D Block Physical Geography - Today we continue our look at chemical weathering by focusing our attention on karst topography and caves (think Guangxi province in China, Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, and Arecibo in Puerto Rico). If you go to the Geoscape Nanaimo webpage you can find some really good graphic and information about Karst on Vancouver Island (on the left hand panel look at "Our Rock Foundations" and you'll find the subsection on caves and karst).
For work today, you'll need to answer "Identify at least three conditions that are necessary for the formation of karst topography" (p.254 in Geosystems Core Text). For cool pictures of solution cave formations check out The Virtual Cave. Also if you wish to see these features "live" you could travel 40 kilometres south and go to the Horn Lake Caves. We'll watch the Planet Earth Cave episode. This will help you with the questions on chemical weathering, Karst topography and solution cave formation.
Check out the National Geographic article "Cave of the Crystal Giants" which is about Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of Crystals, a limestone cavern with glittering selenite crystal beams discovered in 2000 nearly a thousand feet below ground in the Naica mine in northern Mexico.
C Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the key question, "Why Is Access to Folk and Popular Culture Unequal?" We will really focus on the diffusion of popular culture and look at the mass media of television. The world’s most popular and important electronic media format is television (TV). While the Internet has grown in popularity and importance in recent years, TV remains the foremost electronic media format. Television is a mirror of our world, offering an often-distorted vision of national identity, as well as shaping our perceptions of various groups of people.
In March 2011, then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the argument that U.S. television was giving people around the world a distorted view of Americans.
"I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and World Wide Wrestling," (a side note, at its peak, Baywatch was broadcast in 142 countries and around the world more than 1 billion people have watched the show).So you'll have some questions about television to work on today and then
B Block Criminology - Today we'll watch the episode of the TNT television show "Leverage" (the Boost Job) from Season 3. I'd like you to pay attention to is the skill set that each member of the leverage team has: Nathan "Nate" Ford "The Mastermind"; Sophie Devereaux "The Grifter"; Alec Hardison "The Hacker"; Eliot Spencer "The Hitter"; and Parker "The Thief". I'd also like you to think of the types of crime in the show and how each one was perpetrated (auto theft, embezzlement, fraud, and identity theft). In the episode, Paul Mantlo, a teacher who runs a landscaping business on the side has purchased a pick-up truck from Penzer Auto Sales. This truck turns out to have been stolen, and has a cloned VIN (Vehicle Identification Number). Nate, the master mind of the group, briefs the team and explains that the owner of Penzer's Auto, Duke Penzer, is an ex-racer and he "clones" stolen cars by registering them in other states. Parker (the thief) knows all about how car theft works and explains how Penzer runs his scam...The episode deals with auto theft, fraud, and good burglars and will help you with Tuesday's questions on auto theft and next week's blog entry on good burglars.
For more check out:
Vehicle Cloning: Stolen Vehicles Hiding in Plain Sight
Police issue warning to used car buyers after busting fraud scheme
How to avoid being duped by car cloning scams
Edmonton police bust vehicle VIN cloning scam, recover $500,000 in property
Vehicle Cloning: Stolen Vehicles Hiding in Plain Sight
Police issue warning to used car buyers after busting fraud scheme
How to avoid being duped by car cloning scams
Edmonton police bust vehicle VIN cloning scam, recover $500,000 in property
A Block Legal Studies - To start today, we'll finish watching the Law & Order episode “Fools for Love”. You'll need to answer question 5 on page 175 of the All About Law text “Explain plea negotiation and outline the advantages and disadvantages of the process. In your opinion, is justice served by plea negotiations?”
This is not a one or two sentence answer; it requires thought and work.
To help, from the Department of Justice here in Canada: Broadly speaking, the promises that may be made by Crown counsel fall into three, overlapping categories: (1) promises relating to the nature of the charges to be laid (charge bargaining); (2) promises relating to the ultimate sentence that may be meted out by the court (sentence bargaining); and (3) promises relating to the facts that the Crown may bring to the attention of the trial judge (fact bargaining).
- Charge Bargaining
- Reduction of the charge to a lesser included offence;
- Withdrawal or stay of other charges or the promise not to proceed with other possible charges; or
- Promise not to charge friends or family of the defendant; or
- Promise to withdraw a charge in return for the defendant's undertaking to enter into a peace bond.
- Sentence Bargaining
- Promise to proceed summarily rather than by way of indictment;
- Promise to make a specific sentence recommendation;
- Promise not to oppose defence counsel's sentence recommendation;
- Promise to submit a joint sentencing submission;
- Promise not to appeal against sentence imposed at trial;
- Promise not to apply for a more severe penalty (for example, by not giving notice to seek a higher range of sentence based on the accused's previous conviction – s. 727 of the Criminal Code);
- Promise not to apply to the trial court for a finding that the accused is a dangerous offender (s. 753 of the Criminal Code) or a long–term offender (s. 753.1 of the Criminal Code);
- Promise to make a representation as to the place of imprisonment, type of treatment, etc.; or
- Promise to arrange the sentence hearing before a particular judge.
- Fact bargaining
- promise not to "volunteer" information detrimental to the accused during the sentencing hearing;
- promise not to mention a circumstance of the offence that may be interpreted by the judge as an aggravating factor (see, for example, the aggravating factors listed in s. 718.2(a) of the Criminal Code).
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