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Ronan Farrow Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Father, Siblings, Frank Sinatra and Book
Ronan Farrow is an American journalist, lawyer, and former government advisor best known for writing investigative articles for The New Yorker and making documentaries for HBO.
Ronan Farrow Biography
From 2001 to 2009, Farrow was a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth, advocating for both children and women caught up in the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region and assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations affiliated groups in the United States.
During this time, Farrow also made joint trips to the Darfur region of Sudan with his mother, actress Mia Farrow, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He afterward advocated for the protection of Darfuri refugees.
Following his experiences in Sudan, Farrow was affiliated with the Genocide Intervention Network. During his time at Yale Law School, he interned at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the office of the chief counsel at the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he focus on international human rights law.
In 2009, he joined the Obama administration as Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Farrow was part of a team of officials recruited by the diplomat Richard Holbrooke, for whom Farrow had previously worked for as a speechwriter. For the next two years, he was responsible for "overseeing the United States Government's relationships with civil society and nongovernmental actors" in Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
In 2011, Farrow was appointed as a Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues and Director of the State Department's Office of Global Youth Issues by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
The office's creation was as an outcome of a multi-year task-force appointed by Clinton to review the United States' economic and social policies on youth, for which he co-chaired the working group with senior United States Agency for International Development staff member David Barth beginning in 2010.
His appointment and the creation of the office were announced by Clinton as part of a refocusing on youth following the Arab Spring revolutions.
He was responsible for US youth policy and programming with an aim of "empowering young people as economic and civic actors."
He concluded his term as Special Adviser in 2012, with his policies and programs continuing under his successor.
After leaving government, Farrow began a Rhodes Scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied toward a Doctor of Philosophy, researching the exploitation of the poor in developing countries, but did not complete his degree.
Farrow has written op-eds, essays, and other pieces for The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other periodicals.
In October 2013, Penguin Press acquired his book, Pandora's Box: How American Military Aid Creates America's Enemies, scheduling it for 2015 publication.
Ronan Farrow Education
As a child, Farrow skipped several grades in school and took courses with the Center for Talented Youth. He attended Bard College at Simon's Rock, and later transferred to Bard College for a B.A. in philosophy, and became the youngest graduate of that institution at age 15. In 2009, he received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, and was later admitted to the New York Bar.
Ronan Farrow Age | How Old Is Ronan Farrow?
Farrow was born Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow on December 19, 1987 in New York City, New York, United States. He is 31 years old as of 2018. He celebrates his birthday on 19th December every year.
Ronan Farrow Height
Farrow stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Ronan Farrow Father | Ronan Farrow Parents | Ronan Farrow Woody Allen
Farrow is the son of filmmaker Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow. His father's family is Jewish, while his mother's family is Catholic.
His given name honors National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige and his maternal grandmother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan.
Ronan Farrow Siblings
Farrow has four adopted siblings; three sisters two Vietnamese and one Korean, Soon-Yi Previn and a one adopted Korean brother, Moses Farrow.
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Farrow is considered a 'genius' by some. At 11 years of age, he was the youngest student to ever attend Simon's Rock high school for gifted students, run by Bard College in Massachusetts. He then graduated from Bard with his B.A. degree at age 15.
Ronan Farrow Frank Sinatra | Ronan Farrow And Frank Sinatra
In a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, Ronan's mother Mia Farrow stated that Ronan could "possibly" be the biological child of Frank Sinatra, with whom she claimed to have "never really split up".
In a 2015 CBS Sunday Morning interview, Sinatra's daughter Nancy dismissed the idea that her father is also the biological father of Ronan Farrow, calling it "nonsense."
She said that her children were affected by the rumor because they were being questioned about it. "I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying 'possibly'," Nancy added. "I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid."
DNA paternity testing to determine Farrow's father is not known to have occurred. Farrow has refused to discuss DNA, and stated that despite their estrangement, "Woody Allen, legally, ethically, personally was absolutely a father in our family."
In a 2018 New York magazine article, Woody Allen said that Farrow may indeed be Sinatra's son: "In my opinion, he's my child … I think he is, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. I paid for child support for him for his whole childhood, and I don't think that's very fair if he's not mine."
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Ronan Farrow Net Worth
Farrow has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Ronan Farrow MSNBC
From February 2014 to February 2015, he hosted Ronan Farrow Daily, a television news program that aired on MSNBC. He also hosted the investigative segment "Undercover with Ronan Farrow" on NBC's Today.
The seies was launched in June 2015, and was billed as providing Farrow's look at the stories "you don't see in the headlines every day", often featuring crowd-sourced story selection and covering topics from the labor rights of nail salon workers to mental healthcare issues to sexual assault on campus.
Ronan Farrow The New Yorker | Ronan Farrow Article
On October 10, 2017, The New Yorker published an investigative article by Farrow detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against film producer Harvey Weinstein. Five days after, The New York Times published the findings of its own investigation into Weinstein and in 2016, NBC had decided against airing Farrow's initial findings.
In 2018, The New Yorker won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Farrow's reporting, sharing the award with Meghan Twohey and Jodi Kantor at The New York Times. In the same year, Farrow was included in the Time "100 Most Influential People in the World" list.
On May 7, 2018, The New Yorker published an article by Farrow and his fellow reporter Jane Mayer stating that, during his term in office, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had physically abused at least four women with whom he had been romantically involved, and that he had habitually abused alcohol and prescription drugs. On May 8, 2018 after hours of its publication, Schneiderman resigned.
Farrow and Mayer reported that they had confirmed the women's allegations with photographs of contusions and with statements from friends with whom the alleged victims had confided subsequent to the claimed assaults.
Although Schneiderman denied the allegations, he stated that he resigned because they "effectively prevent me from leading the office's work". Governor Andrew Cuomo then assigned a special prosecutor to investigate the filing of possible criminal charges against Schneiderman.
On July 27, 2018, The New Yorker published an article by Farrow stating that six women had accused CBS CEO Leslie Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and that many more people described abuse at his company.
On August 23, 2018, The New Yorker published an article by Farrow and Adam Entous stating that top aides of the Trump White House circulated a conspiracy memo entitled "The Echo Chamber" about Obama aides.
On September 14, 2018, Jane Mayer and Farrow published information pertaining to an allegation of sexual assault by United States Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
He voiced minor characters in the English-language versions of two Japanese animated films, From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) and The Wind Rises (2013).
Ronan Farrow Email
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Ronan Farrow Book
2020: Pandora's Box: How American Military Aid Creates America's Enemies
2019: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
2018: War on Peace
Ronan Farrow Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.
