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"The Asus RT-N16 has some great features, including one of the best user interfaces we've seen in a wireless router."
- Extremely fast at close range
- Very good user interface
- External storage and printer-sharing capabilities
- Supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup
- Slower than competing routers when covering longer distance
- No guest network
- Two USB ports needed to power external hard drive
- Can't share a multifunction printer's scanner or fax functions over the network
- No UPnP media server
Asus' RT-N16 wireless router boasts a raft of advanced features, including USB storage and printer sharing, an integrated ftp server, and Quality of Service (QoS) settings for prioritizing your network's traffic flow. And unlike with most routers, you don't need to be a networking geek to make the most of all this: Asus has developed an excellent graphical user interface (GUI) that renders everything very easy for a novice (as long as you don't mind fractured English translations). The RT-N16 is also incredibly fast, at least at close range; it's much less impressive at a distance. However, this device also has a few shortcomings that temper our enthusiasm and hold us back from giving it a stronger recommendation. Click onward to find out more about its pros and cons.
This is a single-band 802.11n router with a radio that operates on the 2.4GHz frequency band. That's fairly typical for routers in this price range; unlike many of its competitors, though, the RT-N16 doesn't offer the option of operating a guest wireless network. Having a guest network makes it easy to provide friends, family, and other visitors Internet access without opening the door to your entire network.
The router has two USB ports and firmware that renders it capable of sharing both a USB printer and an external storage device on the network. But we discovered two significant limitations during testing: When we plugged a multifunction printer into one of the router's USB ports, we had no trouble printing from each of the computers on our network; we needed only to install the drivers on each machine and we were ready to go. But we couldn't access the device's scanner function from any of the PCs on our network.
We then plugged a Western Digital Passport USB hard drive into the router's second USB port to test its network-attached storage functionality. The router supports NTFS-formatted drives, so it had no problem with this one's 250GB capacity, but it could not deliver enough juice from one USB port to spin up the drive. A two-headed USB cable solved that problem, but only at the expense of the router's printer-sharing feature. Although you can access media from an attached hard drive, there is no UPnP media-server support (don't let the presence of a prominent UPnP button in the user interface fool you. We tested the router using Microsoft's Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool and then confirmed this with Asus).
Other than that, Asus' GUI is very good. Most router manufacturers pay very little attention to their router's configuration software. They'll typically provide an installation wizard on the CD that simplifies the process of pairing the router to your DSL or cable modem and then helps you establish wireless security, but that's about it. Delve into the router's inner workings to tweak its advanced features and you'll find yourself in a parallel universe of technobabble. Asus' use of point-and-click icons makes it easy to configure this router's advanced settings—although you'll probably chuckle at garbled translations like this from the QoS menu: "Click the Internet application and make the application remain the high priority even the network is busy."
Asus also makes it extremely easy to share files stored on USB hard drive over the Internet. Simply click the AiDisk icon, create a user account, set up a custom ftp address using Asus' own DDNS (dynamic domain-service system), and you can make it easy for friends and family to download digital photographs and other files stored on your USB hard drive.
We set up the RT-N16 for maximum real-world performance by configuring it to serve only 802.11n clients, enabling channel bonding, and activating WPA2 security with AES encryption. We then installed an Asus USB-N13 Wi-Fi adapter in a notebook client and linked the two using WiFi Protected Setup (WPS). WPS enables you exchange passwords by running a software application on the client (some adapters have a dedicated button for this purpose) and pushing a button on the router. This enables you to create passwords that are nearly impossible to break, and you don't have to memorize them or write them down.
The USB-N13 Wi-Fi adapter, incidentally, has some pretty slick features of its own, including the ability to operate as a soft wireless access point (AP). Establish a hardwired Internet connection on your notebook, and then you can Asus' USB adapter to act as a wireless access point that other PC's can connect to, allowing your to share your Internet connection with friends or colleagues. There's one big catch, however: When acting as an AP, the USB-N13 supports only WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), a weak encryption scheme that is very easily cracked.
We used WiFi Protected Setup and the J/Perf benchmarking tool to measure TCP/IP throughput at three locations inside a custom-built 2,800 square-foot home and at three locations outside it. (You'll find a more detailed description of our test environment in our Netgear's WNDR3700 review.) With the client 20 feet from the router, we achieved extremely fast TCP/IP throughput of 120 megabits per second (Mb/sec). That's faster than any router we've tested at that location to date, including the aforementioned Netgear and the Linksys WRT600N.
Throughput dropped off rapidly as we moved the client further away from the router. At our second indoor location, 60 feet from the router, TCP/IP throughput dropped to 27.8 Mb/sec. For the sake of comparison, Netgear's WNDR3700 achieved throughput of 38.3Mb/sec here. The Asus router's throughput sputtered along at just 8.8 Mb/sec when we moved into our heavily insulated media room, compared to 41.8Mb/sec for the WNDR3700. The RT-N16 achieved better performance when we moved to our outdoor patio, mustering TCP/IP throughput of 32Mb/sec, but the WNDR3700 managed a far superior 55.2Mb/sec in the same location. The Asus router, meanwhile, just barely managed to remain connected to the client when we moved further out into the yard, producing throughput of less than 1Mb/sec and dropping the connection altogether during our final outdoor test.
The Asus RT-N16 has some great features, including one of the best user interfaces we've seen in a wireless router. It's a speed demon at close range, too—delivering the fastest TCP/IP throughput we've recorded with the wireless client located 20 feet from the router. Once we moved the client further from the router, though, it proved to be much slower than several competing routers we've tested. And even though the router has two USB ports, Asus effectively forces you to make an either/or choice when it comes to hosting a hard drive or printer, because you'll need both ports to power a disk drive (a flash drive shouldn't be a problem, but those offer much less capacity). Should you forgo the drive in favor of a printer, you'll have to give up a multifunction printer's scanning and faxing capabilities in order to share it on the network (unless the printer has networking capabilities of its own, of course). All told, it's a promising sell, but does have its hiccups.
• Extremely fast at close range
• Very good user interface
• External storage and printer-sharing capabilities
• Supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup
• Slower than competing routers when covering longer distance
• No guest network
• Two USB ports needed to power external hard drive
• Can't share a multifunction printer's scanner or fax functions over the network
• No UPnP media server
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Embryo transfer in the equine industry has been primarily used to obtain offspring from mares with restricted reproductive potential (mares with undiagnosed subfertility, uterine disease, or simply older mares) or from performance mares that must remain nonpregnant to continue to train and compete. Most breed associations allow the registration of foals born by embryo transfer, and an increasing number now allow the registration of multiple foals born in the same year. Because of this relatively recent increased acceptance by breed registries, many horse breeders have obtained several foals in one breeding season from a single donor mare.
Superovulating mares with a purified form of equine follicle-stimulating hormone extract preparation (eFSH) to increase ovulation and embryo recovery rates is no longer commonly done commercially. Difficulties with manufacturing suitable gonadotropins and the variable response of mares to FSH stimulation have precluded widespread commercial use of this approach to produce equine embryos. It was thought that the low embryo recovery rate in mares ovulating >4 follicles/ovary could be attributed to an inability of the ovarian fossa to accommodate multiple ovulations in that area, or alternatively, excessive response to the FSH stimulation could result in dysmatured oocytes.
