PiL, Buzzcocks, Rancid To Play Rebellion Punk Festival

Public Image Ltd., Rancid and Buzzcocks are amongst the bands set to play the 15th annual Rebellion punk music festival in Blackpool next week. 

Taking place at the city's Winter Gardens venue from August 2-5, the event will also see sets from Bow Wow Wow, Social Distortion, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, The Only Ones, Agnostic Front, Goldblade, The Fits and Slaughter And The Dogs, with over 150 bands playing the event. 

The biggest punk music festival in the world, the festival will host live onstage interviews and spoken word, as well as punk art and punk fashion rooms and there will also be acoustic sessions from bands on the bill. For more information on the line-up and for details on how to purchase tickets, visit Rebellionfestivals.com.

In addition, Rebellion will be hosting a Christmas event, headed up by Rancid and Cock Sparrer, The Exploited and Uk Subs on December 8 at The Ballroom in Birmingham. 

Source  http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/pil_buzzcocks_rancid_to_play_rebellion_punk_festival.html

Rebellion MMA Radio: Rick Hawn, Dhiego Lima, and Adam Lynn

Rebellion MMA Radio returns this Sunday with another great line up of guests joining hosts Bryan Levick and Mitch Ciccarelli. Joining the show this Sunday will be Bellator’s Rick Hawn, along with the MFC’s Dhiego Lima and Adam Lynn.

Rick Hawn was a member of the 2004 US Olympic Judo team and is currently the number one contender in Bellator’s lightweight division. Hawn is 14-1 in his career with the lone loss coming to Jay Hieron at welterweight. Hawn will challenge for the lightweight title later this year when he faces champion Michael Chandler.

Dhiego Lima is an exciting prospect out of ATT Atlanta. The brother of Bellator’s Douglas Lima, the 22-year old currently fights for the MFC and has amassed a 6-2 record.

Rounding out the group is fellow MFC fighter Adam Lynn. The former Marine is 17-9 in his MMA career and has fought for Strikeforce and the WEC as well.

Be sure to tune in this Sunday at 6:30 for what should be a great show. Click here for a link to the show.

Source  http://mmafrenzy.com/29247/rebellion-mma-radio-rick-hawn-dhiego-lima-and-adam-lynn/

A Better Explanation, Please

We are now nearly 48 hours into the Teresa-Sullivan-resignation news cycle but only a little closer to understanding why the University of Virginia president and Board of Visitors decided to part company. Rector Helen Dragas made some vague comments Sunday about disagreements over the university’s strategic direction, but otherwise the board has not been forthcoming.

Very possibly, the opacity is motivated by a desire to avoid getting into specifics that would embarrass the widely liked Sullivan or drag the university into an  unseemly mud-slinging contest like the one that followed the eviction of Gene Nichol from the presidency of William & Mary. However, the proffered explanations of Sullivan’s ouster seem to satisfy nobody. The University of Virginia faculty is in shock, while many outsiders who knew Sullivan are surprised and dismayed.

With all due respect to Sullivan’s right to depart with quiet dignity, the board owes the public a better explanation. The University of Virginia is the commonwealth’s flagship educational institution and what happens there sets the tone for the rest of the public university system. The stakes are simply too high. Higher education is facing a crisis in the United States as parents and students rebel against runaway tuition hikes and new technologies threaten to disrupt the traditional model of providing education in isolated campus settings.

By all accounts, Sullivan was a popular and effective president — at least by traditional collegial standards. But if she was not displaying sufficient alacrity in adapting to the fiscal, economic and technological challenges to Mr. Jefferson’s University, the board needs to say so.

Source  http://www.baconsrebellion.com/2012/06/a-better-explanation-please.html

Veteran Director Back With Rebellion Film

Veteran director Andrei Smirnov has returned to the screen after nigh on three decades with a look at a dark period in Russia’s history, a peasant rebellion that was brutally crushed by the Bolsheviks after the Revolution.

