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Japan Reconnaissance - Wrap Up
Posted on May 25 2011
This will be my last post for this reconnaissance trip. I had a smooth return trip – all flights on time! On my last day in Tokyo, I met with Professor Tsuji of the University of Tokyo. Tsuji-sensei is well-known in tsunami science – having participated in or lead post-tsunami field investigations all over the world. His keen eye, breadth of background, and infectious humor have helped to create the International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST) format that we use today. He is also known for having found the highest inundation in the 1993 Okushiri tsunami (over 90 feet), and the second highest point in the current tsunami (over 120 feet). He is a very busy man, the phone constantly ringing with inquiries from the media, government officials, and other scientists. I was lucky to have an hour appointment. He's seen much more of the inundation area than I have. I was particularly interested in the story of the town of Taro in Iwate Prefecture. Taro was famous for the Japanese "Great Wall of China " a towering 33-foot edifice that was completed in 1958 to protect the town from tsunamis. When new development began outside the limits of the older walls, a new was extended in the 1990s to cover this area also. Unfortunately, the construction company who built the new wall failed to put in steel or other reinforcement to hold sections of the wall together and the tsunami toppled them as easily as child's blocks. The tsunami was high enough to overtop the old walls as well, but they didn't topple and the level of damage in the older area was a little less. The standing walls did reduce the amount of flooding and gave residents an extra few minutes to get to higher ground. More on Taro Here.
I asked him about how Japan should be approaching tsunami hazard mitigation issues in the future. He suggested a two-tier approach. Tsunamis are much more frequent in Japan than on the West Coast of the United States. Major tsunamis occurred in 1896, 1933 and 1960. Sea walls and engineered tsunami abatement structures should still be the primary line of defense for these relatively common tsunamis. But there needs to be a second tier – a life safety plan to protect people from much larger tsunamis such as the March 11 event. This is what needs to worked on and applied to other tsunami prone areas as well as the NE coast of Honshu.
I'm still sorting through my notes and photographs to summarize our findings from the trip. I took more than 1200 photos and Megumi has a similar number. A small sampling is posted Here.
We conducted more than 30 detailed interviews. I am also pouring through the reports from other scientific teams and the flood of government and other reports that have been released. Here are my preliminary thoughts on the themes that are emerging. My disclaimer is that "preliminary" is the operative word here. Additional information may change some of these findings.
The most important lesson is that underestimating the hazard has tragic consequences.
Japan spends more of their GDP on earthquake and tsunami hazard mitigation than any other country in the world. This includes more instruments, more tsunami scientists and engineers, more numerical modeling, and more engineering works. These mitigation efforts were built on an assessment of the size of the likely maximum earthquake and maximum tsunami that turned out to be wrong. The majority of sea walls in the affected area (like those in Taro) built to restrain the tsunami and many of the designated vertical evacuation places were overtopped or failed in the event. Because it was expected that the mitigation efforts would be effective, there was no catastrophic response plan in place. This affected the ability to effectively respond, to coordinate both national and international offers of assistance, and prolonged the amount of time some people were on their own in isolated evacuation places.
There had been a few studies by geologists that suggested a much greater hazard than had been adopted in planning efforts and it is easy now to point back at those studies and say they should have been used. Hazard assessment is a difficult process, the historic record (even in Japan) is short and interpreting paleoseismic data is not always straightforward. Megathrust earthquakes (earthquakes with magnitudes of 8.5 and greater) are particularly tricky because they are so rare. Sixteen magnitude 8.5 or larger earthquakes have been recorded on seismographs (post 1900), and only five of these were magnitude 9 or larger. Both 9+ earthquakes that have occurred since modern broadband instruments have been in existence have changed the conventional wisdom. The 2004 Andaman Sumatra earthquake changed our ideas about the relationship among earthquake size, age of crustal material, and convergence rate, and the Japan earthquake is challenging the accepted scientific ideas about the relationship among magnitude, fault area, and slip.
I have been privileged to work with and learn from many of Japan's earthquake/tsunami professionals for years and as a group they are an extremely hard working and conscientious and this earthquake showed that much of their effort was successful. On first look, it appears that the built environment performed very well even when subjected to some of the strongest ground shaking levels ever recorded. The early warning system that analyzes an earthquake during the initial seconds of the rupture appears to have worked in shutting down trains and other facilities before the strongest shaking. While power went out at 2:46 PM when the earthquake struck, sirens, cell phones and radios continued to work in all of the areas we visited. In Chile, after the February 2010 M 8.8 earthquake, only one radio station continued to work in the Bio Bio region and cell phone coverage was down. In recent much smaller California earthquakes (2008 M 5.5 Chino Hills, 2010 M 7.2 Baja) both cell and landline telephone communications were jammed by overuse. But all of the successes in reducing earthquake impacts are overwhelmed by the enormity of the tsunami losses.
What I am taking away from Japan is the importance of allowing for uncertainty in hazard estimation and making sure we are conservative when it comes to life-safety decisions. We'll be taking a long second look at what we have been doing in California – and I know that other folks working in the Cascadia region will be doing the same.
Here's a quick take on other lessons (in no priority order)
• People not aware of risk. Few of the people we talked to thought they were at risk where they lived or worked. We don't know the reasons for this – whether they believed the sea walls would protect them, or education efforts weren't effective, or there were other reasons. I hope other groups study this issue in more detail.
• Vulnerability was a function of the unique geography of a location and the characteristics of the tsunami (height, flow velocities, duration, and arrival time). The situation on the broad coastal plain near Sendai was very different than the population centers like Minami Sanriku and Kesennuma that were built on alluvial flood planes and valleys near the mouths of large rivers. At East Matsushima, the situation was complicated by exposure from the ocean, a large river, a canal, and Matsushima Bay.
• Elderly appear to have been more vulnerable.
• Evacuation issues
People relied on cars
Planning centered on vertical evacuation in designated structures, rather than getting to high ground outside of the hazard area.
The earthquake often triggered behavior – but not to evacuate to a safe area. A number of people who were in safe areas, drove back to into hazardous areas after feeling the earthquake. Most often the reason was to check on/rescue loved ones at home, but in some cases it was to retrieve property.
• Response/Recovery
Evacuation places were unprepared to hold people for days in winter conditions
Enormous shelter needs and inadequate shelter facilities – frustration of people in shelters with lack of privacy, bathing facilities, and lack of information about what is happening in their home towns.
