptation, announced at CHICAGO COMIC & ENTERTAINMENT EXPO (C2E2)

on Match 22. The film titled HUMAN LOST Ningen Shikkaku is animated by Polygon Pictures (Knights of

Sidonia, GODZILLA trilogy) will be released worldwide in 2019.

Ningen Shikkau (No Longer Human) was Dazai's last work. One month after completing the 177-page

novel, he committed suicide with his lover Tomie Yamazaki by drowning themselves into the Tamagawa

Canal in Tokyo on June 13, 1948, when he was 39.

    "HUMAN LOST Ningen Shikkaku" official teaser trailer

  The official description of the film:

  Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human, a masterpiece of Japanese literature, receives a bold new birth from

the creative dream team of Katsuyuki Motohiro, Fuminori Kizaki, Tow Ubukata, and Polygon Pictures.

  Osamu Dazai's immortal novel No Longer Human depicts the life of a man falling into ruin. This timeless

masterpiece, whose literary depth and perspective on life and death still carry a powerful impact, has been

dynamically re-envisioned by a dream team of world-renowned Japanese creators.

  Acting as supervisor is Katsuyuki Motohiro, whose Bayside Shakedown and Psycho-Pass took Japan by storm.

Directing is Fuminori Kizaki, whose singular vision, as seen in Afro Samurai, Basilisk, and Bayonetta: Bloody

Fate has earned acclaim both in Japan and internationally. The script is by novelist Tow Ubukata, whose many

awards include the Nihon SF Taisho Award for Mardock Scramble and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers

for Tenchi Meisatsu (Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer).

  The story's world takes on vibrant life through character designs by Yusuke Kozaki, known for his work creating

characters for franchises like Pokemon GO and Fire Emblem, and concept art by Kenichiro Tomiyasu, veteran of

large-scale Japanese and international projects including Final Fantasy XI and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

  Moreover, animation production is by Polygon Pictures, the studio that has won numerous awards worldwide for

Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Transformers: Prime, and has carried on its visual revolution with Blame! and

the animated Godzilla film trilogy. This new and radical creative team will astonish the world with Human Lost,

an envisioning of Dazai’s novel that’s like nothing ever seen before.

  Teaser visual

日本文学の傑作である太宰治の「人間失格」をダイナミックにリメイクした劇場アニメーション『HUMAN LOST 人間失格』が2019年 全世界公開決定！#コ���キユースケ によるティーザービジュアルも解禁！#宮野真守 #本広克行 #木﨑文智 #冲方丁 #コザキユースケ #富安健一郎 #ポリゴン・ピクチュアズ pic.twitter.com/qsn4PqsBnf

— 『HUMAN LOST 人間失格』Official (@HUMANLOST_PR) 2019年3月23日

  Mamoru Miyano (Light Yagami in Death Note) voices the protagonist Yozo Oba

【主演 大庭葉藏役・宮野真守さんコメント】誰もが知る、太宰治の傑作「人間失格」を原案とした、日本発のダークヒーローが誕生しました! 本作は、最新の映像技術を駆使した痛快なアクションの中に、日本人だからこその精神性、 わびさびのある世界観が…全文: https://t.co/tRZ8dV4UGp #HUMANLOST pic.twitter.com/g0BLCF1mlr

— 『HUMAN LOST 人間失格』Official (@HUMANLOST_PR) 2019年3月23日

  Main staff:

Concept Based on Osamu Dazai's "No Longer Human" 

Supervisor: Katsuyuki Motohiro 

Director: Fuminori Kizaki 

Screenplay: Tow Ubukata 

Character Design: Yusuke Kozaki 

Concept Artist: Kenichiro Tomiyasu 

Animation Production: POLYGON PICTURES 

Planning by: MAGNET / SlowCurve 

Domestic Distribution: TOHO VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT

    Source: "HUMAN LOST Ningen Shikkaku" official website / Twitter

  ©2019 HUMAN LOST Project

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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“There is no love on earth greater than that of a father for his son.” Dan Brown To the Original Spartan, my beloved late father Lord Fusitu'a ('Alokuo'ulu) - I know you are resting easy in Valhalla with your brethren Warlords and looking down watchfully and with care over us but that doesn't make us miss you any less. I chose this pic of you, which very few have seen as it embodies much of that for which you stood. It is your First XI photo from Wesley College circa 1945. I remember you telling me about this photo (with your cousin and close friend Tomi Finau) as there is another of you seated in the middle with the plaque. Although you were the captain of the First XI you chose to have this photo as just another teammate. That says a lot about what you were, a leader amongst men but also simultaneously a team man, always putting the collective greater good above your own. If there is anything you taught me it was this. Leadership through servanthood. I quote the Proverbs of the Old Testament both as an aspiration for myself as a man and father, but primarily because if I can achieve even a modicum of being the righteous and wise man that you were, I'll be travelling alright. I include photos that you told me were most dear to you during your life: What you told me was your proudest moment: yourself and your brothers (my tamai's Sione Taukei'aho and Tu'ihalafatai missing Kiekie) at my admission to the bar as a barrister of the High Court in Australia; The love of your life and your heart: your best girl our beloved mother. And of course last but not least: The apple of your eye at the age you told me you wanted her to stay her whole life - my little sister @ftuipeatau From mum, and Pupu and I and all your grandchildren - Happy Father's Day Dad. We love and miss you. Proverbs 23:24: "The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him." (at Sparta, Niua Fo'ou) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAP3ODEB76U/?igshid=cr8xmdqk3nzx

