Alma and Lila Lévy are sisters who rose to fame at the centre of the French controversy over the veil in 2003 when they were expelled from school.
Expulsion
The controversial expulsion of the Lévy sisters from Lycée Henri-Wallon, in the suburb of Aubervilliers of Paris, ignited an international debate. The Lévy sisters were expelled for wearing hijab. The girls father, Laurent Lévy, a Jewish French lawyer, was quick to point out the anti-semitic furore regarding the medias' focus on his ethnicity, "I am Jewish by Vichy rules." In an interview with the BBC, he explained that his ex-wife, his daughters' mother, is a Muslim from Kabyle, Algeria.
The sisters wrote a book about their experience.
Expulsion
The controversial expulsion of the Lévy sisters from Lycée Henri-Wallon, in the suburb of Aubervilliers of Paris, ignited an international debate. The Lévy sisters were expelled for wearing hijab. The girls father, Laurent Lévy, a Jewish French lawyer, was quick to point out the anti-semitic furore regarding the medias' focus on his ethnicity, "I am Jewish by Vichy rules." In an interview with the BBC, he explained that his ex-wife, his daughters' mother, is a Muslim from Kabyle, Algeria.
The sisters wrote a book about their experience.
Jared Seide is a non-profit leader, educator and innovator in compassion-based community-building practices. He is the Founding Director of Center for Council, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that utilizes the practice of Council to promote wellness and resiliency, to foster social and restorative justice and to nourish cohesive and thriving communities.
Career
Since 2001, Seide has designed, piloted, coordinated, and led Council-based programs within prisons, schools, assisted living facilities, youth groups, and a variety of non-profit and faith-based organizations and social service and law enforcement agencies, including the "Co-Mentoring Project” for emancipated foster youth, the "Social Justice Council Project” for the staff of community-based organizations, the “Inmate Council Program” throughout California Department of Corrections, and the Council-based "Wellness and Resiliency Skills Training" program for law enforcement and correctional officers. He has led Council programs at a dozen schools in Southern California and coordinated “Rite of Passage” retreats for a host of middle and high school youth, in addition to facilitating the Los Angeles-based “Council Collaborative Initiative" for educators.
Seide first discovered Council In the early 1990s when his daughter’s school was experiencing stress and racial tension as a result of the Los Angeles riots. As the President of the school’s Governing Board, he invited in The Ojai Foundation to introduce Council as a way to help quell the unrest. Following the introduction of Council to teachers, students, and community members, Seide saw a profound shift in the school’s culture and the creation of a more empathic and cohesive community. This experience led him to study the practice of Council and eventually work for The Ojai Foundation as a Senior Council Trainer and Initiative Coordinator. Seide was coordinator of the nine-member leadership team that relaunched the "Center for Council Practice" division of The Ojai Foundation.
In 2014, Seide led the creation of Center for Council as its own independent organization, based in Los Angeles. He serves as the organization’s Director. Council is a compassion-based attentional practice that fosters greater awareness of self and others and capacity for cultivating skillful communication, respectful relationships and ethical action; the practice of council is a foundational element of programs that promote wellness and resiliency, team-building and community engagement.
In 2015, Seide co-led the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Conference on integrating Council and SRM in California and Rwandan prisons. He was subsequently invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to be a Resident Fellow at the Bellagio. He has been a presenter at conferences and seminars, speaking on the integration of Council into varied arenas, including South by Southwest, California Rehabilitation Oversight Board, Association of Change Management Professionals, Bellagio Fellows Gathering, Monterey County Community Restorative Justice Commission, the Summit on Mindful Policing, Fetzer Institute’s Mindful Justice Conference and the Restorative Justice in Motion Conference, at Eastern Mennonite University. Seide has led trainings and retreats focusing on reconciliation and community-building around the world, including workshops in Rwanda, Colombia, Bosnia and Poland.
Seide holds a BA with honors from Brown University. He is a student of Bernie Glassman, Egyoku Nakao and Joan Halifax, a member of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, a sixth cohort graduate of the Chaplaincy Program of Upaya Institute Chaplaincy Program, and has served as a Spirit Holder for Zen Peacemaker Bearing Witness Retreats around the world.
