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Education in the Era of Teleneurology: Development and Evaluation of a Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents
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1hr 39m (11) 67 1hr 39m (11) 67 For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—in Disney and Pixar’s all-new movie “Elio,” the universe calls back! The original feature film introduces Elio, an underdog with an active imagination who finds himself inadvertently beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide. More Details »
In Praise of the Benediction
The word “benediction,” derived from Latin, means to “wish well.” The benediction doesn’t pray or plead; it pronounces, with no need for performance, effort, or improvisation. There aren’t too many occasions of formal pronouncements in one’s life. A wedding ends in a pronouncement. People are pronounced dead. Yet every week, all over the world, there is this less noted pronouncement—this declaration that we are blessed.
In Praise of the Benediction
My husband’s parents had invited a revered pastor—or moksanim, in Korean—to participate in our wedding. “He’s known for his benedictions,” my husband said. I didn’t know someone could specialize in benedictions, the brief blessings given at the end of a service. I wondered what made his special. Was it the tone of his voice? The way he lifted his hands? His steady cadence?
Turning Red: Why Is The Band Called 4*TOWN?
The 2022 Disney/Pixar movie Turning Red tells a charming story about a young girl who becomes a red panda whenever she gets angry and who idolizes the boy band 4*TOWN. The band is one of the most popular parts of Turning Red and fans are interested in why they got their name since it stands out so much. Watching Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang) and her friends obsess over these singers and attend one of their concerts makes Turning Red a fun and relatable watch.
Theatre Pro Rata Reveals Two Productions As Part of 2023-24 Season
Theatre Pro Rata has announced two upcoming productions. Learn more below! Bernhardt/Hamlet Theatre Pro Rata is producing Bernhardt/Hamlet written by Theresa Rebeck at The Crane Theater this September under the direction of Carin Bratlie Wethern. Mark Twain wrote: "There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses - and then there is Sarah Bernhardt." In 1899, the international stage celebrity set out to tackle her most ambitious role yet: Hamlet.
How to stop your baby from waking up every 1-2 hours at night?
By Julia K. Cho The Pizza Analogy to Understand 3 Crucial Things of Your Baby's Day Pizza's taste depends on how you make it, and a baby's good night's sleep depends on how your they spent the day. Unfortunately, no one is born with the knowledge of how to bake a perfect pizza. The same applies to babies, they aren't coming with...
Longing for More Stoppage Time
Little by little, soccer started to thread its way into our romance. During the 2002 World Cup, he watched South Korea play in the middle of the night. It was his team, the country where he’d spent most of his childhood, and a host of the World Cup that year. The next morning, he was supposed to meet me at Port Authority, where my bus had come in from Jersey, to go to a friend’s barbecue in Brooklyn, but he was still asleep.
AstonRep Theatre Company Announces 15th and Final Season Kicking Off in October
AstonRep Theatre Company has announced its 15th and final season, kicking off this fall with a revival of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Buried Child directed by Ensemble Member Derek Bertelsen*. The 2022-23 season continues this winter with AstonRep's 15th Annual Writer's Series, featuring free readings of new works by emerging writers, presented virtually via Zoom.
Rules for Father’s Day
They will tell you to find joy in your memories. This will start immediately in the sympathy cards that wish you this kind of solace. So, yes, you may get out your photo albums of her first year and a half of life and show her how proud he was in that photo where he holds her as a newborn. He is tired from late-night diaper changes and feedings but beaming in the full-length mirror he catches the photo in.
Vintage Theatre Announces 2022- 2023 Season
Vintage Theatre Productions announces 10 shows and two special events for the 2022-2023 season. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St. in Aurora. Early bird season tickets are currently on sale. Call 303-856-7830 or purchase online at www.vintagetheatre.org.
I Started Preparing For My Death When I Was 34. Here's What I've Discovered About Living.
"Someone once told me that planning is a form of hope, so maybe living means making plans despite how vulnerable those plans ultimately are," the author writes. (Photo: Gabriel Mello via Getty Images) For a long time now, I’ve been preparing to die. Buying your own plot in a cemetery and burying your husband at 33 years old on one side of it — after they ask you at the cemetery office, “Did he sleep on the right side or the left? People often do it that way.” — will do that to you.
Turning Red (2022) - IMDb
Videos9 Rosalie Chiang and Sandra Oh Answer Burning Questions Rosalie Chiang and Sandra Oh Answer Burning Questions Rosalie Chiang and Sandra Oh reveal all about their favorite boy bands and girl bands, 2002 fashion trends, an inspiring Dunder Mifflin employee, and fun facts about red pandas. Watch now Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang) is a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence.
Ousado na fofura, Red entende como poucos a complexa relação de mãe e filha
Quando certa manhã Meilin (dublada, no original, por Rosalie Chiang) acordou de sonhos intranquilos, encontrou-se em sua cama metamorfoseada num panda-vermelho monstruoso. Eu sei, a combinação de palavras soa contraditória. Talvez adjetivos melhores e mais intuitivos para acompanhar o termo “panda-vermelho” fossem “adorável” ou “fofo”, até porque há bichos piores nos quais se transformar — Gregor Samsa que o diga.
Stay in and catch a new movie streaming this weekend
If you are in the mood for a weekend spent at home relaxing, give these new movies a watch. Patrick Beatty shared his thoughts on movies streaming this weekend.
On Sadness
I was interviewed once by a kind man who had developed many of my plays at his theater. We were in a small room, with headphones and mics, for an interview that would be on the radio. He mentioned my love of the Jean Anouilh play Antigone — which sounds very pretentious, but I swear to you the play is modern, easy to read and unforgettable. My interviewer brought up how Anouilh was known for writing “black” and “pink” plays. His tragedies, like Antigone, were black. His light comedic plays were pink.
Julia Cho
Julia Cho Julia Cho is a playwright and screenwriter. Her latest film, Pixar’s Turning Red, is out now in theaters. Herplays include The Language Archive, The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Winchester House, BFE, The Architecture of Loss and 99 Histories and Cho has also cultivated a career as a writer and producer of a broad range of television shows from cult sci-fi (Fringe) to character-driven drama (Big Love, Halt and Catch Fire).
Vengo de 2020 para recordarte que no olvides la pandemia
Mi hija se escribió una carta a su yo pospandémico para no olvidar la gratitud por las cosas importantes de la vida: abrazarse, ver a los amigos y familiares, disfrutar las rutinas que antes nos parecían normales.
‘I’ve come from 2020 to remind you not to forget.’ A 12-year-old writes a letter to her post-pandemic self.
Dec. 30, 2020, 5:08 a.m. ET My 12-year-old daughter, Audrey, told me recently on one of our many walks around the neighborhood that she would never forget this pandemic, and that she never wanted to take for granted having friends over, visiting extended family or hugging her grandparents again. She wondered, though, whether people would really live with new appreciation. Over time, would we all forget? Would a hug or a handshake become commonplace again? “Write down how you feel,” I suggested.
A 12-Year-Old’s Letter to Her Post-Pandemic Self
How will you retain gratitude for the return to normal life? “I’ve come from 2020 to remind you not to forget,” my daughter wrote to her future self. Dec. 30, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET My 12-year-old daughter, Audrey, told me recently on one of our many walks around the neighborhood that she would never forget this pandemic, and that she never wanted to take for granted having friends over, visiting extended family or hugging her grandparents again.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Britain Approves Homegrown Vaccine from AstraZeneca and Oxford
Here’s what you need to know: A volunteer participating in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trial getting a shot in Oxford, England, in November.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times A global push to accelerate vaccinations gathered steam on Wednesday, as Britain became the first country to give emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford and China announced that late-stage drug trials showed that one of its coronavirus...
What I’m taking from 2020: Minimalism is overrated
Julia Cho 26m 26m This is part one in a four-part series on what women learned about themselves in 2020. Remember that last line by Meryl Streep in the film “Doubt”? Streep’s character hesitates and then breaks into a full sob, saying only, “I have doubts. … I have such doubts.” Such has been my own dramatic cry in this time of self-quarantine as I look back on all the useful items that I “purged” in January 2019.
Finding a Literary Inheritance
I ’ve recently had the sense that the subset of America I occupy—Korean America or whatever you want to call it—is having its moment. The crest of a wave of immigration that started in the 1960s (which my parents were part of) seemed to converge with South Korea’s emergence as a pop culture powerhouse. But the “peak” of any phenomenon also portends its end. Today I can already see how my generation is fading and assimilating, and how future generations of Korean Americans may be quite different.
Choices Magazine Online
Julia H. Cho and Anil Rupasingha JEL Classifications: H50, H51, H53, R50, R58 Keywords: Community Facilities Program, COVID-19 pandemic, Healthcare facilities, Rural America, USDA Rural Development Citation: Cho, J.H. and A. Rupasingha. 2021. "USDA’s Community Facilities Program May Help Rural America Cope with COVID-19" Choices. Quarter 3.
I'm Not Baking Fresh Bread During Quarantine, And That's OK
Marcus Aurelius/Pexels I have to admit, by week three I’d started to compare myself with others—people baking bread in their white minimalist kitchens, their kids learning new languages and instruments, people organizing closets, and starting new exercise programs. That first two days I was “on.” I had us up at the usual time, served both my daughter and myself a hot breakfast at 7:30 am and even had us take a brisk morning walk in place of our usual walk to school.
