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Springfield News-Leader, 1894: "Harry Garlick has purchased a fine residence on Washington Avenue and will occupy it in the near future."
The beautiful house at 1451 N. Washington was quite new when the Garlick's bought it 1894, but it was already inhabited. Harry Garlick, an insurance salesman, bought the already built home in March, but Reverend Joseph C. Plumb and his wife, Elizabeth, were already living in the house. (You may remember the Plumb's from my book about Emma Molloy. Reverend Plumb was one of her main supporters and Emma stayed with him and his wife briefly when she first moved to Springfield.)
By October 1895, the Plumb's had moved to Kansas and the Garlick's finally moved into their new home. They lived there until 1901 when they sold it to Austin Blodgett, a tie and timber inspector for the Frisco railroad. By 1913, the Blodgett's had moved to Alabama and the house once again had new owners. Walter W. Constance, a foreman at the southside Frisco shops, and his wife Viola moved in. Walter was also an award-winning coach for a Frisco baseball team. Their daughter, Rae Josephine, married Fred Hays in the home in September 1920. The lovely scene is described below:
"The house was lavishly decorated with potted plants and masses of goldenrod and other flowers, while an altar was improvised on the same…Miss Helen Moore…played the wedding march as the bride entered on the arm of her father…She wore a Frenchy gown of rose-taupe de chine and carried a bouquet of bride roses. She was attended by her sister, Miss Grace Constance, who wore a dainty frock of white organdy…Following congratulations, a wedding breakfast was served in the dining room, covers being laid for twenty. Mr. and Mrs. Hays are spending their honeymoon at Lake Taneycomo. Later they will go to St. Louis, where Mr. Hays will resume his studies at Washington University."
(As a side note, Grace Constance later worked as a bacteriologist in Mexico. She married Clyde Hyslop in Greene County in 1923.)
By 1925, ownership passed to Charles F. LaBounty and his wife Emma. Charles worked as a machinist at the north side Frisco shops. They lived there for many years, until 1947, when Charles died. The house then went to Warren R. Hoffman and by 1959, to Albert E. Moorman.
Albert Moorman and his wife Evelyn lived in the house until they moved to Canada in 1968. Albert had been a biology professor at Drury since 1947, but the couples unhappiness with the Vietnam War led them to move to Canada where Albert accepted a position at a university.
For more pictures of this lovely home in Springfield's historic Midtown Neighborhood, click here.
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As reported previously I spotted a bat in late 2014 and bought a bat detector to try to identify the species, but without success. Since bats hibernate over the winter there weren't any around for a few months but now they're here on a daily basis.
The best time to see them is about an hour after sunset, when it's generally getting quite dark and often also a bit cold. I'm fairly sure the ones I'm seeing regularly at the moment are Common Pipistrelle bats since they're pretty small and are showing up on the right frequency using the bat detector. They seem to behave a lot like swallows, moving fast and changing direction rapidly (which isn't too surprising since they're both hunting insects on the wing).
I reckon the bat I saw in November was different – larger and moving much more slowly – so that was probably a different species.
There's a lot of wildlife around the place: foxes, mice, rabbits and birds of all types. I don't always have a camera handy when I spot something but this morning there were two Partridges outside and I managed to get a decent photo of one of them. Based on this RSPB page it's clear that it's a Red-Legged Partridge.
I've now started a new page for The Wildlife where I will attempt to catalogue the various species of wildlife that frequent the site.


Caring.com offers a free service to help families find senior care. To help you with your search, browse the 15 reviews below for hospices in Jefferson County. On average, consumers rate hospices in Jefferson County 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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The Lewis County Soldiers' and Sailor's Monument is inscribed with the names of Lewis County residents who served in the American Civil War, and several of the battles in which they fought. Erected in 1883, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
This marker can also be identified by its HM code. You can use the hashtag #HMY3K in tweets, and any other place where you might refer to this marker, including when searching on this site.


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H1B Visas for Nurses – Can they qualify?
As attorneys that work with Hospitals and medical professionals, we always get questions from clients about the H1B visa. Can Nurses really get this visa, and if so how?
The H1B visa program, which has a current allocation of 65,000 visas per year (This year visas are still open and up for grabs), allows foreign professionals to work in the U.S. for a limited duration. In this visa category, a U.S. employer offers a job to a foreign professional that requires a bachelor's or higher degree, or its equivalent as the minimum entry requirement.
Nevertheless, there is a problem for nurses getting H1B visas. The USCIS applies a different rule for nurses. The USCIS (guided by a determination by the U.S. Department of Labor, as published in the Occupational Outlook Handbook) says that there is no industry-wide standard that a nurse needs a baccalaureate degree to perform the duties of a professional registered nurse. In many states, a nurse can obtain a professional registered nursing license after completion of only a two-year program and successful passage of a state licensing examination. Thus, according to the USCIS, foreign nurses are not eligible for H1B in general RN positions.
In a memorandum it issued four years ago, the USCIS relaxed its hard stand on foreign nurses. It said that while general RN positions are not H1B eligible, nurses in the following positions qualify for H1B: (1) Advanced practice nurses, (2) Nurses in administrative positions, and (3) Nurses in certain nursing specialties. Thus, nurses who wish to obtain H1B visas have to be petitioned only in those three RN positions, but not in general RN positions.
