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SAYREVILLE Officials in Sayreville have taken action to fine a borough property owner after determining that trees on the property were improperly removed.

During a Borough Council meeting on April 27, council members accepted the recommendation of Borough Attorney Michael DuPont to authorize Construction Official Kirk Miik to issue a $94,750 fine against the Fultons Landing property. The area, also known as the Mocco Property, is 158 acres in size and currently vacant. It is located in the central portion of the borough, south of Main Street and north of the Conrail Railroad Raritan River Line.

DuPont informed the governing body that he received a report from Borough Engineer Jay Cornell following an inspection of the property. The inspection, performed by Cornells firm CME Associates, found that approximately 250 trees were removed as the result of construction activity without a proper permit. Using the penalties set forth in the boroughs tree conservation and reforestation ordinance, CME Associates calculated that the penalty against Fultons Landing totals $94,750.

I had the opportunity to speak to counsel for Fultons Landing and they gave me some argument as to why [the penalty] shouldnt be instituted, DuPont said. I didnt buy the argument and Im going to ask for authorization to have Kirk Miik issue a fine so outlined in the report of CME.

Fultons Landing has been subject to land use applications and litigation for several years. In 2019, the council adopted an ordinance allowing for warehouse space to be developed on the property. Intended to prevent the development of residential units on the property, the ordinance was met with concern from residents over potential contamination on the site, the impact that the proposed warehouses may have on traffic, and other safety and quality of life issues.

After the council authorized DuPont to move forward with having the fine issued, DuPont advised the governing body not to comment further because there may be litigation and charges and liens filed against the property owner.

Resident Arthur Rittenhouse, who is the chairperson of the Sayreville Shade Tree Commission, thanked DuPont and CME Associates for their actions.

When we allow a developer to do work without permits and without checking the permits, this is the type of thing that happens, Rittenhouse said. I would also [add that], in addition to the lawsuit that will be filed or the charges that will be filed, no work should be done on that site until this matter is corrected so that they dont do things in the future such as this.

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As part of its commitment to using data and analytics to solve the world's most pressing problems, SAS' recent work includes helping to save the world's No. 1 food crop pollinator the honey bee. With the number of bee colonies drastically declining around the world, SAS is using technology such as theInternet of Things (IoT), machine learning and visual analytics to help maintain and support healthy bee populations.

In honor of World Bee Day, SAS is highlighting three separate projects where technology is monitoring, tracking and improving pollinator populations around the globe. First, researchers at SAS have developed a noninvasive way to monitor real-time conditions of beehives through auditory data and machine learning algorithms. SAS is also working withAppalachian State Universityon the World Bee Count to visualize world bee population data and understand the best ways to save them. Lastly, recent SASViyaHackathon winners decoded bee communication through machine learning in order to maximize their food access and boost human food supplies.

"SAS has always looked for ways to use technology for a better world," said Oliver Schabenberger, COO and CTO of SAS. "By applying advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to beehive health, we have a better shot as a society to secure this critically important part of our ecosystem and, ultimately, our food supply."

Noninvasively Monitoring Beehive HealthResearchers from the SAS IoT Division are developing abioacoustic monitoring systemto noninvasively track real-time conditions of beehives using digital signal processing tools and machine learning algorithms available in SASEvent Stream Processingand SAS Viya software. This system helps beekeepers better understand and predict hive problems which could lead to colony failure, including the emergence of new queens something they would not ordinarily be able to detect.

Annual loss rates of U.S. beehives exceed 40%, and between 25% and 40% of these losses are due to queen failure. Acoustic analysis can alert beekeepers to queen disappearances immediately, which is vitally important to significantly reducing colony loss rates. With this system, beekeepers will have a deeper understanding of their hives without having to conduct time-consuming and disruptive manual inspections.

"As a beekeeper myself, I know the magnitude of bees' impact on our ecosystem, and I'm inspired to find innovative ways to raise healthier bees to benefit us all," saidAnya McGuirk, Distinguished Research Statistician Developer in the IoT division at SAS. "And as a SAS employee, I'm proud to have conducted this experiment with SAS software at our very own campus beehives, demonstrating both the power of our analytical capabilities and our commitment to innovation and sustainability."

