We will have perfect rest, peace, and joy and a life filled with the glory of God. We also will partake from the water of life and Tree of Life. All believers will enjoy eternal fellowship with one another and unending fellowship with God forever, as we worship and serve Him. This is what God has promised for those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin.
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).
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Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast.
The novel has an unusual structure, repeatedly looping back in time to describe alternative possible lives for its central character, Ursula Todd, who is born on 11 February 1910 to an upper-middle-class family near Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. In the first version, she is strangled by her umbilical cord and stillborn. In later iterations of her life she dies as a child - drowning in the sea, or when saved from that, by falling to her death from the roof when trying to retrieve a fallen doll. Then there are several sequences when she falls victim to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 - which repeats itself again and again, though she already has a foreknowledge of it, and only her fourth attempt to avert catching the flu succeeds.
Then there is an unhappy life where she is traumatised by being raped, getting pregnant and undergoing an illegal abortion, and finally becoming trapped in a highly oppressive marriage, and being killed by her abusive husband when trying to escape. In later lives she averts all this by being pre-emptively aggressive to the would-be rapist. In between, she also uses her half-memory of earlier lives to avert the young neighbour Nancy being raped and murdered by a child molester. The saved Nancy would play an important role in Ursula's later life(s), forming a deep love relationship with Ursula's brother Teddy, and would become a main character in the sequel, A God in Ruins.
Still later iterations of Ursula's life take her into World War II, where she works in London for the War Office and repeatedly witnesses the results of the Blitz, including a direct hit on a bomb shelter in Argyll Road in November 1940 - with herself being among the victims in some lives and among the rescuers in others. There is also a life in which she marries a German in 1934, is unable to return to England and experiences the war in Berlin under the allied bombings.
Alex Clark of The Guardian gave Life After Life a positive review, saying that domestic details of daily life are conveyed beautifully, and that traumatic shifts in British society are also captured well "precisely because she cuts directly from one war to the next, only later going back to fill in, partially, what happened in between." Clark argued that the novel "[co-opts] the family [...] and [uses] it to show how fiction works and what it might mean to us [...] with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness. Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed, whose artificial status is never in doubt; and yet one who feels painfully, horribly real to us."[2] The Daily Telegraph's Helen Brown likewise praised it, calling it Atkinson's best book to date.[3] The Independent found the central character to be sympathetic, and argued that the book's central message was that World War II was preventable and should not have been allowed to happen.[1]
The Wall Street Journal's Sam Sacks dubbed Life After Life a "formidable bid" for the Man Booker Prize (though the novel was ultimately not longlisted). He said the high-concept premise of "Ursula [contriving] to avoid the accident that previously killed her [...] blends uneasily with what is otherwise a deft and convincing portrayal of an English family's evolution across two world wars [...] all the other characters seem complexly armed with free will." He found the resolution related to the prologue as "rushed and anti-climactic". But Sacks also said that "she [brings] characters to life with enviable ease", referring to the erosion of Sylvie and Hugh's marriage as "poignantly charted". Also, like Maslin, he lauded the novella-length Blitz chapter as "gorgeous and nerve-racking".[6]
Bestselling and award-winning author Lee Strobel interviews experts about the evidence for the afterlife and offers credible answers to the most provocative questions about what happens when we die, near-death experiences, heaven, and hell.
G. fascicularis fragments used in this study have been exposed to high CO2 conditions their entire life; therefore, all observations of feeding behavior of G. fascicularis reflect heterotrophy of corals with life-long acclimation to ocean acidification.
The observed effects of ocean acidification on heterotrophy in the stony coral Galaxea fascicularis contradicted our initial hypothesis. We expected corals to ingest more zooplankton under high CO2. Instead, we found that food consumption rates were reduced under elevated CO2, both in the field and in chamber experiments, and during two expeditions. Since the colonies in our high and ambient CO2 treatments had been subjected to life-long exposure to their respective CO2 environments, this study presents the first investigation of heterotrophy in corals that were fully acclimatized to elevated CO2 throughout their entire post-settlement lives.
Despite the remaining knowledge gaps, decreased heterotrophy will have important implications for the health and resilience of corals. As ocean conditions increasingly become unfavorable for many coral species, their ability to react to such stress will become imperative to their survival. Some coral species will persist while others will not, and our data show that some G. fascicularis colonies are able to survive under high CO2 in the field, despite their lifetime exposure to elevated CO2 conditions and associated reduced zooplankton feeding rates. However, it was beyond the scope of this study to measure their physiology (tissue biomass, lipid content, calcification rates, or other biophysical parameters indicative of their overall health). Such measurements should be conducted to better understand coral long-term survivability under ocean acidification.
How to cite this article: Smith, J. N. et al. Reduced heterotrophy in the stony coral Galaxea fascicularis after life-long exposure to elevated carbon dioxide. Sci. Rep. 6, 27019; doi: 10.1038/srep27019 (2016).
Raymond; or, Life and Death is a 1916 book written by Sir Oliver Lodge after the death of his son, Raymond, during World War I. The book details his attempts, along with his wife, to contact his son via a medium. Lodge was convinced that his son had actually communicated with him from the after life. A lot of Lodge's contempories, such as Edward Clodd and Paul Carus, expressed a sense of disappointment that a scientist had written such a book. Lodge did later admit that a lot of what the medium picked up was nonsense. In addition to being a book about seances, the first part also contains letters to and from Raymond Lodge during his time in the War. 2ff7e9595c
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