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Last Revised: July 2021
LIST Sotheby's International Realty Privacy Policy
MoxiWorks ("MoxiWorks", "our", "we", or "us") understands your privacy is important. This Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") describes how we collect, use, store, process and share your information in relation to your access and use of this website and any other websites operated by MoxiWorks, our mobile applications, and any of our other products or services that link to this Privacy Policy (the "Service"). By visiting, accessing or using the Service, you expressly consent to the collection, use, storage, transfer, processing and disclosure of your information, including personally identifiable information, as described in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE ANY PART OF THE SERVICE, REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT, OR MAKE A PURCHASE.
This Privacy Policy complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Privacy Policy. All capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the respective meanings set forth in our terms of service located at ("Terms of Service").
1.1 Summary of Information Collected
As discussed further below, we have collected the following categories of personal information from users in the last twelve (12) months. We obtain these categories of personal information with the methods described herein.
Category | Examples | Have We Collected Any Information in This Category? |
A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). |
A name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number,
passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment,
employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information,
medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). | YES |
D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | YES |
E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES |
G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | YES |
H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | YES |
I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | NO |
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | YES |
Personal information under the CCPA does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
- Certain health or medical information otherwise covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; and
- Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
1.2 Descriptions of Information Collected
(a) General. When you use the Service, you can browse without submitting any personally identifiable information about
yourself. We will, however, receive and store some non-personally identifiable information about you, as described
below. In order to participate in certain functionalities, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable
information. "Personally identifiable information" is information that would allow us to actually identify you,
such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other information the Service collects
that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under applicable law. Additionally, you may also
be asked to provide information, such as details about a home or other real estate properties. Information may be
collected, for example, when you register on the Services, share or save a property via your account, save preferred
searches, correspond with real estate agents, brokers, or other real estate professionals via the Services, or
complete other forms or transactions. You may also provide information about a third party through the Services,
for example, if you share a real estate listing with a recipient via email. We may combine this information with
other information we collect from your interaction with the Services or from other companies.
(b) Account; Login. If you create an account, you will be asked to provide and we may collect certain information,
including, but not limited to, your email address and password selected by you. It is your responsibility to keep
your information up to date and to ensure that we have an active and deliverable email address for you. We are not
responsible for any problems, interruptions in access, or liability that may arise if you do not give us complete
and accurate information or if you fail to update your information so that it is current. Specific details on how to
correct or change your information are provided on the "Settings" page of "My Account." Subscription information can
be removed from our e-mail lists by changing the "Unsubscribe" settings.
(c) Payments. If you make a payment to MoxiWorks, we will ask for information required for payment processing, such as
credit or payment card number, expiration date, CVV number, billing address, company name, and additional information
required for payment processing (Payment Information") and other information requested for processing your payment.
We use third-party payment processors, currently Shopify and Braintree, (each, a "Payment Processor") to assist in
securely processing your Payment Information. The Payment Information that you provide through the Services is
encrypted and transmitted directly to a Payment Processor. We do not store your Payment Information and do not
control and are not responsible for Payment Processors, or their collection or use of your information. You may
find out more about how Shopify stores and uses your Payment Information by accessing the privacy policy for Shopify's
services (see https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy). You may find out more about how Braintree stores and uses your
Payment Information by accessing the privacy policy for Braintree's services
(see https://www.braintreepayments.com/legal/braintree-privacy-policy.)
(d) Public Content. You may provide information through the Service that is intended for public consumption and is
therefore viewable by the public, including photos, ratings, reviews, tips, lists, and real estate
listing information.
(e) Location Information. If you use our Service, we may receive your generic location (such as city or neighborhood) or,
with your consent, precise geographic location data.
We may use and store this information to provide and improve features of our Service. For example, to tailor our Site on a needs-based manner to better facilitate your use and
to provide you more relevant content about real estate in your city or cities you visit.
(f) Automatically Collected Information. Similar to other websites and services, we may collect some information automatically and store it in log files. We may use third-party
analytics providers ("Analytics Providers") to collect this information about the Service. See subsection 1.2(g) below
(Third-Party Analytics) for more information on our use of Analytics Providers and the information collected by
such providers. This collection may include, but is not limited to: your IP address, browser type and language,
device type, referring/exit pages and URLs, other browser history, platform type, number of clicks, landing pages,
cookie information, the pages you requested and viewed, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date
and time of each request you make. We collect this non-identifying information in order to better understand our
users, to more efficiently operate our business, to promote our services and to improve the quality of the Service.
We may automatically collect information using various tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons.
- Cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a computer or smartphone for record-keeping purposes. Our Analytics Providers use cookies to record information about your activities while using the Service and to "remember" you when you return to the Service. Some cookies remain on your computer or device until you delete them. Others, like session ID cookies, expire when you close your browser. You may set your browser or device setting to attempt to reject cookies and you may still use the Service, however, certain features of the Service may not be available if your browser or device does not accept cookies. See subsection 1.2(h) ("Do Not Track" Settings) below for more information on how the Service may respond to your browser or device settings. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties. See also Section 3.6 (Disclaimer) below.
- Web Beacons. Web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that are used to track the online movements of web or mobile app users. Unlike cookies, which are stored on a computer's hard drive or your smartphone, web beacons are small graphics that are about the size of the period at the end of the sentence that are embedded invisibly on, for example, web pages or in HTML-based emails. Our Analytics Providers may place web beacons on the Site that track what other websites you visit (both before and after visiting the Site). Our Analytics Providers use information obtained from web beacons to help us improve our business and the Service. We do not control the use of web beacons by Analytics Providers.
(h) "Do Not Track" Settings. Because we track Service usage information through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other tracking mechanisms, your selection of the "Do Not Track" option provided by your browser or smartphone may not have any effect on our collection of information via tracking technologies. The only way to completely "opt out" of the collection of any information through cookies or other tracking technology is to actively manage the settings on your browser and smartphone to delete and disable cookies and other tracking/recording tools. Getting a "Do Not Track" signal to work as you might want is difficult. Using browsers as an example, not all tracking technologies can be controlled by browsers: unique aspects of your browser might be recognizable even if you disable a tracking technology; not all settings will necessarily last or be effective; even if a setting is effective for one purpose, data still may be collected for another; and even if one website observes a "Do Not Track" signal, that website usually will not be able to control other websites.
We may use or disclose the personal information identified above for one or more of the following business purposes ("Business Purpose"), as further described in Sections 2 (Information Use) and 3 (Information Disclosure):
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information (e.g., to help provide products and services to you).
- To personalize and develop the Service and the services we provide you through the Service and improve our offerings.
- To provide certain features or functionalities of the Service.
- For marketing and promotions.
- To provide you with support, to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of the Service, the Site, our services, databases, other technology assets, and business.
- For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve the Service.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- To prevent illegal activity, fraud, and abuse.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our users is among the assets transferred or liquidated.
(a) General. We will use your personally identifiable information to operate, manage, and administer your account and the Service;
to provide you with support; to communicate with you; to monitor Service usage; to improve the Service or develop
and test new products, services, websites or applications; and personalize the Services and present you with
advertising, content or features that we believe will be of interest or useful to you. We may also use personally
identifiable information to resolve disputes; to detect and protect against errors, fraud, and illegal activity; to
assist law enforcement; to enforce this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service; or for any other purpose described
in this Privacy Policy or described to you at the time of collection.
(b) Communications. We may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your inquiries or requests
(including support requests). You may not opt out of Service-related emails which are not promotional in nature.
We may also send you promotional emails to notify you about products or services that may be of interest to you.
If you would like to stop receiving promotional messages from us or third parties, please click on the opt out link
in any non-Service-related email you receive. Even if you opt out, you will continue to receive Service-related
communications from us. You can opt into or out of Twilio short message service (SMS). You may find out more about
how Twilio provides services by accessing the privacy policy for Twilio (see https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy).
(c) Use of Non-Personally Identifiable and Aggregate Information. We may use non-personally identifiable
information and aggregate information for any lawful purpose, including, but not limited to, analyzing trends,
managing and administering the Service, tracking users' movements, to create new products or services or to
improve our business and the Service. In addition, we may share aggregate statistical information with our business
partners. We may also combine your non-personally identifiable information and aggregate information with other
non-personally identifiable information and aggregate information collected from other sources. We will take
reasonable steps to ensure that aggregate information is never associated with you or your personally identifiable information.
(d) Information Retention. We may retain your information indefinitely, or as long as legally required or allowed,
for our business needs and in order to deter fraud or abuse of the Service. We may dispose of any information in our
discretion without notice, subject to applicable law. We do not undertake any retention obligations through this statement.
3.1 Disclosures of Personal Information in the Last Twelve Months
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a Business Purpose:
- Category A: Identifiers.
- Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
- Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
- Category D: Commercial information.
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
- Service providers.
- Affiliated companies.
- Analytics providers.
3.2 Affiliated Entities and Service Providers
We may disclose your information, including personally identifiable information, to any affiliated entity or organization, agent, and/or service provider that provides support for the Service (such as Analytics Providers) to help us operate the Service, improve our business or the Service and to provide services to us. Use of information by affiliated entities and service providers will be subject to this Privacy Policy or an agreement at least as restrictive as this Privacy Policy. We will not share your personally identifiable information for marketing purposes or with other third parties for purposes unrelated to the Service without your explicit consent.
3.3 Business Partners
When MoxiWorks works with other businesses to offer products and services, we may share information, including personally identifiable information, with those business partners only as needed to provide those products and services and subject to this Privacy Policy or an agreement at least as restrictive as this Privacy Policy.
3.4 Legal Requirements
In some cases, we may disclose your information, including personally identifiable information: (i) as required by any applicable law, rule or regulation; (ii) if we believe disclosure is needed to protect our rights, property or safety; and (iii) to government regulators or law enforcement authorities in connection with any judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena or legal process served on us or the Service; and (iv) to respond to a physical threat to you or another person.
3.5 Insolvency and Business Transitions
If we should ever file for bankruptcy or engage in a business transition such as an acquisition by or merger with another company, or if we sell or reorganize all or part of our business or assets, we may disclose your information, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information, to prospective or actual purchasers or transaction participants in connection with these transactions.
3.6 Disclaimer
We cannot ensure that all of your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For example, a third party may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or other users of the Service may abuse or misuse your personally identifiable information. No transmission of data over the internet can be 100% secure.
We exercise care in facilitating the transmission of information between your device or computer and the third party servers that operate and store information for the Service. The personally identifiable information we collect is stored in operating environments that are not available to the public. While we have mechanisms in place to safeguard your personally identifiable information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
(a) The Service Is Not for or Directed Towards Children. The Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 18.
We do not intend to and will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the
age of 13. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using the Service. If we learn that we have collected
information from a child under the age of 13, we will remove that information immediately and delete it from our
servers. If you believe information from a child under the age of 13 has been provided to the Service, please notify
us at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
(b) California Minors. While the Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 18, if you are a California
resident under age 18 and you believe your information has become publicly-available through the Service and you
are unable to remove it, you may request removal by contacting us at: email@example.com. When requesting removal,
you must be specific about the information you want removed and provide us with specific information, so that we
can find it.
6.1 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, we process your personal information in accordance with the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Sale of personal information. MoxiWorks does not sell your personal information. Because of this we do not
offer an option to opt-out of the sale of personal information.
Your rights. Under the CCPA, you have the right to request that (i) we disclose what personal information about you
has been collected, used, disclosed, and sold, and (ii) we delete your personal information. You or an authorized
agent acting on your behalf may submit a request for either a disclosure (i) or a deletion (ii). Authorized agents
or delegates should provide the MoxiWorks support team with the name of the requestor who they are acting on behalf
of, their brokerage name, and their MLS ID in order to authenticate the requestors information.
Exercising your rights. You can exercise your rights and submit CCPA disclosure or deletion requests by (i)
submitting a web form at https://moxiprivacy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or by (ii) contacting support through
our dedicated toll-free line at (888) 447-0733. Exercising these CCPA rights will not result in discriminatory
treatment from MoxiWorks, such as degrading your service quality or charging a higher fee for our products and
services. Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on
your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a
verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make such a request for access or data portability twice within a twelve-month period. The verifiable
consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about
whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, and describe your request with sufficient
detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or
authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer
request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a
verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require
more time (up to ninety (90) days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
We will deliver our written response electronically. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the twelve (12)
month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the
reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format
to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from
one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive,
or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision
and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of third parties to whom we have disclosed personally identifiable information (if any) for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and you wish to make such a request, please send an e-mail with "California Privacy Rights" in the subject line to email@example.com.
The Services and our privacy practices are compliant with the fair information principles of The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"). In addition to the disclosures made above, we:
- Have appointed a privacy officer to monitor our compliance with PIPEDA.
- Only collect personal information for the uses described in this Privacy Policy.
- Only use and disclose personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
- Take reasonable steps to verify the accuracy of the personal information we collect.
- Take appropriate safeguards to protect the personal information, as further described in this Section 4.
MoxiWorks, LLC
1000 Second Avenue, Suite 1300
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The Service is not intended for use outside the United States or Canada, or by non-U.S. or non-Canadian residents. If you provide personally identifiable information to us, it may be transferred to and processed on computers in the United States and other countries, including countries outside the European Economic Area. Do not provide personally identifiable information to us if you do not want or consent to this information being transferred to the United States or to other countries, which may not have privacy (data protection) legislation or regulation comparable to the law of the country in which you reside. Your provision of personally identifiable information to us will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Your provision of personally identifiable information to us through the Service means that you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you are from certain territories (such as the European Economic Area (EEA)), you may have the right to exercise additional rights available to you under applicable laws, including:
- Right of erasure: In certain circumstances, you may have a broader right to erasure of personal information that we hold about you – for example, if it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was originally collected. Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, to complete transactions or to comply with our legal obligations.
- Right to object to processing: You may have the right to request that MoxiWorks stop processing your personal information and/or to stop sending you marketing communications.
- Right to restrict processing: You may have the right to request that we restrict processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (for example, where you believe that the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
- Right to data portability: In certain circumstances, you may have the right to be provided with your personal information in a structured, machine readable and commonly used format and to request that we transfer the personal information to another data controller without hindrance.
The Service or users of the Service may provide links to other websites or resources ("Linked Sites"). You acknowledge and agree that MoxiWorks does not endorse and is not responsible for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available through Linked Sites. Linked Sites are subject to different terms of use and privacy policies, which you should review.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time upon notice to you. We may give notice by making the updated Privacy Policy available in the Service or by any other reasonable means. You can access and review the most current version of this Privacy Policy at any time at https://moxiworks.com/privacy-policy. The updated Privacy Policy is binding on you as of the next date that you use the Service after the date of updated Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the updated Privacy Policy, you must stop using the Service. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date posted at the top of this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
MoxiWorks provides you with the opportunity to know about the information that MoxiWorks holds about you, together with the ability to correct, amend or delete, as appropriate, any such information that is incomplete or inaccurate. Should you wish to exercise any of these options or should you have any questions or concerns about information that MoxiWorks has collected in relation to you, please feel free to contact us by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. We will make good faith efforts to resolve requests to correct inaccurate information except where the request is unreasonable, requires disproportionate technical effort or expense, jeopardizes the privacy of others, or would be impractical. If your account is terminated for any reason, your information will no longer be accessible through your account or associated with your account. However, activity that occurred prior to deletion may still continue to be stored on our systems or the systems of our service providers indefinitely.
If for any reason you believe that MoxiWorks has not adhered to these privacy principles, please notify us by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, and we will endeavor to review and correct the problem promptly. Please use the words "Privacy Policy" in the subject line. This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the state of Washington, without regard to any authority regarding choice of laws, and venue for any actions arising from or related to this Privacy Policy of the Site shall be exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Seattle, King County, state of Washington, USA.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mr. Speaker, May 12, 2005, I chaired a Capitol Hill briefing, "Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe: Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine," conducted for the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. The Caucus heard testimony from a number of excellent witnesses regarding current efforts in Eastern Europe to combat human trafficking for forced economic or sexual exploitation.
Since the late 1990s, I have worked to eradicate trafficking in the United States and around the world. As Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and as Special Representative on Human Trafficking for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), I have given particular attention to the situation in the 55 OSCE participating States, which include source, transit and destination countries for victims of trafficking, such as Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, The United States has been a solid supporter of the OSCE's role in generating the political will–and programmatic responses–necessary to stop trafficking in Europe and Eurasia.
Among those briefing the Congressional Human Rights Caucus was Michele Clark, Head of the OSCE's Anti-Trafficking Assistance Unit in Vienna, Austria, and previously Co-Director of The Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Clark is a dedicated and knowledgeable anti-trafficking advocate. Her recognized expertise on human trafficking issues led to her appointment at the OSCE in which she is now at the forefront of the anti-trafficking movement in Europe.
Mr. Speaker, I ask that Ms. Clark's prepared statement from the briefing be printed in the Congressional Record. Her statement was both visionary and practical and challenges all of us–Members of Congress and representatives of governments alike–to take bold, definitive steps to eradicate modem day slavery. Ms. Clark's statement also encourages us, and I believe rightly so, to evaluate carefully whether our current programs and strategies are effectively meeting that challenge.
I am Michele Clark, Head of the Anti-Trafficking Assistance Unit at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria. The OSCE has a long history of combating all forms of human trafficking, including trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation as well as forced and bonded labor within the framework of prevention, prosecution and protection. A unique characteristic of the OSCE's Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings is the recognition of human trafficking as a complex, multidimensional issue with far reaching security implications. Consequently, the Action Plan enjoins all of the OSCE institutions and structures, including the Strategic Police Matters Unit and the Office of the Coordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities, as well as the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, to work together toward combating trafficking in human beings.
I appreciate the opportunity to address you today on the status of Trafficking in Human Beings in Eastern Europe with a focus on the countries of Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine. I would like to thank you, members of the Human Rights Caucus, for your sustained commitment to this noble cause and for keeping informed of the most current issues, trends and challenges. The OSCE looks forward to being of assistance to you in any way we can, and to continuing our good work together.
The movement to Combat Trafficking in Persons is poised to become one of the most significant human rights movements in the past two hundred years, but it isn't there yet. I say this very carefully. For, notwithstanding the central position that human trafficking has occupied on the world stage for the past five years, the tragic, graphic stories by print and broadcast media, the high level of political visibility and, last but far from least, the hundreds of millions of dollars and Euros made available by donor countries, trafficking in human beings is in fact a growth industry. Obviously, this statement begs the question, "Why?" I would like to devote the bulk of my testimony today to providing some thoughts that might prove beneficial to policy makers as well as practitioners as we all attempt to "get it right." I would like to begin with a real-life story. Mariana and Jana
A year and a half ago, I went to Moldova. Although I went there to participate in an international conference, one of my personal goals was to visit with a family I had only heard about, but wanted very much to meet. Four months earlier, the eldest daughter, a beautiful young woman in her early twenties and herself the mother of a three-year-old daughter, tragically killed herself, by hanging in the country where she had been trafficked, abused, finally imprisoned as she waited to participate in the prosecution of her traffickers. I do not apply the word, "rescue" to such circumstances. She worked with the law enforcement officials of that country and her testimony resulted in a conviction and stiff sentence. The only option available to her, at the end of the legal proceedings, was return to her country, and for that she was asked to pay $80 for her travel documents. Return to what, however? A job that would pay about 30 dollars a month? A home without a father, because hers was absent 8 months of the year, a migrant worker in Western European countries, trying to make money to send home? For her daughter, a life with prospects not much different than her own? Rather than return to a future with no hope, Mariana as I will call her now, ended her own life.
Her body was flown to Moldova, where she was buried. An international organization there as well as an NGO in the destination country contributed to the transport of the body and to the funeral costs. I went to see her mother, younger sister Jana, and her daughter Victoria. We spent many hours together over several days, but the family did not want to talk about Mariana–although everyone knew what had happened to her. The stigma of Mariana's life as a trafficked woman was a great burden for the family. Coupled with the suicide, it was too much to bear. There were no visible pictures of her in the home but I finally asked to see photos. The mother warmed to us then and for a few moments we all wept together as women and as friends. All except for little Victoria who continued to express anger that her mother came home in a box and that she was not allowed to see her.
In particular, I was deeply moved by the younger sister, Jana, and became concerned for her future. Blonde (as much as it pains me, there is a stereotype), bright-eyed and quite lovely, she asked eagerly about life in the United States and wondered if I could help her get there. I thought, how easily swayed she would be by anyone who offered her a situation similar to her sister's. For weeks her image would not leave me and I made some inquiries, unwilling to accept that her plight had to be the same as her sister's. Was there in fact no hope for her? I learned that a year of university would cost about $USD 500; she would then need money for supplies and fees, and income to supplement the money she was making in a candy factory. I engaged with a social worker there, part of a large organization that assisted trafficked women. I asked them, what could happen, and what were the options? It took a long time to get answers, because the social workers have very little capacity to assist victims, or potential victims, to find long-term solutions, the focus being primarily on emergency care. Finally I was told that Jana could be sent to hairdressing school, and that she would receive assistance with job placement after she left. However, there was no money, not even the small sum $800 that would take care of all costs. Together with a few friends, we paid for Jana to go to school, and learn a trade. I was deeply disappointed at how few options were available and by the lack of attention to the long term. Parenthetically, I must say how exasperated I get when I hear that vocational training for trafficked women consists of beauty school. This is certainly a fine trade, but how many beauticians can small countries support? Another important fact is that many of these women are intelligent and resourceful, and would do well in business or any of the other professions.
To summarize this story, I would like to quote my colleague Antonia DeMeo, who is the Human Rights and Senior Anti-Trafficking officer at the OSCE Mission to Moldova: "If the economic situation in Moldova would improve, then I believe that the trafficking problem would decrease. People are looking for work and money, and better opportunities for the future, and will take significant risks to get them. [While working in the Balkans] I saw numerous asylum and residency petitions filed by Moldovans and none of them wanted to return to Moldova. Why? Because they saw no future there. You can provide them with all the counseling you want–it will not solve the problem of creating a viable future."
Characteristics of Countries of Origin
Today we are talking about three different countries: Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine. I would like to identify common elements among each of these countries in an effort to assist our policy and programmatic initiatives.
These three countries are among the top ten countries of origin for trafficking for prostitution in the world, according to a United Nations report dated May 2003. It is interesting here to note that these countries have all undertaken serious efforts towards legislative reform to address trafficking in human beings. Laws alone do not stop trafficking, although they are a necessary place to start.
These countries share many of the same routes, and many of the same countries of destination, including but not limited to Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland and the United States.
These countries are primarily countries of origin for women trafficked for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. However, recent studies of trafficking patterns in these countries indicate new trends, notably trafficking of children (boys and girls), trafficking for labor, and the development of local sex tourism. This particular trend is very unsettling. The sex tourism is a by-product of coveted commercial development necessary to the betterment of the collapsing economic infrastructures.
Numbers of trafficked persons are very difficult to come by, with most information being provided by countries of destination. Victim identification remains inadequate.
Most trafficked persons return to the same conditions which initially compelled them to seek employment elsewhere. The hardship is compounded, however, by the fact that they are often stigmatized as a result of their trafficking experiences. Furthermore, criminal status that ensues from being considered an illegal immigrant, or being in possession of fraudulent documentation further marginalizes these women and shuts them out of the formal economy.
Overall, there is a lack of protection and re-integration programs for returning trafficked persons. Most programs provide short term assistance only and are not equipped to provide long-term support to trafficked persons. Failure in identification of trafficked persons and the subsequent dearth of long-term assistance appear to be factors which contribute to re-trafficking.
Each country has experienced a period of great political instability. Challenges to Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
I believe that both countries of origin and of destination have a responsibility for providing protection and assistance to victims of trafficking, for the plight of women like Mariana, and to ensure that Jana, and even Victoria, will be able to contemplate a future with options and possibilities, much in the way all of us in this room approach the future.
In countries of origin, root causes need to be considered. These run very deep, and comprise social and economic push factors that drive women to seek employment overseas, including the absence of alternatives, the social stigma that leaves trafficked persons marginalized, and the on-going need to provide financial assistance to their families. It is also necessary to consider wide-spread corruption, the lack of a human rights approach, mistrust towards the police and judiciary, the absence of a tradition to resolve issues through court procedures, lack of co-operation between the State and the civil society, widely spread distrust towards NGOs as foreign agents and representatives of political opposition, inadequate funding for the implementation of anti-trafficking programs and projects, lack of co-operation with countries of destination. This list goes on.
Countries of destination, on the other hand,–and this includes us–will have to concretely recognize that they create the demand which encourages human trafficking and enables organized criminal groups to generate billions of dollars annually in tax-free revenue at the cost of human misery. Furthermore, countries of destination need to develop humane and compassionate approaches to victim identification, victim protection, and long-term victim assistance. Successful reintegration begins at the country of destination.
After making this distinction, I personally believe that it is no longer adequate to talk about solutions, policies and practices directed exclusively towards countries of origin and destination, for these countries are in fact linked by very complex relationships that include financial institutions, border and immigration police, law enforcement, the tourist and transportation industry, and other equally significant commercial and professional enterprises. To address only a country of origin without looking at where the reward comes from for criminal activity is an incomplete approach, and will therefore yield incomplete results. Regional approaches to combating trafficking in persons, linking countries of destination and origin, have the best potential for arriving at comprehensive and systemic solutions.
In addition to the challenge of complex political and commercial relationships mentioned above, I would like to talk briefly about the great challenge of victim identification, underscoring why there is such urgency in addressing this topic. From 1 January 2000 to 31 December, 2004, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and other nongovernmental organizations assisted 1,464 trafficking victims to return to Moldova, and this number includes 81 minors. In 2004, one destination country alone documented repatriation of 1,774 Moldovan women. These women were listed as illegal immigrants; however, human rights groups in this country attest that the majority of Moldovan women who are arrested for violations of immigration laws are victims of trafficking. Similar discrepancies can be found among the other countries we are talking about. In one year, one country reported more Moldovan women than other reports claim were helped in five years. These discrepancies require our serious consideration. Why the discrepancy? What needs to be changed in order for women to seek out assistance? Are the right groups providing the assistance so that trafficked persons feel protected? Is the assistance appropriate to the need? Policy Implications
Here I would like to ask two more questions:
(1) What about the present? Are we really making progress? If trafficking, as all indicators tell us, is in fact a growth industry, then what do we not know? What are we getting wrong? What in fact is the real impact of anti-trafficking funding?
(2) What about the future? Are our current efforts helping to lay a foundation that will enable prevention, protection and prosecution to continue after donor funds have decreased?
I am particularly concerned about the need to think about investing in the creation of sustainable grass roots initiatives as opposed to reactive project development. The question of funding is of particular concern to me right now. Wealthy nations have responded generously both by making funds available and by elevating this issue to one of high political visibility. But let us be realistic. History shows us that in time, another world crisis will capture world attention as well as money, even though human trafficking itself will not disappear. Will there be organizations, movements, trained personnel in rural communities, small towns and big cities who will be able continue to pressure their governments and work to assist individuals?
Let us look again at Moldova. This small country with a population of barely 4 million people is now receiving between $USD 10M-12M over several years to combat trafficking in persons. Here are some questions we need to think about, not only for Moldova, but for all countries receiving large amounts of external assistance.
To what extent are these funds actually reaching trafficked persons or developing grass roots capacity?
To what extent are these funds being invested to ensure sustainable anti-trafficking initiatives?
