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Meet the Muslim Who Cracked History’s Most Famous Code

He hacked other cryptic alphabets as well – 93 of them, in fact, including alphabets used by the ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Semitic, Hellenistic, and Hindu civilizations.

It’s safe to say that there is no ancient writing system that has captured the attention of anyone who came across it the way Egyptian hieroglyphic writing has. For centuries, emperors, scholars, travellers, grave robbers, and many others have stopped by the walls of Egypt’s enduring monuments to examine the mysterious symbols and images etched into the stone, thinking about what they might mean. It was in the 1820s that the French scholar Jean-François Champollion finally “cracked the code”, opening the door for the world to study and discover the incredible ancient history of Egypt in a way that had previously been impossible.

But was Champollion really the first person to successfully decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs? He certainly deserves credit for his groundbreaking achievement in Egyptology. But in reality, the process was underway almost a thousand years before Champollion was even born. Because at the end of the 9th century, an alchemist by the name of Abu Bakr ibn Wahshiyya managed to decipher about half of all Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. Considering the fact that there are a total of about 700-800 symbols to be cracked, this was an achievement that deserves recognition.

Ibn Wahshiyya’s contribution was first brought to light in 2004 by the London-based Egyptologist Dr. Okasha El Daly, a professor at UCL’s Institute of Archeology. El Daly did extensive research on the study of ancient Egypt in medieval Arab-Islamic writing and convincingly argued that not only did Muslims express a deep interest in the study of ancient civilizations but that they could also correctly decipher Egyptian hieroglyphic script.

But who was this Ibn Wahshiyya, and why was he trying to decipher the hieroglyphs in the first place? The little information we have about his background is hopelessly confusing, though we can say that he was probably from a scholarly Christian Arab family that had embraced Islam. He lived in Kufa (Iraq) during the early Abbasid period, when the scholarly and scientific movement at the famous House of Wisdom in nearby Baghdad was in full swing. And he was an alchemist, which it was probably in the hope of discovering the ancient Egyptians’ secrets of alchemy that he was trying to decipher their mysterious system of writing.

He hacked other cryptic alphabets as well – 93 of them, in fact, including alphabets used by the ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Semitic, Hellenistic, and Hindu civilizations. He published his findings in a text titled Kitab Shawq al-Mustaham, in which he gave a list of hieroglyphic symbols, their meaning (either as sounds or words) and their Arabic equivalent. El Daly compared Ibn Wahshiyya’s conclusions on hieroglyphics with Egyptologists’ modern-day understanding of them and found them to be accurate.

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Egyptian alphabet according to Ibn Wahshiyya (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Arabe 6805 folios 92b. ff)

The discovery of Ibn Wahshiyya’s contribution opened up the discussion of the role of classical Muslim thinkers in the field of Egyptology, which had been ignored for centuries, partly because of a prevailing Eurocentric emphasis on history and partly because the relevant manuscripts were scattered and not accounted for. Just a few years after El Daly’s revelations, some historians have already begun to recognize Ibn Wahshiyya as the first real Egyptologist in history (about a century later, another Muslim, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, would become the first Indologist in history).

El Daly emphasized that, because of their prejudices about Islam, Western scholars have been unfair to classical Muslim Egyptologists. “Western culture misinterprets Islam because we [in the West] think teaching [of civilizations] before the Qur’an is shunned, which isn’t the case,” he said. “They valued history and assumed Egypt was a land of science and wisdom and as such they wanted to learn their language to have access to such vast knowledge.”

In reality, the research in Egyptology that classical Muslims carried out is even more reliable than the research of their contemporaries in pre-modern Christian Europe. “Critically they [i.e. the Muslims] did not, unlike the West, write history to fit with the religious ideas of the time, which makes their accounts more reliable,” said El Daly. “They were also keen on the universality of human history based on the unity of the origin of human beings and the diversity of their appearance and languages.”

Ibn Wahshiyya is just one example of the general attitude towards ancient civilizations that Dr. El Daly is describing in these statements. Shortly before Ibn Wahshiyya’s time, the famous Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun had visited Egypt while on a military campaign and had asked a sage, Ayyub ibn Maslamah, to try to translate the fascinating hieroglyphs for him. Ayyub failed, but Ma’mun at least managed to force open the blocked entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza that tourists still use today. Jabir ibn Hayyan, who is widely considered to be the father of chemistry, was also fascinated by the hieroglyphs and the secrets they may hold regarding his field of research.

Similarly, the 9th-century Sufi saint Dhu’n-Nun al-Misri was also deeply interested in the Egyptians’ hieroglyphs. The classical historian al-Mas‘udi described him as “one of those who elucidate the history of these [Egyptian] temple-ruins. He roamed among them and examined a great quantity of figures and inscriptions.” Dhu’n-Nun al-Misri is said to have eventually deciphered the hieroglyphs, and while it’s not impossible that this is true, it’s more likely that he had come up with his own mystical interpretation of the ancient symbols. Either way, he did not take pre-Islamic Egyptian culture for granted, nor did his faith cause him to be too arrogant to ponder over it.

And there may be many other examples, just waiting to be discovered. It is possible that another Muslim actually managed to crack the hieroglyphic code entirely. But even with the sources we have, we can say with confidence that Ibn Wahshiyya, the first real Egyptologist, made the biggest contribution toward deciphering the hieroglyphs until Champollion finished the job nearly a thousand years later. Muslims today would benefit immensely from continuing to explore different cultural traditions and historical mysteries with the same spirit and zeal.

  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041007085716.htm
  • Fahd, T., “Ibn Waḥs̲h̲iyya”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 26 July 2016; First published online: 2012
  • al-Khalili, Jim. Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science. London: Penguin Books, 2010, p. 136-137
  • Thompson, Jason. Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 1: From Antiquity to 1881, Volume 1. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2015, p. 45

This article was originally published here on iHistory.

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Will Byers goes missing. A search party is looking for him. Joyce Byers has received a disturbing call. Will’s friends find a strange girl.

Let’s dive right into Stranger Things episode 2 *****SPOILERS*****

The Weirdo On Maple Street

Mike sets Eleven up in his basement, learning her name from the tattoo on her arm. He nicknames her El. He tells her his plan of having her knock on his door in the morning and his mother would know what to do.

Did scientists just find oozing goo coming out of Joyce’s walls?

The next morning, Mike sneaks El some Eggos for breakfast, again telling her of the plan. She refuses, telling him bad people were after her. She uses her hand as if it were a gun to show him what she meant by bad people. He decides to stay home with her, after his parents leave for the day. At school, Dustin and Lucas figure Mike has been caught with a girl spending the night in his house.

