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Controversies as a lens on change
No full text“Controversies as a lens on change” is the title of the opening chapter of Religion and Change in Modern Britain (published Feb 2012 by Routledge). In this podcast Norman Winter is in conversation with one of the joint authors of this chapter, Paul Weller. Professor Weller has worked in the field of inter-faith and multi-faith studies at the University of Derby for over 20 years. He is Principal Investigator on Religion and Society project Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: Theory, Policy and Practice (2000-2010). The co-writer of this chapter was Malory Nye, the Principal of the Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education in Dundee. In this chapter the authors view highly-publicised arguments and conflicts as markers of underlying trends, revealing the changing concerns about religion which have engaged the public from the Second World War to the present. Paul Weller talks about the changing nature of the media which has also contributed to how those conflicts and concerns have been portrayed, especially with the advent of new media which have brought new immediacy and interactivity. The chapter moves forward in time. In the early part of the period the Christian Church and its legacy were still dominant, and arguments often revolved around deviation from that tradition, for instance in the 1963 publication of “Honest to God”, or expressions of anxiety about cults and new religious movements. Debate and dispute regarding other major world faiths gradually gained prominence. In the 1970s, local residents in Hertfordsire opposed the establishment of a Hindu place of worship at Bhaktivedanta Manor. Then in 1989, some time after its original publication, Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” sparked highly-publicised outrage among Muslims, with TV images of book-burning. This was fuelled further when the supreme leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, pronounced Rushdie to be an apostate, and a bounty was put upon his death. More recent controversies have revealed further conflicts between rights and freedoms, both within faiths and between religion and society as a whole. There have been public arguments about Islamic dress and Islamist teaching. The play “Behzti” (2004) and the BBC2 screening of “Jerry Springer the Opera” (2005) provoked strong movements of opposition. New legal protections and rights, for instance in services offered to gay couples, prompted conservative Christian opposition. The chapter also describes the political and media discussion of the “failure of multiculturalism”
Amyloid and tau in the brain in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease: defining the chicken and the egg
No full textIn the October 2013 issue of Acta Neuropathologica there were three very interesting articles on: Amyloid or tau: the chicken or the egg? In the first article, David Mann and John Hardy argued that the deposition of aggregated amyloid β (Aβ) protein in the brain is a primary driving force behind the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease with tau pathology following as a consequential or at least a secondary event. In the communication that followed, Braak and Del Tredici presented the contrary argument with accumulation of tau protein as the primary event in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. Attems and Jellinger questioned the concept of a chicken and egg and suggested that the majority of cases of age-associated dementia are not caused by one single primary pathological mechanism
Peter Weller, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDr. Peter Weller is a noted actor, director and Italian Renaissance art historian. He is most known as the star of the iconic films Robocop (1987) and Robocop 2 (1990), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984), and Naked Lunch (1991). His more recent appearances (roles and guest roles) include, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), the TV series Dexter (2010) and 24 (2006). Dr. Weller is also an acclaimed director, having directed numerous episodes of Sons of Anarchy (2011-2014), Longmire (2012-2017), and most recently Hawaii Five-O (2013-2019). In addition to his long and successful career in theatre, film, and television, Dr. Weller is an art historian. He received his PhD in Art History with a specialization in Italian Renaissance Art from UCLA. He is the author of an important peer-reviewed article on the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello (“Donatello’s Bronze David in the Twenty-First Century,” 2012), and an essay contribution on the Italian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina (in Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas, Brill, 2018)
George Weller Application (1889)
No full textThis is the application for admissions to the YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, completed by George Weller (Class of 1892). The application seems to be dated October 18, 1889. It includes biographical, religious, past employment, and other related information. The application has a piece of note attached to it (shown on page 2), which probably says "will communicate further".George R. Weller is a member of Class 1892 of Springfield College (then known as International YMCA Training School). While at the school, he was one of the first men to play the game of basketball, being part of the class that James Naismith developed the game for! After graduation, he was involved in Christian businesses, a fruit growing business, and with the City Engineering Department of Los Angeles, California. Weller died February 11, 1956
