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31 December 2015
Best of 2015
This year has been great. With ups and downs and moments of joy and sadness. But to sum it up it was great and I have nothing to complain about. I will not continue to write because we are all preoccupied with the NYE party and most of you followed my journey during the year. So, I will leave you now with some of my favorite outfits this year.
I`m sending you all my best wishes and wish you all a wonderful year and a wonderful NYE Party ♥
Kisses, Manuella
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16 December 2015
What to wear on Christmas Eve or NYE
I think that during the holidays most girls search for the perfect outfits in which they`ll shine in these 2 wonderful occasions of the year. Even more because after so much work and effort done for the beloved ones like searching for gifts, cooking, cleaning the house, search for the right Christmas Tree and so on, we need to feel gorgeous and to have our moment.
So, my post today will come with outfit suggestions that will make your decision easier. Sammydress, is one of those website from which I am constantly placing orders because they have good offers and because the price/quality ratio is perfect.
So, for you today, I will start with the dresses. Here are some suggestions and below the pictures you can see the direct link to the one you like the most:
As you might guesses, is time that we continue with the shoes. I prefer stiletto since it`s cold outside but if you dare, you can also decide from the wide range of styles on their website:
So, what is left? Accessories, of course. I decided to share some clutches instead of earrings, necklaces, bracelets or rings, because when it comes to them, we all have different tastes and for sure plenty of them in our wardrobes so I will let you decide by your own:
I hope that my suggestions can inspire you and I have no doubts that you`ll all look stunning!
Enjoy the shopping and do not neglect your outfits :D
Kisses, Manuella ♥
14 December 2015
Genele false si parerea mea despre acestea la 3 saptamani dupa aplicare
Intr-o vineri, mai exact pe 27 Noiembrie, aveam programare la Chic Lashes realizata in urma unei conversatii cu Adina si Laura pe aceasta tema. Dupa cum deja v-am informat pe Facebook si Instagram, pe moment am fost extrem de incantata de rezultat si cu siguranta incantarea mea tine si in momentul de fata.
Insa nu v-am povestit nimic pana acum fiindca doream sa vad cum evolueaza, cat vor rezista genele si care o sa fie impresia mea dupa o perioada de timp, dar sa incepem cu inceputul.
Evident, aveam cateva retineri datorita parerilor impartite auzite la diverse persoane cat si descoperite online. Google este mereu util insa parerile sunt mai mult sau mai putin avizate. Teama mea? Sa nu raman fara genele mele, sa nu imi curga ochii constant dupa aplicarea lor si desigur sa nu ma aleg cu diferse reactii alergice sau infectii.
Parerea mea dupa aproximativ 3 saptamani de la aplicarea acestora? In primul rand, eu impreuna cu cei de la salon am decis pentru inceput sa optez pentru varianta 2D... nici prea mult, ca sa evit senzatia de prelata deasupra ochilor :))) desi nu este cazul nici pentru cele 3D, dar nici prea putin. Vroiam sa fie o diferenta dar care sa para destul de naturala, diferenta care m-a scapat de utilizarea rimelului dar si a tusului negru pe care il foloseam mai mereu inainte.
Genele mele inca sunt la locul lor, singurul moment in care am lacrimat a fost momentul in care procedura a fost finalizata si a trebuit indepartata banda protectoare pt genele de jos si datorita unei curatari atente si intr-adevar migaloase a genelor cu apa micelara nu m-am ales cu nicio bacterie in zona ochilor. Demachiantele pe baza de crema nu sunt recomandate in cazul genelor false, deoarece distrug rezistenta lipiciului aplicat si astfel acestea vor rezista mai putin.
Tin sa va mai precizez, ca si acum genele se prezinta minunat si nu este o nevoie reala de a le face o noua intretinere insa cu siguranta voi merge inainte de sarbatori pentru a fii sigura ca vor arata impecabil. Desigur, o alta intrebare la care cu siguranta vreti sa stiti raspunsul, este cat tin?
Variaza durata in functie de cum le ingrijiti. Dar in cazul meu, va pot spune ca 3 saptamani cu siguranta si chiar mai mult.
Daca aveti si alte intrebi, mi le puteti adresa si va voi raspunde cu drag, iar pentru mai multe detalii despre preturi, locatie si despre salonul la care am ales sa merg puteti gasi Aici, fiind site-ul oficial al celor de la Chic Lashes.
Sper ca experienta mea sa vina in ajutorul multora si sa apelati cu incredere la acest serviciu pentru a arata impecabil in aceasta perioada a anului si nu numai!!
Kisses, Manuella ♥
13 December 2015
Weekend Mood
Hi loves! Sunday is for most of us the day in which we can truly relax and enjoy a free day as it should. My advice, never think of tomorrow, especially because it`s Monday.
So, for today`s outfit, as you can see it`s mainly black and white, with a combo between them (gray) and a touch of color brought by the second bag from YVY Bags. You already knew about it from my previous post and now is time to show it to the world :))
Also, I wanted for a while now, to combine this cape with a skirt and in my mind I had something else prepared for the shoes, more precisely a pair of over the knee boots, but in that day it was extremely cold and I couldn`t risk to get a cold by wearing bare feet.
But I hope that for a casual outfit it will be a great inspiration for you because honestly, I fell great and comfy while wearing it!
Wish you all a wonderful day and enjoy the sun
Kisses, Manuella ♥
I was wearing:
Romwe Cape
Blouse Similar Here
Guess Watch
Pandora Bracelet
Shein Skirt
Mustard Bag from YVY Bags
Marc Jacobs Shoes
11 December 2015
The Bag Issue
For example, in my case, after buying the third Michael Kors Bag, I`ve said that I will take a break and change a bit the focus on other brands. For how long? I don`t know yet, but I know is not for ever.
So, changing the focus... great idea on paper, but I`ve change it to another brand that I love, YVY Bags. I was the happy owner of 3 bags too, but this changed since I added 2 more with a total number of 5 right now. So, was my strategy effective? Not really... but at least I have 2 new gorgeous bags and I will show you one today and the mustard one later this week ♥
I always have purposes like this and I have to admit that some of them are more inspired than the others but in this case I'm more than happy becayse I have 2 new colors :D
So evwn if the weather is not that great I wish you all a happy weekend!
Kisses, Manuella
I was wearing:
Bluemarin Croco Bag from YVY Bags
Choies Cape
Stradivarius Pants from Kurtmann
Prada Sunglasses
H&M Blouse
Choies Glitter Boots
I was wearing:
Bluemarin Croco Bag from YVY Bags
Choies Cape
Stradivarius Pants from Kurtmann
Prada Sunglasses
H&M Blouse
Choies Glitter Boots
9 December 2015
Between Places
I know that after seeing these pictures you might have some questions like: If I was freezing? the answer is yes. If it was a bit late for these pictures? The answer is again yes. Why I`m wearing such a dress since outside is already winter? The answer is simple: just because I was on the run the entire day and at the end of it I had to attend the Deichmann Christmas Party and this was the outfit I wore and the pictures were taken extremely fast, like in no more than 5 minutes right after I changed myself in the car.
Well, this was something from the inside, but I decided to share it with you just because I want you to be part of my life and to see also not the so glam and fancy things. Oh, and yes, the make-up was done also in the car between places :))
So, I hope that you`ll like my outfit and you can share all your thoughts. I will be more than happy to hear them :D
Wish you a wonderful night,
Kisses, Manuella
I was wearing:
Prada Sunglasses Here
Shein Dress Here
Shein Cardigan Here
Inia Lavin Here
Meli Melo Clutch
Tommy Hilfiger Watch
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7 December 2015
Blue jeans, White shirt
I know, big jacket, boyfriend jeans and large shirt. Last week when I wore this outfit I felt the need to have large items on me and to be extremely comfortable since it was a long busy day with thousand places to be in. I have to admit, the heels were only on when I was outside of the car, otherwise I had the most wanted sneakers :)) Why so?! Because this is what I understand when we talk about comfort and the heels are not getting even closer to it, no matter how comfortable they are for the first 2 or 3h, in the end my feet will be in pain.
So sorry for my tired face, even the wonderful make-up made by the Mac girls is not listening anymore :)) But I have to say that I just love this type of smokey eyes and for sure I will try it again, even more because it`s part of this season trends.
So, I wish you all a wonderful week and remember... we have 2 and a half weeks until Christmas ♥ Can`t wait for it!!
Kisses, Manuella ♥
I was wearing:
Shein Pu Jachet
H&M Shirt
C&A Boyfriend Jeans
Garkony Heels
Love Moschino Bag similar here
4 December 2015
Casual outfit for busy days
Who said you can`t stay True to Fashion even if you`re wearing a casual/sport outfit? You might have guessed, this post comes as a second part of the "stay True to Fashion" series in collaboration with a website I just found called True Fashion.
There you can find designer items at great discounts and this is always the motto of all the smart girls:"Smart Investments". I like to invest in statement pieces or classic ones that will last in my wardrobe more than just a season. And by doing this, you`ll find that in the long run, you`re savings will increase and you`re items will still be ready to be worn.
During the years, I managed to keep my enthusiasm and to buy only the things that count the most. Don`t get me wrong, it's not a 100% rate but is close to it and I`m extremely proud of myself ♥
And by the way, this leather jacket is something you shouldn`t miss out on because it`s extremely soft and versatile that for sure you`ll love always and forever as it was my case!!
As usual, for direct links check the "I was wearing" section and each description will bring you to the specific website.
Wish you all a wonderful weekend loves
Kisses, Manuella ♥
I was wearing:
Calvin Klein Leather Jacket
Tommy Hilfiger Shirt
C&A Boyfriend Jeans
Guess Sunglasses
Cavalli Class Bag
Michael Kors Allie Trainers
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3 December 2015
Teddy bears and over the knee boots
These days were awesome and I could`t stay home without taking advantage of going out and take some pictures ♥
So the bear sweater was out and was the main attraction of my outfit together with my first A-line skirt. I had in my mind for a while now to buy a skirt like this but I didn`t knew which one to have. My pick was in the end suitable for this kind of weather in combination with a pair of over the knee boots. What do you think?
I hope that my outfit will bring a smile on your face and also I want to wish you a wonderful evening!
Kisses, Manuella ♥
I was wearing:
Romwe Sweater
Romwe Skirt
Jessica Buurman Boots
Michael Kors Bag
Prada Sunglasses
Pictures by Silvia From Bucharest Style
2 December 2015
stay True to Fashion
Good evening girls ♥ Today I am presenting you one of my favorite outfits that made Silvia think about Jackie Kennedy while she was looking at me. I have to say that I feel honored for receiving this comparison and it can only bring a huge smile on my face. I know that she would have never worn lace up over the knee boots but it`s just my suggestion for these days.
Also, today I want to share with you this website I just found recently, called True Fashion where you can find designer items at super affordable prices which is a dream to every fashionista, right? Even more, they have prepared some super discounts for this period, in advance for the Christmas Holidays. So, you can make the perfect gift for your beloved ones at a lower price or you can buy more items in your initial budget♥
So, I hope that you like my new suggestion, I know that you`re always in search of new websites as I am and what you should also know is that they deliver the items and in less than 48h you`ll get your hands on the package due to the fact that everything on the website is in stock. I am thrilled about this because I just ordered something for St. Nicholas for my love and I know that it will arrive in time and the shoes will be happy to receive the present hahaha.
For more details about the outfit you can check the "I was wearing" section and you`ll be surprised to see the prices and for sure you`ll make a great wishlist for this season ♥
Kisses, Manuella ♥
I was wearing:
Fendi Sunglasses
Tommy Hilfiger Jacket
Versace Dress
Cavali Class Bag
Jessica Buurman Boots
Photos by Silvia Cimpeanu from Bucharest Style
Place: Centrul Shakti
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1 December 2015
The Army never felt so good before
Good morning loves! I know it`s been a while but since it was only cloudy and rainy I decided to stay more indoors and work from home. It was nice but I felt so much the need to go out and take some pictures and here is the outfit I decided to present you today.
You might have noticed, indeed is the outfit I wore a few days ago at the Casa Di Peroni event. So today you can find all the details about it and I also have to tell you that the Michael Kors bag is at a discount these days and you can save up to $100. So, it`s a best buy, don`t you think?
I have to go now, because it seems that the weather will keep me outside but I want to wish you a wonderful day and "La multi ani Romania" ♥
Kisses, Manuella ♥
P.S.: Ati notat mica schimbare? Se datoreaza extensiilor de gene recent aplicate la Chic Lashez, un loc extrem de placut si relaxant care cu siguranta o sa va incante nu doar datorita rezultatului obtinut la sfarsit ci si datorita starii de bine de care o sa va bucurati.
"La CHIC LASHES sesiunile de aplicare a extensiilor de gene 3D sunt riguros alcatuite, tinand cont atat de grosimea, lungimea si desimea genelor naturale, cat si de forma ochilor (micile imperfectiuni de ordin estetic – pleoape cazute, forma descendenta a ochilor sau distanta prea mica/prea mare dintre pupile - pot fi corectate cu un styling corespunzator menit sa asigure o simetrie a trasaturilor). Astfel, extensiile de gene 3D sunt adaptate din punct de vedere al grosimii si al numarului de fire aplicate, pentru a nu afecta genele naturale si pentru a nu ingreuna pleoapa"
I was wearing:
Hat Similar Here
Zara Blouse
Shein Jacket
Pull and Bear Pants from Kurtmann
Inia Lavin Boots
Michael Kors Bag ON SALE
Michael Kors Wallet
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The international dialling code for China is +86. Phone cards are widely available and calls can be made from post offices and hotels; phone booths on the streets are usually for local calls only. In hotels, local calls are generally free or will be charged only a nominal fee. Mobile phone networks are very advanced and Chinese networks have roaming agreements with most non-North American international operators. Internet cafes are available in most main towns.
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There are shuttle buses running to downtown Chengdu, as well as long-distance coaches to other cities in Sichuan Province.
There are no car hire facilities at the airport, however rental cars are available in downtown Chengdu and airport pickup services are available.
Taxis are available outside of Gate 2 of Terminal 1, and Gates 4 and 5 of Terminal 2.
The terminals are within walking distance, however shuttles are available to transfer passengers.
Airport services include an information centre, baggage trolleys, a smoking room, ATMs, phone chargers, vending machines, luggage storage and packaging, a lost and found, medical services, a baby-care station, VIP and first class lounges, restaurants and shops, and business services.
Parking is located in front of Terminal 1. The first hour is RMB 4, and every 30 minutes thereafter is an additional RMB 2.
Wifi and internet services are available at some shops and restaurants.


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An illegal immigrant whose case drew the attention of an immigrant rights group wasn�t deported on Friday after U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement determined his case was a candidate for �prosecutorial discretion.�
Isaias Valles-Castejon was charged last year with driving without a license. His supporters said Friday was the deadline for him to leave the country.
ICE attorneys will work with Valles-Castejon to reopen his case and then administratively close it in immigration court, according to ICE Southern Region Communications Director Vincent Picard. Picard said ICE�s deportation priorities include the identification and removal of those who have broken criminal laws, threats to national security, recent border crossers and repeat violators of immigration law.
Valles-Castejon�s supporters met Monday evening at a vigil in Burlington City Park to pray he wouldn�t be deported. He has been in the United States for almost seven years, has two sons and is his family�s main source of income, they said.