Career
Since 2001, Seide has designed, piloted, coordinated, and led Council-based programs within prisons, schools, assisted living facilities, youth groups, and a variety of non-profit and faith-based organizations and social service and law enforcement agencies, including the "Co-Mentoring Project” for emancipated foster youth, the "Social Justice Council Project” for the staff of community-based organizations, the “Inmate Council Program” throughout California Department of Corrections, and the Council-based "Wellness and Resiliency Skills Training" program for law enforcement and correctional officers. He has led Council programs at a dozen schools in Southern California and coordinated “Rite of Passage” retreats for a host of middle and high school youth, in addition to facilitating the Los Angeles-based “Council Collaborative Initiative" for educators.
Seide first discovered Council In the early 1990s when his daughter’s school was experiencing stress and racial tension as a result of the Los Angeles riots. As the President of the school’s Governing Board, he invited in The Ojai Foundation to introduce Council as a way to help quell the unrest. Following the introduction of Council to teachers, students, and community members, Seide saw a profound shift in the school’s culture and the creation of a more empathic and cohesive community. This experience led him to study the practice of Council and eventually work for The Ojai Foundation as a Senior Council Trainer and Initiative Coordinator. Seide was coordinator of the nine-member leadership team that relaunched the "Center for Council Practice" division of The Ojai Foundation.
In 2014, Seide led the creation of Center for Council as its own independent organization, based in Los Angeles. He serves as the organization’s Director. Council is a compassion-based attentional practice that fosters greater awareness of self and others and capacity for cultivating skillful communication, respectful relationships and ethical action; the practice of council is a foundational element of programs that promote wellness and resiliency, team-building and community engagement.
In 2015, Seide co-led the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Conference on integrating Council and SRM in California and Rwandan prisons. He was subsequently invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to be a Resident Fellow at the Bellagio. He has been a presenter at conferences and seminars, speaking on the integration of Council into varied arenas, including South by Southwest, California Rehabilitation Oversight Board, Association of Change Management Professionals, Bellagio Fellows Gathering, Monterey County Community Restorative Justice Commission, the Summit on Mindful Policing, Fetzer Institute’s Mindful Justice Conference and the Restorative Justice in Motion Conference, at Eastern Mennonite University. Seide has led trainings and retreats focusing on reconciliation and community-building around the world, including workshops in Rwanda, Colombia, Bosnia and Poland.
Seide holds a BA with honors from Brown University. He is a student of Bernie Glassman, Egyoku Nakao and Joan Halifax, a member of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, a sixth cohort graduate of the Chaplaincy Program of Upaya Institute Chaplaincy Program, and has served as a Spirit Holder for Zen Peacemaker Bearing Witness Retreats around the world.
Pancakes and Powerslams is an online radio show based out of Columbus, Ohio, about professional wrestling and pop culture. Since its inception in 2012, the show has attracted over a million listeners, and interviewed over 100 pro wrestling guests. The show was voted one of the Best Pro Wrestling Podcasts in 2017. It features weekly interviews from pro wrestlers, as well as recap and analysis from Raw, SmackDown Live, Ring of Honor, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Lucha Underground. The show has featured exclusive interviews from current WWE and NXT talent, as well as WWE Hall of Famers.
Inception
Pancakes and Powerslams was founded by pro wrestling journalist Chris Featherstone. Featherstone has been a writer for major publications such as Sports Illustrated, FOX Sports, Digital Spy, and The Inquisitr. In April of 2012, the very first episode aired on Blog Talk Radio, and immediately generated a large amount of viewership. Initially, the show format included discussing the Raw and SmackDown Live episodes, along with random pro wrestling topics and current stories. However, the show started to become more popular, and pro wrestlers became one of the featured parts of the show on a weekly basis.
Weekly pro wrestling interviews
On Episode 46, Pancakes and Powerslams featured its first wrestling interview, independent wrestler Onyx. On the One Year Anniversary show, Episode 52, the show featured former WWE and Impact Wrestling star Elijah Burke. The show then began to feature wrestlers on a more frequent basis as the podcast began to grow in popularity. In 2016, the format of Pancakes and Powerslams was changed to feature a pro wrestling interview every single week, and the show has featured numerous exclusive content from the wrestlers interviewed. Moreover, the show has become a weekly source of wrestler interviews reported by dozens of popular websites throughout the pro wrestling and sports media journalism community.
Show format
A typical episode of Pancakes and Powerslams features a weekly pro wrestling interview, followed by coverage of popular headlines that occurred throughout the week. This is followed by a quick recap of Raw and SmackDown Live. The end of show features a segment called the "Flavor of the Week", which is a discussion of a random pro wrestling topic. The topics of discussion have included reviews of previous WWE and WCW pay-per-views, watch parties of former GWF episodes, black pro wrestlers, the Four Horsemen, and many more. If the show occurs before a WWE pay-per-view, the format includes predictions of the upcoming event.
