Advisers advocated moving Flint back to its prior drinking water source only months after the city made a fateful April 2014 switch from Lake Huron water to a local river. Following the switch, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) did not require Flint to treat the river water with anti-corrosion agents, allowing lead to leach off pipes and flow into households.

Sewerage Department water to the Flint River, it created a serious public health danger. In Flint, between 6,000 and 12,000 children have been exposed to drinking water with

high levels of lead. They may experience serious health problems.[1] The water change is also a possible cause of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that has killed 10 people in the county.

The Flint water crisis is a drinking water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan. It began in April 2014. When Flint changed its water source from treated Detroit Water

MELISSA MAYS: Well, all three of my sons are anemic now. They have bone pain every single day. They miss a lot of school because they’re constantly sick. Their immune systems are compromised. Myself, I have seizures. I have diverticulosis now. I have to go in February 25th for a consultation on a liver biopsy. Almost every system of our bodies have been damaged. And I know that we’re not the only one. I’m getting calls from people that are so sick, and they don’t know what to do.

I feel that he’s in the way. He has been standing in the way of us getting the funding that we need to get these pipes replaced, to get crews in here to get going and get it started. So he needs to be removed from office. He just doesn’t show any real concern. He has not put any effort into actually making up for the failures of his agencies. So he just needs to go.

In April 2014, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder switched the source of Flint’s drinking water from the Detroit system, which they had been using for half a century, to the corrosive Flint River. Officials thought they could save something like $5 million.

Cost considerations drove the decision to switch Flint from Lake Huron water to Flint River water, unleashing the lead problems. But water, Mr. Henderson said, has to be more than a matter of the bottom line.“It doesn’t just come out of the wall,” he said.

In Sebring, Ohio, routine laboratory tests last August found unsafe levels of lead in the town’s drinking water after workers stopped adding a chemical to keep lead water pipes from corroding. Five months passed before the city told pregnant women and children not to drink the water, and shut down taps and fountains in schools.

Plants and animals (including people) are mostly water inside, and must drink water to live. It gives a medium for chemical reactions to take place, and is the main part of blood. It keeps the body temperature the same by sweating from the skin. Water helps blood carry nutrients from the stomach to all parts of the body to keep the body alive. Water also helps the blood carry oxygen from the lungs to the body. Saliva, which helps animals and people digest food, is mostly water. Water helps make urine. Urine helps remove bad chemicals from the body. The human body is between 60% and 70% water. Water is the main component of drinks like milk, juice, and wine. Each type of drink also has other things that add flavor or nutrients, things like sugar, fruit, and sometimes alcohol. Water that a person can drink is called "potable water" (or "drinking water".) The water in oceans is salt water, but lakes and rivers usually have unsalted water. Only about 3% of all the water on earth is fresh water. The rest is salt water.

Water is a fluid. Water is the only chemical substance on earth that exists naturally in three states. People know of over 40 anomalies about water.[4][5] Unlike most other liquids such as alcohol or oil, when water freezes, it expands by about 9%.[6][7][8] This expansion can cause pipes to break if the water inside them freezes. Drops of water flowing from a tap

Water is the most common liquid on Earth. It covers about 71.4% of the Earth.[1] Pure water has no smell, taste, or color. Lakes, oceans, and rivers are made of water. Rain is water that falls from clouds in the sky. If water gets very cold (below 0 degrees Celsius), it freezes and becomes ice. Frozen rain is hail. Snow is formed from water vapour, not rain. If water gets very hot (above 100 degrees Celsius), it boils and becomes steam. Water is very important for life.[2] However, some studies suggest that by 2025 more than half of the people around the world will not have enough water.[

Saline water (also called salt water, salt-water or saltwater) is water with salt in it. It often means the water from the seas (sea water) and oceans.

Water covers some 70% of the Earth's surface. Approximately 97.2% of it is saline, just 2.8% fresh. Potable water is available in almost all populated areas of the Earth, although it may be expensive and the supply may not always be sustainable.

Water is essential for life. The amount of drinking water required is variable. It depends on physical activity, age, health issues, and environmental conditions.[2] It is estimated that the average American drinks about one liter of water a day with 95% drinking less than three liters per day.[3] For those working in a hot climate, up to 16 liters a day may be required.[2] Water makes up about 60% of weight in men and 55% of weight in women.[4] Infants are about 70% to 80% water while the elderly are around 45%.[5]

Drinking water, also known as potable water or improved drinking water, is water safe enough for drinking and food preparation. Globally, in 2012, 89% of people had access to water suitable for drinking.[1] Nearly 4 billion had access to tap water while another 2.3 billion had access to wells or public taps.[1] 1.8 billion people still use an unsafe drinking water source which may be contaminated by feces.[1] This can result in infectious diarrhea such as cholera and typhoid among others.

Magna Utah, A quaint, little town on the west side of the Salt Lake valley. It is also where I call home. A major problem in Magna is the tap water. It tastes a little suspicious. It is unlike any filtered water you will ever taste. Its so odd it actually has a smell. The taste is almost sour if you will. It does take some getting used to if you are going to drink that water. Some say the water is causing cancer and liver problems. Others say it is all the minerals that give it a particular taste and it is better for you. It is all a big conspiracy to me.

Anyways you don't always hear about water problems in local news. Its usually a global problem in some third world country using a nylon to filter river water and calling it good. This water has a been a huge controversy for over a hundred years. And magna has been doing things to fix it. Water pumps have been springing up all around my house to cleanse the water.

I attend school at a private institution on the east side of the salt lake valley. about a half hour away from my house. Every year our basketball team travels out to the Magna local high school, Cyprus high. My sophomore year was the first time I was apart of the basketball team. When It came time to play Cyprus my coaches made a huge deal over the water there. And of course I had been drinking the stuff all my life. They went out and bought cases upon cases of bottled water before the game. They would not let the players drink the water. Our coaches claimed they were trying to poison us. It was a bigger deal than the national debt to them.

Specifically, we examine whether the negative spillovers associated with children from troubled families are smaller after the parent files the case than before the case is filed. Survey research shows that on average, violence had occurred in the family for more than four years prior to the reporting of the incident. However, 87 percent of the respondents indicated that the reporting of the incident “helped stop physical abuse.” Consequently, if domestic violence itself is causing the negative spillovers on the child’s classmates, then we would expect the spillovers to be smaller when the parent of the peer had already filed for the injunction against domestic violence.

if parents who really value education were more likely to pull their children out of a cohort with a particularly high proportion of peers from troubled families, such nonrandom selection would cause us to erroneously attribute lower performance to the presence of the troubled peers.

Our main analysis examines the impact of troubled children on their peers. We assume there is no feedback loop in which a student’s peers cause the domestic violence in the household. This assumption appears reasonable, as none of the most likely determinants of domestic violence can plausibly be caused by an elementary school child or her peers.

In our study, we use a confidential student-level data set provided by the school board of Alachua County in Florida. This data set consists of observations of students in the 3 rd through 5th grades from 22 public elementary schools for the academic years 1995–96 through 2002–03. The Alachua County school district is

first, that children from troubled families, as measured by family domestic violence, perform considerably worse on standardized reading and mathematics tests and are much more likely to commit disciplinary infractions and be suspended than other students. We find also that an increase in the number of children from troubled families reduces peer student math and reading test scores and increases peer disciplinary infractions and suspensions. The effects on academic achievement are greatest for students from higher income families, while the effects on behavior are more pronounced on students who are less well-off

troubled children are likely to attend the same schools as other disadvantaged children. One must rule out the possibility that the disruptive student and his classmates misbehave due to some common unobserved factor.

Similarly, the tracking of students into classrooms based on ability or academic performance may group disadvantaged children with the most disruptive students. The validity of these concerns hinges on whether and how classroom exposure to troubled peers affects student achievement and behavior.

found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the “school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.”

KATE DIXON, 29Jonathan Tebbs, 46, stabbed dedicated town hall chief Kate Dixon 29 times with a Swiss Army knife before reading an Oscar Wilde poem about a man who kills his wife.He stripped her clothes off and calmly carried her into the shower where he washed the blood from her lifeless body at a flat in Streatham, south London.The killer attempted to scrub the murder scene clean and then searched on the internet for Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, which includes the verse: 'Yet each man kills the thing he loves … The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with the sword.'

More than 3 million children witness domestic violence in their homes every year.

Women ages 18 to 34 are at greatest risk of becoming victims of domestic violence

Domestic violence is most likely to take place between 6 pm and 6 am

Domestic violence is defined as ongoing behavior aimed at intimidating and controlling a partner, and often the children as well.

"Learn to understand the signs of domestic violence. It's happening around you, and it's prevalent in every circle, culture, class," said Stancato.

And on any given day, you can catch the two of them in the basement between clients, cooking comfort food. This is for their clients, for themselves, and for anybody who drops in. 