Back at Mike’s house, he shows El around. Showing her his cool TV and Lazyboy. He takes her to his room, showing off his science awards. El notices a picture of Mike and his friends. She recognizes Will.
Mike gets busted by his Mom skipping school, but under the circumstances she let’s it slide.
Lucas and Dustin head to Mike’s house after school to see what happened. Lucas is not happy about El still being there. Mike tells them how she recognized Will and that there were bad people after her. Lucas has had enough and is going to tell Mike’s Mom. El uses telekinesis to shut and lock the door. The look on their face at that moment would definitely match mine face in the same situation.

While searching for Will, the boys science teacher finds a piece of torn hospital gown outside of a large drain that leads to the Dept of Energy, the secret creepy lab.

Meanwhile, Steve invites Nancy to his house for a Tuesday night party. After some ridicule from Steve’s friends, she agrees, telling best friend Barb, she’s coming too.  Reluctantly, Barb takes Nancy to Steve’s house. This is definitely not Barb’s cup of tea, but Nancy is her best friend. After popping a beer can with a knife and chugging it, Nancy talks Barb into doing it too. Peer pressure is such a bitch. Unfortunately, the knife slips and Barb slices her thumb. When she goes to get cleaned up, the others decide to jump in the pool fully clothed.

At this moment, Jonathan is searching the woods and photographing everything where his brother disappeared. He hears a scream and goes running towards it. When he comes to the end of the woods, he’s facing Steve’s house. He begins taking pictures of Nancy and her friends in the pool.

Steve’s friends pop off to do the typical home alone with my girl/boyfriend teenage thing. As Steve leads Nancy upstairs to change into some dry clothes, Barb catches her, trying to talk Nancy into leaving but Nancy ends up telling Barb to leave by herself. Upstairs Steve and Nancy get their mambo on, with Jonathan taking pictures still. Creep. Jonathan notices Barb sitting on the diving board with her feet in the water. He takes a picture, the last on the roll.

Barb’s thumb is dripping blood in the pool…..a creepy noise…she turns around…. BAM Barb is gone.

By the time Jonathan has finished winding the filming, he looks up and Barb is no longer there. He leaves.

Joyce receives another phone call from Will, which again blows the phone. His favorite song begins playing on his radio. She goes to his room. The weird creepy black slimy creature starts coming out of the wall.

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Although different parents and families may have a different take and definition of “success”, most would boil down successful parenting to raising children who grow into happy, self-motivated and confident adults; individuals who can contribute positively and meaningfully to society and the world.

What It Takes To Raise Successful Children

While there isn’t a magic formula for raising successful children, experts and studies point to certain parenting traits. We speak to Ms Jacqueline Neo, Co-founder of Happy Train to learn more.

Parenting Trait #1 They demonstrate unconditional love

A parent’s love is the most important factor in helping infants learn about the world around them. Child psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth who documented their studies on early attachment since the early 1960s, clearly established the importance of the presence of a loving caregiver when an infant is just beginning to explore their surroundings.

A child who receives unconditional love from primary caregivers is then empowered to love himself, and later on, to love other people. With love, children can also develop empathy for others and be considerate of their needs.

Parenting Trait #2 They allow their children to experience the world for themselves

Instead of hovering over their children constantly as “helicopter” parents, or giving their children complete freedom to do whatever they want, wise parents strike a healthy balance between setting boundaries and letting go. Children should be given the opportunity to learn about the world around them on their own.

A parent’s role is to provide a safe environment for their children to explore independently, instead of parents doing most of the work for them. Children need lots of time to daydream and imagine and to explore the environment around them through their five senses.

Parenting Trait #3 They give them real-life responsibilities and consequences

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Rather than being afraid to discipline or enforce consequences, parents with successful kids are firm and clear in how they set limits for their children. Each family has its own system and styles of discipline, but what is most important is that these consequences are upheld consistently and in a loving manner. This teaches children to be responsible for their choices and behaviour.

Another way of instilling a sense of responsibility in children is to give them chores, even from a young age. According to the Harvard Grant Study, children who help out in chores from an early age achieve greater success in adulthood.

The success was measured on the basis of educational level acquired, career path taken, and quality of personal relationships. This sets the stage for and works towards developing the mindset to take up work that may seem unpleasant, so as to contribute to the good of the whole.

Parenting Trait #4 They teach their children how to relate to people

Finding The Joy In Parenting

In an increasingly advanced society, socio-emotional intelligence is an important quality for parents to hone in their children. Nurturing a child’s interpersonal skills has a significant impact on the child’s future success in his relationships, perspectives and work ethic in school and all of life. Studies have shown that a child’s intellectual development is intricately bound to his emotional development.

Parenting Trait #5 They emphasise perseverance and effort, instead of avoiding failure

Parents with successful children encourage them to see their mistakes and failures as learning opportunities and stepping stones and to never give up without a fight, especially in the things that matter most. If children do not take failures as a challenge or learning opportunity, they can easily lose the motivation to try and think of themselves as incapable or inferior to others.

As they get older, this kind of mindset may also affect how they perceive themselves. “I’m just not good in Math” or “I’m not really a people person” – what psychologists call a “fixed mindset”, which assumes that a person’s character, intelligence and creative ability are static and cannot be changed in any meaningful or significant way. These beliefs will, in turn, influence their personality and choices they make. What they believe about themselves may eventually become their reality.

To curb this way of thinking, be intentional about praising your children for the effort they put into a task, not only for the results that they achieve. This fosters a “growth mindset”, which sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a springboard for growth and stretching existing capabilities.

Parenting Trait #6 They hold high expectations

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Using information from a national survey of over 6,000 children born in 2001, Professor Neal Halfon and his team from the University of California found that the expectations parents have for their children have a huge impact on achievement.

While we want to help our children to accept and bounce back from failure, we need to help them develop self-efficacy and confidence, so they can build on their own beliefs of their abilities to succeed. Children must come to see that only their own hard work can help them attain the results they want, not merely a reliance on others nor cultivating an attitude that gives up prematurely.

Parents have to strike a balance between pressurising and comparing their children to siblings and peers, and encouraging them to bring their personal best to the table. Characteristics like confidence, resilience, perseverance, determination and self-efficacy, together with virtues such as honesty and empathy, are important attributes to develop in your child from young.

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Half of all new Covid cases in England could be mutant strain – as Brentwood becomes country's virus hotspot

HALF of all new Covid cases in England could be the new mutant strain discovered in Kent – as Brentwood in Essex becomes the country’s infection hotspot.

The highly contagious new variant is behind a surge in cases in London and the South East, causing millions of Brits to be plunged into a Tier 4 lockdown over Christmas.

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According to the Office of National Statistics, around 645,800 Brits had coronavirus between December 12 and 19 – the equivalent of one in 85 people.

