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Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and spending bill penalized states providing health care for some immigrants with legal […]

“During the uprising, the women of Bangladesh stood at the forefront of the revolution. ... It is deeply shameful to witness how their presence and voices have been gradually pushed back into the shadows.”

'Divinas palabras' Konpainia: Atalaya. Jatorrizko testua: R. M. Valle-Inclan. Egokitzapena, eszenografia eta zuzendaritza: Ricardo Iniesta. Aholkularitza eta zuzendari laguntzailea: Juana Casado. Musika: Luis Navarro. Koreografiak: Lucia You, Juana Casado. Argiak: Alejandro Conesa. Jantziak: Carmen de Giles, Marta Flores. Antzezleak: Raul Vera, Silvia Garzon, Laura Krivakova, Maria Sanz, Raul Lledo, Ana Baraza, Emmanuel Garcia, Pedro Callealta. Lekua: Donostiako Viktoria Eugenia antzokia. Eguna: Ekainak 28. Udako arratsalde eguzkitsu batean ez da erraza ikusleak antzerkira erakartzea, baina Viktoria Eugenia antzokiko besaulki patioa ondo bete du Sevillako (Espainia) Atalaya taldeak. Valle-Inclanen Divinas palabras ekarri dute oraingo honetan, oraingo ikuspegitik berreraikiz 1998an taularatu zuten bertsioa. Seguruenik, Divinas palabras dugu galiziar poeta eta dramaturgoaren obrarik ezagunena Luces de Bohemia-rekin batera, eta Ricardo Iniesta taldearen eta muntaiaren zuzendariaren hitzetan, «teatro barbaro» eta «siniestroaren» gailurra da. Beranduago egileak asmatu zuen esperpentoaren ezaugarriak dauzka eta esan daiteke espresionismoaren abangoardia ere badela. Giza arimaren miseriak gordin erakusten ditu, eta alde horretatik behin baino gehiagotan etorri zait akordura Bertolt Brechten Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder obrako protagonista, gerraren parasito profesionala dena eta bere probetxurako edozer izugarrikeria etiko egiteko prest dagoena. Brechten obra ere hainbat koadrotan banatuta dago, argumentu kanonikoari men egin gabe, eta bitxia da ikustea gauza bera gertatzen dela 1919an estreinatu zen Divinas palabras-en. Kasu honetan, ordea, ez da Ama Kuraiaren kasu pertsonal baina enblematikoa aztertzen, herri oso batena baizik, eta alde horretatik kontuan hartzekoa da Valle-Inclanek sortutako pertsonaien zerrenda xelebrea. Herrixka tragikomedia eman zion azpititulutzat egileak, eta sineskerien mundu magiko eta primitibo horretan eskaleak, itsuak, tabernariak, aprobetxategiak eta oro har azpimundua osatzen duten izaki baztertu eta esperantzarik gabeko guztiak biltzen dira. Eta, nola ez, Baldadiño izenekoa, malformazio askorekin jaiotako mutikoa, orga batean garraiatu eta ferietan diru truk erakusten dutena. Beren ohiko ofizioarekin, Atalayakoek sendotasun osoz gauzatu dute groteskoaren irudikapen hori, taldearen hainbat belaunaldi taula gainera ekarrita eta haien arteko transmisio trinkoa agerian utziz, konpainiaren geroaren berme bezala. Deklamazioa —haiengan ohikoa den legez— epikoa izan da gehienbat, nik behintzat ez dakidala noraino den onuragarria kasu honetarako, eta antzezleen ekintza eszenikoa oso koreografikoa suertatu da, pasarte dantzatuak ugariak izateaz gain. Musikak ere jokatu du bere rola, argien diseinua aktiboa eta esanguratsua egin zaigu eta, betiko moduan, elementu eszenografiko bakarra aukeratu du Iniestak: kasu honetan kono zeharrargi handiekin irudikatu dira era metaforiko-poetikoan edalontziak, zuhaitzak, elizako dorreak, zorigaiztoko mutikoaren orga eta beste elementu asko, betiere gainontzeko osagaien eta antzezleen elkarlan betean. Beste mugarri bat, beraz, taldearen 40 urteko ibilbidean. Bizitza luzea opa diot haien antzerki-estilo sendo, aurreratu eta sozialki konprometituari.

