Great Haste Research Articles

A “Fanatic in Morality”: The “Native” Question, Revisions, and Emotional Intensity in Anthony Trollope’s South Africa (1878)

ABSTRACT This article compares the manuscript and two published editions of Anthony Trollope's understudied travelogue South Africa (1878), exploring the affective impetus driving the inconsistency and revisions in his articulations concerning the “native” question in South African colonies. It argues that Trollope's inability to fully legitimise Britain's colonisation of South Africa through conventional discourses stems from the profound impact of his immediate affective responses to the atrocity of colonialism. Trollope wrote with great haste as he travelled, in order to preserve his immediate emotions and thoughts experienced during his travels. In the travelogue, his scepticism of British colonialism ebbs and flows as he vacillates between moral scruples and conservatism during the writing and revision process. This article illuminates a neglected facet of nineteenth-century British travel writing: the travellers’ fluctuating emotions contributed to the subtle fluidity of their narratives of colonialism, complicating their complicity in perpetuating racial and colonial ideologies.

PANCASILA ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: JESSICA WONGSO'S CASE STUDY

Pancasila is the legal basis for all legal and constitutional resources in the country of Indonesia. All behavior in nationality will be governed in pancasila, especially in legal and political spheres. At present, a Indonesia tela has become an easy target for law-enforcement politicians. The law is blunt up and blunt down, can we see in the case of Jessica Wongso’s cyanide coffee. The case has been going on since 2016 - now, the final decision of the panel of judges remains a raging debate throughout Indonesia. The pancasila implementation in the case of Jessica Wongso’s is very correct with the item of 5, which is social justice for all people of Indonesia. Mirna's death was thought to have been caused by a cyanide contaminated coffee intake. Before the police put a suspect in the murder case, mass media, especially online media, together accused Jessica Wongso, as many of mirna's friends in gulping down the coffee, as the person responsible for mirna's death. In their news, without much verification and with great haste from the phase of inquiry, inquiry, to trial, some online media have judged Jessica’s, also called the trial by the press. Especially in Jessica's case, with the hope that in the future there will be no further negative effects from the giver.

Analysis Of Theissen Method With IDW Plotting In Kediri City

Rain that falls on the ground is one of the water sources that must be preserved. Great haste can also result in catastrophes, so a mapping estimate is required to determine the flow in a few years using a geographic information system and the isohyet approach with the Arcview application. This investigation’s stage is searching for data in SHP format in the Kediri metropolitan area. The area is plotted using the IDW method by entering precipitation data and coordinates. Then the rainfall relief according to the BMKG classification is obtained using the isohyet approach mapping, indicating that the maximum rainfall level for 2017-2021 will be rather high to moderate. Illustrates a trend in annual maximum rainfall loss.

Which eye are you looking through? The impact of cognitive bias on process safety

AbstractBias surrounds us every day. Everything we look at has a lens of our experience coloring our perception, and everyone has their own lens. This impacts how we share and receive information. So why is this important for process safety? Cognitive biases cover a range of aspects, each of which can have an impact on process safety, from what we remember, to coping with too much information, to a lack of context and meaning or a need to act with great haste. There are many identified specific cognitive biases, not every one of them impacts on process safety, but many can and have. This paper will review several process safety type incidents that had cognitive bias as a factor and discuss ideas on how to manage the bias, so we do not fall into its trap.

Temporalities—Technologies—Transgressions: Notes On Contemporary Slovak Poetry

In the course of the past three decades, marked in post-communist Central European countries by their sudden repositioning on the geopolitical map, Slovak social and cultural spaces, in great haste and chaos, got to locale-specific grips with postmodernism and, more or less simultaneously, entered contemporaneity. The leap to the present has created inherently transcultural modes of existence, in which global news, fashions and tastes form a relevant part of individuals’ identities. Through the prism of Peter Osborne’s (2013, 2018) concept of historical contemporaneity, this essay briefly outlines modifications that the segment of Slovak poetry marked by Osbornian contemporaneity has undergone in the past three decades.

Policy analysis of the Iranian Health Transformation Plan in primary healthcare

BackgroundHealth systems reform is inevitable due to the never-ending changing nature of societal health needs and policy dynamism. Today, the Health Transformation Plan (HTP) remains the major tool to facilitate the achievements of universal health coverage (UHC) in Iran. It was initially implemented in hospital-based setting and later expanded to primary health care (PHC). This study aimed to analyze the HTP at the PHC level in Iran.MethodsQualitative data were collected through document analysis, round-table discussion, and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders at the micro, meso and macro levels of the health system. A tailored version of Walt & Gilson’s policy triangle model incorporating the stages heuristic model was used to guide data analysis.ResultsThe HTP emerged through a political process. Although the initiative aimed to facilitate the achievements of UHC by improving the entire health system of Iran, little attention was given to PHC especially during the first phases of policy development – a gap that occurred because politicians were in a great haste to fulfil a campaign promise.ConclusionsHealth reforms targeting UHC and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals require the political will to improve PHC through engagements of all stakeholders of the health system, plus improved fiscal capacity of the country and financial commitments to implement evidence-informed initiatives.

Phenomenon of Polish Religious Architecture of the End of the Twentieth Century

It is truly difficult to find another European country where over two thousand churches were built over the last thirty years. This boom in religious architecture in our country, which is compared to the times of the very dawn of Christianisation, or to the period between the World War I and II, when Poland regained independence after the period of partitions, should be associated predominantly with the figure of Karol Wojtyła – the Polish Pope. He encouraged crowds of investors and residents of Poland to strive for new religious buildings to be erected in new districts of towns and cities, where for decades’ residents had not been able to obtain political authorities’ permissions for new places of worship. The goal of the research was to determine differences between the style of religious buildings erected at the same time in Western Europe and in our country. Isolation of Central European states in the 1970s and 1980s from access to the most advanced building technologies and materials forced to reach for traditional methods of erecting temples. A considerable role in this respect was also played by economic reasons, as churches were largely built by means of the economic system and were financed by parishioners. Amongst churches that mushroomed in Poland since the end of the 1970s, as well as in the 1980s and 1990s, several stylistic tendencies can be differentiated, characteristic for the contemporary architecture. Not all directions present in the European architecture were represented in the Polish architecture in that period. It seems that the majority of the projects represent the trend of Late Modernism. In the early 1980s, Postmodernism reached Poland, much later than projects implemented in the United States of America and in Western Europe. Religious architecture, inspired by forms of historical temples and monasteries, present for centuries in our landscape and well known to users, was being built according to the principles of these stylistics, too. The significance of the tradition of the place was restored; while searching for neo-nativeness, designers turned to forms well-known and accepted by the faithful. These quests fascinated some architects at the time. The analysis of hundreds of built churches, in terms of their external form, as well as their interiors, points to the acceptance of the quest of references to the past. Simultaneously, it should be emphasised that within the territory of our country, especially in the countryside or in small towns, one can encounter religious buildings which are quite uninteresting and difficult to be assigned to any trends in the contemporary architecture. Parishioners often lost patience and were tired of waiting for decades for permissions to erect new churches; at the same time, they were afraid that the period of fewer restrictions relating to building new temples would soon pass. Today, these projects, often implemented in great haste, wait for subsequent generations of users, architects, and artists to start to restore them for the resources of culture.

Trout Flashes

Trout Flashes Bill King (bio) 1. In the Blue Ridge mountains of southwestern Virginia, sitting on a rock that juts like a peninsula into a little stream called Back Creek, my twelve-year-old brother—wiry, already chiseled and lean—wets a piece of bread between the tip of his tongue and his front teeth, takes it out, balls it between his thumb and index finger, and then sticks [End Page 38] it on a hook. He throws it into the current at the top of the hole and lets it drift down and down. Maybe you'll catch a trout, I say. Ain't no trout in here, he says, pulling up another mad-tail-flipping sucker, a fat-headed thing with horny bumps on its crown. I want to fish, too, but there is never room for both of us. 2. An Irish tale tells of the forlorn young lover of a murdered prince, who, in drowning herself in a pristine mountain lake, transforms into a white trout. She is caught by an evil soldier, who cuts the white trout's side, releasing her bleeding human form. She bids the terrified soldier to throw her back in the little lake so that she can await her lover's return, which he does in great haste, bloodying the water and giving us the beautiful pink-streaked rainbow trout. In South Carolina, my uncle once told me to rub dirt, mud, and leaves on my hand to hide my human scent. Trout know, he said. They are the oldest and wisest fish you will ever catch. 3. There are rainbow trout, lake trout, cutthroat trout, brown trout, and tiger trout. The only trout native to West Virginia, though, is the brook trout. They live throughout Appalachia but only in the coldest and purist mountain streams. They sport a beautiful vermicular pattern—from dark green back, to bluish sides, to pink to scarlet belly—and interspersed throughout this swirling sky of color is a galaxy of yellow and red spots like stars behind a day-blind sky. No photograph can capture a brook trout's beauty. That's why, each spring—with pungent ramps greening the darkest hillsides and maple leaves still small and bright as babies' hands—I can't help but go for them. If I'm lucky, I'll get to cradle one in my palm—half in and half out of the water—before watching him slip beneath churning bubbles, which pour downstream like spilled pearls. [End Page 39] 4. Brook trout drop over fallen logs and shelving rock, into a deep and roiling hole, before settling in the shadow of a submerged boulder. Where they decide to stay, unless a fisher comes along and puts one in her creel, as heart-struck as a boy with a new ball. Mike Trout, the youngest in major league baseball history to hit 100 homeruns and steal 100 bases, smashes white balls with red stitching over fences throughout North America. They drop over walls like trout over a weir: into parking lots, under parked cars. And no one knows about them—ball or trout—when they step into their car, when they back out of wherever they are and head for highways at least two ridges removed from nowhere. 5. My 50-year-old friend Gordon loves to fish, but he acts like a boy when he catches a trout. Once we went up McGee run, which tumbles through the spruce, rhododendron and laurel of Cheat Mountain, before meeting the Shaver's Fork. It's hard to get there and you have to walk up the middle of the stream to navigate the tight confines of the holler. He put a picture of a brilliantly speckled 6-inch brookie on Facebook for his friends in Georgia to see. His face was flushed and red. His green eyes like stars sunk in a depthless pool. They made fun of his measly catch. You do not understand, he replied. 6. In Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, a father and son push a wobble-wheeled grocery cart down a broken road. They wend out of the Appalachians, through the...

Changes to Police Powers of Arrest in New South Wales

Amendments to arrest laws in New South Wales in December 2013 significantly expand the power of arrest and the purpose for which arrest is to be used. This article examines the key changes to s 99 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (NSW) and the flawed Government rationale for the changes. Passed without a formal public consultation process and with great haste, Parliament's statutory intent appears to extend the range of circumstances in which arrest will be legal, in order that arrest be used, most significantly, to deter criminal conduct. This article argues that there has been a radical shift from the purpose of arrest as a last resort for bringing charges against an alleged offender, to a first resort in order to increase arrest rates. We explain how the new provisions formalise the goals of ‘proactive policing’ in arrest law and provide a framework for future investigation into the potential effects of this goal.

Theory in Action: Reclaiming the Political Thought of Christopher Caudwell

Much of Marxism's power comes the dialectical search for the aspects of the present that point towards the possibilities of the future: this mode of inquiry (and the forms of praxis it produces), despite its revolutionary aims, requires ongoing attention to the past. Marx's scientific socialism, in other words, is a project made possible and meaningful by the unfolding of history. Given Marxism's dialectical grounding in history, however, I find the tendency of some Marxists to omit many of their radical forebears their political genealogy striking. In the ranks of these forgotten radicals are numerous figures that continue to offer important insights and challenges up to the present, and it is to my mind authentically Marxist work to recover the critical content of these past struggles. The subject of this particular effort is Christopher St. John Sprigg (who went by the pseudonym Christopher Caudwell), a Marxist particularly notable for both his fruitful understanding of praxis and his near invisibility in contemporary Marxist discourse. Reclaiming Caudwell not only does justice to an extraordinary comrade, but also reanimates valuable currents in contemporary Marxism.Caudwell, a self-taught thinker and poet who dropped out of school in his early teens, became active in the Poplar branch of the Communist Party in 1935. During the subsequent two years, he composed all of his major theoretical works - Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture, Further Studies, The Crisis of Physics and Romance and Realism. As E.P. Thompson noted, the great haste in which this onslaught was produced deleteriously impacted the quality and depth of Caudwell's written works. Although Caudwell can be faulted for his scholarly methods, however, the passionate commitment to Marxist praxis that motivated this flurry of theorizing shines through in flashes of brilliance that still bear fruit. Caudwell's range - spanning cultural studies to the natural sciences - further indicates that he understood the need to apply what Marx famously termed the ruthless criticism of all that exists to expose and contest the full logic of domination operative in modernity.1 Caudwell's lived commitment to the radical contestation of systematic oppression, indeed, is beyond question. Caudwell joined the British battalion of the International Brigade and died near the Jarama River, courageously covering his unit's retreat his machine gun nest, at the age of twenty-nine.2The tandem of Caudwell's drive to theorize and live effective resistance, even where the consequences of principled action were potentially fatal, speaks to the best and most heroic aspects of Marxist praxis. Caudwell's and works example the refusal to be subsumed by an unjust world and the resulting commitment to living the ideals of an emancipated future disruptively in the present. Like Adorno, indeed, Caudwell fully rejected the wrong life which cannot be lived rightly, as he understood that, There is nothing innocuous left...The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one's existence.3 Caudwell, therefore, is a corrective to the reified cynicism and cultivated apathy that infects many contemporary attitudes about politics, particularly radical politics, because he creates a consistent sense of nonidentity - a discord with the system that allows him to break it constructively.4 In this paper, I argue that Caudwell's theory - particularly his vivid conception of freedom - retains a critical edge that recommends it to Marxists today and demands further study. I also contest that Caudwell's example is valuable as a model of uncompromising lived praxis, which considers all things as Adorno insisted we must: from the standpoint of redemption.51 conclude with a reflection on what conditions the invisibility of certain Marxists within the radical imaginary, and a plea for a fuller investigation of our radical lineages. …

Alrum – Brandtomter i en vestjysk byhøj fra ældre jernalder

Alrum – Brandtomter i en vestjysk byhøj fra ældre jernalder

Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild (review)

Reviewed by: Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild Keith Kroll (bio) Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild. Tom Montgomery Fate. BOSTON: BEACON PRESS, 2011. 207 PAGES, CLOTH, $24.95. A few years ago, shortly before spring break, several of my college students asked me what I was doing over the break. “I’m going on a five-day silent retreat,” I replied. “You’re doing what?!” one of my students asked. “I’m going to go to upstate New York, to engage in contemplative practice at a retreat center out in the woods. No cell phones, no computers, no texting, not even any reading. And, yep, no talking.” “No cell phones?” “No talking?” “No talking for five days?” They were incredulous. “Why would you do that?” “To practice mindfulness, to learn to pay attention, to reflect,” I said. “You’re crazy, Keith,” they half-joked. We live in a culture of distraction. Many of us (including many of my students) lead a divided life, one of imbalance, detachment, and disengagement. Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (Prometheus, 2008) writes, “Amid the glittering promise of our new technologies and the wondrous potential of our scientific gains, we are nurturing a culture of social diffusion, intellectual fragmentation, sensory detachment. In this new world, something is amiss. And that something is attention.” Tom Montgomery Fate is keenly aware of this culture of distraction, and honestly admits it is a culture in which he too often finds himself immersed. As Montgomery Fate writes in “Picking Blackberries,” he lives “in between; [End Page 203] in between the woods and the megamall, the blue jay and the Buick, the wild and the mundane, the animal and the human.” Cabin Fever is a collection of 19 personal (and at times intimate) essays arranged according to the seasons. The collection begins in spring and recounts Montgomery Fate’s search or journey to confront this divided life and to learn to be mindful and present: in essence, to learn to pay close and careful attention to the world in which he lives. “Most of [Cabin Fever] is a humble attempt to find meaning in my own ‘travels’ on home ground, from the wilds of suburban Chicago to the woods and farms of southwest Michigan.” If this search reminds one of Henry David Thoreau’s reasons for going to the woods, it should, for it is Thoreau and Walden that serve as Montgomery Fate’s Baedekers along the way. In Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Thoreau contemplates two new technologies of his day: the railroad, which ran close to Walden Pond, and the telegraph. He is not enamored with either. “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads led to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” So too in “Picking Blackberries,” the collection’s opening essay, does Montgomery Fate contemplate that very same issue, one that Maggie Jackson argues is at the heart of our distracted modern culture: technology. Montgomery Fate finds himself at his family’s small cabin, built on the farm they share with several other families, carefully observing the beauty of the blackberries that surround the cabin. The blackberries remind him of the other BlackBerry, the ubiquitous “smartphone” that controls (and organizes) many people’s lives. He is tempted to buy one, but is leery of its drawbacks. “As the technology gets smarter and faster,” he writes, “I get dumber and slower, and more distracted.” It becomes apparent to Montgomery Fate that the search to be present and pay close attention best takes place in nature, whether at the cabin (“In Plain Sight,” “Saunter,” “Cabin Fever”), on the beach at Lake Michigan (“Lake Glass”), or in his backyard in suburban Chicago watching birds with his young son (“The Gay Cardinal”). During the course of the year...

