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GIOVEDÌ 30 GENNAIO 2014 www.italoamericano.com L'Italo-Americano 15 Jan. 30, Thurs.-Federated Italo-Americans of Southern California Dinner Meeting at Casa Italiana (1051 N. Broadway, L.A., 90012). 7pm Dinner ($15pp), 8pm Meeting (Installation of 2014-2015 Officers). RSVP REQUIRED: annpotenza@aol.com Feb. 1 Sat.: Grandsons of Italy in America Meeting at Victorio's Ristorante, 10901 Victory Blvd., North Hollywood, 11:30 a.m. For info call (805) 529-9726. Feb. 4, Tues.-Lingua Viva at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura-Get Ready for Romance! Valentine's Dinner for Two Cooking Class with Chef Michelangelo Glionna at The Italian Cultural Institute (1023 Hilgard Ave., L.A., 90024). 6 - 9 pm . PROGRAM Etiquette - How to set the table for a romantic tete-a-tete, Cooking Demo Class - Chef Michelangelo will show you, step by step, how to prepare and cook all the dishes on the menu . Dinner - Enjoy your dinner with the Chef and other guests. RSVP required. Please email classes.iicla@esteri.it. Fee: $110. Feb. 6, Thurs.– Italian Movie Night 7:00pm at the San Juan Capistrano Regency Theater. Come early and join us at 6:00pm upstairs in Rick's Cafe for Happy Hour (26762 Verdugo Street, San Juan Capistrano, CA. 92675) 949-661-3456. Screening El Presidente. Movie in Italian with English subtitles. Feb. 7, Fri.-San Trifone Society General Meeting. Mass at 6:00pm, 7:00pm at Casa Italiana (1051 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012). For information call Angela Gallidoro (323)255-2163 or Mike Foschetti (323) 257-0302. Feb. 9, Sun. – Mother Cabrini Chapel and Library Open House, 9 am to 1 pm hosted by ICF/LAADC/Los Angeles Region. 3801 Scott Road, Burbank, CA. Groups may schedule visit to Mother Cabrini Chapel and Library by contacting Carmelo Sabatella at (626) 372-7812. Feb. 9, Sun.-Associazione Pugliese del Sud California & San Padre Pio Society's One Day Turnaround Bus Trip Fundraiser to Pechanga. There will be two buses, each accommodating 40 people. One will leave from Arcadia (CVS- corner of Naomi and Baldwin) Time: 8:30am; The other bus will leave from St. Peter's Italian Church (small parking at the corner) Time: 9:00am. Must have paid reservation by Feb 3 to guarantee seating. Cost: $25 per person ( each person will receive $ 5 free play). Raffle, refresh- ments and game will be offered on your bus trip. Please be sure to specify which location you wish to leave from when making reser- vation. For reservation please call: Tonia Tenerelli (626) 233- 7402, (626) 285-6267 or Maria Bruno: (818) 241-4672, (818) 726-4677(cell). Feb. 9, Sun. - ICF Mother Cabrini Chapel & Library Committee Meeting at 1 pm. 3801 Scott Road, Burbank, CA. For information, call (626) 372-7812. Feb. 9, Sun.- Patrizio Buanne Concert 7:00pm (doors open 5:00pm) The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano (33157 Camino Capistrano, SJC 92675). Tickets $30. For more information and tickets: http://www.thecoachhouse.com/ Feb. 12, Wed.-St. Anthony Dinner Meeting 6:30 pm at Casa Italiana. Reservations: Johnny: 213-250-2464. Feb. 15, Sat.- St Peter's Italian Church Casa Italiana Valentine Dinner Dance & Crowning of the Parish Queen. 5:00 pm Mass; Crowning of Parish Queen at 6:00 pm. Dinner Dance follows; Reservations 323-225-8119, ext. 10 Feb. 15, Sat.- OCAIW Luncheon, 11 Am at Sam Woo Seafood Restaurant, 15333 Culver Dr, Irvine, 949-262-0688 celebrating Chinese New Year, $25. Call for reservations: Lucy Gallo 949- 472-8218 Feb. 15, Sat.-Club Italia's Valentine Day Dinner Dance at St. John Eudes Church in Chatsworth (Corner of Lassen & Mason) with singing and dancing to the sounds of The Sicilian Band. Be sure to call Sigrid Ravizza no later than Feb. 12, 2014: Tel. 661- 297-0507 or 818-426-1489 Attention Clubs and Organizations! Your Calendar item submissions are welcome. Items are due no later than three weeks prior to the date of the event. They may be emailed to linda@italoamericano . All submissions must include: Event, date, time and address of the event, brief description, as well as a phone number or website for additional information. Subject to editor's review and space availability. Not all items submitted will be published. President Obama to meet Pope Francis during March trip in Europe for a US-EU Summit with the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission. This will be President Obama's first visit to these European institutions. While in Belgium, he will also hold bilateral events with Belgian Government officials and with the Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Then, the American President will fly to Italy and in Rome will meet with the Italian President Napolitano and Prime Minister Letta. On March 27, he will meet with His Holiness, Pope Francis. The visit will be the first meeting between the two men. The President looks forward to discussing with Pope Francis about their shared commitment to fighting poverty and growing inequality. The US President quoted Pope Francis in a speech about income inequality in December, but already before, in October, he told he was "hugely impressed" with the Pope's "incredible empathy to the least of these, to the poor". Obama said: "Across the developed world, inequality has increased. Some of you may have seen the Pope himself spoke about this at eloquent length. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?". Secretary of State John Kerry already visited the Vatican recently, paving the way for Obama's visit. Kerry did not meet with the Pope, but dis- cussed about the Syrian civil war and Middle East peace process and health care reform with his Vatican counterpart, Archbishop Pietro Parolin. During the meeting, Parolin touched on the birth control issue, considered a hot point, but he did not make it a focus of the 90-minute discussions, which were praised by the Vatican as Continued from page 1 Cern scientists, among them some Italians, create antihydrogen atoms don't we see the antimatter if, immediately after the Big Bang, it was present in a quantity equal to that of the matter? Matter and antimatter annihi- late immediately when they meet so, aside from creating antihy- drogen, one of the key challenges for physicists is to keep antiatoms away from ordinary matter. To do so, experiments take advantage of antihydrogen's magnetic properties (which are similar to hydrogen's) and use very strong non-uniform magnet- ic fields to trap antiatoms long enough to study them. The Asacusa collaboration developed an innovative set-up to transfer antihydrogen atoms to a region where they can be stud- ied in flight, far from the strong magnetic field. The next step for the Asacusa experiment will be to optimize the intensity and kinetic energy of antihydrogen beams, and to understand better their quantum state. Continued from page 1 "Our results are very promising for high-precision studies of anti- hydrogen atoms, particularly the hyperfine structure, one of the two best known spectroscopic properties of hydrogen. Its mea- surement in antihydrogen will allow the most sensitive test of matter/antimatter symmetry. We are looking forward to re-starting this summer with an even more improved set-up" said Yasunori Yamazaki, team leader of the Asacusa collaboration. Progress with antimatter exper- iments at Cern has been acceler- ating in recent years. In 2011, the Alpha experiment announced trapping of antihydrogen atoms for 1000 seconds and reported observation of hyperfine transi- tions of trapped antiatoms in 2012. In 2013, the Atrap experi- ment announced the first direct measurement of the antiproton's magnetic moment with a frac- tional precision of 4.4 parts in a million. "positive" and "constructive." Foreign policy is considered the main theme of the meeting, considering Francis has made that a priority in his speeches and he will be meeting with Obama two months before he will make his own pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Vatican and Washington were at odds a year ago when the US were threaten- ing a military strike against the Syrian regime and the Pope ral- lied international protests against armed intervention. The military threats followed by the papal world prayer vigil, led Damascus' regime to agree to give up its chemical arms, and now the Pontiff and the President are on the same page in pushing for a peace settlement. According to the Washington Post, "Obama is sure to issue an invitation to Pope Francis to visit the United States, and specifical- ly the White House. While Francis has been less inclined to be a globe-trotter in the mold of John Paul II or Benedict XVI, there's a good chance Francis could visit the US for the September 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia". Obama already traveled to Vatican City in 2009, with the first lady Michelle, to meet with Pope Benedict XVI. President Obama's first visit to the European Institutions to be scheduled in March Scheme of the experiment created for producing the bundle of anti-hydrogen Credit: Stefan Meyer Institut

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