Medicare & Newly Negotiated U.S. Budget; Cemetery Curiosities Halloween Program; Red Meat Study and Research; Lost Wax: Translation Through the Void
Medicare & Newly Negotiated U.S. Budget: Max Richtman
Around the country, the tentative U.S. budget deal set for a vote later today is drawing a sigh of relief and in Washington the organizations that had been lobbying for the protection of senior benefit programs are also relieved. The Social Security disability program remains intact and Medicare Part B premiums for some beneficiaries will not increase. While the budget doesn’t include cost of living adjustments, Max Richtman, President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, says it could have been worse.
- Intro Music: Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf
- Outro Music: Kusanagi by ODESZA
Cemetery Curiosities Halloween Program: Nanette Napoleon
We build memorials to those gone by to keep memories of the past alive… but so many of those memories remain hidden behind headstones that, to most of us, reveal only a name and a date. Nanette Napoleon is a historian who looks beyond the surface to restore those hidden stories and she’s presenting a slide show of unique, bizarre, and funny tombstones - and telling the stories behind them - at O’ahu Cemetery on Halloween. The free program takes place on Saturday, October 31 (Halloween) at 6:30 pm in the O’ahu Cemetery Chapel.
- Intro Music: Tombstone No. 9 by Murray Schafe & the Aristocrats
- Outro Music: Cemetary Gates by The Smiths
Red Meat Study and Research: Dr. Loic Le Marchand
If you sat down to dinner with a slightly suspicious eye last night, you’re not alone. Yesterday’s news about processed and mammalian meat had a lot of people wondering about what should be for dinner, lunch, and breakfast. And in a place where pork is a staple, Hawaii residents may be in a quandary about how much of the research they should take to heart. Dr. Loic Le Marchand is a cancer epidemiologist who is a professor at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and he was on the International Agency for Research on Cancer panel that produced the report. He joined The Conversation via phone to talk about the report and its findings.
- Intro Music: Eyes Wide Shut by Alexis Troy
- Outro Music: Eyes Wide Open by Alexis Troy
Lost Wax: Translation Through the Void: Jonathan Stalling
Whenever we read a work of literature that is translated we’re really hearing two voices: author and translator. Nuances can be lost, or added, by the other writer thrown into the mix. Jonathan Stalling is a poet and former UH Chinese literature student whose new book explores what happens when his work is translated into Chinese and then back into English by members of a workshop of eight fellow translators. His book is called Lost Wax: Translation Through the Void, published by Hawaii’s Tinfish Press. Jonathan joined the show via phone to tell us more about the book.
- Intro Music: Bibo no Aozora/Endless Flight and Babel by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jaques Morelenbaum
- Outro Music: Chinese Translation by M. Ward
