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The Inspired Leadership of Novo Nordisk's Neena Patil
The daughter of two doctors, Patil harnesses her own passion to inspire her team in their fight for patients living with diabetes and other diseases on a daily basis
By	Rodric J. Hurdle-Bradford
Neena Patil, vice president and associate general counsel for diabetes pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, was raised by two doctors, so she was primed for a position in healthcare from an early age.
"It is definitely something I reflect on, because it guided my career and focus in the healthcare industry," Patil says of her parents' impact on her career path. "It wasn't intentional; it was the impact of watching their approach and commitment to their patients and giving back to the community. There are lessons I learned from them that I use every day."
Since then, in her career, Patil has learned how to be an effective corporate leader, too—not just for legal issues but also as a business leader and advocate for professional development on behalf of employees at Nordisk and elsewhere.
"The healthcare industry has changed so much; it is increasingly complex and is transforming rapidly," Patil says. "But, despite all the changes, the individual relationships are still critically important, whether it is a doctor with their patient or a corporate leader with their employees."
Here's a look at how she leads her people at Novo Nordisk by example as she and the company focus on the cause of diabetes awareness.
Neena Patil, Novo Nordisk
The Busy Life of a Leader
Patil held three other positions in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, learning how to nurture employees along the way, before joining Novo Nordisk a decade ago. Today, she leads a department of nearly twenty-five lawyers and administrative staff. In addition to helping Novo Nordisk in its focus on the management of diabetes and other diseases, Patil is focused on developing her employees' business understanding and functional skills and preparing them for leadership and professional-development opportunities.
"Both our personal and organizational successes are based on relationships," Patil says. "Being with Novo Nordisk for a long time, I have really learned about the value of building strong relationships with a good network of colleagues. We are so much more likely to achieve strong outcomes and make better business decisions with strong collaboration."
To build her own external relationships and resources, Patil serves on several boards and committees, lending her expertise to the public good. She sits on the board of the Princeton Health System Foundation and is proud of the work that the foundation has done to meet the needs of the region, including those who are most vulnerable. Patil is also an active member of various professional organizations, including the International Pharmaceutical Privacy Consortium and Women in Novo Nordisk. In addition, Patil and her husband actively support the YMCA in Princeton, New Jersey—which is no surprise, given Patil's strong focus on health and wellness.
"My mission as a leader is to help my employees at Novo Nordisk become the best versions of themselves while at the same time providing tremendous value to the organization," Patil says. "There is no one model for high performance because everyone is unique, but the single goal is to make sure every person in our department feels empowered."
A Dedication to Defeat Diabetes
"The history of Novo Nordisk is special," Patil says. "It began with August and Marie Krogh, a husband and wife who were both physicians and impacted by diabetes. They were committed to bringing a treatment for diabetes back to their home in Denmark. It feels good to be a part of a company with such a clear goal of helping people." The empowerment Patil feels, being a part of an organization dedicated to fighting such a public disease, has made her feel like she has come full circle from her upbringing with her doctor parents.
"Every day you walk through the door at work, it gives you an immediate sense of purpose," Patil says. "So many people are impacted by diabetes, and there are so many stories employees have that drive their passion in the office."
Novo Nordisk makes sure its employees have contact with diabetes patients and tracks their successes and challenges with the disease, making their work more tangible and putting their efforts in context. Since the company's founding in Denmark more than ninety years ago, its primary goal has been to defeat diabetes, but it also fights other serious chronic conditions, including hemophilia, growth disorders, and obesity.
"Our ambition is to take the lead in each of these areas, driving change with an unfailing belief that it can be done," Patil says. "We are working locally and on the ground each day with our field employees, supporting the needs of our customers and their patients."
Ten years in with Novo Nordisk, Patil is excited about the future, and she has a continued focus on how she can better develop her staff. "I define success as a whole person, and lawyers need to be challenged, and you have to provide opportunities for growth," Patil says. "We have had a lot of great talent in this department and many who we have put in a position to succeed outside the legal function as well. As the company continues to grow and change, we remain focused on a culture of supporting each other while we keep up the good fight against diabetes."
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Searching headlines from this week's American Music Awards brings up a number of results; Pink telling fans she wasn't cringing through Christina Aguilera's performance, Demi Lovato singing to her haters, Selena Gomez bleaching her hair... But other than those three headlines, there were three letters constantly repeated in the AMA newsfeed: BTS.
For millions of viewers, this was an unfamiliar name with unfamiliar music. Foreign, in more ways than one. But for a subculture of Hallyu fans, and a dedicated self-described Army, it was an event that marked a new milestone in Korean music, and Asian entertainment.
When the world became most familiar with K-Pop through Psy's 2012 viral song, 'Gangnam Style', it was an accidental sort of appreciation and fame - in the same manner when the bizarre Spanish 'Las Ketchup' song was a hit in the 2000's. Defined by a catchy melody and a gimmicky dance - 'Gangnam Style' did wonder for Psy's international career, but heavily polarised the western audience.
