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|Also, Most people stop treating long before ich is truly beaten. I go weeks past the apparent "deadline". I use heat alone but Cupramine and Paraguard are two of many effective meds available.
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|On second thought I would first suspect some stressor you are inadvertantly causing. Any stress wears down the immune system of any creature; slime coat is the first thing to suffer in fish and ich is often the first opportunist. I used to be pretty careless about the temperature of my water changes. I know people who have incorrectly assumed they had no chloramine in their water and used half doses of reducer. Toxic tank decor. Nocturnal O2 deficits or pH swings. Crappy, tainted or expired and rotting food. Voltage leaks from bad equipment. rapidly fluctuating temps from drafts or heat registers. Some oddball parameter out of whack. Any number of invisible things can slip by our notice and cause stress. Even a bacterial infection should clear up by itself if there are no stressors. If the Ich keeps coming back I would think very hard on everything you put in the tank before guessing at and treating for stuff blindly. I wish I could say bombard it with KILLALL!! brand multi toxin and let god sort out the dead bugs but that stuff seems to beat the heck out of the already weak fish IMO/E.
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I have telescope eyed goldfish and fantails. They tolerate heat so well (contrary to popular belief) that I switched from salt and some heat to heat alone. 86 degrees stops it from reproducing or reinfecting. 88 degrees kills it outright, but not the stuff on the fish which takes a few days to mature out then dies once it drops off the fish. I turn the tank up to 90 degrees which, in my setup, requires a 300 watt Eheim heater in the 15 gallon sump of my 80 gallon tank. The ick is dead and gone in about seven or eight days. I leave the heat up for at least ten days to be sure. I have never seen this kind of fish show any stress from 90 degree heat. Apparently sustained temps in the mid ninetys can be bad, but not 90. 110 is lethal. These fish love the heat at 90. My heater takes an hour to raise the temp 1 degree. I turn it on full blast and it allows plenty of time for acclimation. I have hear rumors of a strain of ich in florida which requires 92 degrees to kill it.
I sometimes add new fish without quarantining. These fish often bring ick which often appears on the old fish but not visibly on the new arrivals. The heat wipes it all out for good. If your Ick is reoccuring your fish have a weakened immune system. I am told that Ick in fish is a bit like Strep in humans - always there in small numbers but kept in check and harmless as long as you are healthy. If the immune system is compromised or something causes the ick concentration to rise it becomes dangerous. Your fish may have an internal parasitic, viral or bacterial infection or some other thing which is predisposing them to the ick. The solution there is hard to pinpoint. If it kept coming back I might guess bacterial problem first and try a course of food based antibiotics followed by probiotic gut recolonization, but as a last option.
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Thanks everyone for the help. I have my tank at 84 now and started the med cycle again. Leaving for vacation on Friday which is when the second dose is due. So hopefully when I return Sunday all will be well. If not I will try salt after giving the tank a few days to stabilize. If that does not work then it's on to copper safe. Oh and I added a bubbler again.
|Thanks everyone for the help. I have my tank at 84 now and started the med cycle again. Leaving for vacation on Friday which is when the second dose is due. So hopefully when I return Sunday all will be well. If not I will try salt after giving the tank a few days to stabilize. If that does not work then it's on to copper safe. Oh and I added a bubbler again.
Simple Solution. Works 99% of the time...
Turn temp up to ~84 Degrees. At this temperature Ich's free-born (water) cycle is about 10-15 hours at the maximum. It has to find a host within those first 8-12 hours otherwise the cell that causes Ich doesn't have enough energy to be successful.
If you have co2 turn it down some. Otherwise leave the rest of the tank the same and possibly add a very LIGHT amount of epsom salts. 1 tsp per 20 gallons. Most of the time you can get by without the epsoms.
Also if your medicating the tank, TAKE OUT CARBON BAGS or any thing besides bio media (ceramic balls, mechanical fibers). Carbon will remove the medication as soon as it touches it.
More about Ich:
1) Ich did not survive in your tank for 2 weeks with no fish unless it dropped to pond water temperature. 24-48 hour max at room temperature.
2) Do not combine medicines with UV. UV can deactivate meds. Use EITHER salt and heat (and you can add UV to this) OR medications.
3) Medicines lie.
Read about the life cycle of Ich, and remember this: Meds CANNOT kill ich while it is on the fish. Any medicine that says it kills in just a few days is lying. Ich has to fall off the fish to breed first, then the medicine kills the babies, not the adults.
4) You can separate the fish into different tanks according to which fish tolerate which treatment best. Loaches are fine with Rid Ich, but not so great with salt. Salt is not good for plants. You could also separate the plants from the fish, and treat the fish in a bare bottom 10 gallon tank with something the plants do not like (salt...). If the plants are in a warm, well lit tank while the fish are being treated, NO fish in the plant tank, then any Ich will die without a host.
5) If this is a 20 gallon tank a Yoyo Loach outgrows this tank really fast, anyway, so if you get another tank, make sure it is big enough for the Loach.
What other fish do you have?
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Ich is an organism that has several phases to its life cycle. Only one of the 3 phases is vulnerable to salt or any other medication.
Killing Ich is a matter of understanding that life cycle and having treatment in the tank at the right time to kill the susceptible phase.
Trophont is the phase that lives on the fish. At first you cannot see it, but within a few days it grows to the white spot that gives this parasite one of its common names. It lives on the fish for several days (longer in cooler water) then falls to the floor of the tank. Medicines do not affect this phase because it is burrowed under the fishes' slime coat. Fish can be infected in their gills, where you cannot see the parasite. This is why a quarantine tank is very important: New fish live in quarantine from your established tank(s) until Ich or other diseases or parasites have been ruled out or treated.
