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During the worst of the recession, Congress increased benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as SNAP - what used to be called food stamps. But that increase ends Nov. 1, and as Mal Leary reports, the effects will go beyond a reduction in low income food assistance.
There are about 250,000 Mainers in over 130,000 households that receive some level of help in buying food every month through the SNAP program. The current average monthly benefit is just over $124, but it all adds up to more than $30 million a month in payments.
Benefits are based on household size, and the cut that takes effect in November is $20 for a family of two. Robyn Merrill of Maine Equal Justice, a low income advocacy group, says that will make it more difficult for those already having a hard time feeding themselves and their families.
"Supplement benefits will average - let me see - less than $1.40 per meal for a person in 2014," she says. "So if you think about that, trying to - you know, trying to pay for a meal with $1.40, it's challenging."
Maine already has significant food security issues, says Mary Ellen Camire, a professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Maine. She says what might seem like a minor cut will have a significant impact on both those receiving benefits and those that supply and sell food in state. She says the challenge will be to stretch that food assistance as far as possible.
"One potato will fill you for a meal, and that we could be giving people a lot more food with that $20, just by shopping carefully. Admittedly not everyone does shop carefully," she says. "But it also is going to have a real economic impact on food sellers in this state, in that they are not going to have the income from the food being sold to these people. So it's a ripple effect, from farmers all the way up to the big grocery store chains."
And an economist says the reduction in benefits will take about $26 million a month out of Maine's economy. USM's Charles Colgan says that will add further stress to an already struggling recovery effort.
"It's one of the things that, during the recession and our high unemployment, has been important in keeping Maine - at least keeping it at a relatively non-disastrous level," Colgan says. "So when you start withdrawing that, you - particularly since the Maine economy has not yet fully recovered - you are looking at effects that are significant."
Robyn Merrill, of Maine Equal Justice, predicts a greater demand on food pantries as families seek to offset the reduced food stamp benefits. And she says there could also be a greater demand for help from local cities and towns.
"General Assistance does help families pay for food when they are not able to make ends meet, and when food supplement benefits don't cut it," she says. "So, potentially, this could impact cities and towns."
Both Merrill and Camire are also worried that there may be further cuts in the food assistance programs. There are several proposals before Congress that would reduce benefits, and some have been approved at the committee level in the House.


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By Bob TurriMonticello
We who live here in San Juan County Utah are fed up with our Federal Government's involvement in our lives. For the past 30 years we have been plagued with the Feds intruding into our lives. It seems that certain federal agencies spend all their time trying to figure out new ways to deprive us of our uses of the public lands including the opportunities to pursue a livelihood The economy of San Juan County, which at one time depended mostly on revenue from the development and production of natural resources, fings itself now struggling to meet its commitments.
This all started about 30 years ago after the passage of the Federal Land Management and Policy Act of 1976. The act provided a provision for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to identify to Congress lands suited to be retained as wilderness lands. The BLM completed this task and designated some areas as Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs). These lands are managed under the provisions of the Wilderness Act, until Congress either recognizes them as wilderness or releases them back to multiple use management.
Since then BLM has revised their Resource Management Plans and designated more acreage that has eliminated or greatly restricted use of the public land. Some of these designations you may recognize, such as primitive areas, areas of critical environmental concern, class one and two visual resource areas, scenic river corridors (and it doesn't not even have to be rivers), critical wildlife areas, critical cultural resource areas, areas with wilderness characteristics, and others I have failed to remember. On top of all this we have two National Monuments, a National Recreation area and a National Park. There is not too much left for multiple use.
Secretary of the Interior Salazar has turned out to be San Juan County peoples number one enemy. He is still coming up with ways of getting more of San Juan County out of multiple use management and into wilderness. He never ever stops trying to figure ways of re-inventorying and identifying lands for wilderness.
Several years ago I wrote a paper charging Secretary Salazar with several violations of his own regulations and Federal Laws. I truly believe Salazar should have been made to answer for many of his actions. In 2008, shortly after completion of six BLM Resource Management Plans here in Utah, Salazar withdrew many of the oil and gas lease parcels, that had been approved in those new plans and were being offered for lease. He did so claiming they had to be re-evaluated against other values.
This is a process that should have been done in the Resource Management Plan development. By doing this he violated his own regulations and the Federal Land Management and Policy Act. He can not make those kind of changes without first amending the plans. He has closed a very large piece of San Juan County from oil and gas lease offers until he can complete a Master Leasing Plan. They are predicting the process will take five years to complete. It appears there will be more acres eliminated from possible County revenue.
Currently we have been informed by the Department Of Interior that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the Gunnison Sage Grouse, found here in San Juan County, on the rare and endangered species list. That is bad enough but they also propose to list 145,500 acres as critical habitat. At present 95 percent of these acres are private owned lands. Although the Fish and Wildlife Service claims that this is not a taking of private property there will certainly be negative impacts to those land owners. The Fish and Wildlife Service will dictate what those land owners can and can not do on their property.
In a hearing held in Monticello, a couple week ago, over 200 very agitated people showed up. The Fish and Wildlife Service presentation was poor and they did not express much certainty as to how this proposal would or would not impact private land owners or the county of San Juan. The land owners already are experiencing negative results from this proposal. Oil and gas companies will not buy their mineral leases for fear of the restrictions that will surely be placed on those lands. The value of the property will drop, since no one wants land with restrictions on it. The land owner will, however, pay the property taxes.
The last thing I want to discuss is a petition presented to our president by certain interest groups to create a National Monument of 1.4 million acres, called The Greater Canyonlands. This petition encompasses several Utah Counties but the bulk of the acreage is in San Juan County. The petition calls for protection of all these acres. Protection from what?
Another national monument only means more lands out of productive use and less revenue for San Juan County. No where in this nation would the people tolerate the interference in their lives that is being experienced by those of us who live in San Juan County.
We know that certain interest groups with deep pockets and a goal of turning San Juan County into a vast wilderness area, are influencing much of these Federal actions. As you can see from the information identified above the economy and future of San Juan County is slowly but surely being destroyed.
There may not be a lot of people in San Juan County but we are U.S. citizens with the same constitutional rights as everyone else. As major players in the affairs of our government we are asking you to help us preserve our rights, and rid San Juan County of the negative influences presented by our Federal Government here in San Juan County.


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David M. Feldser, Ph.D.
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Juniata College, 1998.
Ph.D. (Human Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2007.
B.S. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Juniata College, 1998.
Ph.D. (Human Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2007.
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
- Mechanisms of tumor-suppressor gene action
- Role of the immune system in tumor suppression
- Genome engineering in the mouse
- Chemical genetic strategies to modulate tumor suppression
Key Words: mouse modeling, tumor suppressors, tumor immunology, tumor microenvironment, lung cancer
Current Research In The Feldser Laboratory
The Feldser lab uses genetically engineered mouse models to study tumor progression and metastasis of common forms of human cancer. These models faithfully recapitulate many aspects of the histopathological progression of their human counterparts. Tumors initiate as lesions within the appropriate tissue microenvironment from single cells due to induced activation of latent oncogenes and/or deletion of key tumor suppressor genes. These lesions evolve through multiple cellular states toward malignant and metastatic disease. Our research is dedicated to deconstructing the multistep process of tumorigenesis. The major emphasis of our laboratory is to uncover the pathways that are disabled by mutational inactivation of tumor-suppressor genes as well as those pathways stimulated by aberrant oncogene activation. We focus on mouse models in order to employ novel genetic tools to regulate gene function in developing cancerous lesions as well as to track cancer growth and dissemination via bioluminescent and fluorescent techniques. We couple cellular, genomic and biochemical analyses to our powerful in vivo tools to discern the mechanics of tumor progression and metastasis with the goal of identifying new therapeutic strategies to eradicate malignant cells.
Rotation Projects
- Studies of the physiological role of p53, Rb, and Kras in lung cancer
- Oncogene signal amplification in tumor initiation and progression
- Validation of novel methods to regulate gene function in the mouse
- Characterization of chemical regulators of tumor suppressors
Please contact Dr. Feldser to discuss specific rotation projects.
Lab Members
Graduate Students:
Brian Lauderback
David Walter
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Michelle Cicchini
Travis Yates
Research Technician:
Camila Robles-Oteiza
Undergraduate Student:
Walter Wang
Administrative contact:
Carrie Kitzmiller
Selected PublicationsChiou SH, Kim-Kiselak C, Risca V, Heimann M, Chuang CH, Burds A, Greenleaf W, Jacks T, Feldser DM, Winslow MM: A conditional system to specifically link disruption of protein-coding function with reporter expression in mice. Cell Reports 7(6): 2078-86, 2014.
Feldser D M: The p53 Tumor Suppressor Activates a Tumor Immune Surveillance Pathway That Requires Natural Killers Cells. Salk Institute: Mechanisms and Models of Cancer 2013.
Feldser D M: The p53 tumor suppressor orchestrates a novel tumor immune surveillance pathway that requires natural killer cells. Cold Spring Harbor: Mechanisms and Models of Cancer 2012.
Xue W, Meylan E, Oliver T G, Feldser D M, Winslow M M, Bronson R, Jacks T: Response and resistance to NF-κB inhibitors in mouse models of lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Discovery 1(3): 236-47, Aug 2011.
Winslow M M, Dayton T L, Verhaak R G W, Kim-Kiselak C, Snyder E L, Feldser D M, Hubbard D D, DuPage M J, Whittaker C A, Hoersch S, Yoon S, Crowley D, Bronson R T, Chiang D Y, Meyerson M, Jacks T: Suppression of lung adenocarcinoma progression by Nkx2-1. Nature 473(7345): 101-4, May 2011.
Feldser D M: Uncovering p53 Tumor-Suppressor Mechanisms in Lung Adenocarcinoma. Salk Institute: Mechanisms and Models of Cancer 2011.
Feldser D M, Kostova K K, Winslow M M, Taylor S E, Cashman C, Whittaker C A, Sanchez-Rivera F J, Resnick R, Bronson R, Hemann M T, Jacks T: Stage-specific sensitivity to p53 restoration during lung cancer progression. Nature 468(7323): 572-5, Nov 2010.
Huarte M, Guttman M, Feldser D, Garber M, Koziol M J, Kenzelmann-Broz D, Khalil A M, Zuk O, Amit I, Rabani M, Attardi L D, Regev A, Lander E S, Jacks T, Rinn J L: A large intergenic noncoding RNA induced by p53 mediates global gene repression in the p53 response. Cell 142(3): 409-19, Aug 2010.
Feldser D M: Experimental restoration of tumor suppressor function identifies a context specific sensitivity to p53 in non-small cell lung cancer. Cold Spring Harbor: Mechanisms and Models of Cancer 2010.
Meylan E, Dooley A L, Feldser D M, Shen L, Turk E, Ouyang C, Jacks T: Requirement for NF-kappaB signalling in a mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma. Nature 462(7269): 104-7, Nov 2009.
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When Marc Branham, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, began researching fireflies, he assumed such a beloved animal would be a textbook case in entomology. He was shocked to learn how little scientists knew about the common insect.
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Students at Pottstown High School may be able to predict their snow days this year with the help of their new WeatherBug Station, installed at the school earlier this year through an $18,000 contribution from Limerick Generating Station.
POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Will it be another snowy winter? Students at Pottstown High School may be able to predict their snow days this year with the help of their new WeatherBug Station, installed at the school earlier this year through an $18,000 contribution from Limerick Generating Station.
"With the WeatherBug Achieve program, teachers and students in kindergarten through twelfth grade will have access to weather data and be able to learn how to apply it in their daily work," said Dr. Reed Lindley, Pottstown School District superintendent. "We thank Limerick Generating Station for their generous gift that will allow our students to apply their math and science skills as they review information and make weather predictions."
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WeatherBug offers an exciting approach to engaging high school students in the sciences and science-related career fields. The station includes tools to measure wind speed, temperature, heat index, wind chill, dew points and more; and includes a comprehensive curriculum and lesson plans.
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PAWTUCKET — Throughout this wave of stellar play to end the regular season, one item has stood out above all else for coach Mike Kayata and his Tolman basketball lot.
Spitting out well-worn clichés such as "playing together" may come across as so pedestrian, but that's exactly why the Tigers enter the Division II postseason on an impressive roll. Tolman registered its fifth straight victory Tuesday night, a come-from-behind 65-51 win at Shea.
Before getting into the particulars regarding how the Tigers wound up capturing their eighth win in nine tries, a little sneak peak at what lies ahead. Tolman appears to have the third seed in the 10-team divisional tournament locked up, thus Kayata & Co. would avoid the preliminary round that's scheduled for Friday night.
If the math and standings shake out accordingly, Tolman (13-5, Division II-East) would face Exeter/West Greenwich next Tuesday night in the quarterfinals at a site to be determined.
In order to feel completely at ease heading into a several-day break away from game competition, the Tigers had to maneuver past a Raiders' outfit that was honoring six 12th graders as part of the annual "Senior Night" festivities. For the vast majority of the first half Tuesday, Tolman looked nothing like the squad that has been on a solid roll lately. Bad execution on offense coupled with missed defensive assignments had Tolman down 31-26 at halftime and Kayata in a foul mood.
Maybe it was the adrenaline of "Senior Night," but the Tolman mentor knew that what transpired in the opening 16 minutes was not acceptable. Before talking strategy, Kayata made sure to remind the Tigers about the importance of cohesiveness and steering clear of splintering off in separate directions.
"I told them they were selfish and weren't working together," said Kayata. "A lot of us thought we could get whatever we wanted. They didn't need screens or each other, but they did."
The message did not fall on deaf ears. Displaying togetherness, Tolman scored the first nine points of the second half and never looked back on its way to raining on the parade of seniors Armani Baker, Chris Luciano and the rest of the Shea cagers. All told, the Tigers ripped off a 23-7 run to start the second stanza to go up 49-38 with under nine minutes remaining.
Denzel DePina helped key Tolman's resurgence with a game-best 19 points and 11 rebounds while Tyler Reece had 10 points and 12 rebounds. Kayata was effusive in his praise about the job Reece did defensively on Baker, the high-flying Shea senior who was held well below his scoring average.
Baker finished with 10 points with just three coming in the second half. His ability to catch the ball at the foul line and decide which way to attack the basket was severely compromised thanks to Reece, who also had some assistance from teammate Jesse Fernandes (10 points). Luciano finished with 13 points to top Shea, which will sit out the postseason for the first time since the 2006-07 season.
"Baker is a stud and a great player. He can play for me any day of the week," said Kayata. "We knew if we could stop him and Luciano on their Senior Night, we felt comfortable that we could win the game.
"It got a little bit scary there when we were playing selfish and not together," the head coach added.
The Tigers took it to another level in the second half when Prince Johnson stole the ball at midcourt and glided in for an uncontested hoop and Luis Pagan swished back-to-back 3-pointers to make it 63-47. With the game clearly in Tolman's favor, Shea head coach Matt Pita decided to give Baker, Luciano, Jamiel Rodrigues, Manny Delgado and Ellis Smith one final chance to receive applause in a high-school basketball setting. All five players came off the floor to a nice ovation with 1:25 left.
"It was the right thing to do," said Pita, his Raiders closing at 3-15.
The first half featured 11 lead changes with Shea going up by as many as seven points late before Fernandes banked in a shot at the buzzer. Tolman fell behind 16-11 before rallying to take a 24-23 lead after Steven Otis (10 points) swished home his club's only trey on the night.
"Running the plays and being structured is tough on a night like this, but overall I'm really proud of my guys," said Kayata. "We've had a really great regular season, but our new season begins now."
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No less than three television shows feature the search for gold. If I were not in the Navy, would I ever consider throwing it all to the wind and setting out on my own, for my own pot of gold? Maybe. But considering what the Todd and Jack Hoffman did, maybe not. They sold everything in Oregon to come to Alaska to mine for gold. And the show is miraculously in its third season, despite the fact no one has struck it rich:
-The first season featured six men from Sandy, Oregon (a small town 30 miles southeast of Portland) who, due to the economic downturn, have lost their jobs. They decided on an all-stakes gamble – travel to Porcupine Creek, Alaska and prospect for gold. Most of the people on the show have little or no previous gold mining experience and must learn on the job.
-For season 2, Todd missed a lease payment, and "Dakota" Fred Hurt buys the claim out from owner Earl Foster, not needing to break the lease due to the missed payment.
The season explores the Hoffman crew's new mine at Quartz Creek, in the Klondike region of the Yukon, Canada as well as "Dakota" Fred's operation at the site of the original Hoffman mine, Porcupine Creek, and Parker Schnabel's attempts to mine his grandfather's property at Big Nugget Mine.
-The third season began in October 2012. The Hoffman crew returned to the Klondike to once again mine the Quartz Creek site but also brought on additional crewmen to simultaneously work another site in the area. Parker Schnabel returned to the Big Nugget Mine site with larger and more efficient equipment while "Dakota" Fred Hurt and his crew returned to the Porcupine Creek site.
Jungle Gold is a television show set in Ghana that airs on Discovery Channel. It follows George Wright and Scott Lomu, two down-on-their-luck realtors:
Jungle Gold is a reality documentary series set in Ghana that airs on Discovery Channel. The series premiered on October, 26, 2012 on the Discovery Channel. The series follows George Wright and Scott Lomu as they risk everything in an attempt to strike it rich to recover from losing everything in the real estate crash of 2008.
And the last show is called Bamazon, about some gold hunters heading to Guyana. (Technically, construction workers from Alabama searching for gold in the Amazon.) Irony of ironies, the local Guyana paper, the Guyana Times (tagline: the Beacon of Truth) seems to think the men are in town for wildlife reasons:
A 24 member team; eight males from Alabama (Southern United States) and 16 producers from the renowned History Channel arrived in Guyana on Wednesday to commence a six- week documentary on Guyana's wildlife and rainforests. The documentary will feature eight one hour series titled "Bamazon" and will be broadcast on the History Channel worldwide, reaching millions of households.
The eight males from Alabama will be the feature of the documentary and they will be exploring Guyana's rainforests and wildlife. The History Channel team will be in charge of the filming and production of the documentary.
The name Bamazon was derived from the shorten form of residents in Alabama, which is Bama. Since the cast will be exploring Guyana's Amazon, they came up with the word "Bamazon". Supervising Producer of "Bamazon" from the History Channel Scott Madden said the cast will be spending most of the time in the Interior.
There is not a whole lot of info out there on the cast. John Wilson is the name of one member, according to this forum. Clate is another. I wish 'em well.


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RENSSELAER FALLS – Cynthia J. Ford witnessed history as she stood on the floor as the New York State Assembly passed a resolution Monday declaring June 12 Women Veterans Recognition Day.
Ms. Ford was one of over 50 female veterans from all branches of the military who shared their experiences and the difficulties faced by veterans at a luncheon prior to the ceremony.
It was an honor and a privilege to be among such an amazing collection of women, ranging from WWII to Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans, Ms. Ford said.
The event was hosted by Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell, D-Theresa, who serves as member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and chair of the subcommittee on Womens Veterans.
Ms. Ford, who served in the United States Air Force from 1994 to 1998, was one of only a few women selected to stand next to Mrs. Russell when she presented the resolution.
We often equate a solider with a male figure, Ms. Ford said. I think its important to raise awareness that were out there doing real jobs as real soldiers, and that Mrs. Russell shed light on that.
The Recognition Day came 63 years after the Womens Armed Forces Act of 1948 enabled women to serve as permanent, regular members of the armed forces in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
My father was a retired Navy serviceman. Two out of the eight soldiers I met growing up were women. But those women only served in secretarial positions, Ms. Ford said. Weve come a long way. I have noticed the change over the years. Women now serve in a variety of areas - air traffic controllers, medicsthe military is broadening its horizons and career fields.
Ms. Ford, an account representative at Northern New York Newspapers Corporation, Ogdensburg, was stationed in Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She later served as chief weather observer and weather journeyman, observing and reporting minute-to-minute weather conditions for national dissemination at Fort Drum. During her time of service, she received the expert marksman ribbon and was promoted early to senior airman before her date of separation.
While Ms. Ford said she is appreciative of the recognition women are now receiving, she said the honor should be extended to all veterans, not just women.
In military communities or bases, communities embrace their military, said Ms. Ford. But outside those environments, I dont think there is enough recognition for veterans. There is a disconnection between active duty and veterans. I dont think people realize how many veterans there are out there.
Mrs. Ford served as the only female on the committee of 7 veterans and two civilians which facilitated Military Appreciation Day and Career Fair Saturday. The event brought veterans from all over St. Lawrence County together.
Many veterans do not know what their options are, said Ms. Ford. It was after eight years of my retirement that I knew I qualified for health insurance through the VA. Thats what the Fair is all about.
The event included over 110 vendors with information about benefits, health care, the GI Bill, the Post Exchange, tax exemptions, Social Security, behavioral health, counseling, retiree services, educational opportunities and employers.
I am very proud of my service, said Ms. Ford. But I think our country could do better in the treatment of its veterans, and were continuing to work toward that end.
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