One of the topics that was brought up at a panel discussion I attended earlier this week was about the problems of publishing catalogue raisonnes. If the catalogue is a of living artist, it becomes outdated the moment that artist creates new work. And even for artists like Picasso, every time one of his works changes hands the catalogue has to be updated. It's a publishing nightmare. Now Art.sy, a new online platform, could make those heavy and constantly out of date printed catalogue raisonnes a thing of the past. Art.sy is still in its beta phase, but I recently got the chance to explore its massive resources. It's powered by the Arts Genome Project, an open source platform that tracks and catalogues every artist, arts organization and every performance, exhibition and event in real time (i.e. no more trips to the printer).

Art.sy expands on the concept by making all that information searchable across more than 800 "genes—such as art-historical movements, subject matter and formal qualities." Feel like looking at blue, medium-sized installations? How about James Turrell's Untitled (19NSB)? Or maybe you want something big and pink? You've now got ten pieces to browse through. You can also choose to only look at works that are for sale or, sift through them by subject matter like "Fantastic Environments," "Text" or "Culture Critique."

Free to Choose zine
by Esther Eberhardt

Not just another pro-choice zine; this is an introduction to the history of underground abortion and a call to learn our history and to take matters in our own hands. It includes some information on menstrual extraction and a list of resources to learn more. Reproductive choice is not a "right" to be granted or withdrawn. "To know our history is to begin to see how to take up struggle again." Exceptionally well written and researched. If you are looking for more information about these topics, this is it! Timely and relevant!

The increasing popularity of intermarriage. About 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than double the share in 1980 (6.7%). Among all newlyweds in 2010, 9% of whites, 17% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 28% of Asians married out. Looking at all married couples in 2010, regardless of when they married, the share of intermarriages reached an all-time high of 8.4%. In 1980, that share was just 3.2%.
Gender patterns in intermarriage vary widely. About 24% of all black male newlyweds in 2010 married outside their race, compared with just 9% of black female newlyweds. Among Asians, the gender pattern runs the other way. About 36% of Asian female newlyweds married outside their race in 2010, compared with just 17% of Asian male newlyweds. Intermarriage rates among white and Hispanic newlyweds do not vary by gender.
At first glance, recent newlyweds who “married out” and those who “married in” have similar characteristics. In 2008-2010, the median combined annual earnings of both groups are similar—$56,711 for newlyweds who married out versus $55,000 for those who married in. In about one-in-five marriages of each group, both the husband and wife are college graduates. Spouses in the two groups also marry at similar ages (with a two- to three-year age gap between husband and wife), and an equal share are marrying for the first time.
However, these overall similarities mask sharp differences that emerge when the analysis looks in more detail at pairings by race and ethnicity. Some of these differences appear to reflect the overall characteristics of different groups in society at large, and some may be a result of a selection process. For example, white/Asian newlyweds of 2008 through 2010 have significantly higher median combined annual earnings ($70,952) than do any other pairing, including both white/white ($60,000) and Asian/Asian ($62,000). When it comes to educational characteristics, more than half of white newlyweds who marry Asians have a college degree, compared with roughly a third of white newlyweds who married whites. Among Hispanics and blacks, newlyweds who married whites tend to have higher educational attainment than do those who married within their own racial or ethnic group.
Intermarriage and earnings. Couples formed between an Asian husband and a white wife topped the median earning list among all newlyweds in 2008-2010 ($71,800). During this period, white male newlyweds who married Asian, Hispanic or black spouses had higher combined earnings than did white male newlyweds who married a white spouse. As for white female newlyweds, those who married a Hispanic or black husband had somewhat lower combined earnings than those who “married in,” while those who married an Asian husband had significantly higher combined earnings.
Regional differences. Intermarriage in the United States tilts West. About one-in-five (22%) of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race or ethnicity between 2008 and 2010, compared with 14% in the South, 13% in the Northeast and 11% in the Midwest. At the state level, more than four-in-ten (42%) newlyweds in Hawaii between 2008 and 2010 were intermarried; the other states with an intermarriage rate of 20% or more are all west of the Mississippi River. (For rates of intermarriage as well as intra-marriage in all 50 states, see Appendix 2.)
Is more intermarriage good for society? More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) say that more people of different races marrying each other has been a change for the better in our society, while 11% say it has been a change for the worse and 44% say it has made no difference. Minorities, younger adults, the college-educated, those who describe themselves as liberal and those who live in the Northeast or the West are more disposed than others to see intermarriage in a positive light.
Public’s acceptance of intermarriage. More than one-third of Americans (35%) say that a member of their immediate family or a close relative is currently married to someone of a different race. Also, nearly two-thirds of Americans (63%) say it “would be fine” with them if a member of their own family were to marry someone outside their own racial or ethnic group. In 1986, the public was divided about this. Nearly three-in-ten Americans (28%) said people of different races marrying each other was not acceptable for anyone, and an additional 37% said this may be acceptable for others, but not for themselves. Only one-third of the public (33%) viewed intermarriage as acceptable for everyone.
Divorce. Several studies using government data have found that overall divorce rates are higher for couples who married out than for those who married in – but here, too, the patterns vary by the racial and gender characteristics of the couples. These findings are based on scholarly analysis of government data on marriage and divorce collected over the past two decades.

