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but with snow flurries, hardly the time to visit an out door museum. But I am glad we went. The winter weather gave us a better appreciation of life in such villages and how cozy some of these homes actually were. The topic of home began to obsess me. During our stay in Kyiv we had workshops with the first class of Crimean Tatar students in the Theatre Institute. Somehow I started talking about home with the stu dents. These young people had been brought up with a dream of coming home someday and the reactions were very powerful. On May 18, 1944 on Stalin's or ders all Crimean Tatars were rounded up and exiled all to Central Asia. Their language and culture were for bidden for many years and they were not allowed to return to Crimea until 1989. Now the Crimean Tatars are returning to Crimea, but there is no place for them to live. They build their own houses in the fields, trying to reconstruct the culture, arts and language of their homeland from bits and pieces the old people remem ber. The theatre students were impassioned and full of questions. How could they create art and theatre in a language that for so many years had been limited to the home, been reduced to a kitchen language. The feelings and anxieties they expressed were very famil iar. These were the very questions I had when I first worked in Ukraine. I was overwhelmed then with the question of what was my home. Now after my work with the Crimean Tatar students, all the poems that spoke to me directly were about home. This topic was becoming my home, the probable site of my next proj ect. When I returned home, to New York, I organ ized a reading of poems about home by my favorite contemporary Ukrainian writers. The occasion was a celebration. The Global Commitment Foundation ad vised us that it would present a Poetry Prize to one of the poets. We called the evening, Hot House: Poems on Heart and Home. We included poems by such fa vorite poets as Oleh Lysheha, Ludmyla Taran, Oksana Batiuk, Oksana Zabuzhko, Serhi Lavreniuk and Victo ria Stakh. For the first time, we included poems by Mykola Vorobiov and Maria Rewakowicz. The Yara actors performed the poetry in the trademark Yara method of interweaving the original and translation. Several poems had been made into songs by Genji Ito and were sung. This time we also included a trilingual presentation of seven Japanese poems. At the end of the evening, Sandra Alpert, the head of the foundation, announced that this year's Poetry Prize had been awarded to Oksana Zabuzhko. Zabryna Guevara read a fax from Oksana thanking the foundation: "Your choice has proved that the language of poetry can be understood even without any special ized knowledge of a country and its literary tradition. In other words, that in our crazy world - poetry, (however esoteric a genre it may seem to be) retains its role as the universal means of "soul-to-soul" communication, crossing all frontiers." Yes, poetry could be the place we come together, our home. A GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT MANAGEMENT by IHOR MAGUN, M.D., F.A.C.P. Obesity is a serious, chronic condition that significantly influences the occurrence and sever ity of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease. It can have a wide range of origin. Recent intensive research sug gests that obesity is not always a simple problem of willpower, but rather a complex disorder of hormonal pathways. One hormone, laptin (from the Greek word leptos, meaning “thin”), appears to inform the brain about the inventory of fat stores in the body and instructs it to burn calories and adjust the intake of food. Family history is also important as it appears that obesity can arise from genetic predisposition. If one parent is obese there is a 40% likelihood that a child will be obese; if there are two obese parents, the probability goes up to 80%. Weight gain commonly occurs with advancing age and for some individuals, maintaining current weight is as important as los ing weight is for others. Individuals who have been overweight all their lives and have failed at weight loss attempts have a more difficult time losing weight and keeping it off than those who expe rience exccessive weight gain later in life. In the United States, over one third of the population is considered to be overweight and our society seems to be obsessed with the topic of dieting and weight loss programs or regimens. All too often, overweight individuals resort to fad diets and “quickie” fixes. Too many individuals have an inappropriate estimation of weight loss expect ations and of the time factors involved. They resort to fad diets and “quickie” fixes that can be medi cally dangerous and that achieve the desired results Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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