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Het gouden kalf was in de traditie van de Hebreeuwse Bijbel een gouden beeld dat door Aäron werd gemaakt toen Mozes op de Sinaï was om de tien geboden van JHWH te ontvangen. De Israëlieten verenigden zich ontevreden rond Aäron, die om het volk tevreden te stellen sieraden inzamelde om daaruit een gouden kalfsbeeld te vervaardigen. Toen het beeld klaar was, riep het volk uit: "Israël, dit is je god, die je uit Egypte heeft geleid!" De volgende dag bracht het volk offers, vierde feest en danste om het gouden beeld. Toen Mozes naar het kamp aan de voet van de Sinaï terugkeerde, werd hij woedend en smeet de stenen platen waarop de tien geboden stonden kapot. Daarna vernietigde hij het beeld (Exodus 32; Deuteronomium 9:15-21).

De traditie wil dat Jerobeam I eeuwen later twee gouden kalveren maakte om te aanbidden. Eén plaatste hij in Betel, de andere in Dan (1 Koningen 12:28-30).

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Robert Crumb. Sketchbooks 1964-1982 Edition of 1,000
This six-book boxed set is based on the original seven-volume series released by the German publisher Zweitausendeins between 1981 and 1997. Unlike this previous edition, which included every doodle ever made by the preeminent underground artist, our edition has been personally curated by the notoriously fastidious artist to include only what he considers his best work, reproduced directly from the original sketchbooks. This slip-cased set is made with loving attention to detail in a size and format selected by the artist. Each book in the set contains 224 pages, for a total of 1,344 pages of prime Crumb from the artist's most prolific, early period. The set includes a handwritten introduction,many pages of original color works, and 50 redrawn images distinctly different from the original works. Each set in this 1,000-copy limited edition also includes a signed, authenticated color art print of a collectible Crumb original.
With Robert Crumb's original art setting records at auction (the cover art for Mr. Natural #1 sold for $ 101,575 at Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries in 2007), this limited edition with signed print is sure to increase in value and be sought both as an investment by collectors and as a stunning addition to any Crumb fan's library.
The slipcased set is made with loving attention to detail in a size and format selected by the artist.
Each book in the boxed set contains 224 pages, for a total of 1,344 pages of prime Crumb.
The set includes a hand-written introduction by Robert Crumb.
Each set of this 1,000-copy limited edition also includes a signed color art print of the Crumb original
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DuckDuckGo's Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
This year, DuckDuckGo plans to significantly expand its privacy offerings.Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images
I was driving up through Pennsylvania last summer, somewhere along US Route 15 between Harrisburg and Williamsport, when I saw a familiar face: a goofy cartoon duck wearing a green bowtie. It was the logo for DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, along with a message: "Tired of Being Tracked Online? We Can Help."
The sight of a tech company on a billboard in rural Pennsylvania was surprising enough to lodge in my memory. Highways in and out of Silicon Valley may be lined with billboards advertising startups, where they can be easily spied by VCs and other industry influencers, but the post-industrial communities hugging the Susquehanna River will never be confused with Palo Alto. Far more typical are road signs advertising a fireworks store, a sex shop, or Donald Trump. I found it hard to imagine that the other drivers on the road were really the audience for an internet company that occupies a very specific niche.
It turns out DuckDuckGo—itself based in Valley Forge, PA, about 90 miles east of Route 15—knew something I didn't. According to the company's market research, just about every demographic wants more data privacy: young, old, male, female, urban, rural. Public polling backs that up, though the results vary based on how the question is asked. One recent survey found that "93 percent of Americans would switch to a company that prioritizes data privacy if given the option." Another reported that 57 percent of Americans would give up personalization in exchange for privacy. Perhaps most telling are the early returns on Apple's new App Tracking Transparency system, which prompts iOS users to opt in to being tracked by third-party apps rather than handing over their data by default, as has long been standard. According to some estimates, only a tiny minority of users are choosing to allow tracking.
The problem for a company like DuckDuckGo, then, isn't making people care about privacy; it's convincing them that privacy is possible. Many consumers, the company has found, have basically thrown up their hands in resignation, concluding that there's no way out of the modern surveillance economy. It's easy to see why. Each new story about data privacy, whether it's about the pervasiveness of tracking, or a huge data breach, or Facebook or Google's latest violation of user trust, not only underscores the extent of corporate surveillance but also makes it feel increasingly inescapable.
DuckDuckGo is on a mission to prove that giving up one's privacy online is not, in fact, inevitable. Over the past several years, it has expanded far beyond its original search engine to provide a suite of free privacy-centric tools, including a popular browser extension, that plug up the various holes through which ad tech companies and data brokers spy on us as we browse the internet and use our phones. This year it will roll out some major new products and features, including a desktop browser and email privacy protection. And it will spend more money than it ever has on advertising to get the word out. The long-term goal is to turn DuckDuckGo into an all-in-one online privacy shield—what Gabriel Weinberg, the company's founder and CEO, calls "the 'easy button' for privacy."
"People want privacy, but they feel like it's impossible to get," Weinberg says. "So our main challenge is to make the idea that you can get simple privacy protection credible."
Whether that mission succeeds could have consequences far beyond DuckDuckGo's bottom line. DuckDuckGo is operating to some extent in the shadow of Apple, which has already made privacy a core part of its pitch to customers. But DuckDuckGo's ambition is to provide a suite of protections that are even more extensive and intuitive than Apple's. And it is offering them to the millions of people who don't want or can't afford to use Apple products: Google's Android operating system accounts for about 50 percent of the mobile market in the US and more than 70 percent worldwide. Perhaps most important, if DuckDuckGo succeeds at bringing simple privacy to the masses, it will mean that the future of privacy might not depend on the relative benevolence of just two corporate overlords.
Founded in 2008, DuckDuckGo is best known for its search engine. Which means that it has always been defined as a challenger to Google. It has not shied away from the comparison. In 2011, Weinberg, then the company's sole employee, took out an ad on a billboard in San Francisco that declared, "Google tracks you. We don't." That branding—Google, but private—has served the company well in the years since.
"The only way to compete with Google is not to try to compete on search results," says Brad Burnham, a partner at Union Square Ventures, which gave DuckDuckGo its first and only Series A funding in 2011. When the upstart launched, Google already controlled 90 percent of the market and was spending billions of dollars, and collecting data on billions of users, to make its product even better. DuckDuckGo, however, "offered something that Google couldn't offer," Burnham says: "They offered not to track you. And Google's entire business model is, obviously, built on the ability to do that, so Google couldn't respond by saying, 'OK, we won't track you either.'"
Neither DuckDuckGo nor anyone else came close to stopping Google from dominating search. Today, Google's market share still hovers around the 90 percent range. But the pie is so enormous—advertisers spent $60 billion on search advertising in the US alone last year, according to eMarketer—that there's quite a bit of money in even a tiny slice. DuckDuckGo has been profitable since 2014.
Like Google Search, DuckDuckGo makes money by selling ads on top of people's search results. The difference is that while the ads you see when searching on Google are generally targeted to you in part based on your past searches, plus what Google knows about your behavior more broadly, DuckDuckGo's are purely "contextual"—that is, they are based only on the search term. That's because DuckDuckGo doesn't know anything about you. It doesn't assign you an identifier or keep track of your search history in order to personalize your results.
This non-creepy approach only protects you, however, while you're on DuckDuckGo. "You're anonymous on the search engine, but once you click off, now you're going to other websites where you're less anonymous," Weinberg says. "How can we protect you there?"
DuckDuckGo's first answer to that question rolled out in 2018, with the launch of a desktop browser extension and mobile browser that block third-party trackers by default wherever a user goes on the internet. It was good timing: 2018 was a banner year for raising privacy awareness. Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal broke that spring. The GDPR took effect in Europe, throwing into relief how little the US regulates data collection. That summer, the Associated Press revealed that many Google services were storing your location data even if you explicitly opted out. Data collection and privacy were firmly in the national conversation. Since then, congressional inquiries, antitrust lawsuits, Netflix documentaries, and a growing feud between Apple and Facebook have kept it there.