Human trafficking has no place in our state, our country or our world. Become more aware of this problem to eradicate it in our lifetime.

For our cash-strapped state, yesterday brought big money news: Tobacco maker Phillip Morris will pay the state $56 million as part of a settlement in a lawsuit filed 14 years ago over the lung cancer death of an Oregonian.
Under Oregon law, that cash is supposed to go into the state's crime victim's fund. That pot of money helps fund crucial services in the state like sexual assault hotlines, domestic violence shelters, and victim counseling.

But domestic violence victims advocates are worried that the squeezed state government will take much of that $56 million and divide it up between other funds, leaving sexual assault resources in the cold. The millions pouring into the fund comes just when other state services—like schools and healthcare—are worried about drastic budget cuts. It's no surprise legislators would start eyeing the cash for other important uses.

This is a windfall for the fund, but it has to be viewed in the context that domestic violence services have been severely underfunded in the state for years.

Nearly 23,000 requests for emergency shelter from violence could not be met in Oregon in 2010 says local domestic violence shelter Raphael House, and domestic violence wound up killing 49 people. Back in 2009, the Portland Women's Crisis Line had to tell 65 percent of callers that there was no shelter space for them, suggesting people fleeing violence instead hunker down in 24-hour-coffee-shops, the airport lobby, or hospital waiting rooms.

Even desperately needed new projects, like the city and county's much-vaunted one stop shop shelter that opened in 2010, have to cobble together funds from sources and wait years to see the resources get off the ground.

Raphael House, the 40-bed Portland shelter that is "always full" according to its director, is asking the state to keep the entire $56 million in the crime victims fund. Just to put the finances in perspective, Raphael House works with 10,000 clients a year on a budget of only $1.8 million, eight percent of which ($143,000) currently comes from the state.

The Domestic Violence Resource Center will hold an open house for its new Hillsboro Family Advocacy Center on Monday, Dec. 12 at 4:30 p.m..

The new center includes adult and children's bilingual counseling programs. The 35-year-old non-profit has moved its protective order advocacy program out of the county courthouse and into the new center, too. The new location, at 180 East Main Street, Suite 200, is within walking distance of the courthouse.

The Hillsboro nonprofit spends about $700,000 each year to run the 27-bed Monika's House Shelter, Washington County's only emergency shelter for those fleeing domestic violence; to operate a 24-hour crisis line that answers more than 2,000 calls a year; to help victims file for restraining orders and otherwise navigate the courts; and to run outreach and education programs in schools. Money from the federal office on violence against women allowed the non-profit to open the new location. All of the center's services are free.

A women’s winter shelter opened Tuesday at the YWCA in anticipation of the cold months ahead. This is the fifth year of funding for the shelter.  It has 70 extra beds for winter, added to its 115 year-round spaces.


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Annie Rosen is the women’s winter shelter manager for Transition Projects.  She says over the past few years more people have been using the shelters.

“I’ve seen an increase and definitely people are experiencing the economic decline to the point where they have lost the basics to take care of themselves such as housing. It’s difficult for people to acknowledge and accept help, especially in our culture of do it yourself," says Rosen.

Commissioner Nick Fish spoke at the event and says that the funding for the shelter comes from one-time dollars. He says without support from the community there may not be services next year. The women’s winter shelter last year provided temporary housing for more than 400 homeless women.

A new long-term shelter for victims of sexual exploitation is opening in Portland. The co-ed shelter, which is being run by Janus Youth Programs, will have room for five to seven youth at a time. Each will have his or her own caseworker, and they will be allowed to leave the shelter if they choose to.

The goal of the shelter, according to Janus Youth, will be to stabalize clients' lives and help them transition into a safe, permanent living situation. Lifeworks NW and the Sexual Assault Resource Center will also assist with the shelter, which will be the only one of its kind in Portland

Portland has gained a reputation as a problem area for youth sex trafficking, though officials say that reliable statistics about sex trafficking are difficult to find. Still, Janus Youth says that more resources for victims of sex trafficking are needed.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report on hate violence motivated by sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and HIV status last week. The report documents 27 anti-LGBT murders in 2010, which is the second highest annual total recorded since 1996. A whopping 70 percent of these 27 victims were people of color; 44 percent of them were transgender women.

The NCAVP report found that half of those who experienced hate violence did not contact the police after their attack. The report further found that 25.4 percent of transgender women did not file a report. So what can be done to reduce these rates of violence against LGBT people and communities of color?

The Audre Lorde Project is among the groups that organize LGBT people in communities of color that are increasingly looking beyond law enforcement and the criminal justice system for a solution. The Safe OUTside the System Collective works with bodegas, businesses and organizations within Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and surrounding areas to create safe spaces for LGBT people of color to curb violence.

The study also found that transgender people and people of color are each twice as likely to experience violence or discrimination as non-transgender white people. Transgender people of color are also almost 2.5 times as likely to experience discrimination as their white peers.

“It wasn’t a shock,” said Morales, whose organization is among the 17 anti-violence programs from across the country that contributed data to the NCAVP report. “For the last four years we’ve seen that trend—of transgender women and people of color in our communities experiencing higher levels of violence. Sadly that continues.”

Recent headlines certainly bare witness to this disturbing trend.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gives Federal civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications.

An individual is considered to have a "disability" if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such impairment. Persons with HIV disease, either symptomatic or asymptomatic, have physical impairments that substantially limit one or more major life activities and thus are protected by the ADA.

Persons who are discriminated against because they are regarded as being HIV-positive are also protected. For example, the ADA would protect a person who is denied an occupational license or admission to a school on the basis of a rumor or assumption that he has HIV or AIDS, even if he does not.

RT @mariekshan: Reporters Committee launches free, online legal guide for digital journalists. via @rcfp #opengov

An interactive reference to the myriad legal issues specifically facing reporters who are working online has joined the library of free, online media law guides available on the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press website.

The Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide is designed to assist anyone who is disseminating news online, from an independent blogger to a reporter for a major media outlet, as well as media lawyers active in this area.

Topic areas include:

Gathering News and Getting Information, such as rules for open records and meetings, access to courts, and newsgathering right of access to events/places.
Protecting and Defending Your Work, explaining what to do to protect sources and fight subpoenas, steps to take if there’s a threat or actual lawsuit libel, and how to handle invasion of privacy concerns.
Knowing the Legal Restrictions which covers understanding basic Internet regulation and how to protect a domain name, and copyright and trademark law covering both original work and “fair use” of other materials.

S. 596:
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2011
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A bill to establish a grant program to benefit victims of sex trafficking, and for other purposes

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Riksförbundet för Sexuell Upplysning (the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) – RFSU in 1933. The right to an abortion and contraception, sex education in schools and the decriminalisation of homosexuality were some of the issues that “Ottar” and her colleagues campaigned for. In order to get the money for these controversial activities, they started selling condoms – and that’s still the case today, after more than 75 years. Initially, RFSU ran its campaign for education, justice and change in the face of strong opposition, but gradually the work led to major changes, and even legislative changes.

