Interview with Michael I. Posner

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
William James ◽  
Parietal Lobe ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
Visual Orienting ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Michael Posner has been professor of psychology at the University of Oregon since 1965. His work has generally been in the area of selective attention. During the 1960s and 1970s, Posner's work relied primarily on chronometric methods and is best described in his Paul Fitts lectures published as Chronometric Explorations of Mind. From 1979 to 1985 Posner directed a laboratory at Good Samaritan Hospital and worked on the role of the parietal lobe and other structures involved in visual orienting. From 1985 to 1988 Posner directed a neuropsychology laboratory in St. Louis where he worked with Marc Raichle and Steve Petersen in developing PET methods appropriate to cognitive studies (see Images of Mind with M. Raichle). Since 1988, Posner has been working on combined spatial and temporal studies exploring the plasticity of human attention and skill acquisition. Posner's work has been recognized by membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, APAs Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and William James book award (with M. Raichle), and by the Vollum award for outstanding contribution to science and technology in the pacific northwest.

The Global Recession: Its Impact in Asia and the Pacific

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Shirley
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Short Time

The relationship between local economic development and the global economy is a dynamic process that differs in space and time and from country to country. Nowhere are these differences more evident than within the Asian and Pacific region—a region of contrasts. It is a region that contains nine of the so called ‘least developed’ countries and more than 50 per cent of the world's poor. It hosts Japan, which emerged as a major economic power in the 1960s and 1970s, to be followed a short time later by the ‘tiger’ economies of South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. More recently, the region's development has been dominated by the emerging global powers of China, India and Brazil. The contrasting characteristics and performance of these nations becomes even more graphic when the focus centres on the metropolitan cities of the region, including Mumbai, Shanghai, Apia, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Santiago and Auckland (Shirley, 2008).

El Narco Mexicano

2020 ◽  
pp. 270-294
Author(s):  
Russell Crandall
Keyword(s):  
War On Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
Border States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Cultural Shifts

This chapter elaborates on how Mexico's decades of living dangerously were in part fueled by the U.S. war on drugs. It talks about the cultural shifts that normalized drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s that had ripple effects from the opium fields of the Sierra Madre to the government agencies of Mexico City. It also explains how the colossal demand for drugs across the border prompted Mexican entrepreneurs to get into the drug business, as it had throughout Latin America. The chapter examines the struggles for control of the drug trade that led to the concentration of power in the hands of a small number of gangs and cartels on the Pacific and Gulf coasts, in border states such as Chihuahua, and in sparsely populated and lightly policed Sinaloa. It details how Mexican gangs smuggled homegrown marijuana and heroin to their northern neighbors for decades leading up to the 1980s.

scholarly journals THE ‘GHOST’ OF THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE: AN EXAMINATION INTO HISTORICAL MYTH-MAKING

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTONY BEST
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
War Memoirs ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Right

Even though the argument runs counter to much of the detailed scholarship on the subject, Britain's decision in 1921 to terminate its alliance with Japan is sometimes held in general historical surveys to be a major blunder that helped to pave the way to the Pacific War. The lingering sympathy for the combination with Japan is largely due to an historical myth which has presented the alliance as a particularly close partnership. The roots of the myth lie in the inter-war period when, in order to attack the trend towards internationalism, the political right in Britain manipulated memory of the alliance so that it became an exemplar of ‘old diplomacy’. It was then reinforced after 1945 by post-war memoirs and the ‘declinist’ literature of the 1960s and 1970s. By analysing the origins of this benevolent interpretation of the alliance, this article reveals how quickly and pervasively political discourse can turn history into myth and how the development of myths tells us much about the time in which they were created.

Origins of the Self-Esteem Imaginary

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy J. Miller ◽  
Grace E. Cho
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
William James ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Justice Movements

Chapter 1, “Origins of the Self-Esteem Imaginary,” traces the social imaginary of childrearing and self-esteem to its origins in the writings of William James and other nineteenth-century visionaries. This is the first of two chapters that sketch the intellectual history of self-esteem and its intersection with progressive childrearing. Although psychologists “invented” self-esteem, propounded a host of theories, and conducted the first major study of children’s self-esteem, bestselling novelists and authors of popular childrearing manuals played an important role in spreading these ideas to the reading public in the mid-twentieth century. At the same time, children’s self-esteem became a critical piece of evidence in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that dismantled the legal basis for racial segregation. Countering assaults to self-esteem became part of the discourse of the social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

scholarly journals Gertrude Stein and the Metaphysical Avant-Garde

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Dana Tanner-Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Experimental Theater ◽  
Alternative Healing ◽  
Wooster Group ◽  
American Theater ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Metaphysical Religion

When American metaphysical religion appears onstage, it most often manifests in the subject matter and dramaturgies of experimental theater. In the artistic ferment of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, theater-makers looked both to alternative dramaturgies and alternative religions to create radical works of political, social, and spiritual transformation. While the ritual experiments of European avant-garde artists like Artaud and Grotowski informed their work, American theater-makers also found inspiration in the dramas of Gertrude Stein, and many of these companies (the Living Theatre and the Wooster Group, most notably) either staged her work or claimed a direct influence (like Richard Foreman). Stein herself, though not a practitioner of metaphysical religion, spent formative years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Radcliffe under the tutelage of William James. Cambridge, at the turn of the twentieth century, was a hotbed of spiritualism, theosophy, alternative healing modalities, and James, in addition to running the psychology lab in which Stein studied, ran a multitude of investigations on extrasensory and paranormal phenomena. This article traces a web of associations connecting Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalism, and liberal Protestantism to Gertrude Stein and landscape dramaturgy to the midcentury avant-garde, the countercultural religious seeking of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Off-Off-Broadway movement.