“Zhila-Byla Odna Baba,” or “Once Upon a Time There Lived a Woman,” follows a simple peasant woman in the Tambov region in 1920, whose life is turned upside down by the Revolution and the subsequent uprising.

Smirnov, 70, said he had long wanted to make a film about the human effects of the Revolution.

“It was natural for me to look at the topic of the village, the death of the Russian village, the revolutionary era and the Civil War,” Smirnov said at a recent news conference about the release of his much-anticipated film.

The revolt in the film is based on a real insurrection in 1920-21 that was sparked by the forced confiscation of grain by Bolshevik forces. It was one of the most well-known rebellions against the Soviets and was cruelly crushed. Thousands died in the conflict, and chemical weapons were used at one point by the Bolsheviks, the first time a state ever used such weapons against its own people.

Smirnov focuses his plot on the story of Varvara, played by the young actress Darya Yеkamasova, who survives rape and the death of loved ones.

“The story is shown through the eyes of a simple woman who doesn’t understand who is Red and who is Green, but who like every woman gives undying support to her family and children,” Smirnov said.

Critics have seen Varvara as a symbol for Russia itself.

“I wanted the viewer not only to cry or to laugh, but to think about the fate of Russia,” Smirnov said.

Rock singer and public activist Yury Shevchuk also stars as member of the peasant army.

Smirnov is most famous for his 1971 film “Belorussky Vokzal,” or “Belorussky Station,” a touching drama about several World War II veterans meeting for a reunion after many years of not seeing one another.

He directed only two more films after that hit, turning to acting and screenwriting for the last three decades. He most recently played one of the leading roles in Andrei Zvyagintsev’s art-house hit “Elena.”

Smirnov said in an interview with Afisha magazine that he gave up directing because of problems with censorship.

The film has had mixed reviews, with some comparing the director’s offering to Nikita Mikhalkov’s much-criticized sequels to the Oscar-winning “Burnt by the Sun.”

Kommersant film critic Mikhail Trofimenkov said the film showed that Smirnov had lost none of his directing skill, but called the film artificial propaganda against communism.

Like Mikhalkov’s films, “Zhila-Byla Odna Baba” received lavish state backing and support by state-friendly businessmen. Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg and the Kremlin’s chief ideologist Vladislav Surkov both backed the film, Smirnov said, and bizarrely, the names of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Rusnano head Anatoly Chubais and Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakima are all thanked in the film’s credits.

So far the film, which cost more than $6 million to make, looks unlikely to turn a profit with less than $500,000 worth of tickets sold since it debuted earlier this month.

Source http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/veteran-director-back-with-rebellion-film/448924.html

NYC Sports Bar Boxers Comes Out Swinging In Fight To Open Second Location

There are probably more bars and restaurants in New York City than anywhere else in the world but with gentrification spreading across the city, its getting harder and harder for business owners to hang a shingle in the Big Apple.

Boxers NYC is a highly popular gay sports bar in Chelsea that’s become a favorite of sports fans, LGBT athletic teams, Kathy Griffin (who guest-bartendered there once) and even The A List: New York (which has filmed there). So its not surprising the owners decided to open a second location in New York’s other gay ghetto, Hell’s Kitchen. They received provisional approval from Community Board 4, but grumpy residents worry it’ll disturb their tranquility and that the proposed location is too close to P.S. 111 on West 53rd Street. (New York zoning laws forbid bars from being within 200 feet of a school.)

Boxers co-owners Bob Fluet and Rob Hynds have tried to appease residents, but the situation has turned into a long-running saga, even by New York standards. Fluet and Hynds current proposal is to split the building into two businesses, a full-service bar and a no-alcohol taco shop on the side closer to P.S. 111. They’ve also discussed opening the bar at 4pm, after schoolchildren have gone home.

“Should it be a night club? As a gay parent of two, I would never want a nightclub there. Could it be a tavern that sells food? Yes, in my opinion I think that’s fair, Fluet told local news channel NY1. “Other than that, there may be nothing but having a derelict building for three, four years. Is that good for the neighborhood?”

