June 2009 Blog Posts (5)

BAIA Team Italians spark electrical aviation records

In aviation circles, the span of time between the two World Wars is remembered as the Golden Age. A global race to speed, range and performance records pushed the limits of technology and pegged countries and manufactures against each other. It was a great run for Italian engineering too, culminating with the 1934… Continue

Added by Matteo Fabiano on June 29, 2009 at 11:31pm — No Comments

BAIA Team IMD launches country competitiveness “stress test ranking”

The recently published IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2009 shows some significant changes over last years overall rankings, though not much at the top.

Italy lost another few positions, from 46th in 2008 to 50th in 2009. Big and unexpected movements in the middle of the range, though possibly due to the different recession timing in different geographies. It will be interesting how the global recession… Continue

Added by Matteo Fabiano on June 26, 2009 at 1:35pm — No Comments

BAIA Team ItalianWorldChannel

A new web site featuring the best Italy has to offer is finally live. It is called ItalianWorldChannel. On the site we collect Italian writers, artist, videographers, creatives from contemporary Italian culture. Check out the intro video:

You can follow ItalianWorldChannel on Twitter:… Continue

Added by Michele Ursino on June 24, 2009 at 9:18am — No Comments

BAIA supporter Roma 2009 - FINA World Championships

For those of us with an international swimming soul the Summer agenda looks exciting!

On June 11-14 the Santa Clara George F. Haines International Swim Center will host its 42nd International Swim Meet.

And the 13th FINA World Championship takes place July 17-August 2 in Roma. According to… Continue

Added by Lucia Panini on June 9, 2009 at 10:32pm — No Comments

BAIA Team Interview with Dianne Hales, author of "La Bella Lingua"

I just published on the BAIA Blog an interview with Dianne Hales, the author of "La bella Lingua", a very enjoyable book about the Italian language and Italian… Continue

Added by Franco Folini on June 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments