| s-701
| Right now, yeah, he's helping us right now. |
| s-702
| We're talking about doing some individual web series, video series. |
| s-703
| Josh Kindig, he's coming on board, he has some ideas for that too, he wants to take over 'aywv' and do more gaming news. |
| s-704
| There's of course Jason, who is our editor and he's the one who writes dD. |
| s-705
| Digital Domain |
| s-706
| What is your purpose behind this venture? |
| s-707
| Well, back in college, back in Collins College, Isabel and I, we had met like she said at Sandia View Academy, and we went off to college together in Arizona; |
| s-708
| and ... (how do I best explain this?) |
| s-709
| Basically, she came up with a few class projects, and I came up with a few class projects; |
| s-710
| we started working with a few of our friends, and colleagues and whatnot. |
| s-711
| Those included Drew Cass, Devin Thurlow, people like that. |
| s-712
| She had several ideas, and she used to draw a lot in the sketchbook, she used to have this thick sketchbook that she used to carry around with her everywhere, where she'd draw these different characters and whatnot; |
| s-713
| and she was always really shy to show that off to people, and I wanted to help her show that stuff, and I wanted to bring it out to the world. |
| s-714
| I was a writer, and she always liked my writings, so I was like, let's just get both of our things together, and let's get this done. |
| s-715
| And for me, what I want the purpose to be, is to inspire people. |
| s-716
| To bring a little more light to the world is what I want, out of all of this. |
| s-717
| And what was the verse that we have? |
| s-718
| First Corinthians 9:25? |
| s-719
| Yes. |
| s-720
| Yeah, exactly. |
| s-721
| We just want to be able to bring, like she said, bring light into the entertainment and into the media industry, specifically is what we do. |
| s-722
| Yeah. |
| s-723
| August 19, 1975 |
| s-724
| Dear Hannah: |
| s-725
| We are back from Europe, having been to London then to Mallorca and back to London. |
| s-726
| It was hot, as you yourself will know from your stay in Switzerland and the newspapers -- London was sweltering and the parks are not green, probably for the first time in two hundred years. |
| s-727
| Martha greatly enjoyed our stay in Mallorca at the villa of our friend Vane Ivanovic. |
| s-728
| Luncheons and dinners were crowded with guests, but in the evenings she played bridge constantly and gossiped with our hostess. |
| s-729
| Vane himself presented me with five hundred pages of his memoirs when I arrived and, between sleeping and talking, I cut and edited the work: I am on holiday the inveterate and proverbial busman. |
| s-730
| I wrote only about 2000 words on my novel, but I've finished now five chapters. |
| s-731
| It is romantic, and sad, which is to say, interesting experience recollected. |
| s-732
| At Vane's villa I met the Prince of Spain, Alphonso, who is the son of King Alphonso's deaf and mute son (the second one). |
| s-733
| The Prince is married to Franco's granddaughter, a marvelously beautiful and seriously educated girl of twenty-six who is quite wasted on this royalist. |
| s-734
| I thought that in Mallorca I had at least escaped my duties as Regent, but Alphonso asked me about bilingual education for Puerto Ricans and beraded the Americans for suppressing their 'fourteen million Latins.' |
| s-735
| He told me that Dean Acheson told him that Harry Truman denied Spain Marshall Plan aid because Truman was a Protestant. |
| s-736
| When I argued that a lot ofAmerican felt deeply about the Spanish Civil War, and that the Marshall Plan was devised to help countries ravaged by the war, whereas Spain did not fight, he replied that this was a superficial answer. |
| s-737
| Isn't it marvelous how wars, even when they are not fought, are found to betray everyone? |
| s-738
| It is a quiet summer in New York, especially as there isn't such news except that of the city's financial troubles. |
| s-739
| Odd, though, that there is none of the hectic spending and living here that seems to obtain amongst moneyed people and even the middle classes in London, where I was amazed to discover that the shops are full and places of entertainment are crowed. |
| s-740
| I don't know what to make of it -- the idea that it shows the last days of Rome doesn't quite strike me as right. |
| s-741
| The pound will surely fallto $ 2.00 -- I've already started to discount our assets in London, although the operating revenues and profits there on our scientific books and journals are holding up quite apart from inflation in prices. |
| s-742
| What's happening in New York willhappen in some other cities around the world, I am convinced: Milan or Rome, Paris, Jakarta, and so forth. |
| s-743
| We miss you, Hannah, but we know that you must be getting some real rest. |
| s-744
| Will you go to Israel at the end of your stay? |
| s-745
| What are the dates of Aberdeen? |
| s-746
| Is there anything you need? |
| s-747
| I've seen the doctor twice since I've been back, and he's convinced that I just missed an 'episode,' which means that I suffered what is always called, rather badly I think, a 'coronary insufficiency.' |
| s-748
| I feel quite well now and I am watching myself. |
| s-749
| I lost twelve pounds. |
| s-750
| I've promised Dr. Steiner that I will not travel at all, andon humid days I stay at home and work and read. |
| s-751
| I'm rereading Johnson's Lives of The Poets, a splendid work that proves that the best criticism is based on sensibility to art and prejudice to behavior. |
| s-752
| Mary is working away on her novel. |
| s-753
| I've been in touch with her briefly -- of course I saw her when she arrived in New York -- about reissuing Stones of Florence. |
| s-754
| I am publishing the Chiaramonte book in the Spring. |
| s-755
| Mary has provided a preface. |
| s-756
| How does The Life of the Mind proceed? |
| s-757
| I look forward to going over manuscript with you when you return. |
| s-758
