c-span: ...somebody named byron skinner, somebody named gloria skinner and somebody named ruby skinner. who are those people? >> guest: byron skinner is my father, and i'm somewhat of a namesake. i'm kiron skinner. i was supposed to be a boy, and when i wasn't they made up a name that rhymed. c-span: how do you like that, by the way? >> guest: i think it's fine. and so at least i'm not byronetta, which was another choice. i don't think i'd like that very much, though i--i've been told i have a cousin with that name. c-span: byronetta. >> guest: yes. he is a historian of american history, of afro-american history. he got his phd at berkeley, but he spent most of his career in academic administration. and i think he wishes that he'd done more as a writer, and he's really proud of this book. and he s... c-span: where is he now? >> guest: my parents are retired in southern california, in victorville, and he spent much of his career in the community college world. he was president of san jose city college; at one point in the early '80s at university of maine at augusta. i believe he was th

skinner is the democrat. i apologize there.he next race, a tighter race, in the 15th district, joan buchanan beat abram wilson handily. sandy swanson won a three-way race in the 16th district very easily, 83%. mary won easily in the 18th district. and in the 20th district, bob wak wakowski won big. ellen corbett won. be continue to check the ticker we have at the bottom of the screen for races that are important to you and your family. >>> you said you care about the environment at the polls. now is your chance to care around the house. the city of san leandro holding an america recycles day event at 9:00 this morning. you can bring in a variety of things. batteries, unexpired unused medication. to take part, you have to live in san leandro. >>> schoolchildren across contra costa county will practice what they will do if there were a chemical leak or other disaster in the east bay. they'll take part in a shelter in place drill at 11:00. all public and private schools as well as child care centers are encouraged to participate.

the rivers series was conceived and planned by constance lindsay skinner in the mid 1930s. she selected well-known authors who were familiar with the subject river and paired them with talented and often well known illustrators such as andrew wyeth and roz san -- ross santi. almost 40 years later, there were 65 series titles including a songbook, songs of the rivers of america, published between 1937 and 1974 by reinhart and company and later by hoke, reinhart and winston. skinner died in 1939 while editing the hudson by carl carmer, the sixth book in the series. but her vision would continue for another 35 years under the editorial guidance of three noted literary figures of the time. steven vincent bonet, then herbie allen and the last editor, carl carmer. the series was diverse in content and thrived longer than any other such publishing effort. it was one of the most successful literary ventures in publishing history. in addition to the 65 trade editions, there were signed limited editions. there were armed services editions, british editions, young readers' editions an

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stick around for the side show. [ male announcer ] for fastidious librarian emily skinner, each day wasugh preparation for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuality. which meant she continued to have the means to live on... even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. >>> welcome back to "hardball." first up, the tsa body scan, nobody it seems escapes a patdown. >> what's up? what's all this extra security about tonight? >> we have president bush on the program, so everybody gets patted down. even you? this is your show. >> makes no sense at all. >> tell me about it. >> my problem is after one of those, i'm all for it. if there's a guy walking around with a bomb in his -- i want to know about that. i don't mind the excessive groping and the probing. my problem is when it's done, i don't know how much to tip the guy. i never know. >> and today, the tsa announced one group of people who will not hav

the end of its life but it's not clear what radioactive danger lies into needs and if they are shut skinner investigated almost a quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the circle for gas is still preventing more radioactive emissions into atmosphere this structure the circle focus was built in one hundred eighty six just months after the disaster that your noble nuclear power blog back then experts predicted. would last for only twenty years until two thousand and six that is but it was strengthened and improved extending its lifetime for five more years the biggest question is how much nuclear fuel remains under the surface some experts believe that there is none as most of it did very polarizing to the atmosphere and was spread around the chernobyl exclusion zone but many experts believe that there are ninety five percent of nuclear fuel still remaining under the surface and that could be tons and tons of nuclear material. we believe that the nuclear fuel under the sea configures is no longer a solid mass like it lost twenty four years ago

