Staying alive: SF family-owned funeral home celebrates 100th anniversary – SFChronicle.com

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but the business of death is changing.Funeral homes that have been around for decades have been closing around San Francisco as sons and daughters of owners pursue other careers. Morticians are cashing out in the hot real estate market by selling their building sites for bigger housing developments. Duggan’s…

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Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism – The New York Times

Celebrations at Dublin Castle after the abortion referendum results were announced on Saturday.CreditJeff J Mitchell/Getty Images DUBLIN — Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world’s more restrictive abortion bans, the prime minister said Saturday, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman…

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A quiet revolution, a youth-quake, a gender-quake… Emphatic Yes vote reflects a changed Ireland – Independent.ie

Exit poll shows a huge vote in favour of repealing the Eighth Amendment Asked when they decided how to vote, 75pc said they ‘always knew’ The only age cohort to vote No were those aged 65 and over Asked what factors influenced their vote, 43pc cited people’s personal stories in media FF is only major…

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Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law | Article [AMP] | Reuters

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much smaller. Facebook members outside…

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For the first time in my life, the prospect of a united Ireland is not only credible but inevitable | The Independent

In order for the UK to enact its post-Brexit immigration policies and leave the single market, it must be able to control its borders. It is impossible to overstate the horror with which such a wall between the north and south would be greeted scald=4585456:article_responsive_images [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] END scald=4585456 St Patrick’s Day celebrations:…

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