Columnist tom friedman, best selling authors j. D. Vance and Michael Lewis, astronaut Leland Melvin and many others. Now, for a complete schedule visit booktv. Org, and you can follow us on social media for updates and behindthescenes videos. Were on facebook,visit facebook. Com booktv, booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram, were at book underscore tv. This years festival kicks off with librarian of congress carla haden making opening remarks, and shell be followed immediately by author and historian david mccullough. Youre watching booktv on cspan2 live from the 17th annual National Book festival. [applause] wow, i was so worried [cheers and applause] i was so worried. It was raining [laughter] and i thought, book lovers are going to want to stay in bed concern. [laughter] and read. [laughter] well, here you are. Thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. Im carla hayden, and im so honored to be able to say im the 14th librarian of c
Live on capitol hill, the house is not in session but democrats on the energy and Commerce Committee holding a meeting looking at a trage. Theyll hear from med looking at traum brain injury. Theyll hear from medical professionals. Its about to get under way. Frank pallone, the Ranking Member of the energy and Commerce Committee, is leading the meeting. Mr. Pallone thank you, all, for being here today. I want to thank all of our participants at this joint energy and commerce and judiciary democratic forum. I want to thank our Judiciary Committee Ranking Member i call him chairman, mr. Conyers. I havent been in this position so i can refer to you as chairman but not myself. So thank you, chairman conyers, for joining us to examine the ongterm impacts of repetitive brain traumatic and particular trauma associated with sports. I look forward to the dialogue. Every week this time of the year Football Players at all levels take the field and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but m
Was about 45 minutes. Thank you, kelly, and want to thank the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here in cincinnati and the allwomens American Legion post 644 for making it possible for me to be here today. And i want to make a special thank you to booktv for helping us spread the word about the longburied treasure of americas military women. This program has given us an opportunity to tell you about a National Treasure which has been all but completely absent with leave from americas historical memory. Even when United States history was required as a summit in high school and subject in the high school and colleges and many universities, textbooks and courses had very little to say about women, how they had contributed to the winning of world war i, world war ii, the wars in korea and vietnam. As a writing team of a nurse and a psychologist, coauthor dr. Evelyn monahan, we have a combined 50 years of experience with the department of Veterans Affairs. Now, you may be as surprised as we
International panel this morning and i will introduce each of our Panel Members. The first one is a member of the emirate mars Strategic Planning team. The duties are to ensure the impact of good journey to mars will be sustainable, leaving it an everlasting effect. He is also the cofounder of the bowels of show, which is a Youtube Channel aimed at making Science Technology accessible to our youth in that area and has been quite successful. So, said. [applause] next is shooed shirov the readers working not for Human Spaceflight Technology directorate in japan. He received his degree in the special icing and design of intelligent controller for an economist walking robot under microgravity environment. She is currently in charge of the japanese human and nonhuman exploration ive been mainly in the Architectural Design of Space Systems to the moon and mars. [applause] our third panel member this morning is from the palace building a space corporation. He has been the large project Design
Organization explore mars. I knew you could make it. Close enough. We would really have overshot. I will go ahead and announce the next speaker because i dont want to eat into that time. Jim green has asked me to be really short in introductions for him. James greens director of Planetary Science and i think that is saying a lot, since 1979. We have a wonderful international panel, the first one is said of the mars Strategic Planning team. And journey to be sustainable, and also the cofounder. And making Science Technology accessible to our youth in that area and quite successful. [applause] next is chinshareoh, Human Spaceflight Technology director in japan. He received his degree in the Space Systems Engineering Design of an intelligent controller. Or an autonomous working robot under microgravity environment. In charge of the japanese human and nonhuman in the design of Space Systems to the moon and mars. Our third panel member this morning, from the space corporation. Carlo hold a