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Chris D. McDonald is a character that comes about through the amalgamation of two people's personal responses to the following questions along with an attempt to reflect on the current state of photography. The interview was conducted between two students of the University of Southern California in the Fall term of 2011.The purpose of this page is for others to have the ability to edit the interview, interjecting their thoughts on the questions in attempt to create a greater definition of what the photographic practice consist of today. In one way, Chris D. McDonald is a literary character like any other, comprised of real material as well as the projection of the reader, in another way Chris D. McDonald is a definition of the photographic practice, like any other definition, in a constant state of flux.

Chris D. McDonald
What sort of things/events haven’t been photographed in your life? Hasn’t everything been photographed. Well, at least if the photography has not been actualized it seems that we all share some sort of ‘total recall’ ability which allows us to create an image in our mind that is produced based on the millions of images we see in our lives. An answer to this question then could be that no one has taken a photograph of myself working at my desk, thinking, or using the restroom. These moments are seemingly uninteresting and perhaps evoke some voyeuristic affect that deems them uncomfortable to photograph. Yet, if I think of myself working, I can come up with an image, using this ‘total recall’ ability that most call "the mind’s eye." This image is an idealized notion of the image I would create if I were to photograph myself at that moment. However, the formal qualities of that image are based in the pre-existing aesthetic structure created by the photographic visual stimuli we see every day. So in that sense the photograph I would create would be a combination of many photographs that already exist, I am only placing into the formal structure my own personal memories and experiences, (the toilette, myself, the room, the sink, the window etc.) So I guess then, in a way, everything has already been photographed.

Why do you think that is? We’ve been documenting people, objects, and places, for as long as we’ve been able to. Somewhere, very early on in the evolution of photography, someone or many people realized the power of a photograph to produce desire. This desire, often manifests itself in an affect that causes us to enjoy the formal qualities of a photograph. So in that sense what is being produced now is a mirror of what has been produced in the past and we have experienced as aesthetically pleasing. One could go against this structure of what is aesthetically pleasing, and people have, but it is, in a way, similar to going from playing connect four to playing checkers. One system uses the yellow structure where you are dropping colored checkers in, and the other is played on an entirely different plain following entirely different rules, yet both employ the same pieces of visual stimuli (checkers) and are in fact just as connected to the other's structure through their evasion. It is difficult to say how many of these structures exist and how they manifest, they could be art historical periods or simply trends and fashions, but what is more easily to understood is their relation to the goal, both games have a goal and when that goal is met both games provide an equal sense of enjoyment. What seems to be a more interesting focus of contemporary photography, for me at least, is a shifting focus towards the rules of the game. What I attempt to accomplish in my own practice is an understanding of how these rules, which are often not so apparent, come into play when someone say "jumps" or "connects four."

Are there times when you refused to be photographed, or are evasive of a camera?Yes, though less often then in the past. I guess, with the influx of social media it becomes difficult to know when someone is taking a photograph of you until it shows up on the Internet. Our image then becomes something that is no longer under our control, if it ever was in the first place. Somehow this has shaped in what moments I feel uncomfortable to be photographed. It is often awkward to pose for a photograph now, unless you really trust the photographer. Chances are a great deal more people will view the image now than in the days of Polaroids and family photo albums.

Do you ever destroy or hide photographs? Yes, both.

How secretive are you of some of the images of your past you keep? I’ll share them with close friends if they come up in conversation, but that doesn’t happen often.

Do you have a “secret life” in your photographs? Yes, in the sense you mean…I think yes, we all do. We walk around all day projecting an image of ourselves in our mind based on mirrors, our state of mind and personal self esteem. Other people’s relationship with our appearance is equally dependant on these factors. I think most people in one form or another are conscious of this, they may not articulate it in the same way I do but people are ‘self-conscious.’ So when people are given any editing ability or any control over the representation of their image they will manipulate it, creating an alternate image or even a character in some ways. So in the manner that my life outside the photograph and my life inside them may not line up, then yes I do.

What sort of things would you have liked to be photographed since you grew up, but never got around to it? A series of portraits of close family and friends that abstracts their identity by a chemical process, leaving them unrecognizable. I wish I would have photographed the town and house of my parents in New Jersey while they lived there the past 4 years. Now they have moved and everything I always thought I would shoot next time I was in town exists undocumented by me.

'''What sorts of pictures would you take if they were for you alone? Important to photograph yourself?'''I would take more self-exploitive/exploratory images. I do consider it important to photograph yourself (depending on your intent in doing so). It’s a way to come to know yourself and reconsider your approach to making work and your approach to your own process of making work.

What do you mean by exploitative? I guess I mean, images that exploit my desire to be who I am not whether that be an idealized representation of myself or one that resists that image. I have not photographed myself all that much, maybe on one or two separate occasions. I guess I would like to explore it as a way to recognize thoughts of my own representational image.

