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The Conversation: Monday, August 8th, 2016

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Obesity and Malnutrition in Pacific Islands; HTY’s Momotaro, Peach Boy; The Decline of Newspapers; Centennial of Kilauea Military Camp and Volcanoes National Park

Dual burden of malnutrition for US Pacific Island Jurisdictions: Dr. Rachel Novotny

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Dr. Rachel Novotny

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Since 2007, the obesity rate for Hawaii high school students from low income families has been slowly edging lower. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, it’s now at 12.9 percent. Still it’s enough to put Hawaii’s low income high school students in the middle of the states childhood obesity rates. For the past two years, a new study has looked beyond Hawaii and into remote Pacific states to gauge the intersection of childhood obesity and malnutrition. The Children’s Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region (CHL) is a partnership among Alaska, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, Hawaii, Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Dr. Rachel Novotny is the program’s principal investigator. And she‘s with us on the line this morning.

Intro Music: 241 by Reel Big Fishlius

Outro Music: Another Door Opens by Melvin Lee Davis

HTY’s Momotaro, Peach Boy: Eric Johnson

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Eric Johnson

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Anime Momotaro

There’s a reason why folktales endure; in them, you can see the roots of all storytelling. The story of Momotaro, the hero who comes to earth inside a giant peach, goes back centuries, told and retold in hundreds of adaptations… Honolulu Theater for Youth’s modern-day take on the story is called Anime Momotaro-2016; HTY’s creative director Eric Johnson is a co-creator of the show, which opens this weekend, and he’s with us this morning.

Intro Music: Kite by Momataro

Outro Music: Alone (Raindrops mix) by Ocelot

Decline in Newspapers/print media and what it means for smaller markets who don't have large global audience, to maintain solvency through scale: Brett Oppegaard

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Brett Oppegaard

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A year ago, the New York Times surpassed the one million mark of paid digital-only subscribers. Three months ago, the paper announced it would offer buyout packages to newsroom and business department employees to continue the aggressive focus on its digital product. That story is just one of many we’ve heard over the last decade as papers have been closed or tried to retrofit themselves to fit the digital migration of readers. Now it’s happening- some would say again- at Hawaii newspapers. The publisher of the Honolulu Star Advertiser says cuts are coming to that paper following cuts already made at other papers it owns. We called UH assistant journalism professor. Brett Oppegaard, to see what he makes of Hawaii’s ever-changing newspaper landscape.

Intro Music: No Dignity by Karaoke JukeboxHeroes

Outro Music: That's Life by Christopher West

Centennial of Kilauea Military Camp and the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Dick Hershberger

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Dick Hershberger

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Hawaii Volcanoes

Kilauea Military Camp and the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park came into being 100 years ago, thanks to the dedication of a colorful cast of characters in the Volcano community at that time. The Kilauea Drama & Entertainment Network is presenting a live dramatic recreation of those days, and those people, with “Kilauea 1916: A Centennial Celebration” Dick Hershberger is the author and one of the performers, and he’s on the line.

Intro Music: Volcano by Jimmy Buffett

Outro Music: Volcanoe by Damien Rice

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