All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance that could not be explained – until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood, to Washington, and beyond.
This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability and silence victims of abuse – and it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.
Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power – and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook the culture.
Ronan Farrow War On Peace | Ronan Farrow Diplomacy
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence is a book by Ronan Farrow released in 2018. The book was published by W. W. Norton & Company.
Ronan Farrow Awards
In 2008, he was awarded Refugees International's McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award for extraordinary service to refugees and displaced people.
In 2009, he was named New York magazine's "New Activist" of the year and was included on its list of individuals "on the verge of changing their worlds".
In 2011, he was listed by Harper's Bazaar as an "up-and-coming politician".
In 2012, Farrow was ranked number one in "Law and Policy" on Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" Most Influential People.
In 2012, he was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Dominican University of California.
In its 2013 retrospective of men born in its 80 years of publication, Esquire magazine named him the man of the year of his birth.
In February 2014, he received the third annual Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism from Reach the World, in recognition of his work since 2001, including his being a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in 2001. Some media outlets suggested that the award was not justified after they noted that the award came three days after Ronan Farrow Daily began airing.
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Ronan Farrow Interview
Interviewer: What was happening in your life when you decided to write "War On Peace"?
Ronan Farrow: You know, this project gestated for a long time, and then with the advent of the Trump administration, the exact trend line I was talking about, decimating American diplomacy, reached this new nadir. And it was uncanny in a way I wish I could say I celebrated that it had suddenly become I think really the defining topic in American foreign policy. America's place in the world is being redefined in this massive way. And, yes, it's worth noting this new extreme under Trump, and I do at length. A lot of the book is set during this administration. But to answer your question, this was something I had been working on for something like five years, really showing that administration after administration of both parties had been guilty of some version of this, the politically expedient sidelining of the American diplomat.
Interviewer: You started working at the State Department when you were 20 with Richard Holbrooke, who was then the special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan. What was your job description?
Ronan Farrow: I was the special adviser for humanitarian and NGO affairs, which, like everything in government, was an unwieldy and ridiculous title with too many acronyms in it. And we had this team of what one senior military official calls weirdos (laughter). So Richard Holbrooke, who was, you know, the embodiment of establishment foreign policy in a lot of ways, also had this very firm and I think very admirable commitment to bringing in new ideas and new blood. And I think he really embodies the idea that you can do both. You can respect expertise and also shake things up. He kind of did an "Ocean's Eleven"-style heist team for this. He brought in academics and business people and all sorts of people you wouldn't normally see on a State Department team. It rankled a lot of the bureaucracy. But he thought that was what it would take to break through decades of, you know, Afghanistan being the graveyard of the empires. And…
Interviewer: So if it was "Ocean's Eleven," where did you fit in?
Ronan Farrow: (Laughter) I mean, I was like the intern of the "Ocean's Eleven" team. You know, I think I would have been cut for economy of characters in a movie script.
Interviewer: (Laughter).
Ronan Farrow: But my job was to liaise with the human rights groups, the nongovernmental groups on the ground. And a big part of Richard Holbrooke's idea for Afghanistan and Pakistan was to stop this practice of putting all of our development work through Beltway bandits, these giant contractors who had tons of overhead and would subcontract out six times and then, you know, wind up with outsiders coming in who didn't really know the territory anyway. He wanted much more local implementation instead. You know, go to the mom-and-pop group that can build the well instead of the seven layers of contractors. So that was a big part of what I worked on and, you know, I can't say he succeeded in that, but I do think it was the right line of thinking.
Interviewer: So you write about how diplomats are losing their importance in an era when foreign policy has been militarized. What's an example of that that you saw in the Obama administration when you were working in the administration?
Ronan Farrow: So Obama is often remembered by liberal commentators, I think, through rose-colored glasses in this particular respect because we think of him in Cairo sounding extremely inclusive in that famous speech, and many others, really talking about the importance of diplomacy and the United States having more than just war as an approach to different conflicts. But in practice, a lot of the trends that have kind of been set in stone across administration after administration continued unabated under Barack Obama. One of those trend lines was increases in arms sales, which really exploded under Obama. One of them was the White House filling with former generals.
When you look at the Afghanistan review during Obama's first term, there was sort of a collision of all of these trends in the militarization of foreign policy. And you had an environment where what Ben Rhodes, one of Obama's senior foreign policy voices, called celebrity general culture and what Richard Holbrooke called in some of his last-anguished memos that I release in this book mil-think – military thinking. And the end result is there was this torturous review of Afghanistan policy, Terry, where it became a cavalcade of military voices. And the few civilian voices in the room, I think partly for political reasons, were completely lockstep with the calls for escalation from the generals. And Richard Holbrooke, who felt there needed to be less escalation and that we needed to focus on a potential political settlement – an idea that is widely embraced now but at the time was totally verboten and controversial – didn't even get heard. He rarely made it into the room when most of the crucial decisions were made.
Interviewer: So meanwhile, under the Trump administration, the president seems to be dismantling much of the State Department. What are some of the…
Ronan Farrow: Yes.
Interviewer: …Biggest ways you think that the Trump administration has been succeeding?
Ronan Farrow: You look at this dynamic under Barack Obama, especially in the first term where diplomats were frequently sidelined and left at the margins of the rooms where decisions were being made – they are no longer in the room, they are no longer in the building under Trump. The Trump administration has evinced a complete disregard for expertise, for history, for the kind of careful assessment of a region and the pressure points and the ways to avoid pitfalls that we so desperately need right now as we confront Iran, North Korea. That's all gone.
And even just in terms of the shape of the organization of the State Department, Terry, what we've seen is it's often described as unprecedented. I wouldn't say unprecedented because I think there are clear lessons we can pull out of recent history about this, but it is certainly a new extreme where embassies around the world are short-staffed and have no leadership where the regional offices that are supposed to be led by important officials who really know the regions are again empty and being led by acting officials. And in conflict after conflict – I chronicle this in "War On Peace" – you see us barreling headlong into situations, you know, with diplomacy by tweet as the apparent spearhead and no experts to counterbalance it because we're just not listening to them anymore.
Interviewer: So there's a scene in the book – you're basically having your job interview with Richard Holbrooke, and you're following him around. You follow him home to his townhouse where he keeps asking you questions, really complicated questions. He goes into the shower, and with the shower running, he's still kind of interviewing you. And the thing about that scene is like if you were a woman, he shouldn't be doing that. If you were a woman, that could easily be interpreted as…
Ronan Farrow: Of course, of course.