For more than 50 years Tucci has helped many victims at her salon in South Utica, sometimes providing a service free of charge, and giving these women a kind word, a hug, and some guidance.What do you think? "

Yorkville Police Chief Gregg DeLuca said, "The kids will pick up very quickly and model the behavior of the parents because if they grew up in abusive homes, they think it's normal."What do you think? Executive Director of the YWCA o

Domestic violence affects men, women and children. Globally, however, a wife or female partner is more commonly the victim of such violence.[3][4] In some countries, particularly where there has been actual, or suspected infidelity by female partners, wife-beating is seen as justified by the majority of the population, and may be codified into law. Recent research has also shown there to be a direct and significant correlation between a country's level of gender equality, and actual rates of domestic violence.[5] Both partners may also engage in abusive or violent behavior, or the victim may act in self-defense or retaliation. Whereas women who experience domestic violence, at least in the developed world, are often openly encouraged to report it to the authorities, it has been argued that domestic violence against men is most often unreported because of social norms and pressure against such reporting; those that do often face social stigma regarding their perceived lack of machismo and other denigrations of their masculinity.[6][

by one person against another in a home or family setting. Domestic violence can take place in heterosexual and same-sex family relationships, and can involve violence against children in the family. It also includes violence committed by children toward either parent and other siblings.[1][2]

"The first time it was really violent, he came in the house and asked me where I had been and who I was with. I didn't know what he was talking about because I was home with the two girls, and I was home working... for him. And then he came out from the other room, and threw me against the wall. When the first incident happened there was a period of time when nothing happened. Then something else happened. Then it became more and more intense," said

Malissa Liddy is a stylist, a graphic artist, a mother, a daughter. She's also a survivor of domestic violence. It's an issue that still fills up shelters and keeps the YWCA and police in our area busy. Liddy spoke with NEWSChannel 2 spoke about her experience and the cycle of

Liddy says, with tears in her eyes, that she has many regrets. The biggest, that both her children, especially her daughter was traumatized

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but it isn't. It's not. You're frozen, and your mind is frozen. And you feel so beaten down," said Liddy.

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k if they eat chocolate. People with diabetes can also get sick from eating chocolate. Dark chocolate contains ingredients that lower blood pressure and fight disease. Small amounts of dark chocolate have been found to lower the risk of heart disease because of polyphenol in chocolate. It is necessary to eat moderate amount of chocolate.[1]

Chocolate is a food made from the seeds of a cacao tree. It is used in many desserts like pudding, cakes, candy, and ice cream. It can be a solid form like a candy bar or it can be in a liquid form like hot chocolate. The taste of chocolate is often described as sweet because chocolate makers usually add a lot of sugar and milk for taste. This means that chocolate can be bad for your teeth and health. It is best to eat chocolate in moderation.

The cacao tree was first found to be useful for its seeds about two thousand years ago. Early Central Americans and Mexicans used the seeds from the cacao tree to make a drink that tasted bitter, not sweet. Only the important people could drink it. The word for "chocolate" in almost every language comes from its name in the Nahuatl language of Mexico, chocolatl. Later on, this drink was made sweeter and made into the treat that is known today as hot chocolate. It was made popular by Spanish explorers who brought it from North America to Spain.[2] When chocolate was sweetened and made into candy, it became a very popular treat for many Europeans. At first, only the rich could afford chocolate. Now, many peopl

Making chocolate is a process that has many steps. First, the cocoa beans are collected and put in piles or containers to make them ferment. Fermentation makes the sugar in the beans turn into alcohol. Then the beans are dried and cleaned. Chocolate makers must cook the beans, and then crush them to make the cocoa butter and the chocolate liquor come out of them. Then the chocolate maker mixes different ingredients together to make the different kinds of chocolate. Dark or bittersweet chocolate is made from sugar, cocoa butter, and chocolate liquor. Milk chocolate uses all of those ingredients plus milk and vanilla. White chocolate does not contain chocolate liquor, but only cocoa butter, along with sugar, milk and vanilla. After these ingredients are put together, the chocolate maker is still not finished. One of the last things to be done is something called conching. Before chocolate is conched, it feels very rough in the mouth, instead of smooth. Conching means crushing the chocolate very finely and keeping it warm so that it is liquid. Conching for several hours makes good chocolate. The last step in making chocolate is called tempering. The chocolate is heated, and then shaken, and then cooled a few times.

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