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Journal articles on the topic "Lake Pedder"
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WILSON, GEORGE D. F., A. W. OSBORN, and G. N. R. FORTEATH. "Two new species of Colubotelson Nicholls, 1944 in Tasmania's Lake Pedder: persistence of Phreatoicidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) in therein." Zootaxa 3406, no. 1 (August 1, 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3406.1.1.
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The Tasmanian lakes Pedder and Edgar were inundated in 1972 to create a reservoir to feed into a hydroelectric powerscheme, despite biologists highlighting the uniqueness of the fauna therein. This fauna included undescribed species ofphreatoicidean isopods, which were noted in several subsequent publications but not formally described. In 2010, the orig-inal beds of these two lakes were revisited and successfully sampled for these isopods as part of a program to assess theconservation status of the unique fauna of this large freshwater body. These two previously reported species of phreatoi-cidean are both new to science, distinct from each other and belong to the genus Colubotelson Nicholls, so we providedescriptions and illustrations of these species to assist their identification by other biologists. The two species are easilyidentified by the shape of the pleotelson and setation of the head, although they are separated by considerably more thantwo hundred specific differences. C. pedderensis sp. nov. was collected only from the now deeply submerged bed of theoriginal Lake Pedder, whereas C. edgarensis sp. nov. may be found more widely in the current extent of Lake Pedder,owing to its appearance in previously collected samples from the original Lake Pedder as well as in the now drowned areaof Lake Edgar. These results bring the known diversity of the family Phreatoicidae in Tasmania to 26 described species,including 16 in the genus Colubotelson. The persistence of phreatoicids in Lake Pedder, despite the extensive changes to its ecosystem, suggests that these two species are more resilient than was suspected.
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De Vos, Rick. "Inundation, Extinction and Lacustrine Lives." Cultural Studies Review 25, no. 1 (September 25, 2019): 102–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i1.6394.
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In 1972 Lake Pedder in south-west Tasmania was submerged under 15 metres of water as a result of the Tasmanian State Government’s Middle Gordon Hydro-electric Power Scheme. The lake was subsumed into a much larger artificial impoundment formed by three rockfill dams, making it the largest freshwater lake in Australia. The Tasmanian government transferred the name Lake Pedder to the new impoundment. Three species endemic to the original Lake Pedder were recorded as extinct as a consequence of the lake’s flooding. The Lake Pedder planarian, a species of carnivorous flatworm, the Lake Pedder earthworm, and the Pedder galaxias, a small freshwater fish, disappeared from the lake area after the inundation of this unique habitat, the site of a number of ecologically valuable faunal communities. The divergent fates of these animals, their status as lost species and their significance as creatures both meaningful and meaning-making, marks out an extinction matrix suggesting that the absence of specific animals and specific experiences and ways of life matter more than others, that specific deaths can be more readily incorporated into stories of loss and restoration, and that the perceived malleability of habitats invariably involves death inscribed as sacrifice or justifiable casualties. This paper seeks to retrieve some of the perspectives and experiences forgotten or written over in the lake’s stories of flooding and redemption.
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Crowley, By Dr K. "Restoring the lost Lake Pedder?" Ecological Management and Restoration 1, no. 1 (April 2000): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1442-8903.2000.00004.x.
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Chilcott, Stuart, Rob Freeman, Peter E. Davies, David A. Crook, Wayne Fulton, Premck Hamr, David Jarvis, and Andrew C. Sanger. "Extinct habitat, extant species: lessons learned from conservation recovery actions for the Pedder galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis) in south-west Tasmania, Australia." Marine and Freshwater Research 64, no. 9 (2013): 864. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf12257.
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The Pedder galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis) from Lake Pedder, Tasmania, Australia, is one of the world’s most threatened freshwater fish. The flooding of Lake Pedder in 1972 for hydroelectric power generation caused a major change to the ecosystem that initiated an irreversible decline in the Pedder galaxias within its natural range. The flooding inundated another headwater catchment and native and introduced fish from this catchment colonised the impoundment. Numbers of the Pedder galaxias declined markedly as the impoundment matured and as colonising fish proliferated. Surveys in the 1980s confirmed the parlous state of the population, highlighting the need for conservation intervention. Several urgent conservation actions were undertaken to save the species from extinction. Translocation was considered the most important recovery action, given the critically low numbers in the wild. The species is now extinct from its natural range and is known from only two translocated populations. The conservation program, and specifically the translocation recovery action, saved the Pedder galaxias from extinction. The conservation management was extremely challenging since rapidly declining fish numbers needed timely and critical decisions to underpin the future of the fish. Recommendations are provided arising from this case study to guide conservation of freshwater fish in similar circumstances.