The vigil was organized by the N.C. Dream Team. Cinthia Marroquin, a representative of the organization, said on Friday that ICE�s decision not to deport Valles-Castejon was a �small victory.�
Marroquin said Valles-Castejon borrowed his mother�s car to go to work early one morning in mid-April last year. A Dream Team news release said �an Alamance County law enforcement officer� saw the plate was expired and that the vehicle owner�s insurance was expired.
The organization accused law enforcement in the county of a �history of discrimination� against Latinos, citing allegations made by the U.S. Department of Justice last year. Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson and his attorney have repeatedly denied the accusations.
Picard said ICE reviews every deportation case on an individual basis considering several factors.
�Like every other immigration case, those originating in Alamance County are examined to ensure they meet with our priorities and to determine if the action being taken is consistent with the underlying factors involved in the case,� Picard stated in an email. �ICE is focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that prioritizes the removal of criminal aliens, recent border crossers and egregious immigration law violators, such as those who have been previously removed from the United States.�
Marroquin said she believes that deportation cases in Alamance County are being closed due to the discrimination charges against the Sheriff�s Office.
The lawsuit filed by the DOJ on Dec. 20 alleges that Johnson and his department unlawfully targeted Latinos. Johnson has denied the allegations and the case is set to begin the discovery phase in March.
According to ICE, deportation cases in Alamance County are not being closed solely because of the DOJ�s accusations in a Sept. 18 report. The charges, however, are being taken into consideration when ICE makes a determination on whether to close a deportation case.


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Sustainable travel
This section describes the Department's work to promote initiatives that can reduce congestion, improve local environments and encourage healthier and safer lifestyles. Many of these initiatives are part of the broader cross government agenda for Creating Safer Greener Communities. Visit www.cleanersafergreener.gov.uk for more information on this topic.
Information is also available regarding climate change and transport.
Office for Low Emission Vehicles
Programmes and policies the Office for Low Emission Vehicles has resposibilities for.
Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future
his strategy sets out how we intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. It also shows how transport will make a major contribution to UK efforts to reduce CO2 emissions by 2022 and 2050 in line with the Climate Change Act 2008.
Carbon Pathways – Informing development of a carbon reduction strategy for transport (1 Mb)
This report updates projections of transport CO2 emissions and sets out the climate change challenges faced by the transport sector. To assist in the development of policy options to further reduce CO2 emissions, the paper also analyses transport emissions by mode and reports our new analysis which relates CO2 emissions from transport to journey purpose and journey length.
- Published:
- 30 June 2008
All cars on the road today contribute to climate change because their engines burn fuel and therefore produce carbon dioxide (CO2) every time we drive. Yet you can easily reduce these emissions and save money too. By following a few simple tips and suggestions on the Act On CO2 website you can reduce your engine's workload, which means it will burn less fuel and produce less CO2.
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- 19 April 2007
Smarter choices
Smarter choices are techniques for influencing people's travel behaviour towards more sustainable options such as encouraging school, workplace and individualised travel planning.
Climate change and transport
Information on climate change as well as links to sites with information on how people individually can reduce the environmental impacts of their transport choices.
Delivering sustainable, low carbon, travel: An essential guide for Local Authorities
Best practice guide for local authorities on how to deliver environmentally friendly transport on a local level and reduce carbon emissions.
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- 09 November 2009
The European Union's Energy Services Directive
The UK is a signatory to the European Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive (2006/32/EC), also known as the Energy Services Directive. The Directive aims to improve energy end-use efficiency in all sectors, including the transport sector.
Shared space
Shared space is a concept predominantly aimed at reducing the impact of motor traffic in places used by pedestrians. Shared spaces often feature minimal road signing and marking - some schemes also have a shared surface, where kerbs are omitted and pedestrians share a common surface with vehicular traffic. With no clear indication of priority, motorists are encouraged to drive more slowly and interact directly with pedestrians, cyclists, and other motorists.
How to reduce costs and carbon emissions from business related transport
The mobility of people and goods is a key element of successful business, but transport can also offer opportunities for reducing carbon emissions and costs. This page identifies the free guidance, training, information servies and funding available to help organisations identify where costs and CO2 emissions can be reduced from business travel, fleet and freight operations.
- Published:
- 18 July 2008
Car Clubs and Car Sharing
Background note to Car Sharing and Car Clubs
Building sustainable transport into new development: Options for growth points and eco towns (561 kb)
Guidance on planning, designing and implementing an effective sustainable transport system in new developments.
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- 03 April 2008
Travel plans
A travel plan is a package of measures produced by employers to encourage staff to use alternatives to single-occupancy car-use.
School travel
Promoting safe and healthy journeys to school which in turn, can also help to reduce the use of the car and impact of the 'school run'.
Travel awareness campaigns
Travel awareness campaigns aim to improve general public understanding of the problems caused by traffic growth and to encourage people to think about their own travel behaviour. These include annual events such as the In Town Without My Car! campaign.
Promoting walking as a healthy and more preferable option to the motor car for short journeys.
Strategies for promoting cycling as an alternative form of transport for local journeys.
Home Zones
Home Zones are residential streets in which the road space is shared between drivers and other road users with the wider needs of residents (including people who walk and cycle, and children) in mind.
Manual for Streets
Manual for Streets provides guidance for practitioners involved in the planning, design, provision and approval of new residential streets, and modifications to existing ones. It aims to increase the quality of life through good design which creates more people-orientated streets.
Brief explanation of teleworking.
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Sustainable travel demonstration towns
Information about the sustainable travel schemes.
Office of Climate Change
The Office of Climate Change (OCC) works across Government to support the development of climate change policy and strategy.
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- 27 November 2007
Email contacts
Sustainable travel email contacts
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Desktop entries
Desktop entries is a freedesktop.org standard for specifying the behaviour of programs running on X Window Systems. It is a configuration file that describe how an application is launched and how it appears in a menu with an icon. The most common desktop entries are the
.desktop and
.directory files. This article explains briefly how to create useful and standard compliant desktop entries. It is mainly intended for package contributors and maintainers, but may also be useful for software developers and others.
There are roughly three types of desktop entries:
- Application
- a shortcut to an application
- Link
- a shortcut to a web link.
- Directory
- a container of meta data of a menu entry
The following sections will roughly explain how these are created and validated.
Application entry
Desktop entries for applications or
.desktop files are generally a combination of meta information resources and a shortcut of an application. These files usually reside in
/usr/share/applications for systemwide installed applications or
~/.local/share/applications for user specific applications.
File example
Following is an example of its structure with additional comments. The example is only meant to give a quick impression, and does not show how to utilize all possible entry keys. The complete list of keys can be found in the freedesktop.org specification.
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application # Indicates the type as listed above Version=1.0 # The version of the desktop entry specification to which this file complies Name=jMemorize # The name of the application Comment=Flash card based learning tool # A comment which can/will be used as a tooltip Exec=jmemorize # The executable of the application. Icon=jmemorize # The name of the icon that will be used to display this entry Terminal=false # Describes whether this application needs to be run in a terminal or not Categories=Education;Languages;Java; # Describes the categories in which this entry should be shown
Key definition
All Desktop recognized desktop entries can be found on the site of the project Freedesktop.org site on the following link.
For example the
Type key defines 3 types of desktop entries: Application (type 1), Link (type 2) and Directory (type 3).
Versionkey does not stand for the version of the application, but for the version of the desktop entry specification to which this file complies.
Commentoften contain redundant values in the form of combinations of them, like:
Name=Pidgin Internet Messenger GenericName=Internet Messenger
Name=NoteCase notes manager Comment=Notes Manager
This should be avoided, as it will only be confusing to users. The
Name key should only contain the name, or maybe an abbreviation/acronym if available.
GenericNameshould state what you would generally call an application that does what this specific application offers (i.e. Firefox is a "Web Browser").
Commentis intended to contain any usefull additional information.
There are quite some keys that have become deprecated over time as the standard has matured. The best/simplest way is to use the tool
desktop-file-validate which is part of the package desktop-file-utils. To validate, run
$ desktop-file-validate <your desktop file>
This will give you very verbose and useful warnings and error messages.
Common image formats
Here is a short overview of image formats commonly used for icons.
|Full Name and/or Description
|Graphics Type
|Container Format
|Portable Network Graphics
|Scalable Vector Graphics
|yes (optional)
|X PixMap
|yes (deprecated)
|Graphics Interchange Format
|MS Windows Icon Format
|Apple Icon Image
Converting icons
If you stumble across an icon which is in a format that is not supported by the freedesktop.org standard (like gif or ico), you can convert (which is part of the imagemagick package) it to a supported/recommended format, e.g.:
$ convert <icon name>.gif <icon name>.png /* Converts from gif to png */
If you convert from a container format like ico, you will get all images that were encapsulated in the ico file in the form <icon name>-<number>.png. If you want to know the size of the image, or the number of images in a container file like ico you can use identify (also part of the imagemagick package)
$ identify /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico[0] ICO 32x32 32x32+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico[1] ICO 16x16 16x16+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico[2] ICO 128x128 128x128+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico[3] ICO 48x48 48x48+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico[4] ICO 32x32 32x32+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb /usr/share/vlc/vlc48x48.ico[5] ICO 16x16 16x16+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb
As you can see, the example ico file, although its name might suggest a single image of size 48x48, contains no less than 6 different sizes, of which one is even greater than 48x48, namely 128x128. And to give a bit of motivation on this subject, at the point of writing this section (2008-10-27), the 128x128 size was missing in the vlc package (0.9.4-2). So the next step would be to look at the vlc PKGBUILD and check whether this icon format was not in the source package to begin with (in that case we would inform the vlc developers), or whether this icon was somehow omitted from the Arch-specific package (in that case we can file a bug report at the Arch Linux bug tracker). (Update: this bug has now been fixed, so as you can see, your work will not be in vain.)
Obtaining icons
Although packages that already ship with a .desktop-file most certainly contain an icon or a set of icons, there is sometimes the case when a developer has not created a .desktop-file, but may ship icons, nonetheless. So a good start is to look for icons in the source package. You can i.e. first filter for the extension with find and then use grep to filter further for certain buzzwords like the package name, "icon", "logo", etc, if there are quite a lot of images in the source package.
$ find /path/to/source/package -regex ".*\.\(svg\|png\|xpm\|gif\|ico\)$" /* this filters for common extensions */
If the developers of an application do not include icons in their source packages, the next step would be to search on their web sites. Some projects, like i.e. tvbrowser have an artwork/logo page where additional icons may be found. If a project is multi-platform, there may be the case that even if the linux/unix package does not come with an icon, the Windows package might provide one. If the project uses a Version control system like CVS/SVN/etc. and you have some experience with it, you also might consider browsing it for icons. If everything fails, the project might simple have no icon/logo yet.
gendesk is a tool for generating .desktop files from PKGBUILD files. Most of the information is fetched directly from the PKGBUILD.
Icons are downloaded from openiconlibrary, if available. The source for icons can easily be changed in the future.
How to use
How to use
- Add
gendeskto makedepends
- Start the
prepare()function with:
gendesk --pkgname "$pkgname" --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc"
- Alternatively, if an icon is already provided ($pkgname.png, for instance). The
-nflag is for not downloading an icon or using the default icon. Example:
gendesk -n --pkgname "$pkgname" --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc"
$srcdir/$pkgname.desktopwill be created and can be installed in the
package()function with:
install -Dm644 "$pkgname.desktop" "$pkgname/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop"
- The icon can be installed with:
install -Dm644 "$pkgname.png" "$pkgname/usr/share/pixmaps/$pkgname.png"
- Use
--name='Program Name'for choosing a name for the menu entry.
- Use
--exec='/opt/some_app/elf --with-ponies'for setting the exec field.
- See the gendesk project for more information. (Patches and pull requests are welcome).


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Who doesn't know the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star! It is such a great song that all kids grow up with and wouldn't it be a great birthday party theme too! Here is a little inspiration for a Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Party!
Star Cookies; Twinkle Light Background; Twinkle Printable; Star Decorations; Twinkle Twinkle Dessert Table; Star Table; Twinkle Twinkle Invitation


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Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness (map) in 1980 and it now has a total of 9,078,675 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Alaska and is managed by the National Park Service. The Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness is bordered by the Russell Fjord Wilderness to the southeast.
DescriptionIt is a land of remote valleys, wild rivers, and a fabulous wildlife population that includes the world's finest Dall sheep, grizzly bears, black bears, caribou, moose, bison, mountain goats, wolves, wolverines, beavers, coyotes, foxes, and marmots. In the north the glaciated peaks drop to tundra and boreal forested uplands. In the south massive glaciers spread from the mountains almost to the Gulf of Alaska. Several trails provide foot or horse access, but large braided rivers will often stop your progress. Mosquitoes are thick in the low country during the summer, and enough snow accumulates in the high country to make avalanches a year-round danger. The bold and the prepared, however, will discover Wilderness travel (by boot, ski, boat, or horse) at its grandest.
On the Canadian side of the border lies Kluane National Park, and together these two areas house what may be this continent's most spectacular mountain kingdom. Vitus Bering saw a mountain rising far above anything else around and recorded the sighting on July 16, 1741, the first Russian written report of land in Alaska. Bering named Cape Saint Elias four days later, on Elias' saint day, and the name was later given as well to the 18,008-foot mountain (the second highest peak in the United States) that dominates what is now Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, the largest unit of the National Park System. Here you'll find 12,400,000 acres of national parkland, the most extensive glaciated country of Alaska (with more than 100 glaciers), a vastly rugged land that holds nine of North America's 16 highest peaks (many over 16,000 feet), the 90-mile-long and 4,000-foot-thick Bagley Ice Field (North America's largest subpolar ice field), and the unsurpassed Malaspina Glacier, which spreads 50 percent larger than the state of Delaware.
Planning to Visit the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the National Park Service
- Other recommended websites
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Let's turn together in our Bibles to Matthew 14. This passage is one of the most fascinating, while tragic, and yet triumphant texts in all of the Word of God. It tells the story of the murder of John the Baptist, but there is far more to the story than just that. As a story by itself, it has more intrigue than the most bizarre soap opera imaginable. It is an incredible story; true in every word. But beyond just the events, the plot, and the characters, there is an amazing picture of how a man, through fear, forfeited the Kingdom of God and forfeited the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Bible says that the fear of man brings a trap, or a snare. We see how true that is in this account. As we come to Matthew 14, the Messiah has been rejected, but, with His disciples, continues to preach the Kingdom. I think Scofield aptly calls this section of Matthew 'the Ministry of the Rejected King.' Jesus has arrived, presented Himself as King, announced His Kingdom. He is the long-awaited, long-promised Messiah, the King. He has been, however, rejected by His people. But among the people, there are some who will believe, so the Lord and His Twelve are moving among those people to present the Kingdom and its truth.
As we come to chapter 14, we have one of the eight incidents that are recorded from the end of chapter 13 through the beginning of chapter 16; eight instances that show us how people responded to the preaching of the Kingdom. You'll remember that the parables of chapter 13 describe the fact that some will believe and some will reject, and that will be the way it is in this age. Now we have illustrations of that.
