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School had been in session less than two months when Brenda Salgado and her kids packed and moved. It was mid-September and they'd already been in three places. First a motel, then a two-bedroom apartment stuffed with more than two dozen people, then one of the many discount lodges on a dreary stretch of Sepulveda Boulevard in North Hills.

One morning, a little after 7, I wheeled into the parking lot of Salgado's one-star motel near a busy Sepulveda intersection where the air smelled of burned gas and fried food. Guests stood outside their rooms under rising parachutes of cigarette smoke, and some of the parked cars were crammed with the belongings of people on the move.

I took the stairs to Salgado's second-floor unit and heard the giggles of children. When I knocked, Salgado called me in.

The $95 room had two beds, a dark rug, harsh light and the familiar, unnatural scent of motel sanitizing agents. There was no kitchen, no quiet corner for homework, no outdoor space. Anthony, 9, Jordan, 6, and Madelyn, 5, were dressed and ready for school at Telfair Elementary, six miles away in Pacoima. One-year-old Mayla, dark-haired and curious, sat upright on a bed and looked me over.

The most disturbing thing about the scene was that for the kids, this was no temporary setback. This was life, dragging belongings from one place to the next, tethered to problems they didn't create.

Anthony and Jordan took to the carpet for a wrestling match while Salgado sat on the edge of one bed, brushing Madelyn's hair as her daughter smiled appreciatively. I noticed a case of instant noodles on the dresser, next to a 7-Eleven pizza box. Sometimes, Salgado said, dinner comes from McDonald's or KFC, which are within walking distance from the motel.

"Guys, stop," Salgado urged the two wrestlers. "Do you know how dirty these floors are?"

Anthony, 9, brushes his teeth as Salgado, grooms his hair. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Madelyn, 5, left, eats noodles from a cup as her mother, Brenda Salgado, brushes her hair before heading to Telfair Elementary School. Baby sister Mayla plays on the bed. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Brenda Salgado gets her children, Anthony, 9, left, and Madelyn, right, ready for school at Telfair Elementary. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Jordan, 6, from rear, and Anthony follow their mother, Brenda Salgado, and sister Mayla from the motel to catch a ride to school. Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times

If the kids were going to make it to school on time, they needed to leave soon. By 7:30, their ride had not arrived. Salgado has no car, and said she had several people she relied on. She began dialing for a backup driver while Anthony complained that his backpack was left behind when they made their last move.

"Can you take them?" Salgado said into her phone.

Mayla managed to lower herself to the floor while no one was watching. She slid down a corner of the bed as if she were rappelling, then got rolled up in the tangled limbs of her brothers. Salgado told the boys to knock it off before somebody got hurt.

Madelyn grew jumpy as she waited for her ride. The kids generally eat breakfast at school, but she didn't appear to be counting on it this particular day. She grabbed a slice of pepperoni out of the 7-Eleven pizza box and popped it into the microwave. On the first bite, the cheese burned her mouth and she winced.

The clock struck 7:40, 7:45, 7:50.

I'd been to Telfair before, and I had gotten to know the principal and some teachers. I knew that nearly a quarter of the students were classified as homeless last year. I knew about the burden that puts on the students, the teachers, the school, the district. Salgado's kids began their education at a disadvantage, and showing up to school late wasn't going to help.

I offered to take them, but just before 8, their uncle arrived.

When the car turned out of the lot, the morning stress subsided, giving way to melancholy. Brenda Salgado sat on a bed holding her toddler, the two of them holed up for another day. Salgado told me she had been regularly abused by a parent and landed in juvenile hall and rehab. She imagined a better life for her kids, but that was more a dream than a plan, and even some of her friends wondered why she kept having kids before she had something to stand on.

Now she was 29, with no job, no credit, no escape. The kids' father was helping, but Salgado said he had his own problems. She told me the kids were doing OK, considering. But they all insisted on sleeping with her at night, leaving one bed empty, probably because they feared being removed from her care as they have been in the past.

Salgado said her oldest boy was more aware than the others that this is not how childhood is supposed to be.

"He's angry and depressed," Salgado said. "He just wants somewhere to call home."

Brenda Salgado says she imagined a better life for Mayla and her other children. At 29, Salgado has no job, no credit and no escape plan. Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest public school system in the country, is more than a sprawling collection of campuses - it's one of the nation's largest depositories of child poverty. About 80% of the more than 600,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. When I heard from Supt. Austin Beutner that nearly a quarter of the students at Telfair last year were classified as homeless, I began visiting the school and the neighborhood, hoping to give some human shape to the numbers.