Interviewer: …Sexual harassment. And the thing is, like, a lot of guys think, well, like, yeah, it's hard to hire a woman because you can't do what you usually do, right? And if what you usually do is talk to people while you're showering, then you have to change your behavior because, oh, I hired a woman. Do you know what I mean? And I was wondering if you were thinking about that because…
Ronan Farrow: Of course I thought about it and I…
Interviewer: …It's the kind of thing that stand in – it's the kind of thing that stands in the way of a lot of people hiring women, that they feel like I can't…
Ronan Farrow: Sure, and it's…
Interviewer: They can't behave the way they do around the guys.
Ronan Farrow: I mean, there's really – there's two parts to that question. One is about Richard Holbrooke. And it's sort of an accident of fate that – between when I first drafted that scene and when this book came out – obviously, the world had changed in terms of our view of this issue. And, you know, I – obviously, I had hands on the text late enough in the game to be able to write it with a very particular eye towards delineating between this and, you know, actual examples of sexual harassment. You know, I was on the other side of a closed door. There was no kind of sexual component to this. It was embedded in, I think, a personality trait that Richard Holbrooke had, which was that he was oblivious to the sensitivities of others around him. And once, I describe him, you know, following Hillary Clinton into a women's room in Pakistan, which is also not great for (laughter), you know, office conduct. But really in his case – was born of, you know, this incredible intellectual energy and enthusiasm for keeping the briefing going (laughter), you know, and not even being aware of his surroundings.
I never in my time working with him knew him to be, you know, harassing or intimidating in any way. He was famously a bully and had a lot of bluster, but I never heard from anyone that he sort of made them uncomfortable in that respect. To your question about, you know, this argument that we hear now about it being harder to hire women or there being the fear of a chilling effect in terms of women's ascendancy in the workplace – I just have yet to see actual hard evidence that that is a meaningful trend line in American workplaces.
I spoke at a very large conference of human resources managers from big corporations recently. And, you know, a number of them talked about the specter of this. You know, oh, well, what if men are afraid to mentor women? But none of them could come up with any metrics from within their companies to suggest that this was actually happening or any anecdotes even that they had witnessed to suggest that this was happening. So I would just caution – you know, I see that argument kind of weaponized against activists working on this issue. And, you know, I think it's the wrong response to the problem. You know, it may be important for us to be conscious of that, that if – the moment it becomes a real phenomenon. But I don't think the answer is to somehow, you know, blame women for being too forthright about this problem.
Interviewer: Well, let's take a short break here, and then we'll talk some more. If you're just joining us, my guest is Ronan Farrow. And his new book is called "War On Peace: The End Of Diplomacy And The Decline Of American Influence." And he shared a Pulitzer Prize this year with The New York Times for uncovering the story of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and assault of actresses.
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Please note that this is just a partial list containing some of the most popular choices for woods we work with. The Janka hardness scale, used to determine whether or not a wood species is suitable for flooring, is the primary test measuring wood's resistance to wear and dentability. Poplar comes from a dicot, which makes it a hardwood. The resilience of wood is typically measured with something known as a Janka scale. Spruce Pine (Pinus glabra) The Janka Scale was developed by the Austrian wood researcher named Gabriel Janka back in 1906. Copyright 2019. } Our chart is based on the Janka Hardness Scale which is the industry standard for gauging the ability of various wood species to resist denting and tolerate normal wear. Entries in red are some of the woods builders commonly search for when researching wood species to build with. The Janka Hardness Test was conducted by measuring the amount of force necessary to embed a .444 inch steel ball into side of the wood up to one half of its diameter to determine its hardness rating, which is then recorded on the Janka Hardness Scale. Wood species vary in many ways, but a key factor in finishing wood is the hardness of the wood. })(); Copyright ©2018 U.S. Generally speaking, softwoods tend to be softer than their hardwood counterparts. There would be regenerating stands where the pine and fir stumps would be soil, but the larch would be hard and dry and dense – ideal for fuel. } Floor Masters. Goodwin Heart Pine flooring Janka ratings can be found on our Reclaimed Wood Product Selector. There may be variations of more or less than 20% on the scale, since this is a scientific test. The US typically will use lbf. Radiata Pine (Pinus radiata) Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) Pine describes a whole variety of wood species, which are traditionally broken down into four main subgroups: Southern Pines, Fire Pines, White Pines, and "Old World" Pines. Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Flooring choices can range comparably from hard maple or wenge to red oak to even softer than Douglas fir in hardness. Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus) It measures the force required to embed an 11.28 millimetres (0.444 in) diameter steel ball halfway into a sample of wood. Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana) Grades of Yellow Pine Flooring Available: Yellow Pine flooring is typically graded Clear and #2 Common and Better. Free Samples! Pine on average does not require an abnormal amount of effort to saw properly. True pine has a Janka rating of 1570, Carribean heart pine is 1280, red pine is 1630, longleaf southern yellow pine is 870, both shortleaf and loblolly southern yellow pine are 690, white pine is 420, and eastern white pine ranks in at 380 to give a few specific numbers. Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) Conversely, a ranking of 4,000 means the lumber is extremely difficult to process and thus is not suitable for processing on the large scale flooring requires. 17808 568th Ave, Good Thunder, MN 56037. The Janka Test is a measure of the hardness of wood. The sapwood of pine is usually light yellowish-white to yellowish-tan, while the heartwood is light orange-yellow to red or yellowish-brown in color. It is between longleaf and shortleaf southern pine in hardness, is forty-three percent softer than white oak, about forty-seven percent softer than wenge, and is only … Compare different species based on their hardness. The Janka hardness test is a measurement of the force necessary to embed a.444-inch … Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii) Trademarks and brands are the property of Run Of The Mill, LLC . Janka values represent the amount of pound-force that is required to partially embed a small steel ball into the surface of the wood. Yellow Pine, Long Leaf 870 Olivewood, Brazilian 3700 Yellow Pine, Short Leaf 690 Patagonian Rosewood 3840 Yellowheart 1820 Brazilian Tiger Mahogany 3840 Zebrawood 1575 Curupy 3880 www.workshoppages.com The scale was invented in 1906 by Gabriel Janka, an Austrian wood researcher, and standardized in 1927 by the American Society for Testing and Materials ().Depending on the room where the flooring will be installed, a certain level of hardness may make it a more desirable choice. The Janka hardness test is a measurement of the force necessary to embed a .444-inch steel ball to half its diameter in wood. To learn the basic hardness of different common woods used in … Longleaf (Southern Yellow) Pine (Pinus palustris) All sawing will be completed at our Mankato, MN shop. Online or in store. The wood commonly has no odor. Loblolly (Southern Yellow) Pine (Pinus taeda) In laymans terms it is a way to measure a woods resistance to denting. Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana) Pine species do not usually have a high resistance to decay, but they do have a propensity to absorb preservatives rather well. forms : { Janka hardness test From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Janka hardness test (from the Austrian-born emigrant Gabriel Janka, 1864–1932) measures the resistance of a sample of wood to denting and wear. We feature a tremendous selection of hardwoods imported from every corner of the world, as well as exotic laminates like Hawaiian Koa for as low as $1.99 per square foot! listeners: [], Benguet Pine (Pinus insularis) Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) Aromatic Cedar & Yellow Pine both qualify as medium density wood species on the Janka scale. The Janka scale is used to determine the relative hardness of particular … Janka Hardness: 690. The Janka test measures the necessary force to embed a.44″ diameter steel ball halfway into a piece of wood. Pond Pine (Pinus serotina) However, it was only in 1927 when Janka's scale was standardized by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Get 4 Free Online Samples With Free Shipping! callback: callback The actual number listed in the wood profile is the amount of pounds-force (lb f) or newtons (N) required to imbed a .444″ (11.28 mm) diameter steel ball into the wood to half the ball's diameter.This number is given for wood that has been dried to … window.mc4wp = { Shortleaf (Southern Yellow) Pine (Pinus echinata) Southern yellow pine (shortleaf and Loblolly) has a rating of 690. Most pine species are not difficult or time consuming to dry properly. Some of the more common species are listed below. on: function (event, callback) { Janka Rating System When in doubt about the type of wood to select for your cabinetry, flooring, furniture or millwork project, refer to the Janka Rating System, which measures the relative hardness of woods. You might find this species in some very low-end furniture, but it is generally considered too soft to use for home furnishings and finishes. The Janka scale measures the resistance of a sample of wood to denting and wear and is typically expressed in lbf (pounds-force) or N (Newtons). White Cypress Pine (Callitris glauca). While it may be tempted to look for the species with the highest rating, it could be more trouble than it's worth – if it's even available. How does the test work? Trying to figure what what wood specie you want to use for a project? The grain is usually straight, sometimes irregular, and the texture is commonly medium and uneven. Janka Hardness: 770 As a flooring option, sycamore falls on the lower end of the Janka hardness scale. True pine has a Janka rating of 1570, Carribean heart pine is 1280, red pine is 1630, longleaf southern yellow pine is 870, both shortleaf and loblolly southern yellow pine are 690, white pine is 420, and eastern white pine ranks in at 380 to give a few specific numbers. If there is a species you would like to see listed that isn't in the list below, just post a comment and be sure to list the wood species name and Janka hardness number along with it (and country of origin, if possible.) }); Janka Hardness Ratings of Wood Species . During a Janka hardness test, a metal ball the size of a BB is pressed into the wood until its embedded halfway. Reclaimed Wood, because of its age, generally has a higher Janka rating than virgin wood of the same species. Heart Pine 1225 Carbonized Bamboo 1180 Teak 1000 The True Measure of Wood: Janka Hardwood Scale This scale is the worldwide standard for gauging the ability of various species of wood to endure normal wear and tear. Softwood comes from gymnosperm trees, like cedar, fir, and pine. A common measurement for wood hardness is the Janka scale. Scrub Pine (Pinus virginiana) It is a flooring industry standard for gauging the ability of various species to tolerate denting and normal wear, as well as being a good indication of the effort required to either nail or saw the particular wood. The red heartwood of the tree is sold as "Heart Pine." Heart Pine is sold in Clear and #2 Common grades also, although some manufacturers produce other grades. Both nails and glue hold well with pine flooring. A Janka rating of zero indicates that the wood is much too soft to be used in flooring or for any purpose that requires a durable lumber. } North America into Central America, as well as Northern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. To compare, white pine sits at the bottom of the Janka scale, with a rating of 380. Janka Scale Ratings The first thing to remember about the Janka Rating scale is the fact that not every wood is suitable for flooring. The Janka Scale can even reveal subtle hardness differences between woods that appear to be quite similar. Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) Pine (Carpinus betulus) White pine has a 420 lb-ft rating on the Janka scale. Southern longleaf pine has a rating of 870 lb-ft. Douglas fir comes in between the types of pine, with its own rating of 660 on the Janka scale. } Janka hardness testing. What is the Janka Scale? Now, this wood hardness scale is used in determining how hard a particular type of wood is. True pine has a Janka rating of 1570, Carribean heart pine is 1280, red pine is 1630, longleaf southern yellow pine is 870, both shortleaf and loblolly southern yellow pine are 690, white pine is 420, and eastern white pine ranks in at 380 to give a few specific numbers. Janka Wood Hardness Scale The Janka rating is a measure of the amount of force required to push a.444" diameter steel ball half way into a piece of wood. It is important to remember that the testing process used in the Janka scale is an impact test, not a test of scratching, scuffing, or any other wear and tear that flooring experiences. (function() { It also indicates the effort required to either nail or saw the particular wood species. All Rights Reserved. The easiest and most universally accepted way of determining the strength and durability of lumber is by evaluating its Janka scale rating. The Janka hardness test measures the resistance of a type of wood to withstand denting and wear. It is important to note that the durability of pine depends a great deal on the type of pi… However, there are plenty exceptions to that. Yellow Pine is at the bottom of the Janka scale. A measure of the hardness of wood, produced by a variation on the Brinell hardness test. We are not offering onsite sawing at this time! On average, the various species sand better than white oak but the softer varieties can sometimes marr under heavy traffic. The hardest commercially available hardwood is hickory, and it is five times harder than aspen, one of the "soft" hardwoods. The Janka Scale can even reveal subtle hardness differences between woods that appear to be quite similar. The Janka Hardness Scale is determined by a controlled test, performed to measure the force necessary to embed a .444 inch (11.28mm) steel ball to half its diameter in wood. How Dense/Hard is Poplar Wood? Below we've compiled the janka values of several of the most popular North American hardwoods used to make furniture in the United States and attempted to represent them visually. The scale measures the force required to embed a .444 inch steel ball to a depth of half the ball's diameter into the wood. Pine's many uses include flooring, lumber, plywood, poles, pulp, paper, Christmas trees, and pine straw. We at Carpet and Tile Mart don't sell anything with a Janka rating less than 1360. 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Living in Brisbane, Aaron had the opportunity to target a huge range of species over the years, from Bream to Marlin and everything in between. His love for Bream fishing led him into the tournament scene and he now owns a dedicated bream and bass tournament boat, a Champion with 250 Pro XS Mercury.
And he has a particular soft spot for surface fishing where the thrill of seeing a fish track his presentation, then smash it off the surface gets him revved up. On top of the fact it is the most exiting way to fish, he believes this style of fishing often gets the kicker fish in any comp. It doesn't get any better than that!!
At the top of the list, Bream is the species he targets most, and was the first fish caught as a child fishing with Sharpey Snr. In those days it was with bait off the beach, and occasionally in the boat but these days it's all about Bream on lures. Aaron believes bream can be incredibly smart and difficult to catch, which makes working out a pattern and catching great fish very satisfying. His PB bream of 46cm fork length was taken in Moreton Bay on a Megabass Dog X surface lure which explains his love for this form of fishing.
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The new economy of computation.
While sitting in a café, you decide to check your stock portfolio. Your request passes through the Internet to a stock quote server in New York. At the same time, someone next to you is watching live coverage of a Senate hearing, and a couple hundred brokers around the country are checking their portfolios using the same quote server in New York. You're competing with these other people for resources: Net bandwidth, the quote server's disk, and processing time. As the Net makes available more and more resources that must be shared by more and more people, allocating these resources equitably becomes difficult.
Resource management for one computer - even one shared by many users - is relatively easy: the computer's operating system keeps track of all the users and their programs and hands out the computer's resources in some manner it deems fair. But there isn't an operating system for the Internet to make sure all the users are happy (or at least equally unhappy). First of all, the machines are managed by different organizations: Citibank, for example, isn't about to let anyone manage its machines to help evenly distribute the network load. Also, there are some fundamental problems - exponential growth, the high overhead of collecting distributed information, and the impossibility of predicting resource usage - that doom a traditional, centralized approach.
An alternative is to decentralize the decisionmaking and information gathering. This is the approach taken by agoric systems. Agoric comes from agora, the Greek word for marketplace. The programs and computers in these systems become buyers and sellers of resources, much like a real-life marketplace. Buyers compete against one another for scarce resources and try to get the best price they can, while sellers attempt to maximize their profit.
The term agoric systems was first used in 1988 by Mark Miller and Eric Drexler in a paper they co-authored. Miller then went on to cofound Agorics Inc. (www.webcom.com /agorics/) in Los Altos, California. His company applies a market-based system to bandwidth allocation in a computer network. With most networking protocols such as Ethernet, a user watching Independence Day can hog the bandwidth and keep everyone's email from getting through, even though the mail is more valuable and should get through at the cost of dropping a frame or two of video, which would be undetectable. A centralized, systemwide solution to this problem would be like trying to manage all the traffic in Manhattan by sending a police car to each intersection every few minutes to report the situation back to headquarters. The extra traffic would quickly bring the system to its knees. Alternately, setting aside bandwidth for video and data would be like reserving a lane at all times for police traffic - wasteful, since if there's no data traffic, the video should use all the available bandwidth. The Agorics solution allows applications to compete for available bandwidth. Each network switch awards bandwidth to the application willing to pay the highest price - the one that needs it most.
A much more complex and ambitious agoric system is a distributed database management system called Mariposa (epoch.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/mariposa), being developed at UC Berkeley by Michael Stonebraker. Each Mariposa server has buyer and seller processes running on it. A buyer negotiates with a seller at another site to perform work on its behalf. To get prices for the stocks in his portfolio, a user in San Francisco would submit the appropriate query to a Mariposa server just as in a regular database system. But along with the query, the user sets a limit on the price and time the system can take to run the query - for instance, US$15 for an answer in 30 seconds, and nothing if it takes longer than five minutes. The query and other information is passed to a buyer process, which breaks the query into pieces and sends them to seller processors running at various sites. Each seller responds to the buyer's request with the price it will charge to perform the work and an estimate of the time it will take.
For example, the buyer may ask quote servers in New York and San Francisco to bid on reading the database file and picking out the entries in the user's portfolio. The buyer may ask other Mariposa sites to perform other work, such as sorting the entries. The computer in New York may charge $10 and send the answer back in 10 seconds, while the San Francisco site may charge only $5 but take 10 minutes. The buyer collects all the bids and then notifies the winning sellers to begin work. While this bidding process involves some communication overhead, in most cases it is vastly outweighed by the time it takes to perform the work.
In addition to buying and selling computing power and network bandwidth, a Mariposa server can purchase database tables or copies of tables from other sites. If a Mariposa server in Chicago noticed that a lot of local users were accessing stock prices, it could try to buy a copy of the entire stock table from New York or San Francisco. The Chicago site would have to pay for the table as well as for updates when stock prices changed.
Unlike many of today's agoric systems, Mariposa doesn't distinguish between buyers and sellers. For example, a seller that has been asked to submit a bid for some work can subcontract all or part of that work to another site, making the seller a buyer as well. In one experiment, Mariposa researchers simulated a corporation with offices around the world. As the business day began at each office, Mariposa buyers compared how much they were paying remote sellers with how much it would cost to buy the necessary data. As a result, heavily used tables moved from office to office with the rising and setting of the sun, and overall system performance improved.
Agoric systems are not the answer to all the world's distributed computing needs. Just as in a capitalist economy, where not every worker is an independent contractor, computing also has a need for cooperation and centralized organization. But the agoric approach is likely to become important for wide-area distributed systems with many thousands of machines, such as the Internet.
Jeff Sidell (jps@postgres .berkeley.edu) is a graduate student at UC Berkeley.


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20 Jokes For Writers Who Need a Break From Writing
Take a break and laugh at jokes about bad grammar and a writer's life.
Photo by Marcela Rogante on Unsplash
Writing is hard sometimes — okay, a lot of the time.
So, if you need a break from the story you've been writing for an hour, here are some writer jokes that'll give you a good laugh. (Or at least a good chuckle.)
A screenwriter comes home to a burned down house. His sobbing and slightly-singed wife is standing outside. "What happened, honey?" the man asks.
"Oh, John, it was terrible," she weeps. "I was cooking, the phone rang. It was your agent. Because I was on the phone, I didn't notice the stove was on fire. It went up in second. Everything is gone. I nearly didn't make it out of the house. Poor Fluffy is — "
"Wait, wait. Back up a minute," The man says. "My agent called?"
From Jokes About Writers
A visitor to a certain college paused to admire the new Hemingway Hall that had been built on campus.
"It's a pleasure to see a building named for Ernest Hemingway," he said.
"Actually," said his guide, "it's named for Joshua Hemingway. No relation."
The visitor was astonished. "Was Joshua Hemingway a writer, also?"
"Yes, indeed," said his guide. "He wrote a check."
Three guys are sitting at a bar.
#1: "…Yeah, I make $75,000 a year after taxes."
#2: "What do you do for a living?"
#1: "I'm a stockbroker. How much do you make?
#2: "I should clear $60,000 this year."
#1: "What do you do?"
#2: "I'm an architect."
The third guy has been sitting there quietly, staring into his beer, when the others turn to him.
#2: "Hey, how much do you make per year?"
#3: "I guess about $13,000."
#1: "Oh yeah? What kind of stories do you write?"
From Absolute Write
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
From Letter Pile
A screenwriter receives a parrot for his birthday. The bird is fully grown, with a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every other word out of his beak is an expletive.
The writer tries hard to change the parrot's behavior: he says polite words, plays soft music, anything he can think up, to set a good example. Nothing works.
He yells at the bird, and the bird yells back. He shakes the bird, but the bird just becomes more angry and rude. Finally, in a moment of desperation, he puts the parrot in the freezer. For a few moments, he hears the bird squawk, swear, and scream.
Suddenly, there's a deathly quiet. The guy's frightened, thinking he might have injured the bird, so he quickly opens the freezer door. The parrot calmly steps out onto the writer's extended arm, and says, "I believe I've offended you with my rude language and behavior. I will endeavor at once to correct this problem. I am truly sorry, and beg your forgiveness."
The writer is astonished at the bird's dramatic change in attitude, but before he can say anything, the parrot continues, "Might I ask what the chicken did?"
What do you get when you cross a writer with a deadline?
A really clean house.
From Brevity's Nonfiction Blog
Relatively Interesting
Why did the writer cross the road?
She was supposed to be revising an essay, so she crossed the road to run some errands, and go for a quick walk, and maybe buy a new toaster.
How many Buzzfeed writers does it take to start an electric chair?
13, but #9 will shock you!
From Upjoke
What's it like to be an aspiring writer?
It's difficult to put into words.
If Moses were alive today he'd come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and spend the next five years trying to get them published.
From Writing and Wellness
Did you hear the one about the pregnant woman who went into labor and began to yell, "Couldn't! Wouldn't! Shouldn't! Didn't! Can't!"?
She was having contractions.
Me, thinking about my plot: I'm a literary genius
Me, trying to write: I'd sell my soul for a full sentence
From Buzzfeed
A novelist went to a psychiatrist and said anxiously, "Doc, I keep having the same dream, over and over. I wake up and I know the dream is a great idea for a best-selling novel, then I go back to sleep and, when I wake up the next morning, I can't remember the plot! It's driving me crazy!"
"When you go to bed at night," the psychiatrist suggested, "leave a notepad and pencil on the bedside table. When you awake from the dream, with the memory of it fresh in your mind, write it down."
That night, the writer placed a pad and pencil next to his bed. As usual, he had the dream again and woke up more convinced than ever that it was a terrific idea for a book. He snatched up the pencil, jotted a brief note, then, relieved, turned over and went back to sleep.
When the novelist awoke in the morning, he couldn't remember a single thing about the dream, but he knew he'd followed the psychiatrist's sage advice. Excited, he grabbed the notepad and read his note to himself:
From Writer's Relief
Lying in bed: *constructs perfect plot*
Standing in shower: *constructs perfect characters*
While driving: *constructs perfect setting*
Staring at blank page: "wut r werds."
Me, writing my book: Wow this is great! I can't wait to read it over!
My book when I read over it: she frowned a bit, he smiled a bit, they stepped back a bit, I winced a bit, she laUGHED A BIT, WE FLINCHED A BIT, I SNORTED A BIT, HE HESITATED A BIT, WE WALKED A BIT, I READ FOR A BIT, THEY SHIFTED A BIT, I
Me, editing: what the fuck was I thinking
Inky Girl
Q: How many editors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: You've already screwed in too many light bulbs. Repetition!
Q: How many writers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: But why do we have to CHANGE it?
Q: How many reviewers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but first they have to tell you why they didn't like how you did it.
Q: How many authors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one but you also need an editor, proofreader, cover artist, and an agent to be there at the same time.
From The Steve Laube Agency
I hope you enjoyed these jokes. Now, get back to writing!
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Here's One Easy Way to Write Your Best Novel
Brian Rowe in Read. Watch. Write. Repeat.
The Most Important Part of Writing Is Staying Motivated
Tim Denning in Better Marketing
To Use or Not to Use a Pen Name
Nika Nikolic in The Partnered Pen
Habits to Build as a Fiction Writer
Laura Winter in Author Bound
Grammar Cheat Sheet for Clean, Clear, and Compelling Writing
Ali Mese in The Startup
Writer's Block Doesn't Exist — You're Procrastinating
Mieke van der Merwe in Better Marketing
The Voices of Memoir: Past You and Narrative You
Amber Helt


Detecting attacks on network environments has become an unfortunate necessity of modern IT.
Agile business models are pretty much a necessity in today's enterprise world and IT security is certainly no different.
Has SMB Cloud Adoption Reached a Tipping Point?


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GetResponse Disadvantages 2021
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Tapestry that hung in Hitler's retreat spent decades in US; now it returns to Germany
News // Nation & World
This Nov. 7, 2016, image from video provided by HISTORY Canada & More4 shows a 16th century tapestry at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans that had been in Adolf Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Looking at the tapestry are Dr. Nick Mueller, top left, and Toni Kiser, right, both from the museum, Cathy Hinz, bottom left, the daughter of Lt. Col. Paul Danahy, the American officer who took the tapestry from Hitler's Eagle's Nest in 1945, and Robert Edsel, presenter of the television documentary series "Hunting Nazi Treasure." On Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, the tapestry, purchased for Hitler's Eagle's Nest a year before the war began from an art gallery in Munich owned by a Jewish family, will be formally returned to Germany in a ceremony.HISTORY Canada & More4 via AP
DALLAS >> Growing up, Cathy Hinz and her five siblings would run up and down the stairs at their Minneapolis home, one hand on the banister, the other skimming a memento hanging on the wall that their father had brought back after fighting in World War II: a 16th century tapestry that once graced Adolf Hitler's retreat perched high in the Bavarian Alps.
