Evidence of Speed—Highway Radar

The problem of the highway speeder is almost as old as the automobile itself. With this problem came two others—one, the detection of the speeding motorist, and two, the use of the means of detection as evidence in convicting the offender. Through the years many devices have been invented to determine the speed of an automobile. Some of these have succeeded m the courtroom and are still used; others have been determined inadmissible in evidence. Some of the means most commonly used at the present time met with difficulty at first and in some instances are still not enough in themselves to gain a conviction

Integrated Mine Action: A Rights-Based Approach in Cambodia

The lives of some of the most impoverished Cambodians are beginning to improve as a result of new governmental programmes and nonprofit assistance that award land, provide training and offer other opportunities. Integrating mine action with other development programmes is building a sustainable economic community in Cambodia

Editorial Pictorial

DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.000

ENCHANTED SELVES Transgender Children\u27s Persistent use of Mermaid Imagery in Self-Portraiture

In recent years, there has been a surge of popular interest in the lives and experiences of transgender and gender diverse people. However, this interest has been disproportionately focused on adults and teens, on biomedical framing and persistent binarism, without paying attention to young transgender and gender diverse children\u27s engagement with culture, media and meaning. This article presents data from an ongoing arts-based ethnographic study of young transgender and gender-diverse children (ages 3-10) in the United States. In this study, feminine-identified transgender children repeatedly drew themselves as mermaids in self-portraits and highlighted the importance of other mermaid-related play throughout their drawings and narratives. Even very young transgirls insisted that their drawings of mermaids represented the joy of being able to be their true selves, affirmations of femininity and nascent trans pride. This article begins with a brief discussion of mermaids in Western culture and media, followed by a more in-depth focus on the applicability of the mermaid as metaphor for understanding young transgirl experience, representation and feminine credentialing

Integrated Mine Action: Lessons and Recommendations from Austcare\u27s Program in Cambodia

This report identifies lessons learned and best practices from Austcare’s Integrated Mine Action (IMA) Program in Cambodia. It provides key recommendations for Austcare to consider implementing, while also highlighting broader perspectives that may be of interest to other agencies involved in IMA or seeking to develop a similar approach. To date, few organisations have documented their field-based experiences in IMA. This report explores Austcare’s experience in Cambodia to explain and advocate the benefits of IMA, as well to identify some of the challenges involved. It is hoped that the results will encourage a broader discussion and exchange on the subject. Integrated mine action is defined by four different, but related, approaches: integration into development, which refers to the potential for mine action to reduce the direct and indirect impact of landmines while simultaneously contributing to the economic and social development; integration of mine action’s core pillars, in particular mine clearance, mine risk education, survivor assistance, and advocacy; integration in conflict and post-conflict situations, highlighting mine action’s potential role in building peace, and as part of the human security framework; and integration in resource allocation, which refers to the potential to mainstream spending for mine action into overall development allocations

Evidence

Covers cases on witnesses in determining the competency of insane persons, on relevancy of facts of arrest in civil suits, on the plaintiff\u27s criminal record and its admissibility to limit claims to damages for unemployment, on the competency of interested party witnesses and time when interest is to be determined, on the relevancy of the fact of no insurance (Campbell), on the admission of certified copies of foreign divorce decrees (Smith), on the liberal construction of the Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act, on the attorney-client privilege when communications are made in the presence of two or more interested persons, and on privileged communications between spouses (Brennan)

Toward better understanding the corporate innovation landscape in New Zealand using Industrial Research Ltd's "What's your problem New Zealand?": Competition data: analysis and propositions

This paper utilises a unique data set to investigate New Zealand’s corporate innovation landscape. It examines a sample of kiwi firms with true “innovative intent”, and their efforts to gain external R&D support from Industrial Research Limited (IRL), a Crown Research Institute. Aggregated data from over 100 applications to IRL’s “What’s Your Problem New Zealand?” competition, held in 2009, informs of these companies’ location, size, age, export orientation, sector, and research problem type. We divide the competition entrants into three categories: “strayers”, “contestants”, and “finalists”, and consider their aforementioned characteristics in relation to each other and, where possible, to the median New Zealand firm. From this, we advance 14 propositions regarding the nation’s corporate innovation landscape, and suggest some potential implications for policy makers