As I told you in our last study, there are eight incidents. Two of the eight show people who believe; six of the eight show people who do not believe, paralleling the soils parable in the beginning of chapter 13. In our last look at chapter 13, we saw the city of Nazareth - the first illustration of an unbelieving, rejecting people. Now we see the story of Herod the tetrarch, as he is called in verse 1, who is also an illustration of stony ground, hard soil, unbelief, resistance, and rejection. This is a select incident, chosen by the Holy Spirit so that we may see that in this day, in this age, as well as the time of our Lord, there will be many who hardheartedly will reject the message of the Kingdom.
As you look at Matthew 14, keep in mind that Luke 9 and Mark 6 also feed in more information from parallel perspectives to make this story full, so we will be appealing to them periodically as we look at this story.
The last passage dealt with a town that rejected Christ; this one deals with a man who rejects Christ. The last passage dealt with common people who opposed the King; here, we see a king who opposes the True King. The last passage revealed the treatment of the Messiah; this one, the treatment of the forerunner, or the messenger, or the agent of the Messiah. The last passage showed rejection and resistance based primarily on jealousy; this one shows rejection and resistance based primarily on fear. But both of them have, at the bottom, selfish pride, and in all cases, that is usually what damns the soul - an unwillingness to give up what a person is to embrace Jesus Christ.
The story is told in a flashback. We look first of all at the reaction in verses 1-2, and then the story in flashback in verses 3 and following. Let's look at the reaction in verses 1-2. Remember that Christ is preaching, the Twelve are trained, and they're out two by two, preaching and proclaiming the Kingdom. The message is going out; signs, wonders, mighty deeds, miracles, healings, casting out of demons, raising the dead - all of this is going on, and the word finally reaches Herod the tetrarch, and we see his reaction.
"At that time," and that is an indefinite phrase; 'time' is kairos, not chronos. Chronosmeans 'a specific time,' kairosis 'a general season.' At the general time of Christ's preaching and the disciples' preaching, at the general time when He was being rejected, at the general time when hostility was beginning to grow, "Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus." Now we meet this main character, the one who is the rejector in the passage, the one who is the stony ground.
He is called the tetrarch. Technically, that term is a mathematical word, it means 'a ruler of a fourth part.' Tetra has to do with a fourth of something. But it came to be a term used of any subordinate ruler in a section of a country, and there were many subordinate rulers in Israel at that time. He was one of them.
In verse 9, he is called 'king,' and it says, "The king was sorry." That is a very generous use of the term; he was not a king. In fact, he sought to be a king. On one occasion, he went to Rome to ask Caligula to make him a king, primarily because his wife wanted to be called 'queen,' and that wish was not granted to him. So he wasn't really a king, but a petty potentate, and it is a very generous use of the term 'king,' which was frequently used for people of lesser stature than we would imagine a king to have.
The name Herod is immediately familiar to us, because if we go back to Matthew 2:1, when Christ was born, we'll see that there was a king then by the name of Herod. That was a different Herod, Herod the Great. He was an Idumean, a descendant of Esau, and it was quite interesting that a descendant of Esau should rule over the sons of Jacob. He was an Arab, if you will. Herod the Great, to compound matters, was also married to a Samaritan, so you can imagine how a non-Jew, son of Esau, married to a Samaritan would be unpopular in the hearts of Jews. Yet he was their king, appointed by Rome, over the whole area. It was he who was so fearful when he heard the word that a King had been born, and as a result, slaughtered, in a massacre, all of the babies, in order that he might eliminate anyone who would pose a threat to his throne.
Herod the Great has long been dead, however, by the time that this passage occurs, and this is one of his sons. History tells us that he was known as Herod Antipas. When Herod the Great died, his dominion, which was all of Palestine (to the north, east, and even south), was divided among three of his many sons. It is hard to keep track of his sons, because he had them by different women, so some of them were half-brothers. Some of them even had the same name, as we shall see; they had different mothers, but the same father.
He had three sons: Archelaus, Philip, and Herod Antipas. Archelaus was assigned the area of Judea and Samaria, over which he ruled. Philip was given Ituraea and Trachonitis, which was the northernmost part of the land of Palestine. So Archelaus was in the south, Philip was in the north, and Herod got the middle, which was Galilee, and to the east of Galilee, the area known as Parea.
This man had become sort of a petty potentate, a small-time king, a subordinate ruler of Rome, there to leave some kind of imprint of power and control on the society of Jews. There are two other Herods who appear later in the New Testament, and you need to understand that they come in the same line. The next Herod we meet is named Herod Agrippa, and if you want to know about that Herod, read Acts 12; he declared a 'Herod Day,' celebrated his power, and didn't give God the glory, so God smote him and he was eaten by worms, and died. There is, following him, a second Herod Agrippa, or Herod Agrippa II, and we find him in Acts 26. Paul preached to him. So basically we have these four: Herod the Great, Herod Antipas, Herod Agrippa I, and Herod Agrippa II. Herod the Great has long been dead, and at this time, Herod Antipas is in his thirty-second year of rule.
He is the one who ruled Galilee and the area around it during the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Herod most familiar to the time and place in the text of Scripture. His area was from the Sea of Galilee to the northernmost tip of the Dead Sea; from the coast to east, beyond the Jordan. That was the area which he ruled.
He had lived in Tiberius, which is a city on the southwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. I have been there, and it is a very lovely place. He had built a palace there. His father also had built a massive fortress at a place called Machaerus, and that was his summer home because it had natural mineral springs and so forth. So he spent much of his time in Machaerus and the rest of his time in Tiberius, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
What is interesting about this is that Jesus, in all of His ministry in the gospels, at no time is indicated to have ever visited Tiberius. By the way, you could walk from Capernaum to Tiberius, and Jesus did so much in Capernaum. Tiberius was within walking distance from Nazareth, or Cana, where He did His first miracle. Yet Jesus is never indicated to have gone there. It is almost as if there was a very obvious effort to avoid a confrontation with Herod. He had already had a confrontation with Herod the Great as an infant, when Herod tried to massacre Him, and this man came out of the same basic style of rule, and there was no sense in putting Himself in a jeopardizing situation. So there is no indication that He ministered in Tiberius, which is where this man lived.
Therefore, Herod was not particularly aware of the ministry of Jesus at first. By the time he heard of the fame of Jesus, as verse 1 says, it has been two years since our Lord's baptism, or somewhere between one and a half or two and a half, depending on your chronology. So a couple of years have gone by and he hasn't heard. It may have been because the Lord never came there, or it may have been because he was at Machaerus much of the time. It may also have been because he lived in his ivory tower, and the Jewish people weren't about to make him privy to what was going on. It may have been that he was so consumed with his luxurious living and decadence that he never bothered with such petty matters. But finally, he heard of the fame of Jesus. This after the Lord is out ministering, He has trained the Twelve, and they are out ministering, so the word is spreading rapidly, and the hostility is growing. The conjunction of all of those things brings this to his attention.
His reaction is very startling. Verse 2. "He said to his servants, 'This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.'" This was a great concern to him, because he had murdered John the Baptist. I suppose the fear of any murderer would be most realized in the possibility of the one he murdered coming back from the dead. I have heard of those who have done such things and been haunted in the nights for years after with the image of that person rising before their consciousness. The tremendous guilt that he had for murdering John the Baptist, that morbid kind of guilt, added to his amazing curiosity and brought him to the conviction that this was John the Baptist raised from the dead.
If you compare the other accounts, for example, in Luke, this was not his first reaction. In Luke 9:7, it says, "Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again." So at first, he got the same kind of report that the disciples gave Jesus when He asked them who He was in Matthew 16; "Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and some say one of the prophets," so all of this is coming in on him, and he doesn't know what it is. But as time goes on, and as he thinks it through, and as the word keeps coming, he sees the similarity between Jesus and John, and assumes it's John raised from the dead. That is what his morbid, fearful, guilty conscience would conjure up in his thinking.