In London, 68 per cent of positive cases from December 14 to 18 were estimated to be the new variant, while in eastern and south-east England the estimate is 65 per cent.

The ONS estimate that 49 per cent of new cases could be the mutant strain which scientists believe is up to 70 per cent more contagious.

New figures released today by Public Health England also show a huge surge in infections in Essex, with Brentwood now the hardest-hit area of the UK.

The borough has a weekly infection rate of 1339.9 cases per 100,000 in the seven days up to December 20.

This is more than twice the figure of 586.9 per 100,000 reported the week before.

Nearby Thurrock has also seen its infection rate almost double in a week,  with 1323.8 cases per 100,000.

Epping Forest, again in Essex, is in third place where the rate has risen from 627.2 to 1,276.5, with 1,681 new cases.

In sharp contrast to the Autumn, not a single area in the previously hard-hit North of England makes it into the Top 50 areas with the highest infection rate.

Large swathes of the North, including Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds, were plunged into Tier 3 restrictions in October with all hospitality venues shut.

The areas have since seen a gradual decline in infections, but are unlikely to be moved into Tier 2 as fears grow over the spread of the new variant.

The huge surge in cases prompted the government to introduce Tier 4 restrictions across swathes of the South East and London, with further areas set to be plunged into lockdown on Boxing Day.

In a bid to curb transmission of the new variant, Boris Johnson also announced that festive bubbles would be cut to one day only – and scrapped completely in Tier 4 areas.

The PM today told a Downing Street press conference that tougher restrictions could be required to prevent the new strain “running out of control” in January amid fears of another national lockdown in the New Year.

It comes as Matt Hancock yesterday warned of a concerning new variant discovered in South Africa, which is believed to be more transmissible.

The Health Secretary told reporters that two cases of the new strain had been identified in the UK, with both patients thought to have been in contact with people who travelled between South Africa and Britain in recent weeks.

Responding to the new variant, the Department for Transport last night imposed a ban on all flights from South Africa.

Anyone who has been in or transited through South Africa in the last 10 days is no longer allowed into the UK, other than British or Irish nationals who must self isolate.

Meanwhile, experts warned that all of England should go into Tier 4 today to stop a Covid surge from thousands of super-spreading Christmas gatherings.

24 million people in the south and east will be in the country's strictest tier from 12.01am on Boxing Day – but some academics are demanding it be brought forward to today for the whole country.

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Rudy Giuliani tweeted out a Twitter poll asking if Americans support “Primaries for turncoat Republicans who coverup Democrat cheating!”.

Here is the tweet:

Here are the current results:

This could very well be a sign of things to come.

Here are some reasons why:

The first is who tweeted it out. This was tweeted out by Rudy Giuliani, the one in charge of exposing the voter fraud. He has been President Trump’s right-hand man as it pertains to exposing voter fraud. He wouldn’t tweet this out for no reason. If he is asking this question there is a reason for it.

The next piece of evidence is that it lines up with President Trump’s tweets.

Here is a tweet he sent out on New Years Day:

President Trump is calling out a sitting GOP Senator and calling for him to be primaried.

We also have this tweet from last month in which, Donald Trump Jr. called for Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to be primaried:

A great piece from Revolver News explains this further:

They claim this was written by a White House Official.

Congressional Republicans need to realize that, in the current environment, they face a very real threat to their continued ability to hold office, in Washington and just about elsewhere else. That threat is twofold.

The first is that any senator or representative who won’t stand up in this moment will face such opposition at home from Trump supporters and others who are deeply troubled by election fraud that they might as well not run again. They will almost assuredly face primary opposition that is cut from the Trump cloth, possibly with Donald Trump’s blessing.

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Building a Connection with God

Not so long ago, I realized I was lacking a relationship and connection with God. I may have even been a bit skeptical, or perhaps had unfinished business. I knew about synchronicity, coincidence, The Secret, The Law of Attraction, the Universe, etc., but my interest was mainly from a point of view: That’s just how things work here. It wasn’t personal, I just knew this stuff existed. I had faith, but it was limited to only what I could achieve alone. I was the master of my life and the master of my destiny!

An excerpt from my book, after my parts were all in my heart . . . without me:

I looked up to the sky and yelled at God. I called him every name in the book and told him that He was mean and cruel. How could he let this happen? He was supposed to be a loving God. What a load of crap that was! I could feel anger rising and getting a shot of energy from it. It felt good, and boy was I ever angry! The hell with the pain, this anger was unbelievably invigorating! I felt so much freedom in expressing all this anger I didn’t even know existed within me. I was angry with God, angry with myself, angry with the world, and angry that my being had fractured into many pieces to begin with.

It was all just madness, all of it, and I’d been stupid enough to believe it all. How could I have been so stupid and gullible? I felt miserable and alone and in pain and really, really angry. So much for being a spiritual being, so much for growth and learning, so much for wanting to be happy. All of that hard work I’d put in just to get more pain and suffering? I thought: Screw it, I am done. No more being nice. I don’t care anymore . . . though I felt a little guilty at the same time.

God? God who?

I was also aware of a “hole” that existed inside of myself, accompanied by a feeling of emptiness. I suffered from fear and lack (insecurity, lack of trust, co-dependency, neediness, unfulfillment). I didn’t realize it was because I had no connection with God. I thought it was just me. I lived life as “capable, able and dependable” so I didn’t need anyone or anything. That was how I presented myself to the world. It worked out great in the work place! Most employers wants an employee like this to take advantage of – giving them all the responsibility, usually only to be paid in peanuts. The service business is great for this. Didn’t matter though, I (ego) felt validated, so therefore everything was fine in my little world. It was well contained and managed, thank you very much!

. . . Or not . . . well, I thought it was anyway. I found out that being “capable, able and dependable” was an act – compensating for a failure to be. It wasn’t real and couldn’t be sustained without a cost. My “failure to be” was all the negative beliefs I believed about myself:

  • I’m not good enough
  • I’m not worthy
  • I’m a failure
  • I’m a burdon
  • I’m too weak

I identified with these beliefs, they were who I was! This is not true as I have found out. I am not my beliefs, my thoughts or my feelings.  So many millions of people have these same negative beliefs about themselves. It was a good way for me to stay small, a victim and hide. A connection with God had no space in my being because I was unworthy of love – and really believed it.

I remember going through a Dark Night of the Soul and feeling so absolutely alone. It would’ve been much easier with God. I seriously wonder, though if I could have experienced my Dark Night of the Soul being connected to God. I actually don’t know the answer to that. I can only guess I wouldn’t have felt the intense pain of separation. The pain is how we know we are separate in some way. It was a clue for me to look deeper and fill the emptiness from within through a connection with God.

From my book, the mind and the heart have it out . . .

My mind also tried to comfort me, by imagining that it could figure all this out. It was searching for where it had gone wrong in what had happened. Finally near the end of its search it settled on the word love. “Love went wrong and it’s the heart’s fault!” It made so much sense to my mind but my heart was having trouble grasping this.

My mind continued, “If you had never felt love we wouldn’t have a problem here. Can’t you see that love is the reason why the aloneness was rudely awakened in the first place? It was the reason aloneness could even live inside of us. Love challenged the aloneness and that’s how the aloneness knew that it was alone.”

My heart wanted its opinion heard, “You couldn’t be more wrong! How could something as beautiful as love be as destructive as you claim?”

The mind answered, “Well, because without ever feeling love we wouldn’t miss it when it was gone. Just by its sheer existence we are self-destined for pain. Ignorance is bliss and if we’d never known love we’d all just be going about the business of living.”

The heart conceded, “OK, your argument represents sound logic, I’ll give you that, but there’s still something missing.”

The mind stayed firm, “Unless you can convince me otherwise I’ll just sit over here and feel confident in being right.”

“Well I still believe we need love and the complete experience of it, both the pain and the joy.”

The mind was doubtful, “Then you’ll need to convince me, twinkle toes. Go on, I have all day.”

“OK, you want a good argument, here goes. We exist because of love. We were created with love and we will return to love. Until now I didn’t know this. I didn’t understand there was a higher form of love and union, an unconditional love which exists with the Divine, the same love connecting us to all things, existing within each and every being. You’re right about love in one way: it can be destructive— but only if that love is trying to fill an empty void within, a “hole.” That kind of love can never stay; it will always leave because it didn’t belong there to begin with. It was never ours so it must return to where it came from, somewhere outside of us. The space that love temporarily filled got activated so, when the external love left the space, it felt the pain of the emptiness that had always been there. We can agree on that much. But here is where I believe we need the pain of love. It lets us know when there’s a void within ourselves. We need to feel the void so that we’re motivated to seek out love in its truest form, unconditionally, from the Divine within.”

“The heart continued “Love and acceptance with the Self is real and can never leave, once it is found, because it comes from us and therefore is ours to keep. It is ours to have and to hold, in sickness and in health and you know the rest.”

The mind gives a chuckle, “OK, heart, I get it: you make a pretty good argument. But, now that we know this, what’s next? How can we work together to prepare this heart for love with the Divine self?”

“Good question, I need to think about this.”
The mind agreed. “Yeah. I need to feel this out.”

I have gained a deeper connection with myself during my journey to connect with God. As above, so below. In whatever ways I was lacking a connection with God, showed up as lacking within myself – lack of trust, conditional love, abandonment, anger, and negative beliefs about myself. With God now, I can do and be anything! I am in a way fearless, knowing as long as I am following God’s will, I am whole, fulfilled, and not alone. It feels better surrendering to a higher power who only has my best interest at heart. I just need to stay out of the way and remain unattached to outcomes! (The bane of my existence!)

How did I achieve my connection?

  • I had to realize I was not connected to God.
  • I chose to examine what was in the way – what was the problem (angry with God, negative beliefs, deprogramming Catholic upbringing, abandoned by God)
  • I addressed all the issues I found blocking a connection by writing down my negative beliefs and working them ( see Resources Page
  • I made an intention and was willing to connect with and invite God into my life
  • Accept God into my life by letting go of control (whoa!)
  • Surrender my Will to God’s Will and keep surrendering! This is a large commitment.

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  1. Donna. Again where do I begin? Your Path is so similar to mine! Oh yes I went through a phase being soooooo angry with God. Today I never lie to God for what is in my heart is known to that Power and when I am “pissed” I acknowledge it. Recently I was on a hike and for 2 hours had a conversation with Yeshua, the one most know as Jesus. He is my Companion, my Friend, and had OB9(S) with him as a child. THAT is another story. Anyways … back to the hike. I ranted and I cried and I demanded answers regarding certain things and patterns in my life. I did get answers. One of them being I chose to experience the dark side of “Love” in order to know the “Light” side of Love. By the time I arrived back at my car I was at Peace within. I have yet to have full understanding of the whys regarding my life, but I just KNOW there are no accidents and I am being groomed/prepared for bigger and better. Perhaps it is not for this life but one that is to come, I don’t know. But the faith I have that ALL is good in my life makes my heart smile.
    I’ve had a “catholic” upbringing as well which I have walked away from. Even as a little girl I was questioning the nuns and priests about things and OH they were not happy with me. I was punished and was told I was wrong. I came right out and said I am not a sinner and of course the catholics being who they are were shocked because that is the whole premise with that religion … you gotta be a sinner because you were born with sin. No. I also said there was no place as Limbo and I was punished. Years later a Pope declared there was no place as Limbo and then the catholics accepted that fact. But do you know how many women were tortured thinking that their babies were not in heaven because they were not baptized? What a bunch of hooey! I knew our LOVING GOD would never do that to innocent children. When I was with Yeshua I saw how much he loved children and was very childlike himself. No. God is LOVE.
    I’m telling you I myself could write a book. I’m still reading yours and have gotten to the part of Jonnie and Joanie. Fascinating read, Donna. 😘🌸😘

    1. Hi Amy!
      Yes, our path’s sound really similar! That is so cool! What a blessing you know that your path is to know the dark side of love in order to know the light side of love. It really helps to have this information, the experiences in your life can then have deeper meaning and a context.
      You wrote: “I have yet to have full understanding of the whys regarding my life, but I just KNOW there are no accidents and I am being groomed/prepared for bigger and better.” I say the same thing! By going through our experiences there is so much we are healing within ourselves and on the planet as well. Let’s not forget healing through our DNA lines too! Our family benefits too when we heal. You have helped your family, up the lines, by completing all the stuff you have faced! And, yes your faith is strong, it would have to be!!! It feels like we have been planted on the Earth at this time, to help hold ascension codes on the physical Earth, among other things! I think you SHOULD write a book!! Even if it starts out just for you, then you can decide if you want to publish it. I didn’t think I would ever publish my book, but you never know! I self-published because I like the elements of doing something like that. I’ll have to see how it goes. Thanks again for taking the time to read it – glad you like it so far!! It’s nice to hear! Thanks for sharing so much of yourself!!! It is validating!

