Turn the sound on, the only thing better than this dog’s joy is that people stopped what they were doing to share his joy, and you can hear them all groan when the water dies down….
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Saving for your kids’ college education isn’t easy, but you can probably save a lot more than you think. Here are seven important things to know to start squirreling away and investing money in a smart way, including how to save in a 529 investment plan.
1. Save as much as you can for college; it won’t hurt you as much as you might think when it comes to getting financial aid.
2. Prioritize saving for your own retirement ahead of saving for your kids’ college — but still, save for both.
3. Start saving something — even if you can’t save the full amount.
How To Save For Your Kid’s College Education
Illustration: James Yang for NPR
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.
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The Victory Stele of Amenhotep III, detail
The stele, an upright stone with a sculpted surface, was set up to illustrate King Amenhotep III (r. ca. 1391-1353 BC) victory over his enemies.
On this section, depicts two parallel scenes in which the king stands in his horse-drawn chariot. Above him the goddess Nekhbet spreads her protective wings and gives the signs of life, stability, and dominion. A quiver of arrows hangs on his back while a larger one is attached to the chariot. The contorted bodies of enemies overlap everywhere, one even hangs from the chariot.
The stele contains unique depictions of Amenhotep III as a warlike pharaoh. Since his reign was a largely peaceful period, the question is whether these scenes commemorate actual military victories of Amenhotep III or that they should be regarded as depicting purely symbolical victories.
Found at Kom el-Hettân by Flinders Petrie. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 31409