'''Is it important to have pictures of your working life? Or some of the conflicting/oppressive situations you have passed through?''' It seems important to have photos of your working live, though I can not decide why that it… Perhaps it’s a way to remind yourself that you have accomplished

Are there things that you are banned from looking at that you would like to see/photograph? I can’t imagine anything that I am unable to look at. Even the most disturbing of images is available to look at online. Yet there are images that I am ‘banned’ from looking or photographing. It is not so different from what we were just talking about in terms of one’s ability to create a ‘secret life’ in their photographs. When one has any control they will censor to shape the perception of the viewer. I would like to photograph certain areas in airports as well as museums. I enjoy sitting in airports and watching people go by, seeing what they do and photographing it. I think an airport is an interesting place where people alter their ‘normal’ mode of behavior and enter a quasi-performative space. In some ways this performance is a playing into the power the airport has over our bodies and in some ways the gate and resting areas are a forced respite from everyday life. That is what makes airports so interesting I guess, that they have both sides of the spectrum, one that is created by the structure of everyday life, and one that attempts to evade it. I think this is true, maybe they are jut interesting. I would also like to photograph museum spaces. Both airports and museum spaces are somewhat “off limits” to the photographer, in the fact that quite literally I have been pulled aside at an airport and told to hand over my film.

Can you envisage taking photographs now that you could use as a way of opening up different types of conversations from those we usually have with family and people we are in close relationships with? Absolutely, this has happened to me several times. My father has this fascination with the humdrum and the mundane, he enjoys William Eggelston because he says he takes the everyday and makes it interesting, for him it is through a projection of the political but I am not sure I always see that in Eggelston’s work. Regardless, I think photography can spark profoundly interesting conversations when you begin to analyze it. It gets interesting when you are thinking about a specific viewer when you create a photograph. If I make a photograph to play devil’s advocate to one of my father’s ideas it can be very amusing to discuss with him and to hear what others say about it.

Could you imagine re-staging something for the camera after it has already happened? Yes, if it was necessary to recreate. Id prefer to keep it authentic, but don’t see much harm in restaging if it better communicated what your trying to get across…but then again how could one photograph be more authentic than another. They both start in the same place, our head, and they both crate the same outcome. I guess re-staging then can even at some times become more authentic than not doing so because it does have the ability to capture that thought in the most idealized way.

'''Do you think that the photographs you have taken say enough about your life as an adult? How could you alter that? Is it important to have more/different images?''' Could they ever say enough about anyone’s life as an adult? Can an entire life be summed up in images alone? Well, no I don’t think so. But a perception can be created through images. It is really question that I think everyone would answer differently. I guess that is no different from any of these questions, but it all depends on your image of yourself and how you think your photographs will build that image for someone else. I think mine needs a lot of work, as I am not even sure what characters I am trying to build at this point.

It is important to take different pictures for your children? Ah, see there you go. Pushing my buttons. This is getting at what I was just saying with this idea of building an overall image. I myself would like to have a document of my life to show my children. Things I’ve done, people I’ve had relationships with, places of been, etc. does that allow them to know my past, or to see what I have chosen not to show them…No, but it does do a pretty good job of sparking a conversation and of allowing them some perspective on my life.

If there is something you want to say to someone you love, could you make a visual representation of it? Yes.

How would you go about giving yourself permission to say something you usually censor? Just do it. Visual art is a platform to say what we might usually be censored. We can still say it but in a less blatant form. I guess that still plays into the censorship, by being somewhat clandestine but there is something appealing in sneaking something by the censor.

'''If you could make a public image (in fantasy) of what you feel about your family life where would you start? Where would you put it? Are you clear about who you would be addressing it to?''' I would start by ridding the image of anything representational of a “family” (ie human figures, etc), and focus on the feelings I get from my own familial relationship. I would want form and color to communicate the sense of support, comfort, and contentment I get, while still having a smaller intrusive area representative of the long term issues and personality traits that don’t seem to change. I would place it in the sand on a cliff overlooking the beach where we always used to walk our dogs. It would address myself and my family, though others might encounter it. I guess in that way it would be a project for myself and my family, but by placing it in a somewhat public space others would encounter it. I am not sure then how it functions, in a way it is sort of like projecting a home video onto the wall of a public library. The film functions for my family members to see and to recall any and all feelings but for others it does not function the same way.

If you have been involved in study recently has it helped/hindered your thinking process? Have your taboo thresh-holds gone up, or come down? BOTH. I think its always helping, even if it presents itself as a hindrance at first, working through the problem helps in the long run. But becoming more aware of the work and ideas that are already out there make me question my own work in those new contexts. Taboo thresholds have come way down, but also gone up in a different direction. I guess personally I don’t care what other people think about my work but at the same time I try to be conscious about what is accepted and what isn’t…and ya sure it is nice to have people like my work.

Do you find it harder or easier to say the things you want to say visually, or to write? Visually. Even though I sometimes feel like neither is adequate. The reality is it is difficult to get someone else to see where you are coming from.

'''When you make a piece of writing or visual work do you tend to hide the production process? Do you keep drafts, wip? Is what is kept also what is shown?''' I’ve done both. I’ve revealed the entire process before by exhibiting a video of that process next to the result of the image. It depends on the project. Currently something I’m struggling with is how my work changes when the process or details are reveled vs. concealed. What I have been interested in and continue to be interested in is the idea that your process can reflect the subject matter of your work. I am very interested in working with this idea.

'''Are there pictures you have taken which give you a lot of pleasure or grief? Annoy you? Are totally inadequate?''' Yes. Yes. Yes.

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this is the engineering projects i will be working on The goal of this form is to provide a standard project format that practicing engineers can use to compare project documentation with while assessing these projects. It is called the "Team Done Form" because it should be filled out by the end of the project. Starting with this format helps make the done process much easier.

Projects are never "done" or "finished." But time runs out. Classes end. So this form has nothing to do with project success. This "Done" form can simply state "Nothing was done." If the section below does not fit your project, delete everything but still leave in the section header.

Problem Statement
Put the last negotiated problem statement with the instructor or client of the project here.

Team Members
Put each team members name here with links to their personal page here. Real names do not have to be used.

Summary
Put an overall, one paragraph summary here with links to the team weekly reports.

Poster
Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.

Story
Tell a story of the project. Describe how split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were. This is a longer version of the summary with links to all the details collected associated with the project. These links could be to software, links to videos, links to project pages with pictures, etc. Think of the story as a summary of the team weekly reports on one long page rather than a short paragraph like the summary.

Decision List
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Material List
Figuring out what to purchase, what to build, what everything costs is a huge part of engineering. Typically there is a list of materials in stock, materials that are ordered, materials that should be ordered next time there is money, materials that have not been fully justified. These issues are part of healthy management of the engineering lab but are associated with a particular college. The detail needs to be published in this "Done" form. However in the project root, just a list of materials is necessary.

Software List
Installing and learning different software packages is part of most engineering project just like the materials list.

Time
Time estimates and actual time consumed measurements helps justify salaries (grades). The only way to gain respect for estimated project time and costs is to practice.

Tutorials
Most projects consist of making instructions to jump start the next team, shrink the learning of tools and software to the minimum, advice on where to purchase materials, how to assemble, etc. Tutorials modified or created are described here with links.

Next Steps
If this is not filled out, the next team may have to repeat each of your steps just to figure out what the next step is. It is best to write this immediately at the end of the project while creating the summary, poster, presentation, and story.

Subjective Critera
While reading these sections, practicing engineers are building up the following impressions about the document. So the following categories are more subjective:

Repeatablitly
Is there enough detail to repeat the work?

Integrity
Proving something doesn't exist or doesn't work usually requires exhaustion. Simply saying "it can not be done" is like challenging a pro basketball player (engineer) to one-on-one basketball (find a solution). It does not inspire respect. All the different ways respect is created can be found throughout the wikibook General Engineering Introduction.

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User:Qchi8375/enes100/poppit

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Assign Task1
Tasks are typically done over the weekend. They are documented during the week, presented during the week and the next weekends work is negotiated during the week. Week 0 is the week that task 1 is negotiated. Record your individual task here. Plan on working on it during the weekend between week0 and week1.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/550 qpa

Problem Statement
there are at least 8 rows and columns of balloons and so the array hardly repeats itself thus making it difficult to establish a particular method of approach.

Team Members

 * qchi
 * patel

Summary
We basically used various approaches to attack the task at hand. We made decisions like popping all the red balloons first, yellows second and the blues third. we also did the rows first and columns second while at other instances we did the columns before the rows.

Story
This project came as test in class when Mr foerster wanted us to see if there was a chance or a method of approach towards the game to actually burst all the balloons.If one was able to do this the next objective was surely to design a software program that was to play far better than any human at all times.

Decision List
we decided to approach the task at hand by sharing so as to be able to try out as many games as possible.qchi was to do by starting with rows then columns; patel was for the columns before rows and then the red balloons first.The most favorable method was to be decided by statistical counting and presentation based on the games played.

Material List
there are no required materials used apart from a computer

Software List
google chrome and exel

Time
time was set for an hour and a half of constant tries.

Tutorials
Try out a lot of games.Deciding on a strategy after only a few games can be misleading.


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User:Rhorton4549/enes100/poppit

Link to team Superior 4 project page.

Week0 Activities
-Acquire engineering notebook

Write problem statement
Play the web-game Poppit! in order to understand the chunking processes. Develop a method for playing the game whereby, one should end up with zero balloons left over or as few left over as possible.

Assign Task1
Play Poppit! and develop a method.

Compare actual work done to Task1
I played Poppit! for six hours over the week using various techniques to achieve zero balloons as the end of each game. Attempted to focus on eliminating one color at a time, eliminating the outer columns of balloons on the array, and

Week1 Narrative
Played Poppit using various methods starting on Sunday afternoon attempting to focus on eliminating one color at a time, eliminating the outer columns of balloons on the array, and keeping all columns at equal level while progressing through the game. Here is some sample gameplay. Results were not constant but I did achieve results as low as five balloons left over.

