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Yes it scares me: 100 megaton nuke…

I will be honest with you. Having trained as a nuclear specialist at one time many many years ago in the army, this weapons scares the bejeebees out of me. I cannot get enough information to tell if this is totally true, but as with much of the Russian weaponry and the advanced state of its weaponry, I would say it is a very good chance that “Status-6” is a fact…

It follows the massive submarine building that Russia has been doing. Russia is turning out subs at a unbelievable rate…

Popular Mechanics writes the link below…

Kanyon is designed to wipe out the enemy’s coastlines and make them unlivable for generations.

Source: Pentagon Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo

From a Russian websites below, translated…

Ocean multi-purpose system “Status-6” (Kanyon)

“Status-6” is designed to defeat important fleets, ports of the enemy’s economy in the vicinity of the coast and cause unacceptable damage to the country’s territory by creating zones of extensive radioactive contamination that are unsuitable for military, economic and other activities in these zones for a long time. “Status-6” is capable of destroying the Navy bases or carrier-based strike groups…

Status-6 is a remotely controlled automatic underwater robot carrying up to a 100 megaton-class nuclear weapon possessing computer intelligence and capable of acting independently at a distance of several thousand kilometers from the carrier. The maximum speed of the device allows you to escape from any existing enemy torpedo. The choice of speed and drone maneuvering exercises independently. (I understand that steady 55 knots and faster for a short burst…)

Status-6 refers to deep-sea uninhabited underwater vehicles (NPA), which can dive to a depth of 1000 meters and is a large high-speed torpedo with an atomic reactor and a huge nuclear warhead…

As a deterrent, the NPA can come to the destination and lie to the bottom, waiting for a signal to undermine the military unit. The signal can be fed along the long-wave channel, since long waves penetrate the water column. In this case, Russia receives a deterrent weapon with a 100% guarantee of operation…

The nuclear-powered submarines of the special purpose of projects 09851 Khabarovsk, 09852 Belgorod, 09853 “Until Untitled” should be the carriers of the ocean multipurpose weapon system “Status-6″…

The development of projects is also handled by JSC “TsKB MT Rubin” (Russia)

The construction of the submarine SN 09851 “Khabarovsk” and 09852 “Belgorod” is carried out by JSC “PO” Sevmash “(Russia)

On November 27, 2016, a successful test launch was made from the Sarov submarine.

Characteristics:

Diameter 1.6 m
Length – 24 m
Working depth – up to 1000 m.
Drivers – water jet
Nuclear reactor – 8 MW, small-sized on liquid-metal coolant
Cruising speed – up to 55 km / h
The maximum speed is 100 – 185 km / h.
The range is up to 10 thousand km.
The warhead – with a cobalt section, for maximum radioactive contamination of a huge territory.
The power of the warhead is 100 Mt.
Low-visibility for hydroacoustics SOSSUS – up to 2 – 3 km at cruising speed of the vehicle

Russian specs below…

Разработкой проектов также занимается АО “ЦКБ МТ “Рубин” (Россия)

Постройкой АПЛ СН 09851 “Хабаровск” и 09852 “Белгород” занимается ОАО «ПО “Севмаш” (Россия)

27 ноября 2016 года с подводной лодки “Саров” произведен успешный испытательный пуск.

Характеристики:

Диаметр – 1,6 м
Длина – 24 м
Рабочая глубина – до 1000 м.
Движители – водометные
Ядерный реактор – 8 МВт, малогабаритный на жидкометаллическом теплоносителе
Крейсерская скорость – до 55 км/ч
Максимальная скорость – 100 – 185 км/ч.
Дальность – до 10 тыс. км.
Боеголовка – с кобальтовой секцией, для максимального радиоактивного загрязнения громадной территории.
Мощность БЧ – 100 Мт.
Малозаметность для гидроакустики SOSSUS – до 2 – 3 км при крейсерской скорости аппарата

I really think it is time to stop poking the BEAR…

Russia is vastly more advanced in weaponry than the West wants to admit and lets not even talk about China…

Here, one more link to wet your whistle…

https://sputniknews.com/military/201612121048455835-status-6-drone-sub-analysis/

I don’t like the destructive power of such a weapon and stopping it is not possible. Even to set it off offshore is to send a tsunami of death to the shore…

Would be nice to just be friends, I get along fine with the Russians and I am an America. Why can’t the rest of us Americans, quit poking the bear?

Say something before it is too late.