Popularity of Pancakes and Powerslams
With over 350 episodes, Pancakes and Powerslams has become one of the most popular pro wrestling shows in all of podcasting. In addition of over 100 different wrestlers featured on the show since its inception, as well as voted one of the Best Pro Wrestling Podcasts in 2017 and 2018, Pancakes and Powerslams was voted #26 in the top 60 pro wrestling podcasts in the world.
Inception
Pancakes and Powerslams was founded by pro wrestling journalist Chris Featherstone. Featherstone has been a writer for major publications such as Sports Illustrated, FOX Sports, Digital Spy, and The Inquisitr. In April of 2012, the very first episode aired on Blog Talk Radio, and immediately generated a large amount of viewership. Initially, the show format included discussing the Raw and SmackDown Live episodes, along with random pro wrestling topics and current stories. However, the show started to become more popular, and pro wrestlers became one of the featured parts of the show on a weekly basis.
Weekly pro wrestling interviews
On Episode 46, Pancakes and Powerslams featured its first wrestling interview, independent wrestler Onyx. On the One Year Anniversary show, Episode 52, the show featured former WWE and Impact Wrestling star Elijah Burke. The show then began to feature wrestlers on a more frequent basis as the podcast began to grow in popularity. In 2016, the format of Pancakes and Powerslams was changed to feature a pro wrestling interview every single week, and the show has featured numerous exclusive content from the wrestlers interviewed. Moreover, the show has become a weekly source of wrestler interviews reported by dozens of popular websites throughout the pro wrestling and sports media journalism community.
Show format
A typical episode of Pancakes and Powerslams features a weekly pro wrestling interview, followed by coverage of popular headlines that occurred throughout the week. This is followed by a quick recap of Raw and SmackDown Live. The end of show features a segment called the "Flavor of the Week", which is a discussion of a random pro wrestling topic. The topics of discussion have included reviews of previous WWE and WCW pay-per-views, watch parties of former GWF episodes, black pro wrestlers, the Four Horsemen, and many more. If the show occurs before a WWE pay-per-view, the format includes predictions of the upcoming event.
Popularity of Pancakes and Powerslams
With over 350 episodes, Pancakes and Powerslams has become one of the most popular pro wrestling shows in all of podcasting. In addition of over 100 different wrestlers featured on the show since its inception, as well as voted one of the Best Pro Wrestling Podcasts in 2017 and 2018, Pancakes and Powerslams was voted #26 in the top 60 pro wrestling podcasts in the world.
The Owle Schreame Awards were 2014 theatrical awards honouring innovation in classical theatre. They were awarded by Brice Stratford and his Owle Schreame theatre company in 2014 to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
The award itself was an engraved glass skull, in reference to the famous graveyard scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Thirteen were awarded, and the award speeches were published. The awards covered all forms of historical theatrical performance.
Winners
The winners were:
*Gods and Monsters Theatre, for The Ring Cycle Plays
*The Merely Players, for the Merely Shakespeare project
*Lazarus Theatre, for The Tragedy of Mariam
*Footfall, for '
*Tacit Theatre, for The Canterbury Tales
*Scaffold Shakespeare, for the Play out the Play project
*The London Guildhall, for Medea in the Amphitheatre
*Factory Theatre, for Hamlet and The Odyssey
*Passion in Practice, for work in Original Pronunciation
*Rift, for the immersive Macbeth
*The Mummers Unconvention, for their work promoting Mummers Plays
*, for Gallathea
*The Combat Veteran Players, for Henry V
The award itself was an engraved glass skull, in reference to the famous graveyard scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Thirteen were awarded, and the award speeches were published. The awards covered all forms of historical theatrical performance.
Winners
The winners were:
*Gods and Monsters Theatre, for The Ring Cycle Plays
*The Merely Players, for the Merely Shakespeare project
*Lazarus Theatre, for The Tragedy of Mariam
*Footfall, for '
*Tacit Theatre, for The Canterbury Tales
*Scaffold Shakespeare, for the Play out the Play project
*The London Guildhall, for Medea in the Amphitheatre
*Factory Theatre, for Hamlet and The Odyssey
*Passion in Practice, for work in Original Pronunciation
*Rift, for the immersive Macbeth
*The Mummers Unconvention, for their work promoting Mummers Plays
*, for Gallathea
*The Combat Veteran Players, for Henry V