秋田の友人から、そのまた友人の写真展のお知らせが来た。展覧会の主、大西さんは岐阜県揖斐郡池田町の人だそうだ。隣の揖斐川町に引っ越したスープ屋さんたちも知ってるだろうか、、、

明後日、行ってみようと思う。

京都、一乗寺のBIT CUBE art spaceにて

大西暢夫写真・映像展
『家族の軌跡』3.11の記憶から
2015.8.6(木）～8.9(日）
11：00～19：00(最終日17:00まで）
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〈上映とトークの会〉
映画『家族の軌跡』
8.8（土）16：00～18：30
来春完成を前に大西暢夫が映像とトークで被災地の今を伝えます
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１０年か２０年か、長年使われてきた風呂の換気扇が昨年あたりからヴィィィィ〜ンと唸るようになった。軸受メタルの摩耗だろう。モーター自体はまだまだ回る気十分でも、古い扇風機がよく火を噴くと聞くのでここはひとつ引退してもらうことにした。

メーカーはもう同じ型番は製造しておらず同サイズの後継品を注文した。新型は殆どプラスチック製でやたら軽い。箱が届いた時、換気扇本体ではなく間違ってカバーかダクトだけが来てしまったか？と思ったほど。

旧型では金属だったファンもプラ化され、羽が普通のプロペラ形状ではなくターボファンという圧送能力の高いタイプになっている。しかも静音性を上げるためだろう、エッジ部分はギザギザにしてある。最新旅客機Boeing787のエンジン後部に付けられたシェブロンノズルと同じようなものなのか。。。

内部の色は灰色から黒の変更され、カビや汚れが目立たなくなっている。でも、カバーを外さないと見えないところだし、掃除の目安としては汚れが判りやすいほうがええのにねえ。。。あと、プラスチック化が進んだためだろうか、アース取りが不要の二重絶縁となっていた。確かに、配線以外で漏電しそうな金属部分が見当たらない。（風蓋はアルミ板だけど、風圧駆動で電気周りとは隔絶している）

ともあれ、アースがないので電線2本を端子で接続するだけ。後はネジで壁に固定し、カバーを取り付けたらちゃちゃっと完了。

確かに静かになった。。。

ウチの風呂の窓から、昼は谷の向こうの山の緑が見えるし、夜は月見ができてとってもエエ感じなんやけど、うっかり立ち上がるとスッポンポンを下の家々に開陳することになりまんねん。

このチーズケーキ、「ラクトバシラス・ゴリラエ」というゴリラの腸内から分離された新種の乳酸菌を使ってるそうな。

でも、、、リンク先の写真でケーキを頬張ってる、シャツ着たゴリラの腸由来じゃないだろうな（笑）

京大正門入ったところのカフェレストラン「カンフォーラ」で明日から３日間限定提供だとか。

なんか、美味そうなので、甘いもの好きとしてはぜひ食べてみたい！！！！

ちょっと古い先週の水曜日のこと。

出かけようと車のところへ歩いていたらカワイイ栗のイガが落ちていた。

連日の猛暑でボーっとなってるか、地下室に引きこもるかしているけど、きっとそのうち、必ず涼しくなるんだよ、って言われたみたい。

I don’t necessarily object to athletes gathering and competing in the Olympic games; in fact I don’t mind sitting up until late or even till dawn to watch sports TV programs of those games held elsewhere on the other side of the globe.

I am worried, of cause, about the recent tendency of the ugly commercialization and overgrowth of the Olympiad along with political exploitation by the hegemonist nations, all of which is casting a shadow over its healthy operation. Nevertheless, as a former rugger man, I am expecting to see rugby football return to the Olympic games in  Rio de Janeiro, 2016.

But, THING is different when it comes to Tokyo’s Olympiad that will be held in 2020. I would like you guys who live outside of Japan to remember this country is even now suffering the radioctive contamination.

The damned nuke in Fukushima is scouring the radioactive water like loose bowels into the ocean. TEPCO pumps water into the damaged reactors to cool the molten nuke fuel chunks, pump out the water, and store it in water tanks– so they say, but we don’t know where the molten fuel chunks are. They may most likely be sitting deep under the ground after melting through the reactors and containment vessels.

TEPCO insists the fuel is still inside the each CV but nobody has seen it and non of the Japanese believes what TEPCO says.  And a portion of the water pumped into the reactors reaches the molten fuel to be cooled, then soaks into the soil, merges the underground water, and eventually flows into the ocean to pollute the seawater. However, disregarding the contaminated underground water not counted, TEPCO announces that the cooling water is retrieved.

Fishing is prohibited on the adjacent waters off Fukushima nuke but the area is limited and radioactive pollution is widespread beyond. Even numb-headed Japanese avoid buying the fish if they are from Fukushima ports. The trick is that fishermen can land their catches at any port or wharf elsewhere other than Fukushima prefecture.

Talking about the radioactive fallout belched by the exploding nukes–  the tremendous amount of the radioactive gases, particles, and dusts, were released in the atmosphere, and then flown away. They adhered or absorbed to the soil, fallen leaves, wood bark and so on, thus contaminated the environment in Tohoku an Kanot regions including Tokyo. Yet, the Japanese Government explains that decontamination is possible and the effort is being made.

Again, that’s a farce. They just remove the surface of soil and fallen leaves, wash the road surface, scrub the roofs and wipe the tiles of buildings, leaving behind the rest of the vast land– you’ve gotta know the fact that 2/3 of the land is forest, and it is obviously impossible to clean up the contamination of the entire landmass.

The Government’s clever action against the impossible task is so disgusting; instead of evacuating the residents, they raised the limit of the Fukushima residents’ air radiation exposure dose up to 20mSv per year, whereas the air dose limit in the legal radiation control area, such as nuke and X-ray chamber, is 1.3mSv per three months. Along with this absurd decision, the Government’s negligence of the internal exposure puts the residents’ health in hazards.

The newly appointed Minister for the Olympics has brought up and such a wonderful suggestion that preliminary heats of the Olympic games could take place in Fukushima in order to cheer up the residents who still suffer the aftermaths of the earthquake, tunami, and nuke accident– what a splendid idea! (to kill people softly, silently, and slowly).

In Tokyo, there have been many “hotspots” discovered since the nuke accident. The air radiation dose rates at the hotspots are as high as those of Fukushima. The samples of soil taken from the hotspots indicate the dangerously high radioactivity.

So much for the stupidity, I have said. I am not any more about to add MINOR stuff like the humongous National Stadium, whose original estimated cost would have been equivalent to or more than the sum of the building costs of the five main stadiums of the last four Olympic Games, from Sydney to London, and that of forthcoming Rio de Janeiro. Of course, money matters, but compared to the radiation hazards, the National Stadium scandal is nothing but a pokerino.

In order to win the hosting of the Olympiad in Tokyo, Prime Minister Abe exquisitely mentioned “the situation is under control” as well as the fancy-looking-but-impossible-to-build Stadium at the International Olympic Committee conference. He either didn’t know what he was saying or simply lied. In either case, Japan is led by an asshole.

I sincerely want you to think about what I have written above, and DON’T COME to Japan’s Olympic Games in 2020, whether as a spectator or an athlete.