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Yuka Kitamura is best known for the orchestral music she made in the shadows. At legendary Japanese video game developer FromSoftware, where 33-year-old Kitamura worked for the past 11 years, her compositions were never the main course, but they were an inescapable, binding wax. In the first FromSoftware game Kitamura is credited on, 2013’s mecha jail Armored Core: Verdict Day, her song “Death Count” descends into players’ cracked resolve after they flip on Hardcore Mode, its apocalyptic male choir inhaling their hope like a chicken bone.

ANTALYA & MUĞLA – In the summer of 2021, Turkey experienced its worst forest fires in decades. Flames scorched 150,000 hectares of forest along the nation’s southwest Mediterranean coast and claimed the lives of eight people. The effects of those blazes were still visible this winter, when Turkey recap visited Antalya and Muğla, the two hardest-hit provinces by the fires. From a distance, black patches mark the lush, green Taurus Mountains like cavities.

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In 1811, German gymnasium instructor Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, disgusted with his country’s losses to Napoleon, concluded that part of the loss was due to the lack of physical conditioning of the average German soldier. He came up with an elaborate regimen of strength training through gymnastics, naming his program and fitness philosophy turn verein, (pronounced tooorn fe-rahn)  from the German verb “turen” meaning  to perform gymnastic exercises,  and “verein”, the word for  club or organization.

‘Tutto Passa’ Ciro Pipoli There’s nothing right now that I hold on to so dearly that I would want permanently etched on my body in the form of a tattoo. However, if I decided to get one, my first tattoo would be this Italian phrase I’ve fallen in love with - Tutto Passa Tutto Passa is an Italian expression that translates to ‘everything passes’ in English. It describes the impermanence of life and how nothing is truly free from the constant flow of life.

I hope to explore all of the terrifying and exhilarating ways I can get to the end of my life, feeling like I’ve lived deeply, changed my mind often, stayed curious, taken risks, loved profoundly – and of course, made life just a smidge easier for others. No thanksncG1vNJzZmiaoprBtbzAnqqepF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpw

[Note: This review will discuss elements of Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire that were revealed in promotional material, such as trailers. If you’re someone who enjoys going into recent movies knowing as little as possible, you may want to skip reading this review.] Even if you go into a movie wanting to like it, it doesn’t mean that movie is going to turn out good. Despite the criticism lauded at his works, I think Zack Snyder is a competent director.

[Note: This review will discuss elements of The Gentlemen that were revealed in promotional material, such as trailers. If you’re someone who enjoys going into recent TV shows knowing as little as possible, you may want to skip reading this review.] When something that couldn’t be considered a media franchise suddenly becomes a media franchise, I grow wary of the shiny new product now on display. Despite the fact this particular show was made by Guy Ritchie—who also made the movie it’s based on—I was still wary of The Gentlemen going in.

I’ve been fired a few times in my life. At one job, I got the boot less than 24 hours after receiving a merit-based raise. Pretty sure that one kicked off my gradual hair loss. And a few years later, I got pushed out of a job I really loved because nobody wanted to click on my posts (I refused to support a politician they liked, can’t think of his name), so my web traffic plummeted.