I also recorded the number of each balloon color in an array and compared it against later ones to see if there was a repeating pattern but with only a small data set I was not able to discern one.

Week1 Peer Review
Mbaig7172 and Palluri9407 each tried their own methods for trying to achieve zero balloons left over. Palluri9407 had similar methods to my own and we both ended up with results that varied.

Assign Task2
Continue to play Poppit while applying our best method. In my case that is focusing on the center columns trying to align pairs of balloons and collapse the array.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Played between 3-4 hours over the weekend using the method that I found best which is to focus on the center column. My average was 12 balloons left over with a low of 1 and a high of 31. With previous methods resulting in an average of 20, this method is my definite choice for use in a future program.

Week2 Narrative
Gameplay was limited due to need to focus on Computer Science II but the time that I did spend playing showed that initial results proved good but deteriorated over time due to the boredom of the game and my mind slipping and missing key pairs that would have resulted in lower values.

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User:Palluri9407/enes100/poppit

Link to team Superior 4 project page.

Week 0 Activities
Project Poppit was introduced. Each team was assigned a task of either Chunking, Programming, and Statistics. Our team was assigned to Chunk

Problem statement
Play the game Poppit online, and figure out a way to chunk balloons in a way that you end up with the least amount of balloons possible.

Assign Task1
Play Poppit and develop various methods of chunking in order to eliminate as many balloons as possible.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Played Poppit for a total of 8 hours with a total of 65 games using different chunking methods such as:

- Eliminating balloons by color - Eliminating balloons by chunking larger groups first and then, smaller groups - Eliminating balloons from left to right - Eliminating balloons from the bottom up - Eliminating balloons from right to left - Eliminating balloons from top to bottom

Week1 Narrative
No matter how I played or which method I used, I couldn't get a consistent number of balloons remaining at the end. When I was using the different methods, the lowest I could get was 10 balloons while I was eliminating them from left to right. Other Than that one time, no matter how much I tried I couldn't get a consistent answer.

Week1 Peer Review
Mbaig7172 and Rhorton4549 did a great job in their chunking methods, by working for hours over the weekend in order to crack this game down.

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User:Epropplerp/enes100/poppit

Link to project superior team page.

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Assign Task1
Tasks are typically done over the weekend. They are documented during the week, presented during the week and the next weekends work is negotiated during the week. Week 0 is the week that task 1 is negotiated. Record your individual task here. Plan on working on it during the weekend between week0 and week1.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

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User talk:Qchi8375

 Hello Qchi8375, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. All users are expected to abide by our Privacy policy, Civility policy, and the Terms of Use while at Wikiversity.

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Thanks for explaining to me the simple mechanics of the sterling engine. Since this was your last project your insight is valuable.

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User talk:Josh.O'Brien/The changing landscape of Rugby League in Australia

An interesting topic Josh. Could you also include a bit more on the reasons why the Commission was formed, and how the people in it were selected, and what can be expected from them? As you say, there's a lot of business and politics in there. The player behavior will in some way reflect their management success or otherwise (players acting up may even be good for business), and fan and club reactions to the new management will be interesting to observe too. Leighblackall 22:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I think this is a great choice of topic, Josh. I note Leigh's questions. Postillion 11:37, 13 September 2011 (UTC)


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User talk:JoshHeuer/Corruption in Football

Josh, you could take the impact further, into the local, and even the fan base. That way you are covering local to international politics. Be careful not to only focus on public relations problems. Perhaps look into how the corruption works (politics), and the rationale for it (business). Leighblackall 22:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


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User:Rhorton4549/enes100

Project Pages:

Poppit

HAM

Wind Tunnel

Helicopter

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User talk:Kathleenmccaskie/Sport, Sponsorship and Social Responsibility

An interesting, and deep topic Kathleen. Don't forget to make strong connections between what you're talking about, and the practices of business and politics, and to cover it from a local to international stage. I think it's possible, perhaps even looking at sponsorship and support at the local family game? Do McDonalds still offer food vouchers at sporting matches? What about local small businesses? Is their influence notable, and what of it? What are the differences and similarities between that activity and national and international level. Given the popularity of sport, does it even need sponsorship and support like this? Other cultural areas like art, other sport activities, performance don't seem to need such levels of sponsorship, or have such influential dealings with businesses. Leighblackall 22:56, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I am looking forward to our conversation, Kathleen, and persuading you to be bold in the discussion of this topic. Postillion 23:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


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User:Bstaffor6331/enes100

this is where I will build a portfolio of all engineering projects

List of engineering projects:

 * Electric Cars

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User talk:WillSackett/The Role of Sport for Government