Uztaila jazzarekin lotu ohi da Euskal Herriko zenbait txokotan aspalditik; eta hala izaten da Getxon (Bizkaia) ere. Bertan izango dute musikarekin gozatzeko lehen aukera jazzaren Euskal Herriko zaleek, gaur hasi eta igandera bitarte egingo baita Getxo Jazz jaialdia. Aurtengoa 48. aldia izango da, eta urteroko zirkuitua antolatu dute. Aurten ere izen handiko artistak igoko dira oholtza nagusira, besteak beste, Rhoda Scott, Paquito D'Rivera, Joe Lovano, Cecile McLorin Salvant eta Dave Douglas. Talde gazteagoek ere izango dute euren tokia Talde Lehiaketan, eta, urtero bezalaxe, doako eskaintza ere egongo da kaleko kontzertuen bidez. Rhoda Scottek irekiko du jaialdia, oholtza nagusian. Estatubatuarra organista nabarmenduenetako bat da jazzaren eta soularen eszenan, eta 70eko hamarkadaz geroztik, ohikoa da Europako jazzaren hitzordu garrantzitsuenetan. 1963an kaleratu zuen bere lehen albuma Live!! At the Key Club, eta, geroztik, 30 disko inguru grabatu ditu. Getxon bere egungo taldearekin ariko da: Lady Quartet. Julie Saury (bateria), Sophie Alour (saxo tenorra) eta Lisa Cat-Berro (saxo altua) izango ditu kide. Bihar Paquito D'Rivera saxofoi eta klarinete jotzailearen txanda izango da. Jazz latinoaren eta musika klasikoaren artean aritzen da Kubako artista, eta hemezortzi Grammy sari irabazi ditu bere ibilbide oparoan. Horrez gain, nabarmentzekoa da Irakere taldearen eta Kubako Musika Garaikidearen Orkestraren sortzaileetako bat izan dela. Getxon beste lau artistarekin batera ariko da: Pepe Rivero (pianoa), Yuvisney Aguilar (perkusioa), Reinier Elizarde El Negron (kontrabaxua) eta Sebastian Laverde (bibrafonoa). Bestalde, Cecile McLorin Salvant abeslaria etzi arituko da, hilaren 4an. 2010ean Thelonius Monk Nazioarteko Jazz Lehiaketa entzutetsua irabazi zuen, 20 urte besterik ez zuela. Geroztik oihartzun handia eskuratu du jazz garaikidearen eszenan, eta nazioarteko agertoki handienetan aritu da. Beste hainbat sari ere irabazi ditu bere ibilbidean. Besteak beste, Jazz Disko Onenaren Grammy saria jaso zuen For One To Love lanarekin. Diskografiari dagokionez, sei disko kaleratu ditu; azkena, 2023an: Melusine. Hilaren 5ean, larunbatean, Joe Lovano saxofoi jotzaile tenorea arituko da agertoki nagusian. Ospe handia dauka; antolatzaileen esanetan, «berritzailea, espontaneoa eta inprobisatzaile handia» da. 60ko eta 70eko hamarkadetan nabarmendu zen lehenengoz, eta horrek izen handiko hainbat artistarekin batera aritzeko aukera eman zion. 1985ean grabatu zuen lehen diskoa, Tones, Shapes and Colors, eta adituei oso lan ona iruditu zitzaien. Ordutik, etengabe hazi da Lovanoren ospea, eta eszenako artista ospetsuenetako bat da gaur egun. Getxon, Marcin Wasilewski (pianoa), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (baxua) eta Michal Kiskiewicz (bateria) izango ditu lagun oholtzan. Dave Douglas tronpeta jotzailearen kontzertuarekin amaituko da aurtengo jaialdia, igandean. Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako artistak sona handia eskuratu zuen, antolakuntzaren esanetan, «berrikuntza eta tradizioa uztartzeko duen gaitasunari esker». Laukotean arituko da hori ere, Marta Warelisekin (pianoa), Nick Dunstonekin (baxua) eta Joey Baronekin (bateria) batera. «Entzumen esperientzia pertsonala eta hedakorra eskaintzen du aldi berean, eta jazzaren moldakortasuna eta sakontasun emozionala erakusten ditu», nabarmendu dute antolatzaileek. Talde Lehiaketa Aurten ere antolatu dute Talde Lehiaketa. Edozein estilotako jazz musika jorratzen duen Europako edozein taldek parte hartu dezake. Gehienez, ordea, 30 urte izan ditzakete musikariek. Izena eman zuten talde guztietatik honako lau talde hauek aukeratu ditu epaimahaiak lehiaketako finalean parte har dezaten: Eneko Dieguez Quartet, IMB Special 4tet, Cesar Vidal & Artikulation Band eta Paper Moon. Horiek ere Muxikeberri zentroan arituko dira, eta hiru sari banatuko dira, gainera: lehen sailkatuari, bigarren sailkatuari, eta bakarlari onenari. Lehiaketako irabazlea nor den azken egunean jakingo da, eta aurreko aldietan bezalaxe, beste behin ariko da oholtza gainean, Douglasen kontzertua baino lehen. Kalean ere izango da jazz doinuez gozatzeko parada. Urtero bezala, Algortako Geltoki plazan dohainik entzun ahalko dira hainbat talderen doinuak Hirugarren Milurtekoa atalean zein familientzako goizeko kontzertuetan. Baina ez Geltoki plazan bakarrik. Izan ere, aurten lehen aldiz, Muxikeberri zentroaren parean eta Areeta hondartzaren inguruetan ere egingo dira doako kontzertuak. Talde eta bakarlari hauek ariko dira hiru toki horietan: Matteo Paggi Giraffe, Daahoud Salim Quintet, Elia Bastida Trio, Igor Senderov Quartet, Voices for the Duke, Captain Corchea: Sax & Wing, Musikene eta Euskorleans. KONTZERTU NAGUSIAK Gaur: Rhoda Scott (Muxikeberri zentroan, 22:15ean) Bihar: Paquito D'Rivera (Muxikeberri zentroan, 22:15ean) Etzi: Cecile McLorin (Muxikeberri zentroan, 22:15ean) Larunbata: Joe Lovano (Muxikeberri zentroan, 22:15ean) Igandea: Dave Douglas (Muxikeberri zentroan, 22:15ean) GAZTE LEHIAKETA Gaur: Eneko Dieguez Quartet (Muxikeberri zentroan, 21:00etan) Bihar: IMB Special 4tet (Muxikeberri zentroan, 21:00etan) Etzi: Cesar Vidal & Artikulation Band (Muxikeberri zentroan, 21:00etan) Larunbata: Paper Moon (Muxikeberri zentroan, 21:00etan) Igandea: Lehiaketako irabazlea (Muxikeberri zentroan, 21:00etan)