The horse embryo is notoriously challenging to cryopreserve, probably owing to its relatively large diameter and the presence of an embryonic capsule that limits interaction between cryoprotectant agents and the embryo. Embryos of morula or early blastocyst stage (< 6.5 days after ovulation) are preferable for cryopreserving, because after thawing, older embryos have invariably low morphological quality that results in poor pregnancy rates. A vitrification media for horse embryos is commercially available, and acceptable pregnancy rates varying from 40%–60% have been reported. Successful cryopreservation of expanded equine blastocysts also has been reported for embryos that had their blastoceles collapsed after embryo biopsy procedures (see video of embryo collapsing procedure) .
Because one or two embryos are typically recovered from donor mares, breeding soundness evaluations Breeding Soundness Examination of the Mare A comprehensive reproductive evaluation is recommended for the mare that has unknown or questionable fertility. Abnormalities can be diagnosed and appropriate therapy instituted to correct any... read more must be done for both donor and embryo recipient mares. Daily ultrasonographic evaluation of the uterus and ovaries of donor and potential recipient mares during estrus provide critical information about the time of ovulation, which is essential for determining the day of ovulation and day of embryo collection and to assist in the selection of qualified recipient candidates for embryo transfer.
Nonsurgical techniques are currently used to collect and transfer horse embryos. Embryo collection is usually performed on day 7 or 8 (day 0 = ovulation). The use of good standard techniques generally results in a recovery rate of ~75%; this rate can be as high as 90% for young maiden or fertile mares or as low as 10%–20% in subfertile mares. Before embryo collection, palpation per rectum and ultrasonography are performed mainly to document the presence of the corpus luteum, the extent of cervical tone, and absence of any fluid in the uterus. Mild soap or povidone-iodine scrub can be used to wash the perineal region, followed by a thorough rinsing with clean water.
Sedation is not used in most cases but may be needed when working with uncooperative mares. Acepromazine should be avoided because it may cause relaxation of the uterus and potentially impair fluid recovery or manipulation of the reproductive tract during flushing of the uterus; sedation with an alpha2-adrenergic receptor agonist (eg, xylazine or detomidine) is preferred.
Embryo collection is performed via a routine transcervical uterine lavage procedure, using a silicone catheter with an inflatable cuff. Using sterile technique, the silicone catheter (measuring 28 to 34 in. long and 28F to 37F, depending on the size of the reproductive tract of the mare) is introduced through the cervix into the uterus, and then the balloon is inflated (typically 60–80 mL) with air or collection medium; the catheter is then gently pulled back so the cuff seals the internal cervical os. Complete flush media with antimicrobials, surfactant, and bovine serum albumin is available commercially and ready to use. Alternatively, as with cattle, flush media can be prepared with Dulbecco PBS solution and 1%–5% FBS; 1–2 L are infused into the uterus and then allowed to flow back into a graduated cylinder or plastic bucket to measure the recovered volume.
Once the uterus is filled, it can be gently manipulated per rectum to aid the recovery of fluid. An embryo filter equipped with a 75-mcm mesh is usually connected to the end of the outflow tubing to produce ~40–60 mL of fluid. In some cases, an injection of oxytocin (10 U, IM or SC) may be administered to minimize the retention of a large amount of flush media in the uterus. The recovered fluid should be clear and free of a noteworthy amount of debris and blood. Nearly 100% of the fluid used to lavage the uterus should be recovered. A total of 4–8 L of flush media is used to complete the embryo collection procedure (flush). If retention of fluid is suspected or if the outflow of media is interrupted, transrectal ultrasonography may be used to assess the presence of intraluminal fluid. A common cause of interrupted outflow drainage of flush media results from placing the tip of the catheter intracervically and not in the body of the uterus: the media easily flow into the uterus but not outward.
Once the flush is completed, the remaining fluid in the filter is searched in a sterile dish with grid under a magnification of 15× using a stereomicroscope. Once the embryo is found, it is transferred to a well in a sterile tissue culture dish containing holding media (commercial, ready-to-use with 0.4% albumin or made with Dulbecco PBS solution plus 10%–20% FBS). The embryo should be washed at least 3 times by transferring into two other wells previously filled with holding media. Embryo manipulation is done with a 0.25-mL straw connected to a tuberculin syringe with a 16-gauge needle, a 0.5-mL straw directly connected to a tuberculin syringe, or a capillary pipette (20 mcL) attached to a tuberculin syringe. After being washed, the embryo should be transferred to a recipient mare (within 1 hour) or prepared for short storage and transportation. The stage of the embryo (morula, early, or expanded blastocyst) and quality (1, best; 5, dead) should be recorded.
Although surgical transfer of equine embryos was once thought to produce higher pregnancy rates than nonsurgical transfer techniques, the latter are now the preferred method to transfer horse embryos. Recipient mares should be reproductively sound and in good body condition and health. Synchronization of ovulation should be maximized by hormonal manipulation of the estrous cycle and daily transrectal ultrasonographic evaluation. Good pregnancy rates result from using recipients that have ovulated from 1 day before to 3 days after the donor. In addition, progestagens such as altrenogest may be used until the day of pregnancy examination 4–5 days after the transfer (~12–13 days of gestation).
The nonsurgical embryo transfer is performed using transcervical catheterization. Plastic straws (0.25 or 0.5 mL) are used to load the embryo; the column of medium containing the embryo should be surrounded by two small columns of air, which are in turn surrounded by two columns of medium. The straw loaded with the embryo is fitted into an embryo transfer gun. Embryo transfer sheaths with side delivery can minimize embryo damage during the transfer procedure.
A recent advance in embryo transfer technologies in commercial settings has been the possibility of producing in vitro equine embryos using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using immature oocytes collected via ovum pick-up (OPU). Frozen semen from deceased stallions can be efficiently used to produce in vitro embryos by using only a portion of a frozen semen straw to provide sperm for the ICSI procedure. The number of foals born after transfer of OPU-ICSI equine embryos has been increasing substantially over the past 10 years.
Developed in the 1990s, OPU-ICSI has been increasingly used to produce embryos in vitro, now in routine use by several laboratories in the US, Europe, and South America. Acceptance of this assisted reproductive technology mirrors the time most breed registries took to accept the use of artificial insemination and embryo transfer to produce foals.
Briefly, immature oocytes are collected from nonstimulated donor mares and subjected to in vitro maturation either immediately after retrieval or after being held for < 24 hours in regular embryo holding media; holding oocytes before placing them on in vitro maturation media helps with the scheduling of the in vitro insemination procedure (ICSI) at a convenient time for the laboratory staff, typically 24–28 hours after being incubated on in vitro maturation media. Holding oocytes does not seem to be detrimental to embryo production, based on cleavage and blastocyst production rates.
