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Jalalabad January 2009 (29)

Fab Fi, Nerd Surge, stability ops

Updated Tuesday, January 27 2009 @ 11:19 AM CST

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Spring TOO Taj OPS and Admin Trip

Friday, May 29 2009 @ 12:34 AM CDT
Contributed by: root

Returning to Jbad to cover some admin duties for TajPlex - explore other properties for pre autumn surge, consolidate 4 month business plan by june 1 with mehrab, House manager.

Basic Goals:

- admin plan to Oct 1

- inventory all of recent donor equipment, itemize outstanding items not delivered yet. (we are close to completion --)

Current status on GATR is .. MODEM appears to be down hard, replacement en route, probably wont get here before June 8or 9.. i imagine./

planning to depart june 7 -- great that amy (sun) is here - she can swap modems, recommision system - if it arrives before she leaves --

seems like last time she came on the scene, the modem was dead also.. and she was here to get things back in order. Excellent.

Speaking of amy sun, if you dont know of her, you should..

http://scripts.mit.edu/~emu/fab/

She is the principle on fablab operations/planning. Awesome human. She put a fabfi mini at tajtoo to share the (backup) medweb sat dish connection at tajtoo -- to taj, cool enough to at least to do email and surf. // sweet.

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Spring Break 2009 in Jalalabad !

Friday, March 27 2009 @ 08:37 AM CDT
Contributed by: root

The Spring Synergy Surge has begun. This trip, its Dr Dave, Todd, Braz, Kate and I as an initial team. Other synergist incoming over the next week or so, and stay times vary, but its already been mega interesting. -- .

Goals this trip for ken:

-secure a new lease on the taj (explore additional house)
SCORED !!
http://www.reachback.org/medwebhousepix

-continue to seek funding for fuel offsets

-install a rigid 2.4 dish

-follow up on nato virtual silk road (NIG) grant to NU - shopping list/wish list

-footbridge project to village sak / or alt inflatable boats asap.

-synergy geek scholarship closeout

kenpix
3.26 GATR present state pix
http://www.reachback.org/springsurge/326pix

3.27 Trip to the mound, dave, todd, braz and I...
http://www.reachback.org/springsurge/327pix

dave P-blog
http://picasaweb.google.com/fobtaj

braz blog
http://adventuresinjalalabad.blogspot.com/

Todds P-blog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddwick/

Kates blog
http://civiliansurge.blogspot.com/

Kims MedWeb Blog
http://www.medwebcpo.blogspot.com/

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Surge of Nerds Rebuilds Afghanistan

Sunday, February 01 2009 @ 11:11 AM CST
Contributed by: root

Surge of Nerds Rebuilds Afghanistan

By Nathan Hodge January 30, 2009 | - WIRED BLOG

Over this past month, a group of motivated geeks traveled to Osama bin Laden's old stomping grounds in Afghanistan to help oversee a novel project: the Jalalabad Fab Lab.

to read it - click below:

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/stability-opera.html

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ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports

Wednesday, January 14 2009 @ 12:14 AM CST
Contributed by: root

Raddatz: Journey to Bin Laden's Old Compound

January 14, 2009 11:26 AM

ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports:

I have been traveling in Afghanistan for the past few days with the US military. But today producer Richard Coolidge and I left the military base and went into Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, where we linked up with Dr. Dave Warner, a civilian doing humanitarian work here. He gave us three choices in terms of what we wanted to see today:

Read more....

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/01/inside-look-at.html

VIEW the ABC Evening News bit on Jalalabad !

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6867451

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Indications children being hit hard by pneumonia: Health Official

Tuesday, December 23 2008 @ 08:40 AM CST
Contributed by: root

http://frontierpost.com.pk/News.aspx?ncat=an&nid=1094

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Save the Taj Fab Lab !! Read, and Contribute if you can !

Friday, December 19 2008 @ 07:50 AM CST
Contributed by: root

Miracles are happening in Jalalabad - and we are looking for a little support !

Please Get familiar with the FABLAB and all it is doing, and can do.. for the people of afghanistan !! Thanks to MIT and the Rotary Sister Cities Foundation !!

http://blog.freerangeinternational.com/?p=920

CONTRIBUTE !!

http://donate.fablab.af/

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American servicemembers take reconstruction to new level

Wednesday, November 12 2008 @ 09:31 AM CST
Contributed by: root

by Capt. J. Elaine Hunnicutt
Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction team 3-1 PAO

11/12/2008 - JALALABAD AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- American military members helped with about $8 million worth of construction projects in the Nangarhar Province in the last two years here to improve security and to help rebuild the region in Afghanistan.

Almost $40 million worth of U.S. military-funded construction is ongoing in the province as fiscal 2008 came to a close, and American servicemembers oversaw and helped with the construction projects.

click below to read it all....

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123123410

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