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with us mark kauffman of kauffman furs sold joe that coat.duplicate. >> how much is that coat? >> this is $3,000. >> he paid 3 thpds$,000. >> he did. your lovely assistant here featuring your other coats. all real stuff, the genuine article. yet in this environment where people worry about animals, joe namath and the coat wearing you paid for an ad. >> i got so many people calling, so many phone calls, so many twitter hits, so many facebook likes. so much business i never expected. >> did you expect when he came in to your store, did he say, you know, i'm going to wear this, mark, at the super bowl? >> well, when he came in, i knew he was doing the coin toss. i never expected it to take on its own life. >> yeah. what do you say to people who say it's cruel, peta and animal rights groups, remember they used to throw paint at women wearing this stuff and men, they stopped that now i guess. >> it's funny. i've been in the business 30 years, i've never seen a coat painted. what's happening i believe, what happened it was staged, staged for the pr

the camera is on jeff kauffman jr. he's a sky diver. he belongs to a team called the free flying skyscrapers. everything is going just fine, everything looks beautiful. they start doing the formation. holding hands, doing their thing. and everything they're doing seems to be right, except jeff loses his shoe, he turns back around and look ahead. >> no, are you kidding me? >> yes, that was one heck of a close encounter with the little plane. >> that's terrifying. >> how does that happen? don't they close air space around jumps like that? >> let's find out. we have jeff. so, yeah, the question, what happened? how did it happen? >> in terms of how that happened, it is really a bit of a puzzle. our drop zone is marked. so pilots flying through the area know that it is the drop zone and they know that sky divers are there. in this case, my guess is the pilot didn't plan his route and if he did, he just flew too close. and ultimately what he did is he flew underneath our formation. >> wow. >> what can happen in a situation like this? does a p

according to the kauffman foundation, encore entrepreneurs start new firms at a higher rate than any other age group. moreover, about 7.4 million self-employed workers are 50 and older. research shows that one in four americans between the ages of 44 and 70 are interested in starting a business or a nonprofit. that is why at sba we are committed to ensure that encore entrepreneurs have the tools they need to turn great ideas into successful companies. through our 68 district offices and nationwide network of resource partners which includes 11,000 volunteer score mentors, 900 small business development centers, and more than 100 women's business centers, we counsel and train more than one million current and aspiring entrepreneurs annually. we have always assisted small business owners over the age of 50, but our new initiative with aarp enables us to more effectively target our services to encore entrepreneurs. in april 2012, sba and aarp entered into a strategic alliance to provide encore entrepreneurs with the tools and information they need to launch new companies. the objectives

going to devote in this a little further hey we're going to go to zurich right now speak to hans kauffman he's a swiss politician hans hello to you can you please tell me do you think switzerland right now is risking the health of their exports being sixty percent as i mentioned make their way to the. i'm not very afraid of sanctions in international trade one should think about importance of switzerland for the e.u. we are a very huge. net importer all of you who aspire switzerland is concerned from where i sit here nothing positive can come out of this new version in terms of the economics. i'm not really afraid there first of all we really have three years to implement the details so the downer he's already here and our. do not see any consequences to not stop immigration read just want to control immigration ourselves that's what may change here is a is are not picking and choosing between parts of the e.u. that switzerland want to be involved with for example trade and parts that they don't want to be involved with in other words the free movement of people. well days' trade goes bac

according to the kauffman foundation encore entrepreneurs start at a higher rate to it in the other age group. more over 7.for a billion -- 7.4 billion a self-employed. one out of four americans between 44 and 70 are interested to start a business or nonprofit. we're committed to ensure that encore entrepreneurs has the tools they need to turn great ideas into successful companies. through our 68 district offices which include 11,000 score mentors, 900 small business development centers in were the 100 women business centers we counsel and a trade more than 1 billion current and aspiring entrepreneurs in italy. -- generally argue initiative enables us to more effectively target our services to encore entrepreneurs in 2012 as strategic alliance was formed to provide encore entrepreneurs with the two will send information they be to launch new companies the objective was threefold to increase our reach to the growing segment of prospective entrepreneurs. second to connect individuals with the programs in resource partners and certain present entrepreneurship as the next up for americans t

dean will talk with welz kauffman, the c-e-o of ravinia, about the new seasons at 5:45. >> good morninging across the area. temperatures are way down. we won't break any records but we are closed. today's afternoon high is nine degrees. typically we would be at 40. tonight we go down to - 3. snow showers develop during the evening. off and on snow continues saturday and sunday. >> overnight roadwork just now wrapping up on the jane addams. work having lain blockages anywhere between gulf and 290. all that wrapping up at the top. no more issues on the tolls. all the expressway's are in good shape. >> coming up with talk with scientists about a new measurement of snow. and spike lee has some controversy stirred up. that's coming up later. >> announcer: the following is a paid presentation for luminess air. now there's a new way to completely cover your flaws, minimize wrinkles, and make you look 10 years younger instantly. >> people asked if i got botox. >> people come up to me and say, "your skin is beautiful." >> i've had two people actually tell me it looks like i have porcelain skin.

