A - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we will continue our look at crime scene investigation and you'll have time to work on your assignment in class. Don't forget that Monday you'll be in the library to work on the crime scene assignment and Tuesday you'll have a quiz on crime scene investigation procedures. If you are interested in playing crime scene investigation on line go to: Rice University's CSI: The Experience Web Adventure. After we spend about half an hour on our project we'll watch an episode of CSI (#301 Revenge is Best Served Cold). From tv.com...
Catherine and Nick investigate street racing after one of the drivers is found dead out in the desert at an abandoned airstrip. Back in town, Grissom and his crew look into the death of a poker player who suffered a violent convulsion in the middle of a high-stakes game with three others. As always, things aren't what they seem.
D - Geography 12 - Today we are off to the library to begin three days of working on our severe weather power point assignment. The assignment follows:
It has been a few months now since your geographic consulting company created a successful report for the town of Orting Washington on the dangers of Mt. Rainier and building a new school to accommodate growth. With the profits that your company made from the Orting contract, you decided to take some time off and headed to the American Midwest for a 10 day Tornado Alley tour with Violent Skies Tours. True to form you made some contacts with people through the owners of the company and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has hired your company to create a PowerPoint presentation on severe weather. NOAA has indicated that the topics that you can research are: Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Thunder Storms, Lightning, Hail, Blizzards, Ice Storms, Drought, or Fire Storms. You will need to research the following about your topic:
1.What causes the Severe Weather Event to occur?
2.What kinds of damage does the Severe Weather Event inflict?
3.How is the Severe Weather Event detected and monitored?
4.Where does your chosen Severe Weather Event occur most often in North America?
5.What safety precautions should one take in order to survive your chosen Severe Weather Event?
6.Give examples of the most extreme occurrences of your chosen Severe Weather Event that has happened in Canada, the United States and the world.
7.A List of the websites that you used to assist in the compilation of this assignment.
There are some websites of note that can help:
National Severe Storm Laboratory (click on the education tab)
National Hurricane Centre
Storm Prediction Centre About Tornadoes
FEMA (look at Plan and Prepare)
Environment Canada Summer Weather Hazards webpage
How the Weather works
The weather world 2010 project
USA Today Weather and Climate Science page
Hurricane Preparation website
Winter Weather Awareness
Weather Channel Classroom
UK Official weather classroom
NOAA Weather classroom Jet Stream
ONE STOP SHOPPING!!- COLORADO UNIVERSITY LINKS PAGE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS
I will also remind you that you have a weather unit final on Monday (December 13th, 2010) 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 16th, 2010 (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:
- the structure of the atmosphere (tropo & strato)
ozone depletion (CFC's), the enhanced greenhouse effect (GHG's) & air pollution (acid rain) - solar energy & insolation (heat, albedo, energy distribution, & seasons)
atmospheric pressure & global wind patterns (coriolis force, wind pattern names, pressure zones) - low & high pressure systems (how they happen, winds & weather associated with them, including air masses)
- precipitation (lifting mechanisims - orographic, frontal, radiative, convectional - fronts and storms)
- weather maps (station plots / models and low pressure cyclonic storms - cold and warm fronts)
- severe weather (specifically hurricanes - how they develop & how they cause damage)
C - Law 12 - Today we'll talk about judgments and compensation (general damages, specific damages, special damages, punitive damages, nominal damages, and injunctions), which should help you with your case project. I'll give you some notes on this topic and then you'll have the rest of the class to work on your project.
Compensatory Damages - The basis: Compensation in tort law is based on the principle of restitutio in integrum. The Purpose: To restore Plaintiff, in so far as money can do, to the same position as if no tort had been committed. It entitles Plaintiff to be compensated for their pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses arising from Defendant’s tort
Compensatory damages are divided into Special and General damages. Special Damages include: Pre-trial pecuniary losses incurred by Plaintiff which includes lost income, nursing and personal attendant costs, medical expenses and consequential expenses. General Damages include: Future losses resulting from Defendant’s tort. A Plaintiff may be compensated for three heads of damages under general damages: (1) Inability to work; (2) future care cost; and (3) non-pecuniary losses. Each item of damage must be separately considered and compensated for. More on these in class.
Non-Compensatory Damages include: Punitive Damages: These are appropriate where Defendant’s misconduct was so malicious, oppressive and highhanded. Their Purpose: Punishment and deterrence. Nominal Damages: which are small amounts of money awarded when the plaintiff has successfully established a cause of action but has suffered no substantial loss or is unable to prove what that loss is. Their purpose: Vindication of Plaintiff’s rights and a minor deterrence to Defendant.
Pau Hana!
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