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Burundi's President met for a second day with the leader of the country's last active rebel group, the National Liberation Forces. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Monday's meeting was the first between the two men in more than a year.
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, and Agathon Rwasa, the head of the rebel National Liberation Forces, known by their French acronym FNL, met in the capital Bujumbura.
Monday, the two men held their first direct meeting since June 2007, along with South Africa's Minister for Safety and Security Charles Nqakula, who is mediating peace negotiations between the two sides.
FNL spokesman Pasteur Habimana spoke to VOA from Bujumbura.
He said President Nkurunziza and Rwasa agreed to hold twice-weekly meetings, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and to establish a commission to address disputes that arise during the negotiations.
He said Charles Nqakula, who left for South Africa after Monday's meeting, would return to Burundi next week to evaluate whether the meetings have been productive.
The meetings follow a statement issued last week by the African Union's Peace and Security Council calling on the two sides to stop engaging in "procrastination and delaying tactics" in implementing a 2006 ceasefire agreement.
The FNL is the only remaining rebel group that has failed to reach an agreement with the government of President Nkurunziza, who was himself the leader of a rebel faction.
Rwasa, the rebel leader, has pledged support for demobilizing his troops and signing an agreement. But the two sides have failed to agree on a system for sharing power in government and military institutions, or on how to integrate
FNL rebels into the army.
Burundi's civil war, which began in 1993, pitted ethnic Hutu rebel groups against the country's Tutsi-dominated military. The conflict has killed an estimated 300,000 people, in a country with a population of 8 million.

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My outfit of the day. Whoops, forgot to close my backpack for the photos and ofc didn't notice until already in my birthday suit watching these pictures from my laptop.
I have the worst habit of spitting the seeds on the floor, or well, everywhere when eating mandarins, clementines etc. I don't even notice when I do it but it's super annoying to find the seeds stuck to my socks all the time! And it is also annoying when I accidentally do it somewhere else than home and people start yelling at me..:( I can't stand to be yelled at like at all! I start crying. What is a girl to do.. 8----( And you are very welcome for having to hear this soooo important and huge and dramatic problem of mine. Toodles!
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'The Welsh Girl' is set around the end of World War II. The prologue introduces us to a young man called Rotheram, the son of a Lutheran German mother. His father - long-gone - had been Jewish, but he had resisted leaving Germany until he realised that they would be in danger if they stayed. And now he's working for the British, deputed to see if he can work out whether a major Nazi criminal has lost his memory or not.
Chapter one then brings us to the Welsh hillside, and a young woman called Esther who lives on a farm and works in a bar. There's some animosity between the Welsh locals and the British soldiers who are stationed nearby, and Esther finds herself caught up in a very unpleasant situation that then shadows her life for the rest of the book.
The third main character is Karsten, a German soldier who's been promoted to a high rank but is evidently kind and thoughtful; we meet him when he's about to surrender, for the sake of his comrades, and he will then be taken to a newly formed POW camp in the village where Esther lives.
The novel then follows these very different individuals in the final months of the war, giving some interesting perspectives on the period. We read about shame, from quite different points of view; we see evacuees and soldiers in their daily lives. The war itself is not really happening on stage in the book, and all the individuals, whatever their culture or background, are seen as flawed by likeable humanity.
However, although I read it in just a few days, it didn't particularly grip or grab me. I doubt if I'll remember any of the people for more than a week or two, and already I'm wondering just what the story was about. That's often the way with 'literary' fiction.
Still, it made a good read, rather different from my normal fare. Recommended to anyone interested in the war years, who doesn't mind a fair amount of bad language.
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Ever lost your keys…to life?
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"EVERYTHING is energy" – here's a message from 2 of my personal mentors with whom I've been learning and training with in no cost as well as paid for immersion course programs over the past couple of years – they have a personal invite for you to a totally free teleseminar series where you can learn right there and then on the call how to instantly use on yourself some of the powerful self transformation tools I've been using just on myself initially as well as now with my own coaching clients in private practice; you'll also begin to have your own personal experience that **everything** in this life literally is just energy vibration! Read on…
Have you ever lost your keys, but they were right in front of you?
What I'm about to share with you is the truth, & it's not only right in front of you, it is you. You may at first be skeptical, but when you try it (even just ONCE) you'll never be able to refute it.
In just five minutes of experiencing this, you'll realize it's a true key to life!
What is this key of life?
Everything Is Energy…(you included)
Scientists like Einstein have known this for decades…but until recently we haven't known how to utilize it to transform our finan*ces, careers, relationships, health, or any other area.
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Another symbol of longevity which also brings an abundance of divine blessings can be found in many Chinese homes today is the Wu Lou. The Wu Lou or the bottle gourd or the "calabash" is a powerful traditional symbol of longevity, good health, prosperity and an abundance of blessings.
The shape of a Wu Lou is believed to be a representation of Heaven and Earth united in miniature. Displaying a Wu Lou in and around the home is a good thing to have to enhance one's Feng Shui. Many deities like Sau Sing Kung from the Fuk Luk Sau and Li T'ieh Kuai from the 8 Immortals, and sometimes the Laughing Buddha carry this wonderful item with them.
The authentic Wu Lou is made of the gourd fruit plucked from trees, the flesh inside carefully removed and then dried. In ancient times, the Wu Lou is used to store water or potions used during traveling and expeditions. Because of the Wu Lou's role in keeping the travelers alive, it was given the name the "giver of life" and hence became a symbol of good health. The Wu Lou is also believed to contain the elixir of health, vitality and immortality. In Chinese mythology, the Wu Lou is often used by Taoist monks and deities to suck and bottle up evil spirits into it, preventing them from doing harm. Hence the Wu Lou is a powerful Feng Shui cure to absorb negative chi of its surroundings.