If we move quickly and collaboratively, Massachusetts has the chance not just to adapt to the new environment—but to lead, and find opportunity in these uncertain times. The post Tackling housing costs, smart use of AI among top priorities for Mass. business leaders appeared first on CommonWealth Beacon.

Proposal must clear US House before advancing to President Trump, who has called for its passage by the Fourth of July.

Alaska Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski joined 48 other Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to pass a major budget bill that cuts federal assistance programs in order to partially pay for the extension of large tax cuts, weighted toward the wealthy. Even with those cuts, the bill is expected to increase the […]

Who wants to try a new restaurant? In San Diego's neighborhoods, you can ask yourself that question more than a few times a month, any month.

La medida, defendida por el primer ministro Donald Tusk, busca frenar la migración irregular desde el este y responder a las devoluciones de Alemania, con el fin de evitar convertirse en el destino final de los migrantes.

Who wants to try a new restaurant? In San Diego's neighborhoods, you can ask yourself that question more than a few times a month, any month.

WASHINGTON — The final “big beautiful bill” approved by Senate Republicans Tuesday included some last-minute changes on hot-button issues such as safety net programs and clean energy tax credits. Senate Republicans had wrangled for weeks to deliver legislative text to satisfy concerns from lawmakers who objected to cutting Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for low-income […]

Who wants to try a new restaurant? In San Diego's neighborhoods, you can ask yourself that question more than a few times a month, any month.

Who wants to try a new restaurant? In San Diego's neighborhoods, you can ask yourself that question more than a few times a month, any month.

Oregon and Washington’s attorneys general are suing the federal government for sharing residents’ Medicaid records with federal immigration enforcement officials. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, alongside 13 other Democratic state attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for sharing Medicaid […]

ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ནས་པ་སངས་བར་གྱི་སྔ་དགོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཀུན་གླེང་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ནང་གསར་འགྱུར་དང་། དྲ་སྣང་གི་བོད། ཆབ་སྲིད་བཙོན་པ་ངོ་སྤྲོད། དཔེ་ཀློག་སོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་དང་། བརྗོད་གཞི་གལ་ཆེན་མང་པོའི་ཐད་དུས་ཐོག་ཏུ་བགྲོ་གླེང་ལྷུག་པོར་གནང་བའི་ལེ་ཚན་བཅས་ཡོད་པས་དུས་ལྟར་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང་། ཀུན་གླེང་ཐད་གཏོང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་ནི་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་དང་ཕྱེད་ཀ་ནས་བརྒྱད་པའི་བར་དང་། བོད་ནང་གི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་བ་ནས་༡༠ དང་ཕྱེད་ཀའི་བར། དེ་བཞིན་ཨ་རིའི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཞོགས་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༠ པ་ནས་༡༠...