Hi Will, this is a good selection of topics. I edited your outline simply to suggest a slightly different structure. I moved your second paragraph to be the last, just to close off the outline, and focus on the 2 topics you are using: Crawford and FIFA. Through these is should be possible to cover business and politics from a local to international scale, but you might need to constantly remind yourself, and resist the temptation to focus only on the national scale. Leighblackall 23:11, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Will I like the topic too. Remember to consider the Government's response to Crawford (Pathways). I am keen to discuss this. Postillion 23:41, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Leigh, it looks better now that things have been switched around a bit, will keep that in mind. Thanks Keith, I will have to have a look at the response from the government. I am not sure whether I should focus solely on Crawford or include the World Cup bid as well? WillSackett 22:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Will, I like the way this is developing. I would stick with Crawford and the Government's response. If you need more information try http://keithlyons.me/?s=Crawford+Report&submit=Search Postillion 05:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Will, I have worked through your essay as if it was in Word. I have made some edit suggestions. I look forward to discussing this with you. Postillion 10:48, 1 November 2011 (UTC)


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Category:UCNISS/BPS2011/Football

BPS2011 Essays focusing on Football

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User:Epropplerp

This page is for your portofolio

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Hung Parliament Coalition Game

Introduction

Simelec 2012 is a series of simulations which model a hung parliament being returned in a 2012 UK General Election. The first simulation took place at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster on 11th June 2011. Simelec is a role-playing exercise which simulates the negotiations which would be necessary if the next general election results in a genuinely hung parliament. The various participants play the leaderships of the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, and other parties. In their briefing documents, they are given different objectives which can be realised either by forming or frustrating a coalition agreement by their own party with others in this new parliament. The role-playing exercise consists of five rounds each representing a key period in the build-up and aftermath of the election. At the end of the fifth round, the simulation concludes with the formation of either a coalition or a minority government. There then follows a discussion by participants and observers as regards their experience of the role-playing exercise and what can be learnt from it.

Scenario[edit]

Labour was returned as the largest party with 295 seats, with the Conservatives the second largest on 285, while the Liberal Democrats were reduced to 20 seats. Smaller parties got the other seats, but only the Scottish Nationalists/Plaid Cymru (single role) and the Green Party were played as a role.

Roles[edit]

Labour Left Labour Centre Labour Right Conservative Left Conservative Centre Conservative Right Liberal Democrat Left Liberal Democrat Right Scottish Nationalists/Plaid Cymru Green Party

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User:A Brown/FIFA WORLD CUP: the Holy Grail of Australian Football

The FIFA World Cup bid process strongly reflects an existent relationship between sport, business and politics. The international mega-event has become a huge commodity, with bidding nations committing million of dollars worth of government funds to simply be in with a chance of hosting the event. It then becomes a matter of diplomacy as bidding nations try to secure votes from the 24 members of FIFA's Executive Committee. This report will demonstrate the articulation of business and politics with the FIFA World Cup hosting rights bid process, using Australia's bid for the 2022 World Cup as the case study. The Australian bid was led by multi-billionaire and Football Federation of Australia chairman Frank Lowy. Australia was commended for producing a technically sound bid, experience hosting major sporting events, and strong government support, yet was unable to secure the hosting rights. The Australian bid was hampered by clashes between other football codes, limited relationships within FIFA, a lack of media support due to a lack of public understanding regarding the politics in FIFA and the inability to guarantee FIFA worthwhile commercial revenue. The current bidding policy means that next World Cup Australia will be eligible to bid for will be in 2034.

Alternative Resource
If you prefer to listen to information and/or follow along with visual aids, view my report in presentation form on Youtube.

FIFA World Cup: The Holy Grail of Australian Football

Introduction
December 2nd 2010. A date which while easily over-looked by most of the nation, brought devastating news to the Australian football community. In a crushing defeat at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, the Australian bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup was outvoted by winning nation Qatar. The Australian bid process took years of planning, millions of tax-payer dollars and the strategic inclusion of many powerful yet delicate political & business dealings.

The FIFA World Cup has evolved into a valuable commodity. Desires to host the event are driven by the opportunity it gives hosts to be a part of world football history, show case their countries best attributes, the economic boost it presumably brings and for the football legacy that is said to remain. The World Cup hosting process mixes international sport with diplomacy. The high value which has been placed on the World Cup means that getting the most technically sound bid is no longer sufficient, as more focus is turned to the actual 'bidding' involved.

This report will demonstrate the articulation of business and politics with the FIFA World Cup hosting rights bid process, using Australia's unsuccessful bid as a case study.

History
The FIFA World Cup host selection process has required much tinkering and fine tuning since its beginning. Initially the host was chosen by FIFA’s congress, meaning that for years the World Cup did not leave Europe or the Americas – football’s stronghold areas.

Following the decision to award Japan/South Korea the 2002 FIFA World Cup, a rotational system was voted in, outlining that hosting rights would rotate through each confederation. A weakness in this system was highlighted when Brazil was the sole bidder for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In order to maintain true competition across several bids, a unanimous decision was made to adjust the system once again. The current system stipulates that any nation may bid so long as that they do not belong to the same confederation as the hosts from the two preceding World Cups.

