tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134245832024-02-19T11:57:48.300-05:00MFR photoblogMichael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comBlogger253125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-29191896325030894352017-10-07T02:13:00.002-04:002017-10-07T02:35:38.630-04:00Michael Forster Rothbart PhotographyI've now been working as a photojournalist for 20 years.<br />
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After spending 2016-2017 in <a href="http://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/306876" target="_blank">Donetsk</a>, Ukraine, I returned home to upstate New York.<br />
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I do freelance photography and video for newspapers and magazines. Contact: 607-267-4893, mfrphoto (at) gmail.com. Reach my agency Zuma Press at licensing@zumapress.com or 949-481-3747. For help buying work from my archives, contact sales (at) mfrphoto.org.<br />
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The website about my years in Chernobyl is <a href="http://bit.ly/AfterChernobyl" target="_blank">www.afterchernobyl.com</a>.<br />
My TED book on <a href="http://bit.ly/mfrphoto_CNN" target="_blank">Chernobyl</a> and <a href="https://ideas.ted.com/five-years-on-fukushima-residents-share-their-stories/" target="_blank">Fukushima</a>, <a href="https://blog.ted.com/those-who-stayed-in-chernobyl-and-fukushima-an-excerpt-from-the-new-ted-book-brings-you-inside-control-room-4/" target="_blank">Would You Stay?</a>, is available on <a href="http://bit.ly/TED-Would-You-Stay-Amazon" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/TED-Would-You-Stay-iTunes" target="_blank">iTunes</a>.<br />
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Watch my TED talk here: <a href="http://bit.ly/TEDx-MFR">http://bit.ly/TEDx-MFR</a>.<br />
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Read what <a href="http://bit.ly/MFRphoto_Witness_Article" target="_blank">inspired me to move to Chernobyl</a> and find other essays and interviews <a href="http://bit.ly/mfrphoto-pubs" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I've returned to work as a university photographer for SUNY Oneonta 3 days per week. You can find our work here:<br />
<a href="https://oneonta.photoshelter.com/gallery-list" target="_blank">Campus Photo Library</a><br />
<a href="https://suny.oneonta.edu/" target="_blank">Homepage</a><br />
<a href="https://suny.oneonta.edu/news-events/social-media-directory" target="_blank">Social media</a><br />
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You can find me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mfrphoto" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaelforsterrothbart/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and once in awhile on <a href="https://twitter.com/mfrphoto" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.<br />
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The archive of my work prior to 2011 is at <a href="http://bit.ly/mfrphoto" target="_blank">www.mfrphoto.photoshelter.com</a>.<br />
Note I have taken my business webpages mfrphoto.org and mfrphoto.com down for an overdue update.<br />
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Thank you for looking!<br />
Mike F R<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-36288142970898373002016-06-25T01:25:00.002-04:002016-08-21T16:05:26.344-04:00We're movingCall it FREXIT: The Forster Rothbarts are leaving.<br />
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I'll be spending the rest of 2016 in eastern Ukraine, where I'll be documenting the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Donetsk.<br />
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My family will be living in Ivano Frankivsk, in western Ukraine.<br />
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Here's how to reach me while abroad:<br />
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CURRENT email is: mfrphoto@gmail.com.<br />
(Note my old email address is currently inactive).<br />
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MY US cell phone 607-267-4893 is active but will go straight to voicemail. I'll check messages rarely.<br />
My office phone 917-387-4952 forwards to me in Ukraine.<br />
My Ukrainian cell number is +38 050 496 3811.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-28226637514072374062016-03-18T09:35:00.001-04:002016-03-18T09:35:27.133-04:00Upcoming Photography Presentations on Fukushima<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'll be giving three lectures this spring about my recent photography work in Fukushima, Japan:<br />
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<li>March 22, 7 pm. Hartwick College. Oneonta, NY. Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138.</li>
<li>April 22, 6 pm. Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Hamburg, Germany. Details: <a href="http://www.kas.de/hamburg/">http://www.kas.de/hamburg/</a></li>
<li>May 19, 7 pm. Guilderland Public Library. Guilderland, NY (near Albany). Details: <a href="http://www.guilpl.org/">http://www.guilpl.org</a></li>
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(Actually, "lecture" may be the wrong word, since I always ask people to get out of their seats and participate in interactive activities!)<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-48958155878767208992016-03-17T01:28:00.000-04:002016-03-17T11:02:12.042-04:00Making Better Maps for Primary Elections<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The maps
that most news organizations are using to tell the primary election story fail
on several counts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"><i>Maps from the New York Times, Washington Post, RealClearPolitics and Mother Jones </i></span><br />
<i>(clockwise from top right), March 2016, don’t show enough information.</i></div>
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These maps accompany
articles about primary race results. The key question: who is winning? In other
words, how many people are voting for a candidate, and how many delegates do
they get? That, unfortunately, is not what these maps show.</div>
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There are
two major problems with the above maps:</div>
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<ul>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Candidates
win delegates, not states.</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> In Democratic primaries, candidates win delegates
proportionally, based on vote tallies. In Republican primaries, this is true in
some states. Painting all the states a candidate “wins” the same color is
misleading.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Population
matters, not geography.</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> The relevant information is the number of voters,
not the size of a state. However, traditional maps emphasize a state’s area,
not the number of people.</span></li>
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As an example, compare Massachusetts and Georgia. Both are painted the same “Hillary blue,” although Clinton did far worse in Massachusetts.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Where did Clinton get more votes? This map doesn’t say.</i></span></span></div>
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(Clinton squeaked
by a “win” with 50.1% of the votes, out of 1.2 million people who voted in the
Massachusetts Democratic primary. She gets 46 delegates, and Sanders gets 45.
