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.
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…
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…
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…
Friday this week (Feb. 23rd, 2018) we have traditional Day of Man in Russia. It’s official name is Defender of the Fatherland Day.
From my Soviet childhood I remember this day [A Day of Soviet Army and Navy Day]. This day we congratulated our men-teachers and our boys class-mate [because all men suppose to served in the Soviet Army at least for once, and all boys were considered like defenders of Motherland in the future]. That was a Soviet tradition what we still follow now. And even so we don’t have Soviet Union and Soviet Army anymore we still have this tradition and honor our men. We appreciate that people who took away another Soviet holidays, allow us to have this one. They renamed this holiday to Defender of the Fatherland Day and I think that is a very good name! Yesterday we had a small office party for our men at work. Year by year we make a little concert to honor and congratulate our colleagues-men. That is not very easy to make something special for each of them because they are 90% of our IT Department, but our colleagues-men always appreciate all what we do for them at 23 of February. How we know it? Because they congratulate us very warm and nice at the 8 of March (INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY) 🙂 .
Best wishes for all! I wish be strong, wise and healthy to all men who read our blog. Because every man is defender he was created to be 😉 . And for me 23 of February is a Day of Real Men! It does not matter in what country they live, all of them have a nature to be defenders of their families. And when their countries are in danger they would go and defend their countries and their family what lives there. So I wish you all Peace and I wish wisdom for Rulers of our countries to keep this world in Peace.
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…
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…
