>> are you talking about the hitchcock chair? >> i don't think it was a hitchcock, no. it had claw legs. >> okay. so some ways. >> it's just prior to the factory chairs that you showed us. >> okay. >> go back. there you are. now, those chairs were individually made by a craftsperson. not in a factory. am i correct? is that what you -- >> yes. >> were they treated as art form by the colonials much like having a painting on a wall or were they put to use? were they used as chairs? or were they put aside on the side of the room to be admired rather than being used? >> both. i mean, i think their primary -- i don't think someone at the time would have separated those two. they would have considered these to be -- but i would argue that's true of the hitchcock chair as well. they would have been considered objects to be looked at and enjoy and show off as well as the primary purpose which is seating furniture. >> the hitchcock chairs i understand would be used, but to make a set of these one could understand it would take an extended period of time to make a set of them. to

lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in w

it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side. >> we rise for the national anthem. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. i am going to call roll-call. [roll-call] you have the form. >> please call line item #one. >> general public comment. the public gives us to address items but do not appear on the agenda -- the public is asked to address items that do not appear on the agenda. >> i am the outreach director of the libertarian party. i think the city continues to spend too much resources prosecuting victimless crimes or crimes where there is no one who wants to file charges. hopefully the fact it is higher profile will lead to more justice for ordinary people. good i would like you to consider giving back the peace powers of the control specialist who are more community-days. there has be

it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor mar: the meeting will come to order. good impact afternoon, everyone. it is monday, march 5, this is the land use and economic development committee. our clerk is of the similar period >> please make sure to silence all sell pounds and electronic devices. biodiesel minute to the clerk. these items will appear on the board of supervisors agenda must otherwise stated. supervisor mar: please call item no. 2. >> item number two. ordinance amending the san francisco planning code section 429 to provide that developers currently required to spend 1% of construction costs for public artwork on any new development. supervisor chiu: i wanted to ask the deputy city attorney when we should appropriately notice this. >> thank you. this is a fee that is being imposed. it needs to have 14 days. when the legislation

really the mixture of these chairs into what was the most popular chair at the time, which is the hitchcock chair. it brings all that production home. again like my sideboard uses much more simplified turning so you can make these much faster. he puts this gold striping. but the gold striping really extends over to the front of the chair. if you turn it around you would see that it doesn't have the striping on the back. there's all sorts of labor saving techniques. he now uses a stencil for this painting instead of freehand painting which you'd find in more expensive items. a wider range of decorative techniques, but much of this is really -- or you get, at the higher end, you get aldon spooner who makes -- and for many years these chests of drawers were believed to be made in newport because they sort of look a lot like newport furniture if you're a connoisseur of this. because it was believed that someone in athol couldn't make this, it was too high end. but we find that spooner probably had an apprentice in his shop who really helped him integrate some of the newer techniques. again in t

. >> birds calling reminiscent of a hitchcock classic. >> that's the end of the world. connection is illustrated between the president and ahmadinejad. showing the constant back and forth between america and iran if obama is re-elected. former presidential candidate herman cain released his video. >> this is small business. this is small business under the current tax code? >> any questions? any questions? >> oh, a bunny. cain said no rabbits were harmed in the video. in another film the same girl suffocated a gold fish. peta is not happening saying, it's no better than strapping a car to the roof of your car. ooh snap. let's bring in craig. >> when i heard the peta statement, i thought, keith will catch that. that's the dog on the car. >> yes, it's peta versus non-peta in the presidential election. there are no facts in santorum's video per se. these visual tricks and horror movie tactics and it looks like "saw," saw 2". but some of this is from a 2007 novel called "thethe infection." is there a point that these videos begin to hurt the candidate. >> nobody is really g

square, but there's suspension on whether or not you can go on that tour enough, so hair, ham and hitchcockmystery what to do day, noystet "today in the bay." >>> people all over the country are honoring trayvon martin, the teenager shot and killed last month. many church services will focus on his death today. yesterday hundreds took to the rest calling for the arrest of martin's shooter george zimmerman. police say zimmerman saw martin walking in a gated community wearing a dark hoodie and thought he was suspicious. a fight broke out, and he shot and killed the teenager, who reportedly was unarmed. last night jesse jackson spoke out about the incident. >> we know who killed trayvon. we know he was unarmed. we know they did a drug test on the murdered child, and did no drug test on the killer. there are many different tactical approaches, but i'm inclined to keep my eye on that prize. >> zimmerman says he acted inself defense, the u.s. has paid $50,000 of to the families of the people killed in an alleged shooting spree by a u.s. soldier in afghanistan. an official says the families receiv

if you go back and watch hitchcock's rope were there were like 10-minute long shots and he would zoomo a black jacket and come back out, you would have no idea he cut the camera. this movie stars elizabeth olsen. it temperatures the story, she is locked in the house. she can't get out. weird stuff starts to happen. i don't want to give too much away. >> how long were the takes. it would have to be really long scenes even with edits. >> i believe the longest take they have is 13 minutes. >> which is epic. >> the craziest thing though, i believe it was 2002, the movie called russian arc, 99 minute film, one shot. not a single edit. it took them four times to do it. can you imagine that? unbelievable. >> i gave it a three out of five. i think they do build good enough tension. insome people might be upset with a certain aspect of the movie. i think it is a good matinee. >> salmon fishing in yemen. these are like your new drinking buddies. it was sufficient a good interview. they were so like sort of natural and they didn't seem like they were on camera. didn't she pull like an eyebrow ou

inspired by alfred hitchcock. introduction by bill clinton. >> is he a good writer? and he edited the book. >> did he really? >> yeah, i gave him the book originally because i knew he was a fan of thrillers. >> unbelievable. the blue pencil job by bill clinton. thomas caplan, i love digging your plind on this stuff. when we return, let me finish with -- i have an important thing to say about this movie "game change." it's what really goes on in the back room of politics and the pressure on these people. come back and watch it. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. [ male announcer ] ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. now, that's a pill worth taking. [ male announcer ] ocuvite. help protect your eye

. >> reporter: lillie hitchcock coit-- an eccentric wealthy widow who wanted to beautify her beloved francisco-- left money in her will that the city decided to use building the tower. it was constructed in 1934, for $125,000. its design was unique: not a clock tower nor a lighthouse, but a simple, fluted shaft. artist diego rivera mentored many of the artists, and his and their politics-- often pro- labor, or leftist-- is reflected in some, but not all, of the murals. but today at 89, gottstein and others are worried about those frescos and whether they will survive the ravages of weather and neglect. and she also says the city doesn't treat the tower as it should. >> if it were treated as a museum, if the walls were kept secure, if the entrance was guarded so that people could walk around as in any other museum of any importance in the world, it would be secure. and it's not. >> reporter: but even cummings agrees there are problems, partly because of fog that often envelops the tower. so most of this looks pretty good but right up there you got this real problem right? >> right, we

it's like a hitchcock movie. it's incredibly creepy and absolutely terrifying.d him to kill the president. it was nothing personal he would later say, simply god's will will. as strange and fascinating and nearly as dangerous as guiteau was senator rosco conkling, and that's chester arkansas you are the -- [laughter] arthur. conkling was a vain, preening, brutally powerful of machine politician who appointed himself garfield's enemy. he wore -- there's conkling. he wore canary yellow waistcoats, he used lavender ink, he had, as you can see, a spit curl in the middle of his forehead, and he recoiled at the slightest touch. in fact, his vanity was so outsized, that he was famously ridiculed for it on the floor of congress. but conkling was no joke. he was dangerously powerful. as a senior senator from new york, he control canned the new york customs house fs which was the largest federal office in the united states and controlled 70 president of the -- 70% of the country's customs revenue. conkling tightly controlled patronage within his state, and he expected com