To what extent is there coordination among donors to ensure that there are no duplicated efforts?
Who is around the table at these coordinating meetings? Are the right partners present in order to make sure that these efforts are able to continue into the future, long after grant money has decreased?
Are the faith communities involved? It is well known at this time that faith communities have the capacity to reach trafficked persons which are normally outside of the grasp of other organizations; this comes from the fact that they are closely linked to the communities and have the trust of the local populations–including the trust of trafficked persons.
1. Coordinate initiatives of major donors to ensure that there will be no duplication of efforts, and that there will be monitoring of grant activities.
Make sure that grants provide for a broad representation of local NGOs.
Make sure that funded projects ensure provision of benefits directly to individuals and to the empowerment of small local NGOs. Many budgets give only token amounts to local initiatives while having large budgets for travel and foreign consultants. This is the time to develop the grass roots work force.
Develop existing capacity and cultivate potential/future capacity. Are there sufficiently trained service professionals? Do countries' economic development plans foresee the training of new members of the work force taken from returning trafficked persons?
Develop a long-term perspective to finding long-term solutions rather than only addressing immediate needs.
Give priority to programs that work towards social inclusion–the forgotten stepchild of the anti-trafficking movement. Make reintegration a long-term policy.
Members of the Human Rights Caucus, I will end where I began, challenging us to consider that we could be part of the greatest human rights movement of the past two hundred years, with a legacy of freedom, redemption and hope that will serve as a model for generations to come. Do we have the courage, the discipline, and the wisdom to make it happen? May it be so. Thank you.

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We will, we will BLOG YOU (uh) blog you (uh)...
The fog clears and I am able to get my bloggy shit together well enough to post the much-anticipated BlogMe interviews...
Starring... The Amazing Devra and the Scrumptious Izzy!
But first:
My apologies to my lovely interviewees and to you, dear reader-friends, for lollygagging on this. My own interviews (which you must go read if you are squirming to know more about HBM)have been up at Parentopia and IzzyMom since Friday and Saturday respectively, and I have had Devra's and Izzy's responses to my interview questions since Friday. I have no reasonable excuse, really, other than that WonderBaby's Quest for World Domination continues unabated and, as you all should know, World Domination Begins At Home! And, yesterday was a bit of a head-fuck day (a subject for another post).
Also, I am being tormented by Britney Spears. If you read my post on Friday, you would have seen that she and I are currently deriving inspiration for our, um, writing from the same sources. Which has led some to wonder whether I am not cadging from the Great Britney for all of my posts. I assure you, I am not. (Go, read, and tell me what you think. My dignity demands it.) And now she's haunting me. I have heard her songs no less than a half-dozen times in three days AND (oh god oh god oh god) I have dreamt about her twice since Thursday (oh god).
If this continues, I will lose my mind before BlogHer. So, if I turn up there singing Oops, I did It Again and sporting a Her Not-That-Innocent Mother t-shirt - please stage an intervention. Take me into a dark room, blare The Cult (She Sells Sanctuary - Izzy, you bring the CD) and show me the Colin Farell sex video while forcing me to down a half-dozen frozen vodka shots in rapid succession.
Oh, hell, you might as well do that to me anyway. Can't hurt.
Okay. Enough about me.
(Cue theme to The Muppet Show) And now, our very special Guest Stars... Devra and Izzy!!!
So, Devra, tell us...
What is the quality you most admire in a blogger? The ability to utilize language colorfully instead of just using colorful language. For example, if I read a blog entry which states, "The lady giving me unwanted parenting advice as my toddler threw a fit in the middle of Target (Which, if held at a border of two warring countries would fend off any decision to invade), was out of line. So I took things into my own hands and said "Lady, 'Thou art a purpled hell-hated canker-blossom!', and she calmed the fuck down." I'm going to be impressed by that.
What is your most marked blogging characteristic? Honestly, I don't know if have developed one. I've not been blogging long enough to feel like I do.
What is your greatest virtue as a blogger (what do you most like about your blog)? Altruistic intent. Aviva and I desire most to help others. Flat out. That's it.
What do you regard as the principle defect of your blog? We don't seem to be in a high traffic area on the Internet. It's possible we need a larger sign as I'm not sure people know where to find us, but we are always in the same place. Here. We try to stay really really still.
What character of fiction do you most wish had a blog? Hands down, Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye. By far I think he would have enjoyed the hell out of blogging and may have called his blog "The Most Terrific Liar" or named it after some moron.
What historical or real life person do you most wish had a blog? Historical it would have to be Eleanor Roosevelt. She is oft quoted and I would love to read her own words as she put them to paper, or in this case, screen as she reflected on our country, her motherhood, etc.
What is your present state of blog (present state of mind as a blogger)? Panic. I am afraid Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah may try to ditch me during the day or kill me at night (we are sharing a room which would make quite convenient for her. Really.) I keep asking her technical blogging questions, she's been extremely helpful, and happy about it, but I have that panic in the back of my mind that my life may be in the balance.
What is your blog motto? "Ditch the Mommy Guilt and Parent For Pleasure!" Our editor would not let us use "Parent for Pleasure" in our book's subtitle because she thought it sounded, "too sexual". Aviva and I decided we absolutely must use it on our blog. If any of you are "Reading For Pleasure" just stop it now before you get hairy palms and go blind.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? If chocolate disappeared from the face of the earth.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? No one experiencing abuse, neglect or disease and everyone grew up to be healthy and happy adults who eventually die of natural causes.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? I lack Pie Hole Control (PHC). Seriously, at times I feel somewhere down my in the depths of my ancestary, someone procreated with a Paddlefish.
What is the quality you most admire in a man? Integrity.
What is the quality you most admire in a woman? Integrity.
What is your favorite virtue? Integrity. Big surprise. Who knew?
Who or what would you have liked to be? Taller, definitely taller.
Where would you like to live? I would like to upload New York City into the state of Colorado and live there. I love New York City because it is the city of my origin I feel invigorated when am on the streets of NYC. Sitting on a Colorado mountain top, looking out at the landscape and breathing in the mountain air is restorative to my soul. Combining the two would be where I would like to live. But what to call it?
(ed. note: ColYorkorado? New Yorkorado? Aspen?)
Who are your favorite composers/musicians? I have such an eclectic taste in music, I can't pick favorites. My musical taste changes with the weather and my mood. But I can say with certainty I can name almost any song from the 70's or 80's in three notes.
Who are your heroes in real life? I realize this sounds corny, but my husband is my hero. He serves in the US Air Force (almost at 20 years!), is a veteran of two wars. My husband supports all of my endeavors 100 and ten percent and is equally as dedicated to being husband and father as he is to serving our country. Go ahead, cue the music. My other heroes are my children. I know! Even more corny. Well maybe it's because they were born here. When I look at my children, I am reminded of where I came from and where I am going and why. They also remind me to get out of the cashier line when we aren't buying anything. This happened recently. Who knows what I would have done had I made it up to the counter.
What is your motto? My motto actually belongs to my friend, and one of my many mentors, Jill who said, "Remember, your most important legacy is the honor and integrity of your life."
That interview picture above? That's not Devra. THIS is Devra.
And now, live from the pond... IZZY!
What is the quality you most admire in a blogger? I like it when I feel like we could be compadres in the real world, that we have a similar outlook on life. It's not a specific quality that I could define. I also like when they keep me on my toes with new and interesting topics or things to think about and of course, a sly, dry wit is always appreciated.
What is your most marked blogging characteristic (or, how would you describe your blog)? That's a hard question. Let me answer it in another way... If IzzyMom was a character, she might be a blend of Xena Warrior Princess mixed with a bit of Dawn AKA "the Weinerdog" from "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and Jo from "Facts of Life" with a dash everybody's favorite understanding & sympathetic teacher from middle school. Kind of tough but tender and super dorky on the inside. Of course, I have no idea if that's how others perceive me or my blog but I'd certainly be curious to know.
(ed. note: HBM perceives Izzy as Rita Moreno circa 1976. One hot mama.)
What is your greatest virtue as a blogger (what do you most like about your blog)? I don't know how to answer that really but I guess if you pressed me, it would be that I try to be true to myself always. I try not to exaggerate or embellish too much or do anything that would make me feel like I wasn't keeping it real. I'm not suggesting it should be that way for everyone. I just meant that for me, that was one of my ground rules for myself when I started my blog.
What do you regard as the principle defect of your blog? I bitch about things...people, society etc. I mean I don't know that it's a defect, per se. But it's a central theme from time to time that might make people roll their eyes. Every blogger has their "thing" and that's mine, I guess.
(ed. note: um, I said DEFECT.)
What character of fiction do you most wish had a blog? Most definitely Holden Caulfied.
What historical or real life person do you most wish had a blog? I think a blog by Bettie Page or Edie Sedgwick would be kind of interesting. Or maybe John Lennon? The Dalai Lama? Andy Warhol? I enjoy biographies/autobiographies of all kinds of people so this list could go on and on.
What is your present state of blog (present state of mind as a blogger)? I truly love it but sometimes I wish it didn't consume so much of my free time or rather, I wish I knew how to better manage my time so that I could both blog AND do tiresome household chores AND have a social life outside the tiny Mac Mini box.
What is your blog motto? Well, officially it's "Faking it since the turn of the century" meaning that my first child was born in 2000 and I've been faking being passably good at this mom thing ever since. But to be honest, being around so many first time moms in both the blog and real worlds and also having a second child has made me recently realize that after 6 years, I'm actually nearing all-pro status... So I think the real motto is the old quotation "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" (In case you didn't know, I have found being a mommy blogger among so many other mommy bloggers to be quite empowering.)
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Depression.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? Those rare moments that feel magical. But also the really ordinary ones where you realize as it's happening how awesome it is. Just a few minutes ago, I snapped a photo of my husband on the sofa with two kids and a cat on top of him, laughing and being so silly. It was both ordinary AND magical. That's earthly happiness.
To what faults do you feel most indulggent? Self-doubt
Who or what would you have liked to be? A cultural icon that brought about positive social change.
Where would you like to live? Someplace very progressive and pedestrian friendly. Anyone have any suggestions?
What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty.
What are your favorite names? Tristan and Natasha.
What natural gift would you most like to possess? Unwavering self-confidence
What is your present state of mind? I have PMS so I am feeling anxious, cranky, persecuted, unloved and unlovable. The usual fare for that time of the month...
This is a piece of Izzy. Yes, she's cooler than you. And me.
Now that you know Devra and Izzy (and me, if you went and read my interviews), aren't you dying to let us have a little piece of you? Especially if you are not going to BlogHer and want us to raise our glasses to you (which, fine, we're going to do anyway, but still)?
Write a post in which you respond to the following Proust-inspired questions, and invite someone else to do the same. If you do this, and post a comment here with the link, I'll assign you Muppet Special Guest Star identity. (I KNOW! How can you NOT participate now?) And I'll write about it, and there'll be pictures. (TO mamas, I'll link your interviews here, too.) It will be a Mupproustian Interview Experiment, and it will prove for once and for all that motherhood and blogging have caused the limbic and cortical parts of my brain to melt together into one confused mass.
Just answer the following Proustian Blogger questions (and, if you like, any of the original Proust questionnaire questions that you think might reveal something important about yourself. You can find my selections from the questionnaire here, and a version of the original questionnaire here). Or do a post about one or two or some of these questions (I'm particularly interested to see who you all wish had a blog, and why):
1) What is the quality you most admire in a blogger?
2) What is your most marked blogging characteristic (or, how would you describe your blog)?
3) What is your greatest virtue as a blogger (what do you most like about your blog)?
4) What do you regard as the principle defect of your blog?
5) What character of fiction do you most wish had a blog?
6) What historical or real life person do you most wish had a blog?
7) What is your present state of blog (present state of mind as a blogger)?
8) What is your blog motto?
I saw you lookin' at Izzy's boobs, amphibious perv!
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When you first begin the process of designing a funeral, the decisions you'll face might seem overwhelming at first. We're here to help you tackle the choices one by one and make the journey one of love, healing, and life celebration. The process can be broken down into two stages: decisions regarding the service and how you'd like to honor your loved one's life, and decisions regarding how you'd like to care for your loved one's physical remains.
Designing a Service
Whether it's formal or informal, traditional or offbeat, a funeral provides an opportunity for family and friends to gather and support one another in taking the first steps of their healing journey. A service can take place in any setting - at your home, outdoors, or at our facilities, for example - and can incorporate music, poetry, or art in the celebration of a life well-lived. There are endless possibilities for what the service can be, and we're honored to go above and beyond in our duty to meet your personalized and specific requests.
Our staff is experienced in understanding and graciously accommodating the needs of all beliefs, faiths, lifestyles, and relationships. We're here to answer your questions and guide you through the decisions you'll need to make, and will encourage you to take your time to figure out the most meaningful and fitting way to honor your loved one and incorporate the elements that you and your family find meaningful.
Caring for a Loved One's Physical Remains
Once you've chosen how you'd like to celebrate your loved one's life journey, the next decision you'll face is about how you'd like to care for their physical remains. This can be a difficult or emotional choice for you and your family, and we'll provide you with the information you need as we help you to consider your options and make the decision that is right for your loved one and for your family. Once you've chosen between burial and cremation, there are a few additional decisions you'll face:
- For a burial, you'll need to select a casket and a cemetery, and choose between a ground burial and entombment in a mausoleum.
- For cremation, you'll need to select an urn and choose whether to bury, entomb, or scatter the cremated remains, as well as where you'd like to do so.
No matter which path you decide to take, we'll be there to support you and assist you in exploring your options and making an informed decision that feels right for you and your loved one.
Handling the death of a loved one is never an easy task. We've put together some of the important information you'll need to make the initial decisions, reach out to the appropriate people, and begin the process of designing your loved one's final farewell. Remember that, as you begin to cope with your loss, it's often a good idea to enlist the help and support of a trusted friend in making the necessary arrangements.
