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S/Sgt Edwin "MIKE" Elliott, WW II/ MTO (DNB 10 May, 1944)
1944 | Corsica
Edwin MIKE Elliott was born in 1920 in Kentucky. He enlisted directly into the Army Air Corps from Coles County, CP Grant, Illinois on 29 Oct. 1941. Mike had completed 2 years of high school and was still single at Enlistment. (36303616).......... S/Sgt Mike was with the 57th Bomb Wing HQ and on a Courier ship B-25 # 42-53371 "Deathwind" on 10 May, 1944 when bad weather caused the pilot to become off course and the ship crashed into the Mountains of Corsica, killing everyone aboard. A sad and tragic accident, it was a Mail Delivery and also carried a Red Cross Lady.
S/Sgt Edwin "Mike" Elliott (Elliott, Edwin (NMI), S/Sgt, HQ 57th BW - DNB) /Elliot photo
Wednesday, 10 May 1944
HQ 57th BW: Extracts from Missing Air Crew Report # 16458: Plane B-25 type AP was on a routine training flight, en route to Ghisonaccia, Corsica, on 10 May 1944 when it crashed into a mountain near Sartene, Corsica. A/C No. 42-53371 "Death Wind" (MACR-16458 - crashed into mountain) (formerly 447th BS ship) P Geerlings, Lewis J., Capt, HQ 57th BW - KNB CP Fletcher, Ray F., 1Lt, HQ 57th BW - KNB PAX Elliott, Edwin (NMI), S/Sgt, HQ 57th BW - KNB PAX Chapin, Carolyn, American Red Cross - KNB PAX Loring, Richard H., PFC, HQ 57th BW - KNB None None None
Barbi Ennis Connolly, 321stBG Historian and 57th BW Researcher, this ship was my Dad/Edward C Ennis' main Combat Ship before she was retired into the Courier Service.
Edwin (NMI) "MIKE" Elliott
2010 | Illinois
The REPUBLIC SPOTLIGHT, ILL.
LOXA, Ill. — After 66 years, Staff Sgt. Mike Elliott is coming home to Illinois.
On May 10, 1944, Elliott, a 24-year-old Army Air Forces staff sergeant, was part of a B-25 bomber crew when the aircraft crashed atop a mountain in southern Corsica. Elliott died with First Lt. Ray F. Fletcher, Capt. Lewis J. Gerrings, Private Richard H. Loring and Red Cross nurse Carolyn Chapin. What caused the crash during the noncombat mission is not clear.
Back in Central Illinois, Elliott's family learned his body could not be recovered from the crash site. For Glenn Elliott, Mike's kid brother, the Army aviator became a painful memory of loss. He mourned the loss of the sibling with his older brothers, Walter and Junior, also World War II veterans, his sisters and parents, Belle and Levi Elliott.
"He was very young when Mike was lost. He remembers Mike coming home for a leave before he left for Europe. But that's about all from the war," said Sue Elliott, Glenn's wife of 53 years.
Now 73, Glenn is the last surviving member of his family that experienced the war that claimed Mike's life. He will attend one last funeral on May 11 for his lost-but-not forgotten brother. Determined efforts by military rescue and recovery team members and DNA testing of two nieces of the deceased two years ago helped confirm a few body remains are those of Sgt. Elliott. These archaeological searches for American MIAs are conducted across the globe to recover remains that can provide DNA matches of living relatives, preferably those on the mother's side of the deceased.
"This is actually unbelievable," said Sue Elliott. "We never thought we'd be planning a funeral for something that happened 66 years ago."
She will be taking a photograph of the brother-in-law she knew so much about but never met to Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home for the funeral remembrance display of the Elliott family. She will also be submitting for display letters announcing the aviator's death from 1944, which Belle Elliott stored in a cedar chest through the decades. Mike's mother died before word came confirming her son's remains would come back to the United States.
"She kept them in her chest. I still have them in the envelopes in my chest now," Sue Elliott said.
Great nephews of Sgt. Elliott will escort his body on a flight from military facility in Hawaii. Both are veterans, one completing a tour of duty in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan. The body is scheduled to arrive at Coles County Memorial Airport on Mother's Day, May 9.
"He'll be buried between his mother and grandmother at Rest Haven at Mattoon. I felt this what all Glenn and I could do for him," Sue Elliott said.
Information from: Mattoon Journal-Gazette
Edwin (NMI) "MIKE" Elliott "Home at Last"
May, 2010 | Ill.
World War II veteran's remains returning home to Mattoon on Monday
"MIKE" Elliott "Home at Last"
By HERB MEEKER
Elwin Elliott killed in plane crash in 1944 MATTOON - The remains of Elwin C. "Mike" Elliott are expected to touch down at Lambert-St. Louis Airport at noon Monday. The arrival almost completes a circling of the globe for the World War II Army aviator killed May 10, 1944, when a B-25 bomber crashed on a mountain in Corisca. His remains were recovered and identified during the past decade through the efforts of the Missing In Action Accounting Command and then taken to a military base in Hawaii. Elliott, a 24-year-old staff sergeant in the Army Air Forces, died in the crash with 1st Lt. Ray F. Fletcher, Capt. Lewis J. Gerrings, Pvt. Richard H. Loring and Red Cross nurse Carolyn Chapin. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4325 Commander Dana Denny said this is the first DNA-confirmed casualty he recalls being returned for interment in the community.
"It has caused a lot of interest, and people are wondering if, with the DNA, they could find more World War II veterans. It would be great if they found more crash sites and identified more remains. It could give the families closure," said Denny, a Vietnam-era veteran who served in Korea during the 1960s. "Of course, we still have one missing from this area. That's Larry Phipps from the Vietnam War." The final leg of the journey for Elliott will be in a hearse escorted Monday afternoon across Illinois by his relatives, including his lone surviving brother, Glenn Elliott of Loxa, his great nephews and a military honor guard from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The honor guard will be involved in graveside military rites at Rest Haven Memorial Gardens after the funeral Tuesday, starting at 1 p.m., in Mitchell Jerdan Funeral Home of Mattoon. Denny expects many people might honor Elliott with flags or posters along Interstate 57 or in Mattoon as the procession approaches the funeral home. Similar displays of honor have been present when casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan returned to Central Illinois. The funeral home has received several requests for information on the Elliott arrangements since the story was published last week.
"It is quite a deal to have a loved one come home after 66 years," Denny said.
Saturday, May 8, 2010 12:01 am
"Mike" Elliott /Air Force News
2010 | Ill
WWII airman finally laid to rest.
By Herb Meeker - The Mattoon Journal-Gazette via Associated PressPosted : Friday May 14, 2010 11:53:21 EDT
MATTOON, Ill. — David Champion knew he couldn't miss Mike Elliott's funeral.
Like Elliott, who was born Edwin C., Champion also flew in a B-25 bomber more than 60 years ago in World War II. Champion returned home to Coles County after the war with plenty of memories from the wild blue yonder, but it took 66 years for Elliott's bittersweet return from Europe this week.
At age 24, Elliott died with four others when a B-25 crashed on a mountain on Corsica during a non-combat mission. He and others killed in the May 10, 1944, crash have been identified through DNA testing through the efforts of the Missing In Action Accounting Command, which conducts retrieval of military remains across the globe each year.
"As soon as I heard about them bringing back his remains I knew I was going to be here," said Champion as he greeted people at the door of Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home before Elliott's funeral. "I grew up here, but I didn't know the man."
Outside the funeral home, Glenn Poorman of Humboldt was confident the skies would remain clear for the procession to the Rest Haven gravesite with other Patriot Guard motorcyclists.
"We have a good turnout today for a weekday. We're going to be there for these veterans whether it's been 66 years or 40 years when they come home. These serve as closure for the families. It's really an honor and a privilege to be here today," said Poorman.
Glenn Elliott, Mike's lone surviving sibling, was glad to see so many people out to honor the brother he barely knew. He was in grade school when the telegram came informing his parents of Mike's death.
"I don't actually remember talking to Mike when he was home on leave before he went overseas," the silver-haired kid brother said Tuesday morning.
Elwin "Mike" C. Elliott came to Mattoon at age 8 with his family from Kentucky, where he was born. The Elliott family lived on North Fourth Street in Mattoon and Mike went to school with his brothers and sisters. Records show he was of slight build, weighing 128 pounds.
With America's entry into the war, Elliott enlisted at Camp Grant and went into the Army Air Corps before his assignment to the Mediterranean. That fatal flight claim his life and the lives of First Lt. Ray F. Fletcher, Capt. Lewis J. Gerrings, Pvt. Richard H. Loring and Red Cross nurse Carolyn Chapin. Military data indicates the bomber was on a mail run and Chapin was en route to assignment for the Red Cross.
Champion said the risk of a crash was always there for aviators, but they tried to block it out.
"When you were on a flight you didn't think about it," he recalled. "It was just a job to do. Whatever happened, happened."
Selena Griffith and Jewel Gilbert, both of Mattoon, are Mike Elliott's nieces. They agreed to DNA-related blood draws to confirm some of the remains recovered from the mountaintop in Corsica were those of Elliott. For Griffith there was irony to the return of the remains to a military personnel identification center in Hawaii five years ago.
"I learned that Dave (her husband) and I had been to Hawaii the same time his remains came back. Then around Thanksgiving of 2005 we had a call asking if I'd agree to DNA tests," Griffith said.
Army Sgt. Jarrod Taylor, Elliott's great-nephew, accompanied the body on the flight to Illinois. Taylor experienced a strange coincidence during the flight.
"I met a woman who had been on a flight carrying a World War II veteran's remains to Boston for a funeral. I found out it was Pvt. Loring's funeral," Taylor said.
At Rest Haven, there were many veterans, including Mattoon American Legionnaires of Post 88, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4325, Windsor American Legion Post 725 member and Sons of the American Legion and Legionnaires with Post 71 in Urbana.
Dan Schmidt and Gus Robertson of the Urbana detachment thought it was important to honor the man they never met because he's from a generation that was as tough as nails.
"They were millions of brave men and women. If it wasn't for them we'd be speaking German or Russian today," Robertson said.
Off in the distance past the bugler, the soldiers firing the honor volley and the American flags fluttering in the wind, Ray Hoffman of Mattoon, a Vietnam veteran, stood erect as a sentry throughout the ceremony.
"I think all veterans deserve some respect, especially those from the World War II. They did so much. It's still good we recognize them," he said as he tried to control his voice after the ceremony.
"MIKE" Elliott "Soldier comes Home"
2010 | Illionois
"Mike" Elliott
Mystery ends after decades and a soldier comes home at last
Sat, 05/08/2010 - 6:00am | Paul Wood
MATTOON – When Selena Griffith had blood drawn on her lunch break at the Mattoon Post Office, her boss gave her a worried look. No one was sick, but somebody had died. And Griffith's DNA solved a mystery that had its roots in World War II, when Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Edwin C. "Mike" Elliott, age 24, died in a plane crash. There was not much mystery about the crash, which was not combated-related, but an accident in mountainous territory. The Army has long had the remains of five airmen from the crash. What it didn't have was the technical ability to tell one hero from another. But through mitochondrial DNA testing, which traces identity through the maternal line, Griffith could help her uncle's family find peace. The Defense Department has a team, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, that investigates hundreds of cases involving remains of airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines. In late 2005, they sent a phlebotomist to draw blood from Griffth, whose mother Lorane was the staff sergeant's sister. After four years of documentation, next week Staff Sgt. Elliott will be buried, at last, in his hometown, with full military honors. Missing Air Crew Report #16458 offers scant information:: "Plane B-25 type AP was on a routine training flight, en route to Ghisonaccia, Corsica, on 10 May 1944 when it crashed into a mountain near Sartene, Corsica." Also on the plane: First Lt. Ray F. Fletcher, Capt. Lewis J. Gerrings, Private Richard H. Loring and Red Cross nurse Carolyn Chapin. The terse report doesn't give a clue to the pervading sense of loss in the Elliott family, which sent three sons into the war. Griffith said the return of the bones was moving, several years after her blood was drawn. Her son Jared Taylor had heavily researched the accident, including finding a report of a Corsican who heard the crash. Taylor, a veteran who was deployed five times himself, made it a mission to gather any evidence available, his mother said. Taylor was en route Friday and unavailable for comment. Sue Elliott, the airman's sister-in-law, said his mother would have savored the closure the discovery affords the family. Belle Elliott stored her son's precious letters in a chest for decades. But she died in 1976. Staff Sgt. Elliott's remains are being flown from Italy to Hawaii to Mattoon, arriving around Mother's Day. Few in the family have concrete memories of Mike Elliott. Sue's husband, Glenn Elliott, now 73, was much younger than Mike, and only has a dim memory of his brother coming home on leave when the boy was 6 or 7. "We're really relieved," Sue Elliott said Friday. "It's been a long time. The only thing better would be if his mother was still alive." The staff sergeant is also survived by two sisters-in-law, Mae Elliott of Charleston, and Norma Elliott of Mattoon; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Walter and Levi, Jr., also world War II veterans, and three sisters, Margaret Frost, Lorane Dobbs and Rose Elliott. A funeral service in Staff Sgt. Elliott's honor will begin at 1 p.m., Tuesday, at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home, 1200 Wabash Ave. Mattoon, with Pastor Ray Roberts officiating. Interment will be in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens. Full military rites will be conducted graveside by the Fort Leonard Wood Honor Guard.
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But if you are into all that nonsense (maybe because you're a Libra, astrology is very similar to a lot of this stuff), here is a test for you to help you understand yourself better.
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Once again it poured with rain at the weekend, so my heavy clay soil was too wet to be worked. Instead, I made for the greenhouse, to do a spot of cleaning.I spent a thoroughly productive couple of hours, jet washing the glass inside and out and removing algae from between the pa...
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From the Midwest redneck author of "The Rooster Crows at 4am!," "Lizard Poop!," and "The Philippines Expat Advisor"
The End of the Tubig Turf War!
By all appearances, Jesus has made peace. The Tubig Turf War seems to have concluded. Haven't seen any security guards have a little talk with Jesus since last Thursday. That's when, pardon the expression, "all hell broke loose."
The past two weeks have seen an almost daily contingent of our armed subdivision sentries paying a visit to our neighbor, Jesus the carpenter. The son of Jesus, Mike, and a newly-hired employee make the rounds every day in our development with their tubig (water) truck delivering containers of drinking water for P25 (57¢) each.