Trends in forest management in the United States

1994 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Ward Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forestry Practices ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Timber Sale

Changes in forestry practices in the United States have been dramatic over the past decade. These changes have been brought about largely through government regulations promulgated in response to pressure from environmental and other groups at both federal and state levels. Historically, the federal government has taken leadership in forest stewardship, though some states have demonstrated strong initiatives over the years. Two separate, but intertwined, factors combined to alter the practice of forestry over much of the United States. There were the interactive consequences of obedience to national environmental laws, passed in the 1960s and 1970s, and a rising environmental consciousness among the majority of the minority of the citizenry who care about natural resource issues. Rising public concern was focussed in challenges in the federal courts to government forest management activities, and in terms of public relations campaigns using lobbying, demonstrations, and manipulation of the mass media. In July of 1993, President Clinton selected an option for management of federal forests in the Pacific Northwest section of the United States that dedicated 9.28 million acres (3.75 million hectares) of federal forests to reserves to be managed for late-successional/old-growth ecosystem function and riparian/fisheries protection. This reduced the anticipated timber sale levels from the 2.4 billion board feet (5.7 million m3) cut annually in 1990-1992, to 1.2 billion board feet (2.8 million m3) projected for 1994. There is an ongoing shift in management philosophy toward "ecosystem management" of forested lands with increasing attention to aesthetics and more benign environmental effects of timber management.

scholarly journals First Report of Marssonina brunnea f. sp. brunnea on Hybrid Poplar in the Pacific Northwest

Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Newcombe ◽  
B. E. Callan
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Hybrid Poplar ◽  
Black Spots ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
Marssonina Brunnea ◽  
Serious Disease ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Inoculation Study ◽  
Hybrid Clones

Marssonina brunnea (Ellis and Everh.) Magnus f. sp. brunnea Spiers is the most damaging Marssonina sp. affecting Populus spp. in the world (1). First described from eastern North America at the turn of the century, it subsequently became a serious disease of hybrid poplar in Europe in the 1960s and in New Zealand in 1976 (1). It causes punctiform black spots on both leaf surfaces and lesions on petioles and young stems. Symptoms are typically most severe in the lower portion of the crown of trees. Not observed in the Pacific Northwest on hybrid poplar until recently, it is still only present in a few locations. Voucher specimens from near Ilwaco, WA, at the mouth of the Columbia River, and from near Har-rison Mills, British Columbia, were deposited in the Herbarium at the Pacific Forestry Centre (DAVFP 25202 and 24958, respectively). The fungus was identified as M. brunnea by its conidial morphology. Conidia were hyaline, uniseptate, mostly straight, and narrowly obovoid, and, when measured in lactoglycerol, averaged 16.1 μm × 5.0 μm (WA collection) and 15.7 μm × 5.6 μm (BC collection). The septum is located about 30% of the total conidium length from the conidium base. Inoculations of leaf disks (1) proved that the species was pathogenic to hybrids but not to local P. tremuloides Michx., and thus the fungus was identified as M. brunnea f. sp. brunnea. Variation in resistance, from light spotting to severe, was noted both among 12 P. trichocarpa Torr. & A. Gray × P. deltoides J. Bartram ex. Marsh. hybrid clones in the Ilwaco plantation and among 56 hybrid clones in the inoculation study. Reference: (1) A. G. Spiers. Eur. J. For. Pathol. 18:140, 1988.

"From Time Immemorial": The Fish-in Movement and the Rise of Intertribal Activism

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley G. Shreve
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Native People ◽  
African American Student ◽  
Red Power ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Youth Council ◽  
The 1960S

This article explores the fish-in movement of the 1960s, uncovering the roots of modern intertribal activism. Fish-ins as intertribal activism began in March 1964 when the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) brought together Native people in the Pacific Northwest and beyond to protest the arrests of local Native fishermen whom Washington State game officials charged with violating conservation laws and fishing out of season. The NIYC contended that the wardens had violated Native peoples' right to fish at "all usual and accustomed places" as guaranteed by federal treaties. Modeled after African American student sit-ins, fish-ins were a form of civil disobedience designed to produce arrests, garner media attention, and highlight abrogated rights. Tapping recently opened archives, including NIYC Records, Washington State Sportsmen's Council Papers, and the Frederick Haley Papers, the article posits that NIYC fish-ins represent the first example of intertribal direct action and the beginning of the Red Power Movement.

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