In Georgia, Clinton won 72% of 760,000 Democratic primary votes; she’ll get 72
delegates out of 100.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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This map
tells a reader none of this useful information. However, it does show that
Georgia is 5.6 times the area of Massachusetts, an irrelevant fact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An Attempt by the New York Times</b></h4>
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Kudos to the
Times, which switched last week to using much more detailed maps. Perhaps too
detailed. Viewing individual county results can be fascinating, but it’s easier
to get lost in minutiae than to see the big picture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Who knew Noxubee County, Mississippi, which is 72% black, had among the highest percent support for Clinton in the nation? Of course, only 1,531 people voted in the whole county.) Case in point.</i></span></span></td></tr>
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It’s amazing
to have so much information available so soon, but this map doesn’t help tell
the main story of the primary race. Look at the map above and tell me, who won
what in Nebraska? Beats me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m a
photojournalist. I think a lot about how to tell stories visually. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>A news
article tells the facts of a story; a news photo ideally provides a more
gestalt understanding. The same is true of maps.</b> Like photojournalism, news
maps should be tools for storytelling. Ideally, they show information relevant
to a story and leave unrelated details out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Searching for Better Maps</b></h4>
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I set out to create new maps that clearly show the vote and delegate results. First I tackled the problem of illustrating proportional wins. Instead of using just one color per candidate, I used a spectrum.</div>
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In my
Democratic map, Hillary Clinton is marked blue, Bernie Sanders is red. The redder
a state’s color, the higher the percentage of people who voted for Sanders. For
example, Vermont is the reddest state on the map, 86% red, 14% blue. Clinton’s
best showing was in Mississippi, 87% blue, 13% red.</div>
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Hopefully,
this map shows readers at a glance who is winning by how much and where. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The next
step is to eliminate geography from my map.</b> I created a map based on one by <a href="https://twitter.com/dannydb" target="_blank">Danny DeBelius</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/alykat" target="_blank">Alyson Hurt</a> at <a href="https://gist.github.com/dannydb/9e8ca69eba06b976da55" target="_blank">NPR</a>. Now it’s a “cartogram” —
half cartography, half diagram. The colors are the same as before, but state shapes
and areas are no longer shown.</div>
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<o:p> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JPivqeB84OU/Vuo-XOciDWI/AAAAAAAACgI/aJhnrO0XRG4nzPHS9qVRMFs3ekzVDcWmA/s1600/MFR-hexmap-vote-percent-Dem-Clinton-Sanders160316.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JPivqeB84OU/Vuo-XOciDWI/AAAAAAAACgI/aJhnrO0XRG4nzPHS9qVRMFs3ekzVDcWmA/s400/MFR-hexmap-vote-percent-Dem-Clinton-Sanders160316.jpg" width="400" /></a></o:p></div>
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The last information to add is the delegate counts. There are several ways to do this; for now I settled on simply showing the numbers on separate maps. Not because this is best, but just because turning the map into a 3-D rendering will take me some time.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbOnWvCfU6i_EK2p-ZMmtv8pmjuXdRjxFEW_IM9SGn8bR9cKx49mex54_vdgyvpwHU9oAqPSjo6-JGYFbgC-s1n4Idkvskex_2dut97aD-UwlcmVVyMeG33kIhti01pA60BAb/s1600/MFR-hexmap-delegate-count-Dem-Clinton160316.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbOnWvCfU6i_EK2p-ZMmtv8pmjuXdRjxFEW_IM9SGn8bR9cKx49mex54_vdgyvpwHU9oAqPSjo6-JGYFbgC-s1n4Idkvskex_2dut97aD-UwlcmVVyMeG33kIhti01pA60BAb/s400/MFR-hexmap-delegate-count-Dem-Clinton160316.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<b>Do these
maps help you understand the primary election? Let me know why or why not — on
Twitter or Facebook @mfrphoto.</b></div>
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Next up: four-color, four-candidate maps of the Republican primaries. Will it
look interesting or just look like the shades of mud the candidates have been
slinging? Check back next week to find out.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-88233031961225527232015-11-13T00:47:00.001-05:002015-11-14T08:31:34.139-05:00The haters gonna hate hate hate:<span style="font-family: inherit;">#black lives matter vs the photojournalists: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">What I learned from the Missouri protests.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like a moth to flame, I keep getting pulled to read more about the protests at Missouri this week.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="5d05l-0-0" style="color: #373e4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The whole series of events was historic, yes, but what has gotten the most discussion amongst my photojournalist friends </span><span data-offset-key="5d05l-8-0" style="color: #373e4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">is one incident in which Mizzou students and staff tried to keep journalists away from the "safe space" they had created in the middle of a "public space." </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="atgjo-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a ridiculous moment, communications professor Melissa Click tried to evict a videographer. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhKZGlYf-lVrq8mGTfxpi8sGq23FKHcXukZzeRsREemphvGGAz6-fc-1kOH8MTti8KMLUa3j5KZmDrK4dkdSjYzaKeLovQGj-k16YcFbwE2YhlXBY10Ucs0cjxFv1LpCrB523/s1600/screen+cap+Click+Melissa+MO+151109.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhKZGlYf-lVrq8mGTfxpi8sGq23FKHcXukZzeRsREemphvGGAz6-fc-1kOH8MTti8KMLUa3j5KZmDrK4dkdSjYzaKeLovQGj-k16YcFbwE2YhlXBY10Ucs0cjxFv1LpCrB523/s320/screen+cap+Click+Melissa+MO+151109.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span data-offset-key="atgjo-0-0"> Photo: </span><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink g-hovercard spf-link " data-sessionlink="itct=CDEQ4TkiEwig9vX12IzJAhWWLE4KHTZTDzco-B0" data-ytid="UCCoHh-0UizkcXGRd4-wb9ig" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCoHh-0UizkcXGRd4-wb9ig" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 22px; margin: 0px; max-width: 315px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Mark Schierbecker</a></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1ioj5-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was among those incensed and hoping for Click to be fired after watching this video. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/university-missouri-protesters-block-journalists-press-freedom.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/university-missouri-protesters-block-journalists-press-freedom.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ffvqr-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, I feel differently now that I've discovered a video showing Click at a different protest, a month earlier. On Oct. 10, about 11 black students interrupted Missouri's homecoming parade, standing in front of President Wolfe's car. Some white bystanders aggressively stepped in to break up the protest, and many more cheered these whites on. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3ma53-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the video on Slate: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tim-wolfe-homecoming-parade_56402cc8e4b0307f2cadea10">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tim-wolfe-homecoming-parade_56402cc8e4b0307f2cadea10</a> ("The Incident You Have To See To Understand Why Students Wanted Mizzou's President To Go")</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1geb9-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now guess who is the first caucasian to step in and link arms with the black students? Our friend Professor Click. First visible at about 8:00 in the video, and recognizable at 8:57. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bmccf-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Click's academic career may be over, and maybe rightly so —who wants a communication prof who obstructs the first amendment? — but as a white ally to black students, she was on the front lines, doing anti-racism work that more of us should be </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">—</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ok, ok, I'll speak for myself </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">—</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> that I should be working harder to do.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4ggsk-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For me, it's a good reminder for me that people are more complex than any single action, and we do them an injustice by judging them for any single moment. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="65lgm-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When is the right time for me to lay down my camera for a while, and participate rather than document? </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a7fka-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The “right to photograph” is more gray than black-and-white," writes photojournalist GJ McCarthy in this thoughtful essay: <a href="http://photographyblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/unbidden-photo-advice-the-right-to-photograph-is-more-gray-than-black-and-white.html">http://photographyblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/unbidden-photo-advice-the-right-to-photograph-is-more-gray-than-black-and-white.html</a>/ </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-74209883079445393602015-09-08T12:03:00.000-04:002015-09-15T00:32:38.105-04:00The Great Passport Race<b>Update, Monday Sept 14, 5:28 pm</b><br />
Well, at least one thing was easy. I called Air Canada to change my ticket. The agent put me on hold for 15 minutes; while holding I discovered I could change my ticket online myself. She came back and told me it would cost $100 US to change. I told her I had a better offer online - $100 Canadian (that's $75 US). She didn't believe me so I proved it to her. I bought the new ticket while she waited and she confirmed that it worked.<br />
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So now I am flying Wednesday. Assuming my passport really does arrive tomorrow.<br />
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<b>Update, Monday Sept 14, 3:07 pm</b><br />
The post office told me to call after 3 to see if my package came in the afternoon shipment. It did not.<br />
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When I called, I spoke to Frank the mailman again. He told me tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. My passport could possibly come at 7:30 am but it is scheduled to arrive at 1:30 pm.<br />
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Now I need to change my flight. I'm scheduled to leave at 11 am. Air Canada claims I can change it for $100. Let's hope so.<br />
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<b>Newsflash! Monday Sept 14 at 2:59 pm</b><br />
My passport is in Albany. Only an hour away from me. However, it is impossible for me to intervene and get it. Like taming a stray cat or falling in love, I need to wait for it to come to me. Here, kitty, I've got passport kibbles for you...<br />
<br />
My friends at USPS.com updated the tracking for my package. Apparently it flew for 37 minutes, from NYC to Albany and now it is just going to sit in the airport for the rest of the day.<br />
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I hate long layovers.<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 14, 1:22 pm</b><br />
No, constantly watching the US Mail tracking page will not get my package here any sooner. I know that. But I keep refreshing the page.<br />
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Now the US Postal Service has informed me: yesterday over the course of 7 hours, my passport moved from one side of a midtown Manhattan post office to the other side.<br />
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What did we obsess about before tracking systems?<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 14, 8:06 am</b><br />
WTF?! No, Jacob, that does not stand for the World Tildlife Fund.<br />
It appears that 5 DAYS after the consulate said they put my passport in the mail, someone finally dropped it off at the post office.<br />
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Guess I am not going to NYC after all. Now the race is really on but it's between the post office and the clock. I am merely a spectator. The latest I can possibly leave for Montreal is 3:00 tomorrow morning...<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 14, 8:03 am</b><br />
The rental car is parked in the driveway. I'm ready to head to NYC. Just need to reach the consulate and confirm they do have my passport still. (If not, I'm really screwed...)<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 14, 7:45 am</b><br />
Is my local post office tired of hearing from me yet? Frank the mailman, Colleen's coworker, answered the phone just now and he knew who I was before I told him. But no, my untracked package did not sneak into the post office with the first morning delivery.<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 12, 3:09 pm</b><br />
No news is bad news. No envelope, no info in the tracking system.<br />
I'll leave Monday morning, drive to New York, get my passport, drive home, finish packing.<br />
<br />
And then, gentle reader, I have news for you. See, I got a great price on my flight to Tokyo. But it flies Tuesday morning from... Montreal. Yes. That one in Canada. So I'll drive north late at night after first driving south in the morning.<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 12, 11:35 am</b><br />
Just went to the local post office. Colleen, the friendly postal worker at the counter, looked up my package. It still shows no information. She said it would be checked in and out at each facility en route, so this means it's probably still on someone's desk in the consulate.<br />
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Or lost.<br />
Or coming in a different envelope.<br />
Colleen says to call after 3 when the afternoon express mail arrives in Oneonta.<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 11, 10:51 pm</b><br />
This is not good news.<br />
The embassy operator actually called me back! But he said no one will be in the visa department until Monday morning. This means I have no way to know if they still have my passport or not.<br />
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I plan to make an emergency run to NYC on Monday morning before I fly on Tuesday.<br />
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Worse, he said, they often mail passports on Friday COB. If so my passport is in transit and will definitely not arrive in time.<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 11, 10:17 pm</b><br />
I did not reach anyone at the embassy. However, I called the after hours emergency number. (My passport is an emergency, right?) And — shocking this is — the operator took all my information and told me he would call the director of the consular office right now, to get an answer for me.<br />
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Can you imagine any US government office calling on your behalf in the middle of the night?<br />
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Stay tuned.<br />
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<b>Update, Sept. 11, 3:03 pm:</b> My USPS Express Mail with my passport should have arrived yesterday or today from New York. However, the post office says there is no record of my package. Calling the embassy as soon as I get home.<br />
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<b><br />
</b> <b>September 8.</b> One week from today, I leave for Japan for a month. I'll be on assignment photographing Fukushima for several magazine articles.<br />
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However, I don't have my passport. I called the Japanese consulate today in NYC and they promised to mail it back to me today. Stay tuned...<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-51912100245921314022014-12-13T23:32:00.000-05:002014-12-14T01:03:21.928-05:00Good news: a success story<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Friends, I
want to tell you a story about an amazing woman I met, many years ago, when I
was still in college. This young woman was super smart and funny. And more
importantly, she was one of the kindest and most compassionate people I knew. And
beautiful. We got set up on a blind date and I quickly fell in love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We dated for
five weeks, but she was leaving soon for Moscow and neither of us thought it could
last. Hard to believe, but back then, when somebody left the country there was
no easy way to stay in touch. We wrote airmail letters. And I became one of the
few people on my campus who used email. She found a public computer she could
wait in line to use, and we managed to correspond once a month. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After she
returned to the US, I convinced her to come work with me at a summer camp in
Vermont and we had one day a week together. I loved her gentle thoughtfulness, her
magnanimity, able to listen to anyone with empathy and draw them out and make
them feel like the most important person in the room. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We returned
to college. She was at Bryn Mawr and I was in school ten miles away. We still
only saw each other once a week but we talked almost every day on the phone. My
dorm had only one phone for the entire floor, but it had a 30-foot cord so I
could pull it down to our quad and hog the hall phone for an hour. She was not
only caring but ambitious — a double major in Russian and political science,
and a leader of the college environmental group and an editor of the campus
paper. We’d often talk late at night as she sat editing in the newspaper
office.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After we
graduated, we spent the summer living in my parent’s rustic cabin on a lake in
Michigan. We cooked and swam and played games and worked in a Birkenstock
store. We had no running water, no deadlines, and no idea what we wanted to do
with our lives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I got a job back
in Vermont and she landed an internship for an environmental group in DC called
ISAR. It was hard to go our separate ways but she was always intrepid and went
fearlessly off on her own. She took everything in stride — new job, new city,
new housemates — even getting mugged her first week in Washington didn’t faze
her for long.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She started
working her way up through ISAR — from intern to assistant to office manager to
editor of their magazine. She was always a hard worker, although somehow she
always found time to help everyone around her as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When I
returned to the US after a year in India and China, I only knew one thing for
sure: I wanted to live with this wonderful woman. We got our first apartment
together on Capitol Hill and I watched her grow from a young student into a
confident, articulate leader.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When we next
moved abroad there was no question: we were going together. We spent two years
in Kazakhstan. We wrote a book together. But as she traveled in Central Asia, still
working for the same non-profit, she got frustrated that international NGOs and
US policymakers had insufficient understanding of regional politics and were
therefore ineffective. She decided to go to grad school.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By then, I
knew I would follow this woman anywhere. On a cold October afternoon in the
Almaty Botanical Garden, shortly after she’d gotten her legs wet jumping a
creek, I pulled a ring from my pocket and asked her to marry me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Amy said
yes. We moved to Wisconsin, she started a Master’s in Public Policy and a year
and a half later, we were married at the same camp in Vermont. We bought a
house. Always altruistic, she was one of the few grad students who actively
engaged in the community, volunteering and serving on our neighborhood
association board. She discovered her master’s program was not challenging
enough for her. So she decided she wanted to get a PhD and wanted to teach.
She’s been this way as long as I’ve known her: intellectual but dedicated to using
her intelligence to help others. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Four years
later, she passed her prelims while pregnant. That summer her dad was dying,
and we went to Maine. I tried to support her, but she really she was fine and
was in fact busy supporting her mom and sister while simultaneously nursing
Jacob and planning her dissertation. When Jacob was eight months old we moved
to Ukraine for her research. Again, I was amazed by her ability to interview
government officials and simultaneously negotiate a new country and be a new
mother.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Becoming a
mom did change her, however. She is still munificent, generous with her time
and attention, but her devotion has become more focused on our kids. And it
brings me joy to see her kindness reflected in Jacob and Natalie as they learn
from her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was no
surprise that Hartwick College wanted to hire her before she even finished her
dissertation. We moved to New York and she dedicated herself to teaching and
serving the college. She’s a great and innovative teacher — she has an ability
to make any topic interesting and gets students to engage and participate fully.
She works so hard. She starts at 5 am and after we get the kids to school she
puts in a full day, comes home and serves as a caring parent until the kids
bedtime. If she doesn’t fall asleep in Natalie’s bed she goes downstairs to
keep working. And somehow she finds time to still be engaged in the community.
I tell you, I thought I was a hard worker until I met her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For the past
3 months, Amy has been nervous. She’s been under review for tenure. Although
the rest of us knew she had nothing to worry about, she still fretted. But of
course, ATP (the tenure committee) admired her so much that they didn’t know
what to ask her, and the provost also told she was doing a great job.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The news, therefore,
should surprise no one: <b><span style="font-size: large;">Amy has been granted tenure! </span></b><br />
(Ok, technically <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the college president
has recommended Amy for tenure.</span> Tenure is not official until the trustees
vote on it in February, but the trustees always follow the president’s
recommendation.)<br />
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Congratulations
Amy! We all love you and we’re very proud and we know you will continue to do
great things in the world, in the community and in the classroom. I’m grateful
for 22 years of watching you work and love and live and I look forward to many
more.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-63452497397347188002014-09-29T22:46:00.002-04:002014-09-29T22:48:11.696-04:00Wisconsin BookfestI am looking forward to going back to Madison for my Chernobyl book reading at the Wisconsin Bookfest! Oct 19, 11 AM.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-71128166821181272382014-07-05T12:03:00.001-04:002015-01-14T23:26:29.226-05:00diary of a solo parent, week 2Posts about parenting while Amy was away, continued.<br />
Archived from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mfrphoto">www.facebook.com/mfrphoto</a><br />
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Week 1 is here:<a href="http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2014/06/diary-of-solo-parent.html"> http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2014/06/diary-of-solo-parent.html</a><br />
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June 28:<br />
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Day 8 of solo parenting. Here are 2 things I think all new parents should be told about eating with kids:<br />
1. Don't expect to sit down for a full a meal in the next decade.<br />
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When my kids like a dish they will eat serving after serving. Natalie reliably eats 4 or 5 bowls of breakfast cereal (the equivalent of about 2 full-size adult portions) but as soon as I give her a bigger portion she decides she is done or no longer likes w<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">hatever it is.</span></div>
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During lunch on our porch today, I felt lazy and gave Natalie a full cup of milk. No sooner did we finish grace than the full cup of milk came flying into my lap. Natalie's first response: to cry "I want more milk!" My first response: to pull off my dripping shorts. Jacob's first response: to run for a towel. </div>
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Natalie, I said, the least you could do when you spill is to apologize or help clean up. I'm sorry daddy, she said very sweetly, then began fighting Jacob for the towel to help. Got a second rag towel but would not let either of them dry off my food.</div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Dad, Jacob said, looking at the neighbors, I think you should put some pants on.</span><br />
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June 30:<br />
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Day 10 of solo parenting. The three of us fixed the clogged bathroom sink. Underneath it was dark and hot and crowded. Seemed like there were more wrenches and elbows than possible for three people. Someone was always in my way and it took an hour and a half. At some point I wondered why I was doing this – alone I could get the whole job done in 20 minutes. As we started to get grouchy Jacob started wondering the same thing. </div>
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Natalie keeps sitting on me and she's not really <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">helping, he said. Could you get her to leave?</span></div>
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To be honest, there's not enough room here and this would be easier to do myself, without your help, I told him. He looked hurt. But I want you here because I want you to learn how to do things like this. My mom taught me to fix plumbing and rewire lamps and build bookshelves when I was his age. </div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Nevertheless I was grateful this afternoon to have friends who took Jacob and left me alone for five full hours. I celebrated at lunch by eating the entire chocolate Easter bunny I've been saving in one sitting.</span><br />
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July 1:<br />
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Day 11 of solo parenting. I couldn't do this alone. So glad I've got a village.</div>
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When Jacob had a girl friend over today, they went to his room and shut the door. What were they doing behind that closed door? They are only 8. What's up with that?</div>
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Later they went to the kitchen and raided the fridge. Another first.</span><br />
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July 2:<br />
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Day 12 and a half of solo parenting. I fell asleep with Natalie last night and just woke at 4:40 am.</div>
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I was ready to put both kids out to pasture yesterday, but our yard is not big enough for two separate corrals.</span><br />
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July 3:<br />
Day 14 of solo parenting. We're eagerly awaiting Amy's arrival. She landed in the US 17 hours ago, but she was too tired to drive home... At least that gave me a last night to vacuum the filthy rugs.<br />
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July 4:<br />
The prodigal mother has returned.<br />
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July 5:<br />
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Day 1 of joint parenting. It is such a pleasure to be able to tag out when I need to. Of course there's plenty to do because we leave tomorrow for 2 weeks in the woods, but now I can leave home while the kids sleep!</div>
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Thanks to all of you who offered encouragement during my 2 weeks alone. It was nice to reconnect. Not the first time I've flown solo like this but it's the first time I shared it on FB. Let's do this again sometime.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-5962892475135809112014-06-25T23:57:00.001-04:002015-01-14T23:28:57.502-05:00diary of a solo parentHi blog readers,<br />
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My wife is away for 2 weeks and I started writing about it on Facebook. Below are the first few entries and you can find more here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mfrphoto">www.facebook.com/mfrphoto</a><br />
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June 21<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">After 2 exciting weeks in Ukraine I came home - and today Amy left for 2 weeks in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Someday we'll travel together again... but for now I'm on dad duty until July 3.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">My question is: what should I do to surprise my wife when she returns? What would you want?</span><br />
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June 22<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Day 1 of solo parenting: the kids begged for a swim and a picnic and I complied, even though it made for late bedtimes.</span><br />
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June 23<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Day 2 of solo parenting: Natalie likes to make declarative sentences and then feels a need to prove herself right. As in: I don't need to hold hands to cross the street! Or: I don't like this toothpaste [which she has used every night for months], I like yours! Or: I need to wear a diaper! Why does Jacob get one, I need one too!</span><br />
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June 24<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Day 3 of solo parenting. How do single parents do this? Today I was so busy working that I barely had time to go to Work.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">6 pm is not the best time to grocery shop with 2 young kids, but it was the only time it fit. Had I not kept policing Natalie, our cart would have ended up with matzoh ball soup mix, froot loops, honey nut cheerios, 16 hot dog buns, organic multigrain penne, and single-serving cups of cinnamon applesauce in it. As she proudly announced at checkout: "I helped my daddy the WHOLE TIME!"</span><br />
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Day 5 of solo parenting. I was tired all day after Natalie stayed up late and woke up early. Tonight I just decided to fall asleep in her room. I'll stagger off to my own bed now after filing this report.<br />
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I had a blast last week giving a TEDx Fulbright talk about creativity and photography in D.C.<br />
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My talk is temporarily online. Check it out while supplies last! (Eventually it will be edited and up on the TED site but I'm not sure when.)<br />
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For now, view it here on the<a href="http://new.livestream.com/tedx/events/2894463/videos/47158549" target="_blank"> livestream page</a>. My talk starts at 53:20.<br />
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Wow! I am honored to be among an amazing group of photographers recognized today by National Press Photographers Association's Best Of Photojournalism 2014.<br />
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I can't quite believe I won 3 awards considering how much great work is out there. Really, 1 award would have been plenty!<br />
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• Multimedia Tablet/Mobile Category: First Place: Michael Forster Rothbart for ZUMA Press for <a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/tedbooks_library#MichaelRothbart">"Would You Stay?”</a><br />
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• <a href="https://nppa.org/news/new-york-times-wins-nppas-best-use-multimedia">Best Use of Multimedia Category</a>: Third Place: Michael Forster Rothbart and ZUMA Press for "Would You Stay? Life After Chernobyl and Fukushima." <br />
Chang W. Lee, Barry Bearak, and The New York Times won first, and the indomitable Kainaz Amaria from National Public Radio won second.<br />
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• <a href="https://nppa.org/spotlight/65890">Contemporary Issues Category</a>: Honorable Mention: Michael Forster Rothbart of ZUMA Press shooting for TED Books<br />
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Congrats also to Smiley Pool, Scott Strazzante, Claire O'Neill, Brian Storm, Josh Haner, James Estrin, Sara Lewkowicz, Corey Perrine, Mark Ovaska and many others for some amazing work which you can check out here: <a href="https://nppa.org/news/new-york-times-wins-nppas-best-use-multimedia">https://nppa.org/news/new-york-times-wins-nppas-best-use-multimedia</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-51235826483709108782014-01-29T23:03:00.000-05:002014-03-27T13:12:01.313-04:00Big Data test photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are test shots for tomorrow's shoot on Big Data. It will be even more fun with 8 live subjects instead of these mannequins.<br />
In case you're wondering: 3 digital projectors as main light sources plus 2 off-camera flashes for sidelight/rim light.<br />
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Update: final photos posted <a href="http://oneonta.photoshelter.com/gallery/140130-Big-Data-researchers/G00004VlHNOsQvgA/C0000oO6JPlgYtC8">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-50278715087425439422013-12-06T16:13:00.000-05:002013-12-06T16:13:02.749-05:00Washington PostGosh, they'll publish anything in the Washington Post these days!<br />
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I've been meaning to thank the Post for publishing a <a href="http://bit.ly/mfrphoto_WashPost">gallery of photos</a> from my Chernobyl-Fukushima book. Thanks Post!<br />
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See them here: <a href="http://bit.ly/mfrphoto_WashPost">http://bit.ly/mfrphoto_WashPost</a><br />