C. If the nurse will be working in one of these specialties: peri-operative, school health, occupational health, rehabilitation nursing, emergency room nursing, critical care, operating room, oncology and pediatrics. And the hospital will attest that these roles are only offered to those with Bachelors degrees. Some magnet hospitals have the BSN as its standards, and these make great destination hospitals for H-1 RNs.
With careful planning and with the right position even Nurses can apply for H1B visas, now more than ever with 15,000 visas still open.


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HESS v. KANOSKI ASSOCIATES
Lawrence J. HESS and Vickie C. Warren, Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. KANOSKI & ASSOCIATES, et al., Defendants–Appellees.
Before BAUER, WOOD, and TINDER, Circuit Judges. Bruce A. Carr, Rex Carr Law Firm, East St. Louis, Il, for Plaintiffs–Appellants. David L. Drake, Kirk W. Laudeman, Drake, Narup & Mead, Springfield, IL, for Defendants–Appellees.
This case involves a spat over attorneys' fees—in particular, the fees that the firm of Kanoski & Associates allegedly owes to its former associate, Lawrence Hess. After some five years at the firm, Hess was abruptly dismissed. Afterwards, the firm settled several of the cases on which Hess had been working and refused to pay Hess bonuses or fees based on those settlements. Hess believes that he is entitled to some of that money. He first tried to obtain the payments by filing attorney's liens in Illinois state courts. When that strategy failed, he filed this action in federal court against the firm, its president Ronald Kanoski, and Kennith Blan, Jr., a lawyer loosely associated with the firm who took over Hess's cases.
The district court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment. It held that the Illinois courts had already determined that the firm did not owe Hess any payments based on cases that had settled after he was fired. As we explain below, this was error. No court—neither the Illinois state courts nor the district court below—has ever decided whether Hess's employment agreement entitles him to compensation for work he did on those cases. Hess makes a plausible case that the agreement entitles him to at least some portion of these revenues. He notes that his contract required the firm to give him 30 days' notice before terminating his employment, but it failed to do so. At the very least, in his view, he is entitled to a share in the settlements reached during that period. We agree with Hess that summary judgment was inappropriate for his contract theories, which he raises in Count I under the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (IWPCA) and in Count IV under general contract law. The remainder of Hess's complaint, however, was correctly dismissed. Accordingly, we affirm in all other respects.
Kanoski & Associates bills itself as the "largest personal injury law firm in central Illinois." Kanoski & Associates, http://www.kanoski.com/ (last visited Jan. 30, 2012). The firm hired Hess on May 9, 2001, to work primarily on medical malpractice cases. His employment was governed by an agreement that set out his salary and bonus pay. At first Hess apparently performed well for the firm and obtained several favorable settlements. But by 2007, things had gone south; on February 14 of that year, Ronald Kanoski (the firm's president, as we mentioned earlier) fired Hess. In the wake of that action, the firm transferred several of Hess's cases to Kennith Blan, Jr., a lawyer working as an independent contractor for the firm. Over the course of the next year and a half, the firm—largely through Blan's efforts—settled many of these cases. For example, in June 2008, one case settled for $1.25 million.
Hess believed that Blan and the firm had pushed him out in order to settle his cases without sharing with him the generous compensation that accompanied the settlements. In May 2008 Hess began pursuing the fees to which he thought he was entitled. In a letter, he demanded payment from the firm for $316,616.21 in unpaid bonuses. He also filed attorney's liens in Illinois state court in two of the cases the firm had settled without him. Neither claim was successful, for the simple reason that Hess no longer had an attorney-client relationship with the clients.
Hess then turned to federal court, which had jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 because both plaintiffs are citizens of Missouri and all defendants are citizens of Illinois; the amount in controversy easily exceeded $75,000. His complaint raised a slew of state-law allegations against the firm. It contains eleven counts in all, including such claims as consumer fraud, conspiracy, and "intentional/negligent" spoliation of evidence. His wife, Vickie Warren, raised her own claim for loss of consortium.
At its essence, this case boils down to a single question of contract interpretation: Was Hess entitled under his employment agreement to compensation arising out of any of the post-termination settlements? The district court did not decide this question. Instead, it granted summary judgment to the defendants on the ground that the state court litigation had already resolved this issue in the firm's favor and thus Hess was collaterally estopped from litigating it anew.
We review the district court's grant of summary judgment de novo, drawing all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to Hess, the nonmoving party. Egan v. Freedom Bank, 659 F.3d 639, 642 (7th Cir.2011). Summary judgment is appropriate only when there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Id. As we explain, summary judgment was appropriate for most, but not all, of Hess's claims.
We begin with the two counts in Hess's complaint that rest most directly on his employment agreement: Count I, the claim under the IWPCA; and Count IV, the claim for breach of contract. Stating that Hess "had no right to bonus money for any recoveries which occurred after his termination," the district court granted summary judgment for the firm. It gave two reasons for that conclusion: first, it believed that Hess had admitted in his deposition that he was paid all that he was due; and second, it understood that the state lien decisions had already determined that Hess had no right to post-termination payment and therefore that Hess was precluded from reopening the point. Neither rationale, however, stands up to scrutiny.
