Tuesday, December 15, 2009

SNOW!
Since the buses are not running today I fully expect a diminished class load. Even though I expect fewer students in school today, school is still in session (and I will help with work throughout the day). On to the day's schedule...

Today's schedule is D-C-Lunch-A-B

D - Law 12 - Today we will take the class to work on our civil law project. If you'd like to jump ahead in the text there are some important sections involving "liability" for businesses and social guests on pages 307-311 (Text section 11.7 Occupiers' Liability: general invitees; commercial and social host invitees; licensees; trespassers; and the Occupiers Liability Act). These topics are relevant to all cases except for Case 7 (the Shasley Pompacelli case). Tomorrow in class we'll work on questions from the end of Chapter 10: Exploring Legal Concepts questions 5 a & b and 6 a & b on page 286 and Reviewing Your Reading questions 1 a & b, 3, and 4 on pages 278-9 in your All About Law textbook. For more on the BC Liquor laws (pertaining to case 5) check out the Serving It Right information here or for information on liquor law basics here.

BC Liquor Control and Licensing Act [RSBC 1996] Chapter 267

43 (1) A person must not sell or give liquor to an intoxicated person or a person apparently under the influence of liquor.

(2) A licensee or the licensee's employee must not permit

(a) a person to become intoxicated, or

(b) an intoxicated person to remain in that part of a licensed establishment where liquor is sold, served or otherwise supplied.

Liability of officer of corporation

77 If an offence under this Act is committed by a corporation, the officer or agent of the corporation in charge of the establishment in which the offence is committed is deemed to be a party to the offence and is personally liable to the penalties prescribed for the offence as a principal offender but nothing in this section relieves the corporation or the person actually committing the offence from liability for it.

Liability of occupant of establishment

78 On proof that an offence under this Act has been committed by

(a) a person employed by the occupant of a house, shop, restaurant, room or other establishment in which the offence is committed, or

(b) a person permitted by the occupant to be or remain in or on that house, shop, restaurant, room or establishment, or to act in any way for the occupant,

the occupant is deemed to be a party to the offence and is liable as a principal offender to the penalties prescribed for the offence, even though the offence was committed by a person who is not proved to have committed it under or by the direction of the occupant but nothing in this section relieves the person actually committing the offence from liability for it.

C - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we will spend the entire class in the library working on our crime scene reconstruction project (don't forget that this assignment is due this Thursday, December 17th, 2009). Don't forget that I have many books that you can use for your project. Your quiz scheduled for today will be postponed until tomorrow.

A - Social Studies 11 - Today, we'll continue to examine the dramatic changes to Canada's culture and identity as a result of the "baby boom" generation. We'll look at how the government tried to protect Canadian culture and the economy along with the development of both the environmental and woman's rights movements. We'll watch a few episodes of Canada: A People's History and then you'll need to work on question 6 from page 167; questions 1 & 2 from page 172; question 2 from page 176 and questions 2 & 3 from page 182 of the Counterpoints textbook.

B - Geography 12 - Today is our LAST DAY in the library for our severe weather power point project. Remember that Discovery Channel has a great series called Raging Planet with some cool video footage that you could embed in your power point presentation here:
Discovery Channel Raging Planet Your project will need to be submitted into the assignments directory at school NO LATER than Thursday, December 17th. This will give me enough time to have them marked before the Christmas Break. I will also remind you that you have a weather unit final tomorrow (Wednesday December 16th, 2009) and if you have any questions you should ask me as soon as possible. Study, sleep, eat a good breakfast and I'll see you tomorrow morning. For the test the work goes back to November 17th, 2009 (use the Blog Archive feature on the right hand side of this site - above the "About Me" and below the "Search This Blog" sections) The test topics include:

1. the structure of the atmosphere (tropo & strato)
2. ozone depletion (CFC's), the enhanced greenhouse effect (GHG's) & air pollution (acid rain)
3. solar energy & insolation (heat, albedo, energy distribution, & seasons)
4. atmospheric pressure & global wind patterns (coriolis force, wind pattern names, pressure zones)
5. low & high pressure systems (how they happen, winds & weather associated with them, including air masses)
6. precipitation (lifting mechanisims - orographic, frontal, radiative, convectional - fronts and storms)
7. weather maps (station plots / models and low pressure cyclonic storms - cold and warm fronts)
8. severe weather (specifically hurricanes - how they develop & how they cause damage)