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The Decade's Most Memorable Events In 10 Minutes

2010-2019: A Decade In Review - Highlights of events from around the world between 2010 and 2019New Delhi: While most of us have been busy on our phones, a decade has gone by. How significant has it been? Well, the manner in which the way of life has changed this decade has been the most significant in over a century. The way we live, work, eat, travel, and entertain has changed almost entirely - and our smartphones are what is leading the way. From getting a cab to ordering groceries, banking to making reservations, everything became just-a-click-away in the last ten years. But while we might have been busy in the virtual world, tapping away on our screens, a lot has happened in the real world too, and even out in space.Here is a comprehensive list of the decade's most memorable events for you to journey through, in nostalgia, thinking about the better moments fondly, learning from the mistakes made, celebrating the achievements, and remembering all those who won't journey on with us to the next decade.2010: The Year In Review Apple founder Steve Jobs unveils the world's first iPad; Instagram is launched; WhatsApp comes to India; Uber and Ola make debut; Netflix starts expanding its streaming service to the international market; WikiLeaks is founded by Julian Assange; Burj Khalifa becomes the tallest building in the world; Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruptions cause enormous disruption to air travel; Scientists in a South African cave discover 2-million-year-old fossils of a new species called Australopithecus Sediba, which are potentially the ancestors to Humans. India's BrahMos missile, jointly developed with Russia, sets the world record for becoming the world's first and fastest supersonic cruise missile; Arab Spring protests spread across the middle-east and north Africa; Pakistan is devastated by massive floods resulting in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the country's history as 20 million are affected, 14 million left homeless; Ireland and Greece face a grave economic crisis; BP oil spill, also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico becomes the largest maritime oil spill in history; 16-year-old Justin Bieber becomes the youngest solo male to hit #1 on the album chart since 13-year-old Stevie Wonder in 1963; Australia elects its first female prime minister; Indian-American Ajay Banga takes over as CEO of Mastercard; Dozens of asylum seekers drown as the boat they were in crashed into rocks near Christmas IslandThose who left us in 2010: Jyoti Basu 5-time chief minister, and arguably West Bengal's tallest leader after India's independence.2011: The Year In Review Operation Geronimo: Osama Bin Laden is killed; India wins the cricket world cup; Scientists discover Kepler-22b - An extrasolar planet orbiting within the Goldilocks zone or habitable zone of the Sun-like star Kepler-22. The planet is nearly 2.5 times the size of Earth and has a 290-day year; Formula One comes to India - Indian Grand Prix held at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida; Anna Hazare's Lokpal movement leads anti-corruption drive, protests; Royal Wedding: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge marry; Dominique Strauss-Kahn is arrested for assault in the US; Japan is hit be a massive earthquake and tsunami, which leads to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the country; News of the World shuts down; Occupy Wall Street protests surge; SpaceX announces plan for the world's first fully reusable rocket; Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer becomes the second most respected, admired and trusted individual in the world after Nelson Mandela.Those who left us in 2011: Apple founder Steve Jobs; Elizabeth Taylor, one of Hollywood's most iconic actresses dies at 79; Grammy Award winner Amy Winehouse2012: The Year In Review Nirbhaya gang rape in Delhi; The rise of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party; Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was one of the terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks hanged; Scientists discover the existence of the Higgs boson or God particle; NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first human-made object to leave the solar system and venture into interstellar space; Facebook goes public, launches IPO; Barack Obama re-elected as US President; Vladimir Putin is re-elected as Russia's President; Elon Musk first mentions the concept for a "fifth mode of transport", calling it Hyperloop; Hurricane Sandy causes widespread disaster in the US; Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting leaves 27 dead in US; Red Bull Stratos: Millions watched LIVE as Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumps from the edge of space (128,100 feet) wearing a spacesuit - Records set: Balloon altitude record and sound barrier broken.Those who left us in 2012: Nirbhaya dies two weeks after the attack; American singer Whitney Houston dies at 48; Neil Armstrong, US Astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon, dies at 822013: The Year In Review Sachin Tendulkar retires from all forms of cricket; Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy becomes the first Indian to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world under sail; Massive floods across north India leaves nearly 6,000 dead, becoming India's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami; Kedarnath flood: Large-scale destruction in surrounding areas, but Kedarnath temple unaffected; Video shows massive Chelyabinsk meteor entering Earth's atmosphere over Russia; Scientists study the air trapped in the Antarctic ice and find that 2013 is the first time in 800,000 years that we have over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere; Boston Marathon Bombing: 2 homemade pressure cooker bombs detonated 14 seconds and 210 yards apart leave more than 264 injured; Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum; Coup overthrows Egyptian government; Malala Yousafzai survives assassination attempt; Xi Jinping is elected as the President of China; Edward Snowden exposes US's NSA surveillance program; Bitcoin demand surges; Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post; Twitter goes public, launches IPO; Alibaba goes public, launches IPO.Those who left us in 2013: Former South African President and global icon Nelson Mandela