You don't see sprawling tent villages on the streets around Telfair, and there's little of the squalor so starkly evident on skid row and elsewhere. Poverty is quieter here. It lives indoors for the most part. To an extent, it's hidden in the fabric of the suburban design, and for all the focus on homeless encampments in Los Angeles, far more people cope with cramped, inadequate, barely affordable housing.

Like I said, appearances can be deceiving. Rows of small stucco houses line the streets near Telfair, where the median household income hits the county average of about $54,000, and you can still buy a home for less than $500,000.

But the neighborhood has changed dramatically over the decades, said fifth-grade teacher Sandra Tejeda, a former Telfair student who has taught there for 29 years. Tejeda still lives down the street from the school in the house she grew up in.

"Oh my goodness, things were beautiful," Tejeda told me as we sat in her classroom after school one day. "People had front lawns, everybody owned their house, we knew who was in each house and we knew we were safe."

"It used to be single families... Now you see multiple families in a home, in a garage, in makeshift shanties."

Gricelda Gutierrez, teacher at Telfair Elementary

Now, Tejeda said, you see vehicles parked in some yards where gardens once thrived, and small villages of people live on some properties.

"It used to be single families," said first-grade teacher Gricelda Gutierrez, another former Telfair student who stopped by Tejeda's class to join our conversation. "Now you see multiple families in a home, in a garage, in makeshift shanties."

So what drove the change?

More poverty. More renters. Fewer good jobs.

Tejeda's father worked at the General Motors plant in Van Nuys. In August 1992, the last car - a red Chevy Camaro - rolled off the assembly line where 6 million cars had been produced in 45 years.

The following year, The Times ran a story about the death of blue- and white-collar jobs in San Fernando Valley's once soaring aerospace industry. Hughes Aircraft, Litton Industries, Northrop, Rocketdyne and Lockheed Martin were scaling back or closing altogether. In good times, Pacoima residents didn't have to work at those places to benefit from the money those jobs sent rippling through the local economy.

Just up the street from Telfair, hundreds of union jobs were lost in 1997 when Price Pfister, a kitchen faucet manufacturer, moved production to Mexico. I spent a week looking for a former Price Pfister employee, and one day I found a guy namedEmilio Servin, who participated in a 10-day hunger strike in 1997, seated on the front porch of his home in Sylmar.

"I found another job within a week," said Servin, 64, who became a driver for a Van Nuys auto dealership after losing his Price Pfister job. But he said he got nicked in the process, going from nearly $12 an hour to just above $7.

"We rented out a bedroom of our house to make up the difference," Servin said. His daughter, Elizabeth, recalled that after Price Pfister closed, the family shopped for clothes at flea markets instead of stores.

Today, a Lowe's home improvement center stands on the spot where Price Pfister made its faucets.

Lowe's sells Pfister faucets.

The evaporation of solid jobs by the thousands was not exclusive to the Valley - it staggered the entire region, and many of the poorest communities have never recovered. The emerging service economy had jobs for the taking, but the wages were lower, even as housing costs rose, and rose, and kept on rising.

It's not as if renting homes and rooms is brand new in the northeast San Fernando Valley. And for some in predominantly Latino Telfair boundaries, where nearly half the residents were born in another country, according to census figures, living with extended family can be a cultural preference as well as an economic necessity. But given the decades-long decline of solid jobs, the house-sharing industry has boomed.

"You wouldn't believe how many people call me each day and ask, 'Can I see the bedroom, can I bring my husband, can I bring my kids?'" said local real estate agent Gilmer Pozo.

"I've got this friend who bought a four-bedroom house near here," Pozo said. "He rents each bedroom for $750, and it's $900 for the bedroom with a bathroom. For the garage, he gets $1,500."

Brenda Salgado cleans up the bathroom area while Madelyn, left, Jordan, center, and Anthony play around. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Brenda Salgado cleans up the bathroom area as her children play in the motel room. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

At Telfair, I asked to see the breakdown on the school's 182 students who did not have homes of their own. Fifty-four percent lived "in another family's house or apartment." Thirty-one percent lived in rented garages. Eight percent lived in motels, shelters, vehicles or campsites. Another 7% had unspecified "other" arrangements.

