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Dear Parkinson list participants, This first message, introducing myself, is perhaps longer than usual -- please bear with me. I am a psychologist and a volunteer for a new organization that is working on a project called "Portraits of Hope." Our aim is to put a human face on the controversy surrounding stem cell research, including therapeutic cloning research that could possibly cure Parkinson's. We are doing that by collecting and publishing on the Internet "portraits," each of which features an individual person who has an illness that stem cell research might help to cure. We will also send these "portraits of hope" to federal and state legislators -- thereby bringing home the personal and urgent character of our request for government support for this research. We need your help. Do you or someone you know have an illness that embryonic stem cell research might help cure, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, juvenile diabetes, ALS, MS, or spinal cord injury? If you send us, via email, a photograph and a brief description (100-1000 words) of the person who is ill, we will post it on our websites: www.sabr.us (Seniors Allied for Biomedical Research) and www.stemcallaction.org (Stem Cell Action Network -- this site may be temporarily out of service) Here are a few suggestions about composing a portrait: In your text, which we will post on the web, please include the person's age and interests, the town or city where the person lives, how his or her life has been affected by the illness, and the ways in which family and friends are giving their support. Please include the person's zip code -- that will enable us to locate the state and federal congressional representatives to whom we will send the portrait. Photographs provide a special human touch to our message. If you have available a photo of the person who is ill, please include that in the e-mail you send us. Family members and/or friends may appear in the photo, if you wish. (You may scan a regular photo into a computer or go to a local copy shop and they will put the photo into digital form and email it to us.) To view examples of the portraits, please visit our web page: "Portraits of Hope", at www.sabr.us/portraits-nav.htm If you have any questions about preparing a portrait, please reply to this email message or call me on the telephone. Thanks, Raymond Barglow, Ph.D. [log in to unmask] ph. (510) 486-1050 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn