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…onal pages (about us, links, etc) and the forum (discussion and downloads). This has it’s drawbacks on our side such as two different systems for maintaining content and the need to manually update the front end’s HTML aspects, as well as the natural division it created for our visitors by way of two different layouts and sets of functionality/navigation, as well the inconvenience of two separate search engines. After some discussion …

… harvest wind energy- Experts say that the energy in winds miles above the earth is sufficient to provide the world’s energy needs. http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/….00002030.asp?sessionid=1 Google’s search for smart power- What makes Google different is that is has long been a vocal advocate of renewable energy, calling for the US grid to be 100 per cent renewable by 2030, and has backed this talk with significant inves…

…teams have completed a grueling Channel crossing kite surfing relay – raising more than £10,000 for Help for Heroes. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/…Help_for_Heroes http://www.justgiving.com/kite4heroes History: Upon searching the archives of Popular Science there are 20 links to previous kite related articles. It is an absolute treasure trove of kite history and current scientific kite uses! Over the years the magazine included articles…

…nd the world”  Deb Emery will be climbing Killi in February to fly kites. http://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/…fly_kites Images: Past & Present: Life magazine has an outstanding collection of kite pictures on-line. Search the word ‘kite’ at http://life.com/search and 880 images appear. Unfortunately, included throughout the group of kite images are photos of the golfer Tom Kite, the Kite bird, the sailing kite, and of course, lots from…

Travel/Tourism: Kite travel time share: the best of all world’s with a great business model! http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0118/entrepreneurs-offshore-odysseys-timeshare-share-float.html Kite-maker Husmizi Ibrahim, is determined to use his skill to help sell Malaysia through his kites. http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=464629 Imagine having no time or space constraints on your kit…

Bamboo Among the numerous Bamboo species found in Manipur, the Dulu variety grown in Jiribam has great demand for making kites. http://e-pao.net/GP….0..111111.nov11 Cultures The Milwaukee holiday staple celebrates its 68th year Friday through Sunday with the theme “Celebrate Cultures Without Borders.” Kite-mania: Visitors can take imaginary flight through a display of kites from around the world including highfliers from Braz…

Adventure: Two adventurous siblings from Iqaluit have begun a 3,000-kilometre trek in the Northwest Passage in the hopes of being the first to kiteski through the fabled Arctic route. In 2007, they completed a 2,300-kilometre kite-ski trip across Greenland. After that, they crossed the Gobi Desert by kite-buggy. “Antarctica and Greenland are exotic, and this is our home,” Eric McNair-Landry told CBC News before the pair left Iqaluit …

Kiting news from around the world Anniversary There were various 9/11 tribute fly’s to commemorate the 10th anniversary. The below photo is from our northern friends in Guelph, Ontario. http://www.newsday.com/…9-11-tribute-1.3160024 http://record-eagle.com/local…9-11-Events http://www.examiner.com/long-island-tributes-to-9-11 Charity “The 13-year-old has embarked on a crusade to raise $1,000 for a beach trip for 27 orphans served by…

Kiting news from around the world Adventure Eugene Novožeev and Konstantin Aksyonov have successfuly kite crossed the Bering Strait. The Russians kiteboarders are the first riders to complete this mission, after several attempts from other wind challengers. The cross of the Bering Strait is a 96-kilometre (56 miles) adventure. Novožeev, four-time Russian kiteboarding champion, and Aksyonov kicked off from Chukotka, in Russia and arrived in Alask…

AFGHANISTAN-AMERICA: As a boy, Behrooz learned the craft and science behind kites, as did many children in Afghanistan. There were three kinds of kites: fighting, leisure and, for lack of a better term, luminary. http://www.salisburypost.com/News/051410-wineka-column-behrooz-lakey-pix AUSTRIAN: Dozens of passenger planes had to be diverted from Vienna International Airport (VIA) after an Austrian fle…

Commerce: Kabul, Afghanistan “Sometimes we sell up to 20,000 kites a day,” says Tamim, 35, who goes only by one name, and who has been selling kites for 20 years on Kabul’s busy market street, Strand Bazaar.” http://www.thenational.ae/…in-kabul-happiness-flies-in-the-sky Danger: Aayush was flying kites with one of his friends when their kite got entangled in the 11,000-volt electric wires outside his flat. http://timesof…

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Canada: Despite fears of police response, a small group of protesters flew kites on a rooftop in Downtown Toronto to protest the G20 summit. http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/26/g20-all-quiet-at-kite-protest   Tyler Anderson/National Post Cait McGrath flies a kite on a downtown Toronto rooftop to protest the G20 summit on Saturday. France: Happy 50th birthday, Etch A Sketch! “…Andre Cassagnes, an electrician in France and now a famous d…

… register – I missed picking up my free ticket to the World Premier of the film, “The Kite Runner,” filmed in China and California, and starring a bunch of people I’ve never heard of before… Gosh, I’m sorry to have missed the searchlights, and red carpets, and the starlets in ball-gowns and all those fancy limos… but… Yeah, it’s true… Kitelife comes first with me! But if the truth were told, I haven’t heard the first word about any of those event…

… web design, navigation, ease of use and security. I’ll go on to say that the main Kitelife site (which you are viewing now – magazine issues and such) at the time of this writing is composed of over 12,000 static HTML pages which use a small amount of PHP to call in a small number of snippets that recur throughout the site. While it’s a long way from where I started in 2003, the navigation, organization, internal search ability…