And materials all of these programs are available to watch online. Were pleased to be joined by one of 362 americans who is actually been in space and that is astronaut Leyland Melvin and mr. Melvin you write that your, your book is called chases space and you write it had all begun with a dropped past. Exactly. A drop past so i was a wide receiver this in a running team, and that means that i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at a home coming game and i was running down the sideline ball perfectly thrown in my hand and i drop the downtown pass in my hands. And the thing is a scout was from university of richmond looking to play baseball for the team and he walked out of the stadium, my coach jimmy greene said run the same play this time i caught the ball and one catch resultedded in 180,000 dollar scoip to university of rimp monday because the coach said he didnt give up but he kept going. That was the grit and perseverance, and the Second Chance how did you get from playing
Transformative events in modern history. Oona hathaway, professor of International Law and counselor to dean at law school and professional and area studies at the mcmilan center. In 201415 she served as special counsel to the general counsel at the u. S. Department of defense when she was awarded the office of the secretary of defense award for excellence. Professor hathaway received cum laud and served as law clerk for sandra oh oh oconnor, more than 25 law review articles, scott shapiro, professor of law and professor of philosophy at Yale Law School. He joined the law school in 2008, hes the officer of legality published in 2011, philosophy of law. Ba and ph. D degrees in philosophy from Colombia University and jd from Yale Law School where he was Senior Editor of the yale law journal. After the discussion, there will be a q a, if youre going participate, wait for someone after you raise your hand to come to you with microphone. Its my pleasure to introduce professors Oona Hathaway
Book tv is back live in austin for the second day of the texas book festival. Over the next three hours you will hear them discuss Sexual Assault on campuses. The first the professors Carol Anderson on racism in america. This is a book tv on cspan two. [indiscernible] welcome to the 26th annual texas book festival we appreciate you coming out in support of all of our authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things. President and ceo in a gentle reminder for you to please silence your cell phone or turn them off. After our session here the authors will be signing books. And remember when you buy a book at the festival you support the author the festival in the local independent bookstore. Its mission is to support low income schools in texas. For your purchases they go very long way. And then you have the book drive going on its running a book drive to raise money to help rebuild the libraries affected by hurricane harvey. A donation of 15 and the foundation will
I would like to turn it over to him. Thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. As was said im head of the History Department at nc state university, and i want to thank ed for asking me to moderate the panel. Im looking forward to it. Ed has already been introduced to you. He is a member of the faculty, he History Department of Duke University and also vice provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and leading a study support bid National Endowments for the humanities as long as is lats and the father of a soon to be hope to be ph. D in the humanities. He certainly has wanted to explore career opportunities. The rest of the panel, from eds left back toward me, next to ed is kevin anderson, who is currently the Senior Deputy attorney general for the state of North Carolina. He also heads the Consumer Protection division, and he has been directing that for the past five years. He has been lead attorney on a wide range of cases and investigations involving financial fraud, health care, telecom
Time tojoin sally time to join sally for World Business report. Can bp profit in a world awash with cheap oil . The Fossil Fuel Giant releases its latest results in the coming hours. We will have analysis. And downgraded toshiba is removed from tokyos main stock board because of its financial problems. Is the japanese giants future now in doubt . Hello and a very warm come. This is World Business report. I am sally bundock. The University Of California is using wi fi enabled drones to create a system of sd imaging which could potentially allow them to see through walls. We will have more on that in a moment. In the next few hours, bp, one of the Worlds Biggest Oil producers will release its latest set of results. The numbers will be a strong indicator of how the industry is doing in a world where a 50 oil price has become the new normal. Analysts are estimating the company will report a profit in excess of 600 million for the Second Quarter of the year. That would be a big leap on from