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      1. Please know, Donna, that these conversations I do not have every day and it is such a glorious experience for me. To be able to connect with someone in this manner is a Gift. I know I am helping my family yet truthfully I am not seeing it so again Faith kicks in and I just focus on ME. Bottom line it is still up the individual to change, to accept a Gift or not, to realize Truth. I have made a difference with my Mother, or at least at times I have seen it. And about that book … it is enough for now to be able to do what I do through WP. That is what my Heart is guiding me to do. That and my determination to experience LIFE fully while pushing forward with the huge plate I have set before me, that is more then enough. I’ve just recently showed Love to me by beginning to cut out pieces of the pie in order to give me more time to just relax and enjoy the Moment. May your weekend be glorious! 🌹

        1. Thanks AmyRose! I really enjoy your posts in WP! They are very down to earth and real, and as a bonus the photography is stunning! You have a gift and I am happy to be a witness! Glad you are enjoying chatting on WP too, nice to be connected! It is nice to hear you are taking time for enjoyment, and so important too – I need to do it more myself. I’ll be moving to Shrewsbury soon and will live near a nice path along a brook – can’t wait to have nature on my doorstep! Take care!!! 🙂

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Homemade Graham Crackers

Graham crackers are the ultimate snack. They’re like cookies, but not. I got the book Make the Bread, Buy the Butter for Christmas and it has a graham cracker recipe in it. I decided to try it out. The results were delicious. Here are the ingredients I used (I made a couple changes to the original recipe.):

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/4 cup wheat germ (buy in a glass jar)
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar (buy in bulk)
  • 1/4 cup brown rice syrup or honey (buy in glass jars)

Whisk together flour, wheat germ, salt, baking soda and cinnamon.

In a separate bowl, beat butter, sugar and brown rice syrup until fluffy.

Add flour mixture. Mix until combined. Mine was a little too dry, so I added about two tablespoons of water so the dough would form a ball.

Flatten dough into circle between two sheets of parchment paper. I use parchment paper instead of plastic wrap. I’ve used wax paper before too. Chill for about an hour.

Take the dough out of the fridge and let it soften. Put the dough on a floured surface and split it into two halves.

Roll out one half to 1/8 inch thickness. Trim the edges so that you have a rectangle or a square.

Using a pizza cutter, cut the dough into rectangles. Place on a baking sheet. I use Silpats for baking. Silpats are nonstick silicone sheets.

Mark rectangles with a knife but don’t cut through all the way. Prick with a toothpick to give them that graham cracker look.

Bake at 350 degrees until slightly colored, 12-15 minutes.

Break into smaller rectangles and serve.

These were delicious. They tasted just like real graham crackers. My little sister and her friends ate all of them really quickly. Enjoy! 🙂

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Chicken Lettuce CupsHappy new year to all my Asian friends! It is the year of the rabbit and Plucky finds that she will be attending–not one–but two lunar celebrations this week.

To celebrate, I’ve developed a lighter version of one of my favorites. Since I am thousands of miles away from my favorite Chinese food place (Gary Lee’s Asian Star in Salt Lake City), this quick recipe for chicken lettuce cups comes pretty close to the “real deal.”

For my friends at Weight Watchers: This recipe serves 8 entree portions and much, much more as an appetizer. Figure on about 6 points per each entree-sized portion. To keep the calories down, I have made it with chicken, but you could also try it with a pound of ground pork.

Chicken Lettuce Cups

In the morning: Wash and core one head of iceberg lettuce. Let drain and store in refrigerator until ready to use.

2 oz. rice sticks, fried until golden, drained on paper toweling and set aside.

Whisk sauce together in small bowl and set aside:
1 tablespoon Mirin (Chinese rice wine) or sherry
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce

Prepare as directed and set aside:
3 scallions, minced
4 oz. mushrooms, rough chop
2 oz. bamboo shoots, rough chop
2 oz. water chestnuts, rough chop
1/4 cup roasted peanuts, rough chop

In wok or fry pan, heat 1 teaspoon peanut oil on high heat until just smoking. Add 1 pound ground chicken and stir until halfway cooked. Add mushrooms and keep stirring until mixture is cooked through and liquid from mushrooms is nearly evaporated. Reduce heat to medium. Add scallions, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and heat through. Add sauce and stir to thoroughly incorporate. Just before serving, add salt and pepper to taste, add peanuts and rice sticks (crumbled). Serve on platter with lettuce cups and extra hoisin sauce.

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I know I’m ten days early, but I wanted to share this foodie valentine with you. If you are not familiar with Anthony Bourdain, you should pick up a copy of his latest book, Medium Raw. Billed as, “a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook,” Bourdain does not disappoint his readers, who know him as a bold writer that does not know the meaning of soft-serve.

After penning his best-selling Kitchen Confidential, which, among other things, instructed us as to why we should never order fish on Monday, Bourdain has spent the past decade as a television personality and food writer. I had recently finished Medium Raw when I happened to be watching a Top Chef marathon with my daughter. In one particular episode, Bourdain appeared with Justo Thomas, a Dominican seafood butcher of whom he writes about almost reverently in chapter 18.

Thomas is a virtuoso with a fish knife. I read with fascination as Bourdain described the machine-like precision in which Thomas cut between 750-1,000 pounds of seafood a day at New York’s acclaimed Le Bernardin restaurant. According to Bourdain, when Thomas takes a vacation, it takes three men to accomplish the same task while he is away. I had recently taken a cooking class where we saw a 20-minute demo of a 28-pound halibut sliced, filleted and portioned. Thomas can zip through a fish the same size in roughly eight minutes.

After the Top Chef segment was over, I encouraged my daughter to read (at a minimum) Bourdain’s homage to Thomas. She was immediately hooked. Like me, she couldn’t put the book down. When I could hear her laugh out loud, I knew it wasn’t just me; this book was a winner.

Bourdain isn’t for everybody. He has what my mother calls a “potty mouth.” For those with “clutch-my-pearls” sensibilities, I have to warn you; this book is laced with F-bombs. That’s just the way he rolls. For those who can get past that, Bourdain does not disappoint. His stream of consciousness style is deliciously descriptive–bordering on food porn. His opinion never fails to entertain. Bourdain is one of those writers who is blessed with the ability to write without filter. He freely gives his opinion on a variety of subjects ranging from the bastardization of the hamburger, why Alice Waters is out of touch, the villainous James Beard House, and a cootie-infested Ronald McDonald. Oh, and don’t disrespect your server…

It’s a can’t-put-down read for foodies. Bourdain, now the father of a two-year-old daughter, has mellowed. Like most of us who woke up wondering how the hell we got on AARP’s mailing list, Bourdain’s life experiences have given him a unique perspective on his passion and on those who are industry “leaders.” He’s shaken the demons of youth and is here to tell us exactly what he thinks about it. Bourdain’s latest is not merely Medium Raw, it’s well done.

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GWS hits 10,000 members, mostly Mormons

The Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL club has posted 10,000 members despite having not played a single game – thanks mostly to the pulling power of former NRL star and marquee recruit, Israel Folau.