Someone had evidently pissed somebody off. A truck from a rival company had stopped by our neighbor's home recently, and my asawa heard the driver talking to a security guard on bike patrol. "He's getting a lot of complaints about his water," is what my spouse was able to overhear.
I would spot guards posted at our intersection looking over at Jesus' home. They would sometimes stay for 30 minutes, always staring in our neighbor's direction. I was hopeful that my asawa's manicurist would be able to give us some details on what was going on. She's known to have all the latest tsismis (gossip.)
But I guess she must have been ill or out of the country as she knew absolutely nothing about our recent events. It's kind of sad when the main person you depend on for information let's you down. I was eager for at least one crumb of chitchat.
So when two of our subdivision's finest came chasing after Jesus' tubig truck, with son Mike driving, and the hired help riding shotgun, I quickly went to our kitchen screen door to check out what was going on. The elder Jesus was nowhere in sight. My asawa said she saw him fleeing the scene.
I could hear quite a loud argument, though I did not understand a word. I managed to take a picture through our kitchen screen door (see first photo), but felt I would be pressing my luck if I asked everyone to argue in English and not their native Ilonggo.
My nephew Sharwen and niece Shaina were seated at our duewende-sized kitchen table having their afternoon merienda (snack), so I asked my niece what was going on.
"Kinachoendelea nje?" I might as well had been speaking Swahili when I asked her what was going on outside. She just grinned and shook her head. She either couldn't hear the commotion (and was obviously already deaf at the age of 14), or didn't understand my "English" slang.
A crowd was gathering. My spouse came in from our sala to investigate. She hears something about water containers. Someone had called in to security reporting that Jesus' crew had taken their water receptacles! Every company marks their canisters (see next photo for close-up of how Jesus marks his) like a cowpoke brands a calf (ok, they use a "Magic Marker" instead of a branding iron.)
One guard whips out his walkie-talkie and quickly takes off on his motorbike. His partner soon follows. Jesus' son and the group gathered around his home are extremely agitated. I keep an eye on things as the guys continue to get steamed up. I'm hoping they don't blow a gasket and turn this into a full-scale riot.
After about 30 minutes Jesus returns. Security does not make another visit that day, and things finally calm down. Why would a competitor claim Jesus was taking his containers? It didn't make any sense to me.
The following day I spy a huge SUV pull up to our neighbor's home. Jesus' truck is not parked in front, but Mike, the only son, goes outside. A rather tall middle-aged Filipino man gets out. He has an air of authority about him. Soon, a rival tubig truck (pictured in the next photo) pulls up.
Soon Jesus whips his truck around the corner. The large Filipino goes up to the window and sticks out his hand. My neighbor shakes it, a huge smile across his face. Jesus' crew is now outside talking to the workers from the rival company. Mike has got his laptop outside furiously punching keys on it.
After 15 minutes and an exchange of some water containers, Jesus and his son drive by our house, wave and honk their horn. Looks like the water container issue had been resolved. My asawa and I had gone outside at this point, me feigning interest in all the flowers and plants my spouse has planted in our yard. We wave back.
The rival truck driver also waves at us as he passes by. We return the gesture. All has been quiet in the neighborhood since then. Now the biggest problem we have are dogs that stop by and poop alongside my spouse's plants and flowers. Do I clean it up? Are you kidding? I'm retired. I think she should just leave it there for fertilizer.
Never a dull moment at you place .
Luckilly for me my Ledesco house we are finally moving into this weekend is all the way at the back of the subdivision in an inner lot. So I have nothing but my gate facing the street and no neighbours across from me. It's nice and quiet back there.I usually keep to myself except for a couple neighbors and try to ignore the neighbourhood gossip. The only time I venture out in the subdivision is to walk up the street a couple times a week for my SMB at the Big Sari Sari on the corner. Now that's the gossip factory. I guess every subdivision has one.
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I just send the helper next door to get my Red Horse. We have 3 Sari Sari stores very close by. Busy street!
I have never seen a water jug like the ones you have Dave. Ours are round 5 gallon jugs. You can get drinking water right from the tap here in Tagum City but Meriam doesn't like the taste. I guess it is the germ killers they put in the water.
Doesn't beer contain water? That's good enough for me…most days.
Guess you will have to find or wait for another event for new writing material, huh? Just glad everything worked out safely.
Dave, if your water smells like kerosene, you could get a water filter that attaches to your house's main incoming water pipe that would clean all your water.
I have a water filter on the shower too, that would be cheaper than a whole house unit.
LOL !!! Just be careful lighting the grill after you take a shower
I had great water back in Michigan but it was hard as a rock. Had a water softener put in and that took care of that. They sell water softeners here but living in a apartment where in the world would I put it??? The water is very hard here in Tagum City.
For bottled water Meriam has been getting that water with a PH of 9. Wow does that make a super cup of coffee!!! Yes we got a coffee maker and they sell Folgers coffee at the mall.
