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I have mentioned before my great experience with Americana Manhasset Here and Here. To celebrate their Holiday 2013 Lookbook (which is one of my favorites, full in color and fantastic styling and not to mention the beautiful appearance of the "unique face" - Lindsey Wixson-) they are so kind to offer a $500 Americana Manhasset gift card to one lucky reader!
I'm very happy to share this giveaway on my blog and to make one of you " the happy winner" even though you all deserve that!
This giveaway is worldwide, so you all can enter. The gift card can be used only at Americana Manhasset in New York ( so you have to come to NY). *It cannot be used online.

Just as a reminder at Americana Manhasset you can find all the fine brands that you can think of, such as: Chanel, LV, Celine, Hermes, Isabel Marant, Fendi, Michael Kors, Dior and many more!

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This giveaway ends on November 26!

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Pickett Gets 23 Years In Prison For Killing Diamaris Gonzalez In 2011

Lenard Terrell Pickett, Joseph Lamont Williams and Diamaris Gonzalez

Pickett gets 23 years in prison and 11 years supervision for killing Gonzalez after she struggled to keep her purse in a robbery attempt while waiting for a bus.

By H. Nelson Goodson

November 12, 2013

Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee County court records show that on October 25, Lenard Terrell Pickett, 23, of Milwaukee was sentenced to 23 years in prison and received 11 years of probation for the March 15, 2011 homicide of Diamaris Gonzalez, 23. Pickett pleaded guilty to two felony counts. He was charged in early March with one count for felony murder during an armed robbery in Gonzalez homicide and one felony count for burglary of a building or dwelling where he broke-in into a South side house.

Pickett had eluded police, since 2011, after a witness identified Pickett as one of the suspects that attempted to steal a purse from Gonzalez at a bus stop. Gonzalez had just left her job and was waiting for the bus, when Pickett and his accomplice, Joseph Lamont Williams, 22, tried to rob Gonzalez. Gonzalez struggled to keep her purse and Pickett then fatally shot her.

Williams also pleaded guilty to one count of felony murder for Gonzalez homicide. Williams was sentenced on September 27, to 18 years in prison and 8 years of supervision for Gonzalez murder.

Gonzalez had just left work and was waiting for a bus at the 3300 block of N. Holton St. near Lena's Market where she worked.

Williams confessed to police on February 14 after being taken into custody, that he and Pickett decided to rob Gonzalez. When she resisted, Pickett then shot Gonzalez and they fled the scene empty handed. Gonzalez was fatally shot in the chest and died at the scene. Gonzalez had two children, a 1-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.

A boyfriend had used Gonzalez' car and it was towed. She usually drove to work, but on March 15, 2011 she had to ride the bus.

Grand Canyon to be flooded for five days to create

Grand Canyon to be flooded for five days to create beaches for campers

The Colorado River will be flooded for five days from Monday
Authorities want to clear millions of tons of sediment that have settled because of damming
The dam has caused beaches and wildlife habitats to disappear
The flood will distribute the sediment, creating beaches and protecting habitats and archaeological sites

Top Worldwide Publisher Rankings Starting At 1 + 2 Jehovah's Witnesses

And this was a surprise to me...

From The Top 10 List Of The

Largest Magazine Circulation Worldwide

12,000 people claiming to be in the remnant of anointed of the 144,000 in 2013
(partook of the memorial emblems of unleavened bread and wine in 2013)
They claim Armageddon would happen before these people died .
But those who were at an age of understanding in 1914 how many 100 year olds do you know?
That number should be going down as the average age of the oldest among them would be 100 years of age .

So if anything it should be shrinking NOT going up ,
after all they are the remnant of anointed brothers of christ going into the 144,000 who will rule with christ.

http://www.clicktop10.com/2013/07/top-10-most-popular-magazines-of-2013/

As of August 2012, Jehovah's Witnesses report an average membership of approximately 7.53 million actively involved in preaching, with a peak of 7.78 million.^[1]^[2] Jehovah's Witnesses have an active presence in most countries, though they do not form a large part of the population of any country.^[3]

To be counted, an individual must be a publisher, and report some amount of time preaching to non-members, normally at least an hour per month. Under certain circumstances, such as chronic and debilitating illness, members may report increments of 15 minutes. Jehovah's Witnesses' preaching activity is self-reported, and members are directed to submit a 'Field Service Report' each month. Baptized members who fail to submit a report every month are termed 'irregular'. Those who do not submit a report for six continuous months are termed 'inactive'.^[4] In 2012, these reports indicated a total of more than 1.7 billion hours of preaching, and an increase of 268,777 baptized members. Over 8.7 million were also reported as studying the Bible in their homes with Jehovah's Witnesses,^[1] which includes Bible studies conducted by Witness parents with their children.^[5]^[6]

Because Jehovah's Witnesses only count as members those who submit reports for preaching activity, secular estimates of their numbers are typically higher than those indicated in the Witnesses' official membership statistics.^[2] For example, Jehovah's Witnesses report approximately 1.2 million active publishers in the United States; however, an academic study at Trinity College (Connecticut) based on the American Religious Identification Survey conducted in 2008, reported an estimated 1.914 million adults in the US who self-identify as Jehovah's Witnesses.^[7] Their official statistics indicate membership according to territories, some of which are not independent countries.

The number of people who attend Jehovah's Witnesses' annual commemoration of the Memorial of Christ's death (also termed the Lord's Evening Meal) includes active Witnesses, their children, and others who are invited to attend. According to the 2013 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, worldwide attendance at the 2012 celebration of the Memorial was 19,013,343.^[1] In the United States, 2.52 million people were present. In Zambia 738,978 attended, or 1 person for every 19 in the population. Of those attending worldwide, over 12,000 partook of the memorial emblems of unleavened bread and wine.^[1] Those who partake profess to be of the 144,000 "anointed" and hope to go to heaven, based on their interpretation of Revelation 14:1.

Congregations are generally organized geographically, and members are requested to attend the Kingdom Hall to which their neighborhood has been assigned, resulting in an ethnic mix generally representative of local population, though congregations based on language and ethnicity have also been formed.^[8]^[9]^[10] In the United States, 37% of adults who self-identify as Jehovah's Witnesses are African Americans. This is the highest proportion among the 22 largest religious identifications in the United States.^[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses are members of an international religious organization who believe themselves to be the restoration of first-century Christianity. Founded in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell, official membership now stands at over 6 million. They are known for their extensive preaching and publishing activities, with The Watchtower and Awake!religious magazines being their most widely known publications. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, they are directed by a Governing Body.

Jehovah's Witnesses are socially conservative. Being politically neutral, they have been persecuted by various governments, notably by the Nazi government, with many sent toconcentration camps. They have been instrumental in establishing religious freedoms in various countries. Their unique stand on refusing blood transfusions has also garnered publicity and controversy.

Since their foundation, they have been concerned with the second advent of Jesus. Initially holding many similar views of other 19th century Adventists groups, such as the Millerites, they have since developed their own uniqueeschatology.

http://christianity.wikia.com/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses

Compare To The Commercial Publishers Below

Click on a company's name to read its profile.