However, the western popularity that comes with BTS (known in Korean as the Bangtan Boys) is different. It's not viral, or gimmicky, or of "one-hit wonder" status. This is a genuinely dedicated fandom. You only have to see the Twitter trends, hear the screams, and witness the fan chants that you understand this is like One Direction's Korean equivalent craze.
However irritating you may consider fan girls in any capacity (wherever Directioner or Army) I can't help but feel a sense of pride at the reaction. I'm not Korean, not one of BTS's Army, but as an Asian living in the western world, I'm proud of them.
The western media is influential on how society shapes it's thinking. And, no offence to Psy and the work he did (because he has opened the doors for the Asian entertainment and pop culture), but for Asian men in western media, the assumption and visualisation of them has been painted as awkward, dorky, uncomfortable weak men who yell and get frustrated easily.
Take 'Han' from '2 Broke Girls'. A TV show I used to enjoy until I really broke down the humour and heavily stereotyped nature of the comedy to realise 'it's not actually funny'. He's a restaurant owner, verbally harassed by his staff, with an overexaggerated accent, and painted to be an undesirable sexual deviant. It's no wonder that, to mainstream media, Asians are seen as the least desirable.
And don't get me wrong, there have been influential Asian stars in the industry (Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, John Cho) but every generation needs a new example.
Which is what brings me back to BTS. They're called one of Time's top 25 most influential people on the internet, Billboard's 'Top Social Artist', and one of the most retweeted bands on Twitter. They're proving that they're talented, can sing, dance, rap, are seen as attractive and desirable. And if Ed Sheeran can do wonders for ginger people, what can a Korean boyband do?
As an underdog in the midst of rising mainstream, BTS's invitation to perform onstage at the AMAs will hopefully lead forward more genuine acceptance and diversity in the western entertainment industry. Watch out western world - you're only tapping into the surface of the Asian entertainment market.
If you're curious about what is BTS, hear a few more of their hits, which I prefer more than their current 'DNA' song:
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- 'Blood, Sweat and Tears'
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Old Military Shell Found in Ocean Beach Garden
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NBC San Diego / March 5, 2013
An old military artillery shell was discovered in the backyard of an Ocean Beach resident Monday night [March 4].
A woman working in the garden of her new home at Saratoga Avenue and Santa Barbara discovered what looked like an explosive device and called 911.
When bomb experts arrived just after 6:30 p.m., they found the shell in the dirt outside the home.
Working with the U.S. Marine Corps, they determined it was a 75-millimeter shell that did not contain explosives.
"It's just a big hunk of steel that they fire out of the artillery pieces or the tanks for practice," said Capt. Eric Kelly with the San Diego Fire Department Bomb Squad.
Kelly, who was holding the shell in his hands after the scene was cleared, estimates it was likely dated between World War I and World War II.
"We get quite a few of these in San Diego. Tierrasanta and the areas around Camp Elliot used to be a WWI and WWII artillery range so we've dug up quite a few of these in that area," he said.
There are different types of shells and some are explosive.
Kelly said it can be very difficult to determine if a shell like this is safe. Because they can be hazardous, he suggests that anyone who may stumble on a similar device should mark the site and then call in the experts before moving the item.
"They're not in the best shape. Since WWII, they've been sitting in dirt. They get rusty. The numbers are all worn off," Kelly said.
The ordnance will be turned over to the military.
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Home Entertainment Food Painstaking Battle for Freedom Can Be Made Beautiful By People's Solidarity
Painstaking Battle for Freedom Can Be Made Beautiful By People's Solidarity
Elizabeth Lawliet
Fri March 4, 2011
With all of the unrest in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the international climate has been strained. But at the same time, it's been absolutely joyful. Following the protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya has been an amazing experience because the people have been so deeply empowered by them.
There are many freedoms and advantages the First World countries enjoy, perhaps moreso than we even realize. The fact that we can go to a grocery store – whatever grocery store we choose – and spend our own money on whatever food we want to feed ourselves and our families is one of those freedoms. This isn't to say that we aren't dealing with our own problems, because of course we are. Every country, no matter how affluent, has it's own problems. One look at Rhode Island and Wisconsin shows just one of the issues that America is currently facing. However, we have our freedom. It's only right that the rest of the world have the same.
Seeing the coverage of the protests on NPR.orghas been so beautiful. Even though it's horrifying to see the lengths that governments will go to in order to quiet their people's dissent, seeing the humanitarian efforts and the way the Libyan Army has defected and joined the people. Well, it's a triumph in so many ways. Where it will go from here remains to be seen, but the people are taking their freedom by force, and the painstaking battle for freedom can be the start of something beautiful.