Giants CEO Dale Holmes told ThePublicApology that most of the credit belonged to Folau, adding that he was key to the team’s continued push into rugby league heartland.

“Once Izzy [Folau] joined, so did all his brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles – plus the guys down at his local Mormon church, they got in on it too,” he said.

“But I’d say Izzy’s direct relatives made up almost 100% of the new recruits.”

Holmes said he was unsure whether any of the new members were not actually related to Folau by blood.

“Any more on top of the extended Folau family is a bonus,” he added.

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Enrolled bill

In the United States Congress, an enrolled bill is the final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both houses of Congress in identical form.[1]

In the United States, enrolled bills are engrossed—prepared in a formally printed copy—and must be signed by the presiding officers of both houses and sent to the president of the United States for approval.[2]

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Journey to Spain

Spain is a unique experience that treats you with spiritual uplifting in the form of pilgrimages, cathedrals and tombs. Pay attention to the details of the marvellous architecture built in an era of kings and kingdoms.

One of the best places Spain packages cover is Toledo. Bring out the historical geek in you and simply dwell in the ancient masterpieces. Exclusively get a chance to notice the abundance of art and architecture that dates back to the Roman Empire.

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Spain tourism has a lot to offer. Taking full advantage of the natural beauties combined with human-made wonders, Spain has seen a tremendous boost regarding tourists. One can choose from a large variety of options.

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How Obasanjo Revealed That Atiku Is Not Nigerian — Ajulo |The Republican News

PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar

A lawyer and former National Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Olukayode Ajulo, has stated that being a former Vice President does not automatically qualify the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to contest for the presidency.

Ajulo, an All Progressives Congress, APC, lawyer, stated this while fielding questions from The Sun on issues relating to the contention of the nationality of Atiku.

According to the lawyer, it was even former President Olusegun Obasanjo that inspired the thought that Atiku is not Nigerian when he raised the issue of the former Vice President being of ‘dubious parental background’ in his book, ‘My Watch.’

He said, “President Olusegun Obasanjo inspired that thought and this further inspired me to go into research to know who is a Nigerian citizen by birth because if somebody who had not only worked with Atiku but was also the president then can raise this issue of Atiku being of ‘dubious parental background’ in his book, ‘My Watch,’ then there must be more than what meets the eyes.

“My position is still unchanged, and that is, that Atiku was a vice president is not an automatic qualification to contest for the presidency.

“Long repetition of wrong occurrences, won’t make it right. In fact, in Australia, one of their members of Parliament had to resign when it was discovered that his nationality was questionable.

“I don’t think ours is beyond rectification and that is why the issue is being raised. I was a student when Atiku became a vice president. .

“As a lawyer, who must be on the right side of the law, I know my limits particularly when a matter is before the court; and as a counsel to one of the parties in the election, whatever I am going to say is going to be circumspect to the point that it will not prejudice the matter before the court.

“It is so clear beyond conjecture that the APC raised a lot of fundamental preliminary objections especially on the claim of Atiku that he has right to be nominated and voted for whereas the constitution has a special condition that to be able to be voted for as the president you must be a Nigerian citizen by birth.

“Yes, it is true that no one should be prejudiced by the circumstances of his birth. However, there is an exception for every right. For example, there is a right to freedom of speech and however this right is still circumscribed by the right of other persons.

“Therefore, your right must be exercised within the ambit of the law. For example, you can’t say you have a right to freedom of movement and then find your way to my bedroom, without authorisation or justification, I will deal with you.

“The constitution stipulates the condition precedent to the right Atiku is laying claim to and I am of the view that he has not, in fact, and cannot, fulfil that condition precedent.” (Daily Post)

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Helical movements of flagellated propelling microorganisms

Chwang, Allen Tse-Yung (1971) Helical movements of flagellated propelling microorganisms. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/JWFS-FA36.

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The helical motion of an infinitely long flagellum with a cross-sectional radius b, along which a helical wave of amplitude h, wave-length [lambda] and phase velocity c is propagated, has been analyzed by using Stokes' equations in a helical coordinate system (r,[xi],x). In order to satisfy all the boundary conditions, namely the no-slip condition on the flagellum surface and zero perturbation velocity at infinity, the flagellum must propel itself with a propulsion velocity U in the opposite direction to the phase velocity c. For small values of kb (where k = 2[pi]/[lambda] is the wave number), by a single-harmonic approximation for the outer region (r > h), the ratio of the propulsion velocity U to the phase velocity c is found to be[...], where K[n](kh) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind.

A modified and improved version of the Gray and Hancock method has been developed and applied to evaluate helical movements of a freely swimming microorganism with a spherical head of radius a and a tail of finite length and cross-sectional radius b. The propulsion velocity U and the induced angular velocity [omega] of the organism are derived. In order that this type of motion can be realized, it is necessary for the head of the organism to exceed a certain critical size, and some amount of body rotation is inevitable. For fixed kb and kh, an optimum head-tail ratio a/b, at which the propulsion velocity U reaches a maximum, has been discovered. The power required for propulsion by means of helical waves is determined, based on which a hydromechanical efficiency [eta] is defined. This [eta] reaches a maximum at kh [...] 0.9 for microorganisms with optimum head-tail ratios. In the neighborhood of kh = 0.9, the optimum head-tail ratio varies in the range 15 < a/b < 40, the propulsion velocity in 0.08 < U/c < 0.2, and the efficiency in 0.14 < [eta] < 0.24, as kb varies over 0.03 < kb < 0.2.

The modified version of the Gray and Hancock method has also been utilized to describe the locomotion of spirochetes. It is found that although a spirochete has no head to resist the induced viscous torque, it can still propel by means of helical waves provided that the spirochete spins with an induced angular velocity [omega]. Thus the 'Spirochete paradox' is resolved. In order to achieve a maximum propulsion velocity, it is discovered that a spirochete should keep its amplitude-wavelength ratio h/[lambda] around 1:6 (or kh [...] 1). At kh = 1, the propulsion velocity varies in the range 0 < U/c < 0.2, and the induced angular velocity in 0.4 < [omega]/[low-case omega] < 1 (where [low-case omega] = kc is the circular frequency of the helical wave), as the radius-amplitude ratio varies over 0 < b/h < 1.

A series of experiments have been carried out to determine by simulation the relative importance of the so-called 'neighboring' effect and 'end' effect, and results for the case of uniform helical waves are presented

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Johannes “Boet” Jantjies – Paarl Cycling Legend

I love history. I love it more when I get to speak to a person who contributed to history. I had a chat with Johannes ‘Boet’ Jantjies, a Paarl cycling legend who dominated local cycling in the 1970s, with many other local cycling legends! Very few know that he held a record 5 gold medals in a 2-day cycling tour. He was also the captain of the historical Yorkshire Cycling Club. #proudlypaarl #paarlcyclinglegend\

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How did I get here???