dies; The Fast and the Furious star Paul Walker tragically dies in a high-speed car accident; 'Lawrence of Arabia' star Peter O'Toole dies at 812014: The Year In Review "Modi Wave" across the country; Narendra Modi is elected Prime Minister of India, forms a majority government after the World's largest ever elections held till now; MH370 disappears: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappearance mid-flight; India becomes the first nation to successfully reach Mars in the first attempt; ISIS takes Mosul, expansion of ISIS gains momentum; The Ice Bucket Challenge goes viral on social media, to promote awareness about ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis); Sydney hostage crisis: A gunman with an ISIS flag takes dozens of people hostage at a Lindt Cafe in Sydney; ISIS offshoot Boko Haram spreads across north Africa, especially Nigeria; Boko Haram kidnaps 276 girls from a college in Nigeria's Chibok; Over a hundred missing even today, many feared dead; India safely brings back 46 nurses from ISIS captivity in Iraq; Mount Everest Avalanche: Ice avalanche kills 16 climbing sherpas, injures 9 others; Satya Nadella takes over as Microsoft CEO; Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar found dead in her hotel room in Delhi; Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation; Rosetta's Philae lander becomes the first space probe to soft land on a comet (Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko); Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Ukraine; North Korea hacks Sony Pictures.Those who left us in 2014: Robin Williams commits suicide; American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou dies; Lauren Bacall, one of Hollywood's iconic actresses dies at 89; American comedian and actress Joan Rivers dies2015: The Year In Review Nepal is devastated by a massive 7.8 earthquake - nearly 9,000 dead, 22,000 injured, 3.5 million people homeless; Himalayan earthquake leads to avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 22 people, making it the deadliest avalanche to hit the world's highest peak; Operation Raahat: Indian Armed Forces and the Ministry of External Affairs evacuate more than 5,600 people, including 960 foreign nationals from Yemen during the 2015 military intervention by Saudi Arabia and its allies; Wing Commander Pooja Thakur of the Indian Air Force becomes the first female officer to lead the Guard of Honour at Rashtrapati Bhavan during the visit of then US President Barack Obama; Sheena Bora murder case: Indrani and Peter Mukerjea arrested; Volkswagen emission scandal - findings cover 482,000 cars in the US alone; US legalises same-sex marriage; Greece plunges into severe debt, pressuring EU; Dramatic visuals of the TransAsia Airways Flight 235 crash in Taiwan shocks the world; 'Je suis Charlie': Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in France condemned globally; India initiates the International Solar Alliance in major step towards green energy, 121 other countries join; Sundar Pichai takes over as Google CEO.Those who left us in 2015: Renowned scientist, teacher and former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam dies at 83; Grammy-winning blues legend BB King dies at 89; Leonard Nimoy, Spock from Star Trek, dies at 832016: The Year In Review Demonetisation in India; India carries out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir; Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav abducted from Iran, held captive by Pakistan; Mother Teresa canonised posthumously as 'Saint Teresa of Calcutta' by Pope Francis at a ceremony in St Peter's Square in Vatican City; Brexit Vote: Britain votes to leave the EU - The British Exit is termed Brexit; 'Obama Out': President Obama drops mic on stage as a symbol of the end of his presidency; Donald Trump is elected as US President; Amazon Prime Video launches worldwide; The historic Paris Climate Agreement in signed to take effective measures against Climate Change; Scientists invent the Crispr-Cas9, a unique technology that enables medical researchers to edit and delete DNA, thereby allowing effective genetic engineering; Florida nightclub shooting: Omar Mateen kills 49 people and wounds 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando; Dhaka Cafe Attack: 5 terrorists take dozens hostage at the Holey Artisan cafe in Dhaka, kill 22 civilians, 2 cops; Scientists and researchers successfully detect the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory or LIGO - The existence of gravitational waves was first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916; Pokemon Go, an augmented reality mobile game, got millions of people out on the street; Leonardo DiCaprio wins Oscar for The Revenant; Brangelina divorce: Angeline Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt.Those who left us in 2016: Tamil icon and former chief minister Jayalalithaa dies at 68; American singer-songwriter Prince dies at 57; English singer-songwriter George Michael found dead in his bed in his home in England; Singer-songwriter David Bowie dies at 69; Alan Rickman, who played Hogwarts professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter dies at 69; Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali dies at 74; Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro dies at 902017: The Year In Review One nation, one tax - India adopts GST, biggest reform since opening of the economy; Kulbhushan Jadhav sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court - India, denied consular access on multiple occasions, takes Pakistan to UN court ICJ; India's ISRO set the world record  for the largest number of satellites ever launched successfully on a single rocket - 104 satellites; The India-China border standoff at Doklam lasts 73 days; SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket becomes the world's first reusable rocket to successfully complete a mission; Phase 1 of the Iran-India Chabahar Port opens; Indian priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil rescued from ISIS captivity in Yemen, returns safely to India; London's Grenfell Tower fire: 72 people die, 70 others critical in one of Britain's worst fires; Texas church shooting - 26 people killed in mass shooting by Devin Patrick Kelley in Sutherland Springs in US; Las Vegas Strip shooting: Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd of concert-goers, killing 58 people and wounding 413; Charlottesville white supremacy march gathers momentum; Australia legalises same-sex marriage; #MeToo movement spreads across the world; Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases - Dozens of women reveal they were raped, assaulted and sexually abused by Weinstein over a 30 year period; Oscars faux pas: La La Land was given the Best Picture award, only to be take away and given to Moonlight, causing a massive embarrassment at the Oscars;Those who left us in 2017: Legendary comedian Don Rickles dies at 90; Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies at 91; Rock 'n' roll music pioneer Chuck Berry dies at 90; Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington commits suicide; American musician Tom Petty dies at 492018: The Year In Review Tesla Motors' sports car orbits Earth with astronaut at the wheel; India decriminalises section 377 - consensual homosexual sex between adults; India and Oman sign agreement under which India gets access to the facilities at Duqm for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy; India completes nuclear triad (Air, land and sea, undersea ballistic missile capability): Completion of the nuclear triad with the first successful deterrence patrol by INS Arihant; Kerala devastated by floods: Nearly 500 dead, 140 missing, over 2 lakh people homeless; India brings back the mortal remains of 39 Indians killed by ISIS in Iraq's Mosul; Air India makes history, becomes first and only airline in the world to fly to Israel over Saudi airspace; India's 'Statue of Unity' becomes the tallest statue in the world; Roger Federer becomes the first male tennis player to win 20 grand slams; The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal; Royal Wedding: Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex marry; Indra Nooyi steps down as CEO of PepsiCo Inc after 12 years in office; California wildfires in the US; Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh faces sexual assault allegations; US-China trade war begins; Saudi author and columnist Jamal Khashoggi who fled in 2017, killed in Turkey; Tham Luang cave rescue: The miraculous cave rescue in Thailand - 12 boys of a football team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach enter a cave which gets flooded. The rescue ops take 18 days; US House of Representatives passes bill and allocates funds to build the US-Mexico border wall.Those who left us in 2018: Former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies at 93; Tamil icon and former chief minister Karunanidhi dies at 94; Bollywood actress Sridevi dies at 54; Legendary American comic book writer Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, and many more, dies at 95; Celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain commits suicide at 61; Swedish DJ and electronic artist Avicii (real name: Tim Bergling) commits suicide at 28; Former US President George HW Bush dies at 94; Former US Senator John McCain dies at 82.2019: The Year In Review World celebrates the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi's birth; Narendra Modi is re-elected Prime Minister of India, forms a 2nd majority government after the World's largest ever elections till now; Supreme Court of India delivers its verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute case, settling one of the longest disputes globally; India sends its second lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-2; India-American Abhijit Banerjee wins the Nobel Prize in the field of Economic Sciences; Balakot airstrikes: India carries out pre-emptive airstrikes on a JeM terror training facility in Pakistan's Balakot; Parliament of India declares the practice of Triple Talaq illegal and unconstitutional; Kulbhushan Jadhav case: International Court of Justice rules in favour of India - 16-judge UN court bench ruled 15-1 in favour of India, stops Kulbhushan Jadhav's execution, tells Islamabad to give consular access; India revokes the "temporary" Article 370 from its Constitution; Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh become union territories; India successfully tests anti-satellite or ASAT weapon under the mission code-named Mission Shakti, becomes a space power; Sundar Pichai takes over as CEO of Alphabet - Google's parent company; Notre-Dame de Paris fire: Massive fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in France; Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth become India's first woman air force pilot to qualify to undertake combat missions on a fighter jet; Sub-Lieutenant Shivangi of the Indian Navy becomes its first woman pilot; Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar designated a global terrorist by the UN Security Council; Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to set foot in North Korea; Operation Kayla Mueller: ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed by the US military; India's fastest train - Train 18, also known as Vande Bharat Express, flagged off by PM Modi; India announces plan to launch its own space station; missions to Mars, Venus, and Sun; Sri Lanka Easter bombings: 259 people killed, over 500 injured after 3 churches and 3 luxury hotels are targeted in a series of coordinated terrorist suicide bombings; New Zealand's Christchurch mosque shootings: Gunman kills 51 people, injures 49, live-streams the attack on Facebook; American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein commits suicide; Walmart shooting: El Paso, Texas - A gunman shot and killed 22 people and injured 24 others; Families of illegal migrants separated at the US-Mexico border - Children separated from parents; Hong Kong Protests: Anti-China protests rock Hong Kong; First black hole image captured on camera, viewed by 2 billion people worldwide; Climate activist Greta Thunberg makes powerful speech at the UN Climate Change summit; Students across the world protest demanding climate action; Anti-CAA, Anti-NRC Protests: Protests across India over the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens; Donald Trump Impeached, becomes the 3rd US President to be impeached in the House of Representatives after .Those who left us in 2019: Former Defence Minister and Chief Minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar dies at 63; Former chief minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit dies at 81; Former Foreign Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj dies at 67; Former Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley dies at 66; Renowned lawyer Ram Jethmalani dies at 95.   Read the full article

