 is seized by the guards, a servant girl spies Peter and accuses him of being a follower of Jesus. Peter roundly denies it and denies any association two more times.
It’s so easy to be brave in theory; so hard to be brave and honest in practice. Would I be willing to be a whistleblower if it meant losing my job? Would I step in if I saw someone being assaulted? Would I risk going to jail if the laws of the land changed and it was a crime to be a Christian? I think I would be like Peter and chicken out. I hope I wouldn’t, but I think I would.
But the beautiful part of this story is that after the resurrection Jesus comes back to Peter and specifically gives him a position of authority in the new church of believers. At this point, Peter had some humility and humble leaders are the best. The story shows God’s graciousness in forgiving our sins and his love that continues to bless us in our weakness.I bought 2 cars from VW, didn't have a problem because I expect the usual bullshit when buying a car. It's the same pretty much everywhere, but I found FFUN to be on the greasier side, especially for brand new cars.

Hint: say no to the FFUN advantage $1500 fee, know the vehicle value, use an online calculator to estimate the monthly costs yourself, and negotiate on the price of the car, not the payment.  If you don't know what you're paying for and just look at the monthly payment, you're gonna get fucked.

The service was as awful as everyone else mentioned. They forgot to plug my oil drain, and cracked my oil filter during an oil change. They also take forever. Never again.I'm 47 child-free and have never regretted it. Early on in my life I saw that having kids was a huge, life changing event and didn't feel mature enough. My mom was married at 19 and way not prepared for family life. I saw what it did to her (as well as classmates, friends, other family) and decided if I changed my mind it would only be because I was with someone who had the same level of responsibility I felt over it. I met that person sixteen years ago. He's my husband now, but we've both always been sort of, eh? We had discussions occasionally but it was never pressing. Neither of us ever felt ready. Just recently we talked about it and realized neither of us want the responsibility. The idea of kids is romanticized, but having them IRL is far removed from the notion. 

I realize now that the pressure I received as a younger person was what made me feel like I was maybe missing out on something, but I still didn't have some internal driving desire. All the reasons people try to give for having children seem selfish in retrospect: who will take care of you when you get older? you won't know real love till you have children. What meaning will your life have without kids providing your legacy? All these are benefits for the parent, not the child. Knowing that solidifies my decision that I don't want them. 

My life is fun and fulfilling in other ways. My legacy will be the work I do for my community, that I actually have time for because I don't have children.The Koreas also plan to link up their railways, allow reunions for families separated by the Korean War and co-operate on health care.
Speaking after the signing in Pyongyang, Mr Moon said Mr Kim had “agreed to permanently close the Tongchang-ri missile engine test site and missile launch facility in the presence of experts from relevant nations”.
He said Mr Kim had also agreed to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear facility, but only if the US took some reciprocal action.
The two countries will also seek to co-host the 2032 Summer Olympics.
The South’s defence minister and the head of the North Korean army also signed an agreement to further reduce military tensions.
The latest signing comes during a three-day visit to Pyongyang by Mr Moon.
While it is the first trip to the North Korean capital in a decade by a leader from the South, it is Mr Moon’s third meeting with Kim Jong-un since their historic summit in April.
North Korea has embarked on an unprecedented series of meetings this year with both the South and the US.
But efforts towards denuclearisation between the North and the US had recently hit a deadlock and there’s hope the South will continue to act as a mediator.
The US and North Korea held their own historic meeting in June when US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un agreed in broad terms to work towards denuclearisation.
its controversial nuclear weapons programme.
While the US wants denuclearisation first and an easing of sanctions second, North Korea hopes for a step-by-step process where each concession by Pyongyang will lead to a gradual easing of the sanctions regime.
Given that deadlock, the US last month called off a trip by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea, citing a lack of progress.
Welcome to BJ Armstrong Custom Homes. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. These pages are a quick sampling of what I have to offer. More than anything, I would love to help you build the home of your dreams. Whether you already have a plan or need help with the initial design, I am confident that you will be thrilled with the service you receive from BJ Armstrong Custom Homes.Our Spring Newsletter has been distributed. Let us know if you'd like to see a copy.You are invited to check out my new Trails on Sunset Lake page. There are many new, exciting details with this new subdivision. Boasting a 10 acre lake and an abundance of green space, it is truly raising the bar for Bloomington/Normal development.The Village at Prairie Vista is still vigorously under construction. If you've driven on Morris Avenue beyond Hamilton Road, you've probably seen that we have two buildings completed, and another building out of the ground. Our models are now open at select times, check the Home Market for dates and times. We still have many units available with both walk-out and look-out basements. If you'd like to learn more, send us an email, or stop by one of our many open houses. We'll be glad to give you the grand tour.Sincerely,BJ Armstrong(309) 275 2521Are you calling me primitive?
Lampreys are animals without bones or jaws, and yet they are prototype vertebrates. Related to hagfishes, the lampreys are cartilaginous fish with sucker-like mouths and are 550–450 million years old. These two groups comprise the agnathans and are reminiscent of Pikaia gracilens, the Cambrian fossil believed to be close to the first vertebrate. Despite lampreys and hagfish lacking bone and tooth enamel or other hard parts, they are still surprisingly well preserved in the fossil record. However, as a result of a paucity of fossils, the phylogeny of these groups is controversial and incomplete. Current evolutionary evidence suggests that hagfishes preceded the lampreys, with all three extant lamprey families coming from a common ancestor. The southern lamprey, Geotria australis, spends the first 4–5 years of its life in freshwater streams of southern hemisphere lands including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America. During this time, its eyes are only poorly developed. Although usually thought of as parasites, lampreys actually begin life as filter feeders, feasting mainly on detritus and unicellular algae. During metamorphosis into the pelagic stage, which takes 6 months, the lamprey’s eyes enlarge and develop the visual pigments necessary for managing its impending pelagic lifestyle. In the second stage of its life, the lamprey descends into the Southern Ocean, where it attaches onto the flanks of other fish. It uses its sucker mouth and rasp-like teeth, illustrated on the right of this month’s cover, to attach and tear into the body tissues to feed on muscle. After approximately 2 years of this predatory life, it leaves the ocean and swims back into freshwater streams to spawn. This journey can take up to 18 months and, during this time, the lamprey does not feed. Like salmon, lampreys are anadromous and return to fresh water from the sea to spawn, lay eggs, and die. Once spawning takes place by the female, the eggs are fertilised by the male, and both die.
Although depauperate (lacking in species variety), lampreys occur in three families with one family found only in the northern hemisphere and the other two families found only in the southern hemisphere. All three extant lamprey families have probably changed little during the past 280 million years, and illustrate just how ancient the basic mechanisms of much of our visual system are likely to be.
Evolutionarily, recent molecular research suggests that the most recent common ancestor of the agnathans possessed four of the five major classes of the visual pigments found in the radiation of gnathostome vertebrates. Geotria australis, pictured on the left of the cover and this page, has a pure cone retina with five visual pigments, three of which are orthologous to opsins found in jawed vertebrates. These three common cone opsins have peak sensitivities in the long wavelengths (red), short wavelengths (blue), and very short wavelengths (ultraviolet). A fourth cone opsin with a peak sensitivity in the medium wavelengths (green) underwent an independent gene duplication within the jawless (lampreys and hagfishes)