Herod said in Luke 9:9, "John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?" and he desired to see him. Although he was certainly afraid, there was that same morbid curiosity that wanted to see Jesus to verify whether his fear was legitimate. So Matthew shows us that he settles on the fact that it is John the Baptist. He makes that note at the end of verse 2, that the mighty works that He does verify that.
That is a very important indication, because it tells us that John had done some mighty works. If he came in the spirit and power of Elijah, as it says in Luke 1, the spirit and power of Elijah was that of a miraculous power. Elijah was one of those men in God's Old Testament economy who was given the power to accomplish miracles. It is not without convincing argument that John the Baptist may well have been able to do some of the same. So when Herod hears that Jesus has this miraculous kind of power, which he knew to be demonstrated in John, he is assured in his mind by his guilty conscience that John the Baptist is back from the dead. His curiosity demands that he find out for sure.
Let's look at the reason for that reaction. Here comes the flashback; it is how the story is told. In verses 1-2, Herod is reacting to Jesus, and here is why he assigns to Him the similarity with John the Baptist. Verse 3. "For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. Because John had said to him, 'It is not lawful for you to have her.'"
Matthew flashes back to the event that caused him to react the way he did to Jesus. This is how it happened. Folks, this is some kind of story. In order for us to understand it, I want to introduce you to the characters. First, John the Baptist, the last Old Testament prophet, a great, holy, righteous man of God. Herod even said that of him; he knew that, it was obvious. Jesus said, "Of them that are born of women, there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist." Matthew 11:11 indicates, therefore, that he was the greatest man who ever lived, the greatest prophet who ever prophesied. He was a marvelous, incredible man, the forerunner of the Messiah, the cousin, as it were, of the Lord, through the relationship of Mary and Elizabeth. This man's job in the world was to announce and introduce the Christ.
In Luke 1, it says that he would be great in the sight of the Lord, and drink neither wine or strong drink. He would come in the spirit and power of Elijah, and turn many of the hearts of the people to the Lord their God. And he did. When he came, his message was very clear: repent. What does repentance presuppose? Sin. He was a confronter; he called people to confess their sin. Matthew 3:6 says that he was there, and coming and calling them, and they were coming to him confessing their sins, and he would then baptize them as a symbol of their desire for cleanliness of spirit. So he confronted sin, and called, with a strong message for holiness, to prepare a people for the arrival of the Messiah. He was very popular; the whole country was going out to see him, and multitudes responded to his message.
In contrast to this man of God, we meet Herod. We've already talked about the biographical data, so maybe I can say a word or two about his character. As I said, he was a descendant of Esau, ruling the sons of Jacob, which put him in a very difficult position. He was evil, debauched, shameless, hen-pecked, pushed around by an overbearing woman, given to all excesses, troubled in his conscience but refusing to obey, and John the Baptist really disturbed him.
Here was a man with tremendous popularity, to whom the multitudes of people were moving, and Josephus, the historian of the time, tells us that Herod Antipas was really nervous about John. He writes, "When many others came in crowds about him, for they were greatly moved by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion, thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mischief he might cause."
So Herod no doubt realized that the best thing to do with this guy was to kill him, just like his father had tried to do with the Messiah originally, when he slaughtered all the babies. He was like every other weak, fearful, impotent, suspicious, frightened tyrant who can only think of killing a rival; he had learned it well from his father.
So he put John in prison, according to verse 3, and behind this was his wife, Herodias, pushing the issue. Machaerus was a huge place - fortified by Herod the Great, incorporating a summer palace as well as a fortress. It was on a mountain higher than the city of Jerusalem, so you could see for miles around.
Archaeologists have dug that area up and found there was a great dungeon there, plunging deep into the earth, and in that dungeon made out of masonry, there were holes in the masonry where wood and iron were attached, in order that a prisoner might be chained to the very dungeon wall. They believe that was the place that was the prison of John the Baptist. So he was put in prison to be kept there for about a year.
We also meet Herodias in verse 3. It introduces Herodias as 'his brother Philip's wife.' Herodias is one of the worst people in the Bible; she is really wretched, as you will see. She is not designated as his wife, though she was married to him. But the Bible says she was his brother Philip's wife. So the Holy Spirit refuses to recognize her marriage to Herod. The Holy Spirit refuses to call her the wife of Herod, because in verse 4, it says, "John had said to him, 'It is not lawful for you to have her.'" So God wouldn't recognize the marriage. The facts are mind boggling, so hang on to your seat. Here is where the plot thickens.
Herod Antipas was married to the daughter of king Aretas. There was an area south of where we're speaking of, southeast of the Dead Sea, called Nabatean Arabia. It's where Paul went during those years when he was silent and God was preparing his heart before he came back to minister. Nabatean Arabia had a king named Aretas. Aretas had a daughter, and Herod married her. She was his wife. Herod also had a brother named Philip. Not Philip the tetrarch, that was another brother named Philip. This is a different Philip, by a different woman, but the same father, Herod the Great.
Well, Herod went to Rome to visit his brother Philip, because Philip was a private citizen who lived in Rome. He didn't get any place to rule, and some historians believe it was because of some treachery on the part of his mother. He had a wife named Herodias. While Herod was there, he seduced Philip's wife. Apparently, she responded positively to the seduction, so he said to her, "Why don't you divorce Philip and come be my wife? I'll divorce the daughter of Aretas, and when we get our decks cleared of our present mates, we'll consummate a marriage." That is exactly what happened.
It's somewhat complicated at this point. Herodias was the daughter of another brother of Herod, so he's one son of Herod the Great; Philip is another son of Herod the Great; there was another son of Herod the Great who had a daughter who was Herodias. So he's marrying his brother's daughter. There is so much in this that can confuse you, so just try to hang on to that.
Philip and Herod Antipas were one generation from the loins of Herod the Great, Herodias was two generations, so she married her uncle. That is incest. By the way, she had another brother named Herod Agrippa, who was the one eaten by worms in Acts 12. I just thought I'd throw that in. This is a really fouled up family. There is all kinds of incest, and that is the simple version!
They decided to go through with their divorces and come together in marriage. John the Baptist confronted the situation. Some believe that it may have been that Herod Antipas called him because he wanted his stamp of approval. Josephus says that the Jews were up in arms, irate over this illegitimate marriage, because this man had married by causing a divorce. He had divorced his own wife, and Aretas was really upset. He was so upset he came in and destroyed Herod's entire army, and Herod would have been killed except that the Romans saved him. The Jews could see the evil of the whole thing, and they really felt that what was happening when Aretas came and devastated the army was punishment for the terrible thing that Herod had done.
So Herod and Herodias are married by the time we come to this scene, and another Philip, the brother of Herod, dies. This Philip is the one who ruled the northern areas. Immediately, Herodias wanted that area; she wanted to be the queen, and have more territory. However, Caligula, who was the Roman Emperor, gave it to Agrippa. She was so upset that she said to Herod, "Go to Rome, and even though you didn't get the other territory, you make him make you a king; I want to be a queen." So Herod hemmed and hawed and tried to talk her out of it, but he couldn't handle her at all. With his tail between his legs, he makes a trip to Rome to ask if he can be a king and she can be a queen.
However, Agrippa doesn't like him at all, and so Agrippa sends a faster messenger to Caligula and tells him that Herod is planning a rebellion and all of this is a ruse. So when Antipas comes in to ask to be made a king, Caligula already believes he has a rebellion and a revolution on his mind, so he takes away his throne and puts him in exile until his death. The worst of it is, he exiled Herodias with him. That's tough, but that happened a little in the future.
At this point, however, we meet this wretched woman. Oh, what a bitter thing when he seduced Herodias. That is the basic cast of characters, and there is one more to meet in a moment. All of this wretchedness was brought to John's attention, and he comes before Herod. He says, "It is not lawful for you to have her." He didn't just say that once, but the Greek text indicates he kept on saying it. He probably said it all over every place. "It is not lawful; that is an ungodly, sinful union."