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Hrasky, Sue, and Michael Jones. "Lake Pedder: Accounting, environmental decision-making, nature and impression management." Accounting Forum 40, no. 4 (December 2016): 285–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2016.06.005.
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Fletcher, Michael-Shawn, and Ian Thomas. "Holocene vegetation and climate change from near Lake Pedder, south-west Tasmania, Australia." Journal of Biogeography 34, no. 4 (April 2007): 665–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01659.x.
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Smithers, Courtenay N., George Nigel Forteath, and Andrew Osborn. "A new species of Sisyra Burmeister (Insecta: Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from Lake Pedder, Tasmania." Australian Journal of Entomology 47, no. 2 (May 2008): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-6055.2007.00626.x.
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Kusumaningsih, Sri Ayu, and Ahmad Bahtiar. "Relationship of Characters and Illustration in Short Story 9 Dari Nadira By Leila S. Chudori." Bahasa: Jurnal Keilmuan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 1, no. 2 (January 30, 2021): 86–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/bahasa.v1i2.13.
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This study is to find out the relationship of characters to illustrations in a collection of 9short stories from NadiraKarya Leila S. Chudori. In the collection, there are four short stories that contain illustrations of the main characters namely "Melukis Langit”, "Tasbih", "Sebilah Pisau", and "At Pedder Bay". The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method by using Charles Sanders Pierce's Semiotic Theory which includes sign and object. The study of characterization or characterization is done in two methods namely direct (telling) and indirect (showing). The results of this study indicate that out of the 4 short stories analyzed only 3 short stories that have character relationships with illustrations, namely the short story "Melukis Langit", "Tasbih" and "Sebilah Pisau". Short story of "Melukis Langit" depicts Nadira's character who is strong against her father's behavior since the death of his mother. The short story illustration shows Nadira crying in the bathroom to vent her sadness. Short story "Tasbih" describes Mr. X with a mysterious character illustrated by showing Mr. X's face full of mystery while the short story "Sebilah Pisau" tells Kris who is Nadira's secret admirer. Kris's character is displayed with illustrations illustrating the event when Nadira was surprised to see Kris's table filled with Nadira's picture. Short story "At Pedder Bay" tells Nadira's old friend Marc who is also an admirer of Nadira for a long time. The main character, Marc in this short story is not illustrated in the illustration. The short story shows a background, namely the lake and the figure of the woman sitting pensively.
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Kiernan, Kevin. "The Original Lake Pedder, southwest Tasmania: Origin, Age and Evolution of an Australian Nature Conservation Icon." Geoheritage 11, no. 2 (December 9, 2017): 271–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-017-0276-6.
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Crowley, Kate. "Lake Pedder's Loss and Failed Restoration: Ecological Politics Meets Liberal Democracy in Tasmania." Australian Journal of Political Science 34, no. 3 (November 1999): 409–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361149950317.
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Bowles, Karl C., and n/a. "The cycling of mercury in Australasian aquatic systems." University of Canberra. School of Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060609.144839.
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Methods were developed for the determination of methylmercury in natural waters and
sediments based on steam distillation and aqueous phase ethylation followed by gas chromatography-atomic fluorescence spectrometry. The methods were shown to be free
from measurable artefactual methylation of inorganic mercury and offered improved
sample throughput over existing methods. Improvements were made to existing
methods for the determination of total mercury in biota, sediments and natural waters
and dissolved mercury species in natural waters. These methods were applied to the
study of mercury cycling in two remote field sites.
The cycling of mercury species was studied in Lake Murray in Western Province,
Papua New Guinea, which has been historically noted as a region of high mercury
concentrations in fish. Concentrations of methylmercury and total mercury in the water
column were found to be variable and consistent with non-contaminated lake systems.