"One of the funny things about DuckDuckGo is that the single best marketing we've ever had has been the gaffes that Google and Facebook have made over the years," says Burnham. "Cambridge Analytica, for instance, was a huge driver of adoption for DuckDuckGo. There is an increasing awareness of how this business model works and what it means—not just in terms of the loss of privacy and agency over our own data, but also what it means for the vibrance and success of an open marketplace."
Awareness is one thing, action another. DuckDuckGo was in position to capitalize on the rising tide of scandal because it has a reputation for building products that work. In 2019, for instance, it added a feature to its extension and browser that directs users to encrypted versions of websites whenever possible, preventing would-be hackers or ISPs from, say, looking over your shoulder as you type a password into a web page. While other encryption tools work by manually creating lists of tens of thousands of websites in need of an upgrade, DuckDuckGo crawled the internet to automatically populate a list of more than 12 million sites. The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently announced that it would incorporate DuckDuckGo's dataset for its own HTTPS Everywhere extension. Similarly, Apple uses DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar dataset—a continuously updated, publicly available list of trackers assembled using open-source code—for Safari's tracking prevention.
Weinberg is particularly proud of DuckDuckGo's tracker prevention. Surveillance is so built into the infrastructure of the web that many sites will stop functioning if you block all cookies. Take Google Analytics, which is found on the vast majority of websites. "If you just straight-up block Google Analytics, you'll break sites," Weinberg says. As a result, mainstream browsers with tracking prevention, like Safari and Firefox, allow trackers to load, then try to restrict the data they can gather.
"They're more inclined to err on the side of not breaking websites," explains Bennett Cyphers, a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "They will try and do this middle ground thing where they'll load resources but restrict what Google can do once it's in your browser."
The problem is that even allowing a tracker to load in the first place can allow it to gather highly specific data about the user, including their IP address. So DuckDuckGo, like some other privacy extensions, works differently. It simply prevents the cookie from loading at all. To avoid the broken-site problem, it replaces some trackers with a dummy that essentially tricks the site into thinking the cookie has loaded, a technique called "surrogates" pioneered by the ad blocker uBlock Origin.
Ultimately, DuckDuckGo probably owes its success less to the technical aspects of its tracker prevention, which very few people are in any position to understand, than to the fact that the company does a pretty good job honoring its slogan: "Privacy, simplified." Its products don't require a user to toggle any elaborate settings. They simply include encryption, tracker blocking, and private search automatically.
Since their launch, the extension and mobile browser have experienced rapid user growth. According to DuckDuckGo, the extension and browser have together been downloaded more than 100 million times since 2018, and more than half of those downloads took place over the past twelve months. That growth has in turn helped juice the use of the original search engine, which is built into mobile app. The company estimates that its search user count doubled over the past year to between 70 and 100 million. (It's an estimate because they don't track users.) According to StatCounter, DuckDuckGo now has the second highest share of the US mobile search market, edging out Bing and Yahoo. (A distant second, that is: 2 percent to Google's 94 percent.) DuckDuckGo says its annual revenue is over $100 million.
This year, the company plans to significantly expand its privacy offerings. It is introducing a desktop browser, incorporating the same features as the existing mobile app. Currently, even someone with the DuckDuckGo privacy extension can't stop Google from gathering some data on them if they're using Chrome, for example.
DuckDuckGo is also adding two new features to its existing extension and mobile app. The first is email privacy protection. Weinberg says that his company's researchers found that some 70 percent of emails have some sort of tracker embedded in them. That includes not just corporate promotional emails, but just about any newsletter or fundraising email that's sent using an automated service. In nearly a third of those cases, Weinberg says, the trackers are sending users' plaintext email addresses over the internet, potentially exposing them to any number of marketers, data brokers, and shadier actors. The email tool is designed to thwart that by forwarding messages through a DuckDuckGo email address, which will remove the trackers before sending them along to inboxes. It also will allow people to generate random email addresses whenever they have to use email to sign up for something. (Apple recently announced a similar feature for the Mail app on iOS.) In theory, DuckDuckGo could have created its own email client, but Weinberg recognizes getting users to switch their email providers is prohibitively difficult.
"Our goal is simplicity, right?" he says. "We want to make privacy simple and seamless without sacrifice for users."
The final new tech DuckDuckGo is unveiling this year operates on a similar principle. A new feature within its Android app will operate in the background, even when the app itself is not in use, to block third parties from tracking you through any other app on your phone. It does that by using the phone's VPN permission to route all traffic through DuckDuckGo, so that, as with the email trackers, it can block requests from anyone on its tracker list before they have an opportunity to gather any user data. (Again, this is somewhat analogous to Apple's App Tracking Transparency on iOS. It will not stop first-party data collection, meaning the app you're using can still collect your data. But it won't be able to pass that data through to other companies, including Facebook, which currently tracks users through a vast number of unrelated apps.)
Taken together, the new features, which the company says will be available in beta this summer, represent DuckDuckGo's evolving mission to create what Weinberg calls "the privacy layer of the internet."
"The ideal case for that from a user perspective is, you download DuckDuckGo and you're just protected wherever you go online," he says. "We're obviously not there yet, but that's the product vision."
So, about those billboards.
The company's reliance on old-school advertising mediums—in addition to billboards, DuckDuckGo is partial to radio ads—is partly of necessity: As a privacy-focused business, it refuses to do any microtargeted online advertising. (Even when it advertises on a social media site like Twitter, Weinberg says it doesn't set any demographic targeting parameters.) But the strategy also stems from the company's market research, which has found that precise targeting would be a waste of money anyway.
"People who care about privacy, who act on privacy, who would adopt a DuckDuckGo product—they're actually not a very niche audience," says Zac Pappis, head of the company's user insight team. "People who act and care about privacy don't fall into a particular age group or demographic or have a particular psychographic background, so that makes them easier to reach."
To put it in advertising parlance, this means DuckDuckGo spends its marketing budget on brand awareness. Ordinary people around the country don't need to be convinced to care about privacy, the theory goes—they just need to learn that a solution exists. "Our current top business priority is to be the household name for simple online privacy protection," Weinberg says. "So when you think about privacy online, we want you to turn to DuckDuckGo."
To that end, the company is investing in its biggest marketing blitz to date this year, devoting tens of millions to an advertising push—so expect more billboards and more radio ads during those summer road trips. Weinberg believes the time is ripe. He points out the fact that tech giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google have all been raising the salience of privacy through very public battles over their policies and products. Plus, the ongoing antitrust lawsuits against the tech giants will draw more attention to those companies' business practices, including around user privacy. One of the cases, brought by the Department of Justice, could even give DuckDuckGo a direct boost by preventing Google from being set as the default search engine on phones.
DuckDuckGo has competition. Companies like Ghostery offer tracking protection. Brave has a well-regarded privacy browser. The Netherlands-based Startpage offers search without tracking. But in the US, at least, DuckDuckGo has a strong position in the privacy market. In a sector where users have to trust that your product works the way you say it does, a decade-long track record without any privacy scandals establishes important credibility. "They're probably the biggest name right now, probably because of the popularity of their search engine," says Jon Callas, director of technology products at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
But being the biggest name among people with a special interest in online privacy still amounts to being a big fish in a small pond. Weinberg believes DuckDuckGo can change that. He is convinced that the pond is actually huge. It just doesn't know it yet.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-quest-prove-online-privacy-possible/
Dieser Eintrag wurde veröffentlicht in Innovation, Privacy und getaggt mit duckduckgo, google am 25. Juni 2021 von innovation.
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Q: setHours() javascript returns a diffrent format then expected I have this situation where I am in need of using the JavaScript