Enormous temporary housing needs
Long duration loss of utilities and services in the affected area requiring resources – such as an army of traffic control officers at major intersections now without traffic signals
Coordinating volunteers
Relentless reminders of the event Aftershocks News/media coverage – daily revised body/missing counts, radiation levels
Reconstruction debates – how to rebuild and mitigate hazards from future tsunamis
• Loss of confidence in technical community
• The patience and perseverance and kindness of the people affected – lack of looting, cooperation, and general willingness to talk to us!
Japan Reconnaissance - Day -10
Posted on May 09 2011
May 9, 2011
We start out today with a short meeting with members of the International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST). This group is focused on tsunami deposits and tsunami geology. The challenge has been to find good transects that have been undisturbed by cleanup activity. We also meet with Masahiro Yamamoto, the Senior Advisor to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. I'm currently on the advisory team that Masahiro heads to revise the ITST post event survey guide. The first ITST guide was completed in 1998 and focused primarily and getting water height measurements. A lot has changed in the tsunami field since 1998 – technology and tools, scope, and involvement of many more disciplines. The revisions was supposed to be completed and ready for review by the end of March – one more thing the Japan tsunami postponed.
Then it's back to Tokyo on the Shinkansen. It's a clear day and everything looks normal from the window of the train. We discuss report strategies and next steps. One of the biggest challenges I have found in post event reconnaissance is distilling the information and getting reports written in a timely way. As soon as I returned, I'll be inundated by all the work that has piled up over the past ten days, plus the items that were overdue before I left. I want to get a draft report done today while everything is still fresh in my mind and I still understand what my field notes refer to.
Japan Reconnaissance - Day -9
Posted on May 09 2011
May 8, 2011
A 5.7 to start the day and a 4.6 to go to bed by. They get one's attention and are a frequent reminder that this event isn't over yet. A few final tasks today in Iwate Prefecture before heading back to Sendai. We needed to track down the location of the shelters for people from Kessenuma and Minami Sanriku so we could get a comparison to the stories and experiences of the Sendai area. We are lucky today. It's Sunday and we were concerned that city offices would be closed. But the man who ran the shelter last night was just clocking out to go home and is willing to guide us to the Ichinoseki temporary housing. After a long day and night's work, this was really going out of his way for us. No matter what country I've been in, I'm always impressed and gratified by the kindness of strangers – especially the closer one gets to the disaster area. I've had some unpleasant hurdles set by a few bureaucrats far from the scene, but very few doors shut in my face in the midst of the destruction.
The Ichinoseki temporary housing facility makes use of partially occupied four-story public apartment buildings. We don't feel comfortable knocking on doors so wait in the parking area hoping to intercept someone willing to talk to us as they enter or leave. It's not a statistically accurate sampling technique, but at this point we are trying to be as unobtrusive as possible and still get an idea of the principal issues. We talk to two older men who were both outside of the inundation area when the earthquake struck and both headed back into the zone on feeling the earthquake. The first was from Kessenuma. He was at work away from the coast, and the earthquake was the trigger for him to get in his car and drive to his home. His wife was there and had mobility issues. He knew his house was at risk – it was in a low area near the river and frequently flooded. But he was stopped by the first tsunami surges before he was able to get home and he was able to turn around and drive to a safe area. Fortunately another relative had picked up his wife so they both survived. He spent 40 days in an evacuation shelter before moving into the temporary housing. Every day he goes back to Kessenuma to get information about the cleanup and recovery efforts because he gets no information where he now lives. The second man was from Minami Sanriku and he was working in his fields far from the coast when the earthquake struck. He had a different reason for wanting to go back to his house. He wanted to get his wallet and other personal belongings. His wife and daughter begged him not to go, but he went anyway. He was also stopped by the first tsunami surges before he arrived, and by driving very fast, was able to escape. We have heard this story now too many times – the earthquake was a trigger. Not the trigger to head to higher ground, but to go from a safe area and drive back into a hazard zone to get a loved one or to rescue possessions. We've only talked to the ones who escaped. My guess is that many of the victims did the same thing – they just weren't as lucky.
On the drive back to Sendai, we pass close to Hiraizumi, and a good excuse to visit Chuson-ji, a famous Buddhist temple founded around 1100 by the Fujiwara clan. The first Fujiwara lord lost most of his family in the vicious civil wars of the era and established the temple to foster peace and reconciliation. It is a beautiful site – tall trees, a complex of beautifully restored temples and an opportunity to decompress and reflect on what we are learning. The site is one of two in Japan currently under consideration for World Heritage designation by UNESCO.
Japan Reconnaissance - Day -8
Posted on May 07 2011
May 7, 2011
How does one describe scenes of devastation day after day in a way that is not numbing? Today was Kessenuma near the northern edge of Miyagi Prefecture and Rikuzen-Takata in southern Iwate. Both of these cities were hit very hard with water heights over 5 stories high. As one approaches Kessenuma from inland, it looks very normal. The higher land in the outskirts is filled with shops and cars and people going about their business. The steady stream of military vehicles going in and out is an indication that things are not normal. The western end of the port area wasn't so badly hit – although boats keep appearing in odd places and many of them are partially blackened by fires. As we head east, the situation quickly deteriorates and the alien landscape of debris, bombed out shells of buildings, and really bad smells come over us. Driving is a challenge. The roadways were the first things to be cleared in the response and they have done a remarkably good job. But the combination of differential settling and subsidence, loss of pavement, piles of debris on either side of the roadways and large vehicles coming the opposite way make it a nail biting experience. And sometimes the road just ends – requiring a long backtrack to get back to firm footing. Megumi has been doing all the driving – thank goodness – and she has done an admirable job. Kessenuma is a major port and the impact to port structures will have economic reverberations for some time. The sunken boats created an oily sheen on the water. This area was knows for fisheries – one fisherman told us he thought it would be ten years before the area returned to normal.
Rikuzen-Takata is the southernmost city in Iwate Prefecture. It sits on a flat plane at end of an elongate bay that appeared to funnel the tsunami three to four miles inland up narrowing river valleys. It made me think of Orick and the mouth of Redwood Creek with about 23,000 more people. The sea walls were obliterated. Wood frame buildings were obliterated. Steel frame buildings were obliterated. The only structures left standing were reinforced concrete, and if you were lucky enough to be in one of those, you needed to be on the fifth floor or higher to survive.
The big question now in cities like Kessenuma and Rikuzen-Takata is how to rebuild. It's clear from Japanese television that there is pressure from some experts to rebuild the sea walls – just higher and larger. There will certainly be discussions about zoning and land-use planning. There is no easy answer – land is at a premium in Japan and figuring out how to co-exist with the tsunami hazard will be difficult.
Japan Reconnaissance - Day -7
Posted on May 06 2011
May 6, 2011
Disclaimer and Acknowledgements – I should have mentioned this earlier, but better late than never. All the comments in this blog are preliminary and the opinions my own. The purpose of reconnaissance trips is to get a quick overview of the issues in an event and the process begins with small slices of what happened based on what we see, read, and who we talk to. Gradually a picture emerges that (I hope) comes close to the truth. But some of the early hypotheses may turn out to be in error or downright wrong. Numerous Japanese researchers are working on many aspects of the event and other international teams are hear or will be headed to Japan soon. We share our ideas, debate issues, publish results and by a year from now, I expect there will be pretty clear consensus on the most important lessons from this event. But right now, data is still being gathered, and the situation is still fluid. It's one of the aspects of reconnaissance efforts that I find most stimulating – the scientific process in action and in overdrive. Much of the information I'm passing on here has been gathered by others – in particular, casualty statistics ( National Police Agency), water heights (numerous teams, data compiled by IOC/UNESCO).
A 5.1 aftershock gave us a little rattle around 3:30 AM. Hard to get back to sleep afterwards.
So far we've spent most of our time on the broad, flat coastal plain south of Sendai. The tsunami water heights in this area were very large – over 30 feet in some places. This was a big tsunami – the damages impressive and the losses significant. But most concrete buildings in this area appeared to have survived – especially the structures designated as evacuation places. Many of the people we talked to in the shelters had weathered the tsunami in these buildings. Today we headed further north – first to Ishinomaki and then to Minami Sanriku where the waves were higher and the damage more severe.
Ishinomaki, is a port a city of over 160,000 people. Some areas were hit by surges reaching more than 45 feet high. Much of the city was exposed to the tsunami over 5600 died or went missing, the highest overall total of any city in the tsunami area. The reason is most likely exposure – Ishinomaki simply had more people in the area that was flooded. We started in the port area where cleanup had removed almost all traces of major damage in the harbor. Another reminder that reconnaissance teams really need to visit areas early if they are interested in water heights and structural damage. The other side of the city was in much worse shape, but the rate at which debris is being removed is still remarkable. This occurs at both a large and small scale – with massive machines and an army of individual volunteers. It occurred to me as we were walking over piles of discarded tatami mats that this is one industry that should benefit from the tsunami. Perhaps yes – but the benefit is most likely going to be in China as Megumi told me that almost all of Japan's tatami is now produced overseas.
Last stop of the day was Minami Sanriku, a city noted for its tsunami preparedness efforts including sea walls, tsunami gates to cut off surges at the river mouth, designated evacuation buildings, and a well-exercised disaster prevention organization. The harbor area features a series of commemorative plaques and markers for the past tsunamis to hit the area – 1896 Meiji, 1933 Showa, 1960 Chile. One brightly painted marker clearly shows the 2.6 meter (8 feet) height of the 1960 tsunami. The preparedness efforts would have all worked fine had the tsunami been similar to what happened in those previous events and what the community had planned for. But 2011 easily overtopped and broke the sea walls, and reached fourth floor elevations in much of the city. A particularly tragic story played out at the City's Disaster Prevention Center, and a designated evacuation place. Keri Luna, a city official kept at the microphone announcing to the public that a tsunami was coming. Until she was finally overwhelmed. Of the thirty people on the fourth floor of the building, only 10 survived. Her body was found only a few days ago. Perhaps the saddest part of the story is that the building is only a five minutes walk from high ground and if everyone had headed to the hill instead of the building, they all would have survived.
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Vengeance, Sweet Vengeance
A lone, dark figure stands on a balcony, watching the final moments of the setting sun. It was unacceptable. She made me look weak. Like nothing. I am not nothing. I will never be nothing. That creature was going to pay for making me look like a fool. No one had ever done that to me before. And no one ever would again. Especially not her. I could taste vengeance in the air, and it was sweet. Bella and Edward have lived a blissful life with their family following their encounter with the Volturi one year ago... until sweet vengeance comes to threaten their happily ever after once again. banner by Oh_ Mike How will I go on rated teen for violence and sexual references.CHAPTER 12 is now up!!!CHAPTER 13 has been submitted and is awaiting validation!!!CHAPTERS 14-24 are ready to go!!!
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1. Chapter 1- Bliss and Shame
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My eyes were closed as I took in the scents of the air with an unnecessary breath. I felt the warmth of the wind against my skin. My head tilted back, enjoying the sensations. The sand was warm and soft beneath my bare feet. The sounds of the ocean just added to the bliss… which quickly turned to heaven when two smooth, silky, warm hands placed themselves on top of mine. The hands pulled mine to my stomach and pulled me into the chest of the love of my very existence.
I zoned out, enjoying myself.
It was our first anniversary, and our second honeymoon… on Isle Esme: a place that holds both the best and worst memories of our lives. I giggled slightly at one memory.
"What are you thinking?" the perfect creature holding me asked.
I turned my head and opened my eyes to look up into warm golden brown, framed by the dim sparkle from the setting sun. I smiled. "Feathers."
He chuckled at the memory.
I turned around in his arms and stood on my tiptoes. Like a magnet, my mouth latched onto his. My fingers wove through his hair the same way his did in mine. His arm pulled me as close as possible…. And soon, standing was no longer an option.
It was the very definition of true bliss.
I layed sprawled across his chest in the white room. My eyes were closed, remembering my first married night with Edward, pretending that I could still sleep. His arms were twined around me. I felt protected, loved, the way I always felt in Edward's arms.
"Can we stay here forever?" I whispered.
I rose with Edward's chest as he sighed. I sniffed a whispered giggle at the sensation.
"I wish," he said softly.
I lifted my head to look at him. I knew what was going through his mind. It was going through mine, too.
The memory assaulted me: her small round face twisted in sorrow as we told her we're leaving for a few weeks. It had made me want to cry, to turn to Edward and tell him that we were staying. I had never wanted to leave her without her parents. But everyone had insisted that we take a second honeymoon, especially since our last one ended in disaster.
She grew so rapidly, though. She was going to look so different when we got home. Would I even be able to recognize her? Part of me chastised myself for not thinking of her all the time on this trip. I was going to miss her childhood. My eyes stung as if tears were developing. My breath hitched in my throat…
"We should never have left," I choked.
"Oh, Bella," he said softly, stroking my cheek.
"Will we even be able to recognize her?"
His arms pulled me in tighter. He tucked my head under my chin and stroked my hair. "Of course we will. Her aging is slowing, remember? She won't have aged much."
"I just don't- don't want to miss- her childhood." Talking was getting harder, as was hiding the sobs.
"I know." I heard his voice tremble. "But we did need this, Bella. We can't be around her every second of every day. We needed a second honeymoon." His tone changed and he pulled my face up by my chin. He grinned crookedly, despite the torn heart I could see in his eyes. "I don't think I got enough last time."
While Renesmee wasn't forgotten, our sorrow certainly was.
A lone, dark figure stands on a balcony, watching the final moments of the setting sun.
It was unacceptable.
She made me look weak. Like nothing. I am not nothing. I will never be nothing.
That creature was going to pay for making me look like a fool. No one had ever done that to me before. And no one ever would again. Especially not her.
I could taste vengeance in the air, and it was sweet.
Another lone figure paces back in forth in a dark room.
Too dangerous. A threat. That's what this new creature was.
She refused to join us. So be it. She needed to be stopped.
Too powerful…
They were too powerful. They had to be stopped.
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- Chapter 2- Home
- Chapter 3- A Random Idea
- Chapter 4- Whoa
- Chapter 5- Calm Before the Storm
- Chapter 6- Plans
- Chapter 7- Family is Forever
- Chapter 8- Jacob
- Chapter 9- Vampires in La Push
- Chapter 10- Lies
- Chapter 11- Pain and Glory
- Chapter 12- Understanding
- Chapter 13- Blissful Escape
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Augsburger (Augsberger, Augspurger, Augstburger, Oxberger, Augsbourger) family
A Mennonite family name, Augsburger has some origins in Langnau in the Emmental, canton of Bern, Switzerland. Most likely, however, the name was originally founded in Augsburg Germany during the 15th century.
Niggli (Nicholas) Augsburger is mentioned in a letter of 1700 as being a co-worker with Jakob Ammann, founder of the Amish Mennonites.
Members of the Augsburger family were found in the Montbéliard Amish community as early as 1715 and near Corgémont in the Bishopric of Basel in 1720. John Augsburger (1783-18??) and wife were in the first party of Mennonite emigrants who left the Jura in the 19th century, leaving in 1817 to settle in northern Pennsylvania for 12 years before moving on to Wayne County, Ohio, and later to Adams Co., Indiana.
John Augsburger (1801-67) and wife left the Jura in 1834, settled in Wayne County, Ohio, for 16 years and then moved to near Bluffton, Ohio, where most of their descendants live.
Christian Augspurger (1782-1848) and his family came to North America in 1817 from near Strasbourg, Alsace, but being discouraged returned to their native land the following year. In 1819 they again came to America with other Amish Mennonites and founded a settlement in Butler County, Ohio. The above Christian Augspurger received from Napoleon the Legion of Honor medal as an expert farmer.
Amstutz, P. B. Geschichtliche Ereignisse der Mennoniten-Ansiedlung in Allen und Putnam County, Ohio. Bluffton, 1925: 33-36.
Grubb, W. H. History of the Mennonites of Butler County, Ohio. Trenton, Ohio, 1916.
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Gratz, Delbert L. "Augsburger (Augsberger, Augspurger, Augstburger, Oxberger, Augsbourger) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 20 Mar 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Augsburger_(Augsberger,_Augspurger,_Augstburger,_Oxberger,_Augsbourger)_family&oldid=119804.
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Gratz, Delbert L. (1953). Augsburger (Augsberger, Augspurger, Augstburger, Oxberger, Augsbourger) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 March 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Augsburger_(Augsberger,_Augspurger,_Augstburger,_Oxberger,_Augsbourger)_family&oldid=119804.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 188. All rights reserved.
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Spoilers - We discuss some spoilers in The Last Jedi between 30:20 and 55:50. We don't ruin major plot points. Tammy Coron crashed the show this week. We follow up on Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Spider-Man and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the news; Ian McKellen revises Gandalf, Ridley Scott, Dr Who, and Dirk Gently. We give a spoiler-free review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. We also give a "20 minute" spoiler review of The Last Jedi - we leave major plot points uncovered. Picks: Darkest Hour, Ocean's 8, Doctor Who Christmas Special, How Star Wars was saved in the edit.


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Peaches Geldof, the daughter of musician and activist Bob Geldof, was found dead in Kent, England on Monday at age 25. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports. (Photo: AP)
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Why I Accepted Executive Director Position for Bitcoin Foundation
Bitcoin Foundation
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
I am proud to have been associated with the Bitcoin Foundation since its launch just nine short months ago. A nonprofit organization for Bitcoin can add greatly to the political and economic discourse for cryptographic money and monetary freedom. As Executive Director, I welcome the new challenge.
The Foundation has never claimed to represent all of Bitcoin nor all of its users because that would be impossible for any organization. Rather, the Foundation has consistently attempted to fill the gap where market-based incentives may not have produced the same outcome, such as in the areas of specialized grants and compensation transparency for volunteer developers as well as legal challenges to bitcoin usage and the sponsorship of aggressive legal defense.
For instance, we made our "cease and desist" correspondence with the State of California publicly available which can assist bitcoin exchanges and other bitcoin organizations in the future. Also, we intend to file amicus briefs in significant bitcoin-related legal cases and to offer pro bono legal defense where appropriate. In the next 30 days, we are scheduled to submit comments to FinCEN's guidance and request for industry feedback on rulemaking. This will be made publicly available too.
The Foundation is not pro-regulation as some have claimed, but it is pro-education. I fully support across the board bitcoin education for legislative and regulatory entities. Proper education is not anti-market and I also agree with economist Peter Šurda who stated that lobbying on behalf of Bitcoin is not necessarily anti-market. However, constructing barriers to market entry and being complicit in certain crony capitalism regulatory outcomes is anti-market. I will steadfastly oppose a crony capitalism direction for the Bitcoin Foundation.
One of my primary near-term objectives for the Foundation is to become more inclusive of the various constituencies within the global bitcoin community. This will involve being more responsive to and communicative with member requests. It will also involve being more open to internationalization. Currently, 60% of the Foundation's membership is non-US based and we need to do a better job behaving like a global organization. To this end, we will hold the next Bitcoin conference outside of the United States and we will sign on local Foundation chapters in several countries where interested parties have taken the lead on expanding the principles of Bitcoin in their region.
The bursting of Bitcoin technology on the scene at this time in history is not a mere coincidence. It is a reaction to three separate epochal developments largely emanating from the developed economies: (1) centralized and oppressive monetary authority, (2) a dominant and complicit legacy banking system, and (3) the eradication of financial privacy.
Future generations will not be very forgiving if the Foundation fails in its mission to standardize and protect Bitcoin worldwide. The youth of today, including the youth of the legislative and ruling classes, certainly grasp this movement and the demographics clearly bear that out. Choice in currency is the free speech of commerce.
Just as those against file sharing and BitTorrent technology were on the wrong side of history, so too are the institutional forces opposed to unfettered bitcoin growth. The great challenge and mandate for our time is in encouraging them to see it that way. Please join us.
I also recorded an audio interview with Let's Talk Bitcoin shortly after accepting the Executive Director position.
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Congrats, Jon. I would argue that your three points are a subset of the breakdown of the rule of law in US during the past decade. Properly understood the 2008 crash was not a financial crisis, but a legal one. One that remains unresolved.ReplyDelete
The status quo will not give up power and wealth without a fight. Which brings us to Bitcoin.
Given the federal government's position -- it is violation of federal law for individuals or orgs "to create private coin or currency systems to compete with the official coinage and currency of the United States" (http://www.fbi.gov/charlotte/press-releases/2011/defendant-convicted-of-minting-his-own-currency) and digital currencies attract criminals (http://cryptome.org/2012/05/fbi-bitcoin.pdf) -- it seems obvious to me that Bitcoin can only flourish as the official currency of a nation-state.
I would love to be proven wrong, and FinCEN interactions may do that rather quickly, if Bitcoin is treated as an actual currency rather than a money service.
Seigniorage remains the life-blood of the nation-state. Choice in currency is NOT the free speech of commerce. Choice in currency kills tyrants and oligarchies dead. They know this. Be prepared.Replies
Jeff, the federal government's position so far has not been that private currencies are illegal.Delete
Reuben Grinberg, a lawyer who did a pretty comprehensive paper on the legal issues around Bitcoin, has spoken to a member of the prosecution team in the Liberty Dollar case, and says the only reason the federal government went after it is that, in their view, the name and insignia of the Liberty Dollar coins were similar to those of US dollar coins.
The government's position was that people were misled into thinking Liberty Dollars were U.S. issued dollars. If the coins had a different name and/or appearance, the federal government would not have prosecuted von NotHaus, according to Reuben's account of the federal government position.
Reuben was quite adamant that the federal government does not view private currencies, namely Bitcoin, as illegal, which is the position expressed by the FinCen guidance and its current director, Jennifer Calvery.
Non-governmental currencies, by themselves, can never threaten national currencies, because the real power of fiat currencies is the requirement for taxes to be paid in them, which competing currencies do not change.
Just to clarify, because I think I slightly misrepresented Reuben's position: what he was adamant about was that the arguments given by the prosecution team in the Liberty Dollar case did not apply to Bitcoin. He was not sure whether or not, at some point in the future, the federal government would find that Bitcoin was in violation of some other laws.Delete
With the issuance of the FinCEN guidance though, that question has been settled, and the federal government has unequivocally declared that Bitcoin doesn't break any US laws.
- Erik VoorheesJuly 10, 2013 at 4:55 AM
Very glad to see you at the helm of the Foundation, Jon. Great post as well :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations, Jon!ReplyDelete
This is good news. After hearing the positions you've expressed here, I feel a lot more comfortable about the role Bitcoin Foundation will play in the development of the currency than I did in the past.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you are at the helm of this organization Jon.ReplyDelete
Congratulations, Jon—no one is better qualified than you to lead the Bitcoin Foundation to achieve its mission. History is shaped by narratives (see Jonathan Gottschall's The Storytelling Animal), and I believe you have what it takes to create a global movement around a winning narrative for Bitcoin. Onward and upward!ReplyDelete


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It's the season to trick r' treat and to bump into ghouls and ghosts on the streets. It's Halloween today and many adults are looking for movies that will scare them off their socks. But many adults have kids and can't enjoy these movies with them because, hey, "The Exorcist" scarred me for life when I was 7 too! That's why I've compiled five animated halloween films safe for the whole family. Read More


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The Equalizer
Peeling Back the Layers: Differences between Networks
Convergence: A Traffic Circle on the Information Highway
Mrs. Smith Connects to Washington
Business Use
Backing Out of the Driveway
The Future
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Connecting Your Business or Organization
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The easiest call of the last half-century: push Japan around enough and you'll get an end to its constitutionally-mandated pacifism.
Unlike Germany, which self-flagelated to the point of altering its social persona, Japan did no such thing. It simply buried the past, which it can now dig up with enough incentives from Beijing, which seems to have counted on the notion that it could push Tokyo around indefinitely.
No, this doesn't change my attitude on the "pivot" or AirSea Battle. In both cases, it proves how unnecessary they are as over-the-top reactions (yes, I understand the "show of force" part; I just worry that such things tend to be forgotten fairly quickly inside the Pentagon and thus today's feint equals tomorrow's "unshakeable national security interest").
The US enabled Asia's peaceful rise by playing Leviathan and thus obviating anyone's need to "arms race" with anyone else inside the region. The result being, for the first time in history, India, China, Korea and Japan all "risen" without any wars.
Beijing seems to have seen some historic advantage in this situation, which now disappears - inevitably. Thus, now is NOT the time for the US to "pour it on" but to play the honest-broker all the more.


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How much do you love Facebook? Do you love it enough to let the social network take over your phone? How about enough to at least allow it a prominent place on your phone while still allowing you to access all that other stuff you need (apps, email, rival networks)? That's what the HTC First offers, a Facebook experience that is persistent and prevalent without being all-consuming. Even if this doesn't appeal to you, the First may catch your eye. At only $100 on AT&T, it's a tempting option, especially if you like HTC phones but don't care for its usual, bloated 'Sense' user interface.
Look and Feel
The HTC First isn't meant to be an expensive flagship phone, even though it's the first to feature Facebook Home. Aesthetically, it's simpler and less flashy than the HTC One series and more compact than most superphones. None of this is bad. We like the unibody design with its rounded edges, soft touch back, all glass front, and lightweight feel. All of this comes together to make the First a very comfortable, holdable phone that is elegant in its simplicity.
Though not as eye-catching as HTC's flagship One series, the First has typical HTC hallmarks of design, such as well-placed buttons that are easy to find by feel and navigation buttons below the screen. This time around you get Back, Home, and Menu, the last of which is still relevant when dealing with Facebook Home. We like that the display glass is curved a bit at the edges, though it doesn't flow smoothly into the plastic casing.
The unibody design means no access to the battery, plus there's no SD card slot for expansion. For a phone with only 16GB inside, this could be a problem for some.
Screen and Sound
Due to the 4.3-inch display size, even people with small hands will be able to use the First with just one of them. The colorful and crisp 1280 x 720 pixel screen offers wide viewing angles that are only occasionally marred by reflections off the glossy surface. In the sun, the display remains visible as long as you have the brightness up high; keeping it on auto gave us good results during testing.
Instead of placing the speaker on the back or even the front as we saw on the HTC One, the First's speaker is on the bottom edge. Holding the phone in portrait orientation doesn't block the sound, and in landscape we found our hand helped amplify the sound depending on what we were doing (watching video vs. playing a game). Setting the First on a table won't muffle audio, making it good for listening to music and speakerphone calls. The speaker pumps loud volume that remains distinct even with some background noise, though the audio quality is average for phones.
Facebook Home and Android
The name HTC First is either a promise or a threat, depending on your opinion of Facebook Home. As the first device to ship with this launcher/overlay/skin/interface/apperating system, it will likely be judged based on whether people want that much Facebook in their digital lives or not. So, before we go into how Facebook Home works on the First, we should note the following: You don't need to use it. Unlike interface skins like HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz, you can turn Home off without needing to root the device. Just go to Home Settings and tap the very first item. (Don't worry, you can turn it back on.) If you turn FB Home off the First reverts to stock Android Jelly Bean. No HTC Sense to be found.
You don't need to turn FB Home off to get to the normal Android part of the phone. It's always there, sitting behind all the Facebook stuff quietly, waiting for you to notice it.
However, your first experience of the First will be the Facebook one. Right from go the screen is filled with status updates on top of a Ken Burns-style pan of an image punctuated by your profile picture in a circle at the bottom. On first boot, the system guides the user through basic operations, such as swiping to open up Facebook, Messenger, or the Apps tray – and tapping to just swipe through status updates in the glorious full-screen.
Facebook Home is well designed and seems simple at first blush. Once we started to use it, we hit a few snags, such as figuring out that the first App Tray Facebook shows does not list all the apps, just a few important ones (similar to a Home screen). When browsing status updates in the full-screen, prettified view, you can Like and comment but not share easily. The Chat Heads function is probably great for people who use Facebook as their primary messaging system. But having the head of your friend looming over every app you open (except full-screen ones) can get creepy.
We'll have a full review of Facebook Home soon. Overall, the experience isn't that bad. We're still glad you can easily turn it off.
*Bug: On our HTC First and a One X+ running FB Home, we've had an issue with the lockscreen. If you have security settings on your lockscreen, like a code or pin, they do not show up when Home is activated. There's currently no way to fix this. Other news outlets have reported the issue, as well. HTC and Facebook claim they are looking into the problem.
Specs and Performance
The First is a mid-range smartphone with mid-range hardware, but don't assume that means sub-par performance. The 1.4GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM scored 5,975 on the Quadrant benchmark. That puts it on par with the Galaxy Note 2 (6,000) and outscores the HTC One X+ (5,100) and the Nexus 4 (4,900). This matches our hands-on experience with the phone – we found it smooth and responsive, both when using Facebook Home and the default version of Android. We experienced high framerates when playing games, watching video, and swiping around the interface.
Connectivity options include Micro USB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, and GPS. There's no microSD card slot and only 16GB of internal memory, which could be a problem for people who like to download a ton of apps and take lots of pictures and video.
AT&T's Network
The phone runs on AT&T's network and is LTE-capable. During our testing we weren't able to pick up an LTE signal; we found the performance on 4G impressive, anyway.
Call quality is good on both ends. The recipients of our calls heard us clearly even with some background noise. Their voices came through loud and clear as well.
HTC doesn't provide any customization of the First beyond adding Facebook Home, which means that the camera app is stock, just like everything else. Thus, the 5-megapixel shooter on the back doesn't get any help on the hardware side (unless you download a third-party app). As a result, images lack crispness and don't balance light and dark as well as we'd like, even when the overall light is good. Pictures are okay for sharing digitally, especially when viewed on small screens. Look at them on a computer and their flaws jump out.
The upside to this is that pictures of this type benefit most from Instagram filters. That app is pre-loaded and should probably be your default if another app doesn't already have your heart.
The 1.6-megapixel front camera is wide-angle, but not as wide as other recent HTC phones. The quality here is good enough for self-portraits and video chats.
Battery Life
Just as with the One series phones, the HTC First has a sealed-in 2000 mAh battery that isn't user replaceable. We haven't had time to run our full battery tests yet, but so far it looks like the phone can last all day under medium to heavy usage, though some heavy-duty tasks tend to drain the battery faster than we expected. With a few common battery saving tricks, such as keeping the screen brightness on low and connecting to Wi-Fi when possible, even heavy users should find themselves satisfied with the First's longevity. We will update the review with more results.
The HTC First is a budget phone that doesn't feel like one. In fact, it reminds us a lot of recent Lumia handsets in look, feel, power, and price. Putting aside Facebook Home, you get excellent performance, comfortable design, a good display, and stock Android when you want it. And if you do like having Facebook all up in your face at all times, the integration is smooth. We could do without the sealed-in battery and lack of microSD slot. For a phone at this price these drawbacks are forgivable, especially considering its other great qualities.
- Comfortable, compact, and attractive design
- Beautiful screen
- Stock Android under Facebook Home
- Speedy, smooth performance
- Lockscreen won't….lock (bug)
- Sealed-in battery
- No microSD card slot
- Facebook Home feels undercooked


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Wayne Rooney is ready to assume the 'Eric Cantona role' for England and help to nurture his young team-mates.
Now 26 and with 76 caps to his name, Rooney can be regarded as one of the most experienced players within Roy Hodgson's squad. And, with Steven Gerrard suspended and Frank Lampard struggling to overcome a knee injury, Rooney is in line to captain his country for the first time in a competitive game when they take on San Marino on Friday.
"There are a lot of young players in the squad and I always try to speak to them and offer advice," said Rooney. "I remember Alex Ferguson telling me what a big help Cantona was to all those younger players at United. It is something I can try to do for England and hopefully help bring the best out of them, as they can bring the best out of me."
The odd indiscretion excepted, Rooney has matured hugely over the past few years.
It is certainly hard to imagine the Merseysider landing himself in the kind of mess Ashley Cole has got himself into when communicating on Twitter.