Tomont is the phase that reproduces, most often on the floor of the tank. Diligent vacuuming of the floor of the tank can remove a lot of these, and I have even heard of complete cures in a bare bottom tank with daily vacuuming. Meds do not affect this stage. The Ich organism is in this phase for only a day or so at tropical tank temperatures. This phase releases hundreds of free swimming babies.
Theront and Tomite are the names given to the babies that swim in the water, looking for a host. This is the phase that is vulnerable to meds. They usually find a host in 24 hours, so keeping the meds in the water is important.
When you see a couple of white spots on the fish it may not look quite like full blown Ich at first, you are seeing the earliest visible signs. It grows quickly though to the obvious salt or sugar look. Since you do not know what ages of Ich are on the fish, and there is some natural variation in the growth rate, you can assume that you have all three phases in the tank by the time you see the first signs.
Treatment is aimed at finding something toxic to the Ich organisms without killing the fish. Some fish are more sensitive to certain medicines.
If you can raise the temperature the Ich will go through its life cycle faster, fall off the fish faster and reach the vulnerable stage (Theront) faster. If increasing the temperature is too hard on the fish then this is optional. Increase the aeration in the tank by adding a bubbler that increases the water movement, add a power head or other pump that creates more ripples at the surface, or drop the water level so the water returning from the filter will create more turbulence at the surface. If the fish are still gasping at the surface, lower the temperature by a couple of degrees. It is generally safe to raise or lower the temperature by about 2 degrees F or 1* C per day. More than this can add more stress to the fish.
In cool water tanks Ich may live for several weeks, and in a pond for several months. Fish kept in these settings generally are not tolerant to increasing the temperature, so the treatment will take longer.
More about temperature: It used to be that Ich could be killed by sustained temperatures over 86*F. The problem is getting the WHOLE volume of water this temperature, even under the gravel. (Bare bottom tank is easier). However, there has been another form of Ich discovered that is resistant to any temperature that is safe for the fish. If you can get the temperature up this high (over 86*F), you may still kill the Ich, but if it does not die, your fish may have 'Super Ich'. Super Ich is also resistant to the common Ich meds.
Medicines that treat Ich:
Salt. Sodium Chloride. Add salt slowly, over several days. 1 teaspoon per 10 gallons is a moderate dose, 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons is a stronger dose. Add the day's worth of salt to a cup of tank water and pour it into the tank slowly, over several hours. Next day, do the same. 3rd day, the same. At this point you will have 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons (strong dose) or 1 tablespoon per 10 gallons (milder dose) in the tank. Whenever you do water changes add the proper dose of salt to the new water so the level stays the same for the full course of treatment.
Salt can be the iodide- and anti-caking-free forms such as Kosher, pickling, water softener, or aquarium salt if you have any worries about iodide or anti-caking ingredients (read the labels to be sure). I have used table salt (with anti-caking ingredients and iodide) for short term use with no problem. Do not use Epsom salt, or the salt and mineral blend that replicates ocean water. This level of salt is bad for plants.
Rid Ich: A Kordon product, active ingredients Formalin and Malachite Green. (These ingredients are common to many Ich treatments.) Labeled to be a gentler medicine for sensitive fish. You can also ease the fishes' introduction to the meds by dosing similar to the salt: Add half the dose in the AM and more later in the day. There are instructions on the label for dosing weaker or stronger fish. Remove activated carbon from the filter. May stain silicone and some other stuff in the aquarium. If you use Amquel Plus dechlorinator switch to something else while using a Malachite Green based medicine.
Coppersafe and other copper products. These seem safe for the fish, but fish keepers who have used copper preparations have noticed that shrimp and snails also die, and the effects seem to linger for a long time, as if the copper has not been fully removed from the water, making it impossible to keep shrimp or snails in tanks that have been treated. Remove activated carbon from the filter.
Clout (long list of unpronounceable ingredients) by Aquarium Products. A much stronger medicine, not for use on delicate fish. Remove activated carbon from the filter.
Ultra Violet Sterilizer: Will kill the Theront phase. Safe for all fish.
Combining treatments: DO NOT combine medicines unless BOTH are labeled as safe for use with each other. Part of this is that 2 meds may combine chemically to form toxic substances. It can also be that each medicine weakens the fish just a little bit, but the combined effects of 2 medicines are more than a fish (already under stress from Ich) can tolerate. UV may deactivate some meds.
Here is one possible treatment schedule. I have dosed per sturdy fish in a 10 gallon tank.
Day 1: Water change emphasizing gravel vac (I am using the term gravel vac even if you have a bare bottom tank- same idea- do a water change that emphasizes the removal of whatever is on the bottom of the tank) Add 2 teaspoons of salt in a cup of tank water, spread out over the course of the day. Increase the temperature by 2*F. (Note the cautions above about aeration in the tank as you are raising the temperature)
Day 2: Add 2 teaspoons of salt over the course of the day and increase the temperature by 2*F.
Day 3: Water change emphasizing gravel vac. Add salt to the new water at the rate of 2 teaspoons per 5 gallons to match the current dose in the tank. Add more salt (2 more teaspoons) over the course of the day and increase the temperature by 2*F.
Day 4 and beyond: Continue water changes every other day (daily is even better) remembering to add salt at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons to the replacement water. Continue to raise the temperature if the fish are handling it OK.
Continue treatment until at lease 3 days beyond the day you saw the last Ich spot on the fish. Remember the phases of the life cycle: A spot that falls off the fish does not become vulnerable to meds (actually it is the babies that are vulnerable) for a day or so after falling off the fish. The meds need to be there to kill these last babies. If you are treating a cool water tank keep the meds at therapeutic levels for a week beyond the day you saw the last spot on the fish.
Begin to reduce the salt and temperature SLOWLY. Do small water changes that do not contain salt.
If you have used other medicines do larger water changes and add activated carbon to the filter.
Reduce the temperature at the rate of 1*F per day.
Additional meds: Fish under stress tend to lose more body fluids than healthy fish. Increasing the total dissolved solids (TDS) in the water reduces this tendency. You can add salt (Sodium Chloride) at the rate of 1 teaspoon per 10 gallons, if the medicine you are using is labeled for salt water. This is not a high enough dose to kill Ich, but is generally safe even for fish that are sensitive to salt for the short term of treatment, and helps them regulate the amount of fluid in their cells.
I have heard of using antibiotics with or following Ich treatment, with the thought being that fish in a weakened condition may be more vulnerable to bacterial infections. DO NOT combine meds unless BOTH are labeled for use with each other. I have not had Ich followed by bacterial infections, but simply monitor the fish following the Ich treatment and be ready to treat for whatever else may show up. I do not think they need to be treated for some unknown disease that does not seem to be present.
Nitrifying bacteria and Ich treatment.
Some medicines can kill or weaken the colony of nitrifying bacteria. Monitor the water for ammonia and nitrite and be ready to do water changes as needed to keep the ammonia under .25 ppm and the nitrite under 1 ppm. When you do water changes for any reason during Ich treatment re-dose whatever medicine you are using to maintain the therapeutic dose in the tank. Once the medicine is cleared from the water you may want to add nitrifying bacteria to the tank either a bottled product like Tetra Safe Start or Dr. Tim's One and Only, or else add some filter media from a cycled, healthy tank. (Do not swap filter media: you might be adding Ich to the healthy tank, just get some media from a healthy tank and add it to the recovering tank)
Do not cross-contaminate healthy tanks and sick tanks. Use separate equipment on the various tanks, and treat the equipment to kill whatever disease or parasite you are treating in the hospital tank.
Ich does not survive without a host. If you lose all the fish in a tank I would run the tank for a few weeks with frequent water changes and gravel vacs and keep the bacteria fed with ammonia, similar to the fishless cycle. (add ammonia to the 3 ppm level daily until you are ready to re-populate the tank, then do as big a water change as needed to reduce the nitrate as close to 0 ppm as possible). Ich can live in the gills of fish, and can exist at a low population level so that you may not be aware that a fish has Ich. This is what is likely behind the thought that Ich can be 'dormant'. It has no dormant phase.
When any one fish in the tank shows Ich the whole tank has Ich. You cannot see Ich in the gills or on the floor of the tank, but you must assume it is there, ready to re-infest the fish. You may separate the fish to different tanks according to their medicine tolerances for treatment, all these tanks then become hospital tanks and need to be treated, even if you do not see Ich on all the fish.
|86F+ stops ich from reproducing.. alongside regular water changes, it should go away.
|the copper and the salt are not the greatest for your plants, but they should survive wthlttle to no loss. Switching meds is never a good idea mid treatment. It just helps the paraste uild a resistance to it. I would run the full course, do a 50% water change. Give the tank a few days to stabilize afterwords. Then if you feel you haven't wiped out the ich, go with salt or copper.
|As is it ok to start the medication again even though they have already had medication for four day now?
|Is the copper safe ok to use with my life plants? What about salt?
|ich s a very persistent parasite. The only way to truly kill ich is with copper. Best way to clean your dt is to remove all fish and leave it fallow (empty) for six to eight weeks. The paraste wll die with no host to prey on. You can treat loaches wth copper, just have to be careful not to dose them too heavily all at once. Bring up the level slowly over a period of 12-24 hours along with setting your temp over eighty and it should clear up in no time.
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|I don't think the ich survived in your tank for those 2 weeks. The new fish most likely had ich at the store when you bought it. Like the previous members stated, raise your temps and keep dosing the meds. Adding more oxygen with an air stone will help during this process.
I use 82-84 degrees & K-salt to treat mine.
Higher temps bring out the ickies to the surface of the fish by giving the parasites a nitro boost. Once the adult parasites fall to the bottom, the eggs from the adults that will turn into baby icks can be destroyed with a concentrated k-salt water solution.
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Deschutes Co. marks National Nurses Week
BEND, Ore. - This week, May 6-12, is the American Nurses Association's National Nurses Week.
Deschutes County employs 30 wonderful people who serve the local community in a wide-range of nursing programs including Maternal Child Health home visiting, the CaCoon program, immunizations, School-Based Health Centers, HIV services, reproductive health, Behavioral Health programs, the Deschutes County Jail, Family Planning, Communicable Disease, Nurse Family Partnership, WIC, and Juvenile Community Justice.
"What would we do without their support and skill? Nursing is a wonderful profession with so many dedicated people who give of themselves each and every day in service to people in need. They offer health services, a caring spirit, a passion for health and a willingness to serve. Hats-off to nurse professionals working for Deschutes County. We appreciate you and thank you for a job well done!" Health Services Director Scott Johnson said.
This year's American Nurses Association National Nurses Week theme, "Delivering Quality and Innovation in Patient Care," highlights RNs' efforts to improve patient outcomes.
This week, communities across America will recognize RNs' contributions to high-quality patient care and community health, and the founder of modern nursing-Florence Nightingale. At 3.1 million professionals-strong, nurses make up the largest health care workforce in the Country.
Please take time this week to say "Thank You" to the nurses that have made an impact in your life, in this community, and have touched the lives of your loved ones.
To discover more about health services offered by Deschutes County health professionals, including our nurses, please visit www.Deschutes.org


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Jim Roberts made the trek south to Knoxville and Corvette Expo again this year. His first trip was 21 years ago.
"I used to come to sell Corvettes," he says. "But right now I'm coming to buy. We need cars. We're starting a classic car and indoor-mall-type deal in Kalamazoo, and we're looking for Corvettes, street rods, musclecars, that kind of stuff."
On our arrival, we flagged down Byron Cooper as he buzzed by on a tiny motorcycle. In his fifties, Cooper exuded promoter's charisma. He and his brother, Ronny, started Corvette Expo in 1977. Now, Byron's gray sideburns looped around his chin to form a beard.