I made the transition to age 30 in a bumpy, awkward way, on my way to really being an adult.  More about that at a later time.  What I didn’t do at age 30 was begin to think of myself as “old.”  Remember when turning 30 meant being “over the hill?”  I certainly wasn’t old at 30.  Nor was I old at 40, or 50, or even 60.

Around the time I made 60, I started to offer, “I’m old…” with a smile and a twist of my voice to show that I wasn’t really old; wasn’t that obvious?  For my 60th birthday I received the gift of a tattoo, and have a beautiful dragonfly to prove it.   After all, no “old” person would have a carefully chosen tattoo, would they?

On my 61st birthday, I started to think maybe I’d been in denial for a long, long, long time.  While I knew I wasn’t old-old, I began to suspect that I was definitely on my way to that place, as if it was a particular moment in time.  I wasn’t young, although I still offer that I’m really only 17, “inside.”  I may be 17, “inside,” but my body and experience and soul have been around a lot longer than that.  I have the scars and the wisdom medals to prove that I’ve been around longer than 17 years.

That’s what this blog is about.  It’s about “getting here -” getting to the place in life when others can rightfully look to you as a Wise One.  I’ll draw from others’ writings, and I’ll draw from my own experience.  I’ll tell stories that speak to outer experience, and I’ll tell stories that speak to inner life.

Think about the world today.  Think way beyond your little world and its inevitable joys and sorrows today.  Think about the world today.  That’s why I’m here, as One Who Has Entered the Wisdom Years.  While the world may not want to hear what I have to say, the fact remains that I have something to say.  Maybe it will help someone, maybe not.  All I know is that I have to say it, I have to share some of what I’ve learned – and haven’t learned – in my life, which has now been in existence for over 6 decades.

Join me if you are a wisdom seeker, like I am.  Join me if you have something to say, too.  Join me if you are someone who asks:  “what’s it all about, Alfie?”                                                     Join me if you want to start a conversation.

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Leukemia still sucks and sucks and sucks some more…

The days have come and gone like the wind that currently howls over our house at this very moment. Hard and fast air lets out then slow, easy almost comforting in a way it rolls back around.

Leukemia is a strange, strange beast. This form of cancer takes over your blood, choking the very life-sustaining cellular composition that travels within your veins. Chemotherapy or five specific chemicals to be more precise, drip into your system neutralizing this mutation as it grows. After five or so days strapped to an I.V. stand you are monitored for a few more days while blood is taken daily to register the effect this deadly poison does on your system. Then as your white cell counts drop (the main target) to almost nothing leaving you susceptible to even the most timid of colds, germs or traveling organisms you are sent home from this hospital incarceration to rest, relax and well, basically begin to feel as though you are dying.

But wait there’s more!

Blood, glorious blood, my feeling on this after watching my wife decline into a pale white almost vampirish state is you begin to crave this gooey red substance. For you see without almost daily transfusions at first, your blood becomes nothing more than an empty, nutrition less liquid that can barely carry oxygen to the brain.  Chemo-drugs continue to kill everything within its juicy red make up. No white cells, struggling red cells, no life.  Transfusions bring new platelets (Platelets, also called “thrombocytes”, are blood cells whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to stop bleeding.) and blood. Without transfusions, these chemo drugs would have essentially done their job, killing off all white blood cells, leaving you a deathly shade of white, unable to fight infection and terrified to bump even the slightest object for fear of bleeding to death. No energy to walk, no energy to breathe, no energy to live.

The next few weeks after the first therapy session are spent going back and forth to the hospital. Blood draw at 8am, test results by 9-930 then either another day of sleeping due to a lack of energy or a glorious blood transfusion.  Now it sounds simple enough doesn’t it? Blood draw everyday and like having your car run low on fuel, just pop in and fill er’ up! I havent seen the bill yet, but I am pretty sure blood is more than $2.99 a gallon.

But what happens if you are allergic to these transfusions? Well our Miss Jacy is just that, (way to always be an overachiever huh?). So now instead of an easy-peasy morning or plug and play as it were, we stroll in to our own private room (thanks to the really killer, or shall I say bad-ass nurses at Kaiser who really dig my always smiling wife) and the count down begins.

Zyrtec to fight the histamine reaction needs to be on board prior to any fluids

Benydryl to cover an additional reaction that happens sometime after the initial infusion

A bag or two of blood to redden things up a bit! Oxygen rules!!!

Oh and a bag of platelets… Now these are not just any platelets either mind you, no no! These are carefully washed, plasma free platelets (Platelet Light I prefer to call it) made just for Jacy to minimize any allergic reactions. Oh and beware they need to be used quickly for they only have a shelf life of 4 hours!

Funny story the other day my poor wife was in the infusion clinic and hospital from 0930-11:30. Why? Because the delivery service from San Francisco a meer one hour and forty minutes away just couldn’t seem to get her platelets to her in under four hours! Hmmm seems to me that might be a tad bit important, huh? The response for such tardiness? Stuck in traffic. I call balderdash. But that’s neither here nor there .

So now she is all topped off, tune-up finished, low and behold no wheel chair needed to exit the hospital, no shortness of breath detected upon exertion and she feels as though she could run a marathon! Blood, Blood, amazing blood. Since blood is red, I believe I shall start referring to my wife as Ferrari! Sexy sleek thing that she is.

The long and the short of it? This is where we are right now in this whole process. There is much more to come, including a wonderful all-inclusive trip to Stanford University a bit later on.  I promise to tell you all about it! I hear the place is all the rave!

I wonder if I could get a blood transfusion after a weekend of rodeo? Hmmmmm???

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Money Saving Challenge Gift Idea For Kids
If you’re thinking about giving money or gift cards to a kid or young adult, you might consider doing a money saving challenge instead. It’ll get them as excited about saving as they are about spending, and it teaches them the fundamentals of earning interest over time.

Why You Should Do It

Kids who maintain even a small amount of savings are 6x more likely to go to college and 4x more likely to own stocks as young adults. (Washington University St. Louis)

Developing good financial habits early gives them the discipline they need to juggle bank accounts, save for retirement, start a business, pay back a loan, and avoid going into debt.

You’ll be helping shape them into financially intelligent adults, and they can put the money you give them towards a long term goal.

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How it works

Provide them with their initial seed money, perhaps $10 or $20. Any amount will do, as long as it’s enough to make them tempted to spend it.

The game goes like this: as long as they can manage to hold on to the money, you’ll give them periodic bonus payments. You can set the payments in any amount that you want.

