Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Documentary for the History Channel and Discovery Communications including the widely praised modern marvels, apollo 11. Has been a professor at a university and lecturer with Johnson Space center. He presents Amazing Stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorite films from the golden age of Space Exploration. Join me in welcoming rod pyle. [applause] thank you very much. Normally i kind of dance around a bit while im performing these things but because theyre taping tonight and we have kind of a weird microphone setup, i will sort of stay with the podium. I will go back to my professorring days at university of laverne. I know it is rough getting here on week night. I used to drive to ucla when i was 18 years old in 30 minutes to pasadena. Last time i did that drive it was 2 1 2 hours. I appreciate yall going through what you went through. Let me go back Amazing Stories of the space age has kind of a long story behind it. I wont bore you with the whole thing but ive been
Auction task force. Mr. Epstein, what does that mean . Guest thank you, peter. Im happy to be here. I am the head of the task force at the fcc which is responsible for implementing the incentive auction which is a firsttimeever auction at the fcc for spectrum. Host and the incentive auction is the auction, the spectrum auctions involving the broadcasters, correct . Guest indeed, it is. It is whats called a twosided auction which for the very first time will acquire spectrum from broadcasters in a socalled reverse auction and then turn around, repackage it and make it available to the wirelessc carriers9jz a forward auction. So it is a backtoback auction, a reverse auction and a forwardq auction. Host well, two followups to that. The fcc has set march of 2016 as the date for the incentive auctions to happen. A, will that date hold and, b, how long have you been working on this . Guest the auction commences on march 29th, 2016, and we do intend to hold to that date. All the commissioner
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