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"World on Water" October 05.18 Global Sailing News

(To help us if you like the show each week CLICK "LIKE" and "SUBSCRIBE" to our YouTube channel) In this week's WoW TV:

US America's Cup winners Larry Ellison and his Kiwi CEO Sir Russell Coutts whose team lost the Cup to ETNZ in Bermuda with their foiling AC 50 Cats have announced a World Series caller "SAIL GP" which is to commence in Sydney Australia in February 2019 in their Cats which are slightly modified. Watch this space The J 70 fleet had their World Championships with 90 boats on the line at Marblehead Eastern Yacht Club. The RC 44 had their Worlds last week and there was action a plenty. The Golden Globe Race had huge action as reported last week and we profile Indian Navy entrant Abhilash Tomy who was rolled in his yacht and badly hurt. He is ashore and OK We preview the NYYC Resolute Cup lkooking back at last year's action The Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag Racing Team lead by Aussie David Will have put their 100 Footer together for the Boxing Day meet with the other four 100 Foot maxis in the 2018 Roles Sydney Hobart Race. The five are Comanche, Wilkd Oats XI, Black Jack, Infoteck and Scallywag. Keep watching as we will bring all the action plus the SOLAS Big Boat Race around Sydney Harbour The leading Sailing Weekly news Show should be on your "Favourites" list every friday.

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Cahill could captain Socceroos in Japan | Socceroos

LONDON: The United Arab Emirates have inflicted a hammer blow to Saudi Arabia's World Cup hopes in a Group B result that would see Australia qualify with victory over Japan on Wednesday in Tokyo. The three-way battle for the top-two places in Group B that bring with them direct qualification for Russia will still go down to next week's final round of matches, when Japan go to Saudi Arabia and the Socceroos host winless Thailand. Jackson Irvine believes that the Socceroos will be ready for the pressure of Thursday night's World Cup qualifier against Japan. The coach also declared on Wednesday that star midfielders Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can combine effectively in the one Socceroos team.

Tim Cahill's Socceroos renaissance looks set to continue with a starting role in Saitama if striker Tomi Juric is ruled out of the World Cup qualifier against Japan. A win would be dreamland stuff, and would confirm the Socceroos' place in Russia outright. In swimming, it is generally the Americans, while in hockey it is the English and Dutch.While excitement levels ramped up a notch back home with news that the UAE had done the Socceroos a major favour, the KPIs Postecoglou puts on his Socceroos mean that Thursday night's preparation does not change one bit. Tuesday, 29 August 2017 -. Aidan Ormond @AidotheFFAEd.

Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou is confident striker Tomi Juric will be available to play in Thursday's World Cup qualifier against Japan despite not training with the team all week. But in football it is Japan that takes the cake.The former Manchester United attacking midfielder has long been a thorn in the Socceroos' side and will again be pivotal to Japan's hopes of success. Striker Tomi Juric hasn't trained with the Socceroos all week but coach Ange Postecoglou expects he will be right to face Japan in their World Cup qualifier. But don't for one minute suggest that Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can't play in the same Socceroos XI or contradict each other, and just because the excellent display against Chile came while they were rotated out of the side. Socceroos players generally have no idea what coach Ange Postecoglou is thinking at the best of times. Both are in terrific form, but the Socceroos haven't set the world on fire with Mooy and Rogic in the same team. Take a look at five crucial facts ahead of Australia's crucial FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Japan. It even prompted a retort from Southampton defender Maya Yoshida. "How many Yokohama. Australia had sat third and level on points with the Saudis in second. A Socceroos victory would confirm their place among world football's 32 elite nations next June.

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CHUBASCO: "Pensamiento"

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CHUBASCO: "Pensamiento"

Chubasco (Víctor Vélez), was born on February 6, 1972 in Mexico City. He is a professional caricaturist and visual artist, from the early age of 16 began publishing in “El Universal”, one of Mexico’s leading newspapers. Throughout his career, he has also collaborated in important media such as “El Economista”, “La Jornada” and “Reforma”. He has participated in magazines such as “Siempre”, “Expansión”, “Life & Style”, “Chilango”, “Quo”, “Esquire” and “Gente”. He has been a contributor to the French magazine “Courrier Journal”, a subsidiary of the newspaper “Le Monde” and has been a cartoonist for “CartonClub” and “Vj Movements Cartonista”. Chubasco has also ventured into the process of organizing, coordinating and curating exhibitions of famous Mexican caricaturists such as Abel Quezada, Manuel Ahumada and Ernesto “el Chango” Cabral. He has also been a jury member in important events such as the Havana Biennial in April 2015. Among the national and international awards that Chubasco has received are:

• 1st. Place in Graphic Humor to Gallarate (Italy, 2016);

• Honorable Mention at the 18th Mercosur International Cartoon Contest. (Argentina, 2013);

• Honorable mention in the World Press Cartoon (Sintra, Portugal, 2013);

• 3rd. Place in the special caricature prize “José Saramago” at the XV Porto Cartoon Word Festival (Porto, Portugal, 2013);

• 1st. Prize in Personal Caricature “Joaquín Sabina”;

• Honorable Mention in Humorous Cartoon for “Glutton”

• Honorable mention for “Resistance and resistance”;

• Tomy Award, at the XVIII Bienal de Humorismo Grafico. San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba, 2013);

• Honorable Mention at the First International Caricature Festival Oil Products Distribution Company (Iran, 2012);

• Mention of honor in the contest “Ranan Lurie” Political Cartoon Award 2011 by the United Nations, UN; • Mention of honor in the Political Cartoon Award (New York, 2011);

• Participation in the XVII Biennial of journalism. San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba, 2011);

• Participation in Humor Gallarete Marco Biassonni. Grand Prix (Le Estelle, Italy, 2009);

• Honorable Mention at the XI Cartoonist Biennial (Beijing, China, 2008);

• 2nd. Place in Caricature editorial in the World Press Cartoon (Sintra, Portugal, 2007);

• National Journalism Award for “pages.” (Mexico, 1997);

• Youth Performance Award (Mexico, 1995), among others. As a result of his prolific career as a cartoonist, he has participated in the creation of the book “Corrupcionario Mexicano” (ed. Grijalbo) and has illustrated books such as “Cortando Rábanos” (Coedition with the Secretariat of Culture of San Luis Potosí, Ediciones del Lirio And the Museum of Popular Art); “The Circus” (Ed. Arts of Mexico); “Damned beasts in the land of the Hänhun” (Ed. Arts of Mexico); “Jacinto Pérez, hunter of images of the Mexican Revolution” (Ed. Arts of Mexico); “The gift of Elijah” (Ed. Arts of Mexico) and “Cartmoons” with the trajectory of his work (Ed. Cartoon Ark, Greece). Among the exhibitions he has done is “Civil Status: Humorist” (Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo May 2016) “The Attack of the Green Men” (Caricature by Abel Quezada) and “CartonClub” (August-September 2015 at the Museum From Mexico City); “Individual exhibition in the Museum of Humor” (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, April 2015); “Retrospective” (Metro Pino Suárez, 400 cartones, Beganic Galerie); “Víctor Vélez” in the Galería Regia de Monterrey and “Chubasco” in the Cervantes forum of the Federal District. He has also collaborated in projects with important companies such as Coca-Cola and Caricature and Watercolor workshops in Colombia (Bogotá, Medellín, Cali) and Mexico (Oaxaca, Zacatecas, Saltillo).

He is a very versatile visual artist, therefore, he dominates traditional techniques like acrylic; Oil, watercolor, Chinese ink and graphite, as well as digital techniques.

Title: “La grieta” 1st. Place in Humor and Gallarate Graphic (Italy, 2016) “Cartmoons” (Chubasco’s trayectory) Editorial: Cartoon Ark (Greek) “Corrupcionario Mexicano” Editorial: Grijalbo (México)

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Cahill could captain Socceroos in Japan | Socceroos

The coach also declared on Wednesday that star midfielders Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can combine effectively in the one Socceroos team. LONDON: The United Arab Emirates have inflicted a hammer blow to Saudi Arabia's World Cup hopes in a Group B result that would see Australia qualify with victory over Japan on Wednesday in Tokyo. The Socceroos will be off to Russia should they knock off the Blue Samurai in Saitama tomorrow night after the Saudis' shock 2-1 loss to UAE last night. A win would be dreamland stuff, and would confirm the Socceroos' place in Russia outright.

The former Manchester United attacking midfielder has long been a thorn in the Socceroos' side and will again be pivotal to Japan's hopes of success. Australia had sat third and level on points with the Saudis in second. The three-way battle for the top-two places in Group B that bring with them direct qualification for Russia will still go down to next week's final round of matches, when Japan go to Saudi Arabia and the Socceroos host winless Thailand.It even prompted a retort from Southampton defender Maya Yoshida. "How many Yokohama. SOCCEROOS custodian Mitch Langerak's move from Stuttgart to Levante has been confirmed, with the La Liga club announcing a two-year deal.