It seemed to me that a garage, while certainly not ideal, would have been a better and cheaper option for Brenda Salgado and her kids. But with no credit and no money for a down payment, she was trapped in the more expensive motel.

After my visit with her, she moved to a different motel that was slightly cheaper, then returned to another unit in the first motel.

One evening, I visited again. Anthony and Jordan were having a pillow fight on one bed. The children's father had dropped by, and he had a bandage on the crease of his left arm. He said he had a job in a warehouse but work was unsteady, so he had begun selling his plasma at a clinic in Van Nuys.

I'd heard at Telfair that the kids were falling behind, and Salgado told me they had missed nearly an entire week. They all had scabies, which they may have picked up in one of the motel rooms.

Housekeeping had not cleaned the room, so Brenda Salgado dampened a white hand towel and began wiping the sink and the dresser and tidying up packaged foods and clothing, as if this were a home.

Jordan tosses a football at the motel. The 6-year-old and his siblings don't always make it to school because their mother doesn't have a car and relies on family or friends for transportation, which isn't reliable. Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times

A note on this series: Facing child poverty in L.A. and our own conflicting emotions "

Part 2: For the principal with the most homeless students in L.A., the reality of poverty is personal "

Produced by Jessica Perez

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For a while last year, JJ Edwards had seven furry roommates. The kittens were some of the many strays his family has fostered for PetConnect, an animal rescue group in Maryland. As a foster family, the Edwards take care of the kittens until they can be adopted.

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Manipur Forest and Environment Minister, Th. Shyamkumar Thursday confirmed that stray dogs are behind series of killing of livestock in Manipur since October, creating panic amongst the public. Addressing media persons at his office chamber, the Minister said, "team from Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who have been conducting the probe on the string of attacks on livestock have collected enough evidence to conclude that the attacks were carried out by stray dogs."

Video footage and camera traps set up by the WII team revealed that dogs were responsible for the attacks, he added.

To curb the prevailing menace, the Minister informed that a directive will be issued to urban local bodies to serve a public notice to round up all the stray dogs including pet dogs without collars. He appealed to dog owners to collar their pet and keep them indoors in order to avoid any misunderstanding while carrying out the exercise.

"We will take all possible measures to control this menace. These dogs prowling in the streets and villages could turn to man if they get infected with rabies", he asserted.

The expert team from WII arrived in Imphal a day after a pregnant woman in Imphal East district was allegedly attacked by a wild animal. Sample collected during an initial investigation from the area where the attacks were reported already points at canine family, he said, adding similar case has occurred in Kerala, Orissa. In addition to this, stray dogs have the instinct of attacking animals during their lactating period, he continued.

The expert cited poor and unhygienic husbandry practice and open garbage as possible reasons for the attacks.

According to the latest report of the forest department, 162 livestock have been killed in 42 incidents since October 27. The first mass killing of fowls was reported in Chiengkawnpang village of Churachandpur district and later spread across the state including Imphal areas. In retaliation to the attacks on livestock, four animals have been killed including Mongoose, Fruit Bat, Chinese Ferret badger and a Leopard cat.

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'Stray dogs' behind killing of livestock in state: Manipur Forest Minister

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To curb the prevailing menace, the Forest and Environment Minister, Th. Shyamkumar informed that a directive will be issued to urban local bodies to serve a public notice to round up all the stray dogs including pet dogs without collars.

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Pesticide-based repellents and lawn treatments are becoming things of the past, as safer alternative products begin to surface. These new formulas are every bit as effective as their chemical cousins, but without the negative side effects.

Do you ever wonder how chemical pesticides affect our lives? They may do more damage than you think, with several potentially harmful effects on the environment, our health and even inside our home.

Environmental Effects

Chemical pesticides are known to pollute the environment. While their intended effects are often short-lived, studies have shown that chemical pesticides linger in the atmosphere, the ground and in our waterways long after the job is over. Chemicals have been used on fields across the world for almost 100 years, creating a buildup of adverse pollution in our environment, which continues to grow with every application.

Unfortunately, when pesticides are applied onto a surface, they travel outside their intended area of use by air, soil or water. This is one common way in which chemical pesticides cause collateral damage, beyond their intended use. The Agricultural MU Guide, Pesticides and the Environment, explains that "for certain pesticides to be effective, they must move within the soil...too much movement can transfer a pesticide away from the target pest. This can lead to reduced pest control, contamination of surface water and groundwater and injury of non-target species, including humans."