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Which of the following is the BEST description of a Function?
- A set of requirements that define the functionality of an application of service
- A business user
- The logical teams, groups, and/or departments that form the basic units of an organization
- A scheduled event between IT management and front-line staff
The correct answer is 3.
ITIL defines Functions as a logical concept that refers to the people and automated measures that execute a process or activity. These can be broken up into many teams, groups, and departments, or be contained within a single business unit.
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Follow a loop trail through quiet woodlands then visit the site of a former lead mine used by Native Americans and, later, European settlers.
What make Tantiusques a special place?
Tantiusques ("tan-te-us-quays") – a Nipmuc word meaning "to a black deposit between two hills" – was the center of one of New England's first mining operations.
A short loop trail leads through quiet woods; a spur trail passes through the Leadmine Wildlife Management Area and ends at the Robert Crowd Site. Visitors can view the foundations of the house and barn of the African-American and Native American man who worked at the mine in the 1850s.
The Nipmuc originally mined here for graphite to make ceremonial paints. In 1644, John Winthrop, Jr., son of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, purchased the mine with hopes of extracting lead and iron. In the early 19th century, Captain Joseph Dixon and his son worked here before founding the J. D. Crucible Company of New Jersey, famous manufacturers of pencils.
Today, careful observers can see the mine cuts, ditches, and tailings piles made by the various mining operations. The mineshaft that tunnels into the face of the low ridge is the most recent of all the excavations, dating to 1902. Most of the mining at Tantiusques was of the open trench variety. The cut along the top of the ridge is the partially filled-in remainder of what was once a several thousand foot-long trench, 20 to 50 feet in depth and roughly 6 feet in width, which followed the vein of graphite.
1.5-mile loop trail. Moderate hiking, strenuous in places.
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In the days before the arrival of European colonists, Tantiusques was mined for graphite, also called "black lead," by the Nipmuc. The Nipmuc used the material to make ceremonial paints.
In 1644, John Winthrop, Jr., son of the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, purchased the mine and the surrounding land from the Nipmuc and began the first commercial mining operation on the site. In addition to its known graphite deposits, John Winthrop, Jr., apparently also anticipated the extraction of lead and iron. The mine stayed in the hands of the Winthrop family until 1784 despite difficulties extracting minerals and its poor financial return.
The mine's subsequent ownership is vague until 1828, when Frederick Tudor, a Boston merchant, purchased the property. He successfully mined the graphite for more than a quarter of a century. He employed Captain Joseph Dixon and his son who later would found the J.D. Crucible Company of New Jersey, famous manufacturer of pencils. Graphite was also a key ingredient in the manufacture of crucibles that were used to heat other substances to high temperatures. Later attempts to mine the area failed, and, by 1910, all mining operations had ceased.
Professor George H. Haynes of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Sturbridge native, had a great interest in the history of the mine. In 1902, he published The Tale of Tantiusques - An Early Mining Venture in Massachusetts. In 1983, through the efforts of the Sturbridge Historical Commission, the mine was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tantiusques was acquired by The Trustees through the generosity of Roger Chaffee, in memory of Haynes, his professor.
Property Acquisition History
Gift of Roger B. Chaffee in 1962 in memory of Prof. George H. Haynes. Crowd Site purchased in 2002.
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On television, an episode of Dr. Phil was on, and I caught a comment where he asked a woman if her health had become her identity. That really stuck with me, because, you see, that is exactly what has happened to me. I haven't written on this blog in a while, and there is a reason for that–I've been ignoring it, on purpose, because… you see, my health has become my identity. I've incorporated it into everything that I do in my life. I go to doctor's appointments, and I post about it on Facebook. I'm feeling lousy and I message a friend of mine online and complain. I get a bad test result and I call my mother to whine and cry to her. I've even incorporated it into my writing, both here on my blogs and in one of my books, where one of the characters is dealing with a mystery diagnosis and the frustration of trying to get someone to listen to her and believe her, and how her illness is tearing things in her family apart. It's not autobiographical–but sometimes, sometimes… sometimes, I fear it might be.
Because, you see, I used to be this dynamic person. I used to stand toe-to-toe with district attorneys and ate lunch with police officers and laughed about wild hogs and handguns (it's a long story) and I used to teach classes to criminals who were ordered to go to my classes in order to get out of their probation. I used to go and do presentations to large corporations and to high school and junior high schools where I'd talk to hundreds of kids at one time and answer all their questions. I was interviewed on the news a lot and held a lot of press conferences. I had the personal phone number to the state representative at the time, may he rest in peace, who worked with me and my agency a lot. I've talked to John Cornyn on phone and I've met George W. Bush in person (think what you want about the man, he was still the president–like it or not). I commanded a presence, commanded an audience, and people noticed me–in a good way. I couldn't, for a time, go anywhere in my city of about 100k people (I don't live there any more, btw) without someone running into me and saying, "Hey, aren't you that lady from….?"
And now, sure, people notice me too, but for completely different reasons. Oh, yeah, I get noticed because of how puffy and swollen my face and hands can sometimes be, or the oxygen tanks I carry, or the wheelchair that gets in someone's way. And I've seen the looks of people who think I am just being lazy and need to lose a few pounds and get up and take care of myself–and they don't know what I've been through, but I've felt their judgement. Yes, indeed, I get noticed when I pull into a parking lot in a big white van that says WHEELCHAIR VAN on the side and beeps when you back up. And that's not how I want to be noticed, not at all.