Because of all of this, I decided to cook a Libyan/Tunisian meal with several courses. It was a show of solidarity with the people of North Africa and a nod to all of their efforts. The food was delicious, and I will share the recipes here, but I hope that making these recipes and sharing them with loved ones will encourage the sharing of information and the furthering of freedom.
Please, make these recipes and enjoy, but also remember all those who have been killed in the protests, and celebrate the freedom that the people of Libya are fighting so hard to achieve.
Libyan Tahini Cumin Dip
2 cloves garlic 1 t sea salt 1 1/4 cups Greek Yogurt (plain)
8 T tahini paste Juice of one lemon 1 1/2 t ground cumin
1. Grind up salt and garlic cloves with a mortar and pestle. (I used the outside of a melon baller and a metal bowl, and it worked just fine!) Combine with other ingredients and chill until needed. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and warm pita breads!
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Nashville Public Schools' Social Studies In-Service Event for Teachers Featured Speaker From Islamic Center
August 13, 2017 August 27, 2017 Chris Alto
The president of the Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN) spoke about his religion during a Metro Nashville Public Schools' (MNPS) social studies in-service event held on August 2nd for middle and high school teachers preparing for the start of the 2017-2018 academic school year. According to the ICN's website, its president, Rashed Fakhruddin, "has been coordinating and providing presentations on Islam to universities, schools, leadership groups and churches" over the past fifteen years in an effort to influence how his religion is received in the wider community.
In a Facebook post dated August 2 captured in a screen shot, the owner of an account identified as Rashed Fakhruddin said, "Today, I got to present during MNPS's social studies in service on Islam in context to the social studies curriculum, ending the presentation with the question, 'Is Islam compatible with the West?'. There were parallel sessions going on, but there was a great turnout!"
This screen shot does not include the date August 2, but it was likely posted on August 2 due to its reference to a career talk Mr. Fakhruddin gave at Martin Luther King High School on August 1, an event confirmed by this tweet.
That post apparently is no longer available on Mr. Fakhruddin's Facebook page.
The Tennessee Star asked MNPS about this in-service presentation.
"On August 2 and 3, MNPS facilitated district-wide Professional Development for teachers in all tiers (elementary, middle and high school) and in all grade levels and content areas (i.e., art, music, physical education, health, English Language, literacy/reading/English language arts, math, science, and social studies)," MNPS Director of Communications Olivia H. Brown told The Star in an email. Two subsequent questions from The Star in that email correspondence, along with Ms. Brown's responses, are included below:
The Star: Does MNPS hold subject in-services every year and if not, why was one convened for social studies this year?
Brown: Prior to this training August 2 and 3, district-wide professional learning for all teachers in all tiers and content areas/grade levels had not been held for several years in the district. There was professional learning on August 2 and 3 for all the different content areas. Each content met at different locations on those days.
The Star: What was the agenda for the social studies in-service, who were the speakers and was it open only to teachers? Which grades?
Brown: Social Studies professional development was provided primarily to teachers in middle and high school as the majority of elementary teachers were participating in training for literacy and math. The first day started with a keynote addressing the purpose for social studies and how to address social studies practices. This was followed by a number of breakout session that teachers were able to choose from based on the grade and or content standards they were responsible for. There were 15 or more choices per breakout session. The sessions were conducted by MNPS teachers, as well as social studies educators from local and state museums, text book vendors, who were able to share resources and ideas as they connected to the state standards. On the final half day, teachers met with other teachers of the same grade and/or course they teach to collaborate and plan.
The Star subsequently asked MNPS Director of Communications Brown whether representatives of other world religions were invited to speak at the social studies in-service, but has not received a response.
The Star also emailed Mr. Fakhruddin and asked him about his August 2 presentation, but did not receive a response.
The ICN has also made a focused outreach effort to work with non-professional Teach For America employees by inviting them to visit the mosque and learn about Islam.
On August 1, Fakhruddin gave his annual "college and career readiness" presentation at Nashville's Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet School, where a Muslim Student Association (MSA) was started in 2013.
High school MSAs in other states have been able to congregate for prayer and at the same time, proselytize to non-Muslim students:
Many students are signed out by parents to attend Jumu'ah at nearby Prince George's County Muslim Association (PGMA) or Dar-us-Salaam.
The students who get left behind are the ones who embrace Islam in high school unknown to their parents, many who are devout followers of other faiths.' A brother who was a taxi driver used to come and pick the convert brothers and take them to Friday prayer, but then the principal found out and she was very upset,' says Hayat. (emphasis added)
At the last MSA meeting at Parkdale High, there were at least three students who raised their hand when asked if they were the only Muslims in their families. Some of these students are as young as 14.
School districts across the country have been criticized for over-accommodating demands made by Muslim advocacy organizations or caving to lawfare threatened by the Council on American Islamic Relations, another named unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land prosecution.