The district court's reading of Hess's deposition testimony failed to construe all facts and reasonable inferences in Hess's favor, as it should have done at this stage of the litigation. Cedar Farm, Harrison Cnty., Inc. v. Louisville Gas & Elec. Co., 658 F.3d 807, 810 (7th Cir.2011). The court focused on Hess's admission that when he left the firm the bonuses he already had been paid were in the correct amounts. Later during the deposition, Hess clarified this response. He emphasized that he had not received all of the bonuses he believed he was owed because some settlements occurred after he was fired. As he put it, "there's a handful [of cases] out there that, as an example, went to Mr. Blan. I didn't get bonuses on those." It was error for the district court to construe Hess's statement that he had received some bonuses in the correct amounts as a broader admission that he had no claim to any other bonus. Nowhere in his deposition does Hess admit that the firm paid him the latter bonuses.
Nor does any state court decision preclude Hess from raising the issue of his post-termination bonuses. In the state lien matters the courts rejected Hess's claims because Hess no longer had an attorney-client relationship with the clients. See Thompson v. Skeffington, et al., 4–09–076 (Ill.App.Ct. May 26, 2010) ("Hess did not have an attorney-client relationship with Thompson when he served his notice of an attorney's lien. On that basis alone, the trial court's striking Hess's invalid attorney's lien was proper."); Lloyd v. Billiter, et al., 5–09–0065 (Ill.App.Ct. Oct. 15, 2010) ("Any attorney-client relationship between Hess and plaintiffs had long ceased.").
The district court focused on one sentence in Lloyd—that Hess's "employment contract would bar any claim he has for further compensation for his work on the Lloyd litigation"—and thought that this settled the matter. But the state court's decision must be read in context. The state court was not evaluating Hess's rights against the firm; it was looking at whether Hess could assert a right against the clients to be paid. The state court concluded that he could not pursue the clients both because he was no longer in an attorney-client relationship with the clients and because his contract gave him "no proprietary right or interest in representation of [the firm's clients]." The court never considered whether Hess had a claim for payment against his former employer. Since the issues were different, nothing in the state court decisions serves as a basis for issue preclusion. See, e.g., Wakehouse v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 818 N.E.2d 1269, 1275 (Ill.App.Ct.2004).
This brings us to the merits of Hess's claims. To succeed on his breach of contract claim, Hess must show "(1) the existence of a valid and enforceable contract; (2) performance by the plaintiff; (3) breach of contract by the defendant; and (4) resultant injury to the plaintiff." Henderson–Smith & Assoc., Inc. v. Nahamani Family Serv. Ctr., Inc., 752 N.E.2d 33, 43 (Ill.App.Ct.2001). To prevail on his IWPCA claim, Hess must first show that he had a valid contract or employment agreement. Illinois courts have explained that an agreement under the IWPCA is "broader than a contract." Zabinsky v. Gelber Group, Inc., 807 N.E.2d 666, 671 (Ill.App.Ct .2004) (the IWPCA "requires only a manifestation of mutual assent on the part of two or more persons; parties may enter into an 'agreement' without the formalities and accompanying legal protections of a contract"). The IWPCA requires an employer to pay an employee any final compensation due under that contract or agreement at the time of separation; it defines final compensation to include "wages, salaries, earned commissions, earned bonuses, ․ and any other compensation owed by the employer pursuant to an employment contract or agreement between the two parties." 820 ILCS 115/2 (2006).
The parties do not dispute that Hess had a valid contract with the firm (his "employment agreement," not to be confused with "agreement" as it is used by the IWPCA) and that, until his termination, he adequately performed as an employee under that contract. The dispute is solely over whether Hess's employment agreement entitled him to bonuses on settlements that were collected after he left the firm. The employment agreement originally provided that Hess would receive "15% of all fees generated over the base salary (or $5,000 per month) with a guarantee of One Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand ($125,000). Bonus shall increase to 25% of all fees received annually in excess of $750,000.00." The firm later modified Hess's compensation on June 21, 2002, increasing his base salary and changing the bonus structure to "40% of all fee revenue generated" (with some exceptions). (While the district court was apparently unsure whether the agreement included the terms found in a June 21 letter from the firm to Hess that Hess had never signed, we see no reason not to include that material. The critical signature is that of the party against whom the contract is being enforced, and that signature was present.)
No court has ever resolved the question whether this contract requires the firm to pay Hess bonuses from post-termination settlements. The language of the contract is not clear because the contract does not define when fees are "generated." Fees might be "generated" when work is performed on a case, because the work ultimately leads to the settlement. This does not seem odd if one considers the scenario in which an attorney works on a case until it is nearly ready for settlement, is fired, and then the next day the firm accepts a settlement without her. If, on the other hand, fees are "generated" only when received by the firm, Hess would not be entitled to the post-termination settlement earnings.
