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Let's face it, a good bit of the time our older munchkins can be a bit harder to photograph. They make silly faces, fake smile and hate being all dressed up and posed. In our studio, we keep things light and fun. We spend a bit of time being silly and taking images of them in whatever poses they want. Jumping, laughing, upside down - whatever brings them out of their shell! If the weather is nice, we may go outside for a few minutes too! In the end, we wind up capturing all their adorable natural smiles, signature "looks" and their personality. If you are interested in having a Personality Portrait Session please contact us here.Courage, humility, patience and empathy are 100% about strength. Not weakness.
My greatest hope is that the mirror I look into during 2018 will reflect an ever-growing and ever-learning me. Not too lipsticky... But not too bed-headish either... The reflection of someone that a friend can trust, with instincts and patience that I will trust. A reflection that I will love and accept more with each passing day.
Everything comes full circle. Through the act of GIVING, the experience of GRATITUDE, and the sharing of GRIEF - there is always healing in helping others. Kindness through action, my friends... we are not alone - and we ARE stronger together.
Do you ever feel like the person you are on the inside is different than who you are on the outside? Do you think others see you differently than you see yourself? Do you even know who your TRUE self is?In a letter dated August 14, 2014 addressed to the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco, 75 progressive and jihadi organizations called for “immediate action to end the use anti-Muslim training materials inside the federal government, and singled out UTT’s founder John Guandolo, noting he continues to train law enforcement officers across the country.
The five-page letter can be read (and downloaded) in its entirety here.
The signatories not only include Muslim Brotherhood (MB) organizations such as the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan NY, Muslim Advocates, and others, but Hamas, doing business as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) as well as the Council on Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC). Watch the CIOGC’s Chairman invite you to the Hamas/MB convention (aka MAS-ICNA Convention) below:
The letter reveals concerns by jihadi organizations that factual and evidence-based training is uncovering the truth about the real nature and intent of their presence here in America.
Following is a brief excerpt from the letter:
“Moreover, although there was reportedly a review and purge of a limited portion of training materials by the FBI, no commitment has been made to review intelligence products that mirror these biased training materials. We also have received no assurance that law enforcement and other government employees who participated in these trainings have been retrained. We are concerned that these biased trainings and intelligence products continue to drive racial and religious profiling at every stage of the intelligence-gathering process.”
Throughout the over eight (8) years of conducting training for law enforcement officers, military, national guard, federal agents, foreign governments and citizens across the country about the threat from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Movement and Sharia (Islamic Law), John Guandolo begins all his presentations in a similar way – encouraging the audience to challenge the information factually, with the promise that any portion of the briefing which is not factually accurate will be removed from future briefs.
He has never had to remove any portion of his briefing.
Because the briefing is conducted as if it were being presented in a court of law, it is airtight and the facts cannot be disputed. As a matter of fact, a Muslim Brother attending a presentation overseas once remarked that what was being said was accurate but he (the Brother) didn’t like that Guandolo was saying it. The truth hurts when delivered properly.
UTT’s (“Understanding the Threat) intensive 3-day training program for Law Enforcement walks attendees through the U.S. v Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial evidence and lays out the MB’s extensive jihadi network in America. Officers are given a detailed understanding of Sharia and how understanding it and the MB network necessarily changes how traffic stops, interviews, and homicide investigations are conducted, among other things. When cops come to understand these facts and the implications in their local jurisdiction, they are shocked. Then, they get angry that their federal partners have not shared this information with them. The anger dissipates when local and state police realize the FBI is clueless about the MB network in America, primarily because FBI Counterterrorism agents are not being trained in it.
While unprofessional, dangerous, and sickening—it is true nonetheless.
For all of the readers out there, UTT encourages you to focus your time and attention at the local and state level when trying to educate people about this threat. The two most important groups of people who can make the biggest impact are Sheriffs and Pastors. A Sheriff is the most powerful law enforcement officer in the nation. Sheriffs can make life very difficult for jihadis one they understand how they operate and where to look for them. Pastors can encourage citizens to grasp the reality of this very serious threat that is present in nearly every community in America.
Combating a national-level influence operation like the one evidenced in the letter sent to the President’s CT Adviser, must begin and end at the local level. Simply start the conversation. Give your local Sheriff and pastor copies of my recent book, Raising a Jihadi Generation, or simply begin by asking a few simple questions to see how much they know about the HLF trial. Sharing this information with these key community leaders is a great place to start.
© 2014 Understanding the Threat
[…] Progressives and Jihadis Seek to Silence UTT’s Influence In Letter to White House by John Guandolo (understandingthethreat.com) […]There is clearly some big trouble going on with Paramount's adaptation of WORLD WAR Z.
After hearing of some pretty extensive reshoots getting set to take place for the zombie flick being fronted by Brad Pitt, it looks like they have no idea really what they're even going to be filming. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damon Lindelof is being brought on to rewrite parts of the script, namely issues with the third act, for a movie that's been wrapped since last year.
Remember when WORLD WAR Z was lined up as a release this holiday season...? Sounds like a distant memory now.
I was a fan of LOST, so I'll give Lindelof his due, but after his work on PROMETHEUS, I don't have the same type of confidence I once had in Lindelof handling the writing duties on tying up WORLD WAR Z in a sensible fashion. Flashbacks of the LOST finale, anyone?
I am still hoping that WORLD WAR Z can be fixed, but the more rumblings that make their way to me, the more this sounds like a terrible idea from the start adapting a book that they didn't know how to adapt. This is where we find ourselves as a result... with a WORLD WAR Z that could permanently broken, no matter how they try to patch it up along the way.
-Billy Donnelly
"The Infamous Billy The Kidd"
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Explaining the nature of capitalism in postmodern culture, Jameson observes:
The postmodern will in that sense be little more than a transitional period between two stages of capitalism, in which the earlier forms of the economic are in the process of being restructured on a global scale, including the older forms of labour and its traditional organizational institutions and concepts. That a new international proletariat will re-emerge from this conclusive upheavals it needs no prophet to predict: we ourselves are still in the trough, however, and no one can say how long we will stay there.
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Jameson is quite clear in his analysis of postmodernity. First, there is a culture of postmodernism. It has brought into existence plurality of social ethnic groups. Second, capitalism has got international dimensions which give rise to new proletariat class. Jameson tries to analyze this new class situation. And, it is all postmodernity according to him.
In any definition of postmodernity one is obliged to refer to some of the postmodernists such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. What is ironic about these authors is that they worked rather overtime to develop about these authors is that they worked rather overtime to develop and establish modernity; they reject themselves the status of a postmodernist. Coming to Lyotard, who invented the term ‘postmodern’ in 1979 in his book, The Postmodern Condition (1979), defined it as below:
Capitalist societies had been living in a postmodern world since at least the early 1960s, which made postmodernism a topic of sociological interest. Postmodernism.
In fact, the definition of Lyotard is of negative nature. He discards metanarratives. And, metanarratives are overarching theories or beliefs about the operation of society and the nature of social change. Marxism and functionalism are examples of metanarratives that have been employed by sociologists