DIE GEALLIEERDE BESTETTING VAN MADAGASKAR MET SPESIFIEKE VERWYSING NA DIE ROL VAN DIE UNIEVERDEDIGINGSMAG IN DIE OPERASIES (DEEL1)

Japan's entry to the Second World War in December 1941.and tha startling success of her forces in South East Asia and the Indian Ocean suddenly increased the strategic importance of the Vichy-held French colony of Madagascar. The island's position in relation to the vital British shipping routes around the Cape had already led to half-hearted diplomatic efforts to secure the neutralisation of Madagascar in 1941. British planners now considered that action was imperative, for they felt that Japan's occupation of the island was merely a question of time. Accordingly in December 1941, Major General Sturges was appointed to command an expeditionary force to seile the island's important harbour at Diego Suarez. The decision to attack Diego Suarez was taken in March 1942 and plans were finalised in great haste. In the initial stages of the Madagascar campaign South Africa provided vital aerial reconnaissance and support and also the intermediate base for the mounting of Britain's first amphibious operation in the Second World War. Important co-ordinating work was done by the Command Staff lit Durban. On 25 April the British expeditionary force began to leave Durban. On 5 May the landings at Diego Suarez began, accompanied by aerial and naval bombardment and by decou attacks elsewhere' along the coast. The beachheads were secured with little trouble but severe opposition was encountered in the Antsirana isthmus where the French resisted fiercely from well-prepared positions. Nevertheless on 8 May the capitulation of the French forces in the Diego Suarez area had been negotiated and the first phase of the Madagascar' operations had been successfully concluded at the cost of relatively few casualties.

The Royal Declaration Against Transubstantiation and the Struggle Against Religious Discrimination in the Early Twentieth Century

Historians have paid little attention to the controversy provoked when Edward VII, in conformity with the Bill of Rights (1689) and Act of Settlement (1701) made the ‘Declaration against Transubstantiation’ which grossly insulted the Roman Catholic faith. Angry protests by Catholics in England were replicated even more strongly throughout the empire and issues of constitutional importance were raised which remain alive to the present day. The records of the lengthy parliamentary debates on this matter between 1901 and 1910 show that despite lingering suspicion of the Roman Catholic Church, and determination that no one professing that faith should ever occupy the throne, most members of both houses regarded Catholics as loyal citizens who should no longer be affronted at the beginning of the sovereign's reign by language born of a bygone age. Even so, to devise a formula which while removing what gave offence could satisfy the diverse interests involved when the religious and political spheres impinged on each other proved extremely difficult. The difficulty was increased because a large proportion of the general public regarded the declaration as a vital safeguard to the Protestant succession to the throne which made politicians hesitant to tamper with what had become ‘woven into the very texture of religious belief and adhesion’ in the country. It is worthwhile, therefore, to examine the various attempts to deal with this ‘thorny and difficult question’, which finally led to a revised declaration being forced in great haste through the House of Commons amid loud protests at what was considered unprecedented procedure.

Kommunikativ ambivalens i Joel Petterssons Måndagsmorgon

In my paper I investigate the presence of communicative ambivalence in Joel Pettersson’s story Mandagsmorgon (Monday Morning), which was written in great haste in 1921 and published posthumously in 2004. The story cannot be seen as a unified work, rather, it is a sort of an amalgamation of autobiography, myth, and anecdote. The communicative ambivalence of the story is detectible in the tension between oral narration and written narration, a tension that is materialised in what I label Petters­ son’s writing. The term “writing” suggests the style of the work in a very concrete sense and includes motifs, themes, vocabulary, orthography, syntax, handwriting, and the visual appearance of the handwritten manuscript. On one hand, Pettersson’s frequent use of dialectal words and syntax simulates oral language. On the other hand, the story displays a great fascination with written language and the act of writing as such. However, written language and simulated oral language respectively undermine each other, engendering a form of writing that is essentially ambivalent. This is visible in how Pettersson writes his text: its uninterrupted, unedited, and inconsistent flow of words indicates the presence of, and a conflict between both oral and written language.