Tuesday, 29 August 2017 -. Aidan Ormond @AidotheFFAEd. Socceroos players generally have no idea what coach Ange Postecoglou is thinking at the best of times.But in football it is Japan that takes the cake. Tim Cahill's Socceroos renaissance looks set to continue with a starting role in Saitama if striker Tomi Juric is ruled out of the World Cup qualifier against Japan. Ask any Socceroos fan about their biggest worry for Thursday's match against Japan and most will say Ange Postecoglou's preferred three-man defence. While excitement levels ramped up a notch back home with news that the UAE had done the Socceroos a major favour, the KPIs Postecoglou puts on his Socceroos mean that Thursday night's preparation does not change one bit. Striker Tomi Juric hasn't trained with the Socceroos all week but coach Ange Postecoglou expects he will be right to face Japan in their World Cup qualifier. Take a look at five crucial facts ahead of Australia's crucial FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Japan. Jackson Irvine believes that the Socceroos will be ready for the pressure of Thursday night's World Cup qualifier against Japan. A Socceroos victory would confirm their place among world football's 32 elite nations next June. In swimming, it is generally the Americans, while in hockey it is the English and Dutch.

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Cahill could captain Socceroos in Japan | Socceroos

Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou is confident striker Tomi Juric will be available to play in Thursday's World Cup qualifier against Japan despite not training with the team all week. Striker Tomi Juric hasn't trained with the Socceroos all week but coach Ange Postecoglou expects he will be right to face Japan in their World Cup qualifier. In swimming, it is generally the Americans, while in hockey it is the English and Dutch. The Socceroos will be off to Russia should they knock off the Blue Samurai in Saitama tomorrow night after the Saudis' shock 2-1 loss to UAE last night.

Take a look at five crucial facts ahead of Australia's crucial FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Japan. Tuesday, 29 August 2017 -. Aidan Ormond @AidotheFFAEd. Australia had sat third and level on points with the Saudis in second.Tim Cahill's Socceroos renaissance looks set to continue with a starting role in Saitama if striker Tomi Juric is ruled out of the World Cup qualifier against Japan. But don't for one minute suggest that Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can't play in the same Socceroos XI or contradict each other, and just because the excellent display against Chile came while they were rotated out of the side.

Ask any Socceroos fan about their biggest worry for Thursday's match against Japan and most will say Ange Postecoglou's preferred three-man defence. The three-way battle for the top-two places in Group B that bring with them direct qualification for Russia will still go down to next week's final round of matches, when Japan go to Saudi Arabia and the Socceroos host winless Thailand.Both are in terrific form, but the Socceroos haven't set the world on fire with Mooy and Rogic in the same team. The coach also declared on Wednesday that star midfielders Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can combine effectively in the one Socceroos team. SOCCEROOS custodian Mitch Langerak's move from Stuttgart to Levante has been confirmed, with the La Liga club announcing a two-year deal. Jackson Irvine believes that the Socceroos will be ready for the pressure of Thursday night's World Cup qualifier against Japan. Socceroos players generally have no idea what coach Ange Postecoglou is thinking at the best of times. A win would be dreamland stuff, and would confirm the Socceroos' place in Russia outright. A Socceroos victory would confirm their place among world football's 32 elite nations next June. While excitement levels ramped up a notch back home with news that the UAE had done the Socceroos a major favour, the KPIs Postecoglou puts on his Socceroos mean that Thursday night's preparation does not change one bit. The former Manchester United attacking midfielder has long been a thorn in the Socceroos' side and will again be pivotal to Japan's hopes of success.

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Cahill could captain Socceroos in Japan | Socceroos

A win would be dreamland stuff, and would confirm the Socceroos' place in Russia outright. But in football it is Japan that takes the cake. The three-way battle for the top-two places in Group B that bring with them direct qualification for Russia will still go down to next week's final round of matches, when Japan go to Saudi Arabia and the Socceroos host winless Thailand. It even prompted a retort from Southampton defender Maya Yoshida. "How many Yokohama.

Tim Cahill's Socceroos renaissance looks set to continue with a starting role in Saitama if striker Tomi Juric is ruled out of the World Cup qualifier against Japan. Ask any Socceroos fan about their biggest worry for Thursday's match against Japan and most will say Ange Postecoglou's preferred three-man defence. The Socceroos will be off to Russia should they knock off the Blue Samurai in Saitama tomorrow night after the Saudis' shock 2-1 loss to UAE last night.Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou is confident striker Tomi Juric will be available to play in Thursday's World Cup qualifier against Japan despite not training with the team all week. Jackson Irvine believes that the Socceroos will be ready for the pressure of Thursday night's World Cup qualifier against Japan.