The host is decided via an Exhaustive ballot system as voted by the FIFA Executive Committee. The FIFA Executive Committee (FIFA ExCo) is comprised of 24 members, including: 1 president, 8 vice-presidents and 15 members appointed by the confederations and associations.

Controversy
Following corruption accusations from British press, FIFA investigated two members of its executive committee over seeking cash in exchange for votes to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The two ExCo members were French FIFA vice-president Reynald Temarii, and a Nigerian member on the committee, Amos Adamu who was also the president of the West Africa Football Union. Both members were suspended from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other), meaning that there was only 22 members voting in the 2018/2022 World Cups hosting rights.

The Requirement
On January 15 2009, FIFA sent out a World Cup bidding process invitationto the eligible member associations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. This invitation emphasised the minimum stadia infrastructure requirement of the host country. The minimum requirement is 12 stadia with a minimum capacity of 40, 000 for group matches and 80, 000 for the opening match and final. In addition, the invitation stressed the essential need for the highest level of TV broadcasting, information and telecommunications technology, transport and accommodation.

Following a nation's confirmed expression of interest, FIFA sent out a "Hosting Agreement", which explained the steps and requirements that are expected from a strong bid.

Bid Team
The Australian bid for the FIFA 2022 World Cup was led by Football Federation Australia (FFA) chairman Frank Lowy. Lowy is a multi-billionaire who's former passion to build his Westfield Group empire is said to be only rivalled by his passion for building football in Australia (Smithies, T. 2010). Lowy's time in charge has seen the launch of the A-League and Australia's induction into the Asian Football Federation. Lowy's right hand man throughout the process was FFA CEO Ben Buckley. As a requirement of FIFA, a Bid Committee was also established as an internal business unit of the FFA. This committee comprised of 15 members (Treharne, T. 2010).

The Evaluation
The Australian Bid Evaluation Report for the most part was highly commended. The inspection group made note of Australia's experience hosting major sport events, strong government support, and an easily attainable infrastructure development program.

Australia was labeled a low risk and technically sound potential host, offering the opportunity to bring the tournament to Australia and Oceania for the first time.

So how did the Australian bid which was highly commended for its fulfillment of FIFA requirements only manage to scrape 1 vote? In order to answer this question, it's important to take a closer look at the details and diplomacy behind the Australian bid.

Government Support and Funding
One of the major strengths of the Australian bid was the support from all levels of government. At the Council of Australian Governments meeting in March 2008, all state governments agreed to work cooperatively with the FFA should they bid to host the World Cup. Federal Government further cemented it's support in December 2008 by allocating $45.6 million to fund the World Cup bid. Lowy noted that "[the money] will be used for professional services that we will hire in Australia and overseas to make sure that we have the best possible bid" to win over the delegates of the FIFA ExCo. Furthermore, support by national and local football authorities, local city governments, stadium authorities and the federal government was confirmed to FIFA via the handing over of signed Host City Agreements, Stadium Agreements and Government Guarantees.

Despite supporting the bid, some reluctance still existed at a state government level. This was due to the fact that should the Australian bid have been successful, a further $2.8 billion would have been required for stadia infrastructure alone. This figure would have been at the cost of the state governments, however the exact details as to which states would meet the cost and to what extent would not be decided until the host decision was made.

Persuasive Strategies
As made evident by the suspensions of Temarii, Adamu and more recently, the ban of four more FIFA officials for similar breaches, the decision is rarely just the result of the best bid. Former FFA chairman John O'Neill made the comment that "With FIFA, your bid first has to be compliant, then it becomes a combination of strategic importance for the world game combined with the complexities of the politics" (Smithies, T. 2010). In the words of an anonymous senior sporting administrator "Are deals being done? No doubt. But it's so important you understand the rules of engagement. Where do you draw the line?" (Smithies, T. 2010)

, n.d]] It is very important to note that the decision comes down to votes from 22 individuals and is not the collective decision of FIFA as such. Therefore it is important to build relationships with each ExCo member and keep in mind that each member has their own personal agenda to consider.

Lowy himself is one of the greatest assets of the bid. With his mind-blowing wealth, comes unrivaled access to power, whether it is within Australia's federal government or at the top of footballs elite and exclusive circles. Lowy poured much of his own wealth into building relationships with ExCo members and their respective countries. Only some of which examples include private dinners for the ExCo at his Point Piper mansion (Smithies, T. 2010), and entertaining them on his luxury yacht in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.

Whilst Lowy had strengthened his relationships, Australia needed more ties within the FIFA ranks. The FFA used some of their government funding to contract two controversial European 'fixers' in order to get more feet in more doors. Peter Hargitay, former right-hand man to FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Fedor Radmann, who is very close to football royalty  Franz Beckenbauer. Both men have jaded pasts, Hargitay working closely for US tax fugitive Marc Rich whilst Radmann was forced to quit the 2006 FIFA World Cup organising committee for awarding contracts to a company he was involved with (Smithies, T 2010). The decision to appoint the two men was heavily criticised by Australian media. Rod Allen, head of the Australian bid's media relations expressed frustrations over this, stating that "[it was] disappointing to see such ignorance from the mainstream media about football and business politics...they are not use to understanding how FIFA operates." (Treharne, T. 2010). Ben Buckley defended the FFA's decision, claiming that they were up against "competitors from longstanding football world powers and countries with huge assets and economies. In this context FFA has to marshall the greatest resources possible to have a genuine chance of success. This requires the input and expertise of international consultants with specific experience in the area of bidding for major football events."

