1. In Russia you see mommas pulling their kids on sleds everywhere. Not many fat and lazy moms in Russia…
2. Only two girls at Svetochka’s work, Men’s Day and the guys are hungry. What do you do? Why the two girls buy pizza and goodies and get the heck out of the way…
3. Yum Yum… Never fear, guys love pizza…
4. Chess learning center near our flat. Russian Kids love playing chess…
5. Svetochka and I went to see a classical music thingy and it had a museum it was playing within. We did not get too excited about the music thingy, but the museum was fantastic…
6. All located at the “Cathedral of Christ the Saviour” I like the place…
7. Then we had to feed a hungry bear and his sweetie….at a monastery it is called a Trapeznaya or in easier terms, cafe…
The pictures are in thumbnail mode, so you need to click on the images to get the whole picture…
I love the inviting and elegant door to the cafe! Kinda homey isn’t it? Perfect example of what I say about Russian presentation! They have none and no one cares…
I am thinking…Two more friends, colleagues and or trainees of my past have died. That makes a dozen or more in the few years…
Most are dying in their 50’s, and for me, who is older than them, makes me sad. Kinda like outliving your kids. That I myself have experienced personally and hope to not outlive anymore. But, people (men and women are in this same boat) I have taught and watched grow into fabulous managers and become at the top of their field, are dying and that makes me look at what I and they did for a living…
It is a given that no one but no one is left from the early days of war. There are still many left from my high school era and the university. But it seems that being a manager and in food service is a nasty combination. That combination almost got me also…
I could say that youth has taken over my past in food service, but it would actually be sadder to say the truth, death has taken the old and had to be replaced with the new…except the old was simply not that old…
Fast pace, eating wrong, drinking, smoking and stressing to the max. Is the basic traits for a manager in food service. Most that have died recently are people who had to keep working, even after having heart attacks. Many have made it to retirement and died soon thereafter…
I find it interesting to look around me at people I knew and or still know in the US. The number of people is dwindling, even as I write this, yet they are not that old…
How do they cover up in the statistics the young deaths of 50 to 60 years old and keep the average lifespan so high?
That’s not really meant to happen in developed countries
The ethereum-based platform, which allows anyone to audit the open-source results, has been downloaded by more than 100 node operators since its December launch.
In early December 2017, the Active Citizen project began to use blockchain technology. Now the data is stored both in an internal database and several other independent ones.
Blockchain guarantees that data will never be lost or changed after it has been submitted to the system. Nothing that goes into blockchain can be amended or deleted. A copy of this data is preserved and updated by all members of the system.
To hack a blockchain system, it would be necessary to hack all blocks and copies of the database on all computers, which is rather difficult – any person or organization can become part of it.
The introduction of this technology will make voting more transparent and protect stored data.
Two million users and 88 million opinions
The Active Citizen project was launched at the initiative of the Moscow Government in 2014 as a platform for holding open online referendums. The project makes it possible to hold city-wide and local polls on a broad range of issues. The scheme is unique in the world in terms of the number of active users and the range of issues citizens can vote on. The Active Citizen project has won several prestigious awards, including Smart Cities Awards 2015.
At the moment, there are almost 2 million registered users; 2,700 votes have been held and 88 million opinions taken into account.
In order to make the project transparent, a number of tools were introduced to allow users to watch the voting process and control the validity of the results. In particular, each voter can check the correctness of their vote and monitor the results online.
On 11 December 2017, Active Citizen received the Russian national Prometheus internet award for its economic, technological and social contribution to the lives of the citizens.
69.49 rubles was what breakfast cost… ($1.22 as of today)
Two hash browns with egg and tiny pieces of ham in them. A little salt and pepper and a cup of coffee made for a wonderful breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
Does it get any better?
Not at almost -20 C. and walking around 9000 steps every morning…
Me grouchy…
Now lets talk diabetes!
I have been diabetic since I turned 40 years old. Of course I was diabetic before that, but that is when I was diagnosed with the issue. It was time to see what was wrong. I had numb legs, was very lethargic and found my eyesight getting messed up. I can promise you that over twenty years later, I have done everything wrong for a diabetic to do and I have learned the hard way to get my act together and not destroy my body with diabetes…
Do I do everything perfect?