Pinwheel quilt by Katherine Weller Bryant
No full textImage of Pinwheel quilt created in 1863 by Katherine Weller Bryant. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by James A. Fox as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994. It was my great Grandfathers made by his sister Katherine (Weller) Bryant
Letter from George Weller to Calvin Martin (April 20, 1950)
No full textThis is a letter from Springfield College alumnus George Weller to Calvin Martin, alumni secretary at Springfield College, dated April 20, 1950. In the letter Weller introduced his children's education backgrounds and current positions. The handwriting on the top right corner of the letter indicates that a 10.00 is donated to the Alumni Fund.George R. Weller is a member of Class 1892 of Springfield College (then known as International YMCA Training School). While at the school, he was one of the first men to play the game of basketball, being part of the class that James Naismith developed the game for! After graduation, he was involved in Christian businesses, a fruit growing business, and with the City Engineering Department of Los Angeles, California. Weller died February 11, 1956
Digging deep! The archaeological metaphor helping researchers get into Big Qual
No full textWorking across qualitative data sets is a relatively new but nevertheless exciting proposition, but can it be done well and with integrity? In this episode of the Methods Podcast, we talk to Dr Susie Weller from the University of Southampton who, with colleagues (Prof Rosalind Edwards, Prof Lynn Jamieson and Dr Emma Davidson) and as part of an NCRM funded research project, has developed an archeological metaphor to do just that.<br/
No. 87, Samuel Weller, interview by Everett L. Cooley
No full textTranscript (46, 49, 24 pages) of two interviews by Everett L. Cooley with Sam Weller, owner of Zion bookstore in Salt Lake City, on October 28 and November 4, 1983. This interview is no. 87 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. U-374, U-375, and U-376Weller (b. 1921) recalls his early life in Germany and later in Salt Lake City; the establishment of Zions Book Store in 1929 by his father, Gustave Weller; his marriage and business partnership with his wife, Lila; and his career as a bookseller and proprietor of Zions Book Store, 1940s-1980s. Interviewer: Everett L. Coole
George Weller High School Grades (1887)
No full textThis document shows Springfield College (then known as School for Christian Workers) alumnus George Weller's grades from high school. It can be seen that Weller went to Yonkers High School and the grades are from the year of 1887. The first page is a note instead of grades report, which talks about that he did not take the exam because he was attacked by a horse, thus did not have the grades for the first term of 1887. The grades probably served as support materials for Weller's application to Springfield College.George R. Weller is a member of Class 1892 of Springfield College (then known as International YMCA Training School). While at the school, he was one of the first men to play the game of basketball, being part of the class that James Naismith developed the game for! After graduation, he was involved in Christian businesses, a fruit growing business, and with the City Engineering Department of Los Angeles, California. Weller died February 11, 1956
Gloria Weller Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview by Mary Heers with Gloria Weller. Topics include: The death of her father when she was a baby; Living with Grandparents in Utah as a young child; growing up in Nevada; Working as a secretary in high school for the school principal and the district attorney Getting her first Law office job while visiting her grandparents in Ogden at the age of seventeen-years; Interest in going to college and becoming a teacher; Marriage and children; Moving to California for her husband\u27s employment; Her employment history in California; Legal transcription during the night while raising her boys; Working for a Law office in Los Angeles for forty-three years, including fourteen years working from home in Layton, Utah. Her mother\u27s career as a first-grade teacher; Learning on the job and never attending college; Her time working for a government defense contractor, and taking responsibility for whatever you are responsible for and learning all you can.Ms. Gloria Weller began working as a secretary for a law firm at just 17 years old and has since made a lifetime career of it. She learned typing and shorthand in high school, and was able to be a secretary for her school principal in high school as her very first job. During that time, she was able to do some work for the Elko County district attorney, giving her a little bit of legal secretary experience, leading to her job with a law firm at 17. She has had various jobs over the years, but her longest one is the one she currently is working. After working in LA for several years she now runs the same LA law office out of her home in Ogden, Utah (for the last 14 years)
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