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“Dante Aeronautical reveals timeline for electric aircraft development”

May 1, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“Spanish start-up Dante Aeronautical has outlined its plans for the development of electric-powered sub-regional aircraft which should culminate in a clean-sheet 19-seater by the end of the decade.

“Dante is at present working on the conversion of a Cessna Caravan for Australia’s Sydney Seaplanes, replacing its Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine with a 750shp (500kW) Magnix Magnfi500 electric motor and batteries.”   –Dominic Perry, FlightGlobal, 2021

Read the full article here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Aeronautics, Aircrafts, Planes, Spain

​”Air Nostrum Joins Dante’s Effort To Electrify Regional Aviation”

April 1, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“Regional carrier Air Nostrum has become the second Spanish airline after Volotea to support electric aircraft developer Dante Aeronautical. Dante says the three companies have made a joint presentation to Spain’s transport ministry in a bid to receive financial support from the European Recovery Fund for the development of fully electric regional air transport links in the country. The partners submitted a proposal for a €42 million ($50 million) budget to convert in-service aircraft for 9-19 passengers to ‘100% electric’ operation, Dante says. Noting that electrification of existing aircraft promises to be faster than the ‘long and costly development’ of an all-new design, Dante says certification of the first aircraft is scheduled for 2024, while ‘versions of various aircraft’ are to be become operational by 2026.” [. . .]    –Cirium, FlightGlobal, March 24, 2021.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Dante, Environmentalism, Spain, Transportation

Matilde Urbach’s virtual book club at the Biblioteca Joan Triadu’ de Vic (Barcelona, Spain): Dante 2021

January 16, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

 

“Llegir els clàssics és un club de lectura virtual de la Biblioteca Joan Triadú de Vic. Va néixer, per casualitat, el passat mes d’abril, en ple confinament covid, quan la biblioteca (l’edifici) va haver de tancar portes. A l’espai físic del carrer Arquebisbe Alemany, 5 no s’hi podia accedir, no, però la biblioteca obria per confinament a la xarxa. Els clubs de lectura presencials van parar en sec, és clar. Ens quedava De casa al club, en format blog, on es va poder celebrar la trobada per comentar Claus i Lucas i encara faltaven uns mesos per iniciar les sessions virtuals, via Jitsi Meet, del Club de lectura Dones i Literatura, per exemple. Llavors, cap a finals d’abril, va aparèixer Tellfy, una app de comunicació instantània per a dispositius mòbils, que permetia traslladar a la xarxa l’activitat de les comunitats de lectors. I ara entra en escena la casualitat. No la menystingueu mai. Resulta que, una tarda de finals d’abril, em vaig descarregar l’aplicació Tellfy a la tauleta per fer el xafarder. Vaig començar a fer provatures, per pura curiositat, insisteixo. Vaig triar un llibre, l’Odissea, que era el que estava llegint, en això no em vaig trencar gaire les banyes, i vaig començar de rumiar com carai m’ho faria, posat per cas que en volgués crear un club de lectura virtual amb aquell estri nou. Que si això que si allò, que tomba que gira. Però com que els meus experiments eren públics —estava emetent en obert— em vaig trobar, de sobte, que dues persones s’havien afegit a la comunitat lectora que acabava de crear. Ara pla, amb això no hi comptava.  I així és com el simulacre va acabar en una lectura compartida de l’Odissea, al Tellfy.

“Vaig acceptar el repte de bon grat perquè estic convençuda que els clàssics són els grans abandonats de les biblioteques públiques. Dediquem molts esforços a les novetats i als llibres que puguin acontentar els lectors. La majoria dels lectors, si més no. Així ho crec. Llegiríem, doncs, l’Odissea, tal i com diu el Senyor dolent en aquest apunt: a poc a poc (un cant per setmana) i trigant el que s’hagi de trigar.

“Amb el pas dels mesos i l’arribada d’allò que en diuen la nova normalitat (ecs!), la part participativa, d’interacció, de la comunitat Tellfy anava perdent pistonada fins a pràcticament desaparèixer i, per contra, la informació que anava penjant de cada cant agafava gruix, per acumulació, és clar. L’única pega és que aquests continguts quedaven absolutament enterrats en l’aplicació, sense accés obert des de la xarxa. Per aquest motiu m’he decidit a traslladar-los a un blog. Aquí el teniu: Llegir els clàssics. I com podeu apreciar, el títol —que no és Llegir l’Odissea— apunta —ara que estem a quatre cants del final— que tinc tota la intenció de donar-li continuïtat. Amb covid o sense.”    —Matilde Urbach, Biblioteca Joan Triadu’ de Vic

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Barcelona, Book Club, Catalan, Spain

Hypersunday, Inferno (2014)

December 9, 2014 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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HYPERSUNDAY is the electronic music project of Héctor González and niet!  They arrived a year ago on the scene with one foot in the light and another in darkness, and with a lot of respect and love for music.  Commedia-Intro is the first album of a quartet inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Their second album, which will be ready in late 2014, is set in a Hell inspired by Dante. Very soon you will be able to travel through the entire map you can see below, finding a new Hypersunday track inside each Inferno’s circle. But at the moment, we invite you to visit the Circle II, corresponding to LUST, circle IV, about AVARICE and PRODIGALITY, circle V, LAZINESS and ANGER and the VESTIBULE. Click the places names and begin your trip!

 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2014, Electronic, Inferno, Spain

Petra Greule-Bstock, “Beauty awakens the soul to act.” Dante Alighieri

November 13, 2013 By Gretchen Williams '14

greule-bstock-beauty-awakens-the-soul-to-act-dante-alighieri“Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri is one of many works Petra Greule-Bstock creates based on inspiration from a famous quotation. On Greule-Bstock’s blog, she provides background information about herself and her artwork: “I love to paint with natural pigments mixed and prepared like a meal, it’s like working in a color kitchen. Also I use oil pastels, Chinese ink, well let’s say just all I can find in my studio. I love the sensation of feeling lost in colors, materials and forms. Since I was able to keep a paint brush in my hands for the first time, painting was, still is and always will be necessary for me. It’s impossible living without. I was born in the south of Germany and lived there until 2000 before moving to France/Burgundy. Since 2011 I have my studio in Barcelona. Mostly I live with the feeling: I’m not going through the world but the world is going straight through me. The world, the daily life, people, surrounding, colors, smells, views, buildings, plants… all is impressing me, touching me, forming me. Painting is the way of how the “footprints” of all the impressions entering into my body, into my soul, my brain, my senses can communicate with those who are watching the result. With my paintings I’m offering a sight into the mirror of my emotional universe and it is like a dairy of subconsciousness, left footprints, dreams, . . .”    —Petra Greule-Bstock

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2013, Barcelona, Germany, Paintings, Spain

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