In the early years, the Expo was limited to Corvettes. Byron explained how it evolved. "This show's always leaned heavily toward selling cars," he says, "and a lot of the guys would have two Corvettes and a Camaro. 'So why can't I bring my Camaro?' [they would ask]. We thought, Well, why can't you?"
One car on the grounds caught our immediate attention. It was a '69 Motion Corvette with the complete Baldwin Motion body kit designed by founder Joel Rosen. We learned this wild, big-block coupe was going through the auction the next day. The owner was John Shaw, a dealer from Greenville, South Carolina. He had all the enthusiasm of a hobbyist with one Corvette. For more on this car, see page 44 of this issue.
We passed the day shooting pictures of cars and touring the grounds. Saturday was the big day. That morning, we picked up the local paper to see a dramatic, wide-angle photo of the Motion Corvette consuming most of the top half of the business pages cover. The story, written to make general-interest readers salivate, was typical. The writer, Roger Harris, told of a '64 Sting Ray, owned by Terry Michaelis (president of Pro Team Corvette Sales in Napoleon, Ohio), which "could fetch $75,000 or more at the annual Corvette Expo and Muscle Car Show and Auction at Chilohowee Park." Dana Mecum, whose company auctions cars of many different makes and models, gave us his thoughts on the Corvette market: "It's strong and I think [it's] the best market out there."
Big money for collectibles makes headlines. Saturday morning, we wandered by the cars waiting to be auctioned. The buyers were far from novices. Most spoke like dealers or experienced Corvette people.
Close to the auction tent was another tent labeled "Show Tent." The Jacobs Building was under renovation, so the tent had to suffice. Car entries, likewise, were cut back to 40, a fraction of what they would be normally. Rows of Corvettes were mixed with an assortment of other cars on the grounds. Every Corvette and "metal" car was for sale. That's what this Expo is all about.
A '57 went up for auction. The fuel injection was off the engine and in the trunk. This one sold for $53,000. Apparently, a dealer bought it.
A '72 gold coupe was announced as a Bloomington Gold Survivor with 19,000 original miles. It sold for $19,000.
A '67 was next, but the auctioneer failed to mention the model year. "A 327ci/350-horse ... numbers-matching, black leather, four-speed, runs great," he calls out. The green convertible brought $44,000.
The top price paid for a Corvette was $93,500 for a '67 435hp convertible. A '64 coupe, a fuelie, was notable at $65,000. It was an older restoration, scoring Bloomington Gold in 1991.
For anyone who attended Corvette Expo 2004 in Knoxville, the evidence was overwhelming that Dana Mecum's words were correct. The Corvette market is thriving.


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A hive of mine swarmed and I captured them. I made a mistake and clipped the queen in the swarm, assuming she was my old, mated queen. For almost 2 1/2 weeks now she has not laid so I think she is a virgin queen. Today, I checked and noticed there were larva in the swarm hive, but the pattern was not good and they appeared to all be in drone cells. I took a frame of brood from the original hive and placed it in the swarm hive. My first question is this: do you think the queen in the swarm hive was not viable? My second question isthis: Do you think I should remove the queen and leave them with the brood frame? Do you think they will be okay? My concern is that they've essentially been queenless for almost 3 weeks. It's going to be another 3-4 weeks before a new queen is ready to lay from that brood frame, right? That's 6-7 weeks, in which case my workers are going to be very low on numbers. I'm considering shaking some bees from their original hive into the new swarm hive to give them some
workers. If her wings were clipped, but there are drones in the hive, could she still mate? Thanks everyone.


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John Williams
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Academic BackgroundProfessor Williams graduated from Milsaps College in Jackson, MS with a BS in Chemistry in 1967 after spending his freshman and sophomore years at Vanderbilt University as an English major. He took a PhD. in organic chemistry from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1972 under the direction of Adam Aguiar and joined the RIC Physical Sciences Department as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
His interests have included synthesis, toxicity and electrochemistry of organophosphonium salts, synthesis of novel cephalosporins, photochemistry of aryl phosphines, and computational chemistry of chromogenic cepholosporins.
Sabbaticals in computational chemistry with Ken Houk at LSU, organometallic synthesis with Dwight Swigart at Brown, and solid state polypeptide synthesis with Chris Seto at Brown have informed his research at RIC.
Over thirty of his former undergraduate research students have successfully completed PhD's and pursued careers in industrial or academic chemistry. Others have become MD's, PharmDoc's Optometrists, or secondary school chemistry teachers.
Most recently, his undergraduate research group has been involved in research projects funded by RI-INBRE and EPSCoR and in collaboration with chemistry and biology faculty at the college on the toxicity of arylphospohnium salts to DNA in vitro and in vivo, and malignant cell lines. Funding for a new project to synthesize and screen selective estrogen receptor modulators has just been granted by the RI Science and Technology Advisory Council in a competitive grant competition for which twenty cent of the proposals were funded. This project includes researchers at RIC, URI and an industrial partner who is the CEO of Organomed, Ltd.
A couple of years after I arrived at RIC a guy with long hair and casual attire (even for a student in the early 70's) came to my office and said he wanted to major in chemistry and do research. I was dubious, but had just come back to my office from my lab where I was unsuccessful in completing what I thought was the very simple task of making a solution of electrolytes in a mixed solvent. So I showed him my lab and suggested he try his luck making the solution. I went back to my office and about twenty minutes later he came back and said he had solved the problem. It turned out that the order of addition of components is important; and the novice high school graduate, using empirical methods, solved a problem the Ph.D. couldn't quite figure out.
Jimmy Covill is now the NAFTA Area Director for Clarient Corporation's operations in the western hemisphere. He was one of the first RIC BA chemistry graduates. He started at the old Hoechst Chemical plant in Coventry as a pilot-plant chemist, using a wheel barrow and shovel to mix chemicals, and moved up from there as the company evolved into Clarient over the last thirty years. There are scores of similar stories about my students and those mentored by my colleagues in chemistry, physics and biology. Students not only can do basic research as part of their education, but, in the sciences, where it is essential, we actively recruit students to include research as part of their undergraduate program. Experimental science is one of the last surviving crafts where apprentices learn from masters, but, unlike the Medieval model, the "masters" also learn from the "apprentices" like I did many years ago from Jim Covill.
RIC BA and BS chemistry graduates are in the process or have taken Master's or Ph.D's in chemistry from Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, UNC at Chapel Hill, University of Florida, UC Berkeley, University of Connecticut, SUNY Stony Brook, U of Georgia, Brandeis, U of Wisconsin, and others. The much younger BA degree in Physics has sent students to Harvard, Princeton, the U. of Cincinnati and the University of Pittsburg for graduate degrees. Other graduates have gone to Brown or the New England College of Medicine for MD degrees.
RIC alumni are employed in industry and academia; DuPont, Glaxo-Welcome, Pfizer, Lily-Ponds, Paratek, Genentech, Clarient, Cal State at Northridge, University of Arkansas, University of San Diego, College of the Holy Cross, Woods-Hole Oceanographic Institute, Scripts Oceanographic Institute, to name a few. Others have entered middle and high school science teaching in various school districts all over Rhode Island and southern New England.
John Williams
Professor of Chemistry
Courses TaughtBIOL 652 Adv Topics in Biology
CHEM 104 General Chemistry II
CHEM 205 Organic Chemistry I
CHEM 206 Organic Chemistry II
CHEM 250 Topics
CHEM 491 Research In Chemistry
CHEM 492 Research In Chemistry
CHEM 493 Research In Chemistry
HONR 150 Topics
Research ProjectsJohn Williams is a professor of Chemistry in the Physical Sciences department. His tireless and dedicated approach to undergraduate research and the promotion of 'learning through doing' has benefitted an untold number of undergraduate students in the sciences.
In John's own words, "RIC BA and BS chemistry graduates are in the process or have taken Master's or Ph.D's in chemistry from Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, UNC at Chapel Hill, University of Florida, UC Berkeley, University of Connecticut, SUNY Stony Brook, U of Georgia, Brandeis, U of Wisconsin, and others. The much younger BA degree in Physics has sent students to Harvard, Princeton, the U of Cincinnati and the University of Pittsburg for graduate degrees. Other graduates have gone to Brown or the New England College of Medicine for MD degrees."
This work is divided into three parts. It is intended to introduce undergraduate chemistry and biology majors to chemical synthesis, purification and analysis of compounds that have a spectrum of toxicities, to screen these compounds for in vitro activity against bacteria, proteins, DNA and normal and malignant cells, and to examine the interactions between these compounds ("small molecules") and DNA and proteins ("large molecules") using computational chemistry. These are some of the techniques employed in the search for new drugs by pharmaceutical companies.
The project design provides students the opportunity to be paid a stipend for doing work in preparation for a position in industry after earning a bachelor's degree. If they are bound to graduate or medical school, it gives them the advantage of actual laboratory experience as undergraduates. In addition to the lab and computer work, students read the current literature to keep abreast of other work in the field and new aspects of APS biological activity. Finally, since the ultimate goal of any research project is to communicate the results to the larger scientific community, the students are each assigned a scientific journal for which to prepare a manuscript for submission. In the meantime, the INBRE project provides winter and summer all-day retreats where the projects are presented in a poster session and selected participating faculty present twenty-minute talks on their research.
In industry, the synthesis of new chemical entities (NCE's) is done by medicinal chemists, toxicology screening by biologists and analytical chemists, and computation by scientists with backgrounds in chemistry, physics or mathematics. All of the research students are exposed to each of these aspects of drug research and development. Definite laboratory time is assigned to each participant through the week. We have one-hour group meetings every Friday in which I summarize progress since the last meeting and each student presents a brief PowerPoint talk on their projects.
We began with some known toxicology, biological activity data, physical chemical information, and chemical synthesis methods for the compounds of interest; arylphosphonium salts (APS). One class of these compounds, which were the basis for my PhD dissertation, showed significant activity against malignant cell cultures in NIH tests. Also, the activity was directly related to subtle changes in the molecular structure. That is, they showed a structure-activity relationship or SAR. The synthesis of these particular APS's involved boiling acetic acid saturated with hydrogen chloride gas, which is a process that lends itself neither to undergraduate research, nor bulk industrial chemistry. For this work we are using APS that are more easily synthesized and modified that do not require such severe reaction conditions.
The activity of APS depends on their being soluble in both water and oil, because optimal solubility in both media is a goal of invention for all potential new drugs. Many cases of early failure in the physical screening of drug candidates are due to poor water solubility. After drugs are administered, they must be distributed in the blood stream, which is mostly water, to sites of action on or in the cells of target tissues, during which time they may also be metabolized and/or eliminated. Getting inside cells requires some affinity for the hydrophobic ("oily") cell membrane interiors. The APS's are positively charged, which renders them water-soluble. They also have large hydrocarbon attachments (the "aryl" parts) that render them "lipophilic" or oil loving. The APS with which we are working can be deliberately modified chemically to change the oil/water interaction dynamics and thus the spectrum and selectivity of biological activity. That is, they show predictable and potentially alterable structure-activity relationships (SAR's). This chemical "tweaking" of a basic molecular structure is a standard strategy of medicinal chemists in the pharmaceutical industry.
Research SummaryOur lab is continuing work begun over 40 years ago and contributed to during the intervening time by many undergraduate and graduate students. Projects now involve synthesis and toxicology of antibiotic, anti cancer, antioxidant, and neuroprotective compounds and isolation and analysis of Hsp70 from G. demissa in Narragansett Bay. We now use microwave assisted organic synthesis, high pressure liquid chromatography and solid state polypeptide synthesis in addition to traditional benchtop methods. We have access to the INBRE Core Lab at URI for mass spectroscopy, protein sequencing and cellometry, and the EPSCoR lab at Brown for multi-laser cell isolation and counting. We maintain cell cultures of malignant and normal cells for screening. In recent years our projects have involved collaboration with other RIC science faculty and colleagues at URI and Brown.
Current work in my lab
1) Synthesis of small polypeptide recognition sequences to conjugate with arylphosphonium salts or co-administer with them to make targeting anticancer agents,
2) Collection of ribbed mussels (G. demissa) from four sites around Narragansett Bay for dissection and isolation of Hsp70 heat shock proteins for Western Blot separation and antibody staining to quantify the relationship of Hsp70 levels with the year-round climate of the Bay,
3) Maintaining cell cultures for anti-cancer screening by cellometry, FACS analysis and confocal microscopy of a variety of compounds synthesized in our labs. The cells are imaged by selective staining dyes or plasmids with fluorescent labels,
4) Synthesis of arylphosphonium salts (APS) for SAR's from toxicology screening: as antibiotics, DNA binders, Estrogen receptor binding, anticancer screening and in vitro DNA binding.
5) The effects of metal cations (Na+, K+, Cs+, Ca
Work on hold and to be resumed in my lab
1) Synthesis of antibiotic polymers by grafting APS onto functionalized polymers or polymerization of monomers with covalently bound APS or their phosphine precursors,
2) SAR's of DNA binding to a series of (X)APS (were X is an ortho or para substituent on the aryl group) by electrophoresis
3) SAR's from computation of DNA-(X)APS interactions by HyperChem and AutoDock software
4) Synthesis of libraries of sets of "druglikely" compounds based upon six scaffolds for which one or more member has shown significant activity as Era+ and/or -, or against breast and/or liver cancer cells in culture.
5) Synthesis of APS ligands for G4-DNA binding studies
Collaborators: C. H. Leung, K. Almeida
[NB EPSCoR, INBRE, STAC, stipends, FRC and IS in AY]


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The ability to sidestep and tap dance around the facts and to contradict oneself within the same statement; also known as a mythical god that punishes his victims from higher ground with verbal mind torture. Known to be dressed in beige with a cape, clear flight goggles. Strengths are mind control and weapon of choice is bulletproof anchors.
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August 4, 1979
Stevenage, UK
Knebworth Festival
The Song Remains the Same, Celebration Day, (Out On the Tiles intro) Black Dog, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Hot Dog, Rain Song, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, Trampled Underfoot, Sick Again, Achilles Last Stand, Jimmy Page solo, In The Evening, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker.
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I was there - Knebworth Aug 4th
Where do I start? Went with a couple of mates from school in my Mini Clubman Estate. I was 17 and had only passed my test a few months before. It was my first ever concert.
We pitched our tent and then started to queue outside the gates. Some guy asked me if I had any blues - "No, sorry, mate" - hadn't a clue what he was on about.
I think some barriers were knocked over and I remember running across the fields towards the arena at some early hour of the morning. There then followed a massive crush outside the gates and it was difficult to keep your footing, so at some point, I just lifted my feet off the ground and let the crowd carry me along.
Unfortunately I got separated from my mates and because we had divided our provisions, I ended up with the cushions and the melon. Makes me smile just to remember our ludicrous that all was. So there I was, completely alone amongst a crowd of 200,000, just me and the cushions. Still, at least it meant I got a few hours sleep early on.
The support acts eventually came and went without much excitement and then the time was almost upon us... Usual tuning up noises, a few lights flashing and then showtime...
I can't remember whether I heard it on a bootleg recording or it actually happened, but someone shouted, "There's a screen, they've got a screen." The opening chord of the TSRTS and then my life just passed into another dimension.
I already knew the music so well but the visceral reality was beyond anything I had experienced before or since. If I'd have taken those blues the guy was after, I don't think I could have been any higher. I have never experienced anything so beyond the realm of my comprehension as those 3 hours.
One recollection was off Plant leaping right across the stage during one of the encores but even that was probably just an hallucination I was so out it. I guess the warm warm weather and the melon-only diet might have contributed to the effect. Who cared, certainly not me.
Reading the comments here, it seems like it was the first concert for many and although the boys were probably not at their best, it seems the show was indeed quite literally mind-blowing.
I remember finally trooping back to the tent, crashing and then queueing for about 4 hours just to get out of the car park on the Sunday.
Was gutted to miss the 2007 concert but was screaming out loud happy earlier this evening to discover they are releasing the DVD and CD of the event.
The age of rock/pop music is gone. There will never be another Elvis, there will never be another Beatles and there will definitely never be another Zeppelin... Unless of course Robert consents to hit the road again (PLEASE!!).
PS And if Calvin happens to read this, find me on Facebook and remind who the other guy was that we went with. Was it Winters?


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"December 1 is World AIDS Day, an opportunity for people to work actively and collaboratively with partners around the world to raise awareness about HIV and help us move closer to the goal of an AIDS-free generation. This year's theme, "The Time "...
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It's been a long time since the last update on this blog, but we couldn't let Christmas pass without making an update.
In the last months, we have tried new distribution options for Full Ace, and some of you may have noticed a boxed retail version. This hasn't worked as well as we hoped, and was pretty time-consuming. As a consequence, we haven't been able to work on the game as much as we used to.
The new version out today allows players' stats to evolve in the career mode. We also added a textual search box in the player selector, to make it more handful. And there has been some tuning in the gameplay area, and several bug fixes.
Version 5 is just out, and season mode has been upgraded to career mode.
You will of course be able to play multiple seasons in a row, and build your way to the top of the rankings. You will also have to deal with your player's stamina, and let him rest enough between tournaments to stand a chance against your opponents.
