Tag Archives: USA

Born on the 4th of July

July 4, 2023 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 12 Comments

Today is the 4th of July, what we Americans call our Independence Day. Despite the fact that the Declaration was issued a few days earlier than this some 247 years ago. And, as was true for Israel when it declared its independence in 1948, our neighbors weren’t so sure we were independent. OK. For America, it wasn’t the “neighbors”- it was Britain. But, even when Britain conceded it lost the States, it wasn’t until the completion of the War of 1812 that our battle(s) with Britain truly achieved our independence.

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246- and hopefully counting

July 4, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 14 Comments

Today is July 4th, what we Americans call our Independence Day. That is true, despite the fact that the actual Declaration was issued a few days earlier than this some 246 years ago. And, as was true for Israel when it declared its independence in 1948, America’s neighbors weren’t so sure we were independent. OK. For America, it wasn’t the “neighbors” per se- it was Britain, which also controlled our neighbor to the North- Canada. But, even when Britain conceded it lost the States, it wasn’t until the completion of the War of 1812 that our battle(s) with Britain truly achieved our independence.

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Just Because

Flag Day

June 14, 2021 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

105 years ago, Woodrow Wilson established today as Flag Day. Why this date?

When the American Revolution began (1775), we lacked a unifying flag. Regiments chose their own flags with which to fight against the British. And, then, almost a year after we became independent (or thought we were becoming independent), the Continental Congress (the second one)- while preparing the Articles of Confederation (statement of principles and agreement among the 13 colonies, serving as a constitution of sorts)- passed a resolution decreeing that the “flag of the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation”. In other words, the designation of a flag that would be uniform among the 13 constituent states. They wanted a unified colonial fighting force.

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Economy, Medicine

Home-based Producer

June 3, 2020 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

I hadn’t decided how to orient this discussion today.

Over the last two decades, too many of our pharmaceutical entities have off-shored the production of generic drugs- as well as the critical components for all our drugs. These critical components are known as API- active pharmaceutical ingredients.

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Dialysis, Medicine

Kidney Transplant Criteria

September 10, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

I just read an article (that is now being broadcast from newspapers, radio, and TV- remember, this post was written weeks ago) that really ticked me off. Supposedly, it is good science. And, it may be- as long as we get (as Paul Harvey used to say) “the rest of the story”.

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Business Management, Economy, Technology

US-China Wars

January 2, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

This post was supposed to appear about a week ago. But, my computer was attacked. No, not by hackers. (You would have heard about that sooner.) By Microsoft.

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Economy, Energy

Crude- and Crude

November 30, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

We’ve heard TheDonald claim that it’s Saudi Arabia that is keeping oil prices down. Except, it’s the good old USA that’s performing that task.

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Just Because

Elections

November 28, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 26 Comments

I have spent many days in Taiwan. And, when I first began visiting, martial law was the norm. It really wasn’t until 1990 that a democratically elected President actually headed up the country’s government. (That’s despite the fact that Tricky Dick decided to recognize Beijing over Taiwan in 1979. It’s also why every time I needed a visa, I had to literally drive from Charlottesville to DC to visit the “Taiwan Interests Section”.)

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Medicine

Even the Feds will fail?

June 28, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

An apology. This was supposed to be another piece in my stem cell update series. But, somehow, it got moved weeks ahead in the queue. (We discussed the technology on 13 June, 12 June, and 11 June.) And, now, again, today.)

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Just Because

The 12th…

February 12, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 9 Comments

On days like today, I miss not living in New York. Because, back when I lived in metropolitan New York, we had two secular holidays in February- Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday. Our 16^th and 1^st Presidents.

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