Embryos are cultured for at least 7 days and invariably transferred only at the blastocyst stage. The use of recipient mares that are on day 4–6 of diestrus seem to result in optimal pregnancy rates. Although the success of OPU-ICSI can be greatly vary, ~1 transferable blastocyst embryo is being produced on average per OPU-ICSI session, with 60%–70% recipient mares becoming pregnant after transfer of one embryo. Most recently, the pregnancy success of transfer of frozen-thawed OPU-ICSI embryos has been ~50%.
Preparation for Short Storage and Transport for Embryo Transfer in Horses
Horse breeders without an adequate number of recipients and veterinarians with modest investment in equipment can collect embryos and prepare them for short storage and transport to a centralized embryo transfer facility.
Pregnancy rates do not appear to differ from those obtained with fresh embryos, especially if embryos are shipped counter-to-counter on the same day they are collected. Embryos are routinely shipped in commercially available holding media that are ready-to-use preparations containing 0.4% bovine serum albumin and antimicrobials. The embryo is placed into a 2-mL polypropylene cryotube vial or a 5-mL snap-cap tube that contains the holding media. The tube with the embryo is then placed into a semen shipping container designed to cool and transport horse semen. The container is preferably shipped to an embryo transfer facility on the same day the collection is performed using an airline carrier (counter-to-counter) or processed for overnight delivery using a commercial carrier.

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I've joked these past few weeks about being an Occuposer since I work constantly and only voice my approval and admiration of The Occupy Movement though I'm not out in the streets protesting. This evening I drew up a Guy Fawkes mask in my own surreal style with a bangin' third eye to make a few propaganda pieces and lend my skills! Feel free to share these around, post them on social networks and even email me if you want a print-sized version to get them made in real life and take it to the streets! I'm not Jay-Z and I'm not here to make a dime off them, just drop a line to email@example.com. What you get here are 11in x 17in web quality so let me know if you 'd like a print file you can blow any of them up as large as your imagination and wallet will take you with the help of your local printer.
I am more fortunate than some... not as fortunate as others. I join the rest of the 99% grinding through my Six Day work weeks managing a marketing department to come home to a wonderful and loving wife who shares me with my art, which Occupies much of my time aside from sleep and being punched in on someone else's clock. Like most Americans, despite full-time work- I have no health insurance, I can't afford a house, I owe money with exorbitant interests rates, I've had my wages garnished for student loan debts and I get a fraction of the time off that workers in Communist and Socialist countries get.
Before we can change the way Capitalism has distorted our lives, we have to admit there is a problem. We have to stop being get-along / go-along. We have to raise our voice. The Occupy movement is the most important event in modern history for two reasons: 1) People are bringing attention to the fact that there's not just a problem, there are many; and 2) The past two months of our lives have marked a first in human history- a GLOBAL Protest! Through the power of the internet, word-of-mouth and despite media blackouts the first few weeks of the sit-ins, the message of the 99% has spread across the entire world with major demonstrations in over 80 countries.
If you didn't realize the scale of these events over the past 9 weeks, its because our Government and Big Business don't want you to know. They want you to think that there are unemployed drug addicts gathering in parks. They don't want you to know about the hundreds and thousands of Union Workers, Teachers, Retired Police, Veterans, Unemployed College Graduates, Medical Professionals, Musicians, Actors, Artists and Brilliant Peaceful Folk who are standing up and saying YES- there is a problem. Research for yourself and read read read. Power is knowledge and if you spend 15 minutes a day reading about the things you WANT to change, then you can help facilitate that very CHANGE. 15 minutes a day 6 days a week equal 25 books worth of knowledge in a single year. Just 35 books of knowledge equals an $80,000 MBA education.
Hundreds of people have been arrested over the past two months in cities from Nashville to Denver to Los Angeles to Portland and everywhere in between here in our country. The same is happening across Canada, much of Europe and Australia on the same large scale. Over the past week, every Constitutional right of American Citizens has been compromised by the corruption of our Government from the Arms of Big Business and their seemingly infinite reach. Press members have been arrested, quarantined outside of raids as to not be able to report them- even news helicopters were grounded in New York City. Pregnant women, elderly women and college students have been gassed, pepper sprayed and beaten in the streets. Is this the United States we were taught to love by our system? It is today and we can't be too careful about letting our rights slip further out of our grasp.
I stand with the 99% and am grateful for each and every person who Occupies the streets of the United States and all over the world. They are fighting for you and I. They are standing up for our civil liberties. They are raising their voices to call for change. They want you to have health insurance. They want your children to have affordable education. They want you to be able to keep your house and know what retirement is. They want to live in a better and fairer world and not just for one out of every hundred of us.


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Mike Hutak, OLPC Oceania director, signed an agreement with the University of the South Pacific this week, committing to work together to further research and teacher training on 1-to-1 Computing in the region.  Mike commented on the handover in Fiji:
USP is the leading teacher training institution in the region with campuses in all 10 Pacific countries where there are OLPC projects. Governments and ministries of education will now have access to the best minds in the region for their country to using the XO laptop in the classroom. And at the Japan Pacific ICT Centre, they will now have access to the best facilities too.
Mike: thanks for the update!


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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
APHGA Bi-Weekly Report 12/15/2009
The Great A. A. Pomeroy Book Update Project
Nancy welcomed new APHGA member David P, whose Pomeroy line descends from Peter and Keren-Huppuch (Pilcher) Pomeroy. Peter was born about Jan 1838 in either Canada or England. He and Keren married 27 Jan 1864 in Plainfield, Will County, Illinois and Peter died 26 Sep 1916 in Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas. Peter and Keren had 5 children we know of, namely Ida May Pomeroy, b. 19 Dec 1865 in Lockport, Will County, Illinois; Charles A. Pomeroy, b. 1 Mar 1867 in Lockport, Robert Lester Pomeroy, b. 8 Jan 1869 in Lockport, d. 25 Dec 1953 in Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas; Fred G Pomeroy, b. 23 Aug 1874 in Wellington; and Lula B. Pomeroy, b. 8 May 1878 in Wellington. (Vital statistics courtesy of John Fishbeck's Ancestral file on Ancestry.com.) We would like to try to identify who Peter's parents were. If anyone is researching this family, please contact us!
David O. contacted Nancy regarding Dr. Thomas W. Pom(e)roy of Pembroke, Maine. His wife was a descendant of the Eye family. I have connected David with Gail Menzel of the Pembroke Historical Society, which has a nice collection of photographs, genealogies and news clippings of Pembroke inhabitants.
Haylee P. contacted Nancy. She's a descendant of Francis Martin Pomeroy. Nancy sent her an ancestral report and asked for her to check what we have and let us know if there are any errors or omissions.
Judy has been entering 1871 Canadian Census records into our various databases.
Lee started to inventory the Pomeroy Family Papers at the Onondaga Historical Society and copied several items of interest. Le also continued to review information sent to us by the Cobourg Historical Society in Canada to see if she could link some of our Unlinked Pomeroys to Eltweed.
Betty entered matched WWII draft cards into the various Pomeroy databases. She continued to research Maine Governor Lewis O. Barrows and his family. Lewis married Pauline M. Pomeroy (Arthur Mosman, Francis, Elisha, Simeon, Titus, John, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed) on 26 Apr 1917. The couple had at least three children, Robert W., Edward P., and Wallace H. Barrows. Betty also entered matched Michigan SSDI records and found missing census records for some of these Pomeroy families. Betty also entered matched Canadian marriages and worked on the family of Emery Pomeroy (James, Silas, Abner, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed). Emery had two wives named Margaret; it appears that the first wife, Margaret Helen (Bolt or Helenbolt) Pomeroy, died when she gave birth to twins in 1871. Betty then started to enter Maine SSDI records.
Barb completed transcribing the items of early Northampton and Pomeroy Family genealogies from an early e-Bay purchase. She reviewed Trumbull's History of Northampton, Vol II, to familiarize herself with Northampton, MA. She then continued her review of America's Historic Newspapers. She continued to find a lot of material concerning the Honorable Samuel Clarke Pomeroy's problems concerning a bribery attempt. Another interesting article was found in the Pittsfield Sun concerning Edward Pomeroy (Lemuel, Lemuel, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed) and his first wife Abby (Alger) Pomeroy. Although divorced in Illinois, the divorce was not recognized in New York State. Twenty years had passed and each had re-married, and they were being accused in 1868 of fraudulently obtaining a divorce. It was argued that the courts of NY had no power to dissolve a marriage and no jurisdiction to set aside judgment of a court of record in another state. Barb is anxiously awaiting the outcome!
Barb found an article dated Nov. 1868 that stated "The most popular piece of music in the South at the present time is called "Our Brutus." The words are those of Brick Pomeroy eulogizing Boot for the Murder of Lincoln, and the title page bears a finely lithographed picture of the arch-assassin. – Democracy true to itself!" – The article goes on to state that "Brick Pomeroy is a grandson of General Horatio Gates".
A January 1869 article warned: "Again we advise persons seeking employment to keep out of New York. The city is overrun with men and women who are idle, who spend days and nights in a vain attempt to find labor. Thousands of men in the winter, on account of the season, can not follow their usual out-door vocations and are out of employment."
A January 1869 headline in Brick Pomeroy's newspaper entitled "Pomeroys Democrat" proclaimed: "The Exhumation of an Antediluvian Human Skeleton" and goes on to tell about an overlarge skeleton found in a quarry in Grand Rapids, MN.
Ed continued his search of Pomeroys in Maine Newspapers and has moved on to Maine Directories. Ed has been piecing together Unlinked Pomeroy families in Maine using the directories to identify who was living in the same household as evidence of some kind of relationship. So far he has checked directories in Auburn, Augusta and Calais and is currently working on Bangor directories.
Rick has been creating 1865 New York State Census forms for our group to use. The Family Search website now has portions of the 1865 NYS Census images online. These are not indexed yet, so we will be going page-by-page looking for Pomeroys. The 1865 NYS Census is one of the most comprehensive census records available to family researchers. It includes Manufacturers and Agriculture schedules, mortality information, military information and marriage information.
Alena continued to research the John F. and Nora (Whitford) Pomeroy family of Fulton, New York. She has checked local papers and contacted area cemeteries in an effort to determine whether this family is descended from Eltweed or not. So far we can only trace this family back to Lewis Pomeroy b. abt 1802 in Canada, who married Louisa (last name unknown) before 1829. Louisa was born about 1811 in Canada. The couple had at least five children, including Lewis C. Pomeroy, b. Oct 1830 in Canada; Louisa Pomeroy, b. abt 1838 in Canada; Joseph Pomeroy b. abt 1848 in Canada; Zenas or Zoa Pomeroy, born about Jan 1850 in New York, and John Pomeroy born about Feb 1853 in New York. Lewis was enumerated with his family in Syracuse, Onondaga County according to the 1850 US Federal Census. According to the 1860, 1870 and 1880 US Federal Census he was living in Granby, Oswego County, New York. If anyone is researching this family, please contact us!
The Pomeroy Anvil Trail
Nancy continued to research Reverend Francis Pomeroy (Timothy, Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed) and other missionary pastors in New York State during the time that Francis was there, including Rev. Seth Williston, Rev. Levi Parsons, Rev. David Higgins and Rev. Hugh Wallis. To her surprise, she found that Rev. Seth Williston and Rev. Levi Parsons were distant cousins of Francis, and that Rev. David Higgins was related through marriage! All these pastors were members of the Middle Association, so they definitely knew each other, and it's probable that they knew they were related.
Nancy updated the APHGA website with information about the Pomeroy Anvil Monument in Lyons, New York and wrote a speech that was delivered at the dedication of the monument at the First Presbyterian Church in Lyons on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. Rev. Lee Prong put together a wonderful program and Nancy had the opportunity to meet and speak with many of the parishioners of the church. Nancy will update the APHGA public website with pictures of the monument. Mark DeCracker, of Lyons, videoed the event and will be posting it to YouTube, so stay tuned!
On Saturday, December 12, 2009, Barb and Nancy went to the First Presbyterian Church in Lyons, NY for the installation of the Pomeroy Anvil Monument dedicated to Reverend Francis Pomeroy. It was a sunny day but bitterly cold! We were thankful that the Church was open so we could slip in and warm up. Nancy took a lot of pictures which will soon be posted on our public website. It's incredible how cold weather can shorten the life of a lithium battery!
Rick transcribed images of the First Presbyterian Church of Lyons minute books. Mention was made in 1840 to the Methodist Church; this may help us in dating when lot #1 was broken up into the Presbyterian lot and the Methodist lot. Mention of session meetings being held at Reverend Francis Pomeroy's house occur more than once, but no mention is made of the location of Francis' house.
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The Mary Ann Coe Project
Nancy continued to work on a spreadsheet of landowners in Pompey, NY from 1790-1819. This information is in list form on the web, thanks to the gracious transcription by Kathy Crowell, but putting it into a spreadsheet will allow us to sort on grantor, grantee, date filed or lot number. Nancy also spent several hours entering research into our Eltweed database, relating to the Mary Ann Coe project. One interesting connection that Nancy found while researching Reverend Francis Pomeroy, was the unexpected relationship between Francis and Reverend Seth Williston, through the Parsons line (Francis's mother was Ann Ashley, daughter of Ebenezer and Thankful (Parsons) Ashley). Spencer Pomeroy was also related to Seth Williston through the Parsons line. Spencer's mother Sarah L. Allen (Pomeroy) was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth "Betty" (Parsons) Allen. Sarah married Pliny Pomeroy, the half brother of Timothy Pomeroy, Reverend Francis Pomeroy's father. Sarah L. (Allen) Pomeroy and Anne (Ashley) Pomeroy, wife of Timothy Pomeroy, were first cousins. Nancy started to enter the Williston family into our database, along with updating the Parsons and Ashley families. We are still looking to connect Godfrey Joseph Williston to this family. He and his wife Lydia (Smith) Williston were living in Pompey at the time that Sarah Pomeroy, her children Spencer, Nancy, Clarissa and Charlotte and Mary Ann Coe were. Significantly, Lydia (Smith) Williston joined the Manlius Trinity Church the same day that Sarah (Allen) Pomeroy did. We have always wondered whether they knew each other.
