By Bobby Powell
Nearly a thousand heavily armed demonstrators, some in wheelchairs and some in strollers, descended upon the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing on Wednesday March 20th to draw a line in the sand, telling the Federal government in no uncertain terms that they would oppose any attempts to register or ban any type of currently legal firearm or accessory.
SOURCE: http://bobpowell.blogspot.com/2013/04/michigan-lawmakers-nullify-ndaa-stand.html
By Bobby Powell
Close to one thousand heavily armed demonstrators, some in wheelchairs and some in strollers, descended upon the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing on Wednesday March 20th to draw a line in the sand, telling the Federal government in no uncertain terms that they would oppose any attempts to register or ban any type of currently legal firearm or accessory.
SOURCE: http://bobpowell.blogspot.com/2013/04/1000-plus-armed-protestors-rally-in-mi.html
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By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer
Published: 03/15/2013 09:06 AM EDT on LiveScience
Scientists have finally performed a famous experiment described by physicist Richard Feynman that captures the mysterious quantum properties that allow electrons to behave like either waves or particles.
The findings, published Wednesday (March 13) in the New Journal of Physics, don’t upend any fundamental laws, but confirm the results of a classic double-slit experiment once thought too challenging to perform.
“It confirms quantum mechanics,” said study co-author Herman Batelaan, a physicist at the University of Nebraska. “We all know it’s supposed to work that way, but to actually go out there and do it is a valuable thing.”
From 1961 to 1963, Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman gave a series of electrifying lectures on quantum mechanics, revealing the strange laws that govern the world of the very small.
In one, he described a thought experiment to illustrate how electrons can behave like waves or particles.
The setup was simple: A gun shoots single electrons at a wall with two tiny slits that can be opened or closed. Once they pass through the slit, or slits, the electrons hit a detector. [Twisted Physics: 7 Mind-Blowing Findings]
Feynman predicted that when just one slit was open, the electrons would behave as particles. But when both slits were open, the electrons would create a characteristic pattern of light and dark fringes on the detector formed by wave interference. In essence, the peaks of one wave would sometimes add to the peaks of others, creating bright patches, while at other places the peaks and troughs would overlap, creating dark areas.
In the lecture, Feynman said the setup, with tiny gaps opening and closing at will, would be too hard to create.
“You have to control this at a small scale,” Batelaan told LiveScience.
But over the last 20 years, the technology to create the setup has emerged, and the research team realized all the elements were in place to recreate the famous experiment.
To do so, the team fired an electron beam that could shoot individual electrons at a gold-silicon membrane wall with two 62 nanometer-wide slits. To open and close the slits, the team used an piezo-electric motor to move a 10 micrometer-tall mask behind the slits up and down.
It’s no surprise the team’s results match those predicted by the brilliant physicist.
But while the new experiment may not raise questions about quantum mechanics, it’s important to check that these fundamental laws are behaving as physicists expect in many different setups, Batelaan said.
“Something that’s so fundamental, you want to overturn every stone,” Batelaan said.
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Natuzzi S.p.A. Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Financial Results and Conference Call
SANTERAMO IN COLLE, Bari, Italy–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Natuzzi S.p.A. (NYS: NTZ) (“Natuzzi” or “the Company”) will disclose fourth quarter and full year 2012 financial results on Wednesday March 27th, 2013 after the market closes.
The Company will host a conference call on Thursday March 28 th , 2013 at 11:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time (4.00 p.m. Italian time, or 3.00 p.m. UK time) to discuss fourth quarter financial results.
The dial-in phone numbers for the live conference call will be 1-888-389-5988 (toll-free) for persons calling from the U.S. or Canada, and 1-719-457-2083 for those calling from other countries.
A live web cast of the conference call will be available on line at http://www.natuzzi.com/ under the Investor Relations section.
A replay of the call will be available shortly after the end of the conference call starting from March 28th, 2013 (at 2:00 pm US Eastern time), to April 28th, 2013. To access the replay of the conference call, interested persons need to dial 1-877-870-5176 (toll-free) for calls from U.S. and Canada, and 1-858-384-5517 for calls from other countries. The access code for the replay is: 4513299.
About Natuzzi S.p.A.
Founded in 1959 by Pasquale Natuzzi, Natuzzi S.p.A. designs and manufactures a broad collection of residential upholstered furniture. With consolidated revenues of EUR 486.4 million in 2011, Natuzzi is Italy‘s largest furniture manufacturer. The Natuzzi Group exports its innovative high-quality sofas and armchairs to 130 markets on five continents under separate brand names, Natuzzi, Italsofa, Natuzzi Editions (only for the North American market) /Leather Editions and Softaly. Cutting-edge design, superior Italian craftsmanship and advanced, vertically integrated manufacturing operations underpin the Company’s market leadership. Natuzzi S.p.A. has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since May 1993. The Company is ISO 9001 and 14001.
NATUZZI INVESTOR RELATIONS
Piero Direnzo; tel. (+39) 080.8820.812
pdirenzo@natuzzi.com
or
NATUZZI CORPORATE COMMUNICATION
Vito Basile (Press Office); tel. (+39) 080.8820.676
vbasile@natuzzi.com
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
By David Gibson
Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A hierarchy looking to make a clear statement about where the troubled church is headed chose on Wednesday (March 13) the first member of the influential Jesuit order to be the next pope. Yet they also chose Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a humble man who lives simply and took the name Francis (also a first) that evokes the founder of another great religious order.
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Winland Announces Receipt of Delisting Notice from NYSE MKT
MANKATO, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Winland Electronics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: WEX) today announced that on March 6, 2013, the Company received written notification from the NYSE Regulation, Inc. (“NYSE Regulation”) staff (the “Staff”) stating that the Company’s Common Stock is subject to delisting from the Exchange (the “Staff Determination“).
The Company had previously received notice from the Staff and disclosed that it was not in compliance with certain of the NYSE MKT’s (the “Exchange”) continued listing standards as set forth in Part 10 of the Exchange’s Company Guide. Specifically, the Company was advised that it was not in compliance with the following Sections of the Company Guide:
The Company was previously given the opportunity to submit a plan of compliance advising the Exchange of actions it had taken, or would take, to regain compliance with the continued listing standards (the “Plan”). The Company submitted the Plan and the Staff subsequently notified the Company that it has made a reasonable demonstration of its ability to regain compliance with the continued listing standards by May 29, 2013, and that the Staff had accepted its Plan. The Company was further advised that delisting proceedings would be immediately initiated if the Company failed to make progress consistent with the Plan.
As part of the Plan, the Company informed the Staff that it intended to conduct a capital raise in either the fourth quarter of 2012 or the first quarter of 2013. The Company has decided not to conduct a capital raise due to dilution current shareholders would face given a capital raise of significant size.
The Company could appeal the Staff Determination, but it does not intend to request an appeal. Therefore, the Staff Determination will become final and the Company’s Common Stock will be scheduled for delisting from the Exchange, and trading in the Company’s Common Stock on the Exchange will be discontinued effective at the close of business on Wednesday March 20, 2013.
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UCI Holdings Limited to Release Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings and Conduct its Earnings Call on March 21, 2013
LAKE FOREST, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– UCI Holdings Limited will report financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012 on Wednesday March 20, 2013. Following the earnings release, the company will conduct its quarterly conference call for investors and other interested parties on Thursday March 21, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Bruce Zorich, president and chief executive officer and Ricardo Alvergue, chief financial officer of UCI International will discuss the company’s fourth quarter and full year results and its business outlook.
Interested individuals are invited to listen to the call by telephone. Domestic participants can dial (800) 637-1381. International participants can dial (502) 498-8424.
In addition, a replay of the call will be available, for a fourteen-day period at: www.uciholdings.com. Click on the: UCI Holdings 2012 4th Quarter Results button.
UCI Holdings Limited
Ricardo Alvergue, 847-482-4165
Ricardo.Alvergue@uci-fram.com
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