Surveillance and data retention in Poland

The object of analysis in the present text is the issue of operational control and data retention in Poland. The analysis of this issue follows from a critical stance taken by NGOs and state institutions on the scope of operational control wielded by the Polish police and special services – it concerns, in particular, the employment of “itemized phone bills and the so-called phone tapping.” Besides the quantitative analysis of operational control and the scope of data retention, the text features the conclusions of the Human Rights Defender referred to the Constitutional Tribunal in 2011. It must be noted that the main problems concerned with the employment of operational control and data retention are caused by: (1) a lack of specification of technical means which can be used by individual services; (2) a lack of specification of what kind of information and evidence is in question; (3) an open catalogue of information and evidence which can be clandestinely acquired in an operational mode. Furthermore, with regard to the access granted to teleinformation data by the Telecommunications Act, attention should be drawn to a wide array of data submitted to particular services. Also, the text draws on the so-called open interviews conducted mainly with former police officers with a view to pointing to some non-formal reasons for “phone tapping” in Poland. This comes in the form of a summary.

Romancing the Dane : reviving (and revising) Ophelia in contemporary YA fiction

Shakespeare’s Ophelia has been circulated in recent times as a figure of the adolescent woman at risk. Mary Pipher’s best-selling and influential Reviving Ophelia (1994) argued that the “story of Ophelia […] shows the destructive forces that affect young women” (20). Without undermining Pipher’s project, this paper reads two contemporary YA romance novels—Lisa Fiedler’s Dating Hamlet (2002) and Lisa Klein’s Ophelia (2006)—in order to demonstrate that not only can Ophelia be appropriated as a figure of empowerment for young women today, but that such appropriations are, seemingly ironically, most powerfully rendered within the genre of romance; a genre long-maligned by feminists as recuperative of patriarchy.--------- These two novels stage interventions both into narratives of female adolescence as a time of being ‘at risk’ or ‘under threat’, and also into narratives of canonical literary patriarchy. Rather than a suicidal Ophelia, subject to the whims of men, these authors imagine Ophelias who take charge of their own destiny; who dictate their own romance and agency; who refuse to be subject to or subjected by, those scripts of cultural authority and heteronormative romance so often perceived as antithetical to female agency. In doing so, they force us to revise our own notions of the romance genre and the functions of canonical literary tradition in contemporary YA culture.

The Coleopteran fauna of exposed riverine sediments on the River Dane, Cheshire: A survey report

This is the Coleopteran Fauna of ERS on the river Dane, Cheshire: a survey report produced by the Environment Agency in 2003. A comprehensive survey of the Exposed Riverine Sediment (ERS) on the River Dane, Cheshire was undertaken between mid-April and mid-June 2003. 6 locations were selected and subsequently examined to determine the importance of the constituent invertebrate fauna. Appropriate sampling techniques (i.e. pitfall trapping, hand searching and excavations) were directed towards the target group (Coleoptera). All adults from the chosen taxa were identified to species level. The relative value of the fauna was assessed using species richness, conservation status, fidelity score and a site quality index.

Visual survey of exposed riverine sediments (Ers) in the Dane, Weaver and Bollin catchments

This is the Visual survey ERS Dane, Weaver & Bollin Catchments produced by the Environment Agency in 2005. Visual surveys of the River Dane downstream of the confluence with the Swettenham Brook, the River Weaver, and the River Bollin catchment in the EA Northwest South area of England were undertaken between 3rd and 9th February 2005 with the aim of identifying the spatial distribution and relative quality of exposed Riverine sediments (ERS). The potential value of these ERS in terms of likely habitat quality for ERS invertebrate communities was determined by recording a suite of appropriate environmental variables. Following an initial cartographical analysis of reaches likely to contain ERS, tens of kilometres of riverbank were inspected and 67 areas of ERS were selected for detailed visual survey. Site characteristics ranged widely both between and within catchments, with habitat quality ranging from poor to very high.

Crayfish survey of the Weaver, Dane, Goyt and Etherow catchments

This is the report on the Crayfish Survey of the Weaver, Dane, Goyt and Etherow catchments from 1998 by the Environment Agency. The aims of this report are: Firstly, to present the findings of the crayfish survey and details of the sites visited. Secondly to present the information on distribution maps with past records so that the current status can be seen and finally to use this information so that recommendations for the conservation of native crayfish can be made in accordance with the national action plan for this species and the Environment Agency’s Species Management Programme. The report contains sections on background, going through legislation, distribution and requirements of both native and non-native crayfish. Sections on methodology, results and discussion, conclusion and recommendations. The appendix I contains maps showing the sampling points locations. Details of sampling sites are summarized in appendix II. Appendix III contains previous crayfish records and Appendix IV shows the field data recording form. Finally, a collection of photographs are displayed in appendix V.

Cómo clasificar correctamente su negocio y no fracasar en el intento : Revisión 3.1 adaptada y revisada para Colombia por el DANE

Bogotá Emprende

Herramientas para el mejoramiento de la actividad del Grupo de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación Técnica - GRICT- del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística – DANE

El DANE es la institución del Estado colombiano encargada de la planeación, levantamiento, procesamiento, análisis y difusión a nivel nacional e internacional de las estadísticas oficiales, con el fin de facilitar la toma de decisiones en relación con el desarrollo socio económico del país. El intercambio de datos, actividades de conocimiento y buenas prácticas entre otros, es indispensable para mejorar ciertas instancias modificando y aplicándolas de acuerdo con las necesidades específicas del país. De acuerdo con esta necesidad y con el ánimo de la institución por cumplir con actividades de tipo internacional se creó el Grupo de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación Técnica del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística – DANE, oficina adscrita a la Subdirección General desde el 2006. A pesar de contar con labores determinadas para cada uno de los integrantes del grupo, y de conocerse su labor en el ámbito institucional, se han detectado ciertas fallas en el GRICT, que en ocasiones no le permiten desarrollar su ejercicio de forma clara y precisa, a las que se pretende dar una solución a través del presente estudio. Por lo anterior y revisando las funciones que ha venido desarrollando el GRICT y lo que le espera para que pueda brindar un mayor apoyo a la Dirección del DANE se presenta en éste estudio una propuesta simple pero moderna de la nueva dependencia del DANE que esté acorde a los nuevos tiempos y al devenir del país dentro del marco de los procesos de globalización.

Anthony Munday’s Palmerin d’Oliva and ‘Ogyer the Dane in Færia’

Research for this note was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (ref. FFI2011–22811).

Vikings of the Pacific; the adventures of the explorers who came from the West, eastward; Bering, the Dane; the outlaw hunters of Russia; Benyowsky, the Polish pirate; Cook and Vancouver, the English navigators; Gray of Boston, the discoverer of the Columbia; Drake, Ledyard, and other soldiers of fortune on the west coast of America.

"The contents of this volume appeared serially in Leslie's monthly, Outing, and Harper's magazine." - Foreword.

Les succédanés de la soie ...

Bibliography: v. 1 p. 159-160; v. 2 p. 153-154.

Soil survey of Dane County, Wisconsin,

Survey conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils.

A profile, professional women in the Dane County labor force.

WI docs. no.: EMP 2.2:W 5/1962

The lay of Havelok, the Dane,

Mode of access: Internet.

The lay of Havelok the Dane, re-edited from ms. Laud misc. 108 in the Bodleian library, Oxford,

Literature of the subject: p. lvi-lx.