setTime()

So that I can modify the time, according to a number of seconds I have.  For example I want to know what time it was 1400 sec ago.
I come to the conclusion that my cleanest and best solution it would be to use a combination of
getDate() and setHours() - setMinutes() - setSeconds()  like in the example in this link:
https://codepen.io/Jaquelline/pen/rPgOKj?editors=1011
function myFunction() {
var myTime = new Array();
    for(i=0; i <3599; i++){
     var d = new Date();
     var currentI = 3599-i;
        myTime[i] = new Array();
        myTime[i] = {
          x: i,
          y: d.setHours(d.getHours()-1) + ':' + d.setMinutes(d.getMinutes()) + ':'+ d.setSeconds(d.getSeconds()+currentI)
        };
    }

var s = JSON.stringify(myTime);
document.getElementById("cTimeArray").innerHTML =s;

 var t = new Date();
 t.setHours(t.getHours()-1);
 t.setHours(t.getMinutes());
 t.setHours(t.getSeconds()+1200);
 document.getElementById("cTime").innerHTML =t;
}

The s  variable returns something like this:

[{"x":0,"y":"1550821508351:1550821508351:1550825107351"},
   {"x":1,"y":"1550821508351:1550821508351:1550825106351"},

While  t returns :

Sun Apr 14 2019 08:45:08 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)

A: If you simply want to know the time 1400 seconds ago, then why not just subtract 1400 seconds from the current time?
var past = new Date((new Date().getTime()) - 1400 * 1000);

getTime() returns the timestamp representing the date/time in milliseconds, hence the multiplication of 1400 by 1000.

A: You don't show the correct value.
Set d before and use the getters to show the value.

var myTime = new Array();

for (i = 0; i < 3599; i++) {
  var d = new Date();
  var currentI = 3599 - i;
  myTime[i] = {};

  d.setHours(d.getHours() - 1);
  d.setMinutes(d.getMinutes());
  d.setSeconds(d.getSeconds() + currentI);
  myTime[i] = {
    x: i,
    y: d.getHours() + ':' + d.getMinutes() + ':' + d.getSeconds()
  };
}

var s = JSON.stringify(myTime);
console.log(s);