On Friday, that tapestry, purchased for Hitler's Eagle's Nest the year before the war began from a Munich art gallery owned by a Jewish family, will be formally returned in a ceremony in Germany. It will eventually be displayed at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.
"The tapestry has been on a journey, and now it's going home," Hinz said.
The tapestry's trip back to Germany began when Hinz gave it to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Enough was known about its past that Gordon "Nick" Mueller, president and CEO of the museum, and Robert Edsel, a board member and founder of the Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, knew it needed to be returned to its rightful owner.
So Edsel began untangling the mystery.
Hinz's father, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Paul Danahy, often told the story of taking the tapestry after being struck by the historical significance of the moment after his 101st Airborne Division made it to the Eagle's Nest above Berchtesgaden and began interrogating German officers. Danahy, who served in the war as an intelligence officer, died in 1986 at the age of 71, and the tapestry eventually landed on the wall of Hinz's dining room.
Seeing carefully preserved tapestries on a trip to Italy in 2000 gave Hinz pause about continuing to keep the 7-foot-by-7-foot tapestry depicting a courtly hunting scene. She knew it was time to let go of it, she just wasn't sure how.
Edsel said the key was determining whether the September 1938 sale of the tapestry would have been considered forced. His foundation endeavors not only to honor but also continue the work of the Monuments Men, a group of art experts from more than a dozen countries who worked with Allied forces to protect cultural treasures during the war, and afterward to return works stolen by the Nazis.
Thomas R. Kline, a Washington D.C.-based attorney who specializes in art restitution, said multiple factors can go into determining if a sale was forced. For instance, some gallery owners decided to sell collections for fear the Nazis would confiscate them anyway.
It was the family of Konrad Bernheimer, a present-day Munich art dealer, who owned the gallery that sold the tapestry.
"My first reaction was, if you have the invoice then let's have a look at how much they paid," Bernheimer said. "There are two possibilities: Either it was sold below the actual value — then it would indicate that this was a false sale. Or it was sold at the full price — then I would not be able to say it's a false sale."
Bernheimer said he didn't consider it a false sale because the full price — about $10,000 U.S. dollars at the time — was paid. "Not everything that was sold between 1933 and 1945 could be considered a false sale," he said.
Bernheimer said that up until the Nazis' attacks on Jewish synagogues, businesses, schools and homes on Kristallnacht in November 1938, his family was convinced they were safe. After that, family members were taken to a concentration camp, and the Nazis took over their gallery. They were eventually able to rebuild the business after the war.
So with Bernheimer not laying claim to it, the tapestry goes to the Bavarian State, the heir to items once belonging to Hitler. Bavarian National Museum official Alfred Grimm said the tapestry will be restored, studied and then displayed at the museum.
Edsel said the return is a reminder to family members of World War II soldiers to be aware of what items might be found in their homes.
"They're going to inherit these things, and so this is going to be a good chance for us if we can make sure people are aware of the foundation to come forward without feeling any sense of concern about getting in trouble — that's not what we're about," he said.
Edsel founded his group in 2007 and has written several books on the efforts to save art during WWII, including "The Monuments Men," on which the 2014 George Clooney movie of the same name was based. Last fall he announced his foundation would likely be closing due to a lack of funds, but it was reinvigorated after a donation and the offer to participate in a television show called "Hunting Nazi Treasure" that will air next year.
Hinz, who is traveling to Munich for the return ceremony, said she's been a bit nostalgic about seeing the tapestry go so far away, but says it feels right.
"My thought was, you know, it never was ours to begin with. It's something that came into our lives as a result of a moment in history, but the tapestry itself is so much more than our history with it," she said.
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How LAPD's law-and-order chief revolutionized the way cops treated illegal immigration
By Doug Smith
Feb. 5, 2017 3 AM PT
Longtime Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates built a reputation with aggressive policing programs that may have made the city safer but also cast a shadow of repression over its citizens, especially blacks and Latinos.
But in 1979, responding to the wave of illegal immigration, it was Gates who issued the policy that has since defined a tolerant posture toward the immigrant community — a policy employed by the LAPD and scores of other law enforcement agencies across the nation.
Special Order 40 prohibited officers from initiating contact with anyone for the sole purpose of learning their immigration status and ruled out arrests for violation of U.S. immigration law.
Its purpose was to build trust so that fear of deportation would not dissuade immigrants who were crime victims or witnesses from cooperating with police.
The policy has faced repeated attacks both from factions within the LAPD as well as anti-immigration activists who have challenged it on constitutional and practical grounds, saying it gives a free pass to criminals in the country illegally.
It now is facing renewed scrutiny as President Trump pushes a new crackdown on illegal immigration. While details are not fully developed, Trump has said he wants local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and has threatened to cut off federal funding to those who don't.
Like a long line of Los Angeles leaders before them, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck have stood up for Special Order 40, even as it faces a potential threat under the new president's executive order issued Jan. 25.
Special Order 40's survival for nearly 40 years is based on Gates' conception of the rule as a policing tool, not an immigration policy.
A law-and-order police chief crafting a policy that protects immigrants lacking proper papers may seem ironic, but to some who knew Gates, it isn't so simple.
Attorney and longtime LAPD critic Connie Rice, who deposed Gates three times in lawsuits dealing with police misconduct, said he was not the racist he was portrayed to be.
"There was always a kind of duality to Gates that wasn't that visible because the bad stuff was screaming loud and the good stuff was under the table," Rice said. "What's fascinating to me, given that some chiefs were far more racist, is that Gates in LAPD culture was considered progressive on racial issues."
Rice said Gates has been viewed as racially hostile because "he didn't stop the racism within LAPD culture, even if he himself didn't subscribe to those views."
Joseph Wambaugh, the author of best-selling books on LAPD culture, suggested that any contradiction was in Gates himself.
"Chief Gates was into the quasi-military, hard-ass approach in dealing with street crime," Wambaugh, a former LAPD officer, wrote in an email. "But I never sensed any negative feelings from him about the undocumented or Latinos in general."
Wambaugh said many Latino men and women rose to important roles under Gates.
Gates retired in 1992 under fire for his failure to prepare for the riots that followed acquittals in the police beating of Rodney King. He continued to speak out in support of Special Order 40, the last time in a speech before the City Council two years before his death in 2010.