I used to fight for my son in school, taking on the ECISD school district, fighting for anti-discrimination, ADA compliance, and forcing them to enforce the anti-bullying laws they had on the books. I was at that school every day, fighting for him. I got the Office of Civil Rights involved and had meetings with their attorneys. I went to every school presentation, every performance, checked every homework problem, and was there for my kids. I was a good mom, and I loved being a mom.
And today, that same boy is 19 years old, and two nights ago, I was lying in bed and he had to help me take my pants off because I couldn't do it myself and no one else was home. I couldn't bend over, because with the PH, I can't breathe when I bend over, and my back is so bad, I can't twist or turn at all to help. That wasn't nearly as bad as the time, about two years ago, when I got out of the shower and fell on the floor in the bathroom, completely naked, completely wet, on the cold tile floor, and the only one home was my son… and having to lie there, like that, unable to move or get up, while he helped dry me off, put a pillow under my head, bring my medicine, and of course, covered me up, and sat on the floor with me and tried to make me laugh while we waited for someone to come and help.
I'm supposed to take care of him. He is NOT supposed to take care of me.
And as such, I find that now, even though he's an adult (so they say in the USA, but he's 19 and he's far from grown)… I find that I let things go with him that I shouldn't, because I feel guilty about all he has lost, all he should have had in me, things his sister has had and he didn't get, because I've been sick. I feel guilty, so I've been a bad parent. Not on purpose. It wasn't my intent. It's just… yeah.
And so yes, yeah, absolutely, my health has become my identity. When they tell you that you have a terminal condition, that your life is going to change drastically, it takes a long, long time for that to really sink in, if you want to stay alive. I mean, sure, I could keep trying to do all the things I once did, and I would have been dead by now. But I'm alive. And I shouldn't be, but all statistical purposes.
I don't know.
But what I do know is that I spend a big part of my day reading about and researching treatment protocols and looking for doctors who are doing cutting edge technology on the procedures that I need that might, maybe, might, save my life–or at least extend it long enough that I would have what one might consider a 'normal lifespan'. I've changed my diet, mental attitude, my medical regimen, my sleep schedule. I use a wheelchair everywhere I go and carry big tanks of oxygen and wear a nasal cannula 24/7. I and my family have spent hundred of thousands of dollars to keep me alive and try to improve the quality of my life.
And sometimes I wonder: What's the point of being alive if your entire life is spent in the pursuit of being alive? I mean, when do you get to start living the life you're supposed to be saving? Is the point to just prolong the agony or is it to allow me the time to do the things I want to do and be the person I want to be?
And how do you find that happy, peaceful place in the middle between the two? I mean, if I don't do any research or go to any doctors or take any medicine, I die. If all I do it the same, what's the point of living?
So the middle ground? I don't know. I'm still working on it. I'm in new territory here. I've never had a terminal illness before. And since there aren't very many people in the world who have lived through what I've lived through, and statistically, I should be dead, I really don't have that many people to turn to to commiserate with.
And while I know my friends and family can be empathetic, trust me on this, there is absolutely no way you can know how I feel. I can say that so assuredly because I can honestly tell you *I* don't have a freaking clue how I feel most days, so there's no way you can possible know what I myself am struggling with. And while I know you can empathize and sympathize, there are some parts of journeys like these that the person walking the path can walk with others, but the burden they have to carry is theirs alone, and while it helps to have others with you on the journey, no one else can take your burden and carry it for you–and my friends, sometimes, it gets really, really heavy.
So that's where I am right now. Trying to find that happy place between my identity being my health (or lack thereof it) and finding a new identity for who I am going to be now that I am sick. I realize with startling clarity that I will never again be the person I once was. And I think I've become mostly okay with that. But I've been slowly working on getting back some of what I've lost, while discovering this new person that I can become.
And maybe that's what I'm going to talk about on this blog now, for a time… how to discover who I am both in spite of and because of being sick, discovering an identity other than just being sick, and learning to live while I'm alive…
That last part comes from a Bon Jovi song, great lyrics: It's my life / it's now or never / 'cause I ain't gonna live forever / I just want to live while I'm alive
Keep trucking, my friends.
Live and love,
Sometimes it's the seemingly little things that one gets back that change an entire perspective, that provide an "Aha!" moment, or that simply begin the journey of refueling self-confidence and self-esteem that have been slowly eroded by pain in all its forms. Maybe it's Spring, maybe it's the new blooms (threatened by yet another cold snap! c'mon, Spring!!), maybe it's the new 'do or the new togs or new meds… but I like seeing you again, coming out from under and through all that you've been, renewing, reinventing, and learning to be who you are, again. You've always been you – I'm not saying you've ever been disingenuous… it's that I feel you are blooming forth again, in spite of everything that's been thrown at you. That's My Michy… and Theirs… In case I've forgotten to tell you, in case you somehow didn't know, I'm in awe of you, of your courage and candor and resilience.
So celebrate this revelation! Celebrate becoming (because we are always becoming until we die!), and dare to be bold again! You are still a presence to contend with – and always shall be! (not to be confused with contentious, she said, smirking).
Live while you're alive… Because We Can!
I couldn't comment on this here, because my response is huge. I mailed you instead. Anyway, everything Lynn said x 10.
Michelle, discovered your blog today; thank you for writing so honestly (and well!) about your journey. I am citing you on my newest post. You inspire.
I'm relaly into it, thanks for this great stuff!