We have also improved gameplay and AI in this version. There is also a clearer display of character's stats in the menus.
Here are some screenshots of the new features (click for bigger versions), as well as the usual demo download link.
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Hello tennis fans !
We have just released Full Ace v4. In this version, season mode features nearly 2000 players, more than 500 tournaments, with qualifying draws as well ! Lots of hours of play in front of all our registered players.
We added an other new feature that is more targeted to beginners : there are two new types of balls that are slower and easier to control. It will be more friendly for newcomers willing to get the hang of Full Ace.
In order to increase Full Ace compatibility with all video hardware, we have added support for DirectX rendering : users may now choose their preferred rendering API between DirectX and OpenGL.
If you have been having problem running Full Ace demo on your computer in the past, now is time to try it again using DirectX. There is a good chance it will work (DirectX is configured by default).
This version also uses multisampling for antialiasing, which gives better results and is more efficient.
Access to the demo download page
Indeed, challenging is now a part of Full Ace ! Many players sought after this addition and we believe it brings a supplementary dimension to the game.
Of course, being able to challenge means that line referees now make occasional mistakes, and it's up to you to correct them ! Whenever the ball bounces close enough to a line (in the middle as well as in the end of a rally), you will be offered the possibility to ask for an electronic confirmation. That is, if you haven't run out of challenges yet !
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A British warship that was only famous because it was attacked by the pineapple pirates; a group of deranged individuals who were after pineapples that harvested goods. Unfortunately no such pineapples existed.
"Hey look, it is the pineapple pirates, they have come to take our fruits!" -- Captain of The Augury
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Axis Honors Vector Security for Driving Analog-to-IP Video Shift in Retail Market
Axis Communications has named Vector Security as its 2013 Retail Market Partner of the Year for North America during the 2013 Axis Channel Convergence Conference (ACCC).
November 20, 2013
PITTSBURGH — Axis Communications has named Vector Security as its 2013 Retail Market Partner of the Year for North America during the 2013 Axis Channel Convergence Conference (ACCC).
Axis annually presents the accolade to one of its national systems integrator partners to recognize the firm's continued growth and commitment to drive the shift from analog CCTV to IP-based network video surveillance in the retail segment.
"In the ever changing world of retail security, Vector Security continues to adapt and overcome challenges as the leader in the migration of analog to IP video," Scott Dunn, Axis Communications director of business development, says. "They are not only a respected integrator, working with some of the largest end-users in North America, but they are also a trusted advisor, leading their customers through the world of IP technology."
An increase in customer demand for business intelligence solutions helped Vector Security develop suitable IP camera solutions for its retail clientele.
"As retailers demand more analytics, modern IP cameras are able to address their needs by simultaneously recording vide, extracting data and streaming to multiple network destinations," Steve White, Vector Security's corporate vice president of business development says. "We leverage the most current technologies available to address our customers' needs, and IP cameras play a large role in that."
The Axis Channel Partner Program is designed to help channel partners leverage Axis' technology and market-leading status to capitalize on the fast-growing network video surveillance industry.
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i was planning to buy a maxant 1400 electric , but Beemaid doesn't have them in stock yet and i'm tired of waiting.
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Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center, Brainerd
Jeremy and Katie Turner, Brainerd, a girl, Gemma Kathleen, 8 pounds, Nov. 29, 2012. Grandparents are William and Kathleen Rakow, Merrifield, Brenda Turner, Brainerd, and Teresa Turner, St. Paul.
Nicholas and Lisa Miller, Baxter, a boy, Emerson Louis, 8 pounds, 9 ounces, Dec. 1, 2012. Grandparents are Skip Miller, Rochester, Deborah Jacobs and Bill Ribbel, Nisswa, and Janet Jelinski, Little Falls.
Rory and Ashley Welu, Nisswa, a girl, Vivian Rose, 7 pounds, Dec. 2, 2012. Grandparents are Greg and Deb Welu, Pequot Lakes, and Mark and Beth Dressel, Hudson, Wis.
St. Gabriel's Hospital, Little Falls
Derrick and Krista (Allord) Paulson, Little Falls, a boy, Micah Lee, 6 pounds, 8 ounces, Nov. 27, 2012. Grandparents are Clarence Paulson, Pine River, Wanda Nichoff, Nisswa, and Brian and Linda Allord, Pengilly. Great-grandparents are Karen Pikula, Merrifield, Dolores Kasper, Brainerd, and Margaret Ward, Little Falls.


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Beautful Apartment, perfect for Tourists
Size18 m²
Floor No.5(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Smoking allowed
- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
- Towels
- Breakfast
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|rue fauvet, 75018 Paris, France
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10 mins neighborhood Haussmann Saint Lazare.
Visit Pigalle, Pigalle and the sacré cœur quietly living next home.
Ideal for two people close to metro, bus, quiet and very close to the tourist attractions.
The apartment consists of a kitchen, a bathroom and a living room with a bar, a very comfortable sofa bed for two people.
Do not hesitate to contact me for more information.
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Reviews of this property
Studio very convenient, we spent a good time in a busy popular area ... Would recommend.
Studio très pratique, nous y avons passé un bon moment dans un quartier populaire très animé ... A recommander.
Floor very small but perfect for a couple. Very well it located, close to the subway. The neighborhood is very quiet, there is a supermarket and a bakery within 5 minutes. Contact with home smoothly, all very light. We liked it, would definitely!
El piso muy pequeñito, pero perfecto para una pareja. Muy bien situado, cerca del metro. El barrio se ve muy tranquilo, hay un supermercado y una panadería a 5 minutos. El contacto con el casero sin problemas, todo muy liviano. Nos ha gustado mucho, volveria sin duda!
Second time in this apartment, well situated and equipped, comfortable bed, simple and warm, overlooking the interior garden.