If you have any questions about your next steps, the options available to you, or what the funeral arrangement process will entail, we'd be honored to walk you through this information in more detail and answer your questions. Don't hesitate to contact us for anything you might need.
Within Hours
When a death occurs at home or in the workplace, you'll need to contact emergency personnel or your loved one's physician if he or she was under medical care. If no one else was present when the death occurred, you'll also need to notify the police before the deceased is moved to a secondary location.
When a death occurs while your loved one is in a hospital, care facility or hospice program, the professional staff will notify you and contact the appropriate authorities. If you've already given them the name of a funeral home, the facility will contact them as well.
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If you're ever unsure of whom you should notify or what your next steps should be, please call us for assistance in determining the appropriate course of action for your particular situation.
Within the First Few Days
After you've taken care of the initial necessary arrangements, you'll want to notify friends and relatives of the death. If it is too painful for you to do this yourself, it's absolutely okay for a trusted friend to make the call in your place. Now is the time to review any prearranged wishes or plans your loved one may have put in place, and meet with the professionals at your chosen funeral home to discuss your options and begin designing a funeral. You'll also write a death notice or obituary to notify those in the community of your loved one's passing.
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A Network of Support
Your initial call with our funeral director will allow us to inquire about any prearrangements and gather the information we need to transport your loved one to the funeral home, but you can also feel free to ask any questions you may have and resolve any of your initial concerns. At later meetings you'll be able to discuss your arrangements in greater detail, but we're always available in your time of need to provide emotional support, a sympathetic ear, and careful guidance.
Know that, during your time of loss, your greatest resource will be loved ones who want to offer their assistance in any way they can. We encourage you to get in touch with relatives, neighbors, friends, clergy members or other spiritual advisors, and other trusted members of your community. They are often more than happy to prepare food, look after children, help with arrangements, or simply offer a kind word and open arms.
What If There Aren't Any Prearrangements?
If your loved one has not specified any arrangements or preferences beforehand, there are some initial questions you will likely need to answer when you consult with your funeral home:
- Should I choose embalming?
- Do I need to purchase a casket?
- Will I care for my loved one's physical remains through burial or cremation?
- What sort of funeral or memorial service should I plan?
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These questions are just a starting point, and you don't need to know the answers right away. Start thinking about your decisions, and contact us to gain a better understanding of your options and discuss what might be the most appropriate solution for your situation. We're here to make this process easier for you, and we can start by making sure that you have all of the information and guidance you'll need.
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The stop code can also be found when looking at individual routes.
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We might as well get it over with. It's high time to tackle it. Answering that question of questions about our cycling culture. Here's the Cycle Chic Guide to Bicycle Commuting #3:
How do you ride a bicycle in a skirt?!
I think we've been putting it off for so long because it really is a strange question to ask Copenhagen women. In a way, it's like asking a peroxide blonde, Texan, trailer-trash mamma "How can you shoot a gun in that NRA t-shirt?!"
"Y'all just do it, bubba. Now git off my lawn."
Being a male of the species - and not a Scottish or Fijian one at that - I don't consider myself an expert on the subject. In order to answer the question I figured I'd ask the experts. The cycling women of Copenhagen. Every one of them has tried it at some point. But as there are roughly 250,000 of them each day on our bike lanes, I figured we'd narrow it down.
So... I asked a few of Cycle Chic's favourite Danish fashion bloggers. Cycling Copenhagen women with their style on fire and their bicycle basket filled with shopping bags.
First up, Susanne from Modlerstyle. Designer and stylist, too.
Wifealiciousness... in a dress... on a bicycle.
"How do I cycle in a skirt?! I just cycle... in a skirt! If it's a long, loose dress, it's obviously easy. If it's a tight skirt, I just pull it up a bit and cycle with my knees a bit closer together - one is, after all, feminine. I'll get to where I'm going either way."
Um... okay. That seems pretty straightforward. Already I'm feeling silly for asking the question.
Very airy.
So what does the always charming Marie, from Marienade have to say? Surely there is more to it that all that?
"I live dangerously - so I put on a dress. Mount my bicycle. Start pedalling. And let the wind decide if my knickers will be introduced to the world."
Uh... that was pretty simple. Casual. Just as straightforward. Which is how I suspect the whole art of riding a bicycle in a skirt or dress is. Brilliant! Thanks, Marie.
Devil may care, but why should you?
Let's see what Mr & Mrs Cycle Chic's favourite fashion blogger has to say. Bloggerella will surely provide us with some insight.
"How to ride a bike in a skirt? First things first - you need to be wearing a skirt. So step away from the spandex. Put on a skirt and preferably a pair of heels and hop on your bike heading for work.
There are, however, some pitfalls to be avoided. If like me, you're not into excessive thigh flashing, keep in mind that short and tight skirts tend to ride a bit up while pedalling along. And a usually decent wrap-around skirt can, with one little puff of wind, burst the thigh-flash-o-meter.
That being said you can take all the precautions and still be revealed by a single gust. In that case do a little damage control and hold on to the skirt Marilyn Monroe style."
Okay. Maybe now we're getting somewhere. And when Bloggerella refers to Marilyn Monroe style, here's what she means:
The fine art of casually placing a hand in your lap while riding. It makes you appear frightfully cool and it serves a anti-wind gust function.
Let's hear from the eternally cool Acie at Agurkeliv.
Acie from Agurkeliv on her bicycle.
"Loving short skirts... and cycling, too. I was 4½. It was summer. It was yellow - my new bike. My new bike without training wheels. It was love.
The kind of love that I would later develop for short skirts, dresses and high heels too. However, the love for my bike never faded - as time passed and I got older it changed in size, color and style. But I always loved it. The same goes for my skirts and dresses – they changed in size (...dammit!), colour and style (some would say that they just got shorter and shorter...). But I always loved them too.
Cycling in short skirts is sort of like walking in high heels. To those who are not used to it, it's scary, a little strange and considered unnecessary. To those who do it every day, it's nothing.
When I ride around Copenhagen in skirts I always I always have one hand free to ensure that the skirt doesn't move too far north. Constantly pulling the skirt down is, however, not necessary. The hand is a safety option. Insurance. Like having a pair of back-up flats in your purse.
In most cases the skirt will stay where it's intended, if you make sure to ride with your knees pointing slightly inwards. And as is also the case with walking in high heels it's a matter of practice. It's about daring to try!"
Thanks, Acie! So, another great bit of advice from yet another Copenhagener who knows what she's talking about. She mentioned the 'hand in the lap' move and the 'knees in' tip, too.
Get your knees in, Mother Brown.
Last but certainly not least, let's give the podium to Kia from the splendidly named Fierce og Fattig på SU! blog. That translates as Fierce and Broke on Student Subsidies!
