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Good morning im laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our Brown Bag Lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. We invite you to participate so call for information and join us. Our next talk is on decks and balcones. Today we will talk about commercial restaurants in San Francisco. We have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. I should talk about commercial r...

Naval career flying aircraft for the u. S. Navy, and about ten years ago made the transition to academia, where the navy provided an outstanding opportunity to go back to graduate school and get a specialty in a geographic part of the world where i specialize in middle eastern history. Host and now an author. The politics and security of the gulf is the numb of your book. Thats kind of a big topic. Guest it is. Its part of the world where the United States has been involved in three hot wars in ...

If you can also find us online. Here is the headline in the New York Times. The pew center has a new study out called the impact on the fiscal cliff on states. Here is what it says. We would do more into these and how they will specifically affect states on an individual basis. There is a question on whether the fiscal cliff would hurt. It says our question for you this morning is whether the states should have a stake of in negotiations. Looking more in the story the New York Times. It says som...

Of running the trucks of its a Small Business just like running the brickandmortar. The overheads are extremely high. You have to balance it about as to how many sales you can make. So i wouldnt say its one business pitched against another business. I would also say that the practical side that matt was speaking to as to parking makes it an extremely difficult business. So often we have to spend a lot of extra labor dollars and spending people out early to reserve spots. Also, its a way for us t...

View, are completely unobjectionable. Dick gregory titled his first autobiography, nigger an autobiography. And Richard Pryor with two great albums, that nigger is crazy and bicentennial nigger. Host when you wrote the book, it was published in 2002. What reaction did you get . Host when i do. Guest when i wrote the book i got a lot of reaction, some positive and some negative. And continue to get some positive reactions and negative reactions. Some people took real offense at the title. If ther...

Engaging in war with less than perfect information. Based on what you have researched what is your opinion on your own realization that current military technology in preparation are geared towards specific types of existing military factions and does that tell you anything about the decisions involved in waging future war . Guest i think the idea that people are always training for the last war and preparing for the last four and they get blindsided by the next one is almost true. A failure to ...

I think they definitely need to do a better job there. I think this is true not just for president obama but everyone of us. Things are complicated. They are more complex than they look on paper. You bring up the payroll tax cut. I thought it was a terrible idea in the context where we are supposed to collect this money to help pay for the retirement of current retirees. You cannot have it both ways. Claim we have Social Security selffunded and then say we are not going to collect that program. ...

Elms around the cuban missile crisis, october, 1962. All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many every us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add histo...

All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats...

It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound ...