leads the way and richard kauffman, too and martin ryan, we thank all of you every single day for allis city by the daçbay ççsan francisco çhome of the golden gate san francisco here is you're wondering one çall these places only make me love you tell me you are the heart of all of the golden west the golden west san francisco welcome me homeç again i am coming♪ >> thank you, jamie. please welcome back to the stage to the guggenheim. -- judyç guggenheim. >> what a fabulous introduction to the next speaker who is coming up. i want to tell you all of the wonderful city people that support this hospital. we are very lucky to have them support the hospital and to have had them supported all these years. the honorable willie brown, mayor. çthe honorable frankç jor" mayor. gina mosconi. [applause] district attorney george gascon. city attorney dennis r. vera -- herrerra. [applause] fireç chief and joanne hayes white. police chief gregg sur. [applause] supervisor scott wiener and malia cohen are here today. [applause] and our very own paul pelosi. i want to invite everybody here to

what we're talking about today is an amazing program funded by google, the kauffman foundation, helprom her on, and others, and received an accelerator for civic start-ups. by that, we mean companies that work in the government space that will disrupt, in a healthy way, the government ecosystem, and provide a new set of vendors and provide new and innovative ways for citizens to access government services. we are very excited to be partnering with san francisco on this. i am grateful for everyone here in the room, especially mayor lee, ron conaway, a andjay, who we have seen -- and jay, who we have seen as an innovative leader in this area. we are also blessed with the cedar accelerated to have so many other similar programs in the bay area that we can learn from. we will be following in the footsteps of organizations like -- learning what they do. code of america has a specific purpose, on specific start-ups, bring those wonderful on the printer is in error to think about businesses that do not just change the consumer experience, but change the citizen experience. lastly, we are re

kauffman. >> thank you mr. chairman. first of all, dr. miller, when you look at the in state in terms of our conventional ground units are gone. from the country i suspect we have after 2014 some advisory presence, some special operations personnel to do counter terrorism operations, what would you estimate the cost of that to be? >> your sense of the likely mission appears to me to be counter terrorism. >> to the afghan government to sustain their security forces and what's the point that they would expect after 2014? >> we have had discussion about the appropriate and necessary sustained level of contribution is for the afghan national security forces over time. as we discussed earlier you can think of it in a sense as what is the approximate cost 352,000 which is where 330,000 today and growing to 352,000 for nsf. there is a cost associated with that and we are looking towards the international community to begin to pay a portion of that at least starting in -- >> $4 billion? >> to sustain $352,000 we suspect would be more than that. t

this is from the kauffman collection that was just donated to the national gallery of art. you can see here obviously the antiquity influence, the splayed legs and the form and also the decoration, the grotesques. also, another chair the finlays created as well. what also you'll see as a huge trend here is the caned seat. the 40-piece suite of furniture the finlays made were painted and lacquered in white and gold. here is one of those examples which you'll be able to see closer up later on. but this is one of the couches that the finlays created that latrobe designed coming from the grecian examples that he saw and used from thomas hope's book. here's a close-up of that design. these are all on display for you to see afterwards. here's an example from what the cushion looks like that you could see formerly on the last design we saw. more of that. okay. and the -- some of the furniture was also grained in imitation of highly figured mahogany. mahogany was not at this time a native wood of the united states. it was mostly imported and very expensive. so fancy furniture, alth

. >> to get more on that story, jeffrey kauffman from abc news joins us live from the seychelles. these people, end of their ordeal. it must have been awful for them. >> i think the biggest surprise is the description of what happened on monday after the alarm was sounded. what we didn't know until just now was that they were ordered to abandon ship, the life boats were lowered, and passengers described utter chaos. they said that the crew didn't really know what to do. they were sent in many directions. and for several hours, it was like that. they had their life jackets on, they thought they were going to get off the ship, they didn't think they were going to get off the ship. but once the fire was under control, the captain came on the address system and said, we are fine, you can stay on the ship. and then they said things like order started to take hold and things were not as panicked. but they said the first couple of hours really were chaotic. for many, obviously they were quite frightening. >> jeffrey, what kind of help are they getting now? i mean, some of the older passe

jason kauffman. how are you? >> great. >> shawn from 901. and shera, who is a mixologist.ood to see you. >> happy to be here. >> first of all, who is not shy? >> i can start. >> let me first tell you, you get the challenge every year. got to do a cherry themed dish. how hard is it to come up with something for that? >> i think you want to do something out of the box, want to do something that signifies what you do as a restaurant. so that's what led us to a nice salmon dish. what we did was make a cherry barbecue salmon. we wrap it in cherry paper. we roast it in the oven. you have that tanginess from the barbecue and the cherry paper that's soaked. sweet potato mash, a sweeter yam. what is unique about this dish, pickled cherry blossoms and fennel salad. we started this tuesday, and people are raving about it. you'll have to stop in. >> available through the festival? >> available for five weeks. throughout the whole festival. that's exciting for us. >> you were cooking that up out here earlier this morning. it smelled great. there you go. that's one of the dishes. >> tha

well, i'll tell you, kauffman fast track has been offering courses to entrepreneurs for nearly two decadesf any stripe or shape? >> of any stripe or shape. we trained nearly 300,000 people to start or grow companies. one thing we've not done in a very target and specific way is to address the needs of veterans, especially as they return from conflict as we are experiencing right now. and seek to put themselves back to work. and so one of the things that we can now offer is very tailored specific course that's will help to meet the needs of veterans in particular. >> and can you give us a couple examples? >> absolutely. so we offer two different courses. one will be called fast track new venture, targeted to veterans. and now this is a core course that we offered for many years. it's for anyone with an idea. so if you have an idea of what we will help you to do is to assess the validity of that idea to determine if potentially it's truly feasible in the marketplace and then to review your own plans to see if this -- >> turn the idea into an operating plan. >> exactly right. >> what courses

the committeewoman, jose fuentes, ron kauffman, james garcia, there were some money to help us there.he people of pr -- now i get to say what's in my heart. you know, mitt and i have been in a lot of states. we've gone through every part of this country. and i am so moved, so moved by the people of this country that are counting on someone to go to washington and to take things in their hands and fix it. [cheers and applause] >> mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! mitt! >> i sense everything that you're experiencing right here tonight. this sense that we want to take this country back. that we are feeling as though that strong, strangling arm of government is invading every corner of our life. and let me tell you something else that's happening. women are coming to me and saying will you please talk about deficit spending and budgets? i'm loving that. loving that. women are angry. they're angry about the legacy we're going to leave their children and their grandchildren. and i'm going to tell them something. i've got somebody here that can fix it. s

kris collins, sandy and paul, bob mcginn and ron kauffman and a special thank you to the thousands and across this country. 10 states tonight. we have thousands of people making phone calls. thank you. we could not do it without all of you, thank you. we're going to wait for more returns and more good news. thank you. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "mitt"] >> now, i have something to say about some of the women that i'm hearing, from and we've been all across this country. and do you know what women care about? and this is what i love. women care about jobs. [cheers and applause] women care about the economy, they care about their children, and they care about the debt and they're angry and they're furious about the entitlement debt that we're leaving our children. so this is what we're hearing when we're out there. this is our message. it's an economic message. it's about the future for our children, and that's what i'm hearing out there. so from all of that, we know the guy that knows how to do and fix all of that. i said, mitt, i'm never going to do this again, but here we ar