By connecting sensors to SAS' four Bee Downtown hives at its headquarters inCary, NC, the team startedstreaming hive datadirectly to the cloud to continuously measure data points in and around the hive, including weight, temperature, humidity, flight activity and acoustics. In-stream machine learning models were used to "listen" to the hive sounds, which can indicate health, stress levels, swarming activities and the status of the queen bee. To ensure only the hum of the hive was being used to determine bees' health and happiness, researchers used robust principal component analysis (RPCA), a machine learning technique, to separate extraneous or irrelevant noises from the inventory of sounds collected by hive microphones.

The researchers found that with RPCA capabilities, they could detect worker bees "piping" at the same frequency range at which a virgin queen pipes after a swarm, likely to assess whether a queen was present. The researchers then designed an automated pipeline to detect either queen piping following a swarm or worker piping that occurs when the colony is queenless. This is greatly beneficial to beekeepers, warning them that a new queen may be emerging and giving them the opportunity to intervene before significant loss occurs.

The researchers plan to implement the acoustic streaming system very soon and are continuing to look for ways to broaden the usage of technology to help honey bees and ultimately humankind.

Visualizing the World's Pollinator PopulationsOn World Bee Day, SAS is launching a data visualization that maps out bees "counted" around the globe for theWorld Bee Count, an initiative co-founded by theCenter for Analytics Research and Education(CARE) atAppalachian State University. The goal of a World Bee Count is to engage citizens across the world to take pictures of bees as a first step toward understanding the reasons for their alarming decline.

"The World Bee Count allows us to crowdsource bee data to both visualize our planet's bee population and create one of the largest, most informative data sets about bees to date," saidJoseph Cazier, Professor and Executive Director atAppalachian State University'sCARE. "SAS' data visualization will show the crowdsourced location of bees and other pollinators. In a later phase of the project, researchers can overlay key data points like crop yield, precipitation and other contributing factors of bee health, gathering a more comprehensive understanding of our world's pollinators." Bayer has agreed to help sponsor CARE to allow its students and faculty to perform research on the World Bee Count data and other digital pollinator data sources.

In early May, the World Bee Count app was launched for users both beekeepers and the general public, aka "citizen data scientists" to add data points to the Global Pollinator Map. Within the app, beekeepers can enter the number of hives they have, and any user can submit pictures of pollinators from their camera roll or through the in-app camera. Through SAS Visual Analytics, SAS has created avisualization mapto display the images users submit via the app. In addition to showing the results of the project, the visualizations can potentially provide insights about the conditions that lead to the healthiest bee populations.

In future stages of this project, the robust data set created from the app could help groups like universities and research institutes better strategize ways to save these vital creatures.

Using Machine Learning to Maximize Bees' Access to FoodRepresenting the Nordic region, a team from Amesto NextBridgewon the 2020 SAS EMEA Hackathon, which challenged participants to improve sustainability using SAS Viya. Their winning project used machine learning to maximize bees' access to food, which would in turn benefit mankind's food supply. In partnership withBeefutures, the team successfully accomplished this by developing a system capable of automatically detecting, decoding and mapping bee "waggle" dances using Beefutures' observation hives and SAS Viya.

Bees are responsible for pollinating nearly 75% of all plant species directly used for human food, but the number of bee colonies are declining, which will lead to a devastating loss for human food supply. A main reason for the decline of bee populations is a lack of access to food due to an increase in monoculture farming. When bees do find a good food source, they come back to the hive to communicate its exact location through a "waggle dance." By observing these dances, beekeepers can better understand where their bees are getting food and then consider establishing new hives in these locations to help maintain strong colonies.

"Observing all of these dances manually is virtually impossible, but by using video footage from inside the hives and training machine learning algorithms to decode the dance, we will be able to better understand where bees are finding food," said Kjetil Kalager, lead of the Amesto NextBridge and Beefutures team. "We implemented this information, along with hive coordinates, sun angle, time of day and agriculture around the hives into an interactive map in SAS Viya and then beekeepers can easily decode this hive information and relocate to better suited environments if necessary."

This systematic real-time monitoring of waggle dances allows bees to act as sensors for their ecosystems. Further research using this technology may uncover other information bees communicate through dance that could help us save and protect their population, which ultimately benefits us all.

See thiswaggle dance project in actionand learn about howSAS is committed to corporate social responsibility.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Parkgoers will again need to make other plans Tuesday and Wednesday if wanting to spend the morning or afternoon at Cheyenne Canon.

The park will be closed to visitors from 5 a.m.-3 p.m. on the 19h and 20th so that crews can continue removing dead trees and perform other necessary maintenance work. The park was previously closed on the 12th and 13th.

The city says among the work started last week and continuing Tuesday, crews will be removing between 30-40 dead and hazardous trees along Cheyenne Canon Road, the main artery in and out of the park, as well as doing maintenance on ditches and culverts along Gold Camp Road.

The trees in question were killed off by beetles several years ago, said city forester Dennis Will.

"Theyre 80 feet tall. They weigh literally tons, and they would put a bonk on your head if they fell on you, so were very concerned about citizen safety. So we want to take the opportunity to take those trees out before they fall and hurt somebody," Will said.

Cheyenne Canon has been even more popular than ever since the COVID-19 outbreak left citizens with few entertainment options beyond the great outdoors. But this Tuesday and Wednesday is a great time to check out another park or open space in El Paso County. The gate to Cheyenne Canon will be closed during the aforementioned hours, but there are still trails leading into the park that don't require using the gate. Even with those back ways into the park, bikers, hikers, runners and other recreation seekers are asked to stay out so that work can be done safely.

"We just have to make sure that everybody is safe. We cant have anyone in there. We want our sawers to be perfectly safe while theyre also working. We dont want them worried about dropping a tree or branch on somebody else. We want them totally focused on what theyre doing, so its about their safety as well as people who may be in the park," Will said.

If the work isn't finished on the 20th, crews will come back at a later date.

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ANN ARBOR, MI When a man trying to cut down a tree became injured and trapped about 25 feet up this week, it was all hands on deck for the Ann Arbor Fire Department.

All on-duty firefighters responded at 11:29 a.m. Thursday, May 21, to the incident on Forest Creek Court off Stone School Road, said Fire Chief Mike Kennedy.

A friend of a homeowner was helping with tree removal when things went wrong, resulting in a case of blunt force trauma, Kennedy said.

It appears as he was taking a limb down, the limb struck him, and so he was injured and also stuck, Kennedy said.

Fortunately, several of the firefighters are members of the Washtenaw County Technical Rescue Team with specialized training to deal with such rescues, Kennedy said.

While the injured man wasnt pinned by the limb, it was still a complex and challenging rescue, Kennedy said, noting crews had to stabilize the patient and set up a rope system, while others cleared the area and braced a ladder.

There was just a lot of complicated and moving parts to this, he said, noting 18 firefighters and six trucks were on scene.

By 12:39 p.m., the man was down from the tree and transported by Huron Valley Ambulance in stable condition to the University of Michigan Hospital, the fire department reported.

He was conscious and alert throughout the entire ordeal, Kennedy said.

Based on the type of climbing and tree-trimming equipment the man had, he seemed to have experience, but he wasnt doing it as a contractor, Kennedy said.

I dont know if he ever did this professionally, but it sounded like he had quite a bit of personal experience, he said. This wasnt like a weekend chainsaw warrior or something.

The mans harness probably saved him from really significant injury, Kennedy said.

While Ann Arbor firefighters were on scene, firefighters from Pittsfield, Scio and Ann Arbor townships provided coverage of the city under mutual-aid agreements.

These types of technical rescues are pretty rare and its been well over a decade since there was a similar tree rescue in Ann Arbor, Kennedy said. Sadly, he said, there usually are some deaths resulting from tree trimming in Michigan every year.

These are very serious events, he said, noting the amount of force from a tree limb can be significant.

Fortunately, he said, firefighters spend a lot of time training for incidents like this, so the rescue went like clockwork.

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One man is dead after a tree fell on a home Thursday morning following a night of strong storms.John Shelton, director of Surry County Emergency Services, said it happened around 5 a.m. on the 100 block of Boeing Lane in Mount Airy.The tree fell on the home near a bedroom, according to Shelton, killing Nicolas 'Nic' Rodriguez.Rodriguez, 20, was sleeping when a tree crashed into his bedroom and killed him. "This tree fell right across the bedroom area. Unfortunately there was no way for him to get away from it. It happened so fast," Shelton said. "He heard a loud bang and thats when he saw the tree," Paulino Galarza said. Galarza is Rodriguez' uncle. Galarza received a call from his brother saying that Rodriguez has been killed. "He couldnt get to him. The tree was pretty huge. So yeah, it was just very unexpected."Rodriguez's roommate was not harmed during the storm.The two roommates played football together at North Surry High School. Rodriguez played linebacker and helped win the team's 2017 conference championship.On Thursday, former teammates visited the site of the crash and posted on social media to share memories and pay their respects."Hed walk into a room. Always be smiling. Always bring a smile to everyones face," Galarza said.Galarza said Rodriguez was studying to become a gym teacher at Surry Community College."It hits me really hard," Galarza said. "Just still in shock like its all just a bad dream."Shelton says tree removal crews raised concerns about other trees in the trailer community in hopes they would be removed before the next big storm rolls through. Nic's uncle has set up a GoFundMe page for funeral expenses.

One man is dead after a tree fell on a home Thursday morning following a night of strong storms.

John Shelton, director of Surry County Emergency Services, said it happened around 5 a.m. on the 100 block of Boeing Lane in Mount Airy.

The tree fell on the home near a bedroom, according to Shelton, killing Nicolas 'Nic' Rodriguez.

Rodriguez, 20, was sleeping when a tree crashed into his bedroom and killed him.

"This tree fell right across the bedroom area. Unfortunately there was no way for him to get away from it. It happened so fast," Shelton said.

"He heard a loud bang and thats when he saw the tree," Paulino Galarza said. Galarza is Rodriguez' uncle. Galarza received a call from his brother saying that Rodriguez has been killed. "He couldnt get to him. The tree was pretty huge. So yeah, it was just very unexpected."

Rodriguez's roommate was not harmed during the storm.

The two roommates played football together at North Surry High School. Rodriguez played linebacker and helped win the team's 2017 conference championship.

On Thursday, former teammates visited the site of the crash and posted on social media to share memories and pay their respects.

"Hed walk into a room. Always be smiling. Always bring a smile to everyones face," Galarza said.

Galarza said Rodriguez was studying to become a gym teacher at Surry Community College.

"It hits me really hard," Galarza said. "Just still in shock like its all just a bad dream."

Shelton says tree removal crews raised concerns about other trees in the trailer community in hopes they would be removed before the next big storm rolls through.

Nic's uncle has set up a GoFundMe page for funeral expenses.

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If CESC has become the most sought after name in the city, desperation is driving Calcutta neighbourhoods to unparalleled lengths in their effort to catch hold of linesmen.

At Suryanagar in Bansdroni on Sunday morning, a group of CESC workers were repairing cables, surrounded by a group of residents who had not had power over the past four days.

Yards away, a knot of Calcuttans had formed another ring. They were from an adjoining neighbourhood, Pallishree, keeping vigil so that they could ensure the linesmen accompanied them to their locality instead of being hijacked by some other desperate group bereft of power.

We are all camping here so we can catch hold of them, homemaker Gouri Kanjilal said, pointing at the CESC team.

In Lake Gardens on Saturday, a middle-aged woman was grateful and gracious enough to offer snacks to the CESC workers but not before she had taken the universal precaution of grabbing the ignition key from their pick-up.