Organizations like the Organic Material Review Institute (OMRI) have been taking strides in recent years to develop standards for these alternative products. The private nonprofit group is in charge of determining whether a product, such as a repellent, may qualify as organic. Unlike chemical pesticides, each approved organic product must pass a set of rigorous standards to comply with USDA organic regulations. The criteria for these organic-certified products are put in place to reduce negative effects to people, animals, and the environment.

While all types of pesticides are known to travel, organic products are less harmful in composition, thus minimizing or even eliminating residual damage. Supporting the use of food-based organic repellents (e.g. putrescent eggs, capsaicin) will help eliminate potentially harmful chemical pesticides from the marketplace, and ultimately from the food we consume.

Effects On Soil and Crops

When farmers across the world began to rely on chemical pesticides, a drastic change in soil health followed. When the health of soil is compromised, the nutritional value of the food it yields is compromised as well. "The United States government estimates that levels of trace minerals in fruit and vegetables fell by up to 76% between 1940 and 1991" says Cleeton. This change is tied directly to the widespread increased exposure to pesticides.

Chemical pesticides not only deplete the nutritional value of our food, but they also contaminate it. Research has consistently found pesticide residues in a third of food, including apples, baby food, bread, cereal bars, fresh salmon, lemons, lettuces, peaches, nectarines, potatoes and strawberries. While pesticides are designed to kill living organisms, they are certainly not meant to enter our bodies.

Going organic allows us to start from scratch with the soil. Decreasing soil chemical contamination creates an overall "return to nature", bringing back nutrients and helpful organisms, and yielding clean, unaltered produce.

Health Effects

Pesticides have been linked to a myriad of diseases. The Pesticides Literature Review, which is based on studies conducted by a multi-university research team in Toronto, concludes, "people should reduce their exposure to pesticides because of links to serious illnesses. Results of this study found consistent evidence of serious health risks such as cancer, nervous system diseases and reproductive problems in people exposed to pesticides...through home and garden exposure."

Similar research has linked exposure to pesticides to increased presence of neurological disorders, Parkinson's disease, childhood leukemia, lymphoma, asthma and more. Progressing to organic repellents is a logical step to potentially help reduce the chances of disease or disease acceleration.

Remnants of pesticides have been found in the bloodstream of certain types of cancer sufferers. In The Facts About Organic Foods; Having More Vitamins and Minerals Protects You From Chronic Disease, James Cleeton claims that "women with breast cancer are five to nine times more likely to have pesticide residues in their blood than those who do not. The apparent link between hormone dependent cancers, such as those of the breast and prostate, may be via endocrine disrupting chemicals such as 2,4D and Atrazine (both herbicides)."

With daunting statistics like these, why not make the move to organic-listed repellents? You too can choose to enjoy a pretty, critter-free lawn and garden without using potentially harmful chemicals.

Indoor Pollution

Did you know that your exposure to chemical pesticides often continues while you are inside your home? Pesticides are easily tracked indoors by you, your children or your pets, and from there they can be absorbed into your body through your skin or lungs. It's frightening to think that you could be breathing in the very chemicals used to make grass grow or kill pests, while you are sitting at the dinner table or fast asleep in bed.

William Baue from the Children's Health Environmental Coalition says, "'while many pesticides decompose rapidly when exposed to outdoor light and heat, in an indoor environment they can persist, sometimes for years, buried in carpet fibers, furniture, and stuffed toys."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that levels of indoor pollutants can be two to five times higher than those found outdoors. In fact, the EPA ranks indoor air pollution among the top four environmental health risks in the United States. Microscopic particles and invisible gases can accumulate undetected in your home until you notice the ill effects. Going organic may help drastically reduce these indoor air pollutants.
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What was one of Malala Yousafzai's first experiences with the dangers of religious extremism?

After miraculously surviving her attack, what has Malala focused her work on?

What is the message that Malala is trying to send to those in power?

What does Malala want to do in the future?

What are the goals of Malala's mission to support girls?

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For trauma surgeon Joseph Sakran, gun violence is a very personal issue. He has treated hundreds of gun wound victims, comforted anxious loved ones and told mothers and fathers that their children would not be coming home.

But Sakran's empathy for his patients and their families extends beyond the hospital. Sakran knows the pain of gun violence because he is a survivor of it; when he was 17, he took a bullet to the throat after a high school football game.

Maybe that's why he felt the need to do something when the NRA tweeted on Nov. 7, "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," in response to the American College of Physicians' position paper on reducing firearm injuries and deaths.

