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100 years old and needed more business. So this is really the economy we see. When we look at the internet or look at the political challenges in the United States and all the issues and all the sniping, what we see is, when people selforganize, they use the internet to connect with each other and they work with each other. Then the economy works. Great. So i think people can envision transformation when it affects them and they have a hard time when it doesnt. People in d. C. Understand the transforming political effect of being able to raise money on line. In a recent conference, we had travis from uber. People can understand uber. The Maker Movement, many people in big servicesector cities like this have a hard time taking seriously why should the Maker Movement what is it and why should it be taken seriously . How man ....
Are you going to make that happen . People are working on that across the country. The best leadership is coming out of a group called code. Org. I encourage everybody, National Computer science week is the second week of september. If you dont know who ada lovelace is, reed the new book. The chapter starts with her. During that time, all americans are encouraged to do an hour of code. Right now, most people in this room are not programmers. Take one hour this year, go on to code. Org and to those activities. It will start to demystify this. Its an important skill. It does not mean everyone should be a programmer, but its a 21st century skill. You were a woman in teflon before there was this focus lab conversation happening around why are there not more women in tech. There were probably more women in tech when you started and there are now. Do you think things are Getting Bet ....
Anything to do with anyway, so, some of todays hottest stars were on the red carpet last night, for the q102 jingle ball. A loft fun. You know who was with me . Lets bring back quince. I we had good time last night. We did. Totally got into the red carpetings. Yes. You went about 16, 17,000 little girls . It was very loud. A lot of screaming. Just like that. Did iggy snow. Yes, iggy was there on the red carpet. Exactly it. Yesterday she announced she is going on world tour, the greatest kate tour. She is . We talk to her about, you know, she going to get a cheese steak, wanted to eat a cheese steak, but was just too much because she had to perform, just too heavy. Yes, she really likes you, too, aling. She also, though, was complaining about how windy it is here if philadelphia. Shes been here for like two days. Is that why her hair ended up like, that the winds. Thats pretty good t look good on stage. Oh, cute. I like it. Edgey. I think better from the front. Okay, go dont be jealous, ....
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, see. Thank you especially secretary hagel for joining us. Lets start off with one bit of this. There is some ebola order today, tell us what the significance is. What i signed this morning was a memorandum to the chairman of joint chiefs of staff in response to the memorandum of recommendation i received from the chairman and the chiefs yesterday to go forward with a policy of essentially 21 day incubation for our men and women who would be returning from west africa. That policy was put in place by the chief of staff of the army a couple of days ago for general williams, and 10 of his associates who are now back at their base in italy. And what i said in response this morning was, give me within 15 days the operational specifics of how that would work. And then i believe we should review the policy within 45 days. The fact is the military will have more americans in liberia than any other department. Thats number one. Number two, our people, our younge ....