No! But I learn still and sometimes that makes me grouchy…
Here is what I have learned and if you experiment and try to follow some of them, you will do better. maybe you have a better tolerance for some things than me, but still you will benefit…
1. Starches! Starches will kick your ass….sweets and protein are better all the way around. Protein such as lean meat and eggs have virtually no effect. Fresh fruit sends my blood sugar screaming, but burns out quick. A candy bar does the same. But a potato, pasta and other starches are deadly. In moderation they are okay and will help stabilize you, but a plate of pasta with Alfredo sauce on it will send you to the moon on sugar levels… (What I ate this morning (potato, egg, meat and coffee) with walking has left me one hour later with 6.5 mmol/L level of sugar, other words: in about another hour, I will have to have a healthy snack, such as a slice of apple…)
2. Say it again: No bread, pasta and or potatoes. Unless you just have to eat them… This brings us to when you can try to eat them? (#3)
3. Exercise: You do not need to run, jog, dance and or prance. Though if you can, that is admirable and go ahead and do it. 🙂 But if you can walk and that means walk and walk and walk….I walk 8000 to 9000 steps a morning and a night (total is about 13 to 14 kilometers.) This does not include walking to the store and other activity. I have crippling arthritis and I know how bad walking can hurt. I still walk….after a few weeks the pain will lessen and you will build up a tolerance to the pain…
4. Find a treat that works for you. I have protein bars, with very little or no sugar and carbohydrates. Taste like cardboard, but will do the snack trick needed as I walk, I carry one in my pocket. I know when my blood sugar drops low. Just keep that emergency treat and if it is a treat that tastes like cardboard, then you will not want it and forget it is in your pocket. I decided if we have an apocalypse and Zombies take over the world? I will raid the protein bars at all the stores. They keep me stable and no one will grab them first….unless you are on insulin, any treat will do. The body just needs some food for energy mainly, even tricking the body works, like a sugar free candy…
5. Loose weight! Back to walking….fat people are prone to diabetes and I have been fat and am still too fat. Lose weight and you will find your medicine has to be adjusted down. Maybe you will always have to take pills, but you will lessen the amount you take and you will lose weight….I am losing weight again, by the way…
6. Lets talk about a given, but sadly overlooked issue. Don’t drink sugar drinks. Coke, Pepsi and anything with tons of pure sugar in them. Not even alternate sugars, such as fructose, sucrose and such. They will short term you spiking in sugar and you will then want a baked potato, sour cream and chives all smothered in cheese and salt and pepper. Then you will feel like crap for days….just think about that Thanksgiving dinner and the coma you go into after eating like a crazy fool!
7. Check your blood sugar a bunch. No more than that. Even more than that. Ouch you say? Damn it! Check your blood sugar and learn what it is at, when you feel a certain way. Yes, check your blood sugar, do it now….keep that sugar tester in sight and check it…
8. It really is simple: everything in moderation, exercise and last but not least….stress. Keep yourself from high stress levels. Stress is a killer and that has been my hardest thing to deal with. Stress means food for comfort and stress means sugar levels for me skyrocket…
I do nothing totally right, but I try and if you try and be honest with yourself at what you eat, how much you exercise and keep life calm. You will find that diabetes will not take you to an early grave and or have a leg or two missing…
I am trying and I exercise…
But it makes me grouchy at times… 😉
WtR
PS: I just check my blood sugar and it has gone down to 5.7 and as I said farther up, about an hour, I would need a snack. If I do not watch my levels, I will be in the 3’s mmol/L real soon. It is because of exercise. The potatoes do not bother you as much…
BLOOD SUGAR CHART
Fasting
Normal for person without diabetes
70–99 mg/dl (3.9–5.5 mmol/L)
Official ADA recommendation for someone with diabetes
80–130 mg/dl (4.4–7.2 mmol/L)
2 hours after meals
Normal for person without diabetes
Less than 140 mg/dl (7.8 mmol/L)
Official ADA recommendation for someone with diabetes
Less than 180 mg/dl (10.0 mmol/L)
HbA1c
Normal for person without diabetes
Less than 5.7%
Official ADA recommendation for someone with diabetes
I think of them as small castles. Or better yet a lookout tower from the old days. In our Tiny Russian Village the tower is all steel, but inside of bigger villages and cities the towers are brick and or stone, even wood at times. I am sure that inside is the same steel tower than we have in our village. Just bigger and covered in a facade. They are all like a tall, round home, with windows and such…
I like them and today as I walked all the way around Globus early in the morning, I took this image of the tower above. This tower feeds the water to a factory next to Globus. In fact the Globus sits on some land that was bought from the industrial area of the factory…
I walked from about 7 a.m. till 10:30 a.m.
Blood sugar got very low, so I stopped at Globus and ate breakfast…
I call the theater the “Hollywood Delight” and the other image is what I bought for 139 rubles. 139 rubles is about $2.50….I could have ate cheaper by far, but when my sugar levels get in the threes, my judgment gets messed up. Though, I have to say, it was really good and I enjoyed the time watching Russians shop and shop and shop and eat and eat…
The theater is near where we live and plays first run Hollywood movies. I see it is playing the new Panther Movie or what ever it is called.. Don’t really care to say the truth. I just know that it is way too expensive to go to a theater like this. I would image it is 1000 rubles a ticket?
Breakfast was hash browns, meat, peas, fried eggs and a wonderful coffee….I counted over three hundred people eating breakfast. Globus has anything you would want from pancakes to omelets…
Our democracy/republic and or what ever you want to call it, is dead, murdered slowly these last 50++ years, and both parties, Republican and Democrat, colluded in the killing. We are living in a nation ruled by an openly corporate owned government, with a Chief executive, our so called President and administration, who are puppets (be they willing or not,) administering the affairs of the nation at the behest of his corporate masters and wealthiest donors…
I guess the article sounds good when you are talking to children and telling a story to catch their interest. Maybe a cartoon would be better? Maybe we have seen too many cartoons? The fact is that by even writing something like this, we tell the whole world that we are looney tunes and much more dangerous than having ACME deliver something to catch the Road Runner…
Is America the land of children acting like adults?
Soon folks soon. The bottom of the pit we fell into is coming up fast. It has been interesting, but Chaos is waiting to collect its debt and we are rushing opened armed and joyously into Chaos…
So there you have it below: 13 Russians can change the history of the US and her elections, all the while, the CIA and White House spend around a billion dollars every year on stirring trouble inside Russia without success. The Russians sure do get a lot bigger bang for the buck than Americans do…
Tidbit of thinking: It goes to show how strong your democracy is when 13 individuals can change its outcome by leaving on-line comments….
I present the indictment of the Russians who changed your life in America. 13 of them so far, but isn’t 13 a bad number and evil. Maybe we should add one more and make it 14?
Baddest and most powerful Russians on earth… (Below)
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH BYSTROV,
MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH BURCHIK,
ALEKSANDRA YURYEVNA KRYLOVA,
ANNA VLADISLAVOVNA BOGACHEVA,
SERGEY PAVLOVICH POLOZOV,
MARIA ANATOLYEVNA BOVDA,
ROBERT SERGEYEVICH BOVDA,
DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV,
VADIM VLADIMIROVICH PODKOPAEV,
GLEB IGOREVICH VASILCHENKO,
IRINA VIKTOROVNA KAVERZINA,
VLADIMIR VENKOV
YEVGENIY VIKTOROVICH PRIGOZHIN
Strange, my wife is not on that list. Svetochka is the most baddest and most powerful Russian in my life. Hmm! (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
Soon folks soon. The bottom of the pit we fell into is coming up fast. It has been interesting, but Chaos is waiting to collect its debt and we are rushing opened armed and joyously into Chaos…
I take long walks now that Boza is gone. You can see it is very cold and snowy, we live in an aerospace city and I think that the middle picture is perfect Russian big city image…. Putin for president on the billboard, orthodox church across the street, rush hour traffic and the sun coming up…
{Korolyov or Korolev is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration.}
That is our home city where we live. Very safe, very nice and full of life…
I wake up at 4 a.m. and the news is plastered with…
Then as I sigh and get my coffee, I wonder as the water is boiling? Does the USA have a death wish? Is something wrong in America? Is America even mature enough anymore to have guns? Just a constant bang bang by American people, within America and outside of America…
Maybe we should trade all guns (for free) in for an iPhone X? I think that would go over and get a bunch off the streets…
Or maybe better, raise our kids to be decent and become decent adults! Is that possible anymore?
A good start would be to get government and MSM propaganda out of our lives…
Then we find out that what we already knew, if we looked around, was true…
In a strange coincidence, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was deported from Ukraine immediately after Sputnik announced it was going to publish the results of its investigation — and just a day after Saakashvili was to testify in court in the case of the snipers.
I would call the new street, Liars Lane:
A lawmaker from the nationalist LDPR has proposed renaming the Moscow street where the US embassy is located as ‘North American Dead End’ – and City Hall says it intends to consider this option.
This is a Russian thingy. A thing that I never see in mass doings, as in Russia, within America. Tragedy by families is almost always buffered. Be it from your home burning to jets falling from the sky. Families suffer enough at the loss of loved ones, but to be burdened with their debts is just wrong…
Sberbank has announced that the bank will cancel the debts of victims who died in the plane crash that occurred in the Moscow region on Sunday.
I wonder if we should be happy about this news? Or should we be worried?
Organizers of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics have put athletes’ safety among their top priorities by providing Olympic participants with a record number of condoms.
