f. ben's interests were covered bridges so this is a book that shows all kinds of covered bridges mostly taken in the late 30s and of course unfortunately a lot of this bridges aren't around today but we have a great photographic history. ben was interested in buildings as well as covered bridges and even transportation and this is a photograph of the marion county courthouse which unfortunately was demolished in the mid-50s. and at one time there were a lot of riverboats here in salem and this i believe is one of the last steamers that came down from oregon city. ben wrote over at period of 26 years, about 30800 articles about local history and we are lucky to have scrapped looks that he put together himself with many of his articles. most of the articles were from the capital journal which was a salem paper but he also was published in other papers. his photographs were actually published nationally and in fact some of them were in better homes and gardens sunset magazine and even in "the new york times." this is a really interesting article and it talks about salem's congregational ch

ben carson, the doctor from maryland. he's a conservative favorite. a lot of those, rick an store rum at all, they're trying to get into the conversation. >> it seems as fthe right by tea party types, a gun is better than any word you can say on the stage. the republican leader of the united states senate made a distinctly nonsenatorial entrance today, carrying, of course, a big rifle to prove to the kids, hey, i'm really one of you. i have this nice old rifle in my hand. >> yeah. i was going to bring my rifle, too and i'm just glad i didn't because it would have been really awkward if we had both brought rifles. it was reminiscent of charleston he isheston speaking at the republican national convention. it's just one of these things. it's a quirky conference. it's always an affair. >> robert costa, does that audience feel spun by some of these politicians? particularly chris christie who a week ago in his state of the state address was talking about how he expanded medicare. and in front of this audience they don't say anything like that. how hip to that is this audience? >> i think this audience is skeptical of chris christie. they didn't even invite

f pie director "argo" wasn't it? >> yes. >> how can can a best film not win best director and how can a best director not win best ilm. >> ben afflec -- it had no chance winning that award. i think it might have gone down to tick cal achievements. i think it might be one of the reasons "life of pi" won last year. i think the voters feel they have to award these films for their technical achievements. >> and "philomina"? >> we had four awards. it has been $30 million worldwide at the box office. we are very proud. >> your profit margin a little healthier? >> yeah. tell us how the b.f.i. film fund works? >> we invest lottery money. so it is national lottery money, and we invoast it in a film, normally along side some other finances. some private money, some market money, and it sits in there along side a number of other finances. >> and where does the feature film going. i felt over the weekend with interest that "kerzin" which is a fairly small cinema chain, that they want to have more art house cinema by showing it online on the same day it is released in the cinema, which i thought it was an interesting move. some say this

solar sector f, first solars up over the last year 150%, making it one of the best performing stocks on the s&p 500. joining us to talk about first solar and other stocks in the space is benerior, might actually help it beat some of its chinese rivals at this point. >> i think it has room to go. sun power is my favorite. the important point here is that with the chinese guys floundering, you have sun power and first solar which are two of the largest companies with the strongest balance sheets that are able to invest in r & d and continue to increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of solar, making it more competitive with natural gas in many parts of the world, including the united states. >> how much of it depends on subsidies that come either from state or national governments? >> state subsidies are important. federal subsidies obviously more important. and they provide a runway until 2017, the end of 2017 for the solar market to develop. but at the same time, costs are declining rapidly throughout the whole value chain. and when we get to the other side of that, if the tax credits aren't renewed, we should see solar still cost competitive with other forms of fos