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Brookhaven's Ivan Bozovic wins 2021 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
The American Physical Society prize recognizes Bozovic and two university collaborators for developing a method to make complex oxides and discovering new phenomena in these materials
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IMAGE: Ivan Bozovic with the atomic-layer-by-layer synthesis system he developed and uses at Brookhaven Lab to engineer superconducting materials one atomic layer at a time. Perfect crystallographic samples are needed to... view more
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UPTON, NY--The American Physical Society (APS) has selected physicist Ivan Bozovic of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory as a co-recipient of the 2021 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. Established in 1997 and endowed by IBM and the APS Division of Materials Physics, this prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the science and application of new materials.
Bozovic, James Eckstein of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Darrell Schlom of Cornell University were selected "For pioneering the atomic-layer-by-layer synthesis of new metastable complex-oxide materials, and the discovery of resulting novel phenomena."
Bozovic--a senior scientist in Brookhaven Lab's Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science (CMPMS) Division and leader of the division's Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy Group, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University--designed and constructed a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system for growing thin films of complex oxide materials. This system directs beams of atoms onto a base material, building up one layer at a time. Previously, no comparable method existed for synthesizing oxide films containing multiple layers with different chemical compositions--for example, copper-oxide (cuprate) superconductors, or materials that conduct electricity without resistance.
"When Jim, Darrell, and I started growing cuprate films by MBE, the scientific community thought our approach was exotic, complicated, and risky," said Bozovic. "I am most grateful to Brookhaven leadership and the DOE for their persistent support, which made it possible to develop the technique to its present level. Oxide MBE is now a mainstream technique in condensed matter physics that is used by numerous groups in the United States and worldwide for the synthesis of complex oxides with various functionalities. And I believe that we have only touched the tip of the iceberg."
Leveraging this system, Bozovic made a series of discoveries on cuprates over the past two decades. Cuprates are among the high-temperature superconductors, so named for their ability to perfectly conduct electricity at temperatures hundreds of degrees above the near-absolute-zero ones required by conventional superconductors. Understanding the unusual behaviors of cuprates could pave the way for engineering materials that become superconducting at room temperature, which may enable practical applications such as power grids that never lose energy, small but powerful supercomputers, and super-high-speed magnetic levitation trains. Bozovic's discoveries on cuprates-- including a state of electronic order that competes with superconductivity, the dependence of the superconducting temperature on the density of electron pairs, the symmetry-breaking flow of electrons, and the strange linear relationship between electrical resistivity and magnetic field strength--have shed light on the origin and mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates.
"His pioneering work growing high-quality cuprate thin films has permitted careful, high-impact studies of cuprates that would never have otherwise happened," said CMPMS Division Chair Robert Konik. "It made me very happy to learn of Ivan receiving this award."
"Ivan Bozovic has been a world leader in the MBE approach to synthesize complex oxide materials," said Brookhaven Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Photon Sciences James Misewich. "His work is noted for remarkable discoveries, such as interface superconductivity and the giant proximity effect. These discoveries have only been possible because of Ivan's pioneering development of exquisite control in materials synthesis. The McGroddy Prize for New Materials is a very well-deserved award for Ivan."
Bozovic received his PhD in solid-state physics from University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he began his career as a professor and head of the Physics Department. Prior to joining Brookhaven in 2003, Bozovic was a principal scientist and the chief technology officer for Oxxel GmbH and a senior scientist at Varian Research Center. Over his career, Bozovic has published more than 300 papers--30 of which have appeared in the Science and Nature family of high-impact journals--and delivered more than 250 invited talks. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the recipient of several awards, including the (inaugural) 2016 Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering from the Materials Research Society of Serbia, the 2012 Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2004 Technology Achievement Award.
Brookhaven National Laboratory is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit https://energy.gov/science.
Ariana Manglaviti
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Brookhaven's Ivan Bozovic with an atomic-layer-by-layer synthesis system (IMAGE)
Molecular beam epitaxy system photo with illustration of thin-film growth process (IMAGE)
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=117498
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In recent weeks, many cruise lines have given updates as to the progress of their ships. Here's a little round-up of the recent news in case you've missed any of it.
Zadar continues to grow in popularity and so you may well find it listed on the itinerary of your next Mediterranean cruise. If you do, here are some interesting attractions that won't cost you a penny.
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Your wedding date is also the date that took months for you to book and carried a lot of considerations. So here are tips on how to pick one day to get married!
1. Budget. Just like in travel, a wedding has its own peak and off-peak seasons. Check your budget once again if it allows you to book venues and vendors during peak seasons (like in June or December) or if you'll be hitting your target budget better with an off-peak wedding date.
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5. Season. It's easier for the guests to travel and show up during the dry season (like in March-May) while December is also ideal since a lot of your loved ones can come home.
6. Suppliers. Just like a wedding venue, suppliers' availability should also be considered since they are booked in advance and the good and popular ones are booked all year round. You may ask what months are not fully booked yet. Some suppliers also give out discounts during their lean months.
7. Important dates. You can choose dates that matter to the both of you — your anniversary, his proposal date, or your first meeting. That way, it's easier to remember.
8. Provide options. Don't just choose one wedding date and expect everything to be available or ready for that date. Instead, get ready with at least three options.


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Albert Ernest Newbury (29 January 1891 – 1 April 1941) was an Australian performer who was allied with the Australian tonalist movement.
Newbury was born in Melbourne, one of the five sons of Samuel Newbury (1854–1930) and his wife Jessie Susannah Newbury née Dowsett. Samuel was the headmaster of Albert Park Grammar School; the Congregationalist minister Alfred Charles Newbury was an elder brother. Albert spent most of his childhood in Geelong. In 1909, at the age of 18, Newbury entered the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne, where he studied below Frederick McCubbin and Bernard Hall. In 1916, Newbury studied under Max Meldrum who influenced his work.
Newbury won the Hugh Ramsay prize for portrait-painting in 1913 – his two pictures inborn placed first and second.
Newbury held a joint exhibition in 1917 behind Richard McCann, and gradually established a reputation for the simplicity and spaciousness of his work. Most of his paintings were landscapes, but he next did some very great portraits.
After the death of William Beckwith McInnes in 1939 and the agreement of Charles Wheeler as master of the painting school at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Newbury was made master in the school of drawing.
However, Newbury became ill soon afterwards and died at Eltham close Melbourne upon 1 April 1941. Newbury married Ruth Trumble who survived him like one son.
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Q: Button does not show icon on most Ubuntu/debian desktops I have an app that has a play button to play audio from some local repeater: Although I want just a play/stop button, the button does not play on newer Ubuntu or a new Raspbian install. Is there something missing here, maybe related to the recent change where they set all the buttons to not show icons on buttons in GTK/Ubuntu?
button.set_image(Gtk.Image.new_from_stock(Gtk.STOCK_MEDIA_PLAY, self.PLAYSIZE))
Is this how I should set the button to only have an icon? It works on my 16.04 setup, but button is blank on others. The code is here and app is here.

A: Stock icons are deprecated, and should not be used in newly-written code.
The appropriate way to show an icon in a button is to use named icons from an icon theme.
For instance, if you want to show a "play" icon, you should use media-playback-start:
b = Gtk.Button()
b.set_image(Gtk.Image(icon_name='media-playback-start',
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The Coffey Has Gone Cold
May17 by Marc Grober
Dan Coffey recently posted (in a discussion of Art Chance's comments https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=396096857245236&set=a.132633106924947.1073741826.100005347745909&type=1&comment_id=396360150552240) the "rational" conservative approach to public employee unions:
George meany (head of AFL-CIO when Eisenhower was President) cautioned against public employee unions "because there is no one to bargain with". There is nothing inherently wrong with Unions. We have had "Guilds" for centuries. What we haven't had in recent times are elected officials who put the public interest above their own. These elected officials don't bargain for the public, they bargain for union support in their next election. The results: See Detroit, the state of Illinois, Riverside County California, Stockton, California and the Mark Begich 2008 APDEA and IAFF and IBEW contracts of 5 year duration, with huge pay and benefit increases and work rule changes passed on votes of 6-5, 7-4 and 6-5 respectively. In my campaign I told many of the union folks I met with about what George Meany said. Most of them did not know who George Meany was. I also told them "I would bargain"with them openly and honestly, but that my job was to guard the public purse. Of course I was not elected. Now we'll see what happens when a Union supported candidate is elected. The AMEA contract is on the table so we'll see shortly.
What we see here an attack on labor generally, thinly veiled as being "in the public interest" by way of the purported innoculatory claim that "there is nothing inherently wrong with Unions." The argument is that our elected officials put public union support before the public interests; that has been a war cry for the "right", frankly, since the "right" discovered that much of the "left"s campaign funding comes from public employee unions. In the fight for the public square in which Citizens United has been center ring (though the key case is really ATP), the real battle has been over total campaign dollars. Amazingly enough, however, despite the "right"'s claims that the unions own government, lol, we see unions back=-pedaling everywhere, and stories of unions voluntarily tightening belts to assist in addressing the impact of the economic nightmare produced in 2008 are everywhere.
Research shows that the claims made by the right as far as cost of public employee unions as opposed to private sector are dubious (Miller 1996), while analysis (Tax Burdens Comparison 2013) reflects that Anchorage, even without consideration of the impact of "personal revenue sharing (the PFD) has one of the lowest tax burdens in the entire country. Add in consideration of the PFD and as has been noted over and over again, most in Anchorage make no net payment for any State or Local service.
In other words, though a tenet of so called "conservative" myth is that public union contracts are unaffordable, that they are the means by which "liberal" politicians "buy" elections, and that these contracts are over funded and unearned, there is virtually no factual basis to any of that. Indeed, in Anchorage the subsequent behavior of Dan Sullivan made this all too clear by virtue of the facts that he declared a budget surplus despite the contracts, the emergency ordinance he demanded never was implemented, and subsequent contracts were not all that inconsistent.
To put that all in a nutshell, all the gnashing of teeth was a costly political ploy that blew up in the right's face, resulting in the election of allegedly the most liberal Mayor in Anchorage's history with less than a third of Anchorage's registered voters casting ballots.
Enough is enough. Negotiations with public unions has always been tough in Anchorage. AEA members continue to accept reductions in total compensation packages while public safety and other unions continue face claims that they are thugs despite the fact that numbers of employees should be doubled in order to obtain the most effective results and provide the kind of quality of life that those living in Anchorage have demanded.
In the last Mayoral election the community was able to obtain some actual quantification of the number of people in Anchorage who are under the spell of that kind of mythology, and we are talking about something close to 30,000 people. It is high time that the rest of the community wrested control of our destiny from this vocal mean-spirited and ill-informed minority.
Miller, Michael A. "Public-Private Pay Debate: What Do the Data Show, The." Monthly Labor Review 119 (1996): 18. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/month119&id=376&div=&collection=.
"Tax Burdens Comparison." Accessed May 17, 2015. http://cfo.dc.gov/page/tax-burdens-comparison.
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Government declares war on Naxals
NDTV Correspondent, Friday October 9, 2009, Mumbai
24 hours after 18 policemen were massacred by Naxals in Maharashtra, the government is ready for a newer, bigger war. And it's setting aside 7300 crores for this.
16,000 additional security men are being sent to Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to help battle Naxals. The Border Security Force will also contribute to this new mission. They will work with the 40,000 men already stationed there. The additional forces will be moved after the Maharashtra elections.
The Anti-Maoist Task Force, a special command, will handle operations in border areas between states. The first line of defence will be the state police. If the Air Force is called in, it will not be allowed to fire back on any Naxals, not even in self-defence.
The new operations are scheduled to start on the 1st of November. But that may be pushed back to allow new forces to get familiar with the terrain.
Operations will follow the pattern of Lalgarh in West Bengal -forces will enter areas controlled or dominated by Maoists, and clear the Naxals from there. The forces will then "hold" or guard that area while infrastructure and a local administration is strengthened.
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/government_declares_war_on_naxals.php
AFWWA's gift of love to orphans
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 9
As part of the Air Force Day commemorations, the Air Force Wives Welfare Association (AFWWA) extended humanitarian aid to Snehomoyee, an orphanage located at Maloya village near here.
The AFWWA members, led by Geethanjali Nair, president of the local chapter, donated a large number of blankets, clothing, board games and recreational toys to children. They also provided items for regular use to the inmates. As many as 250 orphans, including 60 girls will be benefitted out of this gesture.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091010/cth1.htm#19
India must redefine engagement with China
TNN 10 October 2009, 05:22am IST
PUNE: India ought to redefine her terms of engagement with China in the wake of the recent row over Chinese incursions across the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) that separates the two countries, said Major General (retd) V K Madhok here on Friday.
Madhok was addressing a seminar on Chinese incursions into Indian territory' organised by the Yashwantrao Chavan National Centre for International Security and Defence Analysis (YC-NISDA) at the University of Pune.
Air Marshal (retd) Narayan Menon from Bangalore and M L Sali, head of the department of defence and strategic studies at the Bhonsla Military School, Nashik, were among the prominent speakers at the event.
The overall opinion that evolved at the meet was for precaution on the part of both India and China to see that problems along the Sino-Indian borders do not go out of proportion and acquire a situation of full-scale confrontation.
Madhok initiated the discussion by giving his overview of Has China surrounded and engaged India: Chinese incursions, intentions, current and future security threats'. He said, "The recent developments were far too serious cause of concern for the Indian armed forces because ultimately it will be the forces who will face the brunt."
Citing contradictions in the statements emanating from the armed forces and the Indian defence and external affairs ministries, Madhok wondered why the government was in an appeasement mode whereas India ought to be more aggressive in taking up issues with China.
He said, "Why are we reluctant to ruffle the Chinese feathers by not talking about the problems of Uighurs in the Xing Jiang province, the human rights violation in Tibet and the billions worth of investment by China in areas such as Gilgit and Baltistan."
Madhok said, "Instances of direct on ground incursions, which can be seen, have gone up steadily since 2006 and each year, they have numbered around 140-plus. Even in the instant case, the incursions that happened in June/July came to light through the media as late as in September and still we have contradictory statements from Indian authorities. India is reacting mildly to the situation."
