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| March Madness in JalalaGOOD ! |
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Monday, March 14 2011 @ 03:26 AM CDT
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Where to start? After spending a month doing wavz research in coastal North Carolina, learning some new Telemed gear,
https://picasaweb.google.com/reachback/TelemedBootCampFeb2011
decided to move my Jbad trip up - so I could cross paths with the full synergy team @ Taj. It was a wise decision.
To view a sample of my pix, and some i snagged from dave... go here
https://picasaweb.google.com/reachback/MarchMadnessTaj2011#
Along with our usual transit guests, we had the full synergy strike force for the first time together at Taj ! -- it really was amazing how so many projects were ongoing, and we seemed to be in synch with most communications.
Ill defer to someone on the SMS team to explain what is going on with Ushahidi, and community engagement.
Expanded the Hub_Taj node, to include a terrestrial connection, via Roshan to compliment our Nashita VSAT shooting W7, and of course our Bentley Walker/ Hughes modem shooting IS10 back up connection.
Trev, The SSF CIO/SysAdmin somehow pulled it all together, and is in the process of relocating the COMMs room from my room on the Babadeck to a dedicated OFFICE in Room 15, next to the bunker. now designated as the Comms Cave!
Womens Projects, Jenn, Rache n Lou have ongoing women empowerment programs rockin, and the SAFA sponsored womens day was held 2 days early due to security concerns, or a scheduling issue. We missed attending and Ill elaborate on that later.
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| Jalalabad Elections 2010 ! |
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Friday, September 17 2010 @ 04:01 AM CDT
Contributed by: root
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Day before the Parl. Elections here in Afghanistan, all seems to be well in Jalalabad...
There's small level demonstrations, and one candidate was snagged (kidnapped) last nite.. still trying to figure out WHO it was... Will update this post when I know.
The Taj is booked full, which is a nice change after struggling for the past 2 months to recover from a non existent threat - threat report written by some joker from a local Security firm that had no ground truth in Jalalabad.
We have several election monitoring groups here, IRI, NDI and ... DI - the big cheese - that are out as I type doing polling station reviews, and interviewing candidates in Nangarhar.
It really is pretty amazing that the youth seem to be very motivated and invigorated by the election process, but most older folks say it doesn't make a difference.
This young democracy will do fine, but its going to take a generation in my opinion.
On the Tech front, did a tweak n peak of the sat dish, got pretty phat pipe right now, avg. nearly 3 megs down, 300k up.. with good latency.
Also troubleshooting 2 separate polycom units, and trying to configure with a static NAT ip..and the Omni camera is not functional yet. it worked fine when I left in August, but now is DIW.
House business is in order, a bunch of great folks out here, taking great personal risk to assist and monitor the poll !
Everyone is on lockdown till at least Sunday, so the Taj Thursday night social was small, but great quality regardless of quantity of human energy.
On my third day with little, almost. no.. sleep. Riding it out, to see what happens Saturday, and today as we ramp up to the Elections.
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| Jalalabad Fall Break Underway ! |
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Tuesday, September 07 2010 @ 11:11 AM CDT
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| Synergy Summer Surge is ON !!! |
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Saturday, July 10 2010 @ 11:27 AM CDT
Contributed by: root
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Goals: Utility tech hit for Taj HUB, Guest House Business Plan, Extend NU Digital Library Node, Preparations for Tele-Medicine Clinic/Lab, Jon Moh. Youth Park Landscaping, Discuss and Plan expansion of the Taj Model.
Follow on team arrived about a week later,
Accomplishments: include isolating the FabFi from the Taj Hub, to soley focus on FabFi nodes, relocation of the Medweb Telemed Server to the Comms Room, Staging of the Back Up Sat Connection into Comms room available now as SSID TajToo : Basic Power checkups, adding backup UPS and Power Supplys for Modem, and Establishing Polycom VTC in comms room.
Ramadan Began Aug 11th, so activity will be down for the next month or so... Next up, the Parl. Elections scheduled for September 18th, Insheallah !
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| Yey Afghanistan Cricket TEAM ! Excellent! |
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Wednesday, July 07 2010 @ 07:47 AM CDT
Contributed by: root
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Afghan Cricket Team Beats Kenya
Written by Quqnoos.com
Tuesday, 06 July 2010 16:59
Afghan national cricket team, after victory over Kenya, entered the next round of Division One Cricket Tournament
Kenya started the match, and scored 234 runs, which became the target for Afghanistan.
Afghan cricket team played a thrilling match, and won the game by completing the target with nine players out.
The Division One competitions are being played in Holland, in which cricket teams from Afghanistan, Holland, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and Kenya are competing to reach the 11 best cricket teams of the world. . . .
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