Dave, the easiest way to know if you have soft water is if you still feel 'slippery' or soapy in the shower after you have rinsed. If not, then it is probably more on the hard side. The real way of course is to do a ph test.
Glad it all ended w/o any bullets flying over your head. Hopefully soon you will have running water soon and won't have to worry about getting water delivered to you. Have a nice day.Well I wouldn't get on Jesus' bad side. Did you notice his last initial is "C" also….. you never know. I'd try not to make any "Jesus C" mad!
In the Bible…….Jesus turned water into wine……..In the Philippines Plus….Jesus turned water into… $ MONEY $
Ouch….go to your room Ralph.
can I have a glass of water first…Gary
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There Are Rules!
Last week I talked about John Gottman and began to touch on his predictors for successful relationships. As I do with everything, I over simplified and broke it down, talking about how those who learn to put aside judgment have greater success. This week we will talk about expectations.
When I was told having expectations was counter productive I wanted to scream. I blame my mother for this! (Sorry Mom!) My Mother had rules. She still does. There is a right way and wrong way to do most things. Actually, this isn't all bad. But in the area of relationships it comes off hitting two of Gottman's other points. Being judgmental and acting superior is also a block to successful relationships.
Well, after I finished throwing a hissy fit I decided I would have to try this out. Despite the fact that at my core I am a whiny little bitch, I generally can put it aside and respond. Those of you who have loyally followed my posts will see that this may seem redundant. Anyone can do anything they want! That's it. I cannot expect them to follow my rules, nor should they have to. If I don't like it all I can do is state what I require and make clear what will happen if they do, or do not give me what I require. Yes, those are boundaries!
Try it out this week! If what you are going to say is…
- Judgmental
- If you are acting Superior
- If you have expectations
Oh Lord, It's Hard to be Humble…
He who is without sin……
If you didn't know the rest of that phrase I would be surprised, because even if you weren't raised hearing it, someone around you probably used it a time or two. Along with judge not!
In the past I had quite an aversion to this. Judgment seemed warranted much of the time, and quite frankly I was quite good at it! Really! I could find anyone's faults and point them out in the most creative (Alright, and nasty!) ways!
I talked last week about John Gottman and his study that more than proved judgment was not a productive tool in relationships. And when I share this on an almost daily basis with my clients, they respond as I did initially, with the look that says, "Seriously! Are you kidding me?)
Let's face it. There is always some fault to point out in someone. But in doing so we open ourselves up to having each and every flaw we posses pointed out and perhaps magnified. And judging does not open another's heart or ears to what we could say or do to help them learn and grow.
I attribute my success with the highly oppositional youth I work with to my having learned this. I look for the good in them. I understand that who they are is a result of life and experience and losses. I ask myself if I would be any different had I walked in their shoes. Most importantly, I remember how I acted as an adolescent. In fact, I can take you decade by decade through my life and point out how I was not that different from anyone else. Struggling to learn and find peace and control. Learning from too many experiences and failures.
So when you want to point the finger ask yourself,
- Am I without flaws?
- Would the flaws I have overcome have left me if not for someone accepting me for who I am and lovingly leading me?
- How might I feel different if I accept someone for who they are, and how would that change my ability to act differently and promote growth in their life?
Let me know if you have experienced either side of this!


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Australian X Factor star Declan Sykes has revealed that he is now single.
The 15-year-old wannabe singer from Fitzroy, who was eliminated from the Australian version of the reality television competition two weeks ago, said that he and 17-year-old Carmen recently split up.
According to the Herald Sun, Sykes said that he had been the one to end the relationship with his fellow Fitzroy High student.
Sykes, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome five years ago, revealed that he has had lots of negative comments from people since his time on the show, but has said that he just ignores them.
"It's pretty clear I was the weird and awkward one on the show," he said. "The haters are going to hate. You are always going to get people who say those things just because they can, it's just how society works.
"I walk down the street and you get the dudes in hoodies who bag you out. You get it, you've just got to move on."
Sykes' fellow X Factor contestant Mitchell Calloway was accused of bullying Sykes on the show, but his mother said that their relationship was "fine", adding: "Boys will be boys."
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There comes a point in some men's lives when the opportunity to burn their family's legacy into the minds of the masses presents itself. Some fellas get lucky and have everything just fall into place, but others, such as the case for Patrick Rios, unearthing life's treasures requires years' worth of excavating.
That basic modification list eventually evolved into what you now see on these pages. The process lasted quite a bit longer than Patrick had ever intended, but once he saw his truck's gradual progression, he had no thoughts of stopping. "The Hardbody I knew two years ago has transformed into a work of art. I never expected this build to stretch so far, but I'm glad it did. I'm very thankful to Aaron for all his countless hours of hard work. I know he enjoyed the tedious build just as much, if not more, than I did. Now that's it's finished, I'd like to thank my grandfather for entrusting me with his truck. I know he's smiling down from heaven right now."
