Criterian for Evaluation: Group Rnaking

Here are the Criteria discussed in class. Use these to shape the final criteria that will be used by your group. Post the final criteria and the process you will use to evaluate and rank the members of your team related to the final project.

-Attendance/Participation

-Tasks Accomplished

-Professionalism

-Communication

-Contribution

I don't feel this evaluation is fair or just seeing that my group is having to work so much as a team to tackle each part. Ranking us wouldn't be right. But I think for redoing our project so many times after the main topic got changed my group did an awesome job!!! :)

5S Process

Tackling cleaning my room....

1st-I sorted through my clothes, divided them into what needed to be hangup or put in the drawers and bags that needed to be hung in my other closet. 

2nd-I straightened up and put everything in its proper place, I like to keep my clothes and closet color coordinated. 

3rd- I'm trying to maintain cleaning up after myself so that it stays clean!! 

4rd-I now make sure that once I do laundry or come home from vacation to put everything away once its clean and washed otherwise it will just turn into a massive pile once again on my futon. 

5th-Sustain clean room!! This requires me to put things away when I'm done using them and not expecting to come back later and deal with it because then it just turns into a bigger pile with everyday that goes by.

Quality Management

Association of Zoos and Aquariums 

Animal Management

More than 175 million people visit AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums annually. Exceptional management of the animals within, and cooperatively between these institutions, is vital for ensuring that healthy, genetically diverse populations are sustained.  Information, protocols, and tools have been developed for animal record keeping, collection planning, and population management that serve to facilitate exceptional animal management techniques.

Animal Data and Record Keeping

Animal data and records must be expertly documented in an effective and efficient manner. The AZA Animal Data Information Systems Committee and Institutional Data Management Advisory Group focus on advancing and providing the latest technology in this field of expertise. A variety of reference materials and animal record keeping software programs including ARKS4, MedARKS, and SPARKS, have been developed to meet these objectives. 

Collection Planning

Extensive collection planning processes are required to meet not only the needs of each AZA-accredited institution, but also to secure the well-being of the species as a whole between these institutions. Several tools and mechanisms are provided to facilitate the development of superior Institutional and Regional Collection Plans including an online Animal Exchange Database. 

Population Management and Related Centers

AZA-accredited institutions must work cooperatively to ensure that the species they care for are managed in a way that assures appropriate population sizes, demography, genetic diversity, and sustainability. The AZA Population Management and Wildlife Contraception Centers play integral roles in meeting this purpose. Group population management strategies and a variety of population management software programs including MateRX, Outbreak, PopLink, PM2000, SPARKS, VORTEX, and ZooRisk have also been developed to further cooperative management techniques.

http://www.aza.org/animal-management/

General Ethics

Code Statements:
AZA Code= http://www.aza.org/Ethics/
USA-Example from the Buffalo Zoo Keeper Manual: http://www.buffalozoo.org/Keeper_Manual__Auckland_Zoo_.pdf 
Australia-http://www.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/about-us/faq/general-zoo-questions/guidelines-and-ethics/
India-http://cza.nic.in/
Thailand-http://www.seaza.org/CommitteeWelfare.html
Saudi Arabia-http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/section/174.pdf (women's right to work in zoo)
Isreal-http://www.jerusalemzoo.org.il/
Canada- http://www.zoocheck.com/Reportpdfs/Indianreport1.pdf

Ethical Question

Is it ethical for a physician to accept Wild tickets from a pharmaceutical rep to take her family to the game?

-It depends on the circumstances of the ticket giving. If the physician has no intend to buy from the rep and has made his/her intentions to the rep clear and the tickets weren't given as a form of rep hoping to get orders from the physician then yes it is ok. Say the rep had the tickets and is close friends of the physician and all of a sudden the rep has a event or issue that arises preventing the rep from attending the game and they know the physician and their family are fans of the Minnesota Wild then I find no problem in the physician attending the game. But if other motives are behind the ticket gifting then no the physician would be out of line to expect the tickets.

Provide an argument for this based on the current ethical fabric of society and what is accepted in the organizations involved.

Post 9: Project Title, Issue, and Action Plan

Our project is "Solar Power"
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AR-g2f6dIA0oZGdxZG1zaHdfNDN3N3FwMnZoZw&pli=1 "
Is solar power a wise choice for the average household.
Divide and conquer into different options of possible choices for consumers.

Ethical Question for Your Field of Interest

Is allowing/keeping animals in zoos/captivity the best for the animals?

Pros-Zoos and animals in captivity serve as a huge education tool. Animals invasive to particular areas present at zoos allow children and adults to learn and interact with them like they never could before. In many areas certain animals have stereotypes and bad stigmas behind them, but education of people helps to break and make people see past these bad stereotypes. Zoos also have species on the verge of extinction and AZA accredited zoos breed to keep certain genetic lines pure. In the wild due to decreasing numbers animals are interbreeding creating mutations within genetic lines without the work of zoos a clean genetic line in some species would not be found anymore. And many species on the verge of extinction would in fact be completely extinct. Another large need for zoos is that zoos allow animals who are kicked out of there natural habitats by humans a place to continue there lives, with cities growing bigger and country area depleting space in the wild for animals is largely decreasing.

Cons-Confinding animals that are meant to be roaming in the wild to a cage for the rest of their life can be very tramatising to the animal. People view zoos as a form of exploiding animals instead of as a means of education and think the animals are being treated in a way like some would say "circuis" freaks put in cages to ooh and aww at instead of being praised and appreciated for the beautiful animals they are and their interesting ways of life. By keeping and mating animals in captivity many lose their natural mating and parenting abitlites they develop over time in the wild.
Personal-In my eyes a zoo is a good and a bad thing. AZA accredited zoos are great places for animals to live since they have such high standards set for the animals being kept at there facilities. They only encourage the best and cleanest genetic line to help animal species approaching extinction. Zoos also play a large role in education, from working at the Green Bay NEW Zoo this summer as an education intern I saw first hand the many steps and areas a zoo covers to education chilren and adults on the animals we have in the zoo and in the wild. I believe zoos can be a great thing if they are kept up to a certain standard of living for the animals and education standard for the fecilitators of the zoo.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-zoos.html
http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=1