Rooney has in excess of five million followers, the highest figure for a British sports star.
"It is a good way for the fans to see a different side of you," he said.
"I don't try and get involved because you do get a bit of stick on it and obviously, I know everything I put on there is seen by everyone who follows you and it will be in the newspapers the next day, so I have to be careful.
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I had to go to church this morning because I'd agreed to assist with the music while the choir was off for the week. I grew up in this Episcopal church and it used to be a nice atmosphere to spend a Sunday morning in, even for an atheist. But the current priest is an idiot that nobody likes. There's a long story there, but for now, suffice it to say that his sermons are always terrible. He was absent today, but he wrote a sermon and had someone else stand and read it. It didn't have a coherent point; first it was on about Jesus sending out the 70 followers with absolutely nothing, not even a bag of supplies, to do deeds in his name.
His point about this was that God sent those 70 people out to do his work empty-handed because he wanted them to know that whatever good they did had absolutely nothing to do with their own efforts; it was all about God doing the good things by using them as pawns. How could anyone view a being so unabashedly arrogant as being worthy of worship?* I hate this attitude so much, and it was annoying to have to sit there and listen to it without arguing. Anything good can't possibly have been our own doing, and anything bad that we do is our fault for being weak and succumbing to temptation. Horrible attitude to have, and horrible attitude to teach your children. Sets people up for badness later in life.I know firsthand; that shit was what opened me up to the brainwashing I received in high school.
Then, somehow the first amendment was thrown in there, and he was going on about how it was there to protect freedom of religion, but that America had erased religion from the public eye and told Christians it should be private, and shouldn't have any place in public affairs, and that it is because of this that we have religious extremists because the moderate majority is silent and confused about the role their faith should play in their daily life, and blah blah Christians are so persecuted. I swear, it was like I was sitting in a goddamned Baptist church, not an Episcopal one. He, like so many other misguided Christians in this area, conflated "keep government-run affairs secular" with "you have to shut up about your religion at all times."
Why do these people forcibly miss the point? He went so far as to equate those of us who value secular approaches to state affairs to the intolerant religious extremists who keep trying to push their beliefs on everyone else. Why is it so fucking hard to understand that secularists are PROTECTING their right to worship their own way by keeping religion in church where it belongs? If we let the religious moderates inject their faith into public/political affairs, then at least it's not an extremist version of Christianity, but it's still exactly the same principle as if those extremists were to take over and do the same thing.
I almost clawed my atheist husband's hand off during that hateful tirade. It was either that or cause a disruption among people I love and respect, and I didn't want to do that...
*If we were supposed to be made in his image, why are we held to a different standard of morality than he is? YHWH displays very human thought processes (obviously that's because he was invented by humans, but let's take it as hypothetically true for the sake of this point), and he's allowed to indulge in those while we're supposed to resist and be sinless, because he "hates" the "sins" we commit, even though they're due to exactly the same thought process he has? I can understand loving an imperfect being, because we do that with our fellow humans all the time. We overlook their flaws and forgive them their transgressions. But to worship an imperfect being, and to delude ourselves into believing that this being is actually perfect, which he demonstrates by having the same human impulses that he condemns as sinful in us? No fucking way. The only way someone could worship a being like that is by either being brainwashed into believing he's not a tyrant, or by being made afraid.
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rejected on Monday recent GOP allegations that there are unheard budget dissenters to President Obama's spending request in the Pentagon ranks.
The comments represent the defense leaders' first reactions to the specific charge made by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., two weeks ago as he defended controversial comments by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that senior military leaders did not support Obama's fiscal 2013 spending request.
"They sure as hell can be given a voice," Panetta said of any Pentagon dissenters. "We've had 50 hearings on the Hill dealing with the budget, in which they've been asked questions regarding both the strategy and budget decisions. And the bottom line is that was this was a team effort."
"The fact that we are unified as a team, with regards to the strategy and the budget, can be an aggravation for some but it happens to be a fact," he argued, speaking in the Cannon House Office Building at a press conference about military sexual assault.
Earlier in the day at a Pentagon briefing, Panetta argued military and civilian Defense Department leaders "stand unified" behind the strategy and budget.
Since McConnell's statement, members of the Joint Chiefs have said any such dissention is not at their level. Some conservatives, in declining to name names, have argued that no senior officers would publicly voice their disagreement in the president's budget after it was introduced to Congress because it would be a career-ending move.
"I've never heard of any such thing happening in my entire 38 years. How do I answer that question?" Dempsey said, to laughter. "Look, all I can tell you is what I've experienced personally—I don't see that. And if anybody," he said, turning to the television cameras, "any generals are listening, come and talk to me if you feel that way."
Dempsey said he agreed with Panetta's claim that the budget-writing process of last fall was inclusive and open to dissention.
"Dissent was not disloyalty," Dempsey said Panetta made clear to him at the outset of the budget process. "It's been a very challenging process, but the climate has been one in where we have been able to cooperate."


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What is now the Old Grist Mill and Gardens in Keremeos began milling native-grown grain into flour for gold prospectors near the end of the 19th Century. Those colourful customers and the gold are long gone, but the historical attraction's latest director is out to cash in on a new currency - B.C.'s rekindled interest in eating local.
Visitors get a tour of the working mill, plenty of interactive exhibits in historic buildings, a history of food production in the area, and a chance to taste the results in a bright and peaceful on-site tea room - plus a developing entertainment hub.
"There's an interesting craving out there," Chris Mathieson says. "People are concerned about where their food comes from."
He's convinced the Grist Mill's 12-acre site - with six acres to grow wheat and "our own restaurant facilities" - is perfectly positioned to illustrate both the past and future of food
production in B.C. The familiar stretch of fruit and produce stands along the Crowsnest Highway in Keremeos, plus the organic growing momentum evident in nearby Cawston, provide visual evidence of the area's strong link to agriculture. Wine making in the region is rapidly expanding - a natural tie-in, Mathieson says.
"We've got a lot of natural assets here."
Mathieson has the expertise to make the most of them. A museum professional, his previous gig was director of the Vancouver Police Museum; which Mathieson rescued from near obscurity and transformed into a popular destination in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
But it was work in setting up community-supported fisheries in Vancouver, plus involvement in the slow food movement, that "really lit the food fire" under him.
In his first year at the Old Grist Mill, Mathieson's initial job was to "ensure the mill works" and regular tours are offered.
Since then, there has been a wide range of events aimed at connecting visitors to their food sources.
