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Anciently, it was very common for dogs to be buried with family members. In more modern times, that has not been the case. If someone wanted to be buried with their dog, they would have to be buried in a pet cemetery. Now you don't have to wonder where to bury a dog.
The fact that humans could be buried with their pets, in a pet cemetery, left an unanswered question. "If humans can be buried in a pet cemetery, then why can't pets be buried with their humans?"
Recently, the state of New York answered this question.
Animals To Be Buried With Their Owners
New York has decided that they are going to change the ways that things have been. If someone chooses to, they can have their pet buried right beside them in a human cemetery.
This law not only allows cats and dogs to be buried with their owners. A lot of other animals are allowed too.
Many pet owners are now applauding since this decision was made. It's about time that our furry family members are able to be buried with us like they used to be.
The law allows for some exemptions. Religious cemeteries don 't have to allow these changes if they don' t want to. Individual cemetery owners also retain the right to refuse to do this.
In Westchester County, New York, a pet cemetery has revealed that at least five people every year choose to be buried with their pets. This is a great way for humans to be able to stay close to their pets after they both pass away.
It is wonderful that New York is allowing man's best friend to still be beside him even after death. These dog's give us so much. Companionship, contentment and joy. It's great that they can be buried with honor, as they should be.
Fur Babies Are Family Members
This is clearly a great outcome to the earlier question. Surely, if humans can be buried in a pet cemetery, then pets can be buried with their owners in a human cemetery.
More often than not, our family is not just those that are related to us by blood. We have family that we choose that are precious to us. Our fur babies are part of our family.
Hopefully other states will follow New York's lead soon.
Without this law, many people have to resort to sneaking their pets into the cemetery. This is not something that friends or family members should have to do.
With these legislative changes, no one has to go to the cemetery to secretly figure out how to bury a dog. No secretly trying to stash dog urns in a casket with their master. Friends and family can avoid digging an unauthorized grave by the owner. Just a great solution.
Family members and their pets can finally be together if they want to.
Individual cemeteries can choose to not allow you to be buried with your pet. With these law changes, it is possible to search for one that will so that you can be together even after death.
In conclusion, of all the interesting laws that are created every year, this is one that we can all get behind. It makes sense and is so important to animal lovers.
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Domino's Pizza in Italy? Oh Yes We Did
|ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — How do you introduce "American pizza" to the original home of one of the world's most popular foods? For a global brand like Domino's, the answer is: you don't.
Instead, you introduce an American-founded brand launched by local ownership, which sources 100 percent local ingredients to create what is ultimately a local pizza menu. The result: Domino's (NYSE:DPZ) today opened its first store in Italy, in the northern city of Milan.
ePizza S.p.A, doing business as Domino's Pizza Italia, holds the new master franchise rights to operate the Domino's brand in Italy. The franchise, led by Alessandro Lazzaroni, 36, plans to open three stores in Milan before year's end. Lazzaroni has years of successful, entrepreneurial experience behind him, as he recently served as commercial retail director of Galbusera, a premium Italian bakery company. He also served as business insights and marketing manager for McDonald's.
"Domino's is a global brand, with American roots, and we're proud to be able to introduce it to the Italian people – with a twist," said Lazzaroni. "We will be using a recipe created by us, using locally-sourced wheat. Everything else is purely Italian. We are purchasing all of our products from Italian producers. We've created our own recipe, starting for the original pizza recipe, with Italian products, like 100 percent tomato sauce and mozzarella, and products like Prosciutto di Parma, Gorgonzola, Grana Padano and Mozzarella di bufala Campana.
"We will also leverage Domino's excellence in technology, being able to operate online delivery as nobody else, to bring to Italian people what is fully missing today: a very good local pizza served at home quickly and hot, which can be ordered online with few clicks and at a very competitive price."
"The beauty of pizza is in its customization," said Richard Allison, president of Domino's International. "Pizza can be made to appeal to the tastes of the individual. It can also be customized to meet the tastes of an entire market, and that's we've done here. We have found great local ownership who wants to take our business model of great food delivered quickly and give it an Italian 'flavor.' We're proud to be the brand that the newly-formed franchise company wants to introduce to their fellow Italians.