Concentrations of methylmercury and total mercury in the sediments were also found to
be low, except for in the south of the lake, which was influenced by an intermittent
supply of water and sediments with elevated mercury concentrations from the
Strickland River. Methylmercury concentrations in the sediments were generally higher
in the backwater areas due to littoral processes. The low concentrations of
methylmercury in the sediments and waters were inconsistent with other systems
previously studied in the northern hemisphere, showing a link between high mercury
concentrations in fish and high concentrations of methylmercury in waters or sediments.
Therefore, the biota of Lake Murray were studied in order to account for the differences
between this and other systems.
A study was conducted of the stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in biota from
Lake Murray to elucidate key food-web interactions. This study revealed that the
dominant carbon source for fish in the lake is plankton, although algae and macrophytes
may also be involved in the food-web. The methylmercury bioaccumulation factors
between trophic levels were similar to those measured in temperate systems of the
northern hemisphere. The high concentrations of methylmercury, observed in
piscivorous fish, were shown to be a consequence of the complex food-web and the
number of trophic levels in the food-chains.
The cycling of mercury species was studied in Lake Gordon and Lake Pedder in
southwest Tasmania, which has recently been identified as being in a region of high
mercury concentrations in trout and eels. The concentrations of total mercury were
found to be reasonably uniform in the waters of both lakes, spatially and temporally.
The concentrations of methylmercury in the waters were seasonally variable, and were
consistently lower in Lake Pedder than in Lake Gordon. Dilution of methylmercury
concentrations by precipitation direct to the lake surface, probably accounts for the
most of the difference in methylmercury concentrations between the lakes. Owing to
the long residence time of water in Lake Gordon, this reservoir mixes inputs of water
with varying methylmercury concentrations. Concentrations of total mercury and
methylmercury in submerged soils were low and depth profiles of mercury species in
the water column did not show evidence of a gradient of mercury concentrations due to
releases from the sediments. The concentrations of methylmercury observed in the
water column are consistent with the concentrations observed in the fish.
A budget of the mercury inputs and outputs to Lake Gordon showed that in-lake
processes and sources in the catchment areas both contributed significantly to the
concentrations of methylmercury in the lake. The methylation of mercury in Lake
Gordon appeared to mainly occur in the surface waters (< 10 m) and was not consistent
with processes leading to the methylation of mercury at the oxic/anoxic boundary
observed in seepage lakes in Wisconsin. The concentrations of total mercury and
methylmercury in bogs in the catchment areas of Lakes Gordon and Pedder, were high
and governed by the concentration of organic matter in the sediments. The processes
involved in the supply of mercury species from the Lake Gordon and Lake Pedder
catchments appear to be similar to those in drainage lakes in the temperate and boreal
regions of the northern hemisphere. The formation of the Lake Gordon and Lake
Pedder reservoirs appears to have had little impact on the mean annual concentrations
of methylmercury released to the downstream environment.
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Bluhdorn, DR. "Wildness and artefact : re-presenting the divergent trajectories of Lakes Gordon and Pedder." Thesis, 2017. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23963/1/Bluhorn_whole_%20thesis.pdf.
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The Gordon River Power Development in southwest Tasmania was completed in the early 1970s, creating two large hydro-industrial impoundments: Lakes Gordon and Pedder. The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area now surrounds these impoundments. This project visually interrogated the consequences of impoundment after almost half a century of operation under dissimilar management regimes.
The project’s practice-based photographic research focussed on water as the dominant element in hydropower generation, and as a key agent of wildness. Its objective was to produce a body of work that reflected my responses to the impoundments’ divergent visual trajectories and the wild processes affecting them and their associated catchments.
Conceptual investigations were directed towards humanity’s perceptions of its relationship with the extra-human world. The research drew on a multidisciplinary theoretical background to support an awareness of alternative perceptual modes and to explore the possibilities offered by an extra-human perception of the subsurface aquatic environment.
Located within the field of landscape photography, the project explored aspects of the genre’s development, focussing on two apparently divergent trends, designated environmental advocacy and wilderness deconstructed. This approach informed research into antecedent landscape photography of the Pedder-Gordon area and relevant contemporary landscape photography, including apposite aquatic imagery.
Multiple trips to the field locations facilitated the project’s experiential investigations. The Pedder Impoundment’s divergence was found to be attributable to water’s engineered persistence. This enabled the representation of aspects of weather, dam leakage, the development of macrophyte beds, and the persistence of aseasonal wetlands. In the Gordon Impoundment, the principal driver of divergence was the market-driven withdrawal of water. The recently dewatered littoral exhibited the effects of inundation and pre-impoundment logging, as well as its terrestrial and fluvial regenerative processes.
Water’s intrinsic wildness was explored through subsurface imagery of both impoundments’ inflowing waterways.
The project’s outcomes, a suite of original photographic prints and a published performative work, successfully address the research questions posed. These works contribute meaningfully to the ongoing discourse surrounding conceptions of wildness and of artefact, and their affective representation. Such outcomes are broadly applicable to the fields of landscape photography in a global context and, more specifically, to perceptions of wildness in humanaltered environments such as large-scale renewable energy developments adjacent to iconic wild areas.
Books on the topic "Lake Pedder"
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Sims, Peter C. Lake Pedder: The awakening. Hobart, Tas: Pedder 2000 Committee, 1995.
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Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation, and the Arts. Inquiry into the proposal to drain and restore Lake Pedder. [Canberra]: Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1995.
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Blakemore, R. J. The taxonomic status of the earthworm fauna of Lake Pedder, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area: With the description of three new genera and fourteen new species. Launceston, Tasmania, Australia: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, 2000.
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Sefarim, Mendele Mokher. Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third. New York: Schocken Books, 1996.
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Abramovitsh, S. Y. Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: "Fishke the Lame" and "Benjamin the Third" (Yiddish Classics Series). Schocken, 1996.
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Abramovitsh, S. Y. TALES OF MENDELE THE BOOK PEDDLER: Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third (Library of Yiddish Classics). Schocken, 1996.
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Llewellyn, Matthew P., and John Gleaves. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040351.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to present a richly contextualized global history of the role of Olympic amateurism, from Coubertin's Olympic revival in 1894 through the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch and the advent of open professionalism during the late 1980s and 1990s. The social origins of amateurism sprung to life not from ancient Greece, but from Victorian Britain, where an upper-middle-class desire to set themselves apart from the perceived morally corrupt working classes employed amateurism as a legitimating ideology for elitist sporting preserves. The participatory and universal growth of the Olympic Games in the ensuing decades precipitated the emergence of political and commercial forces within the Olympic arena. The encroachment of governments eager to exploit the games for propaganda rewards, as well as commercial interests seeking to peddle products stamped with Olympic insignia, sullied the avowed sanctity of Olympic amateurism.
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Werlin, Julianne. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869467.001.0001.
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In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. In Writing at the Origin of Capitalism, Julianne Werlin describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature. Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, Werlin demonstrates that England’s transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of writing, rates of literacy, and modes of reception—and so on the form and style of texts. Individual chapters discuss the impact of market integration on linguistic standardization and the rise of a uniform English prose; the growth of a popular literary market alongside a national market in cheap commodities; and the decline of literary patronage with the monarchy’s loosening grip on trade regulation, among other subjects. Peddlers’ routes and price integration, monopoly licenses and bills of exchange, all prove vital for understanding early modern English writing. Each chapter reveals how books and documents were embedded in wider economic processes and, as a result, how the origin of capitalism constituted a revolutionary event in the history of English literature.
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McIlvenna, Una. Singing the News of Death. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197551851.001.0001.
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Abstract From the dawn of printing until the late nineteenth century, all over Europe the news of criminals and their brutal public executions was routinely put into song form and sold in the streets. But why would someone want to sing about such a macabre subject? Singing the News of Death explores the hugely popular phenomenon of execution ballads in Europe from the early modern period onwards, revealing how song was employed for centuries as a common means of informing society about the news of public executions. It examines how these ballads, usually cheaply printed and sold by itinerant peddlers, framed the news of crime and punishment, and how the unique features of song—rhythm, rhyme, and melody—presented information about criminals in a way that prose accounts could not. Based on a study of over a thousand ballads in English, French, German, Dutch, and Italian, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Singing the News of Death reveals extraordinary continuities across time and space. While attention is paid to regional variations, the book demonstrates how popular and enduring the tradition of singing (often graphically violent) ballads about criminals was for centuries across Europe.
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Manko, Katina. Ding Dong! Avon Calling! Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499822.001.0001.
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The Avon Lady was a woman who sold cosmetics door-to-door and earned commissions on her sales. In the 1950s, she became famous in a long-running advertising campaign that featured a two-chime doorbell, “Ding Dong!,” followed by the greeting “Avon Calling!” At that time, more than 250,000 women worked as Avon Ladies, and together they represented the largest female direct sales force in the world. Avon began as the California Perfume Company in 1886. Its founder, David McConnell, had sought to provide women with an independent business opportunity largely hoping to soften the seedy reputation of itinerant peddlers. When the company created the Avon brand of cosmetics in the 1930s, changing its name to Avon Products in 1939, it stood as a leader in the direct selling industry and the only company to hire women exclusively as its representatives. This history explores the business of those representatives and the way they were managed. In the second half of the twentieth century, Avon became the largest direct sales company in the United States, spurred by a growing white suburban market. Avon hesitated until the late 1960s to develop recruiting and sales in the African American market, but by the 1970s it was regarded as a leader in affirmative action programs to diversify its workplace and promote women in management. Still, Avon’s executive suite remained a male preserve until Andrea Jung became its first female CEO in 1999. Although Avon closed its doors in 2016, it had earned a solid reputation as a company by women, and for women.
Book chapters on the topic "Lake Pedder"
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Sundelin, Anna, and Johanna Wassholm. "Hospitality and Rejection: Peddlers and Host Communities in the Northern Baltic, 1850–1920." In Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, 329–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98527-1_13.
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AbstractThis chapter examines the ambivalent relations between peddlers and hosts in the Northern Baltic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this period of modernization and growing consumption, peddlers played an important role for the distribution of consumer goods in the vast and sparsely populated region. Using the concepts of hospitality and securitization as analytical tools, the article focuses on the threats that peddlers were perceived to pose, the ambiguous relations between mobile traders and their sedentary hosts, and the ambivalent encounters around the goods that the peddlers carried. The sources consist of Finnish and Swedish newspapers, accessed through digital newspaper archives, and the responses to three ethnographic questionnaires. While both material types pose source critical challenges, the article illustrates how the conclusions that can be drawn on hospitality and rejection depend on which types of sources are studied and on the voice of which group in the host community they represent. The situational and relational character of hospitality is reflected in how the four groups of peddlers analyzed—knallar, “Rucksack Russians,” Eastern European Jews and Tatars—were received on a graded scale stretching from warm hospitality to extreme rejection.
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Sundelin, Anna. "Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland." In Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960, 297–319. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98080-1_13.
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AbstractThe chapter analyzes mobile traders from Russian Karelia who abandoned their itinerant livelihood and settled down in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Many of these former peddlers opened up stores in the Finnish countryside, making use of their skills as traders and previously formed networks to keep their stores well supplied. The analysis revolves around the relationship between local residents and strangers settling down. By combining ethnographical sources with newspaper writings and advertisements the chapter offers new insights into the transition from itinerant peddling to storekeeping as well as the experiences of migrant entrepreneurs in Finland at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Wassholm, Johanna. "“Threatening Livelihoods”: Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire." In Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960, 221–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98080-1_10.
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AbstractThis chapter explores Nordic press portrayals of four mobile groups from the multi-ethnic Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: “Rucksack Russians,” Eastern Jews, Tatars and Novgorodian saw grinders. Building on articles and short paragraphs in Swedish and Finnish periodicals, the article illustrates the ways in which these mobile groups were depicted as a threat, and the economic, moral, and political motives behind such expressions. The chapter discloses an aspect of reality that mobile Russians seeking a livelihood in the Nordics faced, as well as the mechanisms through which enemy images were created. The complaints mainly represented voices beyond the traders and their customers. They primarily emanated from local merchants, who viewed the peddlers as unfair competitors, authorities who sought to maintain order and offer security, and political actors.
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"Empty Spaces: The Inundation of Lake Pedder." In Returning to Nothing, 126–47. Cambridge University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139085069.008.
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Colby, Jason M. "The White Whale." In Orca. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673093.003.0015.
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When bob wright awoke on Sunday March 1, 1970, he didn’t feel like getting in a boat. He had attended a wedding reception late into the previous night, and the morning in Victoria had broken cold and blustery. But he had promised to show his whale-catching operation to Don White, Paul Spong’s former research assistant. Wright already had an orca at his new oceanarium, Sealand of the Pacific, but he was keen to try his hand at capture, and he especially hoped to trap an albino killer whale often seen in local waters. When White and a friend arrived for the excursion, however, Wright wasn’t feeling very eager. “Bob is totally hung over, but he is feeling responsible,” White recalled. “He has told me to come, so he feels like we’ve got to do it.” Along with trainer Graeme Ellis, the three men piled onto Wright’s twenty-foot Bertram runabout and started for Pedder Bay. As the boat rounded Trial Island and cruised west past Victoria, the sea became choppy and Wright grew queasier. But minutes later, as they approached Race Rocks, he forgot all about his hangover. “Fuck!” he yelled. “It’s the white whale!” Sure enough, a group of orcas with what appeared to be an albino member was passing Bentinck Island and heading straight for Pedder Bay. The sighting was lucky, but the timing awful. Wright wasn’t set for a capture that day. His seine nets were in storage, and at first he couldn’t hail any of his Sealand staff. Determined not to let this opportunity pass, he gunned the Bertram into the bay and made straight for the Lakewood—a charter fishing boat he had rigged for orca catching. As Wright gathered his crew on the vessel, the excitement was palpable. “We were playing macho whale hunters,” White reflected, “and Bob Wright was our Captain Ahab.” With only one light net on board, the operation would have to be perfect, and everyone watched anxiously as the whales lingered near the mouth of Pedder Bay. Finally, as the sun began to set, the orcas entered.
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Vuic, Jason. "The Last Paradise." In The Swamp Peddlers, 87–114. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663333.003.0005.
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In the 1960s, the Deltona Corporation began planning for a community on Marco Island, a pristine barrier island on the Gulf. Over 5 phases over 15 years, it planned to dredge and fill some 6,700 acres of Marco to build some 10,000 homes. That required dredge and fill permits from the Army Corps of Engineers, which in 1964 approved phase one of the project in a review that took nine days. However, by the late-1960s, regulations regarding the use of wetlands had been strengthened and observers wondered if the remaining project would go through. Thus, in 1969, the Corps approved a second permit, though warned that further permits would be harder to obtain. Undaunted, the Mackles continued to sell lots, and by 1970 had sold nearly 95 percent of the homesites they had planned. They struck a deal with the state in 1971 for the three other permits: the Mackles could dredge and fill, but would deed 4,000 acres of land and several beaches to the state in perpetuity. That seemed to settle it, but after a series of lawsuits by environmental organizations, the Corps denied the remaining permits in 1975 and the Mackles, facing bankruptcy, never worked together again.
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Owens, Thomas. "Nature’s Mathematics." In Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens', 17–36. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840862.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 explores the geometrical quality of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s imaginative commitments. Focusing principally on The Pedlar, the Guide to the Lakes, and Coleridge’s Notebooks, the chapter locates the origins of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s geometric visions in a divinely relational language of shapes which they intuited as children to describe the world about them and which moulded their shared Pedlar consciousness in the 1790s. It proposes that Wordsworth and Coleridge sustained the mathematical expressions of the Pedlar’s ethico-theological vision in their dealings with nature and the mind, perceiving in the material world a language of geometric forms which held it together.
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Colby, Jason M. "Haida’s Song." In Orca. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673093.003.0022.
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Haida Didn’t Know it, but Bob Wright was thinking of setting him free. A longtime attraction at Wright’s Sealand of the Pacific, the male orca had reached twenty-three feet, and despite being paired with several females, he had failed to impregnate any of them. In June 1982, the oceanarium’s director, Angus Matthews, proposed an exchange to the Canadian government. In return for a permit to capture two young killer whales in local waters, Sealand would release Haida to the wild. It was a bold plan, made possible by recent scientific breakthroughs. Using Haida’s own calls, researchers had deduced that he was a member of L pod, one of the three southern resident pods identified and named by Mike Bigg. But the orca’s training for release would begin only after Sealand acquired new whales. Following a successful capture, Matthews explained, the oceanarium would move Haida to a pen in Pedder Bay, where the long-captive orca could learn to catch live fish and make acoustic contact with his family. But Matthews cautioned that success would ultimately depend on the whale himself. “Haida will be given his own choice,” he emphasized, “of joining his old pod and becoming a born-again whale, or returning to his friends at Sealand.” In late August, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO, formerly the Department of the Environment) approved the project and assigned Bigg to supervise it. The respected scientist cautioned the public that there was no guarantee Haida would survive, but he argued that the release “needs to be tried.” Critics disagreed. Some accused Sealand of plotting to abandon Haida now that he had served his purpose. Likening the plan to “throwing out the family pet when it is no longer young and amusing,” one local woman warned that Haida’s “trust in humans will probably result in a bullet from a gun-happy fisherman.” The fiercest opposition came from Greenpeace, which denounced the entire proposal. Declaring rehabilitation “unlikely,” Greenpeace Canada president Patrick Moore argued that to move the imprisoned whale to a “halfway house” in Pedder Bay would be “to condemn him to death—alone.”
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Harker, Brian. "A Miracle of Racy Brilliance." In Sportin' Life, 147–59. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514511.003.0012.
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This chapter examines Bubbles’s historic portrayal of Sportin’ Life in George Gershwin’s 1935 Black “folk opera,” Porgy and Bess. The literature on that opera makes clear that Bubbles caused trouble during rehearsals, particularly by arriving late and mangling his part. But on opening night it was Bubbles who won the most enthusiastic plaudits from critics. Judging from their reviews (and from a brief home movie of him in rehearsal), Bubbles triumphed through the richness of his portrayal. As a seductive dope peddler, he combined evil and charm and wit and grace, sexual allure and drop-dead charisma. Crucially, he accomplished all this through a solo performance that consisted of dance moves from beginning to end. His celebrated turn as Sportin’ Life has come to be seen as legendary, as much a classic as the opera itself.
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Hobbs, Andrew. "William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century." In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2, 735–42. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424882.003.0050.
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Quarry owner William Saunders (1823-95) applied industrial methods to the supply of news as a commodity, experimenting with centralised and networked solutions to the problem of news distribution. He entered the newspaper industry in Plymouth, launching the Western Morning News in 1860, and in 1863 he and his brother-in-law Edward Spender set up one of the first UK news agencies, the Central Press, in London, supplying news and other editorial matter to provincial papers. He founded or purchased other papers around the country, and shared content between them – to some resistance, mainly from journalists. Saunders’s career highlights the dependence of many provincial papers on central sources of news and content, and challenges simple ideas of local, national and provincial. It also shows the contrast between the romantic myths about local journalism peddled by journalists, and the industrial reality of the syndication processes by which those myths were disseminated.
Reports on the topic "Lake Pedder"
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McClenaghan, M. B., B. A. Kjarsgaard, I. M. Kjarsgaard, R. C. Paulen, and J. A. R. Stirling. Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Peddie kimberlite and associated glacial sediments, Lake Timiskaming, Ontario. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/210900.
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McClenaghan, M. B., B. A. Kjarsgaard, and I. M. Kjarsgaard. Indicator mineral content and geochemistry of till around the Peddie kimberlite, Lake Timiskaming, Ontario. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/213271.
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Hunter, Janine. Street Life in the City on the Edge: Street youth recount their daily lives in Bukavu, DRC. StreetInvest, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001257.
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Bukavu, a city on the shores of Lake Kivu on the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is home to over one million people, many displaced by poverty and the consequences of armed conflicts that continue to affect the east of the country. More than 10,000 street children and youth live here in street situations. 19 street youth helped to create this story map by recording all the visual data and sharing their stories about their daily lives. The story map includes 9 sections and 2 galleries showing street children and youth’s daily lives in Bukavu and the work of Growing up on the Streets civil society partner PEDER to help them. Chapters include details of how street children and youth collect plastics from the shores of Lake Kivu to sell, they cook, and share food together, or buy from restaurants or stalls. Young women earn their living in sex work and care for their children and young men relax, bond and hope to make extra money by gambling and betting. The original language recorded in the videos is Swahili, this has been translated into English and French for the two versions of the map.