It's just that they're at an age when gathering for any purpose outside of school is a lark, and they can't help frittering away their time gossiping, spinning records, dancing to the latest beat or craze or whatever it is, their thin arms flailing, hair in motion, legs going like pogo sticks.
Taking into consideration security risks, no FGDs were held in locations of active conflict where gathering persons for any purpose could have been misinterpreted to put facilitators and participants at risk.
In fact, they were skills that were not specific to my line of research--any individual who has worked in a field that promotes experimentation and data gathering for the purpose of analysis and interpretation will have these skills.
While the organisations that care for our countryside are keen to embrace "one for the pot" foragers playing by the rules, they are worried about those gathering for commercial purposes.
But top police officials in several other cities have also said that Mr. Ashcroft's plan raises troubling questions about racial profiling -- an issue that has brought endless grief to police departments nationwide -- and may violate local and state laws about issues like intelligence gathering for political purposes.
Some police chiefs, having worked hard to put racial profiling to rest, have said they would not cooperate with the F.B.I. because the sweep appears to violate departmental policy or state or local laws against racial profiling or intelligence gathering for political purposes.
Source: Authors Fig. 9 Spatial practice of migrant labourers in the Al Asmagh Street utilising the sidewalk in various activities inlcuding gathering for social purposes.
Audio recording was refused by participants in one study because of their previous experiences of information gathering for political purposes and resultant distrust [ 24].
But Mr. Gissin said Mr. Arafat was "trying to use this religious gathering for purely political purposes, to legitimize his continued support of terrorist groups".
The play then abruptly turns into a facsimile of a "satsang," or a gathering for purposes of collective meditation, in which the audience is given lessons in chanting and basic meditation followed by a long shadow puppet show about the Hindu god Shiva.
He said the US did not use its intelligence gathering capabilities for the purpose of promoting its economic interests, and that Mr Obama was committed to ensuring "that we are collecting information not just because we can, but because we should, because we need it for our security".
