Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Uzbek language TV channels in south Kyrgyzstan will be limited in air time from August 15 if they do not meet language requirement to produce more than half of their programs in the state Kyrgyz language, Mayor’s office in southern Osh city has announced. The channels say the language requirement is impossible to meet due [...]
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
I've never been in Brooklyn during Battle Week but I will be here this year so I looked with interest at this schedule of events at the Old Stone House for this event which commemorates the Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn: Opera on Tap at OSH Thursday, August 14, 7 pm Outdoors at the Old Stone House JJ Byrne Park 3rd Street @ 5th Avenue Brooklyn Free, Sponsored by American Opera Projects, Ft....
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
in post Konrad - “Osh Kosh” from Big Diction .
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Over at neweurasia, James has a great post on the Luli mahalla of Osh. The mahalla numbers about 3,000 people who, James notes, did not seem particularly different from others living in Osh. In fact, the Luli we talked to even insisted that there was nothing unique about their culture, even going so far as to [...]
kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
While studying in Osh and traveling in Uzbekistan, I came to wonder about the “Luli,” or Central Asian gypsies (”gypsy” being a derogatory label not used by the Luli themselves). My only contact with them had previously consisted of trying to evade children-beggars rubbing my arm persistently for Som; my only knowledge of them [...]
kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Residents in Bishkek are lucky: They have electricity 24 hours. In all other places in the country, the power goes off for at least a few hours every day. In Osh, it goes dark at midnight, in many villages even earlier. Power supplies only resume in the morning hours. The [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) announced today the appointment of Mark Kauffman as Senior Vice President of Merchandising. Mr. Kauffman will be responsible
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Meet Adhuna Akhtar and Osh Bhabani; the brother-sister act that has transformed the way the city's slick new generation looks and thinks about hair
Nah Right (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Also ft. Marcello. Off that Fear and Loathing in New Orleans mixtape. Props to OsH for sending this over. Previously: Curren$y - Movie Writers, Businessmen & Gangstaz (Audio)
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Sure, we all have dreams of flying, but Israeli Yair Gil is making his personal ambition a reality. Isrealli reports that Gil took off from Israel on July 7th for a three-week flight to the US. He is due to arrive in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin on July 28th.
isrealli (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Photo: Getty Images We’ve all heard about man’s dream to fly, but for some people dreams can become reality. For the past four years, Israeli-born Yair Gil has spent most of his time in a garage behind his house. His mission was to build a plane that could get him from Israel to the Osh Kosh [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Bird Dream: Overland from India to Switzerland
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Nepal to the UK 2008
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
PRAGUE, Czech Republic Last fall, Alisher Saipov, a human rights reporter for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was denounced by Uzbekistan's state-controlled media. Not long afterward, the 26-year-old journalist was fatally shot in front of his office in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Human rights groups believe that Saipov, an ethnic Uzbek who was born in Kyrgyzstan and lived there,...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Part of open source hardware (can be) opening up firmware, in previous posts and talks about OSH ( open source hardware ) we've outlined routers and equipment which are open for hacking and improvement by allowing tinkerers and developers to modify the firmware. NETGEAR seems to have jumped feet first and has released a router specifically for hackers . Could this be the router of Makers? ( via /....
