Geeta Shroff

According to Guardian Newspaper on 11/17/2005, Geeta Shroff works in a 3-story, 20-bed hospital called Nu Tech Mediworld in South Delhi. She graduated from Delhi University school of medical science in 1993 and worked with Vera Hingorani at India's top medical institute, the All India Institute of Medical Science. She apparently devleoped a technique for determining a baby's sex without taking a scan but apparently the government stopped this practice. (personal comment: lots of "apparently"s in that report. As a hypothesis :If this existed,what if India allowed this technique? ) She started working with stem cells in 1999.
Then I found this article from Rusty Without Wheels :

All of Dr. Shroff’s patients generally become healthier and suffer fewer bouts of infection. Their body resistance to infection increases. The earlier a patient starts the human embryonic stem cell therapy, the faster the chances are for recovery (I have 15 years to work on as opposed to others who are more newly injured). In progressive and degenerative disorders the early start on stem cell therapy helps in stemming the disease or stabilizing the patient. Once stabilized, patients do show improvement.Every patient I met in the course of my two month stay showed improvement of some sort. In addition to showing improvement, amazingly, people looked younger. A Parkinson’s patient named David from Perth, Australia, grew dark eyebrows in three weeks; his eyes became sparkly; and his speech came back with a thick English accent, which his care giver hadn’t heard in sixteen years. It was simply remarkable to roll into the hospital everyday and exchange stories on what muscle or body part was beginning to function again… something unheard of until my visit to Nu Tech Mediworld in India. I witnessed three patients suffering from motor neuron disease (like ALS) and had been given a few months to live. With all three patients, they are stable, their condition isn’t worsening, and they are seeing slight improvements (regaining speech, strength, breathing capacity etc)

Then I realized that this was the same doctor who has helped Amanda Boxtel so much. Check out her progress logs .... after 16 years of paralysis.... her website has great linlks to the world of Dr Shroff.

• Amanada Boxtel is a 39 year old paraplegic woman who underwent Human Embryonic Stem Cell (HESC) Treatment with Dr. Geeta Shroff in Delhi, India from June 25-August 17, 2007.
• During her two month visit, she not only witnessed astounding improvements in her own body, but with many patients who have life restored within their bodies and a newfound reason to not give up but live!

Obamas women

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

Inner Circle:

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor — Valerie Jarrett (co-chair of the Obama transition team) is an accomplished political counselor and businesswoman (real estate). The NYT said of her "She is an expert in urban affairs, particularly housing and transportation, in an administration expected to lavish more money and attention on cities than its predecessors.
And she has something no other adviser in the Obama White House ever will: ties to the president-elect and future first lady that go deeper than a political alliance. Ms. Jarrett is only a few years older than the Obamas, but her relationship with them can seem almost maternal. “I can count on someone like Valerie to take my hand and say, You need to think about these three things,” Mrs. Obama said. “Like a mom, a big sister, I trust her implicitly.” Check out the whole article here.

Economic Team:
Christina D. Romer, Director of the Council of Economic Advisors – Dr. Romer is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught and researched since 1988. You can read her bio and resume on the Berkeley site and be sure to read her Encyclopedia Britannica entry on The Great Depression, an expertise of hers. Let us hope the concept remains historical.










Melody C. Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council — Melody Barnes is co-director of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Team, and served as the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor for the Obama campaign. A colleague of transition chair John Podesta’s at The Center for American Progress, she was a long-time aide to Senator Ted Kennedy. Her portfolio will include health reform.






Heather A. Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council Heather Higginbottom served as Policy Director for Obama for America, overseeing all aspects of policy development. From 1999 to 2007, Higginbottom served as Senator John Kerry’s Legislative Director.







Communications:

Ellen Moran, Director of Communications — Moran is executive director of EMILY’s List, which raises funds for pro-choice women candidates. NYT says that she used to work as: Coordinator of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s “corporate accountability campaign” against Wal-Mart.

And In the White House:
Michelle Obama, First Lady — Two reporters have major stories on the Michelle factor. Allison Samuels has the cover story on Newsweek, “What Michelle Obama Means to Us”– about how she’ll change the world’s image of African-American women-and the way we see ourselves. And Rachel L. Swarns, The New York Times Washington correspondent , writes about Michelle as only the second First Lady with a career (the first and only was Hillary) — and what that means. There is a plethora of articles about Ms Obama .. I found a website called http://michelleobamawatch.com/. Thoughtful article in the Washingtonpost, titled “First Lady: A Job Worth a Paycheck”written by Lauren Stiller Rikleen.

Desiree Rogers, Social Secretary —Michelle has picked Chicago businesswoman Desiree Rogers as her Social Secretary. Rogers, like the First Lady, has a Harvard MBA. Very informative article at the Black Socialite

What is privilege? Who has it?

privilege
a poem for men who don't understand what we mean when we say they have it

by D.A. Clarke

privilege is simple:
going for a pleasant stroll after dark,
not checking the back of your car as you get in, sleeping soundly,
speaking without interruption, and not remembering
dreams of rape, that follow you all day, that woke you crying, and
privilege
is not seeing your stripped, humiliated body
plastered in celebration across every magazine rack, privilege
is going to the movies and not seeing yourself
terrorized, defamed, battered, butchered
seeing something else
privilege is
riding your bicycle across town without being screamed at or
run off the road, not needing an abortion, taking off your shirt
on a hot day, in a crowd, not wishing you could type better
just in case, not shaving your legs, having a decent job and
expecting to keep it, not feeling the boss's hand up your crotch,
dozing off on late-night busses, privilege
is being the hero in the TV show not the dumb broad,
living where your genitals are totemized not denied,
knowing your doctor won't rape you
privilege is being
smiled at all day by nice helpful women, it is
the way you pass judgment on their appearance with magisterial authority,
the way you face a judge of your own sex in court and
are over-represented in Congress and are not strip searched for a traffic ticket
or used as a dart board by your friendly mechanic, privilege
is seeing your bearded face reflected through the history texts
not only of your high school days but all your life, not being
relegated to a paragraph
every other chapter, the way you occupy
entire volumes of poetry and more than your share of the couch unchallenged,
it is your mouthing smug, atrocious insults at women
who blink and change the subject -- politely -- privilege
is how seldom the rapist's name appears in the papers
and the way you smirk over your PLAYBOY
it's simple really, privilege
means someone else's pain, your wealth
is my terror, your uniform
is a woman raped to death here, or in Cambodia or wherever
wherever your obscene privilege
writes your name in my blood, it's that simple,
you've always had it, that's why it doesn't
seem to make you sick to your stomach,
you have it, we pay for it, now
do you understand

reprinted from Banshee, Peregrine Press
Copyright (c) 1981 D. A. Clarke. All Rights Reserved

found on http://www.nostatusquo.com/~de/banshee/privilege.html