"Italy can be a major milestone for the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, as no major American pizza brand has successfully entered the market," Allison continued. "We're going where no major pizza brand has gone before."
Italians are said to eat pizza an average of seven times per month.

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The third HOP network meeting of 2016 will be taking place on Friday 23rd September at the newly refurbished Royal Court Theatre Circle Bar and Terrace. The network meeting will provide an opportunity for organisations to come together and discuss potential collaborations. We strongly encourage you to bring your ideas for the HOP Pot fund with you. There will also be a number of digital organisations presenting at the network meeting who you many want to approach for a Hop Pot project including:
Book of You: A new type of Book that uses the proven benefits of reminiscence therapy. Create a life story using words, pictures, music and film. http://www.bookofyou.co.uk/
Playlist for Life: Playlist for Life encourages families and caregivers to create a playlist of personally meaningful music on an iPod for people with dementia. http://www.playlistforlife.org.uk/#2946
CREATE Education: Who will be presenting and demonstrating 3D Printing. http://www.createeducation.com/
Damibu: Who will be sharing information about Grow-a-Group, a new online platform launching in October that aims to connect organisations through the 'free' exchange of goods and services. http://www.damibu.com/
Red Ninja: A design-led technology company who are and are working with, older people in a digital capacity including the age-friendly App Helping Hand. http://www.redninja.co.uk/design-technology/
Liz Weworia – will be discussing the work older people have been participating in at FACT & OPEN EYE.
Laura Yates – has been working with older people on digital focused projects for a number of years across the city and will sharing a number of these with us.
Liverpool Girl Geeks – Who have been working for over a decade within the digital sector in the city and have always been acutely aware of the gender imbalance, particularly in more 'techie' jobs which involve coding or programming. Girl Geeks are changing this by shouting about positive female role models, by developing confidence, and teaching tech skills. Girl Geeks are very keen to work with an group of older people in some way to help them develop and explore basic digital skills. http://www.liverpoolgirlgeeks.co.uk/
Twenty Twenty – Aerial Imaging – Twenty Twenty, specialises in Aerial Imaging and surveying using Unmanned Aerial Surveillance Vehicles (Drones). Using Icarus trained CAA Certified Pilots,they are able to capture images up to a height of 400ft and fly 500m from the take off location, allowing us to explore more in a shorter time, and for less cost than using traditional aerial methods. Giving you a fresh perspective on something you've been looking at the same way for years! Andrew at Twenty Twenty is very keen to work closely with a group on a HOP Pot Project. Unfortunately they are not abel to attend the event – please contact Rachael Treacher for more details
If you are looking for ideas for a project, an organisation to collaborate with, or are interested in how you can get involved further, please RSVP Rachael Treacher, HOP Project Manager by Thursday 22nd September. Tea coffee and refreshments will be provided.
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I have to believe that at one time the Emergency Room truly fulfilled its name.
Maybe it's because I'm a PICU nurse at heart, and we truly do care for PICU patients. Once they no longer fit that criteria, they go to the general floor.
However, the ER is definitely NOT that way!! Apparently anyone can come in, at anytime of day or night, for any reason.
Your kid chops his finger off? Bring him to the ER!
Your lovely daughter drank your entire bottle of perfume? Take her right to the ER!
Your 2 year old has a cold? Welcome to the ER!
Your four year old is crying too much? Oh yeah, ER!
Stubbed toe? Ringworm? Rash? Definite ER!!
You would think the average person reading the above list would be able to differentiate between the appropriate ER trips, and the not so appropriate ones! But I'm begging to differ!! People bring their child into the ER for the SILLIEST reasons ever!!
Take Ms. Black for example (name totally made up). She decides that her 8 year old son who has autism has been acting "all wrong" for the last 2 weeks...ever since he got bit by an unknown animal in their house. So she brings him to the ER.
When trying to gather all the information about what brought them their, we had to revisit the whole "animal bite" incident for which they were in the ER 2 weeks ago. Apparently some animal in their house (maybe a rat, maybe a possum, maybe a raccoon) bit the kids hand right by the thumb.
Now first of all, before we move on...how many people do you know have possums or racoons routinely in the house...and close enough to biting distance!? Apparently this lady says they come in all the time and she sees their footprints on their walls when they wake up in the mornings.
So now they are wall walking, not supposed to be in the house, animals.
As a side note, she also said that the toys she puts away at night are all over the living room floor int he morning too. Great, now we're dealing with a possum/coon who likes to play with 8 year old toys in the middle of the night. Not that the 8 year old is getting out of bed to play. Of course not!
So back to the bite. The "wound" if it could even be called that was cleaned, a steri-strip was placed, a few labs were run, and the patient was sent home.
However, the patient is now in the ER because Ms. Black says that "The venom of whatever bit my son is turning him the same. He's been biting me all week long!"
Then she throws in there that he has rabies too.
Good news for the boy. After a thorough physical exam, he is 100% fine. He is acting appropriately for an 8 year old with autism, his lungs were as clear as a bell, heart strong, and rabies symptoms definitely negative!
As I'm telling her all this, and telling her that we would be sending her home with a recommendation to follow-up with her primary care provider who follows his autism, she asks if we can draw a CBC.
"No ma'am, there is no indication of drawing that lab."
Then she brings up the fact that his "urine smells bad, real bad"- to which, ironically enough the patient yells "STINKY CHEESE!" Mind you, he hadn't spoken a word all visit! We discuss proper hygiene, especially as he is a bigger 8 year old who is wearning a diaper and probably sweats a lot.
She doesn't like that answer. She wants a urine dip done.
My answer would have been NO! The resident, just to appease her says, "Ma'am, I can almost guarantee you his urine will come back clean. But just to ease your nerves, if he pees in the cup, we'll run it."
She tells us "That's smart. I know he's got an infection. He definitely has vaginitis."
Hello...back it up!! HE'S got VAGINITIS!?!? Umm, I think not!!
So we run the urine, and wouldn't you know...it's completely normal!!! Vaginitis negative : )
So after running 1 more test that I would have preferred, we finally send them out the door.
Thank you for visiting the ER. Please come again soon...I'm sure Ms. Black will!!!


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OPINION: A New Bank For A New Era
Muhammad Yunus is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist and banker. He writes for The Hindu newspaper in Chennai, India.
At their annual summit in Russia this week, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) leaders will announce the world's newest multilateral development bank — the New Development Bank (NDB), which will have US $100 billion as initial capital to fund infrastructure and sustainable development projects both in their own countries as well as elsewhere.
Obviously, the NDB should not become another World Bank which finances the same types of projects in the same countries, using the same tools and mindset.
At the same time, its purpose should not simply be to symbolise emerging countries' desire to show off their financial and political power.
The reason for its creation must be very substantive.
The NDB should be based on entirely new objectives, to be carried out with new strategies. It would be easy for the NDB to fall into the same track as the World Bank since it is in the same business. But the NDB must resist this from day one.
I propose three core objectives for the NDB which I feel are globally relevant. The primary objectives of the NDB should be to achieve three zeros by 2050: zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions. Every year the NDB could publish a report on the BRICS' progress against these objectives.
Four strategies
The NDB could achieve these goals using four basic strategies. The first strategy would be to unleash the creative power and commitment of the new generation of youth.
If the BRICS can mobilise the power of the youth, it will become easier to achieve the goals.
The second strategy would be to focus on technological innovations to solve human problems. Technology today is under the command of money-makers and war-makers. Socially committed drivers must take charge of technology.
They are invisible today. Combining the power of the youth with that of technology will create an unshakeable force.
This brings us to the third strategy: building social businesses to mobilise their creative power to solve long-standing and complex social, economic, and environmental problems.
Social business is a new variety of business which delinks itself from a profit motive.
This business is mission-driven, with non-dividend companies being exclusively devoted to solving human problems. After the company makes profit, the investor recoups his or her investment money but does not take any profit after that.
Additional profits made are ploughed back into the business to expand and improve it.
Conventional businesses cannot solve social problems. Other actors such as the state and private charities may be unsustainable and inefficient. Social businesses are sustainable, efficient, replicable, and transferable.
This type of business has been created and promoted around the world with great results. I believe that the social business model should be the centrepiece of the NDB's institutional structure and policy package. It is a model that can easily be replicated across a number of contexts.
Unemployment can be brought down to zero through social business initiatives.
Unemployment is the product of a flawed and theoretical interpretation of human beings. Human beings are not job-seekers; they are entrepreneurs by birth. Entrepreneurship is in the DNA of human beings.
They are go-getters and problem solvers. Social businesses can turn the unemployed into entrepreneurs. We are doing that in Bangladesh. NDB can adopt this as its prime programme.
Once the NDB creates a new window for financing and promoting social businesses, it will attract the young, old, men, women, individuals and organisations, with social business ideas.
It can encourage each conventional business to undertake social businesses alongside their main business activities
The NDB could create country-level social business funds as joint ventures with local partners.
It could create provincial-level social business funds in which it holds a minor equity with majority equity coming from local investors.
Ensuring financial services and healthcare to the poor can be done through creating social businesses.
Ownership by social businesses
While the NDB will undertake many types of infrastructure projects, it should give serious consideration to the ownership and maintenance of the same.
We have now examples of major infrastructure being owned by money-makers.
In the old days, this was the exclusive preserve of governments. Apart from government and commercial ownership, there is also ownership by social businesses. From the perspective of its users, ownership by social businesses will be much more satisfying than other two alternatives.
Finally, human rights and good governance should lie at the heart of the NDB's operations.
At its inception, the NDB has the opportunity to create the right objectives and appropriate strategies for their implementation.
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The actor turned author speaks his thinker about pundits, insolent aid design, the mania-led # MeToo movement, and why his ex-wives find him boring
Sean Penn saunters into a low-key restaurant not far from his house and slides undetected into a seat at the back. It is a misty day in Malibu, 15 miles north of LA, and the actor appears in familiar, I-don't-care semblance: beat-up leather jacket, brushfire "hairs-breadth"( which, in light of the views he will air about female egotism in Hollywood, I feel bound to report may be more vibrant than sort planned ), with the jumpy force of a soul who has stood for too long next to very loud orators. The 57 -year-old reacts me affably, to my amaze: while Penn may be long admired for his acting, he is defamed for almost everything else. He is known to be pugnacious, short-tempered, long-winded, a boy who outcries at photographers and smokes on Tv. And now he has written a lunatic romance." It's the most fun I've had professionally ," he croaks and leanings back in his chair.
A few epoches before our join, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff was the subject of a full-page newspaper ad in which the publishers, preferably cleverly, moved ways from the book's worst reviews and questioned readers to make up their own heads. The fiction, which follows the adventures of its eponymous hero as he goes around exchanging septic tank and murdering old parties, is a satire of American shopper culture and the cult of persona, and for weeks its plethoras have been gleefully documented. Penn writes as if every parole has been put through a thesaurus: for "face", read" dermal concealment "; for "quiet", " linger concert of stillnes "; a boy with good hearing has " astonishing auditory augmentation economy ". So it goes on, until we reach:" Effervescence lived in her every cellular saying, and she had spizzerinctum to spare ."
Cherrypicking these exaggerations provides us with a moderately good laugh, but here's the curious happening: taken as a whole, there is something quite thrilling about Bob Honey, a hallucinatory effect that establishes the novel at times almost feel like a piece of action art. Linger long enough in the world of Penn's prose and one starts to lose all purchase on reality, a sort of brain slide that Penn insists was intentional." It was meant to be challenging ," he says." Meant to have you stop-the-rhythm to go and look something up ." If he talks in a word fog, it is because he prefers" to be understood by osmosis. If I'm being summary, I premise[ beings] will fill in, or if I am not being brief"- the far greater likelihood, on the evidence of our chit-chat-" the tangents would be connected by the other person ." He hoped the book might work along similar lines.


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Jeff Boshek, 13, did not know that Roman ruler Julius Caesar invented the calendar.
"I was amazed when I found out that Julius Caesar also named the month July, after himself and the month August, after his son Augustus," Jeff said.
Jeff was among 60 gifted seventh-graders at Ramblewood Middle School in Coral Springs, who participated this monthin an all-day "People Extravaganza" program by dressing up as famous people from the past and present.
