Product Digest this month's topic: Solids Handling

Eliminate Blockages and Damage to Pumps with This Heavy-Duty Pipeline Delumper

The 24-in. Pipeline Delumper is a powerful inline processor that crushes, disperses and suspends tough solids in fully enclosed pipe systems. The unit is specifically designed to handle oversized agglomerates including granular polypropylene and polyethylene. This unit eliminates blockages, works the stream to free flow and prevents damage to pumps and other equipment. It is suitable for wet, dry. pressure or gravity systems. The ultra-compact, straight through Pipeline Delumper is designed for easy installation. This fluid-tight pressure-rated unit has the full throughput capacity of the pipe to which …

China shares rebound on bullish comment from economic officials

Chinese stocks surged Monday as news of bullish government comment on the economy calmed investor jitters over economic policy and catastrophic winter storms.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 8.1 percent, or 350.85 points, to 4,671.62. The Shenzhen Composite Index of China's second, smaller market jumped 7.9 percent to 1,375.73.

The rebound followed a bleak spell that took the Shanghai benchmark to a six-month low last week, nearly 30 percent below the record high of 6,124.04 that it hit in mid-October.

Among top gainers, Aluminum Corp. of China surged by the daily 10 percent limit to 32.34 yuan after announcing late Friday that it …

Group raises pounds10k for community

A Group of fundraisers has helped secure the future of acommunity minibus service.

The Ballater Charitable Chiels have give more than pounds10,000to help run a 17-seater bus in the area.

The bus takes pensioners to the village hall, children oneducational visits and community groups to functions.

But the service came under threat after it was announced thatScottish Government funding would end next year.

Director George Inglis said the money from the Chiels shouldensure that the bus stays on the road.

He said: "After the news that funding would stop we took thedecision to go it alone …

Women share stories of war and hope [God With Us: Stories of Women in Times of Conflict]

Helen Wiens Franz still gets emotional when she thinks about the trip from the refugee camp to the train station. The war was over and the refugees were being sent back to Russia. None of the women and children wanted to return.

Then, from somewhere in the truck, someone started singing, Nur mit Jesus will ich Pilger wandern (Only with Jesus will I make my pilgrimage). The song stayed with her as she spent that night praying for God to intervene.

"Peace came over me," she said. The next morning, a group of men went to plead with an American commander. He arranged for them to stay in Germany. Eventually Helen came to Canada, and the song and the answer to prayer came with …

Man pleads guilty to killing US supremacist

BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) — An ex-convict has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the grisly killing of a white supremacist in Mississippi.

Vincent McGee had been charged with capital murder after Richard Barrett's body was found beaten, stabbed 16 times and burned in his home in April 2010. The 23-year-old black man admitted to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Thursday, along with arson and burglary. A judge sentenced him to …

NY dad told soldier-son killed in war _ he wasn't

Military officials say they're investigating why an upstate New York man was told his son had been killed in Afghanistan when the soldier was alive and well.

Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls says he was camping Sunday when he received a call on his cell phone from a woman who said she was a military liaison. He says the woman told him his son, Staff Sgt. Jesse …

U.S. Robotics Bags ISDN Systems

U.S. Robotics Corp. said Monday it has acquired ISDN SystemsCorp. in a stock swap valued at about $40 million, in an attempt toincrease its presence in the growing market for applications based onIntegrated Services Digital Network, or ISDN.

ISDN allows voice and video data to be sent over the same phoneline simultaneously.

Skokie-based U.S. Robotics said the Vienna, Va.-based company,which will become a subsidiary, will expand and complement itsproduct line.

ISDN Systems "gives us additional technology and talent to roundout our product offerings for home and remote office use, and toprovide ISDN connectivity for remote access," said Ross Manire,senior …