A Block Physical Geography -Today we'll finish the El Reno Oklahoma EF3 Tornado of 2013 tornado video we started on Friday
Oklahoma typically experiences around 60 tornadoes a year, as it is part of Tornado Alley. Most tornadoes, about 77 percent, don’t cause death or widespread damage however some can spin up to create something spectacularly dangerous. The El Reno tornado, that struck central Oklahoma, measured 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) wide at its base and killed 18 people including veteran tornado researchers and storm chasers Tim and Paul Samaras and Carl Young (National Geographic did an excellent piece on Tim Samaras called "The Last Chase")
A really good article on the El Reno Tornado and the storm chasers around it can be found at Outside magazine online When the Luck Ran Out in El Reno
Don't forget questions:
- Evaluate the pattern of tornado activity in Canada and the United States. Where is Tornado Alley? What generalizations can you make about the distribution and timing of tornadoes? What happened in 2003?
- Describe the formation process of a mesocyclone. How is this development associated with that of a tornado?
NWS Jetstream Tornadoes
Weather underground Supercells
How Mesocyclones Work
Weather Network Tornado Alley
CBC What is Tornado Alley
NOAA Tornado Alley
When you're working on questions I'll put on the National Geographic 2015 Joplin Missouri tornado coverage
...and because I'm a nerd...do you know that chasers have their own vocab? Check out the article Do you speak storm-chasing? from TED. Or the National Weather Service Weather Glossary for Storm Spotters
C Block Criminology - Today we are in the library to begin our work on the media literacy component of our course. Can you please work on the following two blog entries:
- So, I asked you to track your media consumption for a 24 hour period last week. Could you please do two things for me with this discussion thread:1. Answer Did you accurately predict your daily media consumption"? In your response to this question explain how much you thought you'd consume, then identify the actual amount. Next, identify what surprised you about your findings and explain how you consume it (do you multi-task - streaming video with listening to music while gaming and commenting about it via social networking? Do you single-task or immerse yourself in one format/content - watch one webisode or episode of something with no other media? Do you binge - save your media consumption for one dedicated time period? Do you nibble or graze - watch little bits sporadically throughout the day?). Do you mostly consume "user created" media product (You Tube, Tumblr, Facebook, SnapChat, Sound Cloud) or do you consume "mainstream" media products (cable television, Internet websites, radio or online radio like XM, Spiotify or Songza, magazines or newspapers)? Finally are you always "on" or do you "unplug" (in other words are you continually checking, reading, creating, consuming
Be sure to read all that I am asking you to answer (there are two questions for the "How Much..."thread). For Media consumption consider the following...
Look at this Kaiser Family Foundation study from 2010; it will give us a good idea about amounts of media youth consume (Generation M2) . Last Thursday I asked you to write down what media format you interacted with for a time period throughout the day and to guesstimate how much time you interacted with it. I know that you are a generation of multi-taskers (and that you are interacting with this blog right now) so try to be as honest as you can about what you consume/interact with.
- Your second blog entry pertains to this...In North America we are fascinated with crime and justice; often through movies, novels, comic books, newspapers, magazines, television, everyday conversations, games we play and this class. The mass media play a hugely important role in how we citizens (consumers of media) create our views on crime, criminals, deviants, law enforcement officers, the courts and criminal behaviour. How they are portrayed in the mass media often becomes our view of them. Remember that all media are constructions and as such media is not real, nor does it necessarily reflect reality. It builds an image of a particular reality for a purpose, usually marketing. Media is responsible for most of our understanding of how the world works and where we fit into the world. Our views of reality can be manipulated or twisted based on the type of media we consume. So deconstructing media, or taking it apart to see how it is made, helps us think critically about media rather than just mindlessly consuming it whole. So my question to you is Why is it important to study crime media?
For the "Why is it important..."thread please consider the following:
We're not seeing more police shootings, just more news coverage
Canadians still wildly overestimating the level of violent crime
and although it is humour...check out the serious irony in this video
D Block Law - Today we will take the class to work on our civil law project. We'll look at enforcing judgments, other sources of compensation and we'll quickly look at Negligence (much more on it tomorrow). If you'd like to jump ahead in the text there are some important sections involving "liability" for businesses and social guests on pages 406-410 (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. 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.
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