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I have no idea what that truly means in terms of actual eyeballs looking at my book. And is anyone really reading the book or are they just talking about it? I decided not to ask TED Books how many people have actually bought the book. Better not to worry about that.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-33473949888371101032013-11-10T07:42:00.000-05:002013-11-10T07:37:59.514-05:00live on CNNSo, I was on CNN yesterday to talk about my TED book.<br />
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I'll be honest, I got nervous, but I think I still managed to sound coherent. (I hope so - you tell me.) I just wish they had told me which camera to look at!<br />
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Still, I had an interesting interview with A Martinez, host of the NPR show Take Two in southern California. Martinez kept describing my photos and then asking me to tell the story behind it. It worked well, actually.<br />
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Here is the<a href="http://media.scpr.org/audio/upload/2013/11/04/20131104_rothbart.mp3"> radio interview</a>:<br />
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And here is the <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2013/11/04/34476/picture-this-documenting-life-after-a-nuclear-disa/?slide=2">Take Two image gallery</a> they posted so you can see what we're talking about.<br />
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I have to admit, I am not used to being on the other side of the mike.<br />
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Filmmaker <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2013/10/31/a-story-of-people-not-radiation-a-conversation-about-chernobyl-and-fukushima/">Holly Morris interviewed me</a> about my book last week. OK, we interviewed each other. She is making a film about the old women still living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. TED released her TED talk at the same time as my book. <br />
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Today, I'll be describing some specific photos from my book on the NPR show <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/">Take Two</a>, on KPCC 89.7 FM in southern California. Not sure exactly when I'll be on air, the show runs 9-11 am Pacific.<br />
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Livestream the show <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/">here</a> and I'll post a link to listen later.<br />
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UPDATE: the broadcast of my interview was delayed due to the tragic shooting at LAX. It will air on Monday.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-81057748729914147612013-10-30T23:52:00.002-04:002013-10-30T23:52:58.470-04:00feeling thankful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
Here are two crazy unbelievable things:<br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e5665; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span>My book Would You Stay? which started as a little project in Chernobyl in 2007, will be a book out there in the ether, as of tomorrow.</li>
<li>We were, I must confess, still making last-minute improvements until 10 o'clock tonight. But now it is really and truly on its way.</li>
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Tonight I am feeling so grateful to all the people who helped in so many ways over the years to bring this dream of mine to life.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Including photographers Alana Smith and Jason Sexton, who went out with me to the Susquehanna River on a chilly fall day and took a bunch of amazing author photos for the book.</div>
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(The one above is by Alana.)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-26244573347327479462013-10-29T08:36:00.005-04:002013-10-29T10:43:27.478-04:00Interview today on The TakeawayI was just interviewed about my book by the NPR show The Takeaway. It will air at 9 am today (Oct. 29). Listen live here - <a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/">www.thetakeaway.org</a>. Later I'll post a link to listen after the fact.<br />
<br />
OK: here is the link to listen:<br />
<iframe frameborder="0" height="54" scrolling="no" src="//www.thetakeaway.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetakeaway.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F327685%2F;containerClass=takeaway" width="474"></iframe> <div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-26136951115769492992013-10-24T21:35:00.001-04:002013-10-24T21:35:59.985-04:00Chernobyl and Fukushima book in one week<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends,</span></div>
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It's still hard for me to believe, but in one more week
my book on Chernobyl and Fukushima will be out. It's called <u>Would You Stay?</u> and
it's being published by TED Books, the people who do the TED talks.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It's an e-book, which makes it feel less tangible but I
am so excited I keep waking up and wondering if it is really happening.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
I first went to Chernobyl in 2007 and I've been working
on this on and off for 6 years. I never expected initially it would become such a big project but it always felt important, and after the 3.11 earthquake in Fukushima it felt doubly important.</div>
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<br /></div>
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During the next week I'll post some photos from the
opening sequence. Today just the cover...</div>
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Here's a caption: </div>
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If you arrive by train, as the nuclear personnel do, this
is your first view of the sprawling Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, across the
cooling pond. The station that once generated power now consumes it. The new
heating plant has the only active smokestack on the horizon. Beside it are the
unfinished, abandoned cooling towers. Beyond the smokestack at right is the
“Shelter Object” which covers the Fourth Block of the plant.<br /><br />Even after Fukushima, Chernobyl remains the site of the
world's worst nuclear accident. The population within 30 kilometers was
permanently evacuated, including residents of Pripyat and many villages.
Although the Chernobyl plant finally stopped generating electricity in December
2000, today 3,700 employees continue to work at the plant. They commute from
their new city of Slavutych, which was built after the accident to replace
Pripyat.</blockquote>
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Thanks for all the encouragement from many of you over
the years!</div>
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Mike</div>
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Except for
laundry, the outside of the Ide’s apartment block in the temporary housing
complex is colorless: gray gravel, black asphalt, beige aluminum siding. There
is just one spot of green visible between here and the treetops on a distant
hill: Mamoru Suzuki is bent over his bonsai, watering and pulling off dying
leaves. Dozens of pots cascade off his steps and along the wall as far as his
neighbor’s door. More of his plants line the far end of the building.<br />
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Compared to
his boisterous neighbors, Suzuki moves as quietly as a whisper. So shy we can
barely hear him speak, he looks like he wishes he could vanish, or shrivel up
like the brown leaf in his hand. After a few false starts, I ask about his
plants and he proudly begins to explain. He tells us how he cares for the
delicate tiny trees and shrubs, and discusses uses of the flowers and herbs. </div>
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Bit by bit
his story comes out. Like his neighbors, Suzuki was a farmer in Kawauchi. He is
wiry and must be over 70 but moves like a younger man. He owned seven cows, he
says, but he had to kill them all after the radiation came. For a time he lived
here with his family of five, but they left to move further north, to Fukushima
city. They tell him their new housing is much better up there, but he refuses
to move a second time. Why? Because of the plants. Already he’s had to give up
all his gardens once. He can’t bear to do it again. Since he could not take
these new plants with him, he chooses to live here, alone, rather than uproot.</div>
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“I have no
vision for the future,” he says. “Summer here is too hot and winter too cold.”</div>
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Across the
sea of asphalt stands another block of apartments. A man comes barefoot out of
building H-15 and sits cross-legged on his front deck. He begins shaving there,
and calls out to us as we pass by. </div>
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Yukio Kubota
is also from Kawauchi town. On March 15, 2011, four days after the earthquake,
he and his wife evacuated to Niigata, his wife’s hometown on the west coast.