Nancy, Rick, Barb, Pat and Bill attended the Mary Ann Coe meeting. We discussed the difficulty keeping track of all the players in the Mary Ann Coe saga, and decided to enter all people who have any connection to Mary Ann, or were in the same place at the same time as she was into our genealogy database, that way we can keep track of them better.
Pat noted that she found a baptismal record for Edwin Pomeroy, younger son of Mary Ann and Spencer Pomeroy in the Presbyterian Church of Norwalk, Ohio records. He was not received by letter, and the baptism makes us wonder whether he had been previously baptized. Rick discussed Norwalk, OH taxes, for inlot 6 paid by the estate of Edward Pettit through 1834. Since we know the taxpayers for the property that bordered Mary Ann's property, Rick suggested we get copies of those deeds to see if they mention Mary Ann living on the adjoining property. Bill suggested that we see if we can purchase microfilm of the Grantor/Grantee Index for Huron County, and any other indices that may have been microfilmed such as the Court of Common Pleas, Miscellaneous Records, Mortgages and Probate. Rick will contact the Huron County Clerk's Office to see if they have this film and if they have copies available for sale.
Judy continues to review articles found in the Firelands Pioneer for early residents of Huron County, Ohio. She is entering information found in those articles into our Eltweed database. Judy found an additional relationship between Reverend John Seward, the son of John and Ann (Coe) Seward, and Alvin Coe. Apparently Rev. Seward and Rev. Harvey Coe prepared Alvin Coe to preach in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. Both Rev. Seward and Rev. Harvey Coe were Alvin Coe's first cousins once removed, while Rev. Seward and Rev. Harvey Coe were second cousins. Judy also researched Caleb Palmer, who married Alvin Coes' wife's sister, Harriet Smith. According to an article in the Firelands Pioneer "Woodcock" the old Johnny Appleseed was living with Caleb Palmer and his family about 1812 in New Haven, OH. Harriet Smith and Sarah (Sally) Smith, wife of Alvin Coe, were the daughters of General Martin and Sarah (Kellogg) Smith. General Martin and Sarah (Kellogg) also had a son, Erastus Smith who married Fannie Spencer.
Pat went to the Family History Center to finish reviewing four films, which included the records of the First Congregational and Presbyterian Society of Peru, Huron Co., OH; the First Presbyterian Church of Milan, Erie Co., OH; the First Presbyterian Church of Norwalk, Huron Co., OH; and the Stark Co., OH Bible, Church and Family records including early records of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Norwalk. She printed baptismal and marriage records from the First Presbyterian Church in Norwalk, and found a record of baptism for Edwin Pomeroy, son of Spencer and Mary Ann (Coe) Pomeroy. Edwin was baptized as an adult by Rev. John Beach on 4 Sep 1831. Pat continued to enter records from early Huron County, OH census records and additional research done on Julius S Coe, Horace Morse, David Underhill, Amanda Patton Underhill, Simeon Coe, Amos Coe and Rouse Bly. She entered the 95 names and facts of members of the Mt. Vernon Lodge #64 of Norwalk, Huron Co., OH between 1821 and 1828. Reuben Pixley, one of the members of the Mt. Vernon Lodge, had purchased parts of lots 78 and 79 in Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY in 1795 and 1796. By 1812 he was living in Ridgefield, Huron Co., OH. A Rebecca Pixley married Stephen Shattuck, one of the sons of Joseph Shattuck and a close neighbor to Ithamar Coe and family (of which Mary Ann was a daughter), and an Ester Pixley married Ichabod Lathrop of Pompey. Pat is researching these Pixleys to see whether they were related.
Rick contacted the Huron County Clerk's Office to see if we could purchase microfilmed grantor/grantee indexes, probate, mortgage, Common Pleas, and Miscellaneous Records indices. Rick also transcribed the deed between John V. Sharp and Benjamin Junkins and the Powers/Moore deed. Rick reviewed the 1835-1838 Tax Assessment records for Huron County, OH available on microfilm through the Family History Center. Mary Ann Powers finally showed up paying taxes on inlot 6 in Norwalk in 1835. The 1836 and 1837 tax records for Norwalk were not on this roll. He also reviewed and made copies of the 1859 Huron County, OH land ownership maps.
Caryn continued to transcribe the records of the Presbyterian Church of Pompey.
We have added 706 people, 140 sources and 2976 citations to our genealogy databases over the past two weeks.
© 2009 American Pomeroy Historic Genealogical Association
4 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM
Gentlemen+Ladies: Spencer Pomeroy was my 1st cousin (4x removed) thru his parents: Pliny Pomeroy + Sarah Allen.
I am researching the ALLEN family as I am a Great Grandson of Joseph Allen + Elisabeth Betty Parsons Allen.
Larry L. Reams (firstname.lastname@example.com)
North Ridgeville, Ohio 44039 - AnonymousOctober 16, 2014 at 12:41 PM
My parents are mentioned above nora whitford and john pomeroy. leveaway @yahoo.com
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Today, one of the greatest threats to our health and safety is mercury pollution caused by wastewater and industry. Wouldn't the destructive forces of Noah's Flood have released so much mercury into the environment that it would poison everything and make life impossible?
Today we are hearing more and more about mercury pollution. Mercury could contaminate the water we drink, the air we breathe, or, most commonly, the fish we eat. In the last six decades alone it has proven to be directly responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide and has caused untold illness. Mercury's danger has led some skeptics to argue that the global Flood described in Genesis would have released so much mercury into the environment that life would be impossible.
So how should Christians view this increasingly important issue? First, we should learn the facts. Mercury has two properties that make it potentially dangerous. It is a liquid at room temperature, so it readily converts into a vapor, making it easily transported in the air. Furthermore, it forms very strong chemical bonds with sulfur, which is found throughout our bodies in proteins and other vital molecules. Mercury poisons people by bonding to these sulfurs in our bodies.
Very small concentrations of mercury can be toxic. The symptoms of mercury poisoning include memory loss, mental instability, tremors, stomach pains, and eventually death.
Mercury occurs naturally in some rocks. This fact raises an interesting question for creationists. How can this toxic element belong in God's good creation? The truth is that mercury is a remarkable element with many uses. The modern field of chemistry was in part born from alchemists working with mercury. Throughout history mercury has been important in industry to produce everything from chlorine gas to pesticides and tooth fillings. Today it has uses as diverse as thermometers and fluorescent lights.
God created mercury for man's benefit and designed natural processes to regulate its concentration and form in the environment. To understand these processes, let's look at how mercury levels remained relatively safe even in the greatest disaster in history, the Genesis Flood.
A global flood would release mercury in two ways. First, it would pulverize much of the rock covering the earth, potentially freeing the mercury stored there. Furthermore, most creationists believe there was significant volcanic activity (both on land and under the sea) during the Flood; and volcanoes release a great deal of mercury.
The destructive forces of Noah's Flood released a vast amount of mercury into the environment, by both a) volcanic eruptions and b) the destruction of the mercury-containing rocks.
While the release of mercury was immense, the Flood created ideal conditions for removing it from the environment. 1) Most of the mercury was in rock that was buried before the mercury dissolved. 2) The seas were filled with dead plants and sulfur, which absorbed most of the mercury quickly and then settled at the bottom. The Flood was a unique event in every way, not just its destruction but its conditions for renewal.
Some mercury would still have dissolved into the ocean. But by God's design, it takes a long time for mercury to enter the food chain. By the time it could have poisoned the fish and been eaten by humans, the danger would have been over.
Would the release of so much mercury poison the world, rendering it unlivable for Noah and the others on the Ark? The answer lies in the chemistry of mercury. To poison life, mercury would have to dissolve in the Flood waters. A solid chunk of mercury-rich rock, carried along by the swift Flood currents, might cause harm if it slammed into your head, but it wouldn't poison you. The vast majority of the mercury in the geologic column is found as mercury sulfide, which does not dissolve easily. Even heating a crushed sample of mercury sulfide in hydrochloric acid will dissolve only a small percentage of the mercury (less than 10%). So most of the mercury in the Flood waters remained trapped in rock, settled to the bottom, and was incorporated into new rock without ever dissolving and posing a pollution hazard.
Yet the water must have dissolved a small percentage of the mercury. Was that a significant threat? No, because by God's design, not all mercury is created equal.
In the environment, mercury normally occurs in one of three forms: neutral mercury vapor, mercury atoms with a 2+ charge (generally dissolved in water), and mercury atoms with carbon atoms attached. The third form, called organomercury, is far more toxic than the other two forms because organisms are much more likely to retain it in their bodies.
In most places, only a small percentage of the total mercury (less than 20%) is the most hazardous kind. Generally, mercury is released as neutral mercury atoms into the atmosphere, whether by a volcano or by manmade sources like coal-burning power plants. The mercury is then converted to mercury 2+ and falls down to earth in rain. Alternately, some industries release water contaminated by mercury 2+ directly into the environment.
Either way, mercury 2+ eventually ends up in a body of water. Most of it will either bond to sulfur atoms to form mercury sulfide or become attached to rotting plant material and likely sink to the bottom, where it will be buried without causing major trouble.
Bacteria converts some of the mercury, however, into organomercury, and tiny organisms consume the bacteria. As larger organisms consume the contaminated creatures, the organomercury becomes more concentrated inside their bodies. Fish, in turn, eat these creatures. As you go up the food chain, the concentration of organomercury increases. At the top of the food chain, humans eat these organomercury-containing fish and are poisoned. That food is the primary way that mercury can pose a threat.
The more we study the issue, the less of a threat mercury appears to have been during the Flood. Only a very small amount of the mercury in the rocks was dissolved, and only a small percentage was converted into organomercury.
The more we study the issue, the less of a threat mercury appears to have been during the Flood. Only a very small amount of the mercury in the rocks was dissolved, and only a small percentage of that was converted to organomercury.
Furthermore, the process discussed above is not quick. The mercury doesn't just enter the water, and suddenly everything dies. Rather, it slowly works its way up through the food chain to poison the organisms at the top.
Additionally, other natural processes during the Flood protected the environment from mercury. The Flood waters must have contained a great deal of sulfur and dead plant material, both of which trap mercury. During the special conditions of the Flood, much of the resulting mercury-containing plant matter and mercury sulfide was buried rapidly and converted to sedimentary rock. The mercury simply did not stay in circulation long enough to significantly enter the food chain. The simple processes set in place by God's providence were enough to protect the post-Flood world from mercury pollution.1
In principle, the same is true today. Mercury has a natural geologic cycle and can travel through the environment in small concentrations without poisoning anything. Only when humans are irresponsible does mercury become a threat. Mercury pollution has three main causes: mercury-contaminated wastewater is dumped directly into the environment, acidic water flows through mercury-containing waste from abandoned mines, or, more commonly, industries release mercury into the atmosphere by evaporation or the burning of coal and other mercury-containing materials.
The mercury increases until natural processes are no longer able to remove enough of it as God designed. When this occurs, good stewardship requires we intervene.
God, in His providence, created mercury for our good and provided natural processes to regulate its balance. We, as believers, should thank God for this gift and be good stewards of what He has provided.
Recent years have seen a major push to replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent (CF) light bulbs. There are several good reasons for this change: CF bulbs are cooler, last longer, and are far more energy efficient. Since coal-fired power plants are the major source of mercury pollution in the United States, more energy-efficient lighting at first glance would seem to reduce that danger. However, there is a threat here as well.
CF bulbs contain trace amounts of mercury, which is an essential ingredient in producing their light. The electricity flowing through a fluorescent bulb excites the mercury atoms to a high-energy state. The mercury releases this excess energy as ultraviolet radiation, which causes a phosphorescent coating on the bulb to glow and produce light. So every fluorescent bulb is a potential source of mercury pollution.
Does this mean the EPA will condemn your house if you break a CF bulb in it? Not at all. The amount of mercury in these lights is tiny, much less than contained in standard mercury thermometers. If you break one, you should open a window to ventilate the area and clear out any mercury in the air, and carefully clean up the broken glass. Most individuals will be exposed to more mercury from a normal tooth filling than from a CF bulb.
The danger is that, as more and more people use these as their primary source of lighting, CF bulbs by the millions could begin finding their way into the trash. They would then be dumped into landfills and broken, releasing their mercury. That could become a significant source of mercury pollution and perhaps even undo the good created by the reduced coal use.
The solution to this problem is good stewardship. Fluorescent light bulbs should never be thrown in the trash. Instead, when they quit working, they should be taken to a proper disposal center (most counties have such a location and some home-improvement stores will also accept waste CF bulbs). Responsible stewards of God's creation should properly dispose of these bulbs or stick with incandescent bulbs until proper disposal options are available.
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Veterans of the wire wars recite the names of old wire and cable companies the way baseball fans name the players position-by-position on the favorite teams of their childhood. Because of massive consolidation in the wire and cable market, the industry's lineup has changed considerably over the years. Before the modern era of acquisitions, the wire business was an industry of small, often family-run companies specializing in a particular product or area of the wire manufacturing process. Many of these companies were located New England because the manufacturing equipment needed to twist and spool wire was very similar to the equipment used in the region's textile industry.
Many of these wire companies were eventually bought by giants such as Continental Copper, Gulf & Western, General Cable, U.S. Steel and copper mining companies such as Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge. These companies were involved in every stage of the business from the mine to the end user and used their manufacturing divisions to sell copper. In the 1970s, these vertical copper giants began selling their wire and cable manufacturing operations to other large industrial conglomerates.
A handful of international firms, each with billions of dollars in sales, and some well-positioned specialists now control most of the market. It's often hard to remember who bought whom in the wire market, and this article offers some help locating many of the best-known names in the business. While some industry observers dismiss the wire market as a cutthroat, commodity-driven business, the fact that many wire brand names and the companies that manufactured them remain so fresh in people's memories proves that these companies somehow differentiated themselves in the marketplace.
This article introduces you to the largest wire and cable manufacturers and other very active acquirers over the past decade. It's not intended to include all wire manufacturers, and instead focuses solely on the companies that have contributed most to the consolidation of the wire and cable market.
Sources: The Directory of Wire Companies of North America 1996 and reports in EW and Electrical Marketing newsletter.
ALCATEL WIRE AND CABLE, INC. U.S. headquarters of this French cable giant are in Chester, N.Y. Company background: With an estimated 27,000 employees working at over 80 subsidiaries in 25 countries, Alcatel is the world's largest producer of wire and cable. Alcatel Alsthom, one of the world's largest industrial conglomerates, is the company's majority shareholder. Electrical distributors, independent reps and manufacturers may come into contact with Alcatel through Berk-Tek, Inc., an electronic wire and cable manufacturer that's part of Alcatel SA Cable Systems, Inc., Hickory, N.C., the company's telecommunications division. The company's other North American divisions are Alcatel Canada Wire, Inc., North York, Ontario; and Alcatel Scanwire Corp., Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Acquisitions: Noranda Inc.'s Canada Wire & Cable, Toronto, Ontario, in a 1991 acquisition.
BICC CABLES CORP. West Nyack, N.Y. Company background: BICC, a huge industrial conglomerate based in Great Britain, became a major player in the North American market when its subsidiary, BICC Cables Ltd., purchased Phillips, Inc. in 1982 and Cablec Corp. in 1989 through a series of stock purchases. Several of the companies that became part of BICC Cables have roots extending back to the beginning of the electrical industry. The company's Canadian business, Phillips, Inc., was founded in 1889 by Eugene Phillips, who was one of the first in the industry to insulate copper wire. Phelps Dodge Cable and Wire, another major part of the business, was founded in 1886.
Acquisitions: Anaconda Power Cable, through a 1985 acquisition from Anaconda Ericssion.
Essex Power Cable, through a 1985 acquisition from United Technologies.
Collyer Insulated Wire and Continental Wire & Cable, York, Pa., through 1988 acquisitions.
Brand-Rex, now called BICC Brand-Rex, through the 1989 acquisition of Brintec Corp., Willimantic, Conn. In 1997, BICC Cables began marketing all of its industrial, construction and electronic wire and cable under the Brand-Rex name so the utility business, its major market, would go under the BICC name. Brand-Rex sold its Modular Product Group to Hubbell, Inc., Orange, Conn., in 1990.
Phelps Dodge Cable and Wire Co., when the company's management team purchased the business from Phelps Dodge Corp. and formed Cablec Corp., which BICC acquired in 1989.
Reynolds Metal Co.'s North American aluminum cable business in a 1992 acquisition.
CABLE DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Pittsburgh, Pa. Company background: CDT has quickly developed into a major force in the wire and cable market with the acquisitions that it has made over the past few years. Many of these companies focus on various types of low-voltage wire and cable for datacom, security, fire-alarm, robotics, sound and video and other specialized applications.
Most recent acquisitions: Anglo, Leeds, Great Britain, in a 1991 acquisition.
Barcel Wire and Cable Corp., Irvine, Calif., in a 1997 acquisition.
Cekan A/S, a Danish connector manufacturer in a 1996 acquisition.
Cole-Flex Corp., West Babylon, N.Y., in a 1995 acquisition.
Dearborn Wire and Cable, Wheeling, Ill., in a 1997 acquisition.
Manhattan Electric Cable, Manchester, N.Y., in a 1995 acquisition.
NEK, Kinna, Sweden, in a 1994 acquisition.
Nortel Communication Cable and IBDN Structured Network Wiring Business from Northern Telecom Ltd., Toronto, Ontario in a 1996 acquisition.
Raydex, the cable manufacturing division of Volex Group PLC in Skelmersdale, Great Britain in a 1995 acquisition.
West Penn Wire, Washington, Pa., in a 1984 acquisition.
Other divisions or subsidiaries: Mohawk/CDT, Leominster, Mass.; Montrose/CDT, Auburn, Mass.; and Phalo/CDT, Manchester, Conn.
ESSEX INTERNATIONAL, INC. Fort Wayne, Ind. Company background: The company was founded in Detroit as Essex Wire Corp. in 1968. In 1976, it became a subsidiary of United Aircraft Corp. (now United Technologies), Hartford, Conn. The company became independent in 1988 through a leveraged buyout by a management team and Morgan Stanley Group, Inc. Four years later, the Essex Group became part of the Bessemer Capital Partners group of companies. Essex, which went public in 1997, now has three divisions: Magnet Wire and Insulation; Wire and Cable and Engineered Products.
Triangle Wire and Cable, West Nyack, N.Y., in a 1996 acquisition.
American Metal Moulding Co., Edison, N.J., acquired by Triangle in 1991.
Royal Electric, Pawtucket, R.I., acquired by Triangle in 1991.
Westwire Co., Phoenix, Ariz., acquired by Triangle in 1991.
Laribee Wire-American Metal Moulding, Royal Electric and Westwire had been part of the Laribee Wire group of companies operated by the Wright family before Laribee went Chapter 11 in 1991.
GENERAL CABLE CORP. Highland Heights, Ky. Company background: Incorporated in 1927, General Cable is one of the oldest wire and cable companies in the U.S. Through Standard Insulated Wire Co., one of its founding organizations, its roots actually go back to 1882. In more recent years, the company has had several owners and has been an active player in the acquisition game. Penn Central Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio, bought General Cable (then known as GK Technologies, Inc.) in 1981. Penn Central spun off the company in 1992 to stock holders. At that time, General Cable's wire and cable operations included the Guardian Products Division, Greenwich, Conn.; Carol Cable Corp., Pawtucket, R.I.; and Capital Wire & Cable Corp., Plano, Texas. Two years later the company was purchased by Wassall PLC, London. In 1997 the company filed for an IPO.
Acquisitions: Allied Tube & Conduit's building wire plant in Watkinsville, Ga. Allied had purchased that plant from Anaconda.
Astro Wire & Cable Corp., Worcester, Mass., through a 1989 acquisition by Carol Cable.
Capital Wire & Cable Co., Plano, Texas, through a 1988 acquisition.
Carol Cable Corp., Pawtucket, R.I., through a 1989 acquisition.
Certain assets of Interflex, Inc., from Coleman Cable Systems, Inc., Chicago, Ill., in a 1991 acquisition.
Philadelphia Insulated Wire (PIW), Morristown, N.J., in a 1989 acquisition.
MARMON GROUP Chicago, Ill. Company background: The Marmon Group is an international conglomerate with sales of $6 billion. Along with wire and cable, the company manufactures casters, hospital equipment, medical products, consumer products, railway products and water treatment products. It also owns companies that provide marketing, financial and credit-reporting services.
Acquisitions: Aetna Insulated Wire and Cable, Bellmawr, N.J., in a 1997 acquisition by its Cerro Wire & Cable unit.
Cable USA, Inc., Naples, Fla., in a 1997 acquisition.
Cerro Wire & Cable, Hartsell, Ala., through a 1976 acquisition.
Ettco Wire & Cable Co., Ridgewood, N.Y., when the company closed its doors and sold 60% of its equipment to Cerro Wire & Cable.
General Cable Industries Ltd., Thatcham, Great Britain, in a 1997 acquisition.
PIRELLI CABLE CORP. Lexington, S.C. Company background: The company entered the U.S. market in 1978 with the purchase of General Cable's Power and Controls operation. The company also has a subsidiary in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.
Acquisitions: Jacobsen Brothers, Inc., a Seattle, Wash.-based specialist in underwater wire and cable laying, in a acquisition.
SOUTHWIRE CO. Carrollton, Ga. Company background: The company was founded in 1950 by Roy Richards to capitalize on the electrification of the rural South. Southwire is now one of North America's largest manufacturers of building wire and power cable.
Acquisitions: Georgia Wire Products division of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., Macon Ga.
Hi-Tech Cable Corp., Starkville, Miss., in a 1989 acquisition.
Integral Corp., Dallas, Texas, was purchased in 1992.
AFC CABLE SYSTEMS New Bedford, Mass. Company background: Founded in 1926 to manufacture BX cable, the company has expanded into low-voltage wiring systems. Nortek, Inc. sold the company to a management team in 1990. AFC is now a publicly held company.
Acquisitions: Area Lighting Research Corp., Hackettstown, N.J., in a 1997 acquisition.
Kaf-Tech, Inc., Largo, Fla., in a 1994 acquisition.
Madison Equipment Co., Cleveland, Ohio, through a 1997 acquisition.
BELDEN, INC. St. Louis, Mo. Company background: Belden was founded in 1902 in Chicago, Ill., by Joseph C. Belden, Sr. In 1980, Belden was acquired by Cooper Industries, Inc., and was part of that company until Cooper divested it in 1993. Belden has been a publicly operated company since that time.
Acquisitions: American Electric Cordsets, Bensenville, Ill., in a 1995 acquisition.
Alpha Wire division of Alpha Wire Corp., Elizabeth, N.J., through an acquisition of that business unit.
Cowen Cable Corp., Leominster, Mass., in a 1997 acquisition.
Intech Cable, Inc., Hudson, Mass. (formerly Independent Cable, Inc.), through an acquisition.
COLEMAN CABLE SYSTEM, INC. Chicago, Ill. Company background: Founded in 1971, the company manufactures electrical and electronic wire and cable. Its operating units include the Coleman Cable Cord Products division; Coleman Cable and Wire Co.; Signal Cable Co., Waukegan, Ill.; Baron Wire & Cable; and Communication Cable, Inc.
Acquisitions: Baron Wire and Cable Corp., Skokie, Ill., in a 1991 acquisition.
Communication Cable, Inc., Sanford, Fla., in a 1996 acquisition.
Web Wire Products, Inc., Miami, Fla., in a 1996 acquisition.
Hendrix Wire & Cable, Milford, N.H., through an acquisition from Thomas & Betts, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., in 1996. T&B purchased the company as part of its Amerace acquisition.
Rockbestos Co., East Granby, Conn. Rockbestos sold its Cerro Armored Products division in 1989 to Exem SA de CV, Monterey, Mexico, which renamed it Exem USA, Inc., and operated it out of Wallingford, Conn. Rockbestos also acquired Suprenant Cable in a 1996 acquisition.
Other divisions or subsidiaries: Harbour Industries, Inc., Shelburne, Vt.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Merck is suspending sales of its cattle feed additive Zilmax in the U.S. and Canada while it studies a possible link between Zilmax and lameness in cattle.
Merck and Co. said Friday that stopping sales will allow it to set up a study protocol and follow certain cattle to find out possible causes of lameness and other mobility problems. The company also plans to review other possible factors like nutrition and transportation of the cattle.
Zilmax is mixed into food and is used to bulk up cattle before they are slaughtered. It has been on the market in the U.S. since 2007 and is one of two supplements approved for that purpose. The products can help feedyards get roughly 25 more pounds of beef from each carcass. They've been increasingly used to offset dwindling cattle herd numbers, especially in the face of last year's drought.
Zilmax is the more potent of the two, and requires a three-day withdrawal period prior to slaughter.
Merck reported $159 million in U.S. and Canadian sales of Zilmax in 2012.
Tyson Foods said Aug. 9 that it would stop buying animals that were fed Zilmax, citing experts who said it may be causing cattle to become lame. Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., is one of the nation's largest beef processors. It said its decision, to take effect starting Sept. 6, was based on concerns about animal welfare, not food safety.
Merck has said it doesn't believe Zilmax is the cause of the problems. "We believe in the science that supports Zilmax," the Whitehouse Station, N.J., company said in a press release Friday.
Analysts expect Merck to report $44.6 billion in revenue this year, according to FactSet. That includes about $3.5 billion for the company's animal health business, which makes Zilmax.
Shares of Merck lost 41 cents to $47.56 in afternoon trading.


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Verne Scott Inducted into USA Triathlon Hall of Fame
Career dedicated to health and fitness
Verne Scott, a long-time Masters swimmer and a current member of Colorado Masters, will be inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class of inductees. In the 1980s Verne dedicated his time and efforts to the establishment of the Triathlon Federation (USA Triathlon) and served as the USA Triathlon executive director. Verne worked to institute rules, event production standards, sanctioning process, championships, meetings, membership and a magazine.
Verne began his involvement in USMS in 1974 after years of involvement in swimming at the age-group level, when he recognized the lack of an adult program in Davis, Calif., and decided to initiate a Masters program. In 1974, Verne started the Davis adult program with 11 athletes; the Davis Masters program now has over 400 members. Verne's involvement in USMS continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s; Verne was a representative to Pacific Masters Swimming, a member of the PMS Board, chairman of Pacific Masters Swimming and then vice president of USMS in 1984.
Verne's entrepreneurial spirit trickled into the triathlon world in the mid-1970s. In 1976, Verne and a few Masters teammates looked at one another and said, "Why don't we give a triathlon a try?" Verne was hooked. In 1979, Verne hosted and managed the first triathlon in Davis, Calif. "Masters swimmers made that event successful," said Verne. Verne's life and family continues to involve triathlons and aquatic fitness. His two daughters are USMS members and coaches, and his son, Dave, is a noteworthy triathlete and coach.
Verne, currently residing in Boulder, Colo., recently saw a need for adult swimming at his local pool and built a beginning adult swimming program. "Swimming isn't just physical, it's social and contributes to your well-being"
So what does Verne say to people that claim, "I'd like to get fit, but there's nowhere for me to go?" Verne believes that there is something for everyone; "it is essential to maintain fitness through one's life," he said, and when it comes to finding an aquatic or fitness program, "it is a matter of pursuit. There are programs out there for everyone. You have to take initiative and responsibility for your own fitness." Verne, who didn't start swimming until the age of 49, shares that "I was last in a lot of races that I competed in, but I was out there."
Today, at 84 years old, Verne still swims three times a week and coaches beginning swimming lessons for adults.
Other USA Triathlon inductees include Jon Gray Noll, Judy Flannery, Karen Smyers and Sheila Taormina. "This being the first year of the Hall of Fame, everyone on the committee was committed to setting a very high standard and to selecting inductees who truly shaped the sport," said Chuck Graziano, co-chair of the Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
USMS congratulates Verne on his career and dedication to health and fitness. His accomplishments are noteworthy and serve as inspiration to the USMS membership.


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