Who wants to try a new restaurant? In San Diego's neighborhoods, you can ask yourself that question more than a few times a month, any month.

Who wants to try a new restaurant? In San Diego's neighborhoods, you can ask yourself that question more than a few times a month, any month.

WASHINGTON — The final “big beautiful bill” approved by Senate Republicans Tuesday included some last-minute changes on hot-button issues such as safety net programs and clean energy tax credits. Senate Republicans had wrangled for weeks to deliver legislative text to satisfy concerns from lawmakers who objected to cutting Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for low-income […]

Parents have been left reeling by news a male Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with 70 counts related to the alleged sexual abuse of young children in his care. The charges include sexual penetration and producing child abuse material for use through a carriage service. The man has tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease, with more than 1,200 children now needing to be tested. If you’ve got a child in daycare, or are planning to enrol them in one soon, you might be wondering: what can I do to reduce the risk of this happening to my child at care? I’ve researched prevention of child sexual abuse for decades. Here are my main recommendations for parents. Scrutinise the childcare centre You need to make sure you know who is looking after your kids. Ask yourself: who is playing with them during the day? who are their main carers? who helps them with naptime and toileting or nappy change? High staff turnover at the centre should be a warning sign for employers and parents alike. You want to go to a place where the employees have been there for decades. Obviously, that is not always possible but it is something to look for. Don’t be distracted with shiny play equipment; look for places where the staff are actually interacting with the children. Ask the childcare centre the uncomfortable questions. Both the director and regular staff should be able to answer questions such as: what is your recruitment policy and process? what would you do if you saw a colleague kiss a child or touch a child inappropriately? what is your child protection plan? what do you do if a parent or child alleges there’s been an incident? What exact steps will you follow? how do you ensure no worker is ever left alone with a child? Any resistance to answering questions about policies and protocol should be a red flag. Trust your gut. What to look for Go to the childcare centre for a spot visit at an unexpected time. That means going when it’s not drop-off or pick-up time. Everyone can put on a show at 8am and 5pm but go at 2pm or 3pm when the staff are starting to flag and the children are grumpy. Any resistance is a problem. A good centre will let you visit any time. You want glass walls for nappy change areas, or a really clear line of sight so nobody is able to be in there unseen. Kids are most likely to be abused during nappy change, toileting and nap time. Look closely at these places and understand the workflow in those areas. Look for nooks and crannies – any secret spaces that have been created. At naptime, everyone should be sleeping out in the open; there should be no closed areas. No worker should be alone with a child, ever. This should be made very clear to you when you ask the childcare centre about their safety policies. Childcare workers should not have their personal phones with them on the floor. The centre should have one phone for the whole place but the staff should not have their personal phones on them at any time. There is no need for it and it creates risk. What should I say to my kids? It’s really important to talk to your children, even if they are very young. Give them the language to talk about this and understand what’s appropriate and what’s not. Use proper anatomical terms for body parts so they have the language to disclose if something happens. Let them know they can speak up and make sure they understand the steps to disclose. For example, when you do a nappy change, narrate what you are doing so they understand what a “normal” nappy change is and can learn the words for these steps. Ask: what’s it like when Mister James wipes your bottom? What did he do? Tell them: if you don’t like the way he wipes your bottom you can tell Miss Tracy or me. It is never too early to start talking about this stuff and they’ll pick it up faster than you realise. If you’re not talking with your children about this stuff, you’re not preventing child sexual abuse. Talk about “safe touching” and “unsafe touching”. Make sure they know they don’t have to hug someone if they don’t want to. They can always say no and they can give a high five instead. They need to learn: my body, my rules. Talk with your child about what it’s like at naptime and at nappy change time at daycare. And if your child seems like they really don’t want to talk to a particular instructor, that can be a warning sign. Systemic change is needed Obviously, childcare workers are poorly paid and we need to overhaul the system. Higher pay would mean people could stay longer in one job and would reduce staff turnover. The working with children check is just one piece in a large and complicated puzzle. It just means that on the day that person applied for the job they hadn’t been convicted of an offence. But the fact is a lot of people don’t have a choice but to send their child to daycare when they are pre-verbal. So parents need to have uncomfortable conversations with childcare staff (and with their kids); lean into the discomfort and ask the questions anyway. Danielle Arlanda Harris has received funding from the Australian Research Council, Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety and the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse. She is on the national clinical reference group of the National Office for Child Safety.