According to Madhok, "Indian government ought to issue clear cut orders to the troops as to what is needed to be done in the case of incursions, rather than be in an appeasement mode. The present political leadership wants to take the easy way out by passing the problem to the next generation."
Madhok said, "The need is for strengthening the armed forces by way of supplementary units like a largely expanded territorial army as well as having a reservist military officers corps. This is critical considering that India faces 14,000-odd shortage of officers in the armed forces." Indigenisation of defence equipment and having a comprehensive national security doctrine was essential, he said.
On China surrounding India, Madhok said, "The Sino-Indian border dispute over Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim remains unresolved; China has kept alive its dispute with Bhutan; Nepal has gone the communists way and the Chinese interests in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Tibet can hardly be ignored."
Air Marshal Menon, speaking on the border issues and impact of air power, said that Indian air strike power was needed to be enhanced in a large way considering that Indian air force is only 1/3rd of its Chinese counterpart. "China has already started making combat aircraft of their own based on Russian technology," he pointed out. "The one bright spot that can be seen is the operationalisation of the airfields in the Ladakh region," he said.
Bhonsla school's Sali traced the history of the Sino-Indian border dispute by going into the geographical aspects of the dispute, starting with China's takeover of Tibet.
A S Dalvi, head of YC-NISDA, and senior academician Ram Bapat chaired the discussion sessions.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/city/pune/India-must-redefine-engagement-with-China/articleshow/5107590.cms
Politics hampering UPA's anti-Naxal policy
Pallavi Ghosh
CNN-IBN
BATTLE READY: TUnion Home Minister is keen on a tough battle plan but others disagree.
New Delhi: In the fight against Naxals the biggest cause of concern could be the confusion within the Union Government on how to tackle the Red ultras.
Union Home Minister may be keen on a tough battle plan but there are others who disagree and political compulsions may be delaying a reasonable counter Naxal strategy
Centre stand on the Naxals has toughened following the killing of 17 policemen in Gadchiroli on Thursday and the brutal beheading of a Jharkhand Police officer Rancis Induwar in Ranchi on Tuesday.
Home Minister P Chidambaram has promised strong action against Naxal violence but not all within the United Progressive Alliance agree.
While most agree that the Naxal violence is a grave threat but some are apprehensive because of political compulsions and it is this dilemma which may make things a bit difficult for the Home Minister.
Sources reveal that a prudent approach would be the Rahul Gandhi line that Naxalism is basically a socio economic problem. So the "tough action, no talks" approach would have to be tempered by pumping in more money for development.
The goodwill that Naxalites have garnered among tribals, farmers and land tillers is also another worry and an argument against all out attack.
"People have got high expectations. When they are not getting the basic amenities there is every possibility of revolt," says Union Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge.
The high decibel ally Mamata Banerjee, who is charged with taking Maoist help in her popular agitations in Singur and Nandigram, is believed to be against any strong action. Faced with such apprehension some clauses had to be toned down.
The proposal to use Indian Air Force planes in combat against Naxals was shot down by some UPA members.
The Cabinet Committee on Security then decided to restrict it for relief and combing operations.
Lalu Prasad, with an eye on Jharkhand elections and the Left Front, which is fighting the Naxals in West Bengal, are also saying no to the Chidambaram approach.
The CCS may have waved the green flag to an anti-Naxal policy but as usual politics works as a speedbreaker.
http://ibnlive.in.com/printpage.php?id=102992&section_id=37
Coping with rising China
K. Subrahmanyam
Chinese President Hu Jintao greetis Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a joint declaration in New Delhi in 2006. File Photo: V.V. Krishnan
The Hindu Chinese President Hu Jintao greetis Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a joint declaration in New Delhi in 2006. File Photo: V.V. Krishnan
There is no reason to assume that India's rapidly rising neighbour, set to become the world's largest economy in the next two decades, will not play the normal game of nations. But the current hawkishness and jingoism in sections of the media and strategic circles in India is without basis and uncalled for, argues a veteran strategic affairs specialist.
In the last few weeks a number of accounts have appeared in our media of 'incidents' on the Indo-China Line of Actual Control (LoAC) that portrayed China as exerting military pressure on India. There were also reports of China objecting to the Asian Development Bank loan to a development project in Arunachal Pradesh on the ground that it is a disputed territory and issuing stapled instead of stamped visas for travellers, of Kashmiri residence to China.
Very hawkish articles appeared in the media on both sides. In China, an analyst repeated the argument of the 1960s that India cannot stay united. In India, the ghosts of 1962 were resurrected and there were predictions that there was likely to be a Chinese attack on India by 2012. The retiring Naval Chief's sober assessment that militarily India is not in a position to catch up with China on equality of forces and equipment in the conventional sense and therefore India should consider technological solutions to cope up with, and not confront a rising China, was misinterpreted as defeatist sentiment in certain media and strategic circles.
It is no doubt significant that while all this tension generation is in the media of the two countries the two governments have sought to reduce the tension and discourage the hype in the media. Some political parties, ex-service officers, and strategists have drawn totally inapt comparisons with 1962. I am one of the few surviving senior citizen civil servants who were in the Ministry of Defence at that time. I functioned as a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee from November 1962 till December 1964.
Year 2009 is not 1962. In 1962, China was isolated from the international system. It was conducting a 'Hate America' campaign annually and also denouncing the Soviet leadership as revisionists and capitalist roaders. The Chinese attack on India was launched to coincide with the Cuban missile crisis to make sure that the two superpowers would be preoccupied with each other and not be able to apply pressure on China. The Chinese also promptly withdrew from the Arunachal Pradesh territory they occupied back to the McMahon line.
At that time under the advice of American Ambassador J.K. Galbraith the Indian leadership did not use the Air Force for fear of superior Chinese retaliatory capability. The truth, which we did not know at that time, was that the Chinese Air Force was totally grounded as the Soviets had denied them spares and aviation fuel — not because of the attack on India but because of the ongoing ideological dispute. The debacle in Sela-Bomdila happened not because the Indian Army was outgunned and outmanned but because the divisional commander did not fight and attempted to withdraw from a well entrenched position due to sheer panic. There are books on the 'unfought war' by people who were there at that time. Since then the Indian Army has faced the Chinese under valiant leadership and acquitted itself very creditably.
China of today is not the Maoist country that argued that power grew out of the barrel of a gun and that even if 300 million Chinese perished in a nuclear war 300 million would survive to build a glorious civilisation. Times have changed since the ideology of countryside surrounding the cities was advanced during the Cultural Revolution. 'Dig tunnels deep and store grain everywhere' was the Maoist slogan in preparation for a nuclear war. China of the 1960s was an isolated country and today it is one of the largest trading nations of the world. Those who build skyscrapers and Three Gorges dam will not be thinking of war in the same way Mao did. China is energy-import dependent and its energy transit lanes through the Indian Ocean and Malacca Straits are very vulnerable
China has a much greater stake in Taiwan than it has in Arunachal Pradesh, which it totally vacated after occupying large sections of it in 1962. It has not risked a war on Taiwan over the last 60 years. It has been extraordinarily patient about it since it understands the risks involved in using force on Taiwan recovery. There was a time (the whole of the 1950s and 1960s) when U.S. aircraft and warships would violate Chinese airspace and Chinese territorial waters regularly. China issued the relevant 437th and 593rd serious warnings to the United States. That continued until it allied itself with the U.S. in 1971 faced with the perceived Soviet nuclear threat. Ideology did not stand in the way.
There are valuable lessons for India in China's patience and purposive response, untrammelled by ideological baggage or the overburden of memory. When Henry Kissinger started his secret trip to make up with Beijing, he told the doubters that the Chinese were pragmatists.
China is a rising power and is most likely to overtake the U.S. as the country with highest GDP in the next couple of decades. It wants to be the dominant power of Asia in the immediate future and that will mean an unequal relationship with other major Asian powers. The only nation that is perceived to have the potential to challenge China, not in the short run but over the longer period, is India — with a comparable population, a similar civilisational heritage, and the advantage of a younger age profile. While a meaningful challenge from India to China is not likely to come for at least a couple decades, India is in a position to play the role of a balancer in the ongoing rivalry between China and the U.S.
Chinese policies towards India have subtle elements of sophisticated coercion to attempt to prevent a closer partnership developing between India and the U.S. China may also have plans to shape a final settlement of the Tibetan issue on the passing of the present Dalai Lama. The pressure on Arunachal and procrastination in finalising the border may be a part of a long-term strategy to compel India to accept a post-Dalai Lama dispensation in Tibet and bring the matter to a closure.
China asserts that it will be rising peacefully. There is no disputing that peaceful rise is in its interest. But that does not preclude the normal practices in the game of nations of pressure, influence, and dominance — economically, politically and even militarily but without recourse to the actual use of force. That has happened all through history and there is no reason to assume that China will not practise the normal game of nations.
India has to learn to cope with this challenge without getting hysterical. Nor should it hamper in any way the growing trade relations between the two countries. There is, in fact, a good case to develop mutual dependencies in a globalised world, with due care to ensure that the dependency does not become unfavourably one-sided against our interest. The most effective way of doing it is to step up our economic growth to 10 per cent by exploiting all available favourable factors in the international economic and political system, as China is doing; develop rapidly our border infrastructure; augment our military capability without delays; and attempt to develop stakes for all major powers in our growth and security.
While doing all this, there is no need to indulge in jingoistic rhetoric. There can be firmness in dealing with the LoAC or other issues where there are attempts at exploiting unequal advantages in situations. India has arrived at a stage in international politics when it has to demonstrate maturity in playing the game of nations.
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article31683.ece?homepage=true&css=print
Eye on China, Army chief on Myanmar visit
Rajat Pandit, TNN 10 October 2009, 02:48am IST
NEW DELHI: Army chief General Deepak Kapoor will be leaving on Sunday for Myanmar, a country with which India has ramped up diplomatic as well as military ties to counter China's deep strategic inroads there.
Gen Kapoor, who is also chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, will seek to further boost bilateral defence cooperation as part of the continuing efforts to ensure China does not manage to outflank India once again in the region.
"During the three-day visit, Gen Kapoor will hold talks with the military top brass as well as visit different defence establishments in Myanmar,'' said an official.
Incidentally, the visit comes at a time when the US, a long-standing bitter critic of the Myanmarese ruling military junta, has announced its intention to actively work with countries like China and India to enter into a dialogue with Myanmar.
Though a detente between Myanmar and the West, which has imposed sanctions on the former, is still a long way off, the military junta's declaration about introducing a new constitution and holding elections in 2010 is being followed closely across the world.
India, of course, has its own concerns. It went in for a realpolitik change in its policy after several years of supporting Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and the democratic movement in Myanmar, during which New Delhi found much to its dismay that Beijing had deftly stepped into the vacuum to forge strategic links with Yangon.
Casting aside western concerns about supplying military equipment to Myanmar, the only Asean country with which its shares land and maritime borders, India has since then transferred four Islander maritime patrol aircraft as well as 105mm light artillery guns, naval gun-boats, mortars, grenade-launchers and rifles, among other equipment, to Yangon.
India, in turn, has got some support from the military junta to flush out Indian insurgent groups operating from its soil. The Indian and Myanmarese armies, for instance, have conducted `coordinated operations' along their 1,643-km land border against outfits like United Liberation Front of Asom, United National Liberation Front, People's Liberation Army and Kannglei Yawol Kanna Lup.
There have been developments on other fronts like economic cooperation, energy security and connectivity as well. India and Myanmar, for instance, have launched the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport project, which will provide India with an alternate gateway to its northeastern states by bypassing Bangladesh.
India, of course, also remains keen that Myanmar expedite the process of national reconciliation and political reforms, and make it broad-based to include all sections of society and different ethnic groups.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-5107164,prtpage-1.cms
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What did the almonds on the Menorah (Lamp of the Presence) represent in Exodus 37:20
"According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
"And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
And on the lampstand itself were four bowls made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower.
What is the significance, meaning or symbolism attached to the presence of the almonds on the lamp of the Presence?
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it seems they signify that God is watching & they will be a time of reckoning for every deed( Jeremiah 1:11-12)
– collen ndhlovu
@collenndhlovu that's an interesting interpretation. The almond = Shakeid in hebrew which means "wakeful" or "hastening". In Jeremiah it was used as "hastening" because God was going to hasten his word to perform it.
To get a picture of almonds lets go to numbers 17: Numbers 17:8
8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. In this case the almonds a testimony of the life projected by the quickening power when the dead sinner brought into the presence of the Shekinah glory, in type The Holy Ghost. Note hear an almond is a nut and a nut is a seed. The reproductive life is in the seed, the almond seed. To get a beautiful picture of this life after death let us go to
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
You see the way to the Holy of holies was opened at the cross of Calvary, to make way for the sinner to enter in and bud, bloom blossom, and yield almonds. The almonds testifies of the work and fruit of Grace, through the sanctification that is by Faith in His name. Paul puts it this way:
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
An almond is a present of honour given to an honourable person. When Jacob sent presents to the man of honour in Egypt he sent almond. In this case an almond is an acceptable offering, acceptable service.
11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
We read again in the scriptures:
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Paul puts it this way:
Romans 15:15,16
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
In exodus we read:
31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
The candlestick is a type of the redeemed church standing before his presence fashioned and glorified with Gold, (representing his Divinitity), almonds, knops and flowers, a token of the work of His grace.
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Almond blossoms=grace, a fair representation.
– Tau
In order to see what the almonds on the Menorah represent (symbol, meaning) in Exodus 37:20 we really have to wander a little bit inside the Bible and some more.
First about the fruit: in Israel, the flowering of the almond marks the beginning of the agricultural season. It is the first fruit tree to flower, often even in January/February. Can tolerate aridity better than many other trees. Very drought resistant. However, it seems that it takes quite a while until the fruit is good to eat.
See more in Lytton John Musselman, A Dictionary of Bible Plants, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 17
The word for almond (שָׁקֵד) is related to the the stem sh-k-d, which means "to be watchful, wakeful, vigilant"; thus, the almond flower is a symbol of life renewed and sustained.
See N. M. Sarna, Exodus. English and Hebrew; commentary in English in The JPS Torah commentary, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1991, p. 165
Basically we could stop here. Almond = life renewed and sustained by God's power at work. Yet there is some more.
Now the full description of the Menorah is in Exodus 37:17-22. And there is another one, almost alike, in Exodus 25:31-34. Parallel:
Exodus 25:31-34 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; three cups made like almond blossoms ... (ESV)