Under Illinois law, undefined terms are generally given their "plain, ordinary, and popular meaning" as found in dictionary definitions. Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 607 N.E.2d 1204, 1215 (Ill.1993); see also Frederick v. Prof' l Truck Driver Training Sch., Inc., 765 N.E.2d 1143, 1152 (Ill.App.Ct.2002). Resort to dictionary definitions often, however, does not settle the question; that is the case here. The infinitive "to generate" means (among other things) "to bring into existence" or "to be the cause of." Merriam–Webster Dictionary Online, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ generated (last visited Jan. 30, 2012); see also OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE, http://www.oed.com/ viewdictionaryentry/Entry/77518 (defining "generated" as "[p]roduced, created; caused") (last visited Jan. 30, 2012). Work performed before a settlement is obtained in some sense produces or brings that settlement into existence. On the other hand, it is possible that the parties intended "generated" to be limited to the final act of bringing a fee into existence, i .e., actually obtaining the cash in hand. Where language in a contract appears to be "susceptible to more than one meaning," Illinois courts will "consider extrinsic evidence to determine the parties' intent." Thompson v. Gordon, 948 N.E.2d 39, 47 (Ill.2011).
Even if the district court concludes that Hess's interpretation is too broad and thus the contract does not entitle Hess to bonuses on all of the post-termination settlements, Hess has a good argument that he is entitled at least to the fees related to settlements obtained within the 30–day period after he was fired. The contract required the firm to give Hess 30 days' notice before it ended his employment, but it did not do so. A 30–day provision is consistent with an at-will contract, H. Vincent Allen & Associates, Inc. v. Weis, 379 N.E.2d 765, 771–72 (Ill.App.Ct.1978), but breach of the 30–day provision requires the firm to pay Hess whatever compensation he was due during that time. See, e.g., Equity Ins. Managers of Ill., LLC v. McNichols, 755 N.E.2d 75, 81 (Ill.App.Ct.2001). At least one of the settlements Hess has identified—the Hoelscher settlement—was obtained within that 30–day period. He is entitled to press his argument that the contract gave him the right to bonuses in connection with that settlement, no matter what the parties meant by the term "generated ."
Contract interpretation is something on which we conduct independent review, Holmes v. Potter, 552 F.3d 536, 538 (7th Cir .2008), but "[w]here, as here, there is more than one reasonable way to read the parties' contract, it is not our role to choose among the competing reasonable interpretations." Curia v. Nelson, 587 F.3d 824, 832 (7th Cir.2009). Especially in light of the fact that the parties have not fully briefed this question before our court, we remand for the district court to interpret the contract and consider the merits of Hess's theories under Counts I and IV.
Hess has also asserted that the defendants induced a breach of contract (Count V) and tortiously interfered with his contracts (Count VI). These two counts are functionally the same: Illinois courts address allegations that parties have improperly induced breach under the tortious-interference framework. See, e.g., Complete Conference Coordinators, Inc. v. Kumon N. Am., 915 N.E.2d 88 (Ill.App.Ct.2009); Cress v. Recreation Serv., Inc., 795 N.E.2d 817, 844 (Ill.App.Ct.2003).
To prove tortious interference, Hess must show "(1) the existence of a valid and enforceable contract between the plaintiff and another; (2) the defendant's awareness of the contract; (3) the defendant's intentional and unjustified inducement of a breach of the contract; (4) a subsequent breach by the other, caused by the defendant's conduct; and (5) damages." Complete Conference Coordinators, Inc., 915 N.E.2d at 93. We agree with the district court that Hess cannot meet these elements with respect to any defendant. As to the claim against the firm and Kanoski in his capacity as firm president, Hess founders because his contract with the firm is not with "another." In Illinois, "[i]t is well established that a party cannot tortiously interfere with a contract to which he is a party." Fiumetto v. Garrett Enter., Inc., 749 N.E.2d 992, 1004 (Ill.App.Ct.2001).
This leaves only Hess's tortious interference claim against Blan. Hess had to point to some evidence in the record that could support a finding that Blan's intentional conduct caused the firm to breach Hess's employment contract. The only evidence Hess offered was an allegation that Blan disparaged Hess's work to a client, but he had no proof that anyone at the firm heard this comment. Without any evidence that Blan's conduct caused the firm to breach its contract with Hess, summary judgment for Blan was appropriate.
Hess also alleged that the defendants interfered with a variety of other rights, such as his attorney's liens and alleged contractual arrangements he had with his former clients. The district court correctly dismissed all of these claims because the only contract to which Hess was a party was his employment contract, and under that contract, Hess had no right to an ongoing relationship with the firm's clients. We therefore affirm the grant of summary judgment on Counts V and VI of the complaint.