Other strategies to sway votes include when Australia played in a youth tournament in Cyprus and covered some of the costs for Trinidad to join, home of 'at the time' FIFA vice-president, Jack Warner. The expense was justified as aiding the sports global development. In the year leading up to the bid, Australia played friendly matches against Poland, Switzerland (home of Joseph Blatter and the FIFA HQ), Paraguay and Egypt, who both have members on the ExCo (Smithies, T. 2010).

Unfortunately for the FFA, FIFA ExCo members weren't the only party which needed to be persuaded and convinced. Closer to home, there was reluctance from the other football codes within Australia.

Inter-Code Reluctance

The FIFA World Cup takes place over the months of June and July. The National Rugby League (NRL),  Australian Football League (AFL) and  Super Rugby seasons all overlap with this June/July time frame. This presents problems on multiple levels.

Firstly, given the FIFA requirement of 12 stadia and the timing of the World Cup, this would cause disruption to the AFL, NRL and Super Rugby seasons. Super Rugby would have been less affected due to it's ability to easily relocate games to New Zealand and South Africa. AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou dealt the biggest blow by denying the FFA use of Etihad Stadium (also known as  Docklands Stadium). The FFA had planned on utilising Etihad as 1 of the 12 stadia. Throughout the ordeal, Lowy maintained the point that the World Cup would benefit all local sports. Lowy described it as being like the Olympics but 10 times bigger, explaining that the venues that were to be built/refurbished would continue to service football and other sports for a long time after the event was over.

The failure to resolve the tension and inability of each party to come to an agreement led to the government creating a task force whose role was to negotiate an arrangement with the AFL and NRL. A Memorandum of understanding was entered into by the federal government, FFA, AFL, NRL and ARU and contains the guarantee that Australia would lodge a FIFA-compliant bid (availability of 12 stadia), and that each football codes competition would be played as usual, backed by the promise that should any disruption occur they would be financially compensated.

The evaluation report of Australia's bid highlighted a concern about the impact that the AFL and NRL season going ahead may have on the availability of resources and public attention given to the FIFA World Cup.

Profitability & Economic Impact
A major flaw highlighted in Australia's bid evaluation report was the time zone of Australia and the inconvenience this would have on European and north and south American viewers. This means there is a high risk of reduced TV income and as a result, decreased commercial revenue from Europe and the Americas, where FIFA generates most of it's broadcasting revenue. Furthermore, a McKinsey report commissioned by FIFA found Australia's bid to be the least profitable. The study assessed 5 key revenue areas: ticketing, TV and media rights, sponsorship, hospitality and merchandising. Australia scored just 68%, while the USA scored a perfect 100% - interesting to note however that the eventual winner Qatar, only scored 70%. Lowy tried to shrug off the figures, focusing rather on the potential growth of the Asian market by 2022. Unfortunately this will be a continuing stumbling block for Australia, at least until there is more growth in the Asian market as FIFA generates the majority of it's revenue from these 5 key areas.

In a cost-benefit analysis of Australia's bid commissioned by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, it was found that in the best case scenario, Australia would benefit at a value of $12 per person. Contrasting this is the more likely estimate that it would cost Australia at a value of $66 per person - incurring a huge loss. Analysis of the economic impact it would have found figures to range from $5.3billion to $36billion

Due to the increased spending on bids and evidence of debt following hosting major sporting events, economists suggest that FIFA should rather than look to the most lavish bid, vote for the nations which will support the most fundamental change. Qatar's win to host may indeed be an example of this reasoning, however it is mentioned that the cost of their bid is up at the $65b USD mark and will be more used as a marketing tool rather than development.

Conclusion
The process requires bidding nations to embark on a huge political campaign, to try and win the powerful votes of the FIFA Executive Committee. The commodification of the FIFA World Cup is apparent as bidding nations spend millions of dollars trying to win votes and make huge monetary commitments to FIFA, underwritten by government guarantees. The strong desire to host the mega-event has resulted in nations taking on many persuasion strategies, often entering political grey areas, which some would suggest evokes corruption.

Despite having a technically sound bid, experience hosting major sporting events, and strong government support, Australia was unable to secure the hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup. The Australian bid was hampered by clashes between other football codes, limited relationships within FIFA, a lack of public understanding regarding the politics in FIFA and the inability to guarantee FIFA worthwhile commercial revenue. The current bidding policy means that next World Cup Australia will be eligible to bid for will be in 2034. Perhaps by then the Asian market will be stronger, and the FFA will have managed to strengthen relationships with both FIFA and it's members, as well as the other football codes within Australia.