Striker Tomi Juric hasn't trained with the Socceroos all week but coach Ange Postecoglou expects he will be right to face Japan in their World Cup qualifier. While excitement levels ramped up a notch back home with news that the UAE had done the Socceroos a major favour, the KPIs Postecoglou puts on his Socceroos mean that Thursday night's preparation does not change one bit.But don't for one minute suggest that Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can't play in the same Socceroos XI or contradict each other, and just because the excellent display against Chile came while they were rotated out of the side. The coach also declared on Wednesday that star midfielders Aaron Mooy and Tom Rogic can combine effectively in the one Socceroos team. LONDON: The United Arab Emirates have inflicted a hammer blow to Saudi Arabia's World Cup hopes in a Group B result that would see Australia qualify with victory over Japan on Wednesday in Tokyo. Both are in terrific form, but the Socceroos haven't set the world on fire with Mooy and Rogic in the same team. A Socceroos victory would confirm their place among world football's 32 elite nations next June. The former Manchester United attacking midfielder has long been a thorn in the Socceroos' side and will again be pivotal to Japan's hopes of success. Take a look at five crucial facts ahead of Australia's crucial FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Japan. Tuesday, 29 August 2017 -. Aidan Ormond @AidotheFFAEd. SOCCEROOS custodian Mitch Langerak's move from Stuttgart to Levante has been confirmed, with the La Liga club announcing a two-year deal.

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CHUBASCO: "Pensamiento"

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CHUBASCO: "Pensamiento"

Chubasco (Víctor Vélez), was born on February 6, 1972 in Mexico City. He is a professional caricaturist and visual artist, from the early age of 16 began publishing in “El Universal”, one of Mexico’s leading newspapers. Throughout his career, he has also collaborated in important media such as “El Economista”, “La Jornada” and “Reforma”. He has participated in magazines such as “Siempre”, “Expansión”, “Life & Style”, “Chilango”, “Quo”, “Esquire” and “Gente”. He has been a contributor to the French magazine “Courrier Journal”, a subsidiary of the newspaper “Le Monde” and has been a cartoonist for “CartonClub” and “Vj Movements Cartonista”. Chubasco has also ventured into the process of organizing, coordinating and curating exhibitions of famous Mexican caricaturists such as Abel Quezada, Manuel Ahumada and Ernesto “el Chango” Cabral. He has also been a jury member in important events such as the Havana Biennial in April 2015. Among the national and international awards that Chubasco has received are:

• 1st. Place in Graphic Humor to Gallarate (Italy, 2016);

• Honorable Mention at the 18th Mercosur International Cartoon Contest. (Argentina, 2013);

• Honorable mention in the World Press Cartoon (Sintra, Portugal, 2013);

• 3rd. Place in the special caricature prize “José Saramago” at the XV Porto Cartoon Word Festival (Porto, Portugal, 2013);

• 1st. Prize in Personal Caricature “Joaquín Sabina”;

• Honorable Mention in Humorous Cartoon for “Glutton”

• Honorable mention for “Resistance and resistance”;

• Tomy Award, at the XVIII Bienal de Humorismo Grafico. San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba, 2013);

• Honorable Mention at the First International Caricature Festival Oil Products Distribution Company (Iran, 2012);

• Mention of honor in the contest “Ranan Lurie” Political Cartoon Award 2011 by the United Nations, UN; • Mention of honor in the Political Cartoon Award (New York, 2011);

• Participation in the XVII Biennial of journalism. San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba, 2011);

• Participation in Humor Gallarete Marco Biassonni. Grand Prix (Le Estelle, Italy, 2009);

• Honorable Mention at the XI Cartoonist Biennial (Beijing, China, 2008);

• 2nd. Place in Caricature editorial in the World Press Cartoon (Sintra, Portugal, 2007);

• National Journalism Award for “pages.” (Mexico, 1997);

• Youth Performance Award (Mexico, 1995), among others. As a result of his prolific career as a cartoonist, he has participated in the creation of the book “Corrupcionario Mexicano” (ed. Grijalbo) and has illustrated books such as “Cortando Rábanos” (Coedition with the Secretariat of Culture of San Luis Potosí, Ediciones del Lirio And the Museum of Popular Art); “The Circus” (Ed. Arts of Mexico); “Damned beasts in the land of the Hänhun” (Ed. Arts of Mexico); “Jacinto Pérez, hunter of images of the Mexican Revolution” (Ed. Arts of Mexico); “The gift of Elijah” (Ed. Arts of Mexico) and “Cartmoons” with the trajectory of his work (Ed. Cartoon Ark, Greece). Among the exhibitions he has done is “Civil Status: Humorist” (Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo May 2016) “The Attack of the Green Men” (Caricature by Abel Quezada) and “CartonClub” (August-September 2015 at the Museum From Mexico City); “Individual exhibition in the Museum of Humor” (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, April 2015); “Retrospective” (Metro Pino Suárez, 400 cartones, Beganic Galerie); “Víctor Vélez” in the Galería Regia de Monterrey and “Chubasco” in the Cervantes forum of the Federal District. He has also collaborated in projects with important companies such as Coca-Cola and Caricature and Watercolor workshops in Colombia (Bogotá, Medellín, Cali) and Mexico (Oaxaca, Zacatecas, Saltillo).

He is a very versatile visual artist, therefore, he dominates traditional techniques like acrylic; Oil, watercolor, Chinese ink and graphite, as well as digital techniques.

Title: “La grieta” 1st. Place in Humor and Gallarate Graphic (Italy, 2016) “Cartmoons” (Chubasco’s trayectory) Editorial: Cartoon Ark (Greek) “Corrupcionario Mexicano” Editorial: Grijalbo (México)