"My first reaction was kind of incensed," Sakran says of the NRA's tweet. Then, he sprang into action, creating the Twitter account @ThisIsOurLane and encouraging other medical professionals to share their experiences treating victims of gun violence.

Some of the responses have been graphic, but Sakran, who is director of emergency general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, says that helps drive home the point: "By seeing a lot of these photos of bloodstained scrubs or by seeing an operating room floor full of blood or an empty waiting room, it's made it real."

When it comes to gun violence, Sakran says, "a lot of times people talk about statistics and numbers, but I think it's so important to move beyond that, because these aren't just numbers - these are people. These are fathers, mothers, members of the community that we interact with day in and day out."

Interview Highlights
On being shot in the throat when he was 17
It was after a high school football game where we were just hanging out with some friends the way typical high school students do, and we were at a park at a nearby elementary school when a fight had broken out between two individuals, and a guy pulled out a gun and started firing into the crowd. At that point I got hit in the throat with a .38-caliber bullet.

And I remember that night actually pretty vividly for a variety of reasons, but one of which I was wearing white that night, and very quickly I noticed that I had blood all over my shirt and pants, and as I made my way to the curb my friends were frantically trying to figure out where I had been hit. And then they saw the spurting of blood from my windpipe. ...

It might sound a little bit crazy, but it was almost as if I was watching myself and I was watching the pre-hospital workers put IVs in me, ask me different questions, almost like an out-of-body experience. ... They were having to perform an emergency tracheostomy, which is providing a secure airway, because I had a ruptured windpipe.
On the stress his family went through when he was shot
I am the victim in this, but now looking back at it even as as the victim I still have a sense of guilt that [I] put [my] parents and family through something that has to be just so stressful. And I think about it often. I say I probably cut 10 years off of their life. I can't imagine when they initially got the call that, "Your son has been injured please come to the hospital." They didn't tell them exactly what happened. And so you can imagine the surprise when they show up to the hospital and they say to them "Your son's been shot." ...

I often think about this in regards to kind of what I do on a daily basis, and I always tell people the worst part of my job is going out to those waiting rooms and having to talk to families and tell them that their loved one is never coming home.
On deciding to become a trauma surgeon
There was a very profound moment that happened during my recovery period that changed how I thought about what had just happened. I was standing in the bathroom looking at the mirror and I was looking at the scars that I had. At that point I still had the tracheostomy tube, and my father happened to be walking by and kind of peeked in. I think he saw the distraught look on my face and ... he said, "What happened was horrible, and either you can look at your scars and the tube that you have in your neck and feel sorry for yourself, or you can take this second opportunity and really make a difference for other people." And it was that moment that really I think changed me for the rest of my life.
On how his experience helps him talk to families of the victims of gun violence
It's never easy. It's by far the worst part of my job, but it's part of my job. I think having been a victim and now a provider I have a unique experience and I think one of the things I always try to do is to have empathy. I think that it's very different than sympathy - really being able to kind of put yourself in their shoes and what they must be feeling and going through.

When I walk out there to talk to these families, I often will just kind of stand there for a little bit and just look through the waiting glass window, and it's difficult. Sometimes I know that what I'm about to do is going to completely change your life. And I look at their faces and ... these are all mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers that obviously care for this person who has just been injured. And so I try to be as empathetic as possible, and provide them with as comprehensive as possible a detail of what just took place.
On sharing his personal story with patients
I often do share this story with my patients and families later on if they're lucky enough to have survived. I use that in a variety of different ways. But some patients will look at me and think, "OK, what does this person understand about gun violence?" When I tell them my story, it allows me to relate to what they've just been through, but also what they've seen from so many years in their own community.
On what he sees as the priorities for gun policy change
I think there would be really three things: The first is expanding universal background checks. The second is ensuring that we have federal funding to provide data-driven solutions. And the third is focus on safe storage and education.
Therese Madden and Seth Kelley produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Scott Hensley adapted it for the Web.

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Listening Comprehension Questions

What was one of Malala Yousafzai's first experiences with the dangers of religious extremism?

After miraculously surviving her attack, what has Malala focused her work on?

What is the message that Malala is trying to send to those in power?

What does Malala want to do in the future?

What are the goals of Malala's mission to support girls?

Discussion Themes

What is your opinion on Malala's message about the power of education?

Why do you think that ISIS might want to silence people like Malala?

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