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Many teratogens produce NTDs in rodents; exencephaly is especially common. Examples include ethanol, retinoic acid, vitamin A, and valproate (Sulik and Sadler, 1993). The NTD phenotype depends on the timing of administration. Early administration (before closure of the anterior neural tube at mouse embryonic day 9) most often results in exencephaly whereas later administration yields posterior defects. Valproate-induced NTDs are strain specific in the mouse (Finnell et al., 1988), highlighting the importance of genetic predisposition in NTD etiology. Although some studies show an alteration in folate levels (Hendel et al., 1984) and a protective effect of coadministered folic acid in valproate-induced NTD (Trotz et al., 1987), the metabolic mechanism of valproate teratogenesis is unclear (Nau, 1994).
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The Office of Management and Budget has approved the FDA's long-awaited proposed rule on a unique device identifier (UDI), clearing it for release by the agency.
President Barack Obama signed the FDA Safety and Innovation Act, S. 3187, into law July 9, reauthorizing the Medical Device User Fee Act (MDUFA) and Prescription Drug User Fee Act, and creating new user fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars.
A pair of FDA final guidances may make it easier for companies to gain approval of devices that use computer software to analyze data gathered during radiology.
House Republicans, joined by a handful of Democrats, voted Wednesday to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) — the 31st time the GOP has tried to take down or truncate the law, House Democrats said..
Under a new draft guidance, the FDA's Pre-IDE Program will be renamed the Pre-Submission Program and cover a broad range of applications — from IDEs, PMAs and 510(k)s to humanitarian device exemptions, de novo filings and more.
Makers of home use medical test kits must be able to demonstrate that they can be properly used by people who lack specialized training, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says in new guidance for notified bodies.
OraSure Technologies plans to begin rolling out its OraQuick In-Home HIV Test in drugstores and online in October, following FDA approval this month.
Roche Molecular Systems is preparing a September launch for the first FDA-approved DNA test to measure viral load of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in solid organ transplant patients undergoing antiviral treatment.
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And who really got the ball rolling in the grand tradition of "borrowing" from Social Security?
Ronald Raygun. Of course.
Monday 16 August 2010
by: Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening | Op-Ed
New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman, in his column today, is right to expose the attacks on Social Security as being the work of right-wing ideologues eager to destroy a government program that works, backed by cowardly Democrats who want to show their fiscal "responsibility" by getting tough with future pensioners.
But he doesn't go the extra step to point out that this program, founded 75 years ago as a cornerstone of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, could be much more fair and even generous to elderly and disabled retirees, and also placed on a much sounder economic footing, by a few simple reforms that would not cost most people a penny, or require hard working folks to work one day longer before retiring.
There is a problem facing Social Security, which Krugman doesn't mention. The Nobel economist is correct that the system has built up a huge multi-trillion-dollar surplus over the years. And he is correct in noting that this surplus--the Trust Fund--is big enough to fund the system probably indefinitely, even during the huge bulge in retirement that is starting now that the Baby Boomer generation is hitting retirement age. What he fails to mention is that the Trust Fund has all been stolen (okay, technically borrowed) by the federal government to fund its own annual deficits, and given the national attitude towards taxes, it will never be repaid. That's why the right is able to create a panic by falsely claiming that Social Security is going to go "bankrupt" when current workers' Social Security taxes can no longer pay for the benefits of current retirees.
But there is a simple solution to even this deception, which is to eliminate the cap on income which is subject to the Social Security tax.
At present, every worker in America pays the same percentage of income into the Social Security Trust Fund--currently 6.2% of the first $106,800 of earnings. Since everyone pays at that rate, whether they earn $10,680 a year or $106,800 a year, that would be a flat tax, except that it's not. Because once someone earns more than $106,800 in a year, the tax rate falls off precipitously. After that cap, which is adjusted upward a little bit each year to account for inflation, there is no SSI tax on additional money earned. In other words, if someone earns $106,800.00, she or he pays $6,621.60 into the Trust Fund, but if that worker earns $107,000, or $313,600 a year, the tax is still just $6,621.60. For the person earning twice the income cap of $313,600, that means an SSI tax rate of only 3.1%. For someone earning 10 times the cap, or $1.068 million, the tax rate is only 0.62%.
Making things even more unfair, if someone were to earn that $106,800, or any other amount, by investing in the stock market, or by investing in real estate, he or she would pay no SSI tax at all, since the tax is only applied to what is called "earned income," not to investment income.
According to a recent study conducted by the Congressional Budget Office for the Senate Special Committee on Aging, if this income cap for the Social Security tax was eliminated, so that all earned income was taxed, the dreaded wall when current workers' tax payments ceases to be enough to pay for current retiree benefits, instead of arriving in 2037, would be pushed back to at least 2075, a date almost as distant in the future as today is from the founding of the Social Security program.