She tied the key to her sari-end and kept it with her for several hours till late Saturday afternoon, that is, until the repairmen had fixed the lines.

She offered them biscuits and tea. But the keys were with her till the job was done, an eyewitness said.

Scenes of linesmen being chased, cajoled, detained and released from captivity only after the mission has been accomplished have been playing out across a city shaken by the aftershocks of the cyclone.

In both tree removal often a prerequisite for power cable repairs and the restoration of electricity, there was visible improvement on the ground on Sunday. Several teams of tree cutters, including some from the army, were at work.

The state home department tweeted the names of several places where power had been restored.

CESC today informed the state government that power was restored in Jadavpur, Selimpur, Mukundapur, Survey Park, Patuli, Regent Estate, NSC Bose Road, Behala Chowrasta, James Long Sarani, Silpara, Lake Town, Jessore Road, Nagerbazar, Rashbehari Connector, BB Chatterjee Road (1/2), the tweet said.

(A resident of the main Survey Park told this newspaper at 9.30pm on Sunday that her home was without power for the fifth consecutive evening. She said the army had on Sunday cleared the area of fallen trees, some of which had already been cut down by workers hired by the residents.)

(The state-run) WBSEDCL today informed the state government that power was restored in Garia, Bansdroni, Kestopur, Baguiati, Teghoria, Salt Lake, New Town, Barasat, Tamluk, Egra, Contai, Krishnanagar, Santipur, Ranaghat, Gayespur and Kalyani (1/2), Sonarpur, Baruipur, Rajpur, Narendrapur, Kakdwip and Namkhana, the home department tweet added.

A bus stop away from Suryanagar, in Netaji Nagar Colony, a five-member CESC team that was about to move on after an inspection was held inside a club building from Sunday morning.

Some of the residents said the five would be set free once power returned. We have not misbehaved with them. We just want them to restore the power connection, said Arunabha Basu.

Basus neighbour Ashis Das said boys from the adjoining Sanghati Colony had come and taken away two of the five personnel.

This triggered tension among the residents of the two colonies but both sides had reason to act in such desperation; CESC must mobilise more men, Das said.

CESC has said that several of its staff had gone home to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh because of the virus-fuelled lockdown and have been unable to return at short notice.

At Suryanagar, scores of residents, wearing masks because of the Covid-19 threat, had assembled on Sunday morning around the point where the CESC workers had raised their ladder to disentangle cables from an uprooted radhachura tree.

No one was allowed to pass through the lane lest their movement disrupt the pace of work.

It would not be proper to disturb them. Please wait, Jignesh, who identified himself only by his first name, was heard telling a young man on a bike.

For the Pallishree group, it was a long vigil. Standing a few feet from Gauri, Pradip Majumder said they were taking turns keeping watch. We cannot afford to lose sight of the workers, he said.

The CESC team, which had started on the job on Saturday, worked till 3pm on Sunday to restore power in Suryanagar.

From Suryanagar, they were whisked away to Pallishree, which had its power restored by 6pm.

A doctor in the Rathtala area of NSC Bose Road was left wondering whether her side of the road was paying the price for not protesting on the streets.

The houses on the opposite side of the road had their supply restored today but ours havent. They had agitated yesterday; we only made a formal complaint. Perhaps thats why, the doctor said.

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Last week it was revealed Tom Brady will have his own Last Dancetype documentary titled Man In the Arena.

ESPN will air the nine-episode series,with each episode covering one of the ex-New England Patriots quarterback'snine Super Bowl runs. Gotham Chopra, a name Pats fans may recognize as the director of Tom vs. Time,is a producer for the docuseries which is set to premierein2021.

Chopra recently caught up with Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated's MMQB to chat about the upcoming documentary and what fans should expect.