The remainder of Hess's complaint is a ragtag of poorly pleaded claims, and like the district court, we can quickly dispose of them. A few of Hess's claims lack any support in Illinois law. Hess has no claim under the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act, Count II, because Hess was an employee, not a "consumer." 815 ILCS 505/1(e). His claim for wrongful discharge, Count III, fails because Hess was an at-will employee and an at-will employee cannot sue for wrongful discharge. Hartlein v. Ill. Power Co., 601 N.E.2d 720, 728 (Ill .1992). Even though at-will employees in Illinois can sometimes sue for retaliatory discharge, id., this does not apply to attorneys like Hess. Jacobson v. Knepper & Moga, P.C., 706 N.E.2d 491, 494 (Ill.1998). Hess's claim in Count IX for breach of fiduciary duty is doomed because Hess's relationship with the firm was that of employer/employee, and in Illinois, this relationship does not give rise to a fiduciary duty. Hytel Group, Inc. v. Butler, 938 N.E.2d 542, 548 (Ill.App.Ct.2010). Partners in a law firm may owe one another a fiduciary duty because of their profit-sharing arrangements, Dowd v. Dowd, Ltd. v. Gleason, 693 N.E.2d 358 (Ill .1998), but that doctrine does not help Hess because he was an employee, not a partner.
Hess's claims for unjust enrichment and quantum meruit in Count VII are also unsupported by Illinois law. Unjust enrichment is an equitable remedy that lies where a "defendant has unjustly retained a benefit to the plaintiff's detriment and ․ the defendant's retention of the benefit violates the fundamental principles of justice, equity, and good conscience." A.P. Properties, Inc. v. Rattner, ––– N.E.2d ––––, 2011 WL 5321174, *3 (Ill.App.Ct.2011). Quantum meruit is a quasi-contract doctrine that allows courts to imply the existence of a contract to prevent injustice. Hayes Mech ., Inc. v. First Indus., L.P., 812 N.E.2d 419, 426 (Ill.2004). A plaintiff cannot pursue either action, however, if his relationship with a defendant is—like Hess's with the firm—governed by an express contract. See Stathis v. Geldermann, Inc., 692 N.E.2d 798, 812 (Ill.App.Ct.1998) (unjust enrichment); Keck Garrett & Assoc., Inc. v. Nextel Commc'ns, Inc., 517 F.3d 476, 487 (7th Cir.2008) (quantum meruit).
All that is left of Count VII are Hess's claims for quantum meruit and unjust enrichment against Blan and Kanoski in his individual capacity, but they too lack merit. A plaintiff cannot recover under quantum meruit if he has no expectation that the defendant would be the one to pay for the services. Paradise v. Augustana Hosp. & Health Care Ctr., 584 N.E.2d 326, 329 (Ill.App.Ct.1991). Any payment Hess expected to receive would have been from the firm, not Blan or Kanoski individually. Nor can Hess show that either Blan or Kanoski were unjustly enriched. If Blan worked on the cases and was entitled to receive bonuses under his own contract, then he should have received those bonuses; Blan's bonus was not received to Hess's detriment. And Hess makes no allegation that Kanoski retained Hess's bonus in his individual capacity. It is the firm that would have wrongfully retained Hess's bonus payments (assuming Hess succeeds on his contract and wage claims), not Kanoski individually.
The district court properly disposed of the remaining counts because they lacked adequate development or support. This court has repeatedly explained that "perfunctory and undeveloped arguments, and arguments that are unsupported by pertinent authority, are waived." United States v. Hook, 471 F.3d 766, 775 (7th Cir.2006). Hess has made no argument on appeal to support his claim in Count VIII for spoilation of evidence and thus has waived this claim. As to his claim in Count VIII for conversion, on appeal Hess focuses only on a dispute over vacation pay, but Hess admitted in his deposition that the parties had "worked ․ out" the vacation pay issue.
Hess's civil conspiracy claim in Count XI fares no better. Hess's pleadings are bare of any factual allegations that support this claim. The complaint stated, without elaboration, that the "defendants combined with each other to commit unlawful acts mentioned above or to cover up the unlawful acts mentioned above." This is not enough. See Seng–Tiong Ho v. Taflove, 648 F.3d 489, 502 (7th Cir.2011). The only facts Hess has pointed to in this case with respect to Blan's involvement—the disparaging remarks previously discussed—are insufficient to support a finding of causation, which is one of the elements of civil conspiracy. See Clarage v. Kuzma, 795 N.E.2d 348, 358–59 (Ill.App.Ct.2003).
Finally, we turn to Warren's complaint for loss of consortium, raised in Count X. This claim is "necessarily predicated on the claim of a directly injured spouse." Monroe v. Trinity Hosp.-Advocate, 803 N.E.2d 1002, 1005 (Ill.App.Ct.2003). Because Hess no longer has any live tort claims against defendants, his wife's claim was correctly dismissed.
We Reverse the district court's grant of summary judgment on Counts I and IV and Affirm on all other counts. The case is Remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. Each side is to bear its own costs.
WOOD, Circuit Judge.

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Getting goods from warehouse to consumer, commonly known as 'The Last Mile', has long been a challenge for online retailers. The issue came to a head in 2010 when, due to extreme weather conditions, goods were held up in depots and, in desperation, retailers asked shoppers to come instore to collect their Christmas orders. Many consumers did so and the movement contributed to a fresh awareness of future customer demand for a more structured solution.
Click & Collect provides an additional way in which shoppers can specify and anticipate the receipt of their online order. Over the next four years home deliveries are set to decrease with Click & Collect becoming more prevalent. Figures are expected to increase from 35% to 82% within that period.
Click & Collect has proved successful as it benefits both retailer and consumer. It offers consumers flexibility in picking up their goods. For retailers it reduces their fulfilment overheads by removing the cost of home deliveries. Neither party has the worry of missing deliveries and both retailers and consumers can tailor the service to fit their needs.
Recently, Sports Direct reported that they have seen an increase of online sales by 14.4% hitting the £401 million mark. They claim the rise in sales was partly due to their new Click & Collect service which launched summer 2014. Click & Collect makes up more than 20% of their online UK orders. Great news for Sports Direct, but can other retailers benefit too?
Many retailers offer the service for free which, in turn, drives consumer's instore, this gives retailers further opportunity to control and manage their customer's experience. This footfall has resulted in incremental spend as it give retailers the chance to upsell additional products, something which cannot be achieved with a home delivery.
As well as Click & Collect, many retailers are offering the option of Collect+. Collect+ allows consumers to choose where and when they want to collect or return goods, with over 5,800 locations including local convenience stores. 90% of UK residents are within one mile of a Collect+ location and the majority of these are open 'early till late', seven days a week which is even more convenient for consumers and couriers.
With the inconvenience of home deliveries for many workers, they often opt to have online orders delivered to their place of work. Many companies are starting to discourage employees from doing so as it causes disruption to their working day having to sign for packages. Therefore, Click & Collect again becomes a more suitable option for those out of the house during working hours.
Today's consumers want the ease of buying their products with the guarantee their item will be ready for them to collect at their convenience and cost free. Failed delivery attempts is not only a cost to retailers but also frustrating for consumers which inevitably can damage brand experience.


In our 2016 and 2017 articles about women and Brand Intimacy, we've spoken about the similarities between how women and men form emotional attachments with the brands they use and how, overall, intimate brand relationships are very similar for women and men. This continues to be true in 2018.
In this article, we're taking a different approach. Given the cultural conceptions about women as consumers and how to market to them, we decided to compare how women form intimate bonds across the three markets of our study: the U.S., Mexico, and the UAE. Some interesting parallels and distinctions emerged.
If we compare the top ten brands for women from our three markets, we can see a range of brands with a few similarities. Interestingly, the U.S.'s list is more homogenous in terms of industry, with only four industries (of fifteen) represented in the top ten (technology & telecommunications, retail, media & entertainment, and automotive). Mexico and the UAE, on the other hand, have a greater range represented, with seven and six industries, respectively. Mexico's top five brands are especially heterogenous, representing five industries in five brands. Another key difference between the U.S. and the other countries is that there are four media & entertainment brands in the U.S.'s top ten (Disney, Netflix, Nintendo, and YouTube) and none in Mexico's or the UAE's. The success of these media & entertainment brands among U.S. women might help explain why the industry is ranks so much higher in the U.S. than it does in Mexico or the UAE.
What's most apparent in seeing each country's top ten list side by side is Apple's dominance. Apple is the top brand for women in all three countries (it's also the top brand overall in all three). This ability to connect with women across the world is especially impressive given the lack of other brands that are able to do the same. Nike and Dove make the top ten in Mexico and the UAE, but otherwise these lists don't share many brands—itself an interesting observation since many of the top brands are global. The variety of top brands across countries suggests women have a broad capacity to have intimate brand relationships. Trying to simplify or pigeonhole which brands perform best across markets may not be effective or reflect today's reality.
Overall, the UAE leads in terms of women experiencing intimacy, with 36 percent of women experiencing intimacy, followed by Mexico with 34 percent and the U.S. with 23 percent. The levels of intimacy are also highest in the UAE, as indicated by the country's average Brand Intimacy Quotient, which scores overall performance on a scale from 1 to 100. The UAE's average Brand Intimacy Quotient among women is 35.9, which is higher than Mexico's score of 30.9 and the U.S.'s 27.4, indicating that UAE women have the strongest relationships with the brands they use.
The UAE is the only country in which women have a higher average Brand Intimacy Quotient than men, but in all three countries, the percentage of women experiencing intimacy is higher than that of men.
The Brand Intimacy archetypes are six patterns or markers that identify the character and nature of ultimate brand relationships. A significant similarity emerges in terms of archetypes. In all three of our markets, indulgence (centered on moments of pampering and gratification) and ritual (being ingrained into daily actions, becoming a vital part of daily existence) are stronger among women than among men. While women in the UAE have stronger associations with all archetypes, in the U.S. and Mexico these are the only two archetypes for which women average higher scores than men. The fact that women outscore men in these archetypes across the U.S., Mexico, and the UAE suggests that indulgence and ritual may be important mechanisms to leverage when building bonds with women and that these markers are relevant and effective across three very different marketplaces.
However, the associations consumers build with a single brand can vary. For example, Netflix, which is an intimate brand among women in all three countries, has a different Brand Intimacy profile for each nation.
