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. . . .

July in Jalalabad, Temps shoot to 117 Deg. during the day, most awesome !!

Lots to do, hopefully - we will find a way to get a heartbeat ... on the ground - ensheallah! Taj is at a cross roads on THE Silk Road now more than ever.

Trusting the Universe! C'Mon Universe !!

Heres some links to pix and blogness from travelers so far this trip..

Dr Dave and our new team member Jenn arrived safely, and all are on the ground making things happen! Im heading back to NRF for Reachback, Taj is fully booked out!

Jenns Blogspot:

http://springbreakinjbad.blogspot.com/


Raches Blogspot:

http://rachelinarobb.blogspot.com/

Raches Flikr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelinarobb/

Todds Flikr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddwick/page1/

Todds Youtube channel: (good stuff)

http://www.youtube.com/user/HuffmanTM

Kens Picasa - Taj Humans:

http://picasaweb.google.com/reachback

Here we go !! Half the team leaves this sunday, the rest come in a week later.

Spring Break 2010 @ the Taj -- Objectives.

Complete WiMax node installations.

Check on Village Wells - and Follow up on Footbridge.

Telemedicine LAB / CLINIC installation and set up.

Increase IP String for Hub_Taj to farm out more static IPs.

Nangarhar University - Digital Library Node Configuration and Propogation.

Guest House Business Plan to Oct. 2010 - (Including Elections Plans)

Okay, its been over 3 years now..

The mantra, comms, lift n power..

we got phat comms
we got a big ass gennie.. and the fuel to run them...
we had lift to kabul, then a ride down the kab-ja road....



we need COMMERCIAL connections from KAB to JBAD asap !

Well, it looks like the run-off between President Karzai, and his ex Finance Minister, Abdulah Abdulah is off, and Mr. Karzai has been elected President. Ensheallah, things will be peaceful.

This trip we are focusing on setting up the TeleMedicine Training Lab for MedWeb
http://medweb.reachback.org (portal)

(ex-Fablab) and a General Use Computer Lab for the Locals around Bagrami, as well as coaching some of the NU staff on the backend of web development.

Due to the Swine flu scare, and maybe for some social distancing reasons related to post election gatherings.. NU has been off line for 5 weeks so little was accomplished there...

However, the Public Hospital Spoke is up and working, and the MEDWEB Telemedicine lab is in process - we have successfully installed a medweb server @ Taj Hub and the WiMax Canopy system is humming away, giving the phat pipe to the Public Hospital, and relieving the Fabfi ... of some of its burden.

Delivered Boats to the Village Sak, and while there, Dr Dave saw the well had been trashed in recent flooding, so within 4 or 5 days, he had a DRILL in the ground to give these folks CLEAN water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUByDWXzzs


UPDATE: Progres report from Lut our Taj intern:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/4/t22H-AkurA4

http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/3/buIx71CBgjU

http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/5/wJi8IGlDJ44

http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/6/jq7oLGa67A8

http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/2/j0Wq_zIseQg




An interesting trip for sure, day 1, tanker hit out side of Sarobi.. got a vid clip..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWh6t_t_N_8

Election observation operations, and b4d WiMax installation has been a success, There has been some press/blogs on some of the elements :

http://newsblaze.com/story/2009082011090200002.pnw/topstory.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8209172.stm

http://blog.freerangeinternational.com/?p=1863

http://www.aliveinafghanistan.org


pics of some of the gear and server rigs @ Taj

http://picasaweb.google.com/reachback/B4dInstall#

Comments or Questions, Email Ken:

ken@reachback.org

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.

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/