My Toolbox Is Never Empty

Things my mother never taught me.

Be Prepared: things my scoutmaster never told me.

P reparedness, a term that originated in the military lexicon and connoted a readiness for war, has become one of the new watchwords of emergency medicine. In this issue of the Journal are two articles dealing with emergency department (ED) preparedness (see pages 12 and 18). These articles are interesting to consider, both for their similarities and for their advocacy of ED preparedness. Gorma...

Who Moved My Chalk? A Toolbox for Language Teachers

Technology, media and the Internet are major agents of change in the language teaching profession. This presentation introduces skills and tools language teachers need to do their job more effectively and how they can embark on a strategy of self-development seeking assistance from institutional and organizational programs, peers and other sources. The following topics are addressed: (a) Change...

Is Cpu Queue Empty?

Automatism is never a defence

In 2009, Andrew Simester’s article ‘Intoxication is Never a Defence’ effectively highlighted a point he described as ‘a simple one, and not entirely new’; that despite the longstanding (and enduring) description of the intoxication rules as a defence, this is not (and never has been) accurate.1 The classification of intoxication as a defence is one of the criminal law’s more peculiar self-delus...