Women in the U.S. most associate the brand with the ritual archetype, whereas women in Mexico associate it with indulgence and those in the UAE with enhancement (not surprising given UAE women's tendency to be intimate with brands that keep them connected, such as Apple, Skype, and Google). While all these associations play into each consumer's relationship with Netflix, it's interesting to see how the same brand can be loved by so many for a range of characteristics. Netflix is an interesting example of a how a brand can successfully build bonds with women in different ways.
Our study shows that women form stronger bonds in certain industries than men. For example, women are more intimate with health & hygiene brands in all three countries. Many industries, such as apparel, appliances, apps & social platforms, consumer goods, fast food, and financial services, are more intimate with women in two out of three countries.
While some industries are common among the three countries, the greater intimacy among women in technology & telecommunications in the UAE and in financial services in Mexico and the U.S., indicates that women have the capacity to bond with brands across a breadth of industries.
The most notable similarity our Brand Intimacy review found is that in all three markets, women have stronger associations than men do with the ritual and indulgence archetypes. This similarity may indicate that these archetypes are particularly successful at forging emotional connections with women and could be an interesting starting point for any brand looking to deepen bonds with women.
There is also quite a bit of variation and diversity in the findings. Women in the U.S., Mexico, and the UAE form different kinds of emotional bonds with different brands (and even the same brands, as in the case of Netflix). These findings suggest that while it can be tempting for marketers to think of women as a group with common traits, preferences, or attitudes, the ways people create connections with brands are often determined by factors other than gender. These variations in Brand Intimacy among women in different countries challenge the notion that women consumers care only about certain industries, brands, or ideas. For a brand to be successful among women (as well as men), it must build relationships based on emotions—emotions that are not necessarily "feminine" and that may well vary from market to market.


In this video, I would like to share you a philosophy why Tony Stark can be rich while enjoying life by not risking himself in the battlefield; by simply selling weapon (tools) for people to fight their own battle.
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Adon, Lili, and Shuki play out their dangerous dance of life in the salty air in front of the sweeping variety of Jaffa's human fabric: owners and residents of cafés, large families, Catholic and Greek Orthodox monks, superstitious fishermen, a business owner and an unwilling mistress.
Adon, an ascetic en route to make the last payment on a cheap apartment, comes upon a violent crime about to take place. Acting on impulse and with no other moral choice, he gives all of his money to a pimp to save the life of a prostitute, Lili. Instead of gratitude, Lili attacks Adon about his motives, and eventually, Shuki, the pimp and drugged-out gangster, enters unwelcome into Adon's life.
Life in all its complexity plays out between Adon and Lili, especially as Lili begins to see the goodness in life after a brutal existence so far.
The tension rises from page to page as Shlomo Kalo weaves another marvelously written and realistic fictional tapestry packed with insights into the darker side of life, as well as a soul lifting depiction of people struggling to make a difference - or who are just getting by on their wits and love of each other.


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Toiletries Storage: Shelf Life of Sunscreen, Shampoo, and More
If you can't seem to find the expiration date on your shampoo or sunscreen, use this overview as guidance.
Our bathroom drawers and shelves are lined with toiletries of all kinds: sunscreens, deodorants, shampoos and conditioners, lotions, and make-up products. But did you know that these products have a shelf life, just like the items in your pantry? Many products have an expiration date on the bottle, but unfortunately, some don't. If you can't seem to find the expiration date on your shampoo or sunscreen, use this overview for guidance.
Sunscreens and lotions
Sunscreen is one product you definitely don't want to mess around with. Putting an old, expired sunscreen on your body may mean it's lost its effectiveness – and the result could be a painful sunburn! Since sunscreens are an important part of our health, they should include an expiration date somewhere on the bottle. In fact, Laura Williams says that since sunscreen includes SPF, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires manufacturers to put the expiration date on the bottle. Typically an open bottle of sunscreen can last six to 12 months – but don't stretch it much longer than that! "As tempting as it may be to go ahead and keep using the tube of sunscreen from last year, the SPF can degrade over time, making it less effective," says Williams. Face and body lotions can last for a much longer time – anywhere from one to three years. The best way to get the most bang for your buck is to purchase lotions in squeeze or pump bottles to minimize the transfer of bacteria from your hands to the product.
It's extremely important to keep track of expiration dates for the cosmetics and make-up products that you put on your face. These items are a breeding ground for bacteria, which can affect your health. Paula Begoun says that using products past their expiration date could result in skin irritation, rashes, blemishes and various skin or eye infections. "Know when to let go," Begoun stresses. "If you're hanging on to your skincare or makeup past its expiration date, chances are microbes and bacteria have taken their toll and might be causing skin problems you're trying to solve!" If there's not an expiration date listed on the package, make note of when you open the product and go by that date. Use a sharpie marker to write the date you open it on the product to help you remember. Eye products have one of the shortest shelf lives – and since they are applied around your eye, you definitely don't want to mess with this! Mascara and eyeliners should be tossed every four to six months. Foundations and concealers should be replaced every six months to a year; powder-based products every two to three years; and lipsticks, lip glosses and lip pencils every two to three years. Begoun advises that these dates are just guidelines. "If it smells funky, looks gunky or the texture has changed significantly – definitely toss it out!" she says. "Watch (or sniff) for any new odors, as smell is one of the first qualities to change when a formula has expired."
