An interview with Scott Lannan, The Santa Movement visionary Scott Lannan functions as what he terms, "a real- bearded "Santa in several communities, but it was not until he was on the job in Aruba, that he had an epiphany. " I received the Santa suit at my grandmother’s funeral from an aunt around […]
Tajikistan’s President Warns Against Mobile Phone Risks
By Jahongir Boboev Despite widespread poverty, Tajikistan has seen a boom in mobile phones in recent years. Competition among provider firms has slashed call charges, and mobile networks get round all the difficulties of a crumbling landline infrastructure. It therefore came as a surprise when President Imomali Rahmon announced at the end of April that […]
Kalash Celebrate International Climate Day of Action
CAMAT [Chitral Association for Mountain Area Tourism] celebrated International Climate Day of Action, Oct 24, 2009 in the Kalash valley of Rumbor, district Chitral with a philosophy of ‘think globally, act locally’ in mind. The theme of the day was “The Impacts of Global Warming on the Kalash Communities”. Kalash ECOCLUB, school students, local leadership […]
Reducing Home Mailbox Junk Mail and Mail Scams
Junk mail is the plague of the 21st Century. We get it in our email boxes and also at home, in our snail mail boxes, too. Pizza coupons, dentists advertising lower-cost braces, funerals, magazines, mobile phones, whatever it is, the marketing powers that be seem to think it’s a great idea to bombard us with […]
Anna Nicole, 24-Hour Cable, and the New Tabloid Journalism
When Anna Nicole Smith died, I remember thinking it was a tragedy. Although she had never found much success in her various film pursuits, she had been a perennial starlet of note on the Hollywood scene and, more importantly, was a young woman with her whole life in front of her, fallen before her time. […]