Afghan children fly kites for peace as part of UN-backed campaign.
News of UN (pass on Olivier Reymond) -
20 septembre

September 21, is observed annually as the International Day of Peace. On the eve of the this day, some 100 Afghan street children flew kites adorned with doves and olive branches atop a hill overlooking Kabul today, marking the closing stages of a United Nations-backed campaign to halt violence in the war-torn nation.

           
Today’s event, on Nader Khan hill, was one of many around the country in the final days of a two-month campaign launched by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the global campaign group Peace One Day. Kite flying was banned under the brutal Taliban regime which was ousted in 2001. Since the Taliban was ousted, kite flying has re-emerged as a popular past-time, particularly for Afghan children. Those taking part in today s event belong to Kabul’s Aschiana Foundation, a non-governmental group that looks after street children.
Expressing the hopes of many of the children, 11-year-old Sweeta said “We want our peace kites to fly as high as possible, so everybody can see how much we want peace. “ In addition, peace marches are planned in the cities of Herat and Jalalabad, and in the southern and south-eastern provinces areas directly affected by the insurgency UNICEF and the UN World Health Organization, along with Afghan health authorities, have launched a polio vaccination campaign to coincide with Peace Day.        

The palace of Versailles inaugurates a new manner of visiting the French heritage. France.

To next spring, a system of webcams radio-controlled by the Net surfers since the roof of the buildings will offer an outline in real time of the activity of the park. A service baptized “Versailles seen of the sky” will offer aerial photographs by kite by Thomas Sagory. He as photographed 15 beautiful archaeological sites in Egypt, in Greece, in Yemen and in France.
         
A simple and effective system. The effectiveness of the device lies in the simplicity of the material used: Kite: I use deltas (means and small), famous for their stability.Numerical camera: the recourse to numerical makes it possible to quickly visualize the photographs to be able to adjust and supplement at once the catches of sight
Web site of Thomas Sagory.

Indian kites 'infiltrate' into Pak Times of India - 15 Aug India’s Independence Day (Hindi: Swatantrata Divas) is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. AMRITSAR - city located at the North-West of the state of Penjab : Flown to celebrate the Independence Day in this frontier town, many of the kites that are cut mid-air cross the border and land in Pakistan. "Yes, it happens. People there see kites coming from across the border, which then land on the terraces of their houses," said Samina Khalid Ghurki, Member of National Assembly of Pakistan. People from both sides assemble at the border on the night of August 14 and wave at each other. Many of them are relatives and see each other this way. Then, they also light candles which is a great gesture towards peace the two nations must have

The man who pulls strings in Afghanistan
Kabul - September, 29th

Veteran kite-maker Noor Agha spent six weeks training Zekeria Ebrahimi and Ahmad Khan in the art of kite-fighting and became deeply attached to the two boys. "I love them like my own sons," he says. "This is my life," he says. "I am not just a champion in making kites, I am also a champion in flying them."

                
When the producers of The Kite Runner wanted to arrange kite training for the two child actors, they were immediately referred to Agha. "I started from how to attach the string to the kite and then taught them how to feed it into the wind and how to control it from left to right. It is practice and experience," "Sometimes their hands were cut by the string. After two months we entered them in a kite-fighting competition here together and they won."
He was paid £15 a day for 45 days of kite tuition. Although the producers invited Agha to China to help on the film set, he declined: his kite-making business back in Kabul was his priority.

Guizhou : Installation of cables control of a bridge suspension thanks to a remote-controlled airship. - China.org.cn
               
The building bridges company of the Guizhou province installs with success of on August 30, for the first time in the world, the guide cable of a suspension bridge by using a remote-controlled airship.
     
The suspension bridge of a principal range of 1.088 meters will be 24.5 meters wide and 1.564 meters length. It will become thus the 7th longer bridge of the kind in the world. It will connect two local districts after its installation. The installation of the control cables is a essential stage of the construction of a suspension bridge.
Usually, one uses labour, boats, helicopters, rockets, etc… to install the cables control between the pylons of a bridge. These traditional means could not be used in Guizhou because of the geographical and hydrological conditions of the gorge which is surrounded of the mounts. After several months of development and a general test, the designer of this project comes to a decision to set up the control cables of the bridge suspension by using a remote-controlled airship.
The success of the operation proved all the effectiveness of this innovating technique.

prevention campaign of safety of the fly kite. Chilectra – Chili - 2007
The subject is: “To play with its kite in full safety”, directed towards the prevention of accidents of

kites in the college and on the public highway. The principal activity of this campaign, is the “contest of drawing of reliable kite”, to which took share more than 4.500 students of the Metropolitan Area. The countryside, developed in 2005 and 2006, continues in 2007.

Jean-Louis Etienne needs a second base to supplement the preparation of his polar expedition.  France

It will be built in Chambley (Lorraine) The parts of the airship necessary to this expedition were carried out in Russia. They are currently assembled in Marignane (France) where the first tests and the first trials will take place.
      
To accommodate Jean-Louis Etienne, his airship and his team, it is necessary to build in urgency a structure of 60m length, 40m wide and 20m height. The companies will be able to take up the challenge to build in 2 months the awaited building. Indeed, it is at the beginning of January 2008 that Jean-Louis Etienne will set up at Chambley. The project of Jean-Louis Etienne is one of most important in the scientific study domain for the future of planet.

Spy Kiting.

To live happy, let us live hidden. But the places where to hide, there is more hardly… Goodbye Privacy, “farewell prived life”, notes Ars Electronica, the festivals of Web arts which leans on our security firm. Mongrel, British collective, pioneer of Net-art and keen defender of the “free media”, organize of “Spy Kiting”, consisting in building a small kite and equipping it with a monitoring camera to make a collaboratif film of it. In more sophisticated version, the Slovenien artist, Marko Peljhan presented at the museum Lentos, a advanced prototype ¬ of the drone which it develops with a team of engineers and researchers independent, intended with the civil against-monitoring.