The Turn Off the Blue Light poster campaign has been designed to challenge the Irish public’s perception of sex workers, to get away from the overly negative or positive images of sex work that are so often seen, and instead show a more balanced, realistic view.
Sex workers are frequently portrayed either as victims, sad, beaten, raped, abused, drug addicted women, or as ‘happy hookers’ with privileged lives making a fortune, despite the fact that both of these images are not typical of sex worker experiences in Ireland today.

The portrayal of sex workers as normal human beings is the one that the members of the TOBL Committee, all of whom are sex workers, related to most of all. We then asked other Irish sex workers what they thought of the representation, and the feedback we got was all very positive.

Many Irish sex workers live, what might be surprisingly to some, normal lives, are ordinary women, mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, who just happen to do an extraordinary job. Most male and transgender sex workers lead similarly ordinary lives. Sex work is a job like any other to most sex workers, one they choose to do of their own free will.

Federal law encourages states to keep juveniles out of adult jails. But Oregon gets around those guidelines with a legal loophole created by Measure 11, a tough-on-crime law Oregon voters passed in 1994. According to the nonprofit Partnership for Safety and Justice, 92 kids like Jasmine spend time in adult jails statewide in an average year.

A new bill, HB 2707, which the governor signed into law Friday, May 20, may reverse this unusual status quo in Oregon. But it still leaves the door open for counties to imprison teenagers in adult jails.

In a year where most votes split along hard partisan lines, the youth-in-jails bill passed the House and Senate with only a single vote against it (that would be Clackamas County Republican Fred Girod).

Under Measure 11, 16- and 17-year-olds who are tried as adults are held in adult jails before their trials. Strangely, even if they're convicted of adult crimes the youths are housed in juvenile facilities after their sentencing. But for that pretrial limbo, which can last over a year, the teens are held alongside adults, often in 23-hours-a-day solitary confinement for their own protection.

A nationwide study from the Campaign for Youth Justice showed that juveniles in adult jails are frequently victims of sexual assault and are 36 times more likely to commit suicide than when they're held in juvenile facilities.

Juvenile detention offers better mental health counseling and educational opportunities than adult facilities (the Multnomah County juvenile facility has 220 days of school a year), but costs are more than triple per inmate per day versus adult facilities. Some counties also lack enough beds for all the juveniles.

Of youths in the state juvenile justice system, 68 percent have a diagnosed mental health disorder and 80 percent have used alcohol or drugs.

District service providers for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault will face a $3 million budget shortfall next year. According to Melissa Hook, director of D.C.'s Office of Victim's Services, the "substantial decrease in budget" is the result of several factors, including rising costs, the expiration of key federal funding, and the slow drain of the D.C. Crime Victims Compensation fund.

Hook says that her office has seen a "substantial increase in annual fixed costs to support the operations and debt service" of key victims services in the city, including "three new domestic violence shelters," the D.C. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program, and "24/7 crisis response to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and survivors of victims of homicide."

Meanwhile, funding from the D.C. Superior Court's Crime Victim Compensation Program has declined in recent years. In the past decade, the program has funneled $38 million in court fines and fees to help victims service providers support between 15,000 and 30,000 victims of violent crime each year. In a testimony in front of the D.C. council last week, Hook said that the "substantial revenue from the courts" helped "build capacity, introduce best practices, and establish an excellent coordinated community response to victims of violent crime in our communities."

The one you don’t hear much about in journalism school: interviewing data.

To be fair, you really don’t hear all that much about the craft of interviewing people at journalism school, either. There is the occasional class, but the way that most people I know get better at it is simply by doing. When people ask me how I can approach complete strangers and ask them detailed and occasionally personal questions, I’m quick to reply that I spent four summers delivering breakfast in bed to newlyweds in the Poconos. When you’ve had a naked man answer the door at 8 a.m. and tell you to put the trays down next to the tripod-mounted video camera, talking to evenly partially-clothed strangers gets pretty easy.

Interviewing data takes practice, too, although I can’t really find a parallel from my days waiting tables. Both kinds of interviewing have much in common: you want to be as prepared as possible so as to better evaluate the results and be able to adapt your questions to the situation. Both require you to place a solid block of skepticism, even suspicion, on your shoulders as you embark. And both, if done well, can result in an unexpected admission – something even the subject of the interview didn’t really “know”.

This is why I continue to teach spreadsheets in classes, because they make for excellent initial interview tools. Looking at some data in a spreadsheet, you can easily size it up with basic sorting and filtering. That’s kind of the “getting-to-know-you” phase of the data interview. What are the ranges of this data? What looks unusual?

Questions like: “How old are you?”, “Where were you born?”, “Who do you report to?” work for both people and data (although I suppose “made” is a better word than “born”). And then, once you’ve got a solid foundation, you ask the trickier questions, the ones that you need to really think about. The ones that, when you’re planning a big interview with the subject of your investigation, you game-plan and write out as if they were lines in a soap opera.

And that’s where the big difference is: with data, you can ask a lot of potentially embarrassing questions, and the data won’t complain, walk out or threaten to sue. You can ask variations of the same question 20 times and the data won’t mind. When I say that I prefer interviewing data to people, this is why. Data will only lie to you if it’s just bad data or if you misunderstand the question. Unfortunately, almost every data set is “bad” in some way. But once you find that out, you usually can deal with it.

The FBI’s definition of “forcible rape” in their Uniform Crime Report (UCR): “The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” [PDF]
What that definition leaves out: anal, oral and statutory rape; incest; rape with an object, finger or fist; rape of men
Number of men raped in any year, according to the UCR: 0 [PDF]
Estimated number of men actually raped each year, according to the Dept. of Justice: 93,000 [PDF]
Number of women raped in 2007 under the UCR definition: 91,874
Number of sexual assaults in 2007–which includes rapes the FBI leaves out–according to the National Crime Victimization Survey: 248,300
Dept. of Justice estimate of how many women are actually raped each year: 300,000 [PDF]
Number of arrests for rape in 2007 (UCR): 23,307
Percentage of rapes that result in incarceration: 0.35 percent [PDF]
Number of murders/manslaughters in 2007 (UCR): 17,157
Number of arrests for murder/manslaughter in 2007 (UCR): 13,480
Percentage of murders that result in incarceration: 20 percent or more [PDF]
Average number of rapes to every murder committed annually: 5 to 1
Two of the top five cities in the U.S. with the most “unfounded” (i.e., falsely reported, according to police) rapes: New Orleans and Baltimore
Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by New Orleans police in 2008: 60 percent
Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by Baltimore police in 2009: 32 percent
Percentage of actual estimated false rape reports in any given year according to research studies: 2-8 percent
Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by the FBI in 2006: 5 percent
How Baltimore police once explained their “unfounded” rape rate: “One of the things we know is that victims do lie.”
Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” (i.e. falsely reported) by Philadelphia police in 1983: 52 percent
The year Philadelphia was forced to clean up its rape reporting practices: 1999
Percentage of rape reports deemed unfounded in Philadelphia in 2007: 10 percent
What a Philadelphia police officer once called his city’s sex crimes unit: “The lying bitches unit.”
“Reasons” women lie about rape, according to Philadelphia’s police department in 1984: revenge; free abortion; covering up truancy, pregnancy, infidelity, lost money, sexual precocity.
Number of people who have signed a letter urging the FBI to change its definition of rape: 2,019 (and counting)

AARDVARC: An Abuse, Rape & Domestic Violence Aid & Resource Collection

This site is for victims of violence, their families and friends, and the agencies and programs which serve them, both public and private. The goal of this website is to assist efforts to aid and support those trying to remove themselves from abusive situations and build healthier, stronger lives. For individuals, we hope to provide general educational and reference material as well as a comprehensive nationwide directory of services for "one stop shopping".

Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Within only a few years, the collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become one of the most popular websites in the world. At the same time, Wikipedia has become the subject of much controversy because of inaccuracies and hoaxes found in some of its entries. Journalists, therefore, have remained skeptical about the reliability and accuracy of Wikipedia's information, despite the fact that research has consistently shown an overall high level of accuracy compared to traditional encyclopedia. This study analyzed the framing of Wikipedia and its use as a news source by five US national newspapers over an eight-year period. A content analysis of 1486 Wikipedia references in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Christian Science Monitor found that Wikipedia is framed predominantly neutral and positive, and that it is increasingly used as a news source. By framing Wikipedia as credible and accurate, the newspapers help legitimize the use of the online encyclopedia. By allowing Wikipedia to influence their news agendas as a source, the newspapers confirm the growing reliability of Wikipedia.

the Renfrew Center, the nationwide eating-disorders clinic.
Israeli studies consistently find high rates of disordered eating among Jewish adolescents but not Arab ones, and Israel’s rate of dieting is among the highest in the world — more than one woman in four — though obesity rates are relatively low.