John Ross

John Ross

Bolivia's Multisectoral Zero Malnutrition Program: Insights on Commitment, Collaboration, and Capacities

A number of multilateral and bilateral food security and nutrition initiatives have been launched in the wake of the 2008 food crisis, many with the explicit intention of fostering country ownership, multisectoral action, and harmonization among international partners. These bear some resemblance to the failed multisectoral nutrition planning initiatives that followed the 1974 world food crisis, raising the question of whether the current initiatives are doomed to experience the same fate. This paper explores these questions in one country by focusing on the policy sustainability of Bolivia's Zero Malnutrition Program (ZM), a multisectoral initiative that appeared at its initiation to be buttressed by political support and strengthened by design features that differed in important ways from similar efforts of the 1970s. Retrospective and prospective data collected through an action research and grounded methodology revealed, however, that the real struggle in Bolivia came after ZM was launched. ZM champions made undeniable progress in the first 2 years of the program with health-sector interventions, but they underestimated the challenges of building and sustaining the commitment of high-level political leaders, mid-level bureaucrats, and local-level implementers in the majority of other sectors. These initial experiences from Bolivia hold important lessons for several global initiatives to scale up nutrition actions, which are being launched in great haste and so far have given scant attention to strategies for managing the nutrition policy process and strengthening the capacities for implementation.

A Hasty Kind of Genius: Noël Coward's Hay Fever

Noël Coward's Hay Fever is a somewhat overlooked jewel of the Coward canon, even as it illustrates why Coward the writer has defied early predictions and remained a vital cultural figure. Written with great haste in 1925, the play examines post-war edginess about interpersonal trust and the games people play to protect themselves. Coward drew, in part, upon the eccentricities of renowned actress Laurette Taylor to fashion his central character Judith Bliss and, through her, reveals many of his own insecurities about trusting others. The result is a play not only of rapid-fire machinations but also of brittle but telling characterizations that have not lost their timeliness.

A New Dramatic Depth for Shakespeare's Women in Sherwood Hu's Prince of the Himalayas

One of the most perplexing questions about William Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of modern audiences, especially those who are not unfamiliar with feminist ideas, is why Gertrude has chosen to marry her late husband's brother, Claudius, in such a great haste. In fact, the play's lack of a satisfactory explanation for Gertrude's hasty marriage vexes some audiences just as it does Hamlet. While contemplating in agony about the behavior of his mother, this young prince seeks his own explanation and formulates one of the most famous lines in the play: ”Frailty, thy name is woman.” As an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Sherwood Hu's 2006 movie, Prince of the Himalayas, addresses this perplexing question by inventing a reason for the queen's hasty marriage. This paper discusses the new dimension this Chinese adaptation has created for Nanm, equivalent to Shakespeare's Gertrude, which contradicts that famous quote about women's frailty from Hamlet's mouth. It also discusses the dramatic functions of the three other female characters in the movie, which contribute to a sea change in the theme and meaning of the original play. The adaptation reflects an important strategy in Shakespeare's original work: had Shakespeare rationalized Gertrude's actions or had he given her some more character depiction, he would have weakened the cause of the prince's agony and, hence, the dramatic effect of his play. In great contrast to Shakespeare's original play, Prince of the Himalayas creates a new dramatic depth for the queen and the other female characters. This different strategy in Hu's adapted version of Hamlet, well supported by other modifications in plots, generates a fascinating new interpretation with a difference.

Newborn Screening for Krabbe Disease: the New York State Model

In this issue, Duffner et al. [1] introduce a clinical protocol developed in response to the implementation of Krabbe disease newborn screening in the state of New York in 2006. The authors are to be commended for creating a comprehensive and, in part, evidence-based newborn screening follow-up protocol. The article describes a standardized clinical evaluation protocol for newborns screening positive for Krabbe disease, criteria for transplantation for the early infantile phenotype, the creation of a clinical research database and registry, and a short-term research study of developmental and functional outcomes. The article serves as an up-to-date review of clinical and diagnostic features of a poorly understood condition for which a great deal of recent interest has been generated. The protocol for newborn screening follow-up for Krabbe disease will prove useful to those entrusted with caring for the children identified. No attempt will be made here to debate the merits of the specific recommendations for evaluation, because the protocol was developed by a multidisciplinary group of experts and there is essentially no evidence base available to justify changes. Fortunately, the protocol will undergo review and revision, as it will be used and re-evaluated regularly and undoubtedly modified as more is learned about Krabbe disease. The authors have responded admirably to the problem presented to them, namely mandated newborn screening for a potentially fatal disorder with a controversial treatment, extreme variability in disease expression with no foolproof way to predict phenotype, and a need for great haste in follow-up. Unfortunately, the article falls short in virtually ignoring the considerable challenges that have arisen with the Krabbe disease newborn screening program. A great deal has been learned about Krabbe disease recently, no doubt in part as a result of successful efforts to focus attention on the disorder by a very effective high-profile patient advocacy group. The Hunter’s Hope Foundation was established by Pro Football Hall of Fame member Jim