Parents in a San Diego school district have sued the district over the anti-Islamophobia campaign that they view as "favor[ing] Islam over other religions and grants special protections to Muslim students."
In Tennessee, the ACLU has sued the Sumner County school district over alleged Christian-centric activities. The settlement agreement entered into by the Sumner County Board of Education prohibited Sumner County schools from taking field trips to religious sites. No action was taken by the ACLU, however, when Sumner County violated the settlement agreement by taking students to a Hindu temple and a mosque where they received free Qurans.
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And the great deception continues, where Islam is expressed in our schopls, but Christianity is bammed, and forbidden.
Turn children to Islam against Chriatian parents wishes…..
charles quinn
Islam is not PEACEFULL ! No matter what is told to the general public . The so called religion is not a religion . It is a way of life that will not allow followers to accept any lifestyles or real religions under the threat of punishments up to and including DEATH. And any who say it is otherwise is uninformed or flat out lying . LYING to other than muslims is permitted by that so called religion .
Wolf Woman
What Rashed Fakhruddin is doing is called "dawah" or making an invitation to Islam to non-Muslims or Kafirs (as we are called in the Koran). Dawah is a part of Islamic doctrine (which is based on the Koran, the actions and sayings of Mohammed called the Hadith and the biography of Mohammed called the Sira). It is a type of proselytizing where the sharia or Islamic law is introduced in stages to the Kafir.
One of the goals of Islam is to have the whole world under sharia law. Sharia law allows a husband to beat his wife if she doesn't obey him; it allows the man to have up to four wives; considers females inferior to men; condones death for apostasy; kills gays; punishes infidelity by stoning; has one set of laws for governing the Islamic believers and another set for Kafirs; allows for jihad waged against the Kafir, slavery, especially sex slavery; considers Mohammed who was a warlord and a bigamist as the perfect pattern for men and so on. The book the Reliance of the Traveller is a compendium of the laws and should be taught in all law schools.
Actually Islam is a tribal Arabic imperialist ideology whose doctrine was set in stone 1,400 years ago and can never change because its followers believe it is perfect and complete. According to the doctrine, Islam will rule over the whole world.
Islam does not have a Golden Rule or Ten Commandments but functions on an ethical system based on what is permitted (halal) and what is not (haram) as set down by jurists whose guides are the Koran, the Hadith and Sira. It is an authoritarian ideology based on total belief that ignores critical thought and reason.
The progressives and leftists cater to Islam because they fear jihad with its terror tactics and because they see it as an "identity" minority to be favored for the voting block it brings to the democrat party.
Dan Meredith
Next week Christian minister Robert Jeffers will a workshop on the positive influences of Christianity on America…
JUST KIDDING–THAT WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL… AND "OFFENSIVE"


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Building applications to improve access to information in massive text collections, such as the web, newswires and the scientific literature. Subtopics include:
information extraction, text mining and semantic annotation
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Information extraction (IE) refers to the activity of automatically recognizing pre-specified sorts of information in short, natural language texts. For instance, one might scan business newswire texts for announcements of management succession events (retirements, appointments, promotions, etc.), identify the names of the participating companies and individuals, the post involved, the vacancy reason, and so on. Or, one might scan biomedical research papers, identify the names of proteins and determine which proteins are engaged in interactions with which other proteins.
Once identified in texts, the specified information may be utilised in various ways. The information may be annotated in the source texts -- so-called semantic annotation -- and used as the basis for semantic search, i.e. for the Semantic Web. Or the information may be extracted from the source texts and stored in a separate structured information repository or database. This structured database may then be used for searching or linking using conventional database queries or analysis using data-mining techniques -- potentially leading to the discovery of novel associations, i.e. text mining. Or the extracted information can be used for generating summaries focused on the extraction targets.
The NLP group has worked intensively on IE-related topics since its inception. The group has produced a wide range of IE systems and components, some of which are freely available with the GATE platform, and has embedded them in prototype applications. In these systems we have investigated techniques ranging from relatively deep, linguistically-motivated knowledge engineering approaches, including full parsing and discourse interpretation using models of domain and world knowledge, to supervised and semi-supervised machine learning approaches, such as support vector machines, that exploit labelled corpora. The group has worked in a variety of domains and application areas, including newswire analysis for competitor intelligence, biomedical research paper analysis to support scientific research, clinical records analysis to support clinical research and patient care.
Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Rob Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple, Diana Maynard, Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson, Yorick Wilks
ARCOMEM: From Collect-All Archives to Community Memories - Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for Intelligent Preservation
KDisc: Language Processing for Literature Based Discovery in Medicine
PATHS - personalised access to cultural heritage collections.
TrendMiner: Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining and Summarisation of Real-time Media Streams
AMILCARE - Amilcare is an adaptive Information Extraction (IE) system intended as support to document annotation in the Semantic Web framework
ANNIE - ANNIE is a robust, multi-genre Information Extraction application distributed with Sheffield's GATE.