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"It's not Tom Brady'sLast Dance," Chopra told Breer. "It's not that. That may or may not exist 20 years from now, I don't know. There's this sort of immediacy to this. The premise [ofThe Last Dance] was telling stories about the seasons, whereas [Brady's], it does feel a little bit more real time. Tom continues to be an active player. So the idea is, O.K., let's talk about these nine seasons, this incredible body of work across 20 years, and how it's still sort of affecting him.'"

"Jordan's sitting on a couch, looking back, literally looking at stuff on the iPad, reminiscing about things. Tom's kind of, just when you're talking to him, it's still very fresh, because he's still processing a lot of things that may have happened across a season."

As for who elsewill make appearances in the series, that remains to be seen. Chopra notes the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the interview process, but important figures in Brady's career such as Bill Belichick and Drew Bledsoe have already been reached out to.

"This is inside the mind of Tom," Chopra said. "So we'll ask Tom, I'll use the most obvious one, 2001,What was it like working with Drew [Bledsoe] that season?Got it, now we go talk to Drew, and get his perspective on that. So yeah, there are other voices, other players, coaches, etc., and people off the field that had a lot of influence across those specific seasons that we're trying to get. Now, we've got the added layer of complexity of getting to those people, like everyone else in the world, we're dealing with that."

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Along with the Super Bowl appearances, Chopra saysMan In the Arenawill cover both the "Spygate" and "Deflate-gate" controversies. As for whether Brady's 2020 campaign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be included in the series, Chopra says there are no plans for that as of now.

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New findings highlight the role of self-disgust in geriatric loneliness, pointing to a mechanism of avoidance. An eye-tracking task found that geriatric adults who were high (vs. low) in self-disgust displayed avoidant viewing when looking at images of their faces. The findings were published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Loneliness is alarmingly common in the older population and has been linked to numerous detrimental outcomes such as difficulty sleeping, risk of cardiovascular disease, and even suicide. Ypsilanti and colleagues wanted to explore a psychological construct that might predispose geriatric adults to loneliness self-disgust.

Researchers conducted two unique studies. In Study 1, 102 adults between the ages of 55-90 completed the Self-Disgust Scale, which included items like I find myself repulsive and I often do things I find revolting. Subjects also completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, a short version of the Geriatric Depression Scale, and a short version of the State and Trait Anxiety Index for Adults.

After controlling for various demographic variables, results showed that self-disgust was positively correlated with loneliness, depressive symptoms, and anxiety. Furthermore, mediation analysis found that self-disgust significantly explained the association between loneliness and anxiety. This new finding is important, the researchers explain, because it sheds light on an emotional process that may influence anxiety in older adults who are especially lonely.

A second study was conducted to explore whether geriatric adults who rank high (vs. low) in self-disgust would avoid looking at images of their own faces. The authors explain, If this is the case, then levels of self disgust may cause and/or maintain loneliness via avoidance, as the person avoids inflicting their presence on others.

A total of 80 adults between the ages of 55-89 participated in an eye-tracking study. Subjects were shown a series of faces and asked to gaze at them naturally. Eight of the images were unknown faces and one photo was of the participants own face. Each image was shown 6 times for a total of 5 seconds and researchers used an eye tracker to measure vigilance (time to first fixation), maintenance (fixation duration at 1000 ms), and avoidance (changes in fixation duration over time).

Participants also completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale and the Self-Disgust Scale and were separated into either the high-disgust group or low-disgust group based on their scores. While results showed no differences in the two groups when it came to vigilance and maintenance scores on the eye-tracking task, differences were apparent when it came to avoidance.

Results showed that those in the high-disgust group displayed avoidant viewing at seconds 4 and 5 when looking at images of their own faces, while those in the low-disgust group did not. This suggests that those with high self-disgust scores intentionally avoided stimuli that evoked a reminder of the self (images of their own faces). The authors theorize, as time passes, the picture depicting their own face may induce dysphoric feelings or dysphoric thoughts representing a negatively valenced schematic representation of the self.

The researchers express that their findings provide important evidence for the association between self-disgust and psychological issues in older adults. While previous interventions have focused on combating loneliness by strengthening social networks, the authors suggest instead that interventions for lonely older adults should address issues surrounding self-perceptions and feelings of worthlessness that may contribute to the development of self-disgust.

