Robert backpacking Laung Prabang, Laos in 2016.
Robert with the head of the Taoist temple and seminary in Taipei Taiwan.
About the author:
Robert Harrison Black is a Christian and member of
Palms Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
He is a volunteer instructor in happiness and successful aging at the University of North Florida Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI).
He has been a farm kid, a paper boy, a dishwasher, waited counter, a short order cook, a camp counselor, a chemical plant operator a captain in the US Air Force, a scientist, a registered professional engineer, an inventor with 17 US patents in diverse fields. He has been a corporate executive at one time managing over 600 employees and an entrepreneur founding three companies.
He has traveled to 65 places, spending time with the local people where ever he goes. He backpacked Laos in 2016, spent months in Hong Kong, and more than a year in Thailand. He sailed the Atlantic, the Pacific, Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico. He is a Member of the American Chemical Society, Mendeley, Science Open, and Research Gate. He is electronically subscribed to BioscienceTechnology, JAMA network, Lancet on line, NEJM on line, and The Scientist. The author has studied Buddhism and observed Taoism in Thailand and Taiwan. He has meditated with Nichiren Buddhist. He studied Islam and observed it in Thailand and Indonesia.
List of Roberts Patents:
Robert H. Black US Patents Issued
PAT. NO. / Title
7,262,160 / Dye Product and Method of Treating Clothing for UV Blocking
6,750,186 / Composition and Method for Cleaning Dishwashers
6,239,166 / Compositions for killing dust mites and methods of using same
6,211,128 / Toilet bowl cleaning and sanitizing composition and method of using same
6,192,524 / Toilet bowl cleaning and sanitizing composition and system and method of using same
6,090,765 / Composition for cleaning hard surfaces
5,912,406 / Method of cleaning soiled fabrics
5,910,474 / Method of rinsing showers clean
5,837,664 / Aqueous shower rinsing composition and a method for keeping showers clean
5,587,022 / Method of rinsing showers
5,536,452 / Aqueous shower rinsing composition and a method for keeping showers clean
5,009,618 / Method and apparatus for making electrical connecting device
5,001,680 / Compliant tube baffle
4,887,247 / Compliant tube baffle
4,863,402 / Method and apparatus for making electrical connecting device
4,725,243 / Polarizing key for cable termination
3,111,413 / Boron oxide derivative high temperature marking ink
Robert swimming with the fish 2019.
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I have visited many places. Some like Thailand, China, and Hong Kong I have been to many times.
Barbados
St. Lucia
Antigua
Hong Kong
Thailand
Laos
China
Aruba
Curacao
Grenada
St. Maartin both sides
St Thomas
Puerto Rico
Spain
England
Sweden
Russia (West) Saint Petersburg
Finland
Estonia
Denmark
Montenegro
Italy
Croatia
France
Gibraltar
Madera
Portugal
Canary Islands
Pago Pago
Fiji
New Caledonia
Australia
Indonesia
Singapore
Vietnam
South Korea
Russia (East, Siberia)
Canada
Mexico
Honduras
Cayman Islands
Turks and Caicos
Monaco
Macau
Belize
Haiti
Panama
Columbia
British Virgin Islands
Cambodia
Japan
Taiwan
Scotland
South Holland the Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Switzerland
Philippines
Brazil
Ecuador
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Falkland Islands
Antarctica
Uruguay
Blog last updated October 26, 2024
Robert (in the blue jacket) on the Spanish steps In Rome.
The latest blog entry: October 26,2024 Fats, fructose and metabolic syndrome I read health journals from organizations like The American Medical Association, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and many others. When I find a set of journal articles that may be of general interest I try to summaries them into a short article in layman's terms. I always add a link to at least one of the journals I have summarized. This way medical people who read the post can see the basic document. I try to pick journal articles that can be accessed by layman.
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Voting for President
The US is now $34 trillion in debt. About 14 trillion is owned by foreign governments. The world’s governments still hold our bonds even though they know we can never repay them. The US dollar is valued because all of the others are worse. If our deficit stays high, the value of the US dollar can be questioned, our bonds will lose value, and countries will begin to dump them. The biggest holder is China. If they were to dump our bonds, the dollar’s value would crash. We can’t have another four years like the last four without putting my retirement at risk.
Kamala Harris will keep the borders open. Open borders will increase the flood of criminals, illegal drugs, and low-skilled residents. Most will be low-skill. Finding employment for low-skilled workers is a growing problem. Low-skilled workers are happy working, but being unemployed is a problem.
She is a supporter of all of the excessive climate change proposals. These proposals will reduce our GDP, making everyone poorer, and do little about the increase in the world’s carbon dioxide and methane levels. Most of the increase comes from Africa and South America. The people who live there are moving out of poverty and will not be held back because of climate change concerns. Bill Gates is building a sodium-cooled nuclear reactor with plans to replace all our present fossil fuel plants; this and present wind, solar, and energy storage systems will do what is practical.
Harris plans to expand all the programs that are creating our debt. Some of her proposals include housing for illegal immigrants, stopping fracking, payments for illegal aliens, payments for first-time home buyers, etc. Like other Marxists, she is excellent at giving away our money and printing money using inflation or increasing taxes to pay for it. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx recommended a progressive income tax to destroy Capitalism.
Harris is a socialist. During the time of the Ronald Reagan administration, people understood the dangers of socialism. We seem to have lost our understanding of the danger, even though we can see what has happened to Venezuela. Like every other time socialism was tried, Venezuela went from a wealthy, peaceful country to a poor country run by criminals. It starts with wage and price controls, and then the government decides who should have management jobs. Her proposed price control system is practiced in communist countries. They were also tried here during the Nixon administration. I experienced them; they are a disaster. If Harris has her way, an unelected bureaucrat in Washington DC will determine what you get paid and how many hours you work.
Do not fall for the mainstream media propaganda on Donald Trump. Nazi Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was right; If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. If you watch YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-YC3Tesg, you may become a Trump supporter.
Robert in South America in 2020,
Robert's wife Harriet on their balcony in Antarctica.
Robert and his wife Harriet in Siberia
Robert and grandson Daniel in Dalian China with a policeman.
Credentials of Robert H. Black:
BS Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 1961
University of Southern California, Management studies, 1965
MS Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 1968
MBA Finance, University of Akron, 1982
Avionics Officer School, 1963
Avionics Staff Officer School, 1968
Member of the Financial Management Association Honorary,
Captain US Air Force November 1962, to February 1970,
Registered Professional Engineer, (he allowed his license to lapse at the end of 2009)
President and majority owner Dermal Science Corporation,
17 US patents issued,
Member of Medscape an information and education organization for doctors,
Member Florida Fair Tax Education Organization,
Toastmasters: Competent Communicator,
Certified FDIC instructor in financial management
Robert at the the 10,000 Buddhas Temple in Hong Kong. Only one disagrees.