Deuxième fois dans cet appartement, bien situé et équipé, bonne literie, simple et chaleureux, avec vue sur le jardin intérieur.
Nice room. Everything was very simple in the organization (arrival, departure)
Jolie chambre. Tout à été très simple dans l'organisation (remise des clés, départ)
Perfect apartment to spend some days in Paris.
Clean and with all what is needed.
The Underground and supermarket to a few minutes of distance.
Very nice and available householder.
Very good!!
Everything was easy. The apartement is big enough to enjoy a few days. Shopping for grocerys can be done around the corner. Several small shops are nearby. The next Metro Station is right up the road. +++
The location is not so bad for transportation,, but the view aroud this flat is not so good for tourist. It is not like being in Paris.
The worst was toilet and shower booth. It's too small so it was very hard to move inside. If you are a girl, I will not recommend.
But the hot water supply was nice and wi-fi also quite fast.
The apartment is close to the subway, in a very cool neighborhood, but it was very dirty, there was trash heaps of other people for the bathroom ... Communication with the host was good although we never see him.
El apartamento está cerca de la parada del metro, en un barrio muy chulo, pero estaba todo muy sucio, había restos de basura de otras personas por el baño... La comunicación con el anfitrión fue buena, aunque nunca llegamos a verle.
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Motorists are the problem, not cyclists
Original post made by Renee Batti, associate editor of The Almanac, on Apr 4, 2007
Let's turn Maria Ploeger's (Letters, March 21) question around: Bicyclists and pedestrians are not put in danger by other bicyclists and pedestrians.
Why then, would parents knowingly put children in danger by driving anywhere near a school?
Robert Cronin
Marmona Drive, Menlo Park
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Apr 4, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Because it's OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS that they are putting in danger.
Not their own.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 4, 2007 at 5:19 pm
I would never let my child bike to school, and I cringe when I see kids biking down these busy streets. I wish their parents had more sense!
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Apr 7, 2007 at 10:07 am
We create the world we want to live in. Drive your kids every where. Feed them junk and let them zone out on computer games.
It's your choice.
Let fear drive your decisions?
We'll see what kind of adults are produced with this mode of parenting.
a resident of Laurel School
on Apr 7, 2007 at 10:45 am
Uh yeah, that's the logical next step. If we don't allow our kids to bike in heavy traffic, then obviously we are the kinds of parents who feed our kids junk food and let them watch television all the time. We're only concerned about their safety because we want them to grow up to be useless adults instead of winding up in a morgue before they turn 10 years old.
A teenage driver lost control of his car and ran onto Encinal school grounds yesterday, driving over the landscaping and stopping within inches of the building. Fortunately, school had not yet gotten out for the day and no one was injured. Instead of campaigning for kids to be out biking on our streets, maybe you should be asking parents of teens not to give them high powered cars that they cannot handle safely. As long as there are high school kids racing down Ringwood, I cannot imagine why any responsible parent would allow a child to bike on that street.
a resident of Menlo-Atherton High School
on Apr 7, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I agree with "Safety Conscious Mom"
We've taught our children the importance of safe biking and driving, but we still drove ours to M-A across town because of safety concerns.
Bikers and pedestrians always lose when cars are involved in accidents.
"Common sense" doesn't understand that some of us established car pools to minimize the traffic impacts we and fellow parents might make, and our kids once they were the drivers. We make prudent decisions regarding safety decisions and concluded that we weren't willing to risk our childrens' lives by forcing them to bike when there aren't adequate or safe ways to do so between home and certain schools. For other schools, we've made different decisions.
We think it's time the school systems stepped up to address this matter. With the huge bond issues, there should be sufficient funds to do so.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 7, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Finally, someone has brought up the concept of creating safe routes for our children to get to/from school. Let's start with reducing the speed on Middle Ave. which is the city's designated "safe route to school" street. 25 MPH instead of 30 MPH!
Next, let's get an undercrossing of the train tracks so that no child walking or riding a bicycle has to conquer the Ravenswood intersection. The Civic Center which features the pool, the library, the skateboard park, the baseball diamond and the soccer fields is a destination for many of the chlidren in Menlo Park. How can they get there without being driven by their parents.
Another project crying out for attention is the need for sidewalks on the north side of Santa Cruz Ave. so that the Hillview Middle School students don't have to walk in the street.
Is there a disconnect between how we Menlo Residents see ourselves and what we are actually willing to support and finally fight for? This new council needs to hear from parents. Start with Boyle. He seems to be the only one listening these days.
a resident of Menlo-Atherton High School
on Apr 8, 2007 at 11:02 am
To "safe routes to school advocate" - I agree that community members need to speak to the council on safe routes around town, not just on behalf of children by the way. However, I find it highly inappropriate that you suggest only one councilmember listens.
Are you suggesting that the other councilmembers who are parents of young children (Cline, Fergusson, Robinson) and Cohen (I think he has an older child) really don't care about safety? Your divisive comments really get in the way of solving problems as a community.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Apr 9, 2007 at 10:14 am
Safety Conscious Mom:
Why stop with teens driving high-powered cars they can't handle?
Let's get tiny trophy wives banned from driving giant hummers and SUVs that they can't maneuver into parking spaces, let alone drive safety on the streets.
Let's prohibit every overcompensating man roaring down the street from driving a ridiculous pick-up truck.
And those mid-life crisis cases with their failing eyesight and slowing reflexes -- they should definitely not be behind the wheel of high-performance sports cars.
Then we can train our sights on old people, cell phone yammerers, oblivious Lexus drivers and distracted mini van moms.
By the time we get done ridding the streets of unsafe drivers, there will be no one left but kids on bikes!
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 10, 2007 at 9:25 am
The school provides crossing guards at the school sites, but in other communities the city also provides crossing guards along popular biking and walking routes to school. I hope that the City of Menlo Park will consider doing this as part of their joint effort with the school district to promote safe routes to school.