dennis skinner. >> if the prime minister is so keen to put a cap on immigration why did he earlier state that he gave his 100% backing for turkey to join the e.u.? surely, he knows that most immigration to britain comes from the e.u. doesn't he think there's a stench of hypocrisy about this immigration policy of the government? >> i have to say i think the honorable gentleman is wrong for a very clear reason. if you look at immigration, the balance of migration of european countries and the u.k. is broadly in balance. the excess immigration is all coming outside of the e.u. the current figures were for for net migration of 2,000 a year. that is 2 million people across a decade. in our view that is too high. it needs to be cut and a cap is a very important part of that. >> jonathan moore? >> what assessment has the prime minister made of the statement that there is no such thing as an irresponsible strike? >> well, i have to say he is completely and utterly wrong and i think the world in a slightly mad place where someone who supports militant tendency can get elected to the largest union

of the biggest mark joudowns here on "c sunday." [ male announcer ] for fastidious librarian emily skinnereled by thorough preparation for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuality. which meant she continued to have the means to live on... even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. >>> harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1 is conjuring up big numbers at the box numbers but let's take a look. >> wow. we're identical. >> wow. join meg live now, amy palmer, one of a kind, i might add for " "intouch weekly." >> we're hear 1g 25 to $135 million. >> wow. >> fifth biggest opening ever. the best harry potter opening. we also continue to see the numbers rise because it's released worldwide. so it's huge. >> absolutely huge. what about this installment. how much different is it from the past films. it just appears darker. >> it is. it's the finale. this is where we see everything comes to a head and po

. >> investigator skinner came to my house and it was like 1:45 sunday morning and he came with anothering me that there was a fight and it was at a house party and i said, sir, was my son hurt? and he said, yes. i said, is he alive? and i could tell by his face that my son wasn't. he told me, he said, no, ma'am. bobby died from blunt force trauma and he died instantly. >> no parent should have to bury a child, but to hear the circumstances. what went through your mind when you heard that this just seemed to be random. i mean, did he know these kids at all? >> from what i'm told, no. i don't believe he would have known them, but from what i've been told, no. and he definitely didn't go there with him. i know every child that he went with. i know their parents. so, no, he didn't know them. >> how are you dealing with all of this? i can imagine just a range of emotions from shock, grief, tears, anger. where are you right now? >> you know, i just want justice for my son. i just, i don't want my son's death to be in vain and i'm just so glad that people see the good person that bobby -- he

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to eat and all the while continuing to manage the safari at some 150 porters, gun bearers, cooks, skinner's all on hold while akeley laid on his, delirious, hallucinating and on the brink of death. at this point i am sure some of you must be asking yourselves, he sort of had that coming to him, didn't he? i mean there he is in africa shooting these marvelous creatures and they fought that. i should say the first mention i ever heard a big way in the first thing that made me think i might have a book idea was while i was in the middle of another story about extinct cats and did my research i've passed this kind of factoid in passing about the famous taxidermist who had once strangled at leopard with his bare hands and i thought that was amazing, and indeed it is. [laughter] i always thought this would be a cool ad for the gap. [laughter] anyway, later on, by the time carl got asked by the elephant it was getting hard for me not to think, well maybe there is such a thing as karma. i also have to admit when i started writing the book that is pretty much how i felt. after all one of my all-time

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nancy skinner joins us.does a senator who fought this thing to get passed think it's not good for his state but everybody else has to comply. >> reporter: i think he saw the results of the the election and was worried it was somehow on the ballot. what you don't understand it's not a program where you can opt out. it's like car insurance. if some states opt out and don't do it the other states are going to subsidize the states that do have to pay insurance. we are not going to deny people healthcare. the whole program, you just can't opt in or out of this unless we are prepared to say to people, listen, your state is not in, and even though you're going to die we'll just have to let you die. this country will never do that, so i think that senator widin is looking at the polls, saw what happened in the election and thought about that. in practicality it doesn't work. shannon: chris could it be be more than political expediency? could it be the content of this thing. alternate least 111 employers or unions ha

this place, in the middle of california's napa valley, is the office of mark skinner, a guy who has undergone adjustment. we were very intrigued when we first got mark's essay. he got emotional while reading it back to me. >> this is why i'm a better father, husband and person. life is not always about money. >> reporter: mark used to be a hot-shot, high-tech executive. what were you like as a guy? >> i was considered by some people as the meaning man in telecom. >> reporter: it made mark mean. but it made his wife, lisa, who he met in college, miserable. she used to work in high-tech, too. and found herself sleeping before work. >> i wasn't the person i wanted to be. see? i'm going to do it now. >> reporter: and then, a cancer scare. melanoma. >> she goes, it's a bad one. they did a biopsy. after that, it was pretty tense. >> reporter: at some point, you seemed to have a pretty radical shift. >> i just reprioritized my life. >> reporter: you had a realization? >> yeah. it wasn't all about money. >> reporter: mark and lisa decided to slow down. they took pay cuts. moved their sons to the smal

