![]() ![]() Like his master, Grossman was a dissenter: he fell foul of the Soviet authorities during the anti-Jewish campaign of the last year of Stalin’s life. In his writings the tradition of Tolstoy mingles with that of Dostoevsky. ![]() While Tolstoy painted his picture of Russia in chiaroscuro, Grossman’s image is one of unrelieved darkness and gloom. Both artists chose a canvas of huge dimensions to portray events that shook the world both also turn a penetrating and compassionate gaze at the strains and stresses, torments, sufferings and longings of innumerable individuals, whose life and fate have been cruelly affected or shattered by those events. The author himself makes it obvious that Tolstoy’s masterpiece not only inspired him but served as a model for his saga of a great country fighting against enormous odds for its very existence. Vasili Grossman’s massive novel has rightly been compared with War and Peace. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The study found that exercising at a moderate to high intensity for just 11 minutes a day was linked to a 23% lower risk of early death, a 17% lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), and a 7% lower risk of cancer. In the meta-analysis, researchers aimed to examine the relationship between physical activity and chronic disease and mortality in adults. The study, published last week, was a meta-analysis of over 194 articles that culminated in over 30 million participants around the world, who self-reported activity levels for a minimum of three years. ![]() ![]() But what if you only needed 11 minutes? A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that 11 minutes of exercise each day can have major benefits on health and longevity. But doing a full workout can sometimes feel impossible-there just aren’t enough hours in the day. “One in 10 premature deaths could have been prevented if everyone achieved even half the recommended level of physical activity,” the study noted.Įxercise poses some serious benefits in terms of improving health. ![]() According to researchers, 11 minutes is half the amount of exercise generally recommended for adults.A study found that an average of 11 minutes of physical activity per day can lead to a longer life. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that’s not even a very good example.īut The Casual Vacancy is a different beast entirely. Eliot writing both The Waste Landand also Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. The most successful example I can think of is T.S. All the available evidence suggests that it’s simply a different kind of talent. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. I also know enough literary sabermetrics to be aware that the odds of the book’s being good were not short. I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. 22 I work for the military-industrial-entertainment complex, let’s just leave it at that). I know I had a lot of, let’s call them feelings when I opened the book (which happened on Sept. ![]() There’s no point pretending they’re not there. It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the Constitution makes it “abundantly clear” that the executive power of the U.S. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.) ![]() The incoming president struggled to keep his promises to the American people, facing stiff headwinds from a hostile federal bureaucracy Trump often referred to as “the deep state.” The project aims to equip an incoming conservative president with policies to rein in this bureaucracy. The Heritage Foundation helped launch the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (also known as Project 2025) to avoid the pitfalls Trump faced in 2017. Copies of his report on the Executive Office of the President and the report on “Central Personnel Agencies” were provided exclusively to The Daily Signal for this article. “The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power-including power currently held by the executive branch-to the American people,” Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump, writes in the book “Mandate for Leadership,” compiled by the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL-A coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restructure the federal government’s bureaucracy to make it more cost effective, high-performing, and accountable to the people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Either way it all led back to my father and his rules. ![]() The cavalry was on its way-police or an ambulance. In the space between my near death and waking up, is it crazy to say I recognized him even though I didn’t know him? How is that even possible?Ī siren wailed in the distance, pulling me back, and I visibly flinched as fear swallowed me again. One, two, three moments passed, and something-I couldn’t tell you what-fell gently into place. We locked eyes, and a spark zinged from my head to my toes. “You sure you’re okay?” He pushed hair out of my face, his voice incredibly gentle. No one crosses our path without a reason. If he hadn’t been here in this exact spot when I’d gone over, I’d be dead and swimming with the fishes. He’d braved the water to cut me out, and the average person wouldn’t-couldn’t-have done that. Where had he come from on this dark and lonely night? We stayed that way for a while, and after my shivering stilled, I eased back and glanced up to the bridge, noticing there weren’t any other cars. ![]() Shhh.” His neck smelled male and spicy, and my fingers dug into his shoulders to pull him closer. He gathered me in his arms, his hand palming my scalp. ![]() A shudder racked my body, and I made a guttural noise in the back of my throat I’d never heard before. He came back and collapsed down next to me, eyes searching my face in the darkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’ll turn the pages on his own life lessons from his blue-collar upbringing and career on Wall Street to getting his teeth kicked in the White House and then, coming back stronger. Together, they’ll go deep into a piece of work - whether it's a highly anticipated book, an in-depth feature story, or an opinion piece – to dig into why it matters to you, what we can learn from the past, and how their work is shaping our future.Īlong the way, you’ll learn more about The Mooch – beyond the headlines – where he came from and how he got here. ![]() ![]() Each week, he’ll invite you into an intimate and open conversation with some of the brightest minds out there, from business, politics, entertainment, and more. In his new podcast, Open Book, listeners will hear and get to know the real Anthony: the proud son of immigrant parents, a long-suffering New York Mets fan and a father of five. What people don’t know is he’s an avid reader, endlessly curious, history buff with a restless mind. You may think you know Anthony Scaramucci: a Harvard Law School graduate who cut his teeth at Goldman Sachs, went on to build two successful businesses and had an 11-day stint in the White House. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each time you do so, you will find another application of a natural mathematical concept that you had not noticed before. ![]() The reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences groups and sets scales and tabulations changes over time periods and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. This big book version is the right size for sharing in a classroom. With Anno's Counting Book, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination-this time into the world of numbers and counting. ![]() As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats. Children are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. A simple, beautiful introduction to math for the youngest readersĮvery child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is an easy target for bullies, and one day he is pushed into a cesspool. He is very young, terribly homesick, un-athletic and socially awkward. We leap forward in time to see young Stephen beginning boarding school at Clongowes. The book opens with stream of consciousness narrative filtered through a child's perspective there is sensual imagery, and words approximating baby talk. Their Uncle Charles also lives with the family. When Stephen is young, he and the other Dedalus children are tutored by the governess Dante, a fanatically Catholic woman. Throughout the novel, the Dedalus family makes a series of moves into increasingly dilapidated homes as their fortunes dwindle. Young Stephen Dedalus comes from an Irish Catholic family he is the oldest of ten children, and his father is financially inept. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man takes place in Ireland at the turn of the century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Louganis pursues his Olympic goals, and Hines concentrates on the champ himself, not the medals. The athlete has been living with friend Keith (Jonathan Scarfe), who, wearying of Louganis’ singular diving concentration, moves out. Mario Lopez takes over the adult Louganis role as an innocent abroad, passive and vulnerable except on the diving board. It’s star trainer Ron O’Brien (persuasively played by Bruce Weitz) who brings the diver to the gold. Sammy Lee (Aki Aleong), a strict man who devotes as much time as he can to Louganis. Louganis, who’s been practicing diving at every opportunity, trains with John Anders (Fulvio Cecere), then with diving alumnus Dr. Stern has injected Hines’ scenes between the two of them with charm and a touch of sadness. She returns with the fidelity of an old tune, and he tells her over and over how much her friendship means to him. Louganis’ acquaintance Megan (fetchingly played by Megan Leitch) proves more of a friend than he does though he likes her, he repeatedly dismisses her. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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