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How to reference this paper:
Pink, S., E. Witkowski, D. Wilson, J. Farman, E. Gómez Cruz, L. Hjorth, H. Horst, F. Kato, P. Lacasa, I. Richardson, S. Sumartojo (2016) DATA ETHNOGRAPHIES (3): Humbling data in a Playful World. Available online at https://dataethnographies.com/paper-iiihumbling-data-in-a-playful-world/
Sarah Pink, Emma Witkowski, Douglas Wilson, Jason Farman, Edgar Gómez Cruz, Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Fumitoshi Kato, Pilar Lacasa, Ingrid Richardson, Shanti Sumartojo
This third Data Ethnographies position paper explores data through concepts of play and playfulness. Our discussion is situated in the context of what scholars in this field have identified as an emergent 'ludic turn' in our media and cultural practices; a mode of playful interaction and engagement that imbues everyday digital materialities. We are particularly concerned with both creating empirical and theoretical entry points for investigating data and play ethnographically, and with the implications of such an approach for how we understand the way data is part of everyday experience and configurations of power.
Data and digital play are inevitably entangled. They are emerging as part of new configurations of things and processes in a contemporary context. Moreover they are both key areas of contemporary scholarship, research and practice. This makes it particularly timely for us to bring them together through a data ethnographies focus. Our objective in this paper is to explore the consequences of relating notions of play and playfulness with the ethnographically inspired reconceptualisation of data explored in position paper 1 and position paper 2. We also emphasise the need to bring these issues more closely into the radar of contemporary researchers and scholars: as our being-in-the-world now increasingly involves playful ways of engaging with data, what the implications of this are for our data-futures?
Briefly, play can be defined in various ways. It is culturally and historically specific. Much work has been done in and around videogames and digital media to explore the power of play to expose its relationality to the specific configurations of things that create the context where it occurs. Most recently, Miguel Sicart has argued that play happens in a 'tangled world of people, things, spaces and cultures' (2014: 6). Sicart (2014: 22) distinguishes between play and playfulness. He sees taken on the notion of 'playfulness' as an attitude, an orientation to an activity, which also characterises contemporary media. This attitude is not specific to games, but can be seen in the seamless integration of games and creative mobile apps into our everyday lives and modes of communication, the perpetual expansion of participatory media forms, and in the rise of ever-evolving social media services that enable users to upload, share and remix their own and others' creative 'small media' content. These practices mean that we need to rethink contemporary media culture in terms of a flexible, paratextual, open—and often irreverent and playful—dynamic. Exploring playful practices and the lusory attitude from the position of games gives us different ways to think through the role of data and algorithm in media cultures, from the quantified self (QS) and gamification, to virtuoso play, creativity and playful resistance. Here the playful can be seen as an orientation to action, a mode of inquiry, a set of practices which can help to expose some of the tacit power relations in and around the rhythms of data in everyday life. Play is fundamentally a creative, political and social activity.
As discussed in the workshop, it is important not to romanticise play as a tool for subversion, even though it has a long history in fields such as art as a form of critical play (Flanagan 2009). Play doesn't just subvert and it can, as Doug Wilson mentioned, be cruel. It is important to recognise the changing texture of play as labour practices become precarious, and that in turn reshapes the notion of what Kücklich called 'playbour'. Play is entangled within the politics of what some call 'neo-liberal' constructions of labour, such that it is defined as both empowering and exploitative. As Trebor Scholz highlights, digital labour is riddled with paradoxes whereby the internet can be understood as both a playground and factory (2012). It is the power of play to expose these ambivalent relations; by studying and interpreting play practices in everyday life we can usefully operationalise 'data ethnography'. Play moves between the data and ethnography, in ways that are soft and hard, humble and explicit, tacit and vocal. Being playful with data as with ethnography allows a space in which we can rethink the relationality, techniques and modalities of everyday media practices. Playing can humble data in various ways, as outlined below.
There are also particular issues that a discussion of play and data brings, due to the ways in which play has emerged as a concept in different disciplines of scholarship and design practice. These connected our discussion to STS, philosophy, media and cultural studies as well as to anthropology and included themes relating to the phenomenology of play, to the power and the politics of play, including identity politics, and human/non-human configurations and agencies, and the textures of data.
Big data harvesting, analytics and data-inspired interventions are increasingly part of the academic and business landscape. As outlined in position papers 1 and 2, personal digital data is increasingly part of our everyday environments, and leads us to a series of (re)definitions of data informed by ethnographic experiences, and ethical stances on objectification and value. When combined with attention to parallel and connected understandings of digital play as increasingly integral to everyday being-in-the-world (to varied degrees and in varied ways across different contexts) this raises important questions. These concern, on the one hand the societal and experiential issues that such a combination brings about, and the need for us to develop a critical perspective in relation to this through the generation of productive ethnographic-theoretical dialogues that interrogate the roles data is playing in the world. However, on the other hand it also invites us, and perhaps urgently calls on us, to explore ethnographically how the bringing together of play and data can be used to imagine, anticipate design for a better future or improved everyday alterities (see for example TL Taylor's The Assemblage of Play, which stresses how the player-researcher is simultaneously playing and 'played' within the complexity of software-multiplayer relations – 2006: 336). It invites us to investigate how in doing so we might engage this relationship as part of a process of creative ethical, responsible, inclusive and equal future ways of living with data.
This workshop enabled us to identify a set of critical issues and key approaches that we argue need to be engaged (with) so that the implications of these emerging and possible configurations of data and play can be taken seriously. We also collectively identified the need for a (broadly) phenomenological approach, that sees both data and play as integral to our being-in-the-world. This approach brings together the shared interests and expertise of the authors of this paper, across theoretical, playful, digital and experiential fields.
Humbling the Data
Our first presentation/provocation was given by Emma Witkowski, looking at expertise in networked team play. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research with computer game players (involved in pro/am e-sports), player/competitors were shown to express their virtuosity by way of complex data processing, the production of personalised data, and an attitude towards default data (such as the packaged software) as something to be played with to cultivate expertise.
An e-sports tournament final in Quake Live ("ESL Classics") illustrates some of the attentions to data in play.
In the replayed broadcast, a competitor talks the audience through the historic game. There is a careful consideration of the opponent. He is voiced as far more than a coded character on screen (embodiment is well documented in game ethnographies from Mark Chen; TL Taylor; Nick Taylor; Celia Pearce to mention a few), he has a personality through his movements as he constricts the field of play and the possible data to engage with. Though stock-standard equipment on the field, the more powerful weapon or defensive armour code is delicately placed out of play through such embodied movements, and the competitor fluidly sorts through which human/nonhuman data matters, how it seeks his attention and recedes as the game action unfolds.
Expert players engage with the game beyond the possibility of play within the code, as they feel the personhood of players, made together as experts, and in relation to the field. Such experts are constantly humbling the data that is presented. Every player has access to the default data, but only the well-practiced can toy with it and interpret it beyond its own design, move it in new ways, and think of it in terms of how other players might also expertly engage beyond default. In humbling the data, the players exert—through play itself—how the essential or formal qualities of the game as code are only a part of the expertise produced. Data comes from all sides, is formed relationally, in play. While numbers (as data) are certainly crunched (see work on theorycrafting by Chris Paul), players and in particular those complex multiplayer teams (the complex interplay of teammates, opponents and the data sensitivity involved in the process of producing for example a top level game of 5v5 Counter-Strike are thinking holistically of human/nonhuman data as social entities.
Expert teamplay brings added complexity to the construction of data for consumption by non-expert others, both produced in play and crafted as documents. Teammates 'do data' in particular ways, from preferences on peripherals to software personalisation.
Such productions are readily displayed on platforms such as Twitch – a broadcast service for video-game related content – where team players share their macros (a piece of code that is added to the game, to extend the basic functionality and personalise small inputs/outputs for the player) and display the vast differences in how play is processed and produced as a bespoke practice around 'standardised' games.
This personalised macro for WoW is used in expert teamplay, but also distributed publically on the Twitch channel to fans and followers alike.
Default data sets incorporated into play, from the packaged game software to obscure third-party add-ons, are always on the move being nudged and tinkered towards expert player needs. Sicart reminds us though that 'Playfulness is a way of engaging with particular contexts and objects that is similar to play but respects the purposes and goals of that object or context' (Sicart 2014: 21). And as such, tinkering is not outside of the expert game (tournament or competition), but rather by playfully engaging with the data, turning it about and seeing the objects and relationships otherwise, expert players find their virtuoso play.
In this context, and from the perspective of players, as Emma explained, data is what the expert participants use as their materials of play; the significant things produced, shared, or experienced and distributed from players/teams, technologies, networked space, software, strategies, player histories etc etc. Data in the expert play context is both produced and experienced in a variety of personal and distributed records, commercial and third party documents and (big) data sets, as well as sensuous practices – as explicit attentions to data but also as tacitly played with (many expert players are not able to articulate the stretch and depth of what data they are pulling into their play at for example, a grand final tournament at a LAN against a familiar rival team. Such tacit knowledge is pieced together through snippets of conversation – often post game, sometimes by expert spectato/players commenting on familiar teams, via more articulate players, and across moments where other kinds of data are rendered visible such as lag in play).
Emma's provocation inspired us towards a several areas of discussion:
Broken data: The concept of 'broken data' or incomplete, inaccurate and dispersed data, which Sarah Pink raised, emerged again – this theme has been very present in some of our recent discussions of data in other contexts. It refers to how data has a mythos around being 'complete' (as opposed to broken-world thinking; and theories of the world that put repair/maintenance at the centre). In particular it also emerged in the discussions of self-tracking and personal data that formed the basis of position paper 1 as well as with specific reference to developing a concept of 'broken data' which will be discussed at a future workshop. It was important to realise here that the concept of broken data can stand for a key issue in connection to play and data.
Here data can get broken because of an unsatisfactory internet connection, and in this case we can also see inequalities globally and regionally (as well as socially) in terms of the ways that people can play with data, or play in a data-world/environment. This does not necessarily mean that our engagements are less playful when data is broken, but that they are different and that the situatedness of this is important to understand. The Australian internet (as was discussed in relation to Emma's work) was compared to the Korean Internet by Larissa Hjorth. Heather Horst pointed out that these kinds of differences are emerging in William Balmford's PhD research on Steam in Australia as well as in the Locating the Mobile project interviews with families in Melbourne. For this reason we should consider the limits of data, where material infrastructures – such as the NBN and ASDL connections in Australia – have consequences for participation. Ethnographic studies of the relation between broken data and play can reveal, for example, the way users experience the corporeal agitation of waiting and disconnection, or creatively deploy 'workarounds' into their playful practices (e.g. switching to gameplay on a mobile device when broadband connectivity is poor, moving to particular spaces in the home or urban environment that have better reception), or deliberately engage in 'glitching' and hacking.
Data, Play, Power and Disruption
Because Douglas Wilson's talk focused on some of the power politics of play, it inspired a discussion of power and play. It led us to consider a range of questions, including the notions of disruption and dark play. That is, we can use concepts of resistance and resilience to describe and understand how digital play is active in the world and the kinds of human and non-human agency and intentionality it can bring about or engage (with). We asked how play could subvert the (Big Data) system, how gender relations and their power connotations might be articulated through play and data. One way to start to investigate the ways that relations of power are articulated through playful uses of data, or through uses of data in play, would be by building on existing concepts that have been used in ethnographic and theoretical work about play, and some of the lines of thought outlined in this section propose how this might be undertaken. Below we highlight a series of themes and questions that we propose would make fruitful topics of investigation through a data ethnographies approach.
Disruption: Our discussion turned to the notion of disruption, via Douglas Wilson alerting us to Richard Schechner's notion of play as disruptive. On the one hand this could be interpreted as the idea of disrupting the system. This was discussed in relation to literature on tactical media: ways of seeing the system; and play as a way of disrupting that system. However, as we discussed, there is not really any coherent or whole system of data to disrupt, perhaps another theoretical option is needed. Here we are confronting a complex and messy context of the generation, production, analysis, storage and mobilisation of data. This is invested in and occupied by multiple interests and stakeholders, of different kinds, qualities and affordances, including human, machine and other non-human elements. This configuration of things and processes is moreover continually changing/emergent. Our interpretation of it would also depend on the definitions of data we were working with – which as discussed in position paper 2, might contest the idea of data as 'given' and objective. Therefore the question of how we see play as being disruptive specifically in a Big Data environment is critical, but it is also complex. One way to approach this complexity would precisely be through ethnographic engagements and potentially interventions in this context.
Dark play: The concept of dark play was defined by performance studies founder, Richard Schechner. Dark play builds upon Jeremy Bentham's notion of deep play. For Schechner play is a fascinating term that never "settles" like ritual. It is ambivalent, ambiguous and processual. Deep play is when you choose to get involved with something you can't get out of. Clifford Geertz further explored this concept in his work on the Balinese cockfights. Dark play, for Schechner, is when one person playing the game doesn't know it is a game. He uses the example of con games. Dark play involves disguise and deceit and it might take the form of a disruptive force. In relation to this, if there could then be dark data, this as Ingrid Richardson has suggested, could mean (i) the way big data is collected and used in 'dark' ways that are obfuscated, 'blackboxed' and for purposes unknown to us, or (ii) the manipulation of data for disruptive or deceitful aims (e.g. hacking, cheating), or (iii) data is dark because it is 'machine language', i.e. the complexity and scale is often beyond our understanding…?). These concepts also evoked, as Ingrid pointed out, an element of risk, which may provide a productive arena for both ethnographic enquiry and the development of innovative methods. That is, how can we effectively capture the way (dark) play practices and the 'playful attitude' are inherently (or potentially) unpredictable and transformative, illusory and confounding, provocative and conflictual, challenging boundaries between 'real' and 'as-if' ways of being-in-the-world? How do people experience and negotiate the riskiness of play and the dynamics of uncertainty (which includes the way the data of gameplay is deployed and hacked by users and makers)? Existing ethnographic work in disability studies that focus on technology use and the management and 'dignity of risk' may be useful here in terms of methods.
Resistance and Resilience: The question of power relations when connected to data brings to the fore a range of issues that we have already touched on in previous papers 1 and 2. These include surveillance or dataveillance (van Dijck 2014) as well as the ways in which everyday users of data collecting technologies subvert their intended uses. One example of this that we viewed and discussed is that of the Unfit Bits web site (also mentioned in a previous position paper) which describes a series of techniques through which to produce self-tracking exercise data without actually exercising, set in the context of the relationship between self-tracking data and insurance companies, as a response to insurance industries push to track fitness data. Our discussion turned to the question of the extent to which such strategies, as well as those discussed in paper 1, whereby personal data would be distributed across different devices, apps and platforms, might be seen as forms of resistance or if they were a form of resilience. Here resistance might be seen as a way of coming up against a power, which is direct and leads to a conclusions, whereas resilience is an ongoing way of living with or in relation to a power that is not desired, but is too great to resist in any definitive way. In this context we might also explore how we could see forms of play, which are ongoing rather than being a contest where winning is a conclusion of the play, as likewise being forms of resilience in a world of data-power.
Identity Politics: Questions of the relationship between play, data and power, also inevitably bring issues around identity politics onto the agenda. Emma Witkowski reminded us that issues concerning gender, and of queering play (Sunden), which raises the question of how we might also think of how some such forms of identity and identity politics might be implicated in disruptive ways of engaging with data, or how as Ingrid pointed out how some people do not take up the gender issue when playing (by deliberately not being explicit about one's gender) and what the implications of this are for data. What indeed can data ethnographies of play tell us about how gender is playing out in relation to digital technologies and media in everyday life.
Textures: Larissa brought the concept of textures into the discussion. We note that while play can be deployed as a site of resistance, it can also, through its 'softness', create a space to escape the logic of neo-liberalism. This phenomenon requires us to re-examine definitions of play, especially in the face of gamification, big data and the quantified self. As noted by Larissa and Ingrid, "ambient play" can be used as a way to conceptualise the various textures of play, from more durable forms of networked gameplay to open and 'soft play' (small spontaneous creative resistances or 'moments of fun'). The notion of ambient play also contextualizes games "within broader processes of sociality and embodied media practices, and is essential to the corporeality of play whereby play in, and outside, the game space reflects broader cultural nuances and phenomena" (Hjorth and Richardson, 2014).
Ambience is often used to describe sound and music but has also been used in computing and science. As a noun, it specifically refers to a style of music with electronic textures and no consistent beat that is used to create a mood or feeling, but more generally the term describes the diffuse atmosphere of a place. In short, ambience is about the texture of context, emotion, and affect. For urban theorist Malcolm McCullough (2013), the rise of ubiquitous media in and around the city has resulted in the need for us to rediscover our surroundings. He argues that understanding attention as ambient can lead to new types of shared cultural resources and social curation akin to a type of common that moves in and out of the digital and the everyday. Understanding the textures of play can help us to uncover the often ambiguous ambience data are creating in our lives. Some key terms here would be ambient play, ambient co-presence and mundane data.
Finally, a number of other themes in contemporary scholarship about play could likewise be followed up in discussions of data, both independently from or in relation to those noted above. These include the notion of playbour and data. Playbour refers a notion originally developed by Kücklich, which is used to refer to the exploitative deployment of gamers play for the game companies' financial benefit (Kücklich, 2005). As Larissa suggested, a possible way of thinking about this would be to re-purpose the 'playbour' concept in order to consider how data is implicated in playbour as well as thinking about how forms of playbour might be disruptive to data.
Decentring the analysis – a non-data-centric approach?
Ingrid brought to the fore the point that data ethnographies can then mean much more than just ethnographic data, and than doing ethnographies of data, but also involves doing ethnography through data. This also raised the issue of how we go about this, and we discussed the question of an indirect approach to data, which would resonate with a non-media-centric media studies (Nick Couldry, Shaun Moores, David Morley) and a non-digital-centric digital ethnography (Pink et al 2016). Should such an approach be non-data-centric? – approaching data through play would achieve this, or on the other hand, approaching play through an ethnography of data would also be interesting.
This also brought to the fore discussions of the human and non-human, and while not everyone in our group would agree about the status of this concept, the important point it revealed is the need to account for data, for machine or algorithmic agencies and for code. For instance as Jason Farman pointed out doing research in this context inevitably invokes the question of the non-human, and specifically (given our discussions about the nature of data as broken and the contingencies of everyday life in this and papers and 2) then this means that we need to account for the non-human as part of a messy and networked world.
Jason Farman asked us to consider how ethnography can elicit the complex network of humans, infrastructures, and objects (in-game; out of game, etc), raising two questions: what does ethnography mean after the posthuman turn? Would we be doing ethnography of things (game objects, interfaces, infrastructures, room layouts, etc) and what are the implications of the non-human turn and the capacity of ethnography to elicit the messy networks of participants and things in the world. This led to a discussion of how we might then do such a type of ethnography of data and play. We did not agree on one core method or approach but suggest the following as a spectrum of possibilities, some of which come closer to the perspectives of those who are interested in approaches that account for the non-human, and others closer to the work of those who put humans at the centre:
- Follow the data, but in doing so accept the understanding of data as a 'thing', open and leaky as discussed in position paper 2 (Sarah Pink)
- Don't put data at the centre of the investigation but instead remember to situate the data. This could be a non-data-centric approach to data studies (Heather Horst)
- Use play as a probe in data ethnographies (Larissa Hjorth), and as a way to develop and trial innovative methods to reveal the complex relations between gameplay, play practices, the playful attitude and data in everyday life (i.e. as 'broken', 'black-boxed', 'dark', 'risky', 'ambient', 'soft', 'textured' etc) (Ingrid Richardson)
- Think of data as focussing the relationship between humans and non-humans – here data is about that encounter and therefore offers us a prism through which to research it (Edgar Gómez Cruz)
- Work with a concept of 'rich data' (Fumi Kato)
The Potential Benefits of Playful Data Futures?
The end of our workshop took us to some of the issues that inform the whole series and that were raised in particular in workshop 2, in relation to building equitable, ethical, and responsible data futures. How can play and forms of playfulness in relation to data contribute to such an objective. how do idea such as those of rethinking notions of playbour, identity, resistance and resilience, and ways of humbling the data, take this field of discussion forward further?
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Tendulkar helped me stay focused in the noisy stadium: Pujara
Sachin Tendulkar's sparkling half-century was the highlight of India's dominating performance as the hosts closed in on another crushing victory over the West Indies, on Day 2 of the second and final Test, at the Wankhede stadium, in Mumbai, on Friday.
Tendulkar, who is retiring from cricket, gave his home supporters plenty to cheer about as he hit a fluent 74. His 118-ball knock was laced with 12 boundaries and the crowd at the Wankhede cheered every second of his 150-minute stay at the crease.
There were other major contributors too for the Indians, with the young duo of Cheteshwar Pujara (113) and Rohit Sharma (111) hitting centuries to help the hosts post a huge total of 495 in their first innings.
West Indies, who were bundled out for 182 in their first innings, fared no better in their second essay and were left reeling at 43 for three in 12.2 overs before stumps were drawn. They will need a miracle on Day 3 to avoid a 2-0 series whitewash.
It is not just Pujara's century that will be remembered; another important stat was recorded against his name on Friday.
Pujara is set to go down in history as Tendulkar's last batting partner, and he admitted that initially it was a bit difficult to concentrate, with the crowd cheering every ball when the veteran was batting out in the middle.
"It was a very good partnership. Initially, it was very difficult for me to concentrate because there was a lot of noise from the stands and I had just come in and hadn't faced any balls. It was really difficult, but Tendulkar told me to just stay focused. Once I played a few balls it was easy for me to bat then," Pujara said on Friday.
- Kailash Kher's Sachin anthem
- Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh on Tendulkar
Image: Sachin Tendulkar and Cheteshwar Pujara
Photographs: BCCI
'He was determined to score as he might have been in his first game'
"I think he is always in form and the way he bats, it is always a pleasure to watch. Another thing is that he was also guiding me through whenever I was losing my concentration. He used to come to me and tell me 'now you have to focus a little bit more'. It is always nice to play with him and I had made my debut with him and I had a partnership with him. It is really a good feeling for me," he added.
The Saurashtra batsman revealed that Tendulkar look very determined.
"It was disappointing, but the way he batted, I think, it was really amazing to see him score those runs. I always feel that he is always determined to score; he is always as determined as he might have been in his first game. There are many things to learn from Sachin Paaji," he said.
Pujara also paid rich tribute to Tendulkar for the way he handled the pressure of expectation in his farewell Test match, in front of his home fans.
"It is not easy to stay calm when you are playing your last game. I think there were a lot of expectations from him since he was playing in Mumbai and it was his last Test match. But the way he batted it is incredible and only he can do it I guess," he said.
The right-hander also observed that Tendulkar worked a lot harder in the nets in this series so he could score a lot of runs in the two matches.
Image: Sachin Tendulkar celebrates his half-century on Friday
Photographs: BCCI
'His tips in the nets helped me a bit today'
"His preparation before the game, it is still the same. I can say he might have worked harder in the nets to be successful in this Test match. His preparation was good enough and he has prepared more to be successful in these two Test matches," said Pujara.
The 25-year-old said that Tendulkar's advice with regards to his batting technique in the nets also proved of great help.
"I was not playing well in the nets to the balls going through me. I was struggling against the out-swingers in the nets a bit, so he told me that my right shoulder is opening up a bit and I should be a bit side-on. He also told me to have a little bigger stride and I tried doing it once I finished my nets, and it helped.
But I think, initially, as I said earlier, it was difficult to concentrate and keep all these things in mind, so I tried working it out in the nets and I think it helped me a bit," he said.
Despite him and Rohit hitting centuries, Pujara is convinced that Tendulkar's innings was the best in the Indian batting effort, considering the amount of pressure he was under.
"I would say Sachin's innings was the best because he was playing his last game and it is not easy to focus and concentrate. There is a lot of nervousness and the way crowd was supporting, it was good on the crowd's part, but when you are in the middle it is difficult to concentrate so I would rate Sachin's innings as the best," he said.
Image: Cheteshwar Pujara
Photographs: BCCI


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Forum to Seek New Approaches to Address Conflict, Reconciliation and Healing
Religious leaders from throughout Asia and Africa, and representatives from their spiritual and cultural traditions, gathered at the headquarters of the Buddhist organization Dharma Drum Mountain outside of Taipei, Taiwan,from 27-29 October, 2007 to explore how their spiritual traditions can bring new understanding and insight into the challenges facing their regions, and how they can build a framework for cooperation based on shared spiritual values.
Sheikh Bentounes from Algeria, Sheikh Saliou Mbacke from Senegal, and Bishop Ochola from Uganda led the African delegation, which also included participants from Kenya and South Africa. Venerable Guo Dong, Abbot President of Dharma Drum Mountain in Taiwan, H. H. Swami Paramatmananda Saraswati from India, and Venerable Hiek Sopheap from Cambodia led the religious delegation from Asia, which included participants from Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Lebanon. The Most Venerable Master Sheng Yen, founder of Dharma Drum Mountain and a key advocate for global inter-religious exchange, provided the guiding vision of the summit and addressed the group at the opening.
Political and economic ties between Africa and Asia have grown tremendously in the last few years, but there has been little exchange between religious leaders. This is the first time religious, spiritual and cultural leaders from these two regions have come together to explore how their shared historical experiences and common cultural values can create a new collaboration for the benefit of their communities.
Most of the discussions centered on how to foster compassionate leadership – in the political, economic and religious realms – so that the relief of human suffering becomes the priority.
There was agreement on the need to foster universal spiritual values, not only the beliefs and practices of their individual religions. Many of the critical problems – violence, poverty and environmental degradation – could be addressed by making universal spiritual values a greater guiding force in their communities.
It was agreed that compassion is the unifying value among all the religions and can be the vehicle for building greater religious unity. Religious leaders also stressed the need to incorporate traditional spiritual reconciliation practices into all conflict resolution efforts.
The outcome of the Summit was the creation of an Asia-Africa Spiritual Forum that would focus on strengthening relations between religious leaders, and also seek to promote widely the need to engage spiritual principles and practices in the effort to end conflict and foster reconciliation and healing in the two regions. The Forum would also work to increase awareness of how compassionate leadership can help address other critical problems, including poverty, environmental degradation and gender inequity.
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Yarn and Twigs | Christmas 2014
Friday, 7 November 2014
Baby MiH is a collector - mainly of stones and twigs - stones fit in his pockets and he is able to point with twigs, which is great fun as far as he is concerned. I love going on walks with him, he finds everything wonderful - but at the same time, every walk takes forever. So I decided to make the most of his 'presents' to me and incorporate them into my Christmas decoration.
I did make him have a go at making these Christmas decorations - with NO success whatsoever - and resulting only in knots in my yarn. So maybe next year - or the year after...
So for the time being, we will be focusing on gathering more twigs. It makes walks much more interesting as Baby MiH is looking purposefully - and of course this is also an opportunity to introduce new words in his vocabulary. But it also means I am much less frustrated at his collection habit, and in fact I get quite keen to find more twigs (of a certain size etc).
I am sure you will have realised now that thankfully I have spent a lot of time at summer camps - where making this ornaments was part of our weekly routine - all helpful some 20 years later...
The colour scheme of the ornaments matches the pompom garland one. I am stuck at the moment because I have ran out of the cream yarn (is that really cream?) - so I am waiting for a happy delivery soon. Except for that yarn (Rowan Revive, which is a recycled fibre), the other yarns are from my stash - pompom garlands are a great way to destash. I am using a pompom maker (you can read my review here) - so much fun!
None of this takes a lot of time - but will make an interesting addition to my Christmas decoration. Have you tried to incorporate your children 'presents' in your Christmas ornaments - would love to get more ideas!
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I remember making those things. Can't remember the name.....ReplyDelete
They will look lovely in amongst your other decorations . He will be so pleased that he helped ; )
God's Eyes. Used to make those all the time in camp. That is a sweet idea to use the twigs your toddler has collected for you.ReplyDelete
What a sweet way to incorporate baby MiH into your holiday craft making. I'm sure he'll be making these quite adeptly a few Christmases from now!ReplyDelete
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What a wonderful idea, I love your creations and I love the colour scheme too!ReplyDelete
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