dennis skinner. >> if the prime minister is so keen to put a cap on immigration why did he earlier state that he gave his 100% backing for turkey to join the e.u.? surely, he knows that most immigration to britain comes from the e.u. doesn't he think there's a stench of hypocrisy about this immigration policy of the government? >> i have to say i think the honorable gentleman is wrong for a very clear reason. if you look at immigration, the balance of migration of european countries and the u.k. is broadly in balance. the excess immigration is all coming outside of the e.u. the current figures were for for net migration of 2,000 a year. that is 2 million people across a decade. in our view that is too high. it needs to be cut and a cap is a very important part of that. >> jonathan moore? >> what assessment has the prime minister made of the statement that there is no such thing as an irresponsible strike? >> well, i have to say he is completely and utterly wrong and i think the world in a slightly mad place where someone who supports militant tendency can get elected to the largest union

dennis skinner.[applause] i want very warmly to welcome dennis, because he is a parliamentarian who has always spoken his mind without fear or favor on every subject, and if memory serves me correctly, he entered the house on june 18th,. and he has served without interruption since, for 40 years, four months and 11 days. he is a very senior member. dennis you are very welcome. [applause] >> strayed from the coal face dennis just said to me. thank you dennis for being with us and giving your encouragement. tony baer who retired from a house in 2001, famously said, and not with dennis's, tony blair said any purpose of the oldest to give encouragement to the young. so there we are. to oppose the motion i call mr. adam osmond. [applause] >> thank you very much for this opportunity for everybody here to get a new facebook profile picture. [laughter] allen sugar, rhard bronson, delius smith, three people who built themselves up from nothing, three people who worked hard for wha they wanted, three people wh

public but politicians are getting into it as well even some airports and considering hiring private skinner'sd that he has a agents. they say they're looking at ways to make the screening process better but no changes will happen right away. >> we're always looking at ways that we can evolve arch of biology and protocols for how we go about doing this in the short term there will not be any changes. what i am looking at is how can we best use information we have both intelligence from overseas for what we saw this weekend. how they design, conceal the counter to brahms at of yemen. that coupled with the thoroughness that we believe is appropriate, how we best be informed by the inspector general has been successful many many times i getting through security many times because we were not thorough enough. we're looking to see if there's any basis or way that we can modify the level of security. >> this is supposed to be the busiest travel day in the skies, what about on the roads? if your taking a car it will cost more to fill up. the price has gone up 4.5 cents in two weeks. nationwide gas st

dennis skinner.[applause] i want very warmly to welcome dennis, because he is a parliamentarian who has always spoken his mind without fear or favor on every subject, and if memory serves me correctly, he entered the house on june 18th,. and he has served without interruption since, for 40 years, four months and 11 days. he is a very senior member. dennis you are very welcome. [applause] >> strayed from the coal face dennis just said to me. thank you dennis for being with us and giving your encouragement. tony baer who retired from a house in 2001, famously said, and not with dennis's, tony blair said any purpose of the oldest to give encouragement to the young. so there we are. to oppose the motion i call mr. adam osmond. [applause] >> thank you very much for this opportunity for everybody here to get a new facebook profile picture. [laughter] allen sugar, richard bronson, delius smith, three people who built themselves up from nothing, three people who worked hard for what they wanted, three people

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dennis skinner.[applause] i want very warmly to welcome dennis, because he is a parliamentarian o has always spoken his mind without fear or favor on every subject, and if memory serves me correctly, he entered the house on june 18th,. and he has served without interruption since, for 40 years, four months and 11 days. he is a very senior member. dennis you are very welcome. [applause] >> strayed from the coal face dennis just said to me. thank you dennis for eing with us and giving your encouragement. tony baer who retired from a house in 2001, famously said, and not with dennis's, tony blair said any purpose of the oldest to give encouragement to the young. so there we are. to oppose the motion i call mr. adam osmond. [applause] >> thank you very much for this opportunity for everybody here to get a new facebook profile picture. [laughter] allen sugar, richard bronson, delius smith, three people who built themselves u from nothing, three people who worked hard for what they wanted, three people who