Some of his heavy-handed initiatives faded away in disrepute. Among them were the Public Disorder Intelligence Division, or PDID, which was disbanded after the city settled a lawsuit alleging that it unlawfully infiltrated and harassed progressive groups.
Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums — the CRASH program — survived through the 1990s, when it became a rap music motif for police oppression in the black community.
Defenders of Special Order 40 say it served multiple policing goals.
Bayan Lewis, an LAPD veteran who was briefly interim chief in the 1990s, said one of those goals was to stop officers from padding their statistics with arrests that had nothing to do with crime.
"If you were short on misdemeanors, you'd just book someone on illegal entry," Lewis said. "The jail would call the feds. The feds would come or not come. Most of the time they did not, because they were shorthanded."
Lewis said the long-standing benefit of Special Order 40 has been "that people who talk to us know we don't care if they are documented or undocumented. We're not doing federal work anymore."
But the policy became a target with the continued growth of the immigrant population and the eruption of anti-immigrant sentiment after the 1992 riots.
Critics contend that local police have a constitutional duty to enforce immigration laws and help federal authorities identify and deport those who are in the country without legal status.
"The LAPD is under no obligation to go out and do ICE's job," said Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "But at the very least they should offer the same level of cooperation they offer other police agencies."
Although a vibrant dissent continues on several websites seeking tougher enforcement of immigration laws, the courts have given those arguments no traction.
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking an order to prevent the LAPD from enforcing the policy.
"It violates the state and federal law by prohibiting the maximum amount of cooperation between the Police Department and immigration authorities in enforcing immigration laws," said Candice E. Jackson, an attorney for the group.
An appeals court in 2009 upheld a lower court's decision to throw out the lawsuit.
A Times series on the brutal rise of the 18th Street gang led to another public debate over Special Order 40 in the late 1990s. One article cited a confidential California Department of Justice report saying that as many as 60% of the estimated 20,000 18th Streeters were in the country illegally.
Then-LAPD gang czar John D. White, a deputy chief, told the City Council's Public Safety Committee that because witnesses and victims of gang violence are often intimidated into silence, being able to work with the Immigration and Naturalization Service more closely would allow the LAPD another means of getting gang members off the streets — by deporting them under federal law.
Six months later, White backtracked, saying a department review concluded that the rule was not hindering anti-gang operations. "Throwing every illegal out of the country is not going to solve those problems," White said.
The most visceral challenge to Special Order 40 followed the fatal shooting in 2008 of Jamiel Shaw II, a 17-year-old African American high school football player, by a gang member who was in the country illegally.
The youth's parents, Jamiel Shaw Sr. and Anita Shaw, an Army sergeant who had served in Iraq, asked the City Council to change the policy so officers would routinely check the immigration status of known gang members who are crime suspects. They said it would make it easier to immediately deport them.
Their cause got some support from the black community, including commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who wrote, "Amending, or even repealing, Special Order 40 won't bring Shaw's son back. Yet something must be done to patch the holes that allow violent criminals who are here illegally to fall through the cracks."
Police factions opposed to the order were given public voice by then-Councilman Dennis Zine, a former LAPD officer. He proposed that officers be required to check the immigration status of any gang member they suspect of being in the country without authorization, even if the person had not been arrested.
A rousing public debate followed in which The Times published brief comments by 40 prominent citizens. Most, including Gates, Rice and Wambaugh, argued for the status quo.
"There will be no integrity to our criminal justice system without it," Rice wrote. "African Americans cannot be advocating racial profiling, which is what ending Special Order 40 would amount to."
The council once again reaffirmed the policy.
But the Shaw case later became a rallying cry for Trump and his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump actually used the case in a political advertisement last year.
Jamiel Shaw Sr. appeared at several early Trump rallies. Trump gave Shaw a prime speaking spot during the Republican National Convention.
"Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime," he said during the speech. "It needs to be dealt with. We need to secure the border, you know, we need to make America safe. We need to be able to live without being shot dead in the street."
After November's election, Garcetti and Beck reiterated their support for Special Order 40.
doug.smith@latimes.com
Twitter: @LATDoug
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...we did Perry's first birthday taco smash on Monday, and my sister Andrea took the cutest pictures of her devouring them.
...she looked super cute when I dropped her off at school on Tuesday. Those knee high socks get me every time.
...it was so crazy windy when we got home, so the girls tried flying their kites that the Easter Bunny brought them. It might have been a little too windy.
...Perry and I snuggled before calling it a night.
...Daddy snapped a picture of us sleeping before he left for work the next morning.
...Miss Dawn sent me this picture of Perry with bananas everywhere. She always says Perry likes to turn her food into a science experiment.
...she played in the bath tub with her favorite new bath toys.
...we organized her shoes, because girlfriend's stash is getting out of control. Luckily, she's right in between sizes, so we're getting use out of her fall moccs and her new spring/summer moccasins.
...Charley likes to take pictures of Perry with my phone while I'm getting ready in the morning.
...we played outside with the neighbors, and Perry was too cool for school.
...although she's taken some steps here and there, the walking really clicked this week. Perry just came home from school on Monday and was walking around the house like she'd been doing it forever. When we were outside, she walked around like a total pro.
...the kids had fun playing with kinetic sand and making the street and walls pretty with chalk.
...I tried getting Perry to do her silly fake laugh for Shelly, but she was so exhausted. It's hard for this girl to stay up when it gets past 6:00.
...I gave her a bath, and she played with the baby in the drain. She's so silly!
...she slept soundly in her DockATot after her bath.
...Saturday morning, Isaac washed her up in the sink after breakfast. Her hair was wet, so he made it into a mohawk, and she was being super silly.
...Grace and I dropped Toodles off at the vet to get groomed and shaved for the summer.
...we spent the morning watching the girls play soccer, while Perry played with her babydoll.
...everyone napped when we got home, because we had more plans that afternoon.
...we headed over to Amy's house to celebrate Darrin and Amanda's new addition with a baby shower. It was so great to see some old friends. We love these guys and their family so much. The girls had fun playing with the other kids, as well.
...Sunday morning, we headed to the District for breakfast. Since we got there before Rachel's Kitchen opened, the girls ran around the splash pad to pass the time. When we finally sat down, Perry insisted on holding her own apple juice.
...next up was our usual Sunday errands. We stopped by Target, which was fully decked out in Mario Kart decor, and Sprouts to get groceries for the following week.
...after we made it home, we spent the rest of our Sunday being lazy and lounging around the house.
That's all for now! See ya next week :)
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