ARMADILLO - Armadillo is a knowledge mining system used to extract information from several sources.
CLEF - CLEF, the CLinical E-Science Framework project, aims to extract information such as symptoms, diagnosis and treatment from clinical records of cancer patients.
DOT.KOM - Dot.Kom aims at designing adaptive Information Extraction from text for Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web
EMPathIE - EMPathIE -- Enzyme and Metabolic Pathways Information Extraction -- aims to extract information about enzymes and enzyme reactions from biomedical journal papers with a view to supporting researchers investigating metabolic pathways
LaSIE - LaSIE -- Large Scale Information Extraction -- is an IE system designed for research and benchmarking purposes and tailored for participation in the 6th and 7th US ARPA-sponsored Message Understanding Conference system evaluations (MUC-6 and MUC-7)
MELITA - Melita is an ontology-based text annotation tool. It implements a methodology with the intent to manage the whole annotation process for the users.
Musing - Musing aims to develop knowledge extraction systems to support business intelligence applications.
MyGRID - MyGRID is an E-Science project aiming to produce a virtual laboratory workbench for biological researchers, one component of which is information extraction from the biological research literature
PASTA - PASTA -- Protein Active Site Template Acquistion -- aims to extract information about protein active sites from the biomedical research literature to assist research scientists
RESuLT - relation extraction using semi-supervised learing and ontologies
SOCIS - SOCIS, also based on GATE, extracts scene-of-crime information. The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield and Surrey and four police departments.
TRESTLE - TRESTLE -- Text Retrieval, Extraction and Summarization Technologies for Large Enterprises -- aims to find, extract summarize information of relevance to large enterprises in competitive environments, such as the pharmaceutical industry.
Open domain question answering (QA) systems aim to support a user who wishes to ask a specific question in natural language and receive a specific answer to that question, where the answer is to be sought in a (potentially huge) collection of natural language texts. QA has become a important application area of natural language processing technologies in the past few years, stimulated by the TREC QA track and more recently the Text Analysis Conferences (TAC).
Rapid advances have been made in developing systems that can answer specific questions, but increasingly it is becoming clear that the questions of most information seekers are not simply of the pub quizz variety (e.g. When was the telephone invented? ), but rather questions where the asker seeks a brief summary or synopsis of facts relating to the question. For example, a question such as Who was Tertullian? cannot be answered in one or two words, but requires a number of related facts, giving for example, Tertullian's nationality, birth date and place, his major achievements, etc. This information may be distributed across multiple documents, many of which will repeat each other in various ways. Thus, QA quite naturally relates to both to information extraction and to multi-document summarization.
The NLP group has developed several QA systems to investigate how useful varying amounts of linguistic knowledge are in QA. We have been regular participants in the TREC QA evaluations and have made contributions to the literature on evaluation of QA systems. We have had a specific interest in investigating the role that information retrieval systems have as a first but critical stage in most QA systems -- retrieving a small set of candidate answer-bearing documents to be intensively analyzed by a second stage answer extraction component -- and have run several workshops on this topic.
Rob Gaizauskas, Mark Greenwood, Mark Hepple, Yorick Wilks
Cub Reporter - Cub Reporter aims to support a journalist preparing background on breaking news stories through use of automatic question answering and summarization techniques.
Summarization systems aim to take one or more documents and produce from them a reduced document which contains essential information from the source documents. Of course what constitutes essential information is relative to the goals of the user who wishes to use the summary as a surrogate for the original(s), and varying types of summaries may be produced to meet the needs to various users whose information needs may be represented in various ways.
Summarization is a natural counterpoint to QA, as both are technologies which aim to support information seekers in finding relevant information as efficiently and effectively as possible.
The NLP group has explored various approaches to single and multidocument summarization, including abstractive as well as extractive approaches. The group has participated in the Document Understanding Conference (DUC) and Text Analysis Conference (TAC) summarization system evaluations. The group distributes the SUMMA toolkit, a robust and customisable toolkit for experimenting with various approaches to single and multidocument summarization. We have contributed to the literature on the evaluation of summarization systems and to the construction of resources for evaluation. We have explored techniques for topic-focussed summarization and pioneered work on multidocument summarization for image captioning.
Kalina Bontcheva, Rob Gaizauskas,
TRIPOD - TRIPOD's overall objective is to create captions automatically for images with associated positional (i.e. GPS) metadata. One element of this is to develop multidocument summarization techniques to generate captions from web pages deemed relevant to an image.


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In Britain earlier this month, a two-judge High Court panel rejected arguments made first by the Bush team and now by the Obama team and decided to make public seven redacted paragraphs in American intelligence documents relating to torture allegations by a former prisoner at Guantánamo Bay. The prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born British national, says he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and at a C.I.A.-run prison outside Kabul before being transferred to Guantánamo. He was freed in February.


Suicide, Right or Wrong, Heaven or Hell.
As a psychic medium I've "spoken" with souls who have crossed from all kinds of earthly deaths. I'm not sure at this point if we missed any. I've communicated with those that have crossed from accidents, automobile, planes, getting shot, overdosing from drugs and alcohol, as well as those who have had terminal illnesses, and then those that just passed from natural causes. No matter the way the death occurs it's always difficult for those left behind. They are always left with a large whole in their life where the person who passed was.
Today, I'm going to talk about suicide. It's a difficult topic, and in my opinion it's one of the hardest on those left behind. Not only do they deal with the loss, but there are times when there is a lot of guilt associated with the survivors of suicide. There are those who believe that suicide is a coward's way out. I don't follow that thinking, as I know from speaking with many who have committed suicide at the time of the incident that is not what's going on. Then we have those that want to know if it's right or it's wrong, or do you go to heaven or hell when you commit suicide. What I'm going to share with you here today is the view and opinion I've come to have from years of connecting with those that have taken their lives, or been a part of it, either intentionally or by accident. I've had souls come through to me that have died of an overdose and there were questions as to whether or not the person did it intentionally. Actually, I've communicated with both, those who have done it intentionally, and those that it was a complete accident. Either way there are still life lessons that weren't completed or learned. As we know, people that become addicted to substances are looking for that escape from what it is a difficult situation for them, or the euphoric feeling they get when on the substances. Unlike the addict, a person who decides to commit suicide, feels completely trapped, alone (even if they are in a room full of people), and they feel there is no way out of the "hell" they are experiencing. Honestly, they are not usually thinking through the effect it will have on their loved ones, or even themselves. Of course, some are angry with someone and think that by taking their own life they will punish the person they are angry with. Again, this is a situation where the mind is so muddled that they can't think through what the end result will be.
It's my belief that people who have a terminal illness and decide to take their own lives are in a whole different category altogether. That thinking goes along with, I want to be in control, and do it the way that I can leave on my own terms. To date, I have not yet communicated with someone who took this way out, so I cannot give any information on this one way or the other. However, I will not say that it's wrong or right, and definitely not cowardly thinking.
I would like to say that those who have lost a loved one and consider suicide so they can join their loved one sooner rather than later, this is not the answer and you will not get the result you are trying to achieve by taking your own life. I've been shown this to be the case because souls who commit suicide have special work to do. When a soul cuts their human life short, the lessons they have come to learn have not been completed.
What happens when a person commits suicide? There is what I will call a welcoming soul, the soul or souls that meet the person transitioning to the spirit realm. The person who has committed suicide is met by a soul or souls to help them come over. These souls are others who have committed suicide. It is part of the work they must do before they come back and complete their contract. The "welcoming soul/souls" help the person come over and give them a tour so to speak. Let them rest and get used to their new environment. They go through reviews to show them how they could have done things differently, and how there were options that could have resolved the dilemma and the pain they were in. The person sees how his actions have impacted those left behind, their pain, the upset, the void he has left.
Once acclimated and the soul has had time to rest and understand fully what his/her actions have caused then they go to work. There are two jobs in particular that I've been shown over and over again that they do, which helps them in their return to complete what they came for to begin with. The first is acting as part of the "welcoming team", and the second is to work as a spirit guide for people considering suicide. Now, as you can imagine this is a very difficult job. Trying to get through to a person who is contemplating suicide is very difficult. Why is it difficult? The biggest and primary reason is because the person who is considering suicide has a pain wall that is very difficult to penetrate. The spirit guide will try to get through directly to the person, and even try to go through others around the person, friends, family, anyone who the spirit guide thinks they can make the connection with. There are occasions when it works, and the person doesn't go through with it. Then, of course, there are times when there is no getting through to the person and they go through with it.
Souls that have a hand in their lives ending early, such as accidental overdose and things of this nature fall into the same category, and will have a little extra work so that they understand addictions, and can come back and try to do it without falling into that trap again.
The opinions are ones that I have formed through years of communicating with those who have crossed over and being shown over and over again how they transition and what they go through. Please, remember the hell they go through is before they commit suicide, but it does put other things in play that they need to resolve. A good book to read is Conversations With The Spirit World by Lysa Mateu.
If you'd like to set an appointment for a reading to communicate with a loved one you are missing in heaven please visit, www.heavencallingearth.com or email pam@heavencallingearth.com.
Image by permission of Linda Allen Wooten.
As a psychic and a psychic medium I get asked a lot of questions. Periodically, I work some of those questions into my blog, as they can help others.
Our first question comes from Helen Taft. How can you become more in tune with the spirit realm? First and foremost, one of the biggest keys to do meditation. It's the number one tool in hearing, seeing and feeling answers, whether those answers are from your spirit guides, guardian angels, loved ones that have crossed over, or answers from God to your prayers. Second, you must learn to trust what you are getting in signs. As you get signs, acknowledge them, and don't use your logical mind to explain them away.
April Hurley wants to know why some really good people have such long and hurtful roads and mountains to climb? Is it karma or their past? There are many factors that play into reasons why anyone has hard roads and difficult situations to deal with. Sometimes it would seem that some have it harder than others, and there are those that it appears to have a cake walk. Before we incarnate on earth, we choose certain life lessons to learn, we even make agreements with other souls who will participate in those lessons. There are karmic issues that come up for people, and past "punishments" it would seem. The thing we must all recognize is that when things are going smoothly, we don't learn a lot of from that. We do, however, have more of tendency to take a harder look at things when they become difficult. When a person starts to awaken spiritually, and realize that difficult times means there's a life lesson involved, they then start to realize sooner and even learn the lessons sooner. But there are equally as many people who never awaken spiritually, and that does not take away the life lessons, it just means you're not realizing why you're going through certain things, and may or may not learn the lesson. If the lesson is not learned, it will continue to come up over and over again.
What's the difference between spirit guides and guardian angels is the question for Susan Morea. You might think there is no difference, but in reality there is a difference. Guardian angels have never incarnated as a human on earth, but they are tasked with guiding and protecting those on earth. Spirit guides can have incarnated on earth, and some are so evolved that they have not incarnated in a very long time. Remember, time is a linear thing in this third dimension, it doesn't apply in the spirit realm.
Catherine Petit has provided a picture with many spirits behind her friend.
How can we contact our spirit guides, and how do you know it's not our mind just playing tricks on us, asks Sharon Bradford Englerth. Contact with our spirit guides is for the most part done, or at least started by doing meditations. You ask to meet your spirit guides, and you learn to see, hear, and feel their presence. Once you've gained a trust of how they feel, what they sound like to you, and even how you see them, you then realize that it's not your mind. The mind playing tricks is often mistaken for true guidance, and therefore the guidance is missed out on. After practice of asking questions and getting answers, and learning to trust those answers is something that comes with time.
Robin M. Plante wants to know if we are reunited with loved ones, especially children that pass before the adults. Some people worry that if we reincarnate that we might miss a loved one, or a child that has gone to heaven before we get there. I've been shown over and over again that there is "part" of us that always remains in heaven. If you understand the Holy Trinity, God the father, the son, and the holy spirit, it is much like this. There is a higher-self that always remains in heaven. When a "son", or portion that incarnates on earth, goes back to heaven, that person/personality, love and all the things that go with that is there to be with and reunited with the loved ones that come to heaven later. You will know them, and recognize them, as they come to you as the person you knew them to be on earth.
As associated with the death of a person, Michael Cox, would like to know if it is common to "know" the moment that someone passes from earth. This is a very common thing for people that have emotional connections and bonds. For instance, you hear of a mother being on the east coast, and her child is half way across the country, and she's awakened in the middle of the night thinking of her child, and finds out that the child was in a horrific accident. It's not only common to know when someone passes, but when some event happens. The bonds are like cords running between the people, and when something happens to a person that you have that kind of strong connection to, you do feel it, hear it, or even see it.
Barbara Spano Costante has shared with a picture with what appears to be a spirit holding a hand.
Street lights going off and then coming back on, is this a spirit doing this, and is it common? Lori Robinson Ellis, if you can factor out that the street light is not shorting, then yes, it could be a spirit. Spirits are able to use their energy to manipulate electrical things. I've even heard and experienced them turning on appliance, tvs, radios, things of that nature. Early in my psychic awareness I turned a light on in the bathroom of my home, when I went to go out and turn the light off, it wouldn't go off. I stood there dumbfounded for a few minutes, and listened, and was told that my gifts would be coming in stronger over the next few months. So as to your question is it common, the resounding answer to that is yes.
Mary Sirakoulis wants to know if she has gifts, of a psychic nature? I like to explain to people the way it has been explained to me through my spirit guides. When God said he created man in his image, he didn't mean in the body, a physical likeness. He meant with a spiritual likeness, and ability. In other words, when he said, let there be light, and there was light. We have the same type of ability. This power has been suppressed for thousands of years. Why you might wonder? Well, if all people know they have the ability to manifest and create what they want in their lives then they can't be controlled, and manipulated. In recent times there have been people coming out and explaining this particular gift, calling it The Secret, The Law of Attraction, are good examples. We can not only manifest things in our lives, but we have the ability to listen for guidance. You know, like when you hear that little voice that says, it's going to rain today, even though the sun is shining and the weather man says sun all day. Then it rains. Or you hear, don't take this road, it's going to be backed up, and you take it anyway, and the road is backed up. When you start listening to that little voice, it gets louder. Mary, you have gifts, you need to embrace them as your own, and become in tune with your guides, and you will be surprised and excited about what they show you.