Hynd’s and Fluet’s plans aren’t good enough for P.S. 111 principal Irma Medina, though: She e-mailed parents warning them that if the bar opened as planned, it would have scandalous underwear-only nights (something Fluet denies) and that the bar was “inappropriate for school-age children to be exposed to during the day while they are in a learning environment.”

Hey, this is New York City: We’re pretty sure these kids have seen worse than a few gay sports fans drinking beer.

The Community Board will make its final vote on October 5.

Source http://www.queerty.com/nyc-sports-bar-boxers-comes-out-swinging-in-fight-to-open-second-location-20111003/

Teen rebellion can be a good sign

Your child has just rolled their eyes, informed you they WILL be going to that party whether you like it or not, told you they hate you, burst into tears and then slammed their door - all in the space of two minutes.

Congratulations. You are the proud owner of a teenager. Don't fret though, if your teen is doing these or similar things, they're exactly where they should be.

As challenging as it can be to have a rebellious, moody, obnoxious adolescent take over your house for a few years, experts say it's pretty much par for the course.

In fact, it's the quiet ones you should worry about. According to experts, they are more likely to be masking anxiety.

Perth psychologist Tony White says that while some children naturally have a quieter temperament, for others a lack of rebellion is a sign you need to dig deeper.

"The research says about 75 per cent of teenagers will be rebellious to some degree, and that is a good thing because it means the teenager is standing up to authority and in psychological terms, they're developing their own identity," he says.

"If they don't (rebel) then you start worrying. I have written this thing - 'a happy teenager is not a healthy teenager' - because I have a lot of parents come in and say 'my teenager is fighting, that means he's developing wrongly.' Well, it doesn't. If they don't fight, then you can actually be having a problem."

He says quieter children may take a low profile and conform because they're anxious or scared of something happening in their life. It can be hard to find out what's going on because they don't like making waves.

At school, they may slip under the radar because they are quiet and "good", while the angry, rebellious child is immediately identified and given help.

Whether parents have a fighter or a complier, Mr White says it's important for them to understand their child's temperament and parent accordingly, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach.

Those with fighters will need a thick hide and will have to learn how to pick their battles. But whatever kind of teen parents have, experts say they'll fare best if the foundational relationship is strong to begin with.

Jennie Hannon, executive general manager of services at Anglicare, says that means the child knows they can share things with you, that you'll listen and that you are available when they need you to be, even if it's the least convenient time to you as a parent.

"Ultimately, you need to have got to the point when your child is 12 or 13 where your kids may not like everything you say but they do respect you, and respect is what will carry you through even if they don't agree with you," Ms Hannon says.

"It's that foundational relationship that will stand you through those times so you don't have a kid who is going to climb out a window and run away."

Clinical psychologist Kris Giesen, who lectures at Edith Cowan University, agrees. She says there will come a time when the child realises the parent cannot actually stop them from doing things.

"As children learn that, it is the relationship that they have with the parent, if it remains intact, that still has the capacity to influence the choices they make."

Dr Giesen says much of the business of parenting teens comes down to keeping them safe and simply trying to get through it.

"Your task here is to try and survive this stage rather than thinking that everything has a solution and can be resolved."

Source http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/health/9887333/teen-rebellion-can-be-a-good-sign/

Do not protest, but seek private counsel from leaders

With many Muslims involved in rebellion against their leaders, one has to wonder: Is this rebellion permissible according to Islam?

This question has largely gone unnoticed in the media coverage of the so-called “Arab Spring.” However, Al-Jazeera and Fox News didn’t teach Islam to the world; the Prophet Muhammad did.

The Prophet Muhammad said, “Whoever wishes to advise the ruler, then let him not mention it in public, rather let him take the ruler by his hand. So, if he listens then that is that, and if not then he has fulfilled that which is upon him.”

It becomes clear, then, that protesting in the streets or violently trying to overthrow leaders has no basis in Islam. The Muslim should sincerely communicate his concern in private to the leader and then leave it at that.

Source http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2011/07/do_not_protest_but_seek_private_counsel_from_leaders