Rank (2012)	Rank (2011)	Publishing Company (Group or Division)	Country Publ. Company	Mother Corporation or Owner	Country Mother Corporation	2012 Revenue in $M	2011 Revenue in $M
1	1	Pearson	UK	Pearson (corp.)	UK	$9,158	$8,411
2	2	Reed Elsevier	UK/NL/US	Reed Elsevier (corp.)	UK/NL/US	$5,934	$5,686
3	3	ThomsonReuters	US	The Woodbridge Company Ltd.	Canada	$5,386	$5,435
4	4	Wolters Kluwer	NL	Wolters Kluwer	NL	$4,766	$4,360
5	8	Random House	Germany	Bertelsmann AG	Germany	$3,328	$2,274
6	5	Hachette Livre	France	Lagardère	France	$2,833	$2,649
7	6	Grupo Planeta	Spain	Grupo Planeta	Spain	$2,597	$2,304
8	7	McGraw-Hill Education	US	The McGrawHill companies	US	$2,292*	$2,292
9	9	Holtzbrinck	Germany	Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck	Germany	$2,220	$1,952
10	10	Scholastic (corp.)	US	Scholastic	US	$2,148	$1,906
11	11	Cengage	US	Apax Partners et al.	US/Canada	$1,993	$1,876
12	12	Wiley	US	Wiley	US	$1,783	$1,743
13	13	De Agostini Editore	Italy	Gruppo De Agostini	Italy	$1,724*	$1,724
14	14	Shueisha	Japan	Hitotsubashi Group	Japan	$1,464	$1,714
15	15	Kodansha	Japan	Kodansha	Japan	$1,368	$1,551
16	19	Springer Science and Business Media	Germany	EQT and GIC Investors	Sweden, Singapore	$1,298	$1,138
17	18	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	US	Education Media and Publishing Group Limited	US/Cayman Islands	$1,286	$1,295
18	16	Shogakukan	Japan	Hitotsubashi Group	Japan	$1,254	$1,444
19	20	Harper Collins	US	News Corporation	US	$1,189	$1,100 (est.)
20	21	Informa	UK	Informa plc	UK	$1,126	$1,069
21	23	Oxford University Press	UK	Oxford University	UK	$1,125	$1,004
22	NEW	China Publishing Group Corporate	China (PR)	Government; partly publicly listed	China (PR)	$1,104	n/a
23	NEW	Phoenix Publishing and Media Company	China (PR)	Government; partly publicly listed	China (PR)	$1,076	n/a
24	26	Kadokawa Publishing	Japan	Kadokawa Holdings Inc.	Japan	$1,000	$904
25	24	Grupo Santillana	Spain	PRISA	Spain	$985	$936
26	25	Bonnier	Sweden	The Bonnier Group	Sweden	$968	$909
27	22	Gakken	Japan	Gakken Co. Ltd.	Japan	$937	$1,043
28	28	Egmont Group	Denmark/Norway	Egmont International Holding A/S	Denmark	$792	$703
29	27	Simon & Schuster	US	CBS	US	$790	$787
30	37	China Education and Media Group (form. Higher Education Press)	China (PR)	China Education and Media Group	China (PR)	$702	$445
31	29	Woongjin ThinkBig	Korea	Woongjin Holding	Korea	$667	$685
32	31	Klett	Germany	Klett Gruppe	Germany	$604	$594
33	32	Cornelsen	Germany	Cornelsen	Germany	$577	$558
34	17	Readers Digest	US	RDA Holding Co.	US	$533	$1,438
35	33	Mondadori	Italy	The Mondadori Group	Italy	$511	$506
36	34	Messagerie / GeMS (Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol)	Italy	Messagerie Italiane	Italy	$491	$494
37	39	Media Participations	France	Media Participations	Belgium	$455	$442
38	35	Lefebvre-Sarrut	France	Frojal	France	$447	$467
39	40	Abril Educação	Brazil	Abril group	Brazil	$432	$411
40	36	Harlequin	Canada	Torstar Corp.	Canada	$428	$450
41	37	Sanoma	Finland	Sanoma WSOY	Finland	$426	$446
42	41	Perseus	USA	Perseus	USA	$425	$350
43	NEW	Cambridge University Press	UK	Cambridge University Press	UK	$396	n/a
44	42	Westermann Verlagsgruppe	Germany	Medien Union (Rheinland-Pfalz Gruppe)	Germany	$361	$339
45	43	La Martinière Groupe	France	La Martinière Groupe	France	$351	$335
46	NEW	Flammarion	France	Madrigall	France	$349	$360
47	30	RCS Libri	Italy	RCS Media Group	Italy	$333	$667
48	46	Groupe Gallimard	France	Madrigall	France	$329*	$329
49	48	Kyowon	Korea	Kyowon	Korea	$322	$298
50	44	Bungeishunju	Japan	n/a	Japan	$298	$331
51	51	Haufe Gruppe	Germany	Priavtely owned	Germany	$291	$269
52	49	Weka	Germany	Weka Firmengruppe	Germany	$258	$282
53	NEW	OLMA Media Group	Russia	n/a		$257	n/a
54	47	Shinchosha	Japan	Privately owned	Japan	$245	$319
55	54	EKSMO	Russia	Privately owned	Russia	$232	$195
56	excl.	Editions Atlas	France	Gruppo De Agostini	Italy	$230	n/a
57	50	Saraiva	Brazil	Saraiva	Brazil	$230	$267
58	53	Groupe Albin Michel	France	Groupe Albin Michel	France	$224	$216
59	52	Editora FTD	Brazil	Editora FTD	Brazil	$198	$226
60	45	AST	Russia	Privately owned	Russia	$194	$330

