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Caskets and urns to feature major sports teams
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Some companies in the funeral products industry are moving
towards the personalization of customers’ final resting places, including featuring the logos of
professional sports teams for lifelong sports fans.
Eternal Images, Inc., a firm that designs and produces custom urns and caskets for funerals,
recently entered into a licensing agreement with Major League Baseball to use official logos and
images to serve their customers’ final requests. The company is also pursuing similar licensing
deals with Harley Davidson, the NFL, and the NHL.
Kurt Stoffe, a spokesman for the National Funeral Directors Association, said that the now $ll
billion funeral industry is capitalizing on the desire for personalization in all aspects of life,
including death.
"The baseball products are part of a trend of trying to capture the life and the passions of the
person that has passed away,” he said. “More and more families are wanting to have something
that respects the personalities.”
Specialized products featuring logos are available for preorder now, but many companies do
not foresee finished products for delivery until later 2007.
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Russia interrupts work by international aid groups
MOSCOW, Russia: The Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, recently sus
pended the operations of over 100 international non-government organizations for not properly
registering their actions and intentions under a new Russian law.
The groups, which include several leading human rights organizations including Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch, have been barred from continuing the distribution of aid,
research projects, and investigations until cleared by the Russian government.
Lawyers advising several of the groups claim that their work has been unduly hampered or
interfered with by Russian officials.
“It appears that if you are an organization involved in human rights or democracy activities
then your application gets much harsher scrutiny." said Kim Reed, an NGO attorney. “Even if
you are not sending police and court bailiffs to shut down their office, by not registering them,
you are effectively doing that.”
Many organizations are also expressing concerns that the painfully slow registration process is
a direct attempt to hamper the progress of organizations who intend to guarantee certain civil lib
erties and freedom of speech in Russia.
“They are certainly using every means they can to find minor, absurd aspects of the applica
tions to refuse documents, and that amounts to deliberate obstructionism,” said an NGO activist
who spoke anonymously to protect her organization from discrimination.
Several member states of the European Union have also expressed concern with the trend in
Russia of suppressing civil liberties.
“We attach paramount importance to the principle of freedom of association and we hope the
NGO law will have a positive rather than negative impact,” said European Commission
spokesman Pietro Petrucci.
Russian officials claim that applications are being processed as quickly as possible and that no
foul play is involved.
"We will do our best to process them as quickly as possible so they can resume their work,"
said Anatoly Panchenko, an official in the Russian Justice Department. He claimed that the fail
ure to process the applications of 97 human rights organizations was nothing more than a bureau
cratic holdup.
The new law has already been used to silence several Russian organizations critical towards
government health and human rights actions.
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