The FIFA World Cup bid process is a clear example of the articulation between sport, business and politics.


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Moved the user page you created
You created a user page for User:Epropple, which is an account name that doesn't exist. I moved it to your name, hope you don't mind. I'll delete that page after a short pause. Again, welcome! --Abd 00:37, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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welcome back
. You taught me to welcome contributors, that it was important. Thanks. --Abd 18:07, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Welcoming new users
Thanks for your work welcoming new users. I'm seriously busy today and may not be able to handle this, so your work is especially appreciated. I've started trying to document when I last made a "sweep," looking for redlinked user talk pages, and sometimes checking new users with talk pages that they have created themselves. See Wikiversity talk:Welcoming committee. If you wish to, and you have made a full sweep since the last documented sweep, it could be useful if you would sign there. Thanks again. --Abd 15:56, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Welcome for spammers and vandals
We don't normally do that, unless an edit is marginal. I noticed that you welcomed a clear spammer, Ottava. I learned to do welcoming from you, so this must simply have been a slip. When I see new users with a redlinked talk page, with an edit, I check contributions, I'm looking for anything that might reasonably be considered a good faith edit, including testing stuff in the Sandbox, or setting up their user page. I'll glance at those edits. In the case of Celery you welcomed at 15:55 16 September. The only edit for that account has been deleted, it was on User:Celery. It was blatant linkspam, created at 02:14, 16 September 2011, and tagged as linkspam by Mathonius at 05:06, 16 September 2011. It was actually deleted by Draicone at 06:42, 16 September 2011, and Draicone had blocked the user, you'd have seen that in Contributions.

So how you found the user's edit to use as a basis for welcome is unclear. I'd guess you loaded Recent Changes, before 06:42, then looked at it much later and did your welcoming. Not a big deal, but please do try to be careful. To get the ball rolling, I'm going to speedy tag that user talk page, if you don't object. You are the only editor. --Abd 01:22, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Ug. You also welcomed Deng. I haven't check more than a couple of welcomes.

There are some other problems as well, such as Myoma. I wouldn't expect you to catch that, not being familiar with recent activity. However, the page was thoroughly inappropriate, if I didn't know that this is a sock, I'd still have moved the page into user space on first sight. I'm deleting that page, it's a duplicate of many that the user has created, which are only starting to be deleted, as the user is completely unresponsive and keeps creating them. I've still not blocked the primary account, because my goal is cooperation. But .... well, let's hope. As it is, see User talk:Mr. burmese, the primary account. I'm now seeing that I'll need to review your welcomes, because they could, as with Myoma, be concealing problems. Seriously, Ottava, I didn't expect to see this. Please be more careful. --Abd 01:33, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * We welcome everyone. Don't lecture me about Welcoming, especially in such an incivil and inappropriate manner. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:35, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, Dracione blocked Celery for 1 month, Deng for 1 month, and you chose to inappropriately block a user indefinitely which is not the type of block we apply. Dracione was appropriate. We welcome users because we expect that they can become better after their block. What you did was completely alienate someone and not tell them why their behavior is unacceptable. Your mentor should have immediately revoked your ability to block for that indef. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:45, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Block notice
Ottava, I've just blocked you for a week. You haven't really been a positive contributor here for a while, and you seem to be focused in a laser-like fashion on "taking down" someone who has historically been your rival.

Just something to think about: among the various accusations you've made, you've accused Abd of acting in a "political" manner, in the negative sense of "political". While you might be right about that, you should have at least made a modicum of effort to at least appear to do the AGF thing.

More to think about: "politically", it would have been much better for me to encourage you, because we're definitely on the same side when it comes to Abd becoming a full custodian. I'm not blocking you for the sake of politics, and I'm not blocking you just because I don't like you. If you really care all that much about Abd's shortcomings and can present it in a coherent manner, you now have a week to do so.

While I wish it weren't necessary to say this, I will: Abd, I will block you if you make any comment that might aggravate this situation, with no prejudice about whether you meant to aggravate it (IOW, please leave Ottava alone). --SB_Johnny talk 20:54, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Oh, I mentioned this on my talk, but I'll repeat it here: If you want to get into an argument about this, the WR annex would be a better venue for me. --SB_Johnny talk 20:56, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Really? Not a positive contributor? Did you bother to look at my contribs before making things up? I had to go through and check recent contribs dating back 10,000 to fix a lot of mistakes. Not only did Abd proceed to harass me during it, but also tried to claim that it was acceptable to block in a manner that encouraged disruption and imported more drama to Wikiversity. Now you violated all ethical standards in your block, and it is extremely problematic. Your edits show no real positive activity, while my short time since I returned show over 32 times more positive contributions than you. That isn't a coincidence. That has always been the case, and one reason why Jimbo desysopped you for blatant disruption and abuse. Ottava Rima (talk)  01:40, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

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