100 megatons is one big hello and goodbye in one act…

WtR

I am thinking…

The United States just can’t seem to come to grips with a new reality – that most of the world’s people live in the ‘Old World’ on the other side of the planet, that Russia, China and some other nations have decided to assert themselves as regional powers, that China eventually will be a superpower, that nations over there have decided and want to manage their own affairs without the interference of the US, and that there are now limits to what we can control “over there.” It has reached the point where the bunglers who manage foreign policy in this country (USA) feel that we have to do something over there, even if we don’t know what we are doing and even if our actions usually produce outcomes that are worse for our interference. The cold war is over and the US is trying to revive it, even though the “Red Menace” no longer exists. If this country can’t come to grips with the reality that it is no longer the big dog in every corner of the world, it will slide into irrelevance or, worse, start a nuclear war. American exceptionalism will render the country a has-been, third world, banana republic. It’s long past time for this country to extract its head from its posterior and come to grips with its new role in the world, before we further bankrupt ourselves in more hopeless military quagmires…

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It was more than -20 this morning as we took off to get Svetochka to the train station….I am walking no matter what….I ran a 38.8 temperature yesterday, as I fight with very bad arthritis that gives me fevers. Just do it people….walk…

As I write this article after almost 10,000 steps this morning, it is still -19, But that is really nothing new to a Russian and they are out in groves getting on with business. Guys are on the roofs removing snow, knocking icicles down and children are going to school. Cold is just another obstacle in a normal life for a Russian. Builders build and children go to school. It does not slow down until you see -40 to -50 and then they might play chess inside instead of outside. 🙂

This morning I watched four guys sitting on the edge of a tall building, they were dangling their feet over the edge and sipping coffee and eating sweet rolls. They waved at me and I waved back. They were enjoying life…

Isn’t that what it is all about?

Therefore, if you have two good feet and can walk, just walk and get better…

Lets look at some more images…

These were taken with my phone… Click to get away from thumbnail size…

The Russians had every reason in the world to bitch about the Olympics (with all the political issues tossed at her) but, I see the west and particularly the USA is bitching to beat the band. I was kinda pleased to see Russia took the most important event of the Winter Olympics. Russia played hockey and went to the end in style…

Somethings are meant to be…

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/25/russia-blamed-eastern-ghouta-crisis-the-west-hypocrisy-knows-no-bounds.html

You need to read this….and think, grab the link and read…

As usual, the West has demonstrated its ability to fire off a quick response when it comes to slamming Russia for something it has not done. This time it’s about Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb under terrorist control. The accusation? Russia and its ally Syria are guilty of killing innocent civilians, thanks to their “devastating” attacks and “siege-and-starve tactics.” It’s the same old story – no actions against terrorists are permissible because of the risk of collateral damage. The Western media have jumped on the anti-Russia bandwagon as readily as if they were orchestra members carefully following the tempo of their conductor’s baton. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wasted no time chiming in.

Lets have a good quote to help the thinking…

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. – Christina Ricci

Lets end with that quote…

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Well, it seems, some nations have specific problems. Like Norwegian winter Olympians all seem to have Asthma. And they get the appropriate medicine? I call foul on such practices…

Norway’s cross-country skiers will arrive in Pyeongchang hoping to continue their recent dominance in a sport that doubles as a national obsession, but even at home there are questions over the ethical use of medicines by athletes.

Source: Norway’s cross-country Olympic success clouded by asthma drug ethics

Its tough to be an Olympian and be so allergic to “fresh cold air” that you need 200 doses of asthma medication for a week…

Olympic doping: Athletes turn to common nasal spray, asthma inhalers, for edge

Like Norwegian winter Olympians all seem to have Asthma and it is a chosen problem, to enhance with legally…

Such hypocrisy. I was not aware that people with asthma, are so good at long distance sports. Russians get a blanket ban on their entire team and life bans (literally) for lessor issues. Even when the Norwegian three-time Olympic medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby was caught by WADA with almost 10 times the allowed limit of “asthma medicine”, he gets a 2 month suspension and is ended up competing in PyonChang? (With very little fanfare and full blessings!)

Sorry but, it count as steroids if you don’t have asthma, if you do have asthma….well, you don’t do long distance endurance sports…..and that is the issue….giving drugs for false health issues to enhance the athlete with and only allowing certain countries to indulge in such practices…

The rules have to be applied to all and all equally! But as with the way of the world in general….they are not and have never been applied properly…

EG: Now, it turns out that there are figures, hidden in WADA’s own reports no less, showing not only that the number of Russian athletes caught doping is well within international norms, but that the Russian National Anti-Doping Organization RUSADA has one of the highest rates of testing in the world. The figures, found in the organization’s ‘2014 Anti-Doping Testing Figures Report’, show that RUSADA carried out 12,556 anti-doping tests on its athletes in 2014, with a total of 0.9% (114 cases) testing positive for prohibited substances. As a percentage, that figure is actually lower than the global total calculated by WADA (which amounted to 1.0% of total testing). (wada_2014_anti-doping-testing-figures_full-report_en)

Either allow everything and or allow nothing and nothing is the best. If you have to be drugged to perform, then maybe you need to get a desk job…

Very simple!

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Why doesn’t the US just slap sanctions on everybody, open up multiple war fronts with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Ukraine, and declare trade wars with everybody else….oh wait…

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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…

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I am thinking…

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

Source: Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row

Hmm…

Maybe they can’t! Maybe it is too prevalent to cover it all up?

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Russia may not be known as a defender of democracy, but the capital city of Moscow is using an ethereum-based voting platform to change that.

Source: Russia Is Leading the Push for Blockchain Democracy – CoinDesk

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.

Source: https://github.com/moscow-technologies/ag-blockchain

Hmm… very interesting…

Active Citizen now uses blockchain

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.

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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…

The water towers in Russia are really cool…

Water Tower

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…

Globus removing snow before the crowd hits…

I like these towers…

WtR