Of course, if the tax were applied also and at the same rate to unearned income from investment, not only would there be no Social Security crisis ever, but instead of talking about making people work until they are 70, and about cutting benefits for retirees, we could be talking about lowering the retirement age to 62, and raising benefits, so that people could live decently in retirement instead of worrying that they might have to cut their food intake in order to pay the rent or buy required medications. People could also stop having to lose sleep at night worrying about the destruction of their IRA or 401(k) by the Wall Street banksters. Alternatively, the retirement age could be restored to the original 65, and the tax rate on all workers could be reduced.
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Now people on the right will howl--they are howling now--that it's unfair to tax the rich on all their income when they will only be collecting a pittance in Social Security benefits for all the money they pay into the system if there is no taxable income cap, but in fact, that's exactly what has been done in the case of the 1.45% Medicare tax, which is also levied on every worker. That tax is applied to all income earned.
Krugman is also wrong in saying that it is ideologues who are trying to wreck Social Security. The ideologues at places like the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation are providing the intellectual justification for destroying Social Security, but the real opposition to Social Security, though, is corporate America, as represented by groups like the Business Roundtable and the US Chamber of Commerce (it's corporate America that funds those foundations and their resident "scholars," after all). And the reason for this corporate opposition is that Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes paid by workers are both matched, dollar for dollar, by employers. If you pay 6.2% of your income in taxes to the Social Security Administration each year, so does your boss, and if the income cap is lifted for workers it will also be lifted for employers. That means a bigger tax bill for the company, and of course personally for the managers and board members.
So let's at least be honest in this coming battle over "saving" Social Security. It is nothing less than a war between bosses and workers.
The system is not in trouble because it's too generous or because it is underfunded. It has been pilfered over the years by politicians who have been unwilling to raise taxes to fund America's wars, or to fund the programs that we Americans say we want, like better roads, grants for local schools, etc. Instead of telling us what things cost, they borrow (steal) money from the Social Security Trust Fund, and then tell us Social Security is in trouble.
And now, as a day of reckoning approaches, they pretend it's all our fault. They say we want too much in benefits, or that we want to retire too early. But the truth is, we deserve decent retirement income, and we deserve to retire at 65 or even 62--especially those of us who have slaved away at physically exhausting and destructive jobs for 40 or 50 years. In fact, if we hang onto our jobs until 70 or 72, as these hacks and the lobbyists for corporate American want us to do, it'll just be that harder for our kids to get jobs and move out of the house!
This is not about a private pension fund that's going bust. It's about a public pension program that has been raided, that has never been adequate, and that needs to be bolstered now by a tax on the rich. Nothing elaborate mind you. They just need to pay at the same rate that the rest of us do.
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And who really got the ball rolling in the grand tradition of "borrowing" from Social Security?
Ronald Raygun. Of course.
Sounds wonderful, but a pipe dream. They'll screw us all before they do the right thing.
And who really got the ball
Tue, 08/17/2010 - 20:17 — Anonymous (not verified)
And who really got the ball rolling in the grand tradition of "borrowing" from Social Security?
Ronald Raygun. Of course.
The rethug slug who started us down that slippery slope with everything.
Another, simpler solution: Stop spending on ILLEGAL wars (like our ILLEGAL invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan) and allocate the would-be war-spending to repaying the money stolen from the Social Security Trust Fund.
Oh the true, total (direct and indirect) cost of the current three invasions is far, far greater than 6.5 trillion, NOT the $1 trillion the government claims. And THAT SQUANDERING explains the deficit.
Greater than $6.5 trillion?
In 2008, Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist, tendered some estimates of the costs of the Iraq war. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/iraq.afghanistan
First just two of Stiglitz's very conservative estimates of the true DIRECT costs of ONLY the Iraq war:
"$3 trillion
A conservative estimate of the true [DIRECT] cost [other than interest] — to America alone — of Bush's Iraq adventure."
"$1 trillion
The interest America will have paid by 2017 on the money borrowed to finance the war."
Adjust the interest figure to find interest paid till end of 2010:
2003 to 2017 = 14 years
2003 to 2011 = 8 years
8/14 = 57%
57% x $1 trillion = $0.57 trillion
Adjust the $3 trillion Direct cost other than interest to account for time from 2008 through 2010:
2003 to 2011 = 8 years
2003 to 2008 = 5 years
8/5 x $3 trillion = $4.8 trillion
$0.57 trillion interest + $4.8 trillion other DIRECT cost other than interest = $5.37 trillion.
I acknowledge that the 2008 through 2010 direct cost other than interest might need adjustment that accounts for spending's deviating from what it was from 2003 to 2008. But, the adjustment would push the cost figure up, because the US had ADDED troops in 2007 and the troop addition did not cut violence appreciably and even increased it eventually. So, I shall not bother to render an adjustment.
So, per Stiglitz's accounting, had we not invaded Iraq, we would have saved $5.37 trillion by 2011. Subtract $5.37 trillion from the $1.4 trillion deficit the government asserts and find a SURPLUS of $3.97 trillion.
Invest say 1/6 of 1/4 of $5.37 trillion (or $0.22 trillion) in the Social Security Trust Fund. The Fund would be solvent and, with interest drawn on Treasury bonds, grow to the needed size.
See also http://nationalpriorities.org/auxiliary/costofwar/cost_of_war_afghanistan.pdf [apparently published or completed in April 2009] again respecting the Iraq war's cost. In that piece, Stiglitz calculates that as of April 2009, the past, current, and projected DIRECT costs totaled $3.1831 trillion:
"• The Iraq War has cost $656.1 billion in budgetary costs
so far, with another $52.7 billion pending as part of the
FY 2009 war supplemental
"• At least $2 trillion in future budgetary costs (including
Veterans' benefits) will be spent"
See also
[which put Iraq war DIRECT costs at more than $3 trillion even if Obama redeploys US Iraq-war troops by December 2011]
But those are DIRECT costs, not the myriad indirect costs. Just ONE indirect cost comprises ALL the NONmilitary, domestic economic effects (including domestic consequences of international effects) of US military petroleum-use associated in ANY WAY with prosecution of the wars.
Since 2001, the US military has been the world's single greatest user of petroleum and has used petroleum at a per capita rate greater than the per capita usage rate of whole great nations, like China, even greater than the whole of Africa.
See also http://peak-oil-news.info/military-oil-usage-statistics/
The oil-use-related indirect effects are not just gasoline-price effects, but lost opportunities ande activity-choice-limitations and unemployment increases associated with either or both petroleum prices or petroleum-product-supply shortages and the consequent loss of tax revenues.
Add JUST deduction of the utterly unreal Congressional Research Service accounting of DIRECT OUTLAYS of the AFGHAN war, and find a much greater surplus. See, E.G., http://costofwar.com/ which uses Congressional Research Service accounting to calculate the Afghan war's DIRECT OUTLAY (irrespective of debt-interest and other DIRECT costs) as $325 billion as of today, 17 August 2010.
Another analysis observes:
"The War in Afghanistan has cost U.S. Tax payers $185.1 billion through FY 2009, and the projected costs are likely to total MORE THAN HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS when future occupation and veteran's benefits are taken into account. This DOES NOT INCLUDE INTEREST ON THAT MONEY."
[My emphases.]
Assume the $0.5 trillion that source estimates. Assume the 33.3% interest Stiglitz applies to the Iraq war debt. Then, as of 2009, the interest was $0.5 trillion x 0.333 = $0.1665 trillion. Forget 2010 and 2011 interest, just to simplify. Then, as of 2009, the Afghan war's DIRECT and DIRECT PROJECTED cost was $0.6665 trillion.
Add that cost to the Iraq war cost I calculated on the premises Stiglitz supplied. The total is $6.0365 trillion, IF the calculation accounts the Iraq war's DIRECT costs through 2010 but accounts the Afghan war's cost only as of 2009.
My figure — $6.5 trillion — assumes only a 2010 additional direct outlay of a bit more than #46 billion. Already, Congress has appropriated more than that amount in 2010. My figure DOES NOT include an estimate of any INDIRECT costs. But surely the INDIRECT costs will at least equal the DIRECT costs (of at least $6.5 trillion).
Note also that my figures DO NOT include ANY accounting of the cost of US drone attack invasions of Pakistan.
But see
which presents, for the Iraq and Afghan wars (but not the Pakistan invasions), a DIRECT cost figure of $3.076 trillion.
Note, however: Even if that figure were correct, it would be virtually three times the deficit calculated this year. Surely, using the same accounting method and kinds of variables, if that source accounted the Pakistan invasions' costs, it would present a figure that would make the three-invasions' costs more than three times the deficit.
Why should our taxes be used, either through another tax or redirecting money from the wars, to bail out a fund created from our taxes? If we have to create the fund, then replace the stolen money, doesn't that raise our FICA tax to over 12% in a way?
We have to remember that governments don't have money of their own. Neither do corporations. All they have is OURS. We need a voice in how its spent.


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The Sociology Department encourages students to pursue the varied opportunities to combine classroom learning with practical experiences through fieldwork and internships in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs. the Sociology of AIDS Internship (Sociology 315), which must be taken along with The Sociology of AIDS (Sociology 310) taught by Professor Porter, gives full credit for internships. Courses incorporating internships or fieldwork as significant components of the course work are: The Sociology of Poverty (Sociology 212) taught by Professor Porter, U.S. Social Structure (Sociology 103) taught by Professor Osirim, and Urban Fieldwork (Sociology 242) taught by Professor Takenaka. In addition to these course related internships, opportunities for volunteer work in social service and other agencies are provided through the college's Community Services Office. Students interested in course related internships should consult the Professor teaching the course for more information.
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