Here’s what being a single mom taught me about preparing for coronavirus
Julia Cho March 6 March 6 One of my last memories of my husband was a trip to Target where he ran in to get a few necessities — saying something typical like, “I’ll just run in …” while I waited in the car with our baby. I realized a week after he died that moments like that would never happen again with such ease, and I’d have to adjust accordingly. My daughter is 11 now and over the last 10 years I’ve learned a lot of skills that have helped me adapt.
One parent, one child, one family: Julia Cho
I didn’t become a member of a small family by choice. My husband died when my daughter was almost 2 years old, and we became a family of two — the smallest number of people I suppose one can have and use the word “family.” While I may have hoped for a “Brady Bunch” situation, she is now 11 years old, and at least for the time being, we are more “Gilmore Girls” than “Brady Bunch” — minus the living father, perfectly scripted banter and idyllic town.
Only parent, only child: An ode to our small family
Julia Cho, The Washington Post Published 8:30 am CST, Thursday, January 23, 2020 I didn't become a member of a small family by choice.
How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life
My tween will never know the sound of me calling her name from another room after the phone rings. She'll never sit on our kitchen floor, refrigerator humming in the background, twisting a cord around her finger while talking to her best friend. "I'll get it," "He's not here right now," and "It's for you" are all phrases that are on their way out of the modern domestic vernacular. According to the federal government, the majority of American homes now use cellphones exclusively.
How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life
The shared phone was a space of spontaneous connection for the entire household. Elzbieta Sekowska / Shutterstock / The Atlantic My tween will never know the sound of me calling her name from another room after the phone rings. She'll never sit on our kitchen floor, refrigerator humming in the background, twisting a cord around her finger while talking to her best friend.
Park Square To Open Theatre Season With AUBERGINE By Julia Cho
by BWW News Desk BroadwayWorld.com Jul. 29, 2019 Park Square Theatre opens its 2019-2020 Theatre Season on the Andy Boss Trust Stage with the area premiere of Aubergine (SEPT 20 - OCT 20, 2019) by Julia Cho, author of The Language Archive. Aubergine will be directed by Park Square's Artistic Director Flordelino Lagundino - his Park Square directing debut. In this poignant and lyrical new play, a son cooks a meal for his dying father to say everything that words can't.
Review: Delightful ‘Language Archive’ finds TheatreWorks on a roll
Breaking News Magnitude 3.5 quake rattles Morgan Hill A linguist is at a loss for the words his wife needs to hear to convince her to stay. She keeps leaving cryptic, poetic notes for her husband to find around the house and then denying that it was her. Meanwhile, the last two speakers of a dying language squabble in English because their native tongue is too sacred for such pettiness.
Review: Delightful ‘Language Archive’ finds TheatreWorks on a roll
Breaking News Fatal crash blocks multiple lanes of I-80 during morning commute A linguist is at a loss for the words his wife needs to hear to convince her to stay. She keeps leaving cryptic, poetic notes for her husband to find around the house and then denying that it was her. Meanwhile, the last two speakers of a dying language squabble in English because their native tongue is too sacred for such pettiness.
Grief Looks a Lot Like 'Crazy'
In the hit Netflix series, “Dead to Me,” the real estate is luxe and there is way too much time to sit by the pool with a wine glass in hand, and most of us can’t pull off looking as good in a pencil skirt as its star, Christina Applegate. But there is still so much that rings true about the show’s onscreen portrayal of sudden loss and young widowhood. The show centers on Jen, a widowed mother of two, and Judy, the quirky friend she meets in her bereavement group.
What My Tween's 'Mid-Childhood Crisis' Taught Me About Mid-Life
“We didn’t even get crayons this year!” my daughter is telling me incredulously as I walk her up to school this morning. “It’s the first year we didn’t have crayons,” she says again with sadness. I tell her that I swear I paid for crayons, and I kiss her face and watch her nine-year-old lanky body walk inside the building before I turn around and walk back home.
Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories?
Looking at a video right after an event can overlay and alter the actual memory of the experience, experts say. April 25, 2019 The night of the elementary school talent show, we came home to celebrate with ice cream when my mother took out her iPhone to show a video she’d taken of my 10-year-old daughter’s performance. My daughter had played Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” on the piano by ear and sang along.
In the uncharted territory of the tween years, I feel like I've lost my mom mojo
“Do you think you’re a good mother?” he asked. It was a year after my husband had suddenly died, and my daughter was entering preschool. I had met with the psychologist at the school, just to let him in on what our family was going through, and he asked me this question.I replied, “Yes, I think I’m a great mom.”He looked surprised, “Usually this is the part where moms express all of their guilt and regrets.” But I really did think I was a great mom to my little girl.
Perspective | In the uncharted territory of the tween years, I feel like I’ve lost my mom mojo
“Do you think you’re a good mother?” he asked. It was a year after my husband had suddenly died, and my daughter was entering preschool. I had met with the psychologist at the school, just to let him in on what our family was going through, and he asked me this question. He looked surprised, “Usually this is the part where moms express all of their guilt and regrets.” But I really did think I was a great mom to my little girl.
