In the Final Weeks...

Soon finals will be here and there is much to do before they arrive. During break I read the articles I received and searched for some more, trying to grasp the bigger picture for my article portion of the assignment. I found this interesting article on the New York Times website about food donation centers that are available to pet owners that can't afford to keep their pet otherwise. There was discussion about the current economy and home crisis that contribute to the rise of assistance. Chicago animal shelters in particular PAWS, are establishing foster care for animals and food donation programs with Petco to stop the euthanizing of animals. This article isn't the same focus as my article but it might be able to give it that extra idea of why the humane society in Cedar Falls needs a new facility and how the economy is impacting the fundraising for the project. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/giving/12PETS.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=humane%20society&st=cse&scp=3

They also included a slideshow with this article. It was nice but dull after a couple of pictures because there is no sound and the pictures repeat the same ideas and some have captions that retell what you can already see from the picture or read from the article. I need to beware of making those mistakes with my slideshow. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/12/giving/slideshowpets_index.html

Since I am behind from where I wanted to be at this point my list of things to do is extra long this week so I don't get further behind.

Here is my list of things I want to do this week...
I am going to do my interview for the interactive slideshow about the animals needing to be adopted and the adoption process depending on the sound bits I get from the interview.
I also want to do my video interview and get the b-roll done. I am still going to focus on the problem with the current center.

While doing the interviews, I want to get the locations of all the Humane Societies in Iowa and copyright permission for photos if they have them or find a different route to go on the google map because I won't be able to go take pictures of all the centers.

I also need to get the stats for animal drop off for my data visualization to show if the economy has increase Humane Society numbers.