For example, an uncle who sees his niece a few times a month might pay a bonus of $1 every time they get together. Or you might set up a schedule for bonuses like $5 every couple of weeks or months, or perhaps a larger amount on every birthday.

They’ll continue earning bonuses for as long as they can resist spending their initial seed money AND any of the bonuses they’ve received.

Right now you might be thinking, “What if they never spend it? Will I be paying them forever?”

Yeah, I guess. Feel free to add a “No payments after 30” clause in case they try to keep squeezing you long into adulthood.

But seriously, if they’re still holding on to the money a few years from now, then good for them. They’re doing a better job at saving money than most adults, and they’ll deserve the windfall when they finally feel bad enough for you to spend their first dollar.

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If you really want to, you can add in some optional rules and safeguards to make sure they don’t pull one over on you.

If you’re afraid they might spend the money and then replace it later to make it look like they didn’t, you can mark the bills you give them.

But really, even if they did, those are some impressive money management skills. Maybe they should be allowed to get away with it — unless you’re worried about pushing them down a path toward money laundering.

Feel free to get creative, and structure the terms of your challenge however you’d like.

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Instructions for Making the Money Saving Challenge Wallet

Use the downloadable image provided to make a DIY wallet and present them with the challenge and their initial seed money.

There’s also a ledger you can print out to keep track of how much money should be in the wallet come bonus time. Have them fill it out for each payment and keep it inside the wallet. It will be an early introduction to a balance sheet and will help them visualize how their money could grow if they continue saving.

You can use regular 8.5 x 11″ white paper but the wallet will naturally be a little flimsy. It’s not bad, the square sides keep it somewhat rigid, and it will work just fine if it’s stuffed full of money! If you have thicker card stock it will be even better, and you can also print on glossy photo or brochure paper for a more commercial look.

STEP 1: Download & Print

Drag the template images at the bottom of the page onto your desktop, or use the Get Pattern button then right click on the images to save them. Print them on 8.5 x 11″ all purpose paper, card stock or photo paper. Glossy paper looks nice and makes a sturdy envelope, but can be harder to fold neatly. Check your settings to make sure you’re printing at full scale (some printers try to resize images) and select the highest print quality.

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STEP 2: Decide on a Rewards Schedule & Fill In The Empty Fields

Fill in the fields with the amount of money they’re starting with, at what interval the bonuses will be earned, and how much each bonus is worth. There’s a box on the back for your custom message or any special instructions. It’s a whole lot easier to do this BEFORE you fold up the paper.

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STEP 3: Carefully Cut Out The Pattern

Take your time and work under good lighting so there aren’t shadows covering the line you’re trying to follow. Use sharp scissors or a craft knife and straight edge. Be careful on those inner corners. If you slice in too far the paper might tear when you fold it.

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STEP 4: Slice Closure While Flat

Remember to cut the slice that holds the flap closed before you get everything folded up and glued. It’s important to use a very sharp blade for this because if you leave any jagged edges the envelope will be difficult to close. If you do forget this step until the end (it’s easy to do) you can insert a pad of note paper inside the envelope to provide some backing and a cutting surface.

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STEP 5: Fold the Sides

Fold carefully along the edges of the light green stripe to create the envelope’s square sides. It’s easiest to do the inner fold first, followed by the outer fold and complete each side one at a time. Make sure the folds line up with the corners you cut and crease firmly against a flat surface.

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STEP 6: Stick It Together

Apply adhesive to both sides where the paper will overlap. A tape roller like the one in the image works perfectly. You could also use double sided tape or glue. Make sure the corners are nice and square before you stick anything together. Do one side at a time or you may end up with a crooked wallet. Sticking something like a notepad inside helps give you something to fold around and press on without wrinkling the paper.

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All Done!

Print out the ledger if you’d like and load up the wallet with the lucky recipient’s seed money. It’s a creative way to give a young person some money while helping instill the habits they need to be financially secure later in life.

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Darcy's StoryThis week I read Janet Aylmer’s Darcy’s Story, which was first published in 2006. Like Pamela Aidan’s trilogy, which I reviewed here, this book recounts the events of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy’s point of view, though at much shorter length.

Darcy’s Story begins during the summer prior to Darcy’s fateful introduction to Hertfordshire and Miss Elizabeth Bennett. While on a trip to Ramsgate, Miss Georgiana Darcy is wooed by the rakish George Wickham, and Darcy must save her from his duplicity. A few weeks later, his friend Mr. Bingley invites him to see the estate he has just leased, and during this visit Darcy accompanies his friend and Bingley’s sisters to a local ball. His lack of grace and good humor during this country entertainment puts him at odds with the local beauty, Elizabeth, and leads to the twists and turns of their tumultuous relationship over the following year.

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But these qualities also work against Darcy’s Story. One can’t help but feel that s/he has read this all before. Aylmer brings little that’s new to this story, and I felt that she was perhaps too slavish in her devotion to Austen’s original. Large portions of the novel seem lifted from Pride and Prejudice. I couldn’t help but want a little more creativity and exploration of Darcy as a character.

I also thought that there was too much narration and not enough conversation and action. Take this paragraph, for example, which describes Darcy’s trip to Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s estate with Colonel Fitzwilliam:

His cousin reached London in time for them to leave for Kent some eight days before Easter. On the journey from town, Fitzwilliam asked Darcy how he had been passing his time since they last met. Darcy, without naming his friend, recounted his success in separating Bingley from an unfortunate alliance that could have damaged his situation for life. He took pains to emphasize that his motives had been allied with the knowledge that the affections of neither of the parties had been fully engaged, and so that whole affair had been for the best. (95)

The problem with this paragraph is that it’s all narration. We get no sense of Darcy or Fitzwilliam as characters. It just seems lazy. Indeed, this entire chapter is taken up with narration and exposition — not one passage of dialogue occurs in it. The whole point of reading a retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Darcy’s point of view is the pleasure of getting to know Darcy as a character. Unfortunately, this retelling fails to give us that pleasure.

On a minor note, I also quickly tired of Aylmer’s use of the word “alacrity.” It works once or twice, but this novel is too short to use it more than that. I don’t want to exaggerate — she only uses the word about five or six times — but it stands out like a sore thumb in comparison to the novel’s overall vocabulary.

In sum, Darcy’s Story is a less successful retelling of Pride and Prejudice than Pamela Aidan’s works. At the time, I expressed my boredom with Aidan’s middle novel, which has Darcy off in the highlands searching for a wife. It becomes a little too creative for my tastes. But that creativity is much more interesting and compelling than slavish devotion to Austen’s narration, dialogue, and plot. If Aylmer tries again on another Austen novel, I hope she gets past narration and exposition and starts making Austen’s characters and plots her own — let them speak dialogue from time to time that doesn’t come right out of Austen’s original! Grade: C+