That is what I see as confronting the issue head-on. He didn't say, "Oh, great king, we want to minister to you, so I don't want to say too much." No, he just said what was true in the spirit and power of Elijah. He just plain said it. It did not make Herod happy to hear that, and it made Herodias livid. She was furious that he said it, and they were angry, and as a result, they threw him in prison.
This is the mark of greatness, the mark of prophetic greatness, the mark of the man of God: fearlessly confronting the sins of men even though they be the highest leaders in the nation or the world. You don't piddle around with leaders of the world; when there is sin to be confronted, you confront it. They hold your life in their hands, but that's OK. You're God's man. Christ, Stephen, Paul, Peter, and John the Baptist confronted it, and it's the only right thing to do.
A.T. Robertson said, "It cost him his head, but it is better to have a head like John the Baptist and lose it than to have an ordinary head and keep it." It's dangerous to rebuke an Eastern despot; you can imagine what would happen if you did that today to some Arabian king. It's the same culture. So John signed his death warrant, but he was in the hands of God.
Verse 5. "And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet." This guy lives by fear; he fears his wife, he fears the loss of his throne to John the Baptist, but he is afraid to kill him because he is afraid of the people. He is paralyzed, afraid of everything, so he just keeps John in prison to try to buy time. But something very interesting happens.
As he has John the Baptist in prison, Herod becomes fascinated with him. He is afraid of John, but because he's incarcerated and can't do him any harm, Herod's fear turns to fascination, and he becomes enamored with John. John was dynamic; there was never a man in the history of the world like him, according to Jesus. He must have been a marvelous, incredible kind of person, and Herod was so drawn to him that he began to have regular conversations.
It says in Mark 6:20 that Herod feared John; he was in awe of John. He knew he was a righteous, holy man, and he protected him. When he heard John, he heard him gladly. Herod was hearing John, listening to John, fascinated by him, so his fear was turning to fascination, although the fear would have immediately emerged had John escaped, I'm quite sure. But Herodias was seething; she was a woman of immorality, infidelity, vice; she was vindictive, and nursed her wrath to a boiling point. She wanted revenge, and she wanted John condemned, dead. She became a parent so incensed with anger and fury that she would stain her child with guilt beyond description.
That introduces us to the last character. Verse 6. "But when Herod's birthday was celebrated," and by the way, only pagans celebrated birthdays, Jews never did. The Jews used to look on the pagan birthday celebrations as a terrible act of shame.
In fact, there was a phrase, herodas dies, which in Latin means 'Herod's birthday.' It came to be a proverb for excessive, orgiastic festivals. In those days, the Romans held stag birthday parties; all the birthday parties were stag parties, where only men came. They were gluttonous, drunken brawls, and climaxed by women who came in and danced immoral, lewd, seductive dances and then it became an orgy. That was Herod's birthday.
So the daughter of Herodias, whom Josephus tells us is Salome, danced before them and pleased Herod. Herodias had this all planned; she wants John dead, and she knows that by the end of this party, Herod will be drunk, gluttonous, stuffed to the gills, and primed to be vulnerable. So when it is time for the dancing girls, the immoral, suggestive, shameless women to come in with their lewd dances, she brings in this young 16- or 17-year old daughter of hers, to do this dance and really accomplish her goal. When it says, at the end of verse 6, "It pleased Herod," in our vernacular, it means that it turned him on. He fell to the lust and the lewdness; he became a leering, lecherous, vile, drunken sot.
Verse 7. "Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask." He was really suckered into this, and in his drunken, gluttonous stupor, this state of sexual seduction, he lost all dignity, all sensibility, all desire to do what was right and sane. He wanted to be the magnanimous, magnificent benefactor, and made a stupid promise and then an oath to sign himself to it that she can have anything she wants. Mark adds in chapter 6, "Up to half of his whole kingdom." That will tell you how far gone he was. The plot hatched at that moment.
Verse 8. "So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, 'Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter.'" Herodias didn't want to wait until Herod sobered up; she wanted it now. The fool was too proud to break his stupid oath because he wanted to come off as a magnificent, magnanimous benefactor. He wanted everyone to think his word was pure gold, that he knew what he was doing, and hadn't made a foolish statement, and he feared losing his reputation and the respect that you can be sure he never had, because all of those kinds of people despise each other.
Out of the fear of losing face with the captains, chiefs, and famous men at the party, instead of saying how enormously stupid such an oath was, or saying, "There is no reason to commit an enormous crime; that's not what I had intended by the promise," the morally impotent, witless, weak fool, in fear of his wife, of John the Baptist, and in fear of the people there, he filled his cup with iniquity. As with the saying, "There is no fury like a woman scorned," she got her way.
Verse 9. "And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her." He was trapped, and he knew it, but his pride wouldn't let him do what was right; he was just like Pilate. Pilate was trying to hold on until they said to him, "If you don't kill Jesus, you're no friend of Caesar." And afraid of losing his name and reputation and throne, he killed the Son of God. So does this man kill the messenger of God for fear of losing his face.
"So he sent and had John beheaded in prison." Silently, privately, in the depth of that dungeon, John the Baptist was murdered. This happened in these days, you know. Herodias had an ancestor by the name of Alexander Junius, and historians tell us that one time, Alexander Junius was holding a big feast, and brought in 800 rebels to make a display. He crucified all 800 of them in front of all the revelers at the feast, and then, while they were hanging on the crosses, still alive, he murdered their wives and children in front of them. It was a debauched world. I think that today, we still see some remnants of this kind of approach to human life in that part of the world.
Matthew Brotus writes, "When the dish was brought in with the bleeding head on it, no doubt she took it daintily in her hands lest a drop of it should stain her. She tripped away to her mother as if bearing her some choice dish of food from the king's table. It was not uncommon to bring the head of one who had been slain to the person who ordered it as a sure proof that the command had been obeyed."
When the head of Cicero was brought to Fulvia, the wife of Antony, she spat on it, pulled its tongue out, and drove her hair pin through it. Jerome says that is what Herodias did with the head of John; we can't verify that, but we know that Herod's family seemed to want to mimic all of the worst atrocities of the Roman nobility. It must have been a point of derision and mocking - that dear, godly, faithful man, his head severed from his body. That is the extent of rejection that comes under the pressure of the fear of man. He was afraid to lose his throne, afraid of John, afraid of his wife, afraid of the people around him. Under the intimidation of that, he damned his soul to Hell forever.
After a year of imprisonment, John the Baptist is dead. His work is done; he has gone to his reward a faithful, uncompromising man. That is the true prophet of God - no compromise.
Someone handed me a letter this morning that said, "Pray for a Pakistani Christian suffering for his faith in Christ and willing to die for the Lord because he won't compromise. We'll call him Mr. Q; he is the peanut butter man. He finds another placard tacked to his house each night, this one declares that a victory front of zealous Muslim men has been formed to harass him by spying on his house 24 hours a day.
"They forbid any Muslim friend to visit him, any shopkeeper to sell food or supplies to his family. They plot to kill him by a certain date if he doesn't recant and return to Islam. After living in his village for more than 20 years as a vibrant, witnessing Christian, making his living by making and selling peanut butter, this is the most protracted and dangerous persecution he and his family have undergone since they left Islam.
"It was seemingly provoked by the marriage of his Christian daughter to a fine young Christian. By tradition, she should have been given to some Muslim cousin. Mr. Q, beloved by all the Christians in Northern Pakistan, is a blessing wherever he travels in the course of his business. Our churches have been stimulated to fast and pray for his family in this crisis. At least one young Muslim man, seeing his faith under stress, has accepted Christ. They have offered $10,000 to him if he rejects Christ; he said, '$10,000 is the price of Hell,' and affirms that he is ready to die for his Savior, should he be deemed worthy of that privilege" That comes to us from one of the TEAM missionaries.