People Extravaganza is designed to teach students about famous people. At the same time, they learn skills in math, language arts, science and social studies.
The two-year-old program was organized by teachers who teach gifted classes, composed of students who do accelerated work.
"We're part of the Nintendo generation where kids are used to entertainment and don't want to hear a teacher give monologues all day," said English teacher Tina Recchi, of Coral Springs. "When kids do creative things, it's a real stimulating experience."
Among the famous people the students depicted were former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Harry S. Truman and Richard Nixon, as well as Joan of Arc and Martha Washington.
The students spent the past three months researching the person they adopted. They prepared mock birth certificates, diaries, calendars and T-shirts. All were displayed at the event.
During the program, they gave two-minute talks about the famous people they depicted.
Thirteen-year-old Jason Ruggles, who portrayed President George Bush, responded quickly when asked a question from the crowd about his future goals for the United States. "I plan to turn this nation into a financially strong country," he replied.
In addition to learning about Bush, Jason said the program helped him to overcome shyness.
"I used to be very nervous and afraid of public speaking. But after practicing my speech every day in class, I feel more comfortable giving speeches."
Student Arshia Haq, 12, who portrayed Egyptian queen Nefertiti, said the project was fun and challenging.
"Reading from textbooks is boring but when you have to spend weeks researching, the information really sinks in. I'll always remember Nefertiti," she said.
Jeremy Love, 13, a seventh-grader, was inspired by television talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey. So much that he dressed up as Winfrey for the program.
He said he adopted Winfrey because he admires her accomplishments. "In spite of having a poor childhood, she proved that with hard work and determination, you can go from rags to riches."
The kids like the program because they said it's fun. Teachers like it because they said they are accomplishing their goals -- kids are learning multiple skills.
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 ― A transgender rights group told local police today to engage with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer (LGBTQ) community here, highlighting the Philippines police force that has undergone sensitisation training with such groups.
Justice for Sisters expressed concern that Deputy Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim's statement about not allowing openly LGBT people into the force, even if they are qualified, would further perpetuate homophobia and transphobia among police officers.
The group highlighted a report by international rights group Human Rights Watch that documented claims of police actions against trans people, such as sexual violence, arbitrary arrests based on gender identity, arbitrary urine tests, extortion of money or sexual favours, and lack of urgency and bias in investigating police reports lodged by transgender people.
"We call the Deputy IGP to understand the issues faced by LGBTQ persons, review his statements, and engage with LGBTQ groups in a meaningful way to address the issues faced LGBTQ persons in relation to the police," said Justice for Sisters in a statement.
"Police officers in the Philippines have undergone trainings with LGBTQ groups to further understand the issues faced by LGBTQ persons, and to reduce violence by the police towards LGBTQ persons.
"In 2013, a national gender and dexuality training program [was held] to sensitise police officers when engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people," the group added.
US-based human rights organisation OutRight Action International, formerly known as the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, said in a statement in February 2013 that it has partnered with the Philippines National Police Human Rights Affairs Office to start a gender and sexuality training programme to sensitise police officers when engaging with LGBT people.
"The aim of this engagement with the LGBT sector is to sensitise the police force to bring about attitudinal change that greatly affects how the police enforce the rule of law and to make the necessary recommendations to incorporate inclusion of LGBT issues and rights in the formal training program of instructions (POI) in the policies and standard procedures of the police force," Police Chief Superintendent Nestor Fajura, chief of the Philippines National Police Human Rights Affairs Office, was quoted saying.
Justice for Sisters said police departments and officers must reflect the diversity of the community they serve and stressed that LGBTQ people are part of society.
"Further, it is extremely counterproductive when people fear the police. LGBTQ persons often do not report cases of violence because of the attitude, lack of urgency and bias by the police in investigating police reports lodged by LGBTQ persons," said Justice for Sisters.
"LGBTQ persons are subjected to intrusive and irrelevant questionings about their gender identity (e.g. 'Are you a man or woman?' based on IC, misgendering), gender expression (e.g. 'Are you a man or woman?' based on appearance), and sexual orientation. As a result, many cases go unreported and uninvestigated," the group added.
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