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olympia snowe is leaving and arlen specter not only switched parties, but left, and john warner, and you look at the sears and you see the guys over the four or five year cans you have to go back, but the guys who regularly, you could appeal to the crossover, gone. >> i think that the story of the year to some degree is the republican party reckoning with the tea party, and clearly reaction against it, and mitt romney's nomination is a reaction against the tea party and clearly some romney supporters who believe they are insane and trying to get the party back, but at the same time they are losing that frail moderate republican group is losing the leaders. >> and romney does not finish this, it is because he can't appeal to the folks and the senate majority leader more likely than democrats senate majority leader harry reid and chuck schumer than mitch mcconnell. and shameless plugs. and sorry, you come prepared. mine is to make the shuttle before i am rained out. >> and talking national online politics with the viewers and hash tag is ask aerial, a nd d and ---er roll, and we will talk about it. >> a

s booktv. >>> booktv explored the literary culture of beaumont, texas, with the help of our partner, time-warner cable. watch an interview from our time there next on booktv. >> i'm amelia wiggins, educator of public programs at the stark museum of art, and i'll take you through the making of medieval manuscripts in conjunction with our exhibition, medieval manuscripts here at the museum. so in the middle ages, books of hours were made from different art supplies than books would be used -- made from today. instead of paper, medieval bookmakers used parchment or animal skin like the calfskin on view here in the case. a calfskin in particular is called vellum, but parchment or animal skin was also made from sheep or goats. the skin would have been, um, pulled from the animal, soaked in water and lime to dehair it and to take out some of the fat or grease, stretched on a frame and then scraped until it was thin, um, similar in thickness to our paper today. once the parchment was prepared, it would be cut into rectangles to be used as pages, and those would go to the scribe whose job it was to writ

warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed to being very young. more i researched the more i realized that a large population of japanese people seemed to have this genetic defect. it brought me back to the japanese culture even though i was not looking for it. what happened was if she was half japanese. here again you will hear the writing process. as i'm thinking about this and thinking about story line and her parents. if her mother is italian and her father is japanese which would make her half and half the genetic defect would come to the father then things would have to happen if they grew up in california. he grew up in pasadena which means he would be inturned. things start to happen without you looking at it from the beginning when writing a story but as you develop the characters and the year and the situation and the stories a father would tell a daughter. all this came out the camps, what happened. what he hoped for. what he wished for. all the stories he tells the daughters. some of them would have to c

s booktv. finish. >> booktv explored the literary culture of poe month, texas, with the help of our partner, time-warner cable. watch an interview from our time there next on booktv. >> hi, i'm sarah baim, director of the stark museum of art in orange, texas, and we're here to do our special exhibition, medieval manuscripts from the stark collections. this is an exhibition of objects of beauty from our permanent collection. we have four medieval manuscripts, each is a book of hours from the middle ages, and we show these annually, each year open to a different page to highlight the different illumination and to high lite a different theme -- highlight a different theme in the the exhibition. the first one is by a flemish artist of the early 15th century, and we have it open to a miniature, as the main scene is called, with one of the scenes of the life of mary. the books of hours generally have prayers to the virgin mary, and each prayer begins with a standard illustration going through the birth cycle of jesus with mary's story overladen. and here we have the visitation where mary greets her cousin, el

s&p, nasdaq all barely moving. bloomberg index down 2/10 of a experience. t-mobile trying to block verizon's purchase. asking the fcc to stop the deal between verizon, comcast, time warnerlace an excessive concentration of wireless spectrum in verizon's hands allowing -- if you are looking to a job you might want to make your facebook profile shows you are well travelled, and have a wide range of hobbies and interests. a study finds that people with that type of facebook profile perform better at work. another thing apparently partying is not necessarily seen as a negative. it makes you look extra ed and friendly, be -- extra ed and friendly. >>> we are following breaking news from oakland. police have blocked off several streets after reports of gunshots from a house. amy hollyfield joins us near the intersection of 45th and telegraph with more. >> reporter: we are on 45th street it is blocked off you can see some police officers there they've blocked off 45th and 44th between telegraph and mlk. 5:30 this morning someone reported hearing shots fired in a home right about where we are standing. police are now looking for the person who fired that gun they have the polic

s&p is down about four. and then nasdaq is down ten. without any major economic reports today, investors are focussing on the earnings reports from a number of big named companies including time warnermedia giant posting stronger than expected profits thanks to strengthening its cable netted works and last harry potter movie. a different story, though, for disney, weakness at movie studio, strengths at the theme parks earnings for the entertainment giant fell short of expectations. still the stock is higher today. sprint on the iphone proving costly. nation's third largest wireless company reporting $1.3 billion loss in the last quarter. as the cost of subsidizing clients' iphone purchases to complete the buyout of bottom line. while apparel maker ralph lauren came in with stronger than expected profits, like other high end retailers they continue to see strong space despite a tax impact that had a little bit of impact coming in ahead of expectations. again, markets are lower, barbara. back to you. >> we will continue to watch wall street. thanks so much. >>> >>> thinks feel-good song "keep your head up" is a hit. andy grammar is on his first headlining tour performing at venues fro

warner, they're up better than 20% this year. been a remarkable move. look at this. even ford. trailing behind 15%. a tremendous move in all the stocks and by the way, the s&p is up 7%. big, big outperformance in the auto sector. did not happen in the last three or four days. yes, jim? >> when you talk about china and you talk about gold and giving and lunar, you know that china is where gm has to make its numbers. are you concerned that gm will not be able to do the numbers given the fact that we're seeing some weakness lunar wise? >> i think that, yes, i think given the -- given their expansion in china which is a very major part of their operations, i think it is a concern. but aren't we happy, let's just pause for a moment. you have tried to do this earlier, jim. aren't we happy that the company is trying to make some bold predictions at this point? >> yes. >> talking about huge success. it's not talking about we have to get out of this crisis. it's talking about moving forward. >> but happy is all good, but from the investment standpoint, you want realistic expectations that the company will deliver on. >> nice to tamper expectations. >> i think you'