Along the same line, Kim Pelletier, wants to know if there is a way to develop the skills. Yes, there is. Kim as I mentioned earlier, meditation is the key. Now, whether you call it psychic, intuitive, psychic medium, I don't' particular like the term "fortune teller", too many negative connotations with that one. It's been called seer and prophet. The terms are changed with the times, but you get the idea. Another really good thing to do is sit in a development circle or group, and to take workshops. Depending on what your local area is, you can find workshops. Sometimes it's fun to travel and take a whole weekend workshop. If you have a group of friends, you create development circle, which can be a lot of fun as well. But never forget the your best tool is meditation.
Anniece Brown Andress has an orb, or spirit streaking through her forehead, thank you for sharing this.
Do we really have guardian angels? And if we do, is it only one, or many? And are they family members that have passed from earth, inquires Suzette Dubois. You've asked so many good ones here, Suzette. Yes, we have guardian angels. The way I explain this is, each of us has a team. We have guardian angels, spirit guides, and loved ones that have passed. Now, depending on what is going on in your life as to which one steps up for you. They always try to guide us and show us the right direction to go in. But we live in a free will zone, and they are forbidden from taking that away from us. In order to "help" us with a situation, we have to ask them. Where they are allowed to step in without permission is if you are going to be in some event that causes death, and you have a purpose and the death would be untimely to meeting that purpose, they go out of their way to make sure that doesn't happen. Loved ones can help us, either by us calling on them, or them seeing something that is going on that you are struggling with, and they try to let you know "which door to choose". If a person is determined to make bad choices, they won't interfere with that. Sometimes the way to learn the lesson is to actually step in it to know that it really is a big pile. So, envision that you have an entire team working for and with you, and don't hesitate to call on them for help, guidance, and assistance, that's after all what they are there for.
Jody Pibil has shared that there have two years sober, and recovery, would like to know what grammy feels about addiction and recovery. First, congratulations on your two years, and thank you for sharing it with us. Grammy is proud of you. Now, let me speak in general about addiction and recovery. These can be attached to life lessons to any type of addiction. In life there seem to be some addictions that are more acceptable than others. Each of us has something that we can be addicted to, some addictions do more harm than others. There are those that are psychological and therefore doing psychological damage. And of course, there are the ones that are physically addicting as well as psychological. Alcohol, substances, cigarettes, just to name a few. No matter what the addiction, you need to take a look at it, ask yourself, what am I supposed to be learning from this. How can I change this? There is nothing wrong with needing help, asking for support, both spiritual support from your team (as discussed in the previous paragraph), or from people that are here on earth. But make sure when you get people to help and support, that you are getting the right ones. Ones that enable you to keep going with the addiction aren't necessarily the ones that can help you recover. Learn the life lesson and then it will make recovery easier.
And I'd like to thank Cyndi Koerner for our closing picture of a beautiful sunset.
When someone passes can they see our entire lives, or just from the time of their passing? Kathy McFarland Milligan has asked a very good question. Of course, people that pass go through their own life review, and so that encompasses people they've interacted with. They can feel or know, so to speak, what it feels like to stand in the other person's shoes in situations. Instead of having a front linear view of what has gone on, they are able to see a 360 degree view from all angles, and how each person felt in the situations. They gain perspective that they didn't have when they were on earth. They also have the ability to see things that are currently going on in their loved ones lives, and even the things that will show up in the future. If they think they can be of some sort of help in those things, they will try to guide in the right direction, but without interfering with free-will. And events that people believe their loved ones in heaven are missing, they are not missing, they can see them, and oftentimes show up and give signs that they are there.
As always, I've enjoyed answering your questions, as they can pertain to many people. If you are interested in having a psychic reading, or a psychic medium reading, get in touch. You can look at my website, www.heavencallingearth.com, email pam@heavencallingearth.com; or call to set up an appointment. Until next time, I send you love and light.


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Two tenants renew for space in Rolling Meadows, Ill.
Agreements combine for 50,000 square feet
Prime Group Realty Trust, a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, today announced two lease agreements for space at the Continental Towers office complex in Rolling Meadows, Ill.
American Express Travel Related Services Company Inc. has renewed an agreement to occupy 23,726 square feet at the property, and Environmental Resources Management Inc. renewed an agreement to occupy 23,608 square feet.
In separate transactions, Paul Buckingham and Peter Livaditis of CB Richard Ellis represented American Express for its lease renewal at Tower Three of Continental Towers, while Steven Joseph and Noah Turner of CBIZ Gibralter Real Estate Services, LLC. represented Environmental Resources for its lease at Tower One at Continental Towers.
Julie Mertins represented Prime Group Realty Trust in both transactions.
Popular for its convenient location along the Northwest Tollway on Golf Road, the three-building, class A office complex comprises 910,796 square feet and houses more than 45 businesses.
Prime Group Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust that is owned by The Lightstone Group.
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