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  • West Meets East Concert To Be Held on Feb. 16 as Boston Celebrates Chinese New Year

    By Yan-Huang Performing Arts

    Yan-Huang Performing Arts Corporation was established by Hong Jiang in 1999 and is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

    In order to fulfill our mission, we have annual concert series “West Meets East”. The series are comprised of concerts where Eastern and Western music and artists are brought together to offer people an opportunity to discover and appreciate the difference, commonality, and mutual influence of the two musical worlds.

    Since 1999 we have held sold-out concerts at Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall and Sanders Theater in Boston and at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York. We are proud to present the 2013 West Meets East Concert at Jordan Hall featuring some of the well-respected musicians in Boston area. It will be a great night of Chinese and Western music as we celebrate the beginning of Year of Snake, which starts on Feb. 10.
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  • 央视春晚”走下神坛”？张学友陈佩斯婉拒、赵本山退出

    （中新社1月18日电）今日下午，央视春晚官方微博发表声明，称赵本山因认为作品未能达到自己的心理预期，决定退出蛇年春晚。这已是他连续两年缺席央视春晚演出。

    今年，陈佩斯、张学友、范冰冰、李宇春、范明、黄宏、姚晨等大腕都在受到哈文邀请后选择婉拒或退出。这是继龙年春晚后，明星艺人再次大范围“拒绝”春晚。从这一现象中不难看出，现在的央视春晚虽然仍旧受到全国百姓的关注，但已不再像二三十前那样是各界明星争抢的舞台，而随着时代的发展，央视春晚也在人们的争议中逐渐走下了“神坛”。

    郭德纲（左）和于谦在2012年11月份在波士顿表演《好好学习》。
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  • Mayor Menino and Senator Warren Discuss Gun Violence Prevention

    Boston, Jan. 18, 2013, — Mayor Thomas M. Menino and US Senator Elizabeth Warren this afternoon met to discuss a gun violence prevention agenda backed by the coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), co-founded by Mayor Menino. Upon the Senate’s return next week, Senator Warren will support a comprehensive approach to preventing gun violence, including three Senate bills focused on gun control reform, which reflect the three main priorities of the coalition’s recommendations sent to President Obama in December: requiring every gun buyer to pass a criminal background check, getting military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines off city streets, and making gun trafficking a federal crime. Senator Warren will also continue to review additional proposals to prevent gun violence.
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    Mayor Menino endorsed Warren in last year’s US Senate election.
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  • 医保费、社安税上涨，华人新年工资单缩水

    【侨报特约记者李强波士顿报道】 2013年元旦，国会通过的避免财政悬崖的法案中虽然保留了小布什总统时代的个人联邦收入税税率，但是从新年开始，个人社安税税率从2012年的4.2%恢复到2011年前的6.2%。加上各大保险公司的医保费从新年开始也大幅上涨，让许多华人工薪阶层感觉到不小的压力。
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  • First “Bone” of the Milky Way Identified

    Long Beach, CA – Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy – a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the inside, its exact structure is difficult to determine.
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  • 在课堂教学中注重学生心智能力培养 有利于思想道德建设

    许颜，中国北京第二实验小学，于2013年1月6日波士顿GBCCA艺文小集

    在谈论这个话题之前，我想应该了解下面几个相关的概念:
    1. 思想: 简单说就是想法,念头。
    客观存在反映在人们的意识中经过思维活动而产生的结果.思想的内容为社会制度的性质和人们的物质生活条件所决定,在阶级社会中,思想具有明显的阶级性（现代汉语词典第5版）。

    2. 思维： 指在表象、概念的基础上进行分析、综合、判断、推理等认识活动的过程。是人类特有的一种精神活动，是从社会实践中产生的（现代汉语词典第5版）。
    还有人这样解释思维(thinking)：是人脑对客观现实概括的和间接的反映，它反映的是事物的本质和事物间规律性的联系。思维同感知觉一样是人脑对客观现实的反映。感知觉所反映的是事物的个别属性、个别事物及其外部的特征和联系，属于感性认识；而思维所反映的是一类事物共同的、本质的属性和事物间内在的、必然的联系，属于理性认识。在认识过程中，思维实现着从现象到本质、从感性到理性的转化，使人达到对客观事物的理性认识，从而构成了人类认识的高级阶段。

    3. 道德: 意识形态之一,是人们共同生活及其行为的准则和规范。道德通过人们的自律或通过一定的舆论对社会生活起约束作用（现代汉语词典第5版）。
    在道德的概念里提到了意识，那么意识指的是人的头脑对于客观物质世界的反映,是感觉,思维等各种心理过程的总和,其中的思想是人类特有的反映现实的高级形式.存在决定意识,意识又反作用于存在.亦有觉察的意思（现代汉语词典第5版）。而意识形态指的是在一定的经济基础上形成的,人对于世界和社会的有系统的看法和见解,哲学,政治,艺术,宗教,道德等是它的具体表现.意识形态是上层建筑的组成部分,在阶级社会里具有阶级性.也叫观念形态（现代汉语词典第5版）。

    4. 思想品德： 是一个多要素的综合系统，是人们在一定的思想的指导下，在品德行为中变现出来的较为稳定的心理特点、思想倾向和行为习惯的总和。它与一定的经济活动、政治活动、道德风尚及风俗习惯相联系，受到社会发展水平的制约（百度百科名片）。
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  • “I Have a Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

    By The Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. on August 28, 1963

    I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

    Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

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  • 艺文小集新年第一讲谈品德教育

    【侨报周末特约记者李强波士顿报道】 1月6日晚，有着20多年历史的艺文小集新召集人沈安平上任后的第一次聚会在牛顿市大波士顿中华文化协会(GBCCA)会址举行。第一次的聚会以教育为主题，哈佛大学的研究员和资深科学家魏毅博士主要就品德及品德教育进行讨论；在北京第二实验小学任教，并设有“许颜工作室”的许颜老师则侧重怎样具体实施品德教育。
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    上图： 魏毅（右）， 许颜（中）在演讲中。牛江河摄
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  • Air Pollution in Beijing — A Major Concern at Start of 2013

    (from chinadaily.com.cn)

    China’s leading e-commerce retailers have warned their supplies of air purifiers are dwindling after sales skyrocketed in recent days as heavy smog and haze hit large parts of Central and East China.

    Shoppers snap up air purifiers to beat the smog
     

    A child with device to help breathe clean air is seen in hospital waiting for treatment for cough caused by severe air pollution in Beijing on Jan 14, 2013. [Deng Jia/Asianewsphoto]

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  • 藝協傳統中國舞蹈團參加倫敦新年大遊行 備受矚目

    【僑報周末特約記者李強波士頓報導】在2013年倫敦的新年大遊行中，來自波士頓的紐英倫中華藝術協會傳統中國舞蹈團的精彩中國傳統舞蹈格外引人注目。以鮮豔奪目的隊旗前導，孩子手拿手絹花、連廂及手鼓等舞蹈道具，家長們手握英、美國旗，孩子們優美的舞姿，賣力的演出，獲得沿途觀眾的熱烈喝采。
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    上图：藝協傳統中國舞蹈團師生在倫敦街頭合影（中華藝術協會提供）。
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