The study, Self-disgust, loneliness and mental health outcomes in older adults: An eyetracking study, was authored by Antonia Ypsilanti, Anna Robson, Lambros Lazuras, Philip A. Powell, and Paul G. Overton.

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Teaching and learning at home, has been a challenge for many families. However, imagine having to teach your children in a language you don't know. Or, being a child fearing not passing to the next grade because you simply don't understand.

"There's hurt feelings, people not getting along, said licensed clinical social worker, Millie Gaitan Gonzalez. People being unsatisfied and the emotional chaos at home could get worst every time."

"The struggles that I see with the families are, first they don't know the language and another big struggle is the internet, said Maria Juarez, who is the lead migrant liaison for the Jerome School District. Even though Chromebooks were available to students through the school, if they don't have internet then they aren't able to do their homework."

About 100 migrant families from Latin America immigrate to Jerome each year. Juarez says, these families sacrifice everything in their lives to give their children a better future.

"They don't understand the language but they're using google translate to translate all the emails the school is sending them. So, I've seen parents that are there, wanting their kids to have an education."

This language barrier issue only mirrors some of the challenges the Hispanic community faces, on an everyday basis. According to peer reviewed journal, Globalization and Health, first generation Latino immigrants, who are the parents of second generation Latino children, are at a higher risk for mental health disorders compared to the settled population.

"The adults may feel more isolated than the children because the children adapt and they're more resilient, said Gaitan Gonzalez. Even if they're not from here, if they were born in a different country, the children adapt they adapt really quickly. I think the grown-ups are the ones who more have that sensation of, I don't belong here.

On the other hand, second generation Latino children can suffer with mental health conditions too. This is due to feeling like they don't belong in both the Hispanic culture and the American culture. That's according to licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. Michael Whitehead, who researched the effects of parenting and Latino immigrants at Michigan State University for his dissertation.

"Second generation immigrants typically have a higher risk for mental health problems as a result of their identity split and the pressure they feel from both their parents and society. Identity development and identity formation actually leads to a lot of difficult problems for kids. If they're not sure who they are or where they fit-in in a culture, they will try to find a place where they fit in. Sometimes that could be in gangs, delinquency or substance abuse. Obviously anxiety and depression fall into those things."

However, professional help isn't always sought after, even though it might be needed. Latinos sometimes prefer the help of their own inner groups.

"The natural thing is to talk to my comadre, go talk to mom, grandma and get help from each other because we're more of a collective society. We help each other out. So, seeking help from a stranger is not natural," Gaitan Gonzalez said.

Even though there are hardships, there is hope when the whole family and community shows compassion.

"I would just encourage parents, teachers and other caregivers in that child's life, to offer compassion. Offer help, and allow the child to be able to find support in some way," said Dr. Whitehead.

"I would tell the people to not be afraid to look for help. I know it's hard but its okay, it just means that you want to get better and there is help for you and your kids, said Gaitan. You don't have to suffer and go through this all alone."

"I think it takes the student, the parent, the teachers and just the whole community to be able to work together to see these kids succeed," Juarez said.

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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) Respiratory problems from COVID-19 are well-publicized, but a new study sheds more light on the neurological dangers of the coronavirus.

COVID-19 does serious damage to several internal organs in severe cases. Doctors in New York studied 2,500 patients and found an increased risk for stroke in older people with underlying conditions.

According to Dr. Brian Steig, chairman of the brain and spine center at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, that's "seven times higher than the average number of strokes seen in patients that have routine influenzas."

Another major problem, he explained, is people putting things off because they're afraid to go to the hospital.

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"Despite the fact that we were taking care of this pandemic crisis in New York City, the hospital was still open for managing medical and surgical emergencies. We did that without turning an eye," he said.

Steig said some people who had strokes or ruptured aneurysms were waiting almost a week before seeking treatment because they were scared of being exposed to COVID-19.

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