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/58211-the-global-60-the-world-s-largest-book-publishers-2013.html

New York City's One World Trade Center is now the nation's tallest building

It's official: New York City's One World Trade Center is now the nation's tallest building, wresting the title from Chicago's Willis Tower, which claimed the top spot for 40 years.
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It also leapfrogged the 1,667-foot Taipei 101 in Taiwan to become the third largest building in the world.
Burj Khalifa, the 163-floor office, hotel and residential building in Dubai. continues to tower over all the rest in the world at 2,717 feet.

Willis Tower, formerly known as Sears Tower, had threatened to hold onto its top U.S. spot after a design change for the needle on top of the World Trade Center raised the question of whether it was part of the structure or an add-on, like an antenna or lightning rod.
The ruling Tuesday by the Height Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which is the final arbiter of global building heights, means the WTC building can claim its full 1,776-foot height.
The 1,776 figure is symbolically important for the tower that was built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

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How Gay Is Islam?

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

The latest rant from Pat Condell

Click here if the video fails to load.

It isn't at all gay. Not even slightly.

Muslims in Britain have zero tolerance for homosexuality
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/ma...

Homosexuals "worse than animals"
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/11/04/is...

Islamic violence against gays
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=617_13...

Gulf states to introduce medical testing to 'detect' gays and stop from entering the country
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...

The global divide on homosexuality
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/06/04/t...

Governments remove sexual orientation from UN resolution condemning arbitrary executions
http://www.iglhrc.org/content/governm...

56 Islamic states reject UN debate on anti-gay violence
http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/201...

Muslim envoys walk out in protest at UN gay rights debate
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles...

UN panel cuts gay reference from anti-violence resolution
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/1...

UN General Assembly votes to allow gays to be executed without cause
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/...

OIC demonstrates its rampant homophobia
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2012...

Homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, says Iranian cleric
http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran...

Persecution of homosexuals in Iran
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Persecution...)

Short video tutorial for people who insist that brutal Islamic values only appeal to a handful of extremists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvk3kj...

Interesting account of a left/Muslim rally by gay activist Peter Tatchell. He and his friend were the only visibly gay people there. I wonder why.
http://www.petertatchell.net/politics...

Dreadful at the Dorchester: Jalal-ibn-Saeed's assembly of haters
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/10/24/dr...

Sharia means death for gays if respectable suit-and-tie jihadis like this get their way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxx08_...

Can anyone explain why we should boycott the Russian Olympics for their anti-gay law, but not the Qatar World Cup?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rig...

Here's a typical piece of delusional nonsense about gays and Muslims having a common cause.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/stop_...

Sarah Palin Said What?...

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

Pay particular close attention at the 1 minute 30 second mark. If anyone can actually figure out exactly what she rambled on about please share your thoughts.

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