according to the kauffman foundation, encore entrepreneurs start new firms at a higher rate than any other age group. moreover, about 7.4 million self-employed workers are 50 and older. and research shows that one in four americans between the ages of 44-70 are interested in starting a business or nonprofit. that's why at sba we are committed to ensuring that encore entrepreneurs have the tools they need to turn great ideas into successful companies. to our 68 district offices, and nationwide network of resource partners, which include 11,000 volunteer score mentors, nine and small business develop incentives, and more than 100 women business centers, we counsel and train more than 1 million current and aspiring entrepreneur's annually. we've always assisted small business owners over the age of 50, but our new initiative with aarp enables us to more effectively target our services to encore entrepreneurs. in april 2012, sba and aarp entered into a strategic alliance to provide encore entrepreneurs with the tools and information they need for launching a new company. the objective of

chairman miller, kauffman, roth less and and i all agree that in the future the v.a. should be required to report outbreaks just like other hospitals already do. the language in this bill is the result of our discussions over a number of months. i believe that the need for this reporting requirement is obvious. i urge my colleagues to support this bill which will make this important change. mr. chairman, i would like to add by unanimous consent an additional statement into the record. on january 29 i was not present when h.r. 2642, the conference report for the federal agriculture reform and risk management acts, better known as the farm bill, was voted on -- farrm -- farm bill had been voted on. had i been present i would have voted no. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from florida is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank mr. doyle for being on the forefront of this issue. i want to inquire of the chair as to the time remaining. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida has 9 1/2 minutes remaining. mr.

we also know in many of us have cited the statistics from the kauffman foundation that it's in that 55to 60 or year age group where we have a high entrepreneurial already so this is a group that is probably very likely, more likely to have a pre-existing condition, let's be clear about that. so studies have looked at surveys of what stops people from pursuing entrepreneurial paths and many people often cite the lack of options to get health care. we have seen a natural experiments where some in health care have ruled out outside of the workplace that the rate of entrepreneurship has gone up in a recent survey by the brookings institution thinks the aca may unleash over 1 million more self-employed people into the market. putting that aside we have studies that looked at the difference in the probability of going to entrepreneurship at age 65 versus 64. it's a simple switch to medicare and it's about or 10% higher. in all including a meta-study and 20 studies by economists and labor policy people it seems to indicate that this should have some sort of it oozed. i can't comment on the ov

researchers at kansas city- based kauffman, which studies entrepreneurship, found that the number ofross the nation has dipped nearly 30-percent over the last 20 years. that's despite the recent surge in new tech start-ups in the valley. our career expert kym mcnicholas says that part of the reason is its simply not easy to start a business and many people won't even try because of their fear of failure. she should know. she refused to venture out on her own until just last month, when she launched kymerview, a practice interview platform for pageant contestants and job seekers. i asked her to come the show and talk once in awhile about her trials and tribulations as an entrepreneur because not often do we have people willing to share their experiences that we can learn from. she joins us now. >> one of the first things about is a business cards. that is the way that some people will let their potential consumer know about their company. >> i had my business card here a couple weeks ago, you cannot read the fine print. i think the clear, the color almost got into the way and i did no

at the kauffman foundation. these numbers are troubling, are they not?h startups less than five years of age less than 80,000 now back in 2001 it was 113,000. >> i think it is certainly troubling and surprising to a lot of people. longer-term context we are about where we were with new and young companies in terms of an overall level. dagen: why do you think the level has reached the low that it had, what is going on here? what do you think is happening? >> i think there are a lot of reasons. the high tech sector is looking like the rest of the u.s. economy in which it has been falling for number of years. the changing economics of some high tech sectors have been another culprit behind sort of the downed pipeline and ipos. we have seen other trends with other evidence and other research has shown the number of immigrant entrepreneurs and their contribution has been falling over the past several years. dagen: is that something we as a nation should be focused on reversing? in terms of ensuring those immigrants stay in this country if they come here for a

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like an andy kauffman prank. what this guy is doing or his campaign is doing and i think that has absolutely hurt him even many of the baes tea party republican guys don't support stockman. cornyn is going to walk away by all accounts in this poll with this primary, no runoff. >> texas tribune editor in chief, evan smith. thank you for joining us. >> thanks. >>> chuck, thanks. see you coming up on "the daily rundown." joy, we send you off with the best of luck. >> i liked the comment about andy kaufman. i'm interested. that could explain everything steve stockman is up top. he is andy kaufman. there is another conspiracy he is alive! this is now around -- >> into a tizzy because they are going to have a new lead at 2:00 p.m. about andy kaufman still being alive. >> we have to book the ghosts of andy kaufman. >> you don't have to book a ghost, joy! >> there you go. >> the best tease. >> joy, best of luck. >> thank you. >> you are fantastic, so everybody tune in. we love joy reid. >>> terry branstad is standing by.