The courage of the one who speaks for God. Look at verse 12 and we'll see a beautiful ending to an ugly scene. "Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus." So John's disciples buried his body. I love that they went and told Jesus. You can imagine how it was to pick up the headless body of the man whom they loved, who was the voice of God to them, the greatest man they had ever known, who made such a profound impression, preached repentance, and under whose preaching they had confessed their sins, repented, and been baptized in preparation for the Messiah. They took his body and buried it. It may speak something of the thoughtfulness of Herod in his sobriety as he would permit that.
Then that lovely note at the end of the verse, that they told Jesus. He would have wanted to know that, for John was so beloved to Him. Verse 13. "When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself." Luke tells us that His disciples were with Him, and they were alone. Someone has suggested that He got out of town because He was afraid of Herod; hardly. But then, it wasn't in the plan to confront Herod. This was not the time to see Herod and be thrown in prison, or the gospels wouldn't be the gospels.
The timetable did not involve Herod, so Jesus doesn't go to Tiberius or confront the man. But it would have been a very important time to be alone with the Twelve to talk about what it is going to cost them to preach the Kingdom. Here was the first preacher and he was killed. Christ, the second, would be killed. The majority of the Twelve would be martyred for their faith as well, so this was a very important time to be together to talk about the price, the cost, and a time of instruction.
This is the final note, the climax of the whole thing. Herod wanted to see Jesus. He thought He was John the Baptist risen from the dead, and really wanted to see Him. He wanted to resolve the anxiety in his mind, and he wanted to see the power of Jesus. Luke 9:9 says he desired to see Him. There was that morbid fascination, that curiosity with the miraculous and the supernatural, and that incredible guilt and anxiety over who it might be that made him want to see Jesus.
You know something? Jesus never saw him. In the intervening period of time, He ministered, but he never saw Herod. Once, He sent a message to him. In Luke 13:32-33, He sent a message to Herod and said, "You fox. You want to see Me? You will not be able to kill Me like you did John the Baptist until My work is done." He called him a fox, and He never saw him, and moved, with quiet dignity, beyond the grasp of Herod. He left Herod to his guilt, his unresolved fear, his vile, wretched sin, and to the woman who was his doom, until one fateful day.
Look at Luke 23:6. This is the only time He ever went into the presence of Herod. This is the trial of Jesus. "When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked if the Man were a Galilean. And as soon as he knew that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time." Pilate didn't know what to do with Jesus, who was on trial, or mock trial. So he knows that He is from Galilee, and he says that He belongs in Herod's jurisdiction, so he ships Jesus to Herod. Verse 8. "Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad; for he had desired for a long time to see Him, because he had heard many things about Him, and he hoped to see some miracle done by Him." Here was this strange fascination again, and now, finally, the two meet.
"Then he questioned Him with many words," and we don't know what he asked, but what an opportunity! The Lord can give him all the answers right now. Herod desires, longs to see Jesus, and has for a long time. The Lord could do some miracles, give him all the answers he wants, and it says, "But He answered him nothing." Jesus never said one word. "And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him. Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate. That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other."
The used to hate each other, but here, they became friends. You know how? Common mockery of the Son of God; they are two very tragic men. Listen, Herod rejected Christ, and Christ rejected Herod. It was hard, stony ground; for fear of a woman, for fear of a reputation, for fear of his peers, and for fear of his throne, he damned his soul forever. John the Baptist lost his head but lives forever in the presence of God. Christ wants to reveal Himself to you, but if you are proudly holding onto your reputation, for fear of what others may think, for fear of the attitude and actions of those who may reject you, for fear of the loss of face or reputation, for intimidation by evil people, you have forfeited Christ and damn your soul. The day will come when you ask the questions and get no answers. Let's pray.
Father, we are struck by that incredible verse, "Pilate and Herod were made friends." The only basis they had was a common rejection of Christ. So it is in the world; they have their own, and they are friends with those who choose to live without the blessed Son of God, who choose to live for the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Oh, God, what a tragic statement. They couldn't agree on anything except that they both had contempt for Jesus. May we know that such friendship with the world is enmity with God.
Father, we come again this morning with thankful hearts because of all that You have done for us, and because of Your great grace to us. Thank You for the beloved Lord Jesus Christ, in whom we live, by whom we are forgiven, and have grace. We pray, Father, that there might be no one who leaves this place who has not known Christ, but that they will come to know Him. We pray that You will fill that prayer and counseling room with those who come with eagerness of heart to embrace the King and find forgiveness and cleansing. Bring us together again tonight with anticipation that You will meet us here, for Christ's sake, Amen.
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NORCECA to organise 56 Continental Cup events in 2014
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, January 4, 2014 – Fifty-six beach volleyball tournaments -28 per gender- are scheduled to be played this year as the NORCECA Continental Cup towards the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games gets underway in the months of June and July.
"We are pleased and at the same time very proud to announce that the forty National Federations and Territories of NORCECA, that is 100 percent of our membership, will be participating in the event," NORCECA President Cristobal Marte Hoffiz said.
"Those tournaments, without any doubts, will generate a lot of attention and will contribute to enhance the popularity of beach volleyball in our continent," he added.
The host countries and the dates have been already decided as well as the eight NORCECA top ranked countries (as of January 1, 2014) that will participate in the seventh and final series of tournaments in order to provide a more balanced competition level in the early rounds.
The top eight ranked countries in the women's division are: United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Honduras. In the men's field those countries are: Mexico, Canada, United States, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Guatemala.
In the first round, thirty-two countries have been distributed into eight pools of four teams in both genders, according to their respective rankings and utilising the serpentine system. The top three teams of each pool will move to a second phase of six four-team pools later this year while the fourth placed teams will play in a consolation round in 2015 to stay in competition.
The first-round women's tournaments with sites, dates and participating teams are the following:
Group A at Cayman Islands (June 6-9) Cayman Islands, Panama, Antigua and St Eustatius. Group B at El Salvador (June 6-9) El Salvador, French St Martin, Belize and Bonaire. Group C at Trinidad and Tobago (June 20-23) Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Dominica and Turks and Caicos. Group D at Nicaragua (June 20-23) Nicaragua, Grenada, Anguilla and Dutch St Marteen. Group E at St Lucia (July 4-7) St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, British Virgin Islands and Montserrat. Group F at St Kitts and Nevis (July 4-7) St Kitts and Nevis, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Group G at Cuba (July 24-27) Cuba, Curacao, Suriname and Bermudas. Group H at Jamaica (July 24-27) Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti and Aruba.
The men's tournaments with location, dates and participating countries are the following:
Group A at St Lucia (June 6-9) St Lucia, Suriname, Panama, and Turks and Caicos. Group B at Nicaragua (June 6-9) Nicaragua, Grenada, Antigua and St Eustatius. Group C at Cuba (June 20-23) Cuba, St Vincent, Belize and Bonaire. Group D at El Salvador (June 20-23) El Salvador, St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica and Dutch St Marteen. Group E at Aruba (July 4-7) Aruba, Jamaica, French St Martin and Montserrat. Group F at U.S. Virgin Islands (July 4-7) U.S. Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Anguilla and Martinique. Group G at Curacao (July 24-27) Curacao, Honduras, British Virgin Islands and Bermudas. Group H at Cayman Islands (July 24-27) Cayman Islands, Barbados, Guadeloupe and Haiti.
The second phase of the NORCECA Continental Cup scheduled in 2014 features six tournaments per gender with the top three teams of each first round event divided into six pools of four teams. Those events will take place in the months of August, September and December.


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