Shampoos and conditioners have a fairly long shelf life – three years for unopened bottles and 18 months for opened bottles. Anything after that and your product may have lost its effectiveness – it may not de-frizz like you wanted, add moisture like you wished for, or remove dandruff like you needed… Worse case scenario is you could get a scalp infection from the bacteria that gets into the bottle over a long period of time. Jyl Craven says to increase your shampoo or conditioner's shelf life, store them in a cool, dark place when not being used, and buy products that are in spray containers or tubes. "The less chance oxygen or water droplets have to get inside to hurt the product the longer your stuff will last," she says.
It's easy to get overwhelmed when it comes to the expiration dates for all of your toiletries. Perhaps the best way to keep it under control is to minimize the amount you have. No one truly needs 25 mascaras, lipsticks or lotions. Try to keep your collection to your favorite two or three products, and you'll never have to worry about the products expiring and affecting your health.
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IN PICTURES: How Europe brought in the New Year in the face of Omicron
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Fireworks can be seen besides the Colosseum in Rome. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
In many capitals public celebrations were cancelled or curtailed, and in some even private celebrations were heavily restricted. But the European countries covered by The Local still managed to bring in 2022 in some style.
As the year drew to a close, the emergence of the Omicron variant pushed the number of daily new Covid-19 cases past one million worldwide for the first time, with Covid infection rates in Europe soaring at a pace not witnessed since the start of the pandemic.
France on Friday became the latest country to announce Omicron was now its dominant coronavirus strain.
As a result, planned celebrations were cancelled or curtailed in Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Vienna, Geneva, and Oslo.
In Spain, about 7,000 people in Madrid's Puerta del Sol — half the usual capacity due to Covid restrictions — rang in the new year by eating grapes, one for each time the clock chimed up to 12.
Half the usual number gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. Photo: Rebeca Mayorga/AFP
In France, police officers patrolled Paris' Champs-Elysées avenue, which had been lit up with glittering red lights and festooned with "2022" balloons, looking for people without masks.
Most people were simply asked to wear one, but some who argued were fined.
"It is constraining to put on the mask… but it's no problem" to follow the rule, said Antoine Pham, smiling. The 38-year-old and his partner came from Belgium to Paris for the evening.
Photo: Julien De Rosa/ AFP
Despite the police presence, as the festivities went on, many discarded their masks.
Photo: Martin Bureau/AFP
The authorities illuminated the Eiffel Tower, with the monument's official account posting a video of the display on Twitter.
🇫🇷 Bonne année 2022 ! 🎉✨
🇬🇧 #HappyNewYear ! 🎉✨#tourEiffel pic.twitter.com/kLQVR6fiHw
— La tour Eiffel (@LaTourEiffel) December 31, 2021
In Berlin, the traditional New Year's Eve party at the Brandenburg Gate was cancelled after the government agreed to tighten Covid restrictions just before Christmas. From December 28th, the city's famed nightclubs also had to shut, putting an end to their New Year's Eve's events for the second year running.
Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP
But the landmark Brandenburg Gate was still illuminated for the "Welcome 2022" TV show on New Year's Eve.
Germany has also banned fireworks, as it did last year, mainly to prevent hospitals having to treat injuries resulting from pyrotechnic accidents as well as Covid-19 patients.
This did not prevent at least one accident, with a 37-year-old man killed and a 39-year-old man seriously injured in the Hüchel district of Hennef. Police believe the fireworks may have been home-made.
Although the party was cancelled, the Berlin authorities nonetheless put on the traditional municipal fireworks display at the Brandenburg Gate, even though people were not allowed to congregate in front of it.
Fireworks go off around Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on New Year's Eve. Photo: John MacDougall/AFP
Crowds gathered, nonetheless, on the nearby Unter den Linden boulevard as people hoped to catch a glimpse of the display.
John MacDougal/AFP
Berlin was lit 🔥 #NewYear2022 pic.twitter.com/YzhjsU0oRa
— Prasanth J (@prasanth_j) January 1, 2022
In Vienna, celebrations were cancelled completely.
In Stockholm, the city authorities also cancelled their official celebration, although the Skansen outdoor museum held its traditional New Year's concert without a live audience, broadcasting the event on Swedish television.
Plenty of people put on their own amateur fireworks displays, however, with small crowds gathering at Skeppsbron in Gamla Stan to enjoy the displays.
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Happy New Year! #happynewyear #gottnyttår #stockholm #sweden #leogast pic.twitter.com/7O7rd1ojAN
— Leonardo Gast (@leogast) January 1, 2022
Italy's government last week unanimously approved stricter rules on public gatherings, among measures included in a new decree which came into effect as of December 25th.
Outdoor public events and parties have been temporarily banned during the festive season, from December 25th-December 31st, after many local authorities had already chosen to cancel Christmas and New Year's Eve events in towns and cities across the country.
This did not stop people in Rome and elsewhere coming out onto the streets and holding their own informal displays. In Rome, many gathered around the Colosseum.
A man holds a firework outside Rome's Colosseum building. Photo: Alberto Pizzola/AFP
Fireworks