Slideshow Critiques

For my photo gallery, I focused on the West Gate Mall attack that took place last year, where more than sixty people from a range of countries were killed in a terrorist attack. Although the pictures in the gallery do a very good job in showing the emotions that Kenyans went through and the full on action of exactly what happened, without sound the reader or the audience doesn't connect as much as they would if it had some type of sound.(narration, music)http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/slide-show-attack-on-nairobis-westgate-mall


For my audio slide show I chose the Sexual Violence in south Sudan. It focuses on a young girl who tells her story of what happened when she was raped. the audio does add a huge difference that makes the viewer interested. For this slide show I felt as if the subtitles didn't do justice compared to if there was a narrator who would have spoken instead and translated http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/audioslideshow/2014/jun/05/sexual-violence-south-sudan-audio-slideshow

Deer, Moose, Bears

Population of Wild life throughout the New England region

Much of the New England part of the United States contains valuable wildlife animals such as the deer, moose and bear populations.

Hunting season throughout the New England region helps to regulate the population of these animals.

However, according to Maine’s moose biologist; Lee Kantar, ticks are being found on dead moose after bleeding them dry. Due to this dramatic decrease in the moose population, last year Maine reduced their moose hunting permits by 1000 people.

Vermont as well has seen a significant drop in their moose population as well forcing the state to reduce their hunting permits as well.

As of January 2014, New Hampshire began a four monitoring of 80-90 moose to determine just how rapid the moose population has and still is declining. When one of the collared moose dies, the collar stops transmitting information which allows the scientists and biologists to determine the exact cause of death of each moose.

The moose population in Vermont has decreased by nearly a half of what it was less than a decade ago in 2005 while the population in New Hampshire has shrunk more than 3,000.

While the moose population may currently be going down in some areas of New England, the bear and deer population appear to be on the rise. During the 20^th century the deer population was down to several hundred in Massachusetts; now however the population of the white-tailed deer tops 85,000.
Maine’s annual bear hunt began in August which the state hopes will reduce the growing population of bears. It has been determined by Maine officials that the hunters will need to kill between 3,500 to 4,500 bears annually to control the population; that is between five hundred to a thousand five hundred more than the past decade’s average.

 Despite the increase of the deer population in Vermont, the number of hunters in the state has declined 24.4 percent since the 1980’s.

In spite of the rapid increasing population of bears, there has been a push by the Humane society in Maine to ban certain types of bear hunting making it illegal to bait, trap and hunting the bears with dogs.

Those pulling for this law to pass, believe that the baiting, trapping and dogs are an unethical way to hunt the bears.  If this effort succeeds, the already increasing bear population will continue to increase at alarming numbers, forcing Maine to reconsider a new way to regulate the population.

The growth in the population may be related to the increase of forest land within the New England region with the decline of farming in the New England region, particularly New Hampshire; the unused farm land becomes overgrown with forestation. The over grown farm land creates more habitats for the herd animals causing a population growth.

2014 College Football Data Visualiztion (Critique)

This week I decided to critique a data visualization blog on College Football Recruiting. In this visual data about college Football recruit in 2014,  this site shows an interactive heat map visual that users could click or tap to access deeper data. The reason I picked this site/data is because of the Football season and the Ray Rice story. What I like about this data is its presentation. Its bright blue background color makes it pop out and enjoyable and fun to read. The visualization data of it even gives a more deeper information which in the first place its supposed to do.

https://marketplace.visual.ly/case-studies/college-football-recruiting

Kaitlyn & Victors Podcast (College Relationships)

COLLEGE RELATIONSHIPS! To some, having a relationship in college has either been a huge success while to others, they just happen to fail miserably during the four years at college.

1/3 of college seniors have been on fewer than two dates. Does this surprise you? What about the fact that 32.5 percent of college relationships are long distance. Dating in college is nothing like what the movies and tv shows make it appear as. 

Scientists, professors and psychologists including Charlotte Lieberman, a recent Harvard grad, takes on what's wrong with love on campus. We all know that college is the place where you get to find yourself and make all the mistakes when it comes to relationships, before you find you special one in life. No matter the relationship status we are in individually, we all have a word or two that we can share on the topic of relationships.

Hook ups, friend with benefits, open relationships, long distance relationship are what seems to be the trend, especially in the generation of today. It’s even harder now to find your soul mate with this new rules. Welcome to college relationships.

If you are interested in learning more about studies and statistics found about:

http://www.campusexplorer.com/college-advice-tips/E6F6928C/7-Surprising-College-Dating-Statistics/

http://www.loveisrespect.org/43-college-women-experience-violence-and-abusive-dating-behaviors

http://www.seventeen.com/college/advice/college-dating-truth-nov05​

College Relationships!!

Dating in college……to many it’s a huge deal. In so many movies college is where the girl finds this too good to be real. Prince charming who comes out of nowhere, sweeps her off her feet and carries her into the sunset. Or it’s where the boy who was always in the shadows in high school catches the eye of the most beautiful, perfect girl who ends up falling deeply, and utterly in love with him. Sounds perfect right? Wrong. While many college relationships are great they are the furthest thing from perfect.

            Kaitlyn Manktelow and Victor Mwangi are going to talk about the ups, the downs and all the twist and turns of dating in college. They will be joined by Zach Perry who will talk about handling long distance relationships within the college scene.

            Just in case you don’t take their words to heart, they will also include some findings by Scientists, professors and psychologists including Charlotte Lieberman, a recent Harvard grad, who takes on what's wrong with love on campus in this century.

            Stay on the lookout for their upcoming podcast because it is definitely something you will not want to miss!​

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Victor Mwangi

Amber Alert (THIS IS NOT A REAL NEWS STORY)

An Amber Alert has been released In the state of Alabama. A girl by the name Mackenzie Crosswhite is believed to have run away with a man she met online.

 Mackenzie who is only 15 years old, sneaked out of her home at around 10pm on Thursday to meet the unidentified man.

According to WAFF, Mackenzie doesn't have a cellphone and hasn't made in contact with Her father, Mr. James Edward Crosswhite. It’s been exactly 2 days (24hrs) since Mackenzie has been missing.Mackenzie has blue eyes and blonde hair, is 5'7" tall and weighs 140 pounds.

http://www.georgianewsday.com/news/regional/201639-amber-alert-for-missing-15-year-old-girl-believed-to-have-run-away-with-man-she-met-online.html