She has stayed with relatives for the past year but he returned to Fukushima Prefecture
to be closer to home.</div>
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Once last
summer he returned home for a few days. The weeds were more than a meter high,
he says. “The first day we cut weeds. The second day we removed all soil in the
garden up to 5 cm deep. The radiation inside the house was 4.3 μSv per hour,
but we didn’t have a Geiger counter so we were sleeping in this place.” They
left when they learned how high the radiation still was.</div>
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A note on
radiation dose: 1 Sievert is 1000 milliSieverts (mSv) is one million
microSieverts (μSv). To compare, the peak level measured in this part of the
Exclusion Zone (330 μSv/hr on 3/15/11) (1) was 76 times higher than the dose inside
Yukio’s house; however his house level was still 12 times more than typical
background radiation. The EPA recommends an annual dose limit of 1 mSv per
year, which Yukio would reach inside his house in less than 10 days. </div>
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Here is a
useful <u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png" target="_blank">chart</a></u> that illustrates doses. </div>
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Symptoms of
Acute Radiation Sickness generally start above 350 mSv — 81,400 times the
hourly dose at Yukio’s. This leads some Japanese to conclude there is nothing
to worry about. However, just because you’re not keeling over today doesn’t
mean there is no risk of future disease (as I discussed <u><a href="http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2013/03/after-fukushima-part-7.html" target="_blank">here</a></u>).</div>
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Now, a year
later, government workers have finally decontaminated his house and yard. The initial
new reading was 1 to 2 μSv per hour. “I am waiting to see the radiation levels
before I decide to move home,” he says.</div>
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The Wakamiya evacuee housing complex in Koriyama city forms a giant grid of pre-fab buildings, 11 apartments per building, 5 buildings per row, erected on a field of gravel and asphalt. In the middle is the Odagaisama Center—a community building with a recreation room and a radio station that broadcasts news and music to evacuees.</blockquote>
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Fukushima evacuee radio station sites:</div>
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Koriyama
station <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gurutto-koriyama.com%2Fdetail%2Findex_213.html" target="_blank">homepage</a> and <a href="http://www.simulradio.jp/asx/OdagaisamaFM.asx" target="_blank">livestream</a></div>
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Iwaki
station <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fm-iwaki.co.jp%2Fcgi-bin%2FWebObjects%2F1201dac04a1.woa%2F" target="_blank">homepage</a> and <a href="http://www.simulradio.jp/asx/fm-iwaki.asx" target="_blank">livestream</a></div>
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List of
other <a href="http://www.simulradio.jp/" target="_blank">radio stations for evacuees</a>.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">There is riotous laughter coming
out of Block G-1, Unit 2, of the Wakamiya temporary evacuee housing complex in
Koriyama. We hear it from the far end of the
row. As we approach, a small round man and a woman come erupting out the door.
As if the force of the laughter inside ejected them from the unit. They nearly
barrel into a neighbor, and as they relate a story, he is soon laughing too. </span>I
smile politely and, still laughing, the couple introduce themselves.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Takaaki and Yumiko Ide are
evacuees from Kawauchi village. They are farmers, and one of the first things
Takaaki tells us is how he </span>misses the trees that surround their farm in
the mountains near Namie. “And the vegetables, the vegetables,” his wife Yumiko
breaks in. “Here we have to buy food, for the first time in our lives!” Beans,
squash, rice and eggs, all from the store!</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">The Ides have lived here for 14
months with their family. Initially, five of them crowded into one 10 by 20-foot
unit, but as some other evacuees have left they’ve been able to spread out. Now
their teenage daughter lives on one side, and their two mothers on the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">I ask if we could see what their
apartment looks like and soon we’re all pulling off shoes and crowding into the
small kitchen. The mothers, two little ladies, are sitting on stools behind a
table covered with steaming dishes. A round of introductions and soon the
laughter fills the room even more than the people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Each unit has a traditional
tatami mat bedroom, a kitchenette and bathroom. Red Cross and government donations
provided them with a refrigerator, 2-burner stove, microwave, toaster oven,
washer and even a flat screen TV. It may feel small after their farm in the
hills. But compared to third-world refugee camps (or a Tokyo apartment) it’s
downright spacious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">The family is about to eat
dinner. Takaaki Ide, suddenly finding himself host to surprise visitors, both
wants and does not want us to stay. We refuse but as we trade phone numbers we
promise to return another day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Outside, the sun has set but the
July heat still rises off the massive mall-sized parking lot in front of the Block
G-1 apartments. Every parking space is painted neatly with a letter and number:
evacuation planners intended for each family to bring exactly one car, but in
fact most of the lot is empty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This complex
built after the quake has 570 units, housing evacuees from Tomioka, Kawauchi
and Futuba towns. All these towns are in the original 30-km exclusion zone, but
in some places the radiation levels have fallen. Kawauchi residents have
been allowed back in. </div>
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Like many
rural villages, Kawauchi’s population has been decreasing for a long time, down
to 2,800 in 2010 from 3,800 in 1995. (1) Now about 400 of them have returned
home full-time. (2) “The radiation level is down but there is no infrastructure
and no jobs and no place to work,” one volunteer, Beverly Tajima, told me. </div>
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Most
afternoons, after the shift ends at his new job in Koriyama, Takaaki Ide drives
back home to their farm. They were not permitted to bring their dog with them
to the temporary housing, and so he returns home to feed her. After one summer,
the weeds were taking over, he says. He cleared plants beside the house but
worried about radiation in the yard and left the rest standing.</div>
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One reason
for his optimism is that he is certain they’ll be able to move home eventually,
perhaps as soon as this fall. Japanese evacuees like those from Kawauchi have
something the Ukrainians don’t: hope. </div>
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Perhaps this
is an aspect of national character—Buddhist equanimity versus Slavic pessimism.
Or is it a function of timing? After two years, the future in Fukushima remains
uncertain, but give the Japanese two decades and they may be more like the Ukrainians,
resigned to their fate.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Tomorrow: <a href="http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2013/06/after-fukushima-part-12.html">more stories from evacuees</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">(1) <a href="http://www.citypopulation.de/php/japan-fukushima.php?cityid=07544" target="_blank">City Population</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(2)
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-10/fukushima-seeks-revival-in-radiation-free-farms-with-no-soil.html" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424583.post-30410380236874191962013-06-03T19:23:00.000-04:002013-06-04T16:00:46.245-04:00After Fukushima, part 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every
evening after dinner, plumber Masayuki Nagai opens the newspaper and pores over
the radiation reports. The average daily dose for each city is monitored by
government dosimeters and printed each day in the paper alongside the weather. Nagai
tracks the changes, but at the same time, he doesn’t believe what he reads. “People
don’t trust the government numbers,” he says. “Unlike the supermarkets, which
now report exactly where each food came from.” People trust the stores labels,
he believes, because a market would lose all its customers if they ever learned
they’d been lied to. It’s harder to switch governments than supermarkets.</blockquote>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">What
went wrong in Fukushima? (</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">What
didn’t?!)</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">OK folks, let’s review what happened
in Fukushima. First there was an earthquake on an earthquake-prone island.
Which caused a tsunami to hit the same country that invented the damned word.
This then flooded a nuclear power plant that was built, as usual, beside the
water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">You didn’t see this coming? <s><o:p></o:p></s></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Essentially, what we had was a failure
of imagination. No one ever imagined the tsunami could be so big, no one
imagined what a nuclear meltdown would look like. It seems inexcusable. But to
be fair, disaster planners tasked with imagining the worst are often
constrained by outside forces. In the U.S., budget
priorities are often the constraint. In Japan, authorities face a “cultural
bias against open discussion of worst-case scenarios,” especially when it looks
like the Japanese government and society are unprepared for them. (1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">The Chairman of one investigation,
NAIIC, summarizes the cultural issues well: </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">“What must be admitted – very
painfully – is that this was a disaster “Made in Japan.” Its fundamental causes
are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive
obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with
the program’; our groupism; and our insularity.” (2)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">So came the hell and high water.
After the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, there were three separate major Japanese investigations
into what went wrong: reports from <a href="http://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/icanps/eng/final-report.html" target="_blank">ICANPS</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">a government- appointed panel;
<a href="http://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp/en/" target="_blank">NAIIC</a>, an independent investigation commissioned by the National Diet of Japan,
and RJIF, an independent think tank. (The National Diet, I should note, is not
seafood — it is the name of the Japanese Parliament). Dozens of other organizations
near and far issued their own analyses, including the <a href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2012/1205638_1870.html" target="_blank">TEPCO</a> (Tokyo Electric
Power Company) report, which neatly <u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/asia/tepco-operator-of-fukushima-exonerates-itself-in-report.html" target="_blank">absolved itself</a></u> of any wrongdoing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">The Diet report calls the
accident a manmade disaster, pointing out failures to “</span><span style="font-family: FSSally; mso-bidi-font-family: FSSally; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">develop
the most basic safety requirements” including risk assessment, preparing for
collateral damage from a tsunami and developing evacuation plans. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">This happened due to collusion
between government regulators and TEPCO, resulting in weak enforcement and slow
implementation of regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">TEPCO failed to have proper emergency
training for personnel or adequate equipment inspections. In the emergency
response, the roles between the Prime Minister, the nuclear regulators and the
power company were unclear: all gave conflicting instructions and mistrusted
each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Here’s how bad it got inside the plant: as radiation levels
soared, workers were trying to vent the reactors, getting contradictory orders
and working by flashlight in the pitch dark. They discovered that their manuals
assumed there would be no blackout during such an emergency and that “sections
in the diagrams of the severe accident instruction manual were missing.” (3)
It’s a miracle things did not get worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Meanwhile, in nearby villages, an orderly evacuation was
underway. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">And pigs can fly. </span><br />
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No, actually, the evacuations were complete chaos. The
Japanese government was slow to relay information to local officials and slower
to admit how severe the disaster was. As a result, instructions for residents conflicted
and changed every few hours. Residents were told to shelter-in-place or that
evacuation was mandatory or that it was voluntary, and the evacuation zone kept
changing, from 2 km to 3 km to 10 km to 20 km from the nuclear plant. As a
result, some people had to re-evacuate four times while others were relocated
to sites with higher radiation and left there.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Approximately 146,500 people were evacuated but evacuees
were seldom informed about radiation risks or safety precautions or what to
bring with them. For the first four days, no one even knew the radiation levels
in the surrounding villages. 23 out of 24 fixed radiation monitoring posts were
washed away or disconnected by the tsunami. And the one functioning mobile
monitor was not mobile: the truck was out of gas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">Two years later, Fukushima evacuees and residents are still under
strain. Several reports condemn the government’s continuing lack of support for
public health and welfare. Again, the Diet report:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">“The residents in the affected area are still struggling
from the effects of the accident. They continue to face grave concerns,
including the health effects of radiation exposure, displacement, the
dissolution of families, disruption of their lives and lifestyles and the
contamination of vast areas of the environment. There is no foreseeable end to
the decontamination and restoration activities that are essential for
rebuilding communities… The government has not seriously undertaken programs to
help people understand the situation well enough to make their own behavioral
judgments.” (3)</span></blockquote>
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What I saw is that many evacuees are living in a state of
limbo, still living in temporary housing, waiting to learn if they’ll be able
to return home, waiting for more answers that never seem to come.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tomorrow: <a href="http://mfrphoto.blogspot.com/2013/06/after-fukushima-part-11.html">meet one evacuee family</a></span><!--EndFragment--><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">SOURCES:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">(2) Kiyoshi Kurokawa in the Executive summary of the official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramond-Regular;">(3) The official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.mfrphoto.com</div>Michael Forster Rothbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16414171560260042815noreply@blogger.com