Exodus 37:19-20 .... three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch - so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. In the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers …(ESV)
We shall return to this. Let's have a ride first.
In Genesis 30:37, Jacob uses branches of almond in his attempt to influence the breeding of the flocks.
Genesis 30:37 Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond [לוּז] and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. (ESV)
Yet the word used up here is different: לוּז. Not sure if this is of any help.
Further on, in Genesis 43:11, almond nuts are included in Jacob's gift for Egypt, during the famine.
Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.(ESV)
This could be significant, as almonds appear to be as something precious.
A very interesting Numbers 17:8 is giving us a a testimony of the work of God, who has chosen the person who is going to be the high priest.
Numbers 17:8 When he went into the Tabernacle of the Covenant the next day, he found that Aaron's staff, representing the tribe of Levi, had sprouted, budded, blossomed, and produced ripe almonds! (ESV)
So it is a sign of God's presence among Israel.
From Jeremiah 1:11-12 we can find out more about this presence:
Jeremiah 1:11-12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see an almond (שָׁקֵד) branch." Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching (שָׁקַד ) over my word to perform it." (ESV)
Here is the mysterious yet relevant play on words of שָׁקֵד (almond) and שָׁקַד (to watch, to be alert, to guard, to keep a close watch on something or someone, especially of God's watching over His word to fulfill it). In order to encourage Jeremiah in his very difficult prophetic work, God is giving him this vision of an almond, symbolizing God's watchfulness and constant readiness to keep his promises. Basically God is telling Jeremiah he is not to be afraid in announcing Judah's doom, because God would strengthen and defend him (see Jeremiah 1:17–19).
It is interesting how the Talmud (TJ) is reading this, connecting two different historical events: the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (in 586 b.c.e.) and by Titus (in 70 c.e.)
Ta'an. 4:8, 68c "Just as 21 days elapse from the time of the almond sends forth his blossom until the fruit ripens, so 21 days passed from the time the city was breached until the Temple was destroyed."
See also Ecc. Rabbah 12:8
More or less the same idea of God's watching, in Zechariah 4:2-6, 10:
Zechariah 4:2-6, 10 And he said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. [...] And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel [...] (10) "These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth." (ESV) / (The seven lamps represent the eyes of the Lord that search all around the world.) (NLT)
Exactly, the seven lamps are a symbol of the eyes of God, watching over His word to fulfill it. Is this that the lampstand, or Menorah, must symbolize God's own presence? Well, this is why it is called Lamp of the Presence, isn't it?
No wonder the Rabbis interpreted the Menorah as a symbol of Israel and its mission to be "a light unto the nations".
Shabbath 22 b: The light of the Menorah it is a testimony to mankind that the Divine Presence rests in Israel.
For a relevant comment on this, please see, M. A. Fishbane, Haftarot. The JPS Bible commentary, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 224 sq. See also R. L. Eisenberg, The JPS guide to Jewish traditions (1st ed.), The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2004, p. 579
Isaiah 42:6 I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations ... (ESV)
All these actions of God as described in Isaiah 42:6: calling, taking by the hand, keeping - can be understood as part of the work of God, watching over His word to fulfill it. And this work as symbolized by the almond.
Interesting enough, we meet this up in a NT prophetic fragment:
Revelation 1:12-13 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man ... (ESV)
Very similar to Jeremiah 1:11-12 and Zechariah 4:2-6, isn't it? If there is any connection among these, I would dare to go further and read them both in connection with Deuteronomy 7:9.
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations ... (ESV)
It is all about the same idea of God, watching over His word to fulfill it. As we got here, perhaps we can add that the almond may be understood as a symbol of the Covenant too.
Now to conclude: the almonds on the Menorah as described in Exodus 37:20 would represent:
the work of God continually watching over His word in order to keep and fulfill the Covenant;
the Covenant in itself;
Israel and its mission to be "a light unto the nations";
the life of man renewed and sustained by God's power at work.
Last but not least, there is one more text, revealing a possible 5th meaning of the almond:
Ecclesiastes 12:5 Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street (ESV).
Here, the almond describes the short cycle of human life. Therefore the almonds on the Menorah can be a symbol of the human being too, who is called to preserve the light of God in order not be afraid "of a high place and of terrors on the road".
If you stay with me a little more on this, I'd quote a such a beautiful interpretation of Philo of Alexandria. It is rather related to Numbers 17, yet I think it is relevant for your question anyway:
Philo, On the Life of Moses, II. XXXIV.180-186
XXXIV. (180) And the fruit were almonds, which is a fruit of a different character from any other. For in most fruit, such as grapes, olives, and apples, the seed and the eatable part differ from one another, and being different are separated as to their position, for the eatable part is outside, and the seed is shut up within; but in the case of this fruit the seed and the eatable part are the same, both of them being comprised in one species, and their position is one and the same, being without strongly protected and fortified with a twofold fence, consisting partly of a very thick bark, and partly of what appears in no respect short of a wooden case, (181) by which perfect virtue is figuratively indicated. For as in the almond the beginning and the end are the same, the beginning as far as it is seed, and the end as far as it is fruit; so also is it the case with the virtues; for each one of them is at the same time both beginning and end, a beginning, because it proceeds not from any other power, but from itself; and an end, because the life in accordance with nature hastens towards it. (182) This is one reason; and another is also mentioned, more clear and emphatic than the former; for the part of the almond which looks like bark is bitter, but that which lies inside the bark, like a wooden case, is very hard and impenetrable, so that the fruit, being enclosed in these two coverings, is not very easily to be got at. (183) This is an emblem of the soul which is inclined to the practice of meditation, from which he thinks it is proper to turn it to virtue by showing it that it is necessary first of all to encounter danger. But labour is a bitter, and distasteful, and harsh thing, from which good is produced, for the sake of which one must not yield to effeminate indolence; (184) for he who seeks to avoid labour is also avoiding good. And he, again, who encounters what is disagreeable to be borne with fortitude and manly perseverance, is taking the best road to happiness; for it is not the nature of virtue to abide with those who are given up to delicacy and luxury, and who have become effeminate in their souls, and whose bodies are enervated by the incessant luxury which they practise every day; but it is subdued by such conduct, and determined to change its abode, having first of all arranged its departure so as to depart to, and abide with, the ruler of right reason. (185) But, if I must tell the truth, the most sacred company of prudence, and temperance, and courage, and justice seeks the society of those who practise virtue, and of those who admire a life of austerity and rigid duty, devoting themselves to fortitude and self-denial, with wise economy and abstinence; by means of which virtues the most powerful of all the principles within us, namely, reason, improves and attains to a state of perfect health and vigour, overthrowing the violent attacks of the body, which the moderate use of wine, and epicurism, and licentiousness, and other insatiable appetites excite against it, engendering a fulness of flesh which is the direct enemy of shrewdness and wisdom. (186) Moreover, it is said, that of all the trees that are accustomed to blossom in the spring, the almond is the first to flourish, bringing as it were good tidings of abundance of fruit; and that afterwards it is the last to lose its leaves, extending the yearly old age of its verdure to the longest period; in each of which particulars it is an emblem of the tribe of the priesthood, as Moses intimates under the figure of this tree that this tribe shall be the first of the whole human race to flourish, and likewise the last; as long as it shall please God to liken our life to the revolutions of the spring, destroying covetousness that most treacherous of passions, and the fountain of all unhappiness.
Philo of Alexandria, The works of Philo. Complete and unabridged, C. D. Yonge (ed.), Hendrickson, Peabody, 1996, p. 507
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