this weekend rick santorum came out with the ad obamaville that looked like a hitchcock scary movie.look like movies. people love watching movie trailers and these politicians are trying to tap into that. >> talk about that rick santorum ad i got the feeling it looked like depression era scenes. i wonder, you know, when do you know you're pushing it just a little too far into the unbelieveabilty range? >> yeah, that's why i call it over the top. they have em tri streets in two years apparently our streets are be deserted, children's laughter absent from the world. it's very hyperbolic, but i guess that's the point of the ads. >> there is one ad in particular that generated huge attention when it hit the airwaves. let's watch that one. >> we can do this. we can take this country back. ♪ i am america one voice united we stand ♪ ♪ i am america >> you know, we'll use any excuse we can to bring that back. big picture question, are we seeing more of these ads than ever is it because of social media? >> i think so, if they're a viral hit on youtube, more people put them on twitter, facebook

. >> by alfred hitchcock, introduction by bill clinton. >> did he write this clean?ted the book. >> did he really? >> i gave him the book, i knew he was a fan of thrillers, he edited it. >> blue pencil job by bill clinton. i love digging your mind on this stuff. when we return i have important thing to say about the movie "game change" what really goes on in the back room of politics and the pressure on these people. come back and watch it. you're watching "hardball" only on mooebs. >>> let me finish with this. you know it's an amazing thing to be caught in a public predict a ment to have a situation that may be beyond your control, you and everyone is watching you. i watched "game change" for the second time, a fabulous movie, as i said before anyone who loves politics and loves this country will love movie you should watch it many times, actually, because you keep appreciating it all the deeper. what it's really about a predict a ment when you are knee deep, growing sure you are not going to get out of it the best way and hoping to cut your losses. this is where st

who was riddled with metastasis with basil cell carcinoma with a mutation in a pathway called the hitchcock half way. and inhibitor to that specific all fare between 2 weeks no evidence of any cancer on a repeat stand. that is also being used in brain cancer particularly occurs in kids called blastoma because it has the same mutation profile. that was just approved. the problem we have today if we know someone who has cancer what happens to their biopsy specimen or surgical specimens is they are ruined. it is put in formally and destroys the nature of the specimen. and you can't do opprobrious sequencing. that is why it is wrong. it is ritualistic and that is the medical community. it -- we have to get rid of it. i call it the f word. form and fixed paraffin embedded. if europe have fallen just or cancer specialist everything goes f f p d. when you as a patient or family member you have to say i want some of that specimen put in the freezer because if it doesn't happen, if you the requested it will not happen. if we get fresh frozen or flash frozen we can sequence and that is a whole differ

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you start your book with where you talk about you were 8 years old and you guys were watching a hitchcockanding about how scared his little brother was. >> he could tell i was scared to death. this particular episode, the killer was a man dressed as a woman. you didn't know that at the time. but the end of the episode the man who is still dressed as a woman tears off the wig and says to what's going to be the final victim, yes, you forgot about sam. so out of this feminine body comes this very scary, deep, masculine voice. yes, you forgot about sam. i'm 8 years old and scared the daylights out of me. about five minutes out of the end of the movie, i walked into the bedroom and shared it with my brother tim and the light didn't work i'm walking into a dark bedroom and i hear the door closed behind me, slamming shut. i turn and i see my older brother with a mop on his head and that's the wig. he had my mom's bathrobe on. that's the dress. and he walks across the room to me saying yes, you forgot about sam! just scared the -- 40 years later, it still scares me. yeah, my brother the cardinal.

>> our team at dartmouth hitchcock medical center works with families who have a loved one who is seriouslyk with them and find out not only who they are medically but who they are personally and what the family thinks they would want and we help guide families to often complex medical conditions so they get the best care for them so we can return this difficult situation giving them the best medical treatment possible but also, frankly, best treatment for their comfort and quality of life. i think the best care melds cutting edge technology with frankly unabashedly tough medical care. >> thank you for having me. >> we appreciate it. there's a ton of oversight for any company trying to cash in on taxpayer money. how did solar companies like solyndra slip through the cracks? a brand new report at the top of the hour. and from the limits on where you read the bible, to where you can smoke in your own home, the most ridiculous new laws on the books. coming up next. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of c