. >> dennis skinner. >> have i got this right here?t it is paying out large sums of money, he won't tell us how much, to people who have have given no guarantees about breaking confidentiality? i mean, can it be true that he can't say to the house at all that this matter is ended? isn't he buying time? it sounds like money for old rope. he will be giving them lottery millions. has he discovered the soft underbelly of this government already? >> i can into the ottawa gentleman's question. no, he's not right. the confidentiality is binding on both sides, and the people who brought the claims have bound themselves by confidentiality. and so have the government. and it is perfectly usual term of a mediated settlement of what was going to be a hugely expensive problem for the british taxpayer which if it hadn't been result. >> thank you, mr. speaker, pic and i look in the statement that the mediation is designed to address the potential cost of litigation arising from the guantÁnamo cases, and it is estimated to be between 30 and 59 that th

dennis skinner. >> if the prime minister is so keen to put a cap on immigration why did he earlier state that he gave his 100% backing for turkey to join the e.u.? surely, he knows that most immigration to britain comes from the e.u. doesn't he think there's a stench of hypocrisy about this immigration policy of the government? >> i have to say i think the honorable gentleman is wrong for a very clear reason. if you look at immigration, the balance of migration of european countries and the u.k. is broadly in balance. the excess immigration is all coming outside of the e.u. the current figures were for for net migration of 2,000 a year. that is 2 million people across a decade. in our view that is too high. it needs to be cut and a cap is a very important part of that. >> jonathan moore? >> what assessment has the prime minister made of the statement that there is no such thing as an irresponsible strike? >> well, i have to say he is completely and utterly wrong and i think the world in a slightly mad place where someone who supports militant tendency can get elected to the largest union

dennis skinner. >> if the prime minister is so keen to put a cap on immigration why did he earlier state that he gave his 100% backing for turkey to join the e.u.? surely, he knows that most immigration to britain comes from the e.u. doesn't he think there's a stench of hypocrisy about this immigration policy of the government? >> i have to say i think the honorable gentleman is wrong for a very clear reason. if you look at immigration, the balance of migration of eopean countries and the u.k. is broadly in balance. the exss immigration is all coming outside of the e.u. the current figures were for for net migration of 2,000 a year. that is 2 million people across a decade. in our view that is too high. it needs to be cut and a cap is a very important part of that. >> jonathan moore? >> what assessment has the prime minister made of the statement that there is no such thing as an irresponsible strike? >> well, i have to say he is completely and utterly wrong and i think the world in a slightly mad place where someone who supports militant tendency can get elected to the largest union in

. >> dennis skinner. >> have i got this right? is he paying out large sums of money, and not telling us how much, to people who are giving no guarantees about breaking confidentiality? can it be true that he cannot say to the house at all that this matter has ended? is nt buying time? it sounds like money for old rope. the other week, they were giving prisoners votes. now they are giving them lottery millions. i think we have found the up soft underbelly of this government already. >> in answer to the honorable gentleman's question, he is not right. the confidentiality is binding on both sides. and the people who brought the claims have bound themselves by confidentiality, and so has the government. it is a perfectly usual term of a mediated settlement the well was born to be a hugely expensive problem for the british taxpayer if it had not been resolved. >> el welcome the statement. the mediation is designed to address the potential cost of litigation arising from the guantanamo cases and an estimated to be around 30 million poun

dennis skinner.[applause] i want very warmly to welcome dennis, because he is a parliamentarian who has always spoken his mind without fear or favor on every subject, and if memory serves me correctly, he entered the house on june 18th,. and he has served without interruption since, for 40 years, four months and 11 days. he is a very senior member. dennis you are very welcome. [applause] >> strayed from the coal face dennis just said to me. thank you dennis for being with us and giving your encouragement. tony baer who retired from a house in 2001, famously said, and not with dennis's, tony blair said any purpose of the oldest to give encouragement to the young. so there we are. to oppose the motion i call mr. adam osmond. [applause] >> thank you very much for this opportunity for everybody here to get a new facebook profile picture. [laughter] allen sugar, richard bronson, delius smith, three people who built themselves up from nothing, three people who worked hard for what they wanted, three people