| We were, as you will recall, interrupted when we were working at Aberdeen. |
| s-759
| Hannah, Martha and I send you love and greetings and we hope that the summer ends with lazy leisurely days for you. |
| s-760
| We shall be seeing you soon. |
| s-761
| Yours, |
| s-762
| Bill |
| s-763
| Parents prosecuted after homeopathic treatment leads to daughter's death |
| s-764
| Friday, May 8, 2009 |
| s-765
| Thomas Sam, 42, and his wife Manju Sam, 36, from Sydney, Australia, are undergoing trial for manslaughter by gross negligence for the death of their nine-month-old child, Gloria. |
| s-766
| She died from infection caused by severe eczema after they shunned effective conventional medical treatments for homeopathy, a form of alternative medicine that has been described as pseudoscience. |
| s-767
| Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals including Social Science & Medicine have characterized homeopathy as a form of quackery. |
| s-768
| An example of severe eczema. |
| s-769
| Image: Jambula. |
| s-770
| Gloria developed severe eczema at the age of four months and the parents were advised to send the child to a skin specialist. |
| s-771
| Thomas Sam, a practising homeopath, instead decided to treat his daughter himself. |
| s-772
| His daughter's condition deteriorated, to the point that the baby spent all her energy battling the infections caused by the constant breaking of the skin, leading to severe malnutrition and, eventually, her death. |
| s-773
| By the end, Gloria's eczema was so severe that her skin broke every time her parents changed her clothes or nappy, and in the words of the Crown prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi, QC, 'Gloria spent a lot of the last five months of her life crying, irritable, scratching and the only thing that gave her solace was to suck on her mother's breast.' |
| s-774
| Gloria also became unable to move her legs. |
| s-775
| Mr. Tedeschi also told the court that, over the last five months of her life, 'Gloria's eczema played a devastating role in her overall health and it is asserted by the Crown that both her parents knew this and discussed it with each other.' |
| s-776
| However, despite their child's severe illness, and her lack of improvement, the Sams continued to shun conventional medical treatment, instead seeking help from other homeopaths and naturopaths. |
| s-777
| Gloria temporarily improved during the rare times they used conventional treatments, but they soon dropped them in favour of homeopathy, and she consistently worsened. |
| s-778
| Allegedly, Thomas' sister pleaded with him to send Gloria to a conventional medical doctor, but he replied 'I am not able to do that'. |
| s-779
| The parents are also accused of putting their social life ahead of their child, taking her on a trip to India and leaving her to servants while embarking on a busy social schedule, and giving her homeopathic drops instead of using the prescription creams they had been given. |
| s-780
| Gloria was finally taken to the emergency department shortly before her death. |
| s-781
| By this time, 'her skin was weeping, her body malnourished and her corneas melting', according to the Sydney Morning Herald. |
| s-782
| Speaking in the parents' defense, Tom Molomby, SC, said that, as the parents came from India, where homeopathy is in common use, they should be declared not guilty due to cultural differences. |
| s-783
| Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine which treats patients with massively diluted forms of substances that, if given to a healthy person undiluted, would cause symptoms similar to the disease. |
| s-784
| Typical treatments take the dilutions, with ritualised shaking between each step of the dilution, past the level where any molecules of the original substance are likely to remain; for homeopathic treatments to work, basic well-understood concepts in chemistry and physics would have to be wrong. |
| s-785
| There is no evidence that homeopathy is more effective than placebo for any condition. |
| s-786
| Australian children suffering from iodine deficiency |
| s-787
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| s-788
| Almost half of all Australian primary school children are mild to moderately iodine deficient, researchers say. |
| s-789
| A new study documenting iodine nutritional status in Australian school children has revealed many are not getting enough iodine - which can lead to mental and growth retardation. |
| s-790
| The report's authors say iodine deficiency is 'the sleeper health issue in Australia', and potentially a very serious one. |
| s-791
| The results of the Australian National Iodine Nutrition Study published in the Medical Journal of Australia this week, revealed that children in mainland Australia are borderline iodine deficient. |
| s-792
| The report has prompted calls for all edible salt to be iodised. |
| s-793
| They say adding the mineral to salt is the simplest and most effective method of preventing iodine deficiency disorders. |
| s-794
| A cross-sectional survey of 1709 schoolchildren - aged 8–10 years, from 88 schools - was carried out in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland, between July 2003 and December 2004. |
| s-795
| Tasmania was excluded from the study - where an voluntary iodine fortification program using iodised salt in bread, is ongoing. |
| s-796
| The authors say the results confirm the existence of inadequate iodine intake in the Australian population. |
| s-797
| They call for 'urgent implementation of mandatory iodisation of all edible salt in Australia.' |
| s-798
| Most iodine in food comes from seafood, milk and iodised salt. |
| s-799
| Professor Cres Eastman, Director of the National Iodine Nutrition study, and Chairman of the Australian Centre for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, says it is crucial that children and pregnant women in particular have an adequate intake of iodine. |
| s-800
| Iodine deficiency can lead to serious health problems including brain damage, stunted growth and deafness. |