"Cycling in a skirt in Copenhagen is rumoured to be a challenge. I cycle often around Copenhagen in skirts and dresses and my mantra is simply "Just do it." If you're 'unlucky' you can comfort yourself by thinking that you probably made a lot of men's day. It comforts me when a gust of wind suddenly causes more men to find me extremely interesting.!
Thanks, so much Kia! We appreciate your point of view.
So there you have it. Seems all quite simple, really. Of course, at the end of the day, this post is a bit superfluous. About 8 and a half minutes after the Safety bicycle was invented about 120 years ago, there was a woman riding it in a skirt. And then another one. And so on.
History repeats itself or history never stopped doing it?
Which begs the eternal Cycle Chic question... if it's normal and has been normal for over a century, why are people out there trying to sell you "cycling clothes" and all sorts of crap you don't need?
Anyway, here's a unique Copenhagen angle to the Cycling in Skirts and Dresses question. The advantages of cycling on a cargo bike are many, and Copenhageners, if anyone, have discovered that. There are about 30,000 cargo bikes in the city. Demographically, it is mostly families who have one. But the cargo bike provides the Supermums of Copenhagen with an added feature. If you're wearing a short skirt, you are conveninently placed behind the cargo bay, which is handy if you're the type who worries about wind gusts et al.
Cargo bike protection.
As you all may have noticed I have quite a few photos of people cycling in Copenhagen. For this post I went through my Cycle Chic set on Flickr to look for illustrative photos of Copenhageners cycling in skirts. I found... um... over 250. Including photos from Paris, Japan and other countries. I probably missed some but I wasn't really concentrating. Nevertheless, I put them in an independent set. You can see it in a slideshow right here. Make a cup of coffee, lean back and be inspired. Photos tell the story.
If you're pressed for time, I narrowed the 250 down to a Director's Cut of my favourites. 42 in all, also viewable in convenient slideshow format for your viewing pleasure.
And ladies, let's hear from you about riding in skirts or dresses!


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from maps and map publications issued between about 1880 and 1920.
"D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city of Boston titled 'Insurance Map of Boston, Volume 1, 1867'. [..] The atlas includes twenty-nine large plates showing sections of Boston at the scale of 50 feet to an inch. It is believed to include the earliest insurance maps published by Sanborn.
The success of the Boston atlas and the commission from Aetna must have impressed the young surveyor with the importance of detailed and specialized maps for the fire insurance industry. Following his assignment in Tennessee for Aetna, he established the D. A. Sanborn National Insurance Diagram Bureau in New York City in 1867. 11 From this modest beginning grew the specialized company that has compiled and published maps for the fire insurance industry for more than a hundred years." [source]
[example full map]
[Click through for large, and often very large, versions. All images above have been fairly extensively background cleaned of stains, stamps and age-related wear and tear (especially those that remain fairly dirty, following the "less is best" restoration motto)]
Sanborn's fire insurance enterprise produced not only excellent and detailed urban maps, but they also maintained an elegant aesthetic in the headings and legends on the maps themselves, and in the title pages of the (larger) city volumes. The ornamental flair is diverse - I don't think any of the examples above repeat type styles - and lends an air of individuality and refinement to each of the towns surveyed.
Although this sort of artistic embellishment was unlikely to have increased map sales on its own, it's a charming addition which will have perhaps made the purchasers feel a sense of pride and a little more secure about their own unique town. And it's certainly in keeping with the cartographic tradition of decorative trimmings.
There are no comprehensive open portals to the Sanborn fire insurance maps. The images above were obtained from many sources, beginning with the links attached to the Wikipedia Sanborn Maps article.
The Library of Congress has a fairly large site devoted to the subject, but there are only a minimal number of accessible maps.
The LoC collection is, however, available via institutional subscription:
In digitising their collection in 2002
"Copyright Issues:
No discussion of digital projects is complete without tiptoeing into the quagmire of intellectual property law. The Sanborn Library, LLC owns the largest and most complete collection (over 1.2 million) of historical Sanborn Maps™, and copies from that collection are sold through Environmental Data Resources Inc.9 Prior to beginning our project, Marriott Library Assistant Director for Special Collections, Walter Jones, contacted the Sanborn Library, LLC and requested permission to scan and post all 3,000 maps of Utah in our collection. Permission was denied, and we limited our scanning to those maps in the public domain, i.e., through 1922. There may be hope for scanning more maps, however, as current law states that materials published from 1923-1963 and whose copyright was not renewed are now in the public domain.10
After the digital collection was posted, The Sanborn Library LLC informed us that even the terms "Sanborn" and "Sanborn Maps" are registered trademarks of The Sanborn Library, LLC and that we were required to insert trademark symbols on every occurrence of those words on our website, as well as a statement of that ownership on our main page. We complied."
- Sanborn still exists. They don't follow BibliOdyssey, but maybe you should.
- Previously in a general sense: calligraphy (another of the 'close enough is good enough' tags from the BibliOdyssey delicious bookmarks).


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By HarlemGuy
Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe recently cut the ribbon on $7 million in improvements to the restored bandshell and amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park. Attendees included:
- Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
- City Council Member Inez Dickens
- Community Board 11 Chair Matthew Washington
- Marcus Park Alliance President and Secretary/Treasurer Carla MacIntosh and Valerie Jo Bradley
- City Parks Foundation Executive Director David Rivel
- Mary Rodgers Guettel, daughter of the composer Richard Rodgers and executive board member of the Rodgers Family Foundation
Performances included:
- Laura Osnes and Colin Donnell from the Roundabout Theater Company's production of Anything Goes,
- Trombonist Craig Harris who played an original composition called "Harlem," and
- A performance by the P.S. 166 / Richard Rodgers School Fifth Grade Honors Choir.
The now restored Richard Rodgers Amphitheater was made possible primarily by the Rodgers Family Foundation for its generous $1 million contribution to this project. Additional grants are available to support community performances and the commissioning of new work for the space.
New amphitheater features include:
- A wider stage that is much closer to the audience,
- A large, multi-purpose area backstage with changing rooms and restrooms for the performers,
- An improved seating area with seatbacks built of a durable recycled plastic, and
- A fabric canopy to shield a large portion of the audience from the hot summer sun.
Summer programming includes
- A performance of Shakespeare's Henry V from August 5-8,
- Music performances with Ryan Leslie, Funkmaster Flex and others from August 9-11,
- Dance performances with the Cecilia Marta Dance Company, Forces of Nature Dance Theater and others from August 12-13, and
- The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on August 27 (see video).
About Richard Rogers:
- Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-79) enjoyed a spectacular career that spanned more than six decades. His hits ranged from the silver screens of Hollywood to the bright lights of Broadway, London and beyond. He was the recipient of countless awards, including Pulitzers, Tonys, Oscars, Grammys and Emmys. He wrote more than 900 published songs and forty Broadway musicals, including The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The King and I, and South PacifiC. Rodgers' childhood home, at 3 West 120th Street, overlooked what was then called Mt. Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park) and which the composer described as "one of the prettiest little parks in New York."
- In 1970 he provided funding for the original band shell, which has now been restored and renamed "The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater."
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