Data about American Jews is limited, but two small studies have reported high rates of disordered eating in certain communities. One of those, a 1996 study of an Orthodox high school in Brooklyn, found 1 in 19 girls had an eating disorder — about 50 percent higher than in the general population at the time. The 1996 study was done with the agreement that it would not be published. The other study, done in 2008, looked at 868 Jewish and non-Jewish high school students in Toronto and found that 25 percent of the Jewish girls suffered from eating disorders that merited treatment, compared with 18 percent of the non-Jewish girls.

Orthodox women are famously expected to dress modestly, yet matchmakers feel no qualms in asking about a prospective bride’s dress size — and her mother’s — and the preferred answer is 0 to 4, extra small.

Rabbis say the problem is especially hard to treat because of the shame that has long surrounded mental illness among Orthodox Jews.

“There is an amazing stigma attached to eating disorders — this is the real problem,” said Rabbi Saul Zucker, educational director for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, or O.U., the organization that issues the all-important kashrut stamp for food. “But hiding it is not going to make it go away. If we don’t confront it, it’s going to get worse.”

Referring to the high risk of death from heart problems and suicide in patients with anorexia, he said: “This isn’t a luxury type of disease, where, O.K., someone is a little underweight. People die.”

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The Multnomah Arts Center (MAC) provides excellent arts education in the visual and performing arts at an affordable cost to students of all ages. We offer programs in dance, theatre, music, drawing, painting, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, jewelry/metalsmithing, photography, literary arts and more. Programs run year-round, and scholarships are available.

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February 11, 2011 ALERT
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HMBANA is a non-profit association of donor human milk banks established in 1985 to set standards for and to facilitate establishment and operation of milk banks in North America. This website provides information on milk banking and how to contact a milk bank to donate milk or to order donor human milk. This site is also a resource for health care providers and others seeking information on HMBANA's resources and services.

With estimated yearly profits averaging 32 billion dollars, human trafficking reigns as the world’s second largest, fastest growing criminal industry - and for good reason. Those who traffic in illegal drugs and guns can sell their commodities only once. Human beings can be sold over and over again.
In 2007 alone, human slave traders made more money than Google, Nike, and Starbucks combined.
The trafficking industry breaks down into labor trafficking and sex trafficking, with significant overlap between the two branches. Labor trafficking victims are often also sexually exploited, and sex traffickers are sometimes prosecuted for labor trafficking due to the fact that they keep all of their victims’ earnings. There are key distinctions between the two, however, especially when it comes to profits.

At the high end, labor traffickers have been known to clear $60,000 a year for a single victim. The average is closer to $13,000 per victim per year. In contrast, researchers estimate the average pimp in the United States can make more than $200,000 a year off the sexual trafficking of a single girl.

While global conflict, poverty and inequality play a critical role in creating the trafficking industry’s ‘raw materials’ (vulnerable human beings), it is important to acknowledge that the abundance of potential victims is not the cause behind the crime. Human trafficking exists as a market-based economy dependent on supply and demand that’s being driven by the ability to make excessive profits generated at low risk.

Seen in this light, Oregon’s persistent reputation as a hub for sex-trafficked minors translates to an illicit business environment being fueled not by the availability of victimized children being sold for sex, but by the steady stream of customers eager to pay the price for youthful, child-like bodies.