Food lectures, guest speakers, cheese making workshops and six annual events like Apple Day on Oct. 15 - "we did it before UBC," Mathieson hastens to add - drive the point home in an entertaining, and tasteful way. Food "boot camps" are on the way.
Jams of both the fruit and musical kind are on offer here, and a concert series has already featured the likes of Shari Ulrich performing.
Mathieson recommends an itinerary of "two days for sure" to visit The Old Grist Mill and Gardens as well as the scenic and bountiful Similkameen Valley.
"You get the context of the semi-arid desert here ... the sun, the heat."
He concedes plentiful accommodation is the "missing piece of the puzzle" at this point, but there are 11 RV and tenting campsites at the mill complex, two motels in Keremeos, a German-style Landgasth of at Crowsnest Vineyards in Cawston and lots of luxury digs in the south Okanagan a half-hour away.
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Everybody loves Monopoly and I for one am a big fan. I remember playing the game with my childhood friends in the neighborhood. I even recall how I used to play the NES version of the game back in the past. I was so fixated I could play the AI-controlled games against computer challengers for days on end. That probably explains why I'm now so drawn to the DS version and rather excited at the idea of playing classic Monopoly again on a new-generation handheld. There's no better way than that to while away time during commutes!
As everyone knows, playing the basic Monopoly game is quite simple. You and your opponents roll a couple of dice and work your way around the board, acquiring as much properties as you go; the entire idea of which is to establish monopolies with the very same properties. The ultimate goal is to bring the opponents to bankruptcy, until you remain the last player standing; thus, declared the winner.
Players who are looking for typical board game experience may find that Monopoly on DS has successfully pulled off the classic board game; fortunately, taking the appropriate route in terms of accessibility. You can play on your own against up to three AI opponents; or you might want to play with four other players by passing around a single DS unit and taking turns. Playing over a local network Is also possible, by providing players with copies of the game and using several handhelds.
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Forest Furniture: Making a Log Chair
The other day, as the spinning chain from my gasoline-powered saw bit into a freshly felled maple tree measuring nearly 2 feet in diameter, I remembered some advice once given to me by an old-timer in Maine who is well-known for carving wooden bears with a chain saw.
"It's easy," he said. "Just cut away everything that doesn't look like a bear."
In my case, I wasn't sculpting a bear but a chair.
I had seen a model of this seat in a hardware store a few weeks earlier and instantly realized I had to have one. So I raced home, did some online research, bought some tools and went to work.
As you can see from the accompanying video by Day videographer Peter Huoppi, this is not a chair for sitting on in a drawing room while sipping Dubonnet and deciding whether or not to bid three no trump.
Weighing more than 200 pounds, it also isn't a piece of furniture you would casually point to when inviting a visitor to pull up a chair.
It is a seat that can withstand a Force 9 gale, 6.2 earthquake or the ample dimensions of Shaquille O'Neal.
Best of all, you don't have to be Thomas Chippendale, or even Paul Bunyan, to make one.
I'm a guy who once spent an entire semester in high school shop class fabricating a lopsided napkin holder, and even though I since have learned a few modest skills I would not consider myself a journeyman carpenter, let alone a skilled woodworker.
I admit to feeling a little hypocritical touting the use of a chain saw and other power tools to fashion my chair, but after my son left for college I no longer had access to labor for my two-man crosscut saw, which we relied on for years to cut all the firewood to heat our home.
These days I continue to cut all our own firewood, but exclusively employ a chain saw.
As for my chair, though I tapped away with a hammer and chisel to remove some of the bark, and smoothed some hard-to-reach gouges with a rasp and hand file, I mostly shaped the wood with an angle grinder and a palm orbital sander. Both are electric-powered.
The version of the chair I first saw was pretty rough-hewn, and if you want that rustic look you don't need to sand it down after the initial cutting. I went for a slightly smoother finish.
Anyway, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million, so I'll let Peter's work do most of the explaining. Here's what you'll need:
1) A tree. In my case, I felt guilty cutting down a maple that had the bad luck to grow right where I will be planting grapes in a couple weeks. I would feel even worse simply burning such magnificent wood for heat. Creating what I hope will be an enduring, heirloom piece of furniture pays proper respect and should allow future generations to appreciate its history.
In addition, one benefit from all the hurricanes, blizzards and windstorms has been a surplus of toppled trees. For people without wood stoves or fireplaces, making a chair is an excellent use of that resource.
After felling the maple I cut a knot-free section about 4 feet long and stood it on end.
Still using the chain saw, I cut a foot-long V-notch with the grain on the butt end, removed the wedge, and then repeated the cut at right angles. This created four stout legs.
Then, I flipped the log over so it stood on its new legs, and made a vertical cut about 2 feet long, starting about 6 inches from the edge and angled slightly toward the middle.
Next, I turned the log on its "back" and sawed across the grain toward the bottom of the vertical cut. When you reach this cut, remove the block of wood and you're left with a seat, a chair back and four legs, all in one piece of wood.
2) If you decide to finish the chair, the best tool to start with is an electric-powered, 4½-inch angle grinder, equipped with a cutting disk that resembles a miniature chain saw. I'm not in the endorsement business, but as far as I can tell only one company, whose products are mostly available online, manufactures these disks, in 14-tooth and 22-tooth models. After consulting with a customer-service representative on the phone I chose the 22-tooth version.
It took a while getting used to this tool, and I always wear Kevlar chaps, Kevlar gloves, a face shield, dust mask and ear protection. I also work outside on the deck because it throws off a haboob of chips and sawdust about 20 feet in every direction. After an hour or so I swept up enough debris to fill two garbage bags, which I'll eventually use for mulch.
You can use the grinder to remove bark and then shape curves into the back, seat and legs. Next, you can replace the metal cutting disk with a fabric disk backed with sandpaper of varying grits. Start with coarse and work your way up to fine.
I found that by eliminating use a rubber backing disk and simply using the fabric disk offers more flexibility in tight angles.
For an even smoother surface, finish the process with an orbital palm sander.
I'm still uncertain about the final step, treating the chair.
Because the tree was alive at the time of felling it could take months or even years before it is dry enough to apply tung oil, polyurethane or varnish. If you try to speed the drying process you risk creating cracks, checks and warping.
For the time being my chairs – I've made four – are outside under an eave so they won't get water damage while drying slowly.
I think I have enough maple left to fashion a couple more chairs. Then, I suppose, I'll need hassocks.
And maybe end tables.
I may even get around to making a bear. Or a new napkin holder.
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