Still the “pivot”: Russia’s self-conception and view of the euro crisis as perceived in public opinion and the Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 2011-12. EU Centre in Singapore Working Paper No. 8, August 2012

In his influential and disputed 1904 lecture, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Halford Mackinder argued that the Russian heartland was the fulcrum of many historical and geostrategic currents across Eurasian space. While the thesis has been thought surpassed by recent technological advances in transportation, it serves as a useful heuristic device to open certain thematic lines of analysis apparent in the presentation of the ongoing “EUrocrisis” by the country’s newspaper of record, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

Aggressive incidents inside a Montreal barroom involving patrons, barmaids and bouncers : a micro level examination of routine activity theory

Objectives: This article further examines the phenomenon of aggression inside barrooms by relying on the “bouncer-ethnographer” methodology. The objective is to investigate variations in aggression through time and space according to the role and routine of the target in a Montreal barroom. Thus, it provides an examination of routine activity theory at the micro level: the barroom. Methods: For a period of 258 nights of observation in a Canadian barroom, bouncers completed reports on each intervention and provided specific information regarding what happened, when and where within the venue. In addition, the bouncer-ethnographer compiled field observations and interviews with bar personnel in order to identify aggression hotspots and “rush hours” for three types of actors within barrooms: (a) bouncers, (b) barmaids and (c) patrons. Findings: Three different patterns emerged for shifting hotspots of aggression depending on the target. As the night progresses, aggressive incidents between patrons, towards barmaids and towards bouncers have specific hotspots and rush hours influenced by the specific routine of the target inside the barroom. Implications: The current findings enrich those of previous work by pointing to the relevance of not only examining the environmental characteristics of the barroom, but also the role of the target of aggression. Crime opportunities follow routine activities, even within a specific location on a micro level. Routine activity theory is thus relevant in this context, because as actors in differing roles follow differing routines, as do their patterns of victimization.

Manual of jurisprudence and co-operation of the Patrons of husbandry.

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The iconography of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance ...

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The conception of disease : its history, its versions, and its nature /

Includes index.

Vladimir Jabotinsky's conception of a nation /

Includes bibliographical references.

Provision of computer printing capabilities to library patrons.

"April 1992."

Des droits de patronage, de presentation aux benefices, de preseances des patrons, des seigneurs, & autres des droits honorifiques, des litres, ceintures funebres, des bancs & des sepultures dans les Eglises /

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La croyance générale et constante de l'église touchant l'Immaculée Conception de la Bienhereuse Vierge Marie... /

Marca tip. en port.

Recueil des actes, titres et mémoires concernant les affaires du clergé de France : augmenté d'un grand nombre de pieces & d'observations sur la discipline présente de l'Eglise : et mis en nouvel ordre, suivant la délibération de l'Assemblée générale du Clergé, du 29. août 1705 : tome douzieme : dans lequel on traite I ?des collateurs, et des patrons particuliers des titres ecclésiastiques. Des droits utiles [et] honorifiques des patrons [et] fondateurs; de leurs charges [et] devoirs, [et]c. ..

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