Premature menopause: One woman details her experience
Illustration by oOrn Studio “It’s called premature ovarian failure,” my OB-GYN said slowly, with an air of boredom, glancing down at the LH and FSH hormone levels. My primary care physician had ordered the tests after my yearly physical, when I’d mentioned feeling a bit “off” just shy of my 40th birthday. That they would come back post-menopausal had never occurred to me. “So does this mean I may never get my period again?” I asked.
Saving the Date for a Wedding That Will Never Take Place
Saving the Date for a Wedding That Will Never Take Place I was supposed to be married on November 9, but tragedy stopped this self-proclaimed ‘Bridezilla’ in her tracks. Our nuptial checklist went like this: On Friday, our wedding website went live. Over the weekend, we sent save-the-dates and had an engagement party with our family. On Monday, I gave him a list of people he still needed addresses from. And then, on Thursday, Larry had a heart attack and died.
Meet My ‘Dead Mom Friends’
I’ve found kinship (but no judgment or pity) among my friends — and even acquaintances — who have also experienced a loss of a parent. Recently, a New York Times article about New Mom Friends went viral among my friends. It’s about how important it is to avoid isolation during our first few months as parents. We all need someone to text while we’re awake at 2 a.m., feeding the baby, or to stress with about our babies’ weight gain and sleep patterns.
Why I Told Anne Lamott About My Dead Husband
I promised myself I wouldn’t, but then I opened up to a writer I’ve long admired about the most surreal, unbelievable thing that has ever happened to me. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t do it. “I will not tell her ‘the story,” I’d thought. I was waiting in line at a writer’s conference to have my book signed by the keynote speaker, Anne Lamott. The line was moving quickly, and I was thinking about what to say, surprised by my sudden self-consciousness.
Season 43 - San Diego Rep
Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical Music by Jeanine Tesori Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel Directed by Sam Woodhouse Choreographed by Javier Velasco "FIVE STARS. Fun Home has enormous intelligence and sensitivity. It's not your ordinary Broadway musical, because it is extraordinary." – Time Out New York “Heart-gripping and cathartic, FUN HOME occupies the place where we all grew up, and will never be able to leave.
Berkeley Rep’s chilling ‘Office Hour’ reflects today’s headlines
Gina (played by Jackie Chung, left) confronts a student (Daniel Chung) about his disturbing writings in Julia Cho's "Office Hour" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. (T. Charles Erickson/Berkeley Rep) Here is theater writer Karen D’Souza’s review: Parkland. Sandy Hook. Virginia Tech.
Review: In age of mass-shootings, chilling ‘Office Hour’ opens in Berkeley
Parkland. Sandy Hook. Virginia Tech. The memory of countless slain youths, shot down amid the seeming safety of school grounds, haunts the mind’s eye during this chilling if schematic “Office Hour.” Julia Cho’s deeply disturbing drama, tautly directed by Lisa Peterson in its regional premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, investigates far more than the fear of an active shooter roaming on campus.
Review: In age of mass-shootings, chilling ‘Office Hour’ opens in Berkeley
Parkland. Sandy Hook. Virginia Tech. The memory of countless slain youths, shot down amid the seeming safety of school grounds, haunts the mind’s eye during this chilling if schematic “Office Hour.” Julia Cho’s deeply disturbing drama, tautly directed by Lisa Peterson in its regional premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, investigates far more than the fear of an active shooter roaming on campus.
Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang
At this point, you may recall the events that took place at Virginia Tech in 2007. Ms. Cho has said that she wrote “Office Hour” to explore her response to the massacre there, in which a 23-year-old student named Seung-Hui Cho murdered 32 people before killing himself. Creative-writing teachers who had read his work, including a violent play called “Richard McBeef,” alerted the school authorities to no avail.
We'll Be Fine: Three Short Plays By Donald Margulies, Julia Cho, And Max Baker
Sun. 7/23 6:00 pm. Love trumps panic, insecurity and anxiety in three humorous shorts. In Misadventure by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, an older sibling is fearful and furious as she picks up her 17-year-old kid brother from a night in jail. In Cora and Dave Are Getting Older a young woman has returned from a dinner out with friends and confides in her husband she fears she doesn’t measure up. Her husband lets her in on a secret that allays her doubts.
Winding Road's 'Language Archive' lacks nuance, humor
They express love, anger, hurt, compassion, ideas.But George, the protagonist in Winding Road Theater Ensemble’s production of “The Language Archive,” can’t find them. It’s ironic, of course: George (Gabriel Nagy) has a deep passion for languages, particularly dying ones. He studies them, caresses them, loves them.But he can’t tell his long-suffering wife (Leslie J. Miller) how he feels. Worse, he can’t seem to listen to her when she tries to talk to him.
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