Of the 600,000 to 800,000 victims trafficked across international borders every year, an estimated 17,500 end up swelling the ranks of the exploited inside the United States. The most common countries of origin for these new arrivals include Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Furthermore, U.S. citizens account for 25% of the world’s child sex tourism (visiting foreign countries for the express purpose of having sex with children). In spite of that, the number one destination for Americans seeking sex with a child is the United States.
On any given day, over 200,000 children inside the United States are at high risk for sexual exploitation, including prostitution, pornography, and stripping. Ninety percent of these children are American citizens. A child’s average age of entry into the U.S. sex industry is 12, with children as young as 10 being not uncommon.
Over half of the world’s child pornography originates inside America. While sex trafficking in its various forms currently dominates U.S. trafficking statistics, American involvement in human trafficking is clearly not limited to sexual exploitation.

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The Center for Young Women’s Health (CYWH) is a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Children’s Hospital Boston.

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Thankfully, there are places like Good Neighbor Center. Located in Tigard, on SW Greenburg Road, GNC is a 36 bed facility serving up to 9 families at a time. There is space so that each family has a private room where they can live for up to six weeks. Families are provided three meals a day.

We are open from 6am-10pm 365 days a year. We are supported by volunteers, donations, grants and various government funding programs. Individual donations make up 18% of our budget revenue.

Our facility was built in 1999 and has been "updated" several times. We have control of the facility that was built with grant dollars and Community Development Block Grant funds. In 2007, Washington County gave us the building for $1 a year with the stipulation that it must remain a homeless shelter for 20 years.

We have over 1400 volunteers that cook, babysit, do service projects and serve as overnight hosts. This volunteer model saves us over $80,000 a year and 3 staff positions.

For Families who obtain a stable income and can meet certain barriers, we have a Housing Stabilization Program in partnership with Washinton County Department of Housing. With this program the family's rent is subsidized and gradually increases until they reach full market rent after nine months. This program offers family advocacy and support services to help families become self sufficient. The economy has affected families being able to get into housing because of the decrease in job opportunities. Each year we look to find resources to help with rent and needs for these families.

Our Children's Program runs four days a week and serves all school-age children staying in shelter. After school there is a Homework Club followed by activities for the children. During the summer when school is out, we run a Summer School Program that consists of tutoring, physical activities and daily field trips. For families that move out of the shelter and are staying in the area, their children are encouraged to attend daily.

On the January 28, 2011 episode of ABC's 20/20 the news show followed four  homeless youth from Oregon and California. Chris Cuomo reports on this year-long investigation into the causes and conditions of youth homelessness. Here, Chris talks about why they did the story and what he's learned about kids on the street.

Never believe an "I Love You" that's said with a fist.

Never believe an "I Love You" that has conditions attached. "...If you weren't so stupid." "...But you can't do anything right." "...But why the hell can't you be more like so and so?" "...but if you loved me back, you'd let me/you wouldn't make me so angry."

Never believe: "I'm so sorry, you just made me so angry." It's not a reason, it's an excuse. You can only hear "I'm sorry" so often before it loses any trace of sincerity. If they were truly sorry, they wouldn't do it again and there would be no need for the apology. The words sound hollow and empty.

Never believe: "I love you, it will never happen again." It will happen again. The tears don't matter, the bruises don't matter, the broken bones and ER visits and warnings from friends and relatives don't matter. Those scars that we bury deep inside us, the mental and emotional scars that we try to pretend don't exist -- they don't matter. It will happen, again and again and again, unless someone puts a stop to it.

The only person that can do that is you.


Even worse, the violence doesn't always stop once the victim walks out. Abusers have been known to stalk a victim and ruin their lives further. 73% of all domestic violence cases continue after the victim has left. Getting out isn't enough. Get out, then get help. Protect yourself, and learn how to stay safe.

"Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Victims are young children, teenagers, men, and women. After drug dealing, human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest criminal industry in the world today, and it is the fastest growing."1 The U.S Department of State estimates that approximately 600,000 to 800,000 victims are trafficked internationally annually. Many victims are brought into the United States from Asia, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe. Most of the victims do not speak or understand English. "Many victims of trafficking are exploited for purposes of commercial sex, including prostitution, stripping, pornography, and live-sex shows. However, trafficking also takes place as labor exploitation, such as domestic servitude, sweatshop factories, or migrant agricultural work. Traffickers use force, fraud, and coercion to compel women, men, and children to engage in these activities."2

"Look Beneath the Surface" is part of the "Rescue and Restore" campaign on human trafficking sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

overnments and other organisations are now making huge amounts of data available to us and the general public. That data is pretty meaningless unless you know how to analyse it. Data journalism enables us to analyse it, to sift it and create visualsiations that make sense of it.

Some are sceptical about the value of data journalism.

I can see why, because I’ve discovered as I’ve explore the subject that many of the visualisations data journalists create don’t show very much at all. They don’t immediately seem to add to a story – let alone become a story in themselves. It doesn't matter how beautiful the visualisation, if people can't understand it - can't get meaning from it - then it is in the same categoy as a dull headline, a boring intro and a badly written text story.

What we need to do, and what I hope to do here, is present a practical guide to using some of the best data journalism tools, including:

Factual
Many Eyes
Socrata
Tableizer
Guardian Data
Mapalist
Wordle
ScraperWiki
Tableau

In late 2006, The Healing Roots Center was developed to address the specific needs of African and African-American survivors of domestic violence, a long underserved population in Portland. Although women of color are one of the highest risk groups for domestic violence, they were not accessing services through traditional confidential shelters in numbers that reflected the need. The Healing Roots Center is the only drop-in center in Oregon focusing on African immigrant and African-American communities and dedicated to the empowerment of black women and their children who have survived domestic and sexual violence.

The National Organization of Restoring Men is a non-profit support group for men who have concerns about being circumcised, are considering foreskin restoration, or are in the process of restoring their foreskins. Our aim is to help men regain a sense of self-directedness -- physically as well as emotionally.
NORM is dedicated to providing an arena in which circumcised men can share their concerns without fear of being ridiculed for a desire to be intact and whole again. A safe place is provided to discuss goals and learn about methods and techniques of restoration and to discover those methods that will work best for each individual.

Now in its nineteenth year of operation, NORM continues to freely provide information and support to restoring men everywhere.

Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data

This month, the Guttmacher Institute, crunched the numbers on race and clinic location. After cross-indexing racial and ethnic information from the 2000 U.S. Census with the Guttmacher Institute's own 2008 census of known abortion providers, researchers found:

* 63 percent of abortion providers are located in predominantly non-Hispanic white neighborhoods.

* 12 percent are located in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods.

* 9 percent of abortion providers are located in predominantly black neighborhoods.

* 1 percent of abortion providers are located in other predominantly non-white neighborhoods.

* 15 percent of abortion providers were located in neighborhoods where no racial group constituted a majority of the population.

According to the 2000 census, blacks and Hispanics each made up about 12 percent of the U.S. population. "These statistics definitively refute the assertion that most abortion clinics are located in predominantly African-American neighborhoods," the study concludes.

Domestic violence thrives on secrets, but one crisis line in the Willamette Valley received a record 14,300 calls last year — up from an average of 10,000, which may indicate that more people are speaking up and seeking help.

GUESTS:

Robin Kandel: Domestic violence survivor
Molli Mitchell: Residential services manager at Bradley-Angle House
Jayne Downing: Executive director of the Mid-Valley Women's Crisis Service
Paul Holvey: Oregon representative of District 8

Scientists have reported finding the oldest known winemaking operation, about 6,100 years old, complete with a vat for fermenting, a press, storage jars, a clay bowl and a drinking cup made from an animal horn. Grape seeds, dried pressed grapes, stems, shriveled grapevines and residue were also found, and chemical analyses indicate red wine was produced there.
The discovery, published online Tuesday in The Journal of Archaeological Science, occurred in a cave in Armenia.
The wine was probably used for ritual purposes, as burial sites were seen nearby in the cave.

ROSS Domestic Violence Services: Since 1998, ROSS began providing domestic violence services and mental health services to the Russian-speaking community.

ROSS is the only agency that works exclusively with the Russian-speaking population. Since 1994, ROSS has served thousands of Russian-speaking refugees/immigrants through various services including ESL, Citizenship and Nutrition classes, in-home tutoring, case management, cross-cultural and community orientation, agency referrals, educational seminars and presentations. Free dental care and legal consultation are available to ROSS clients on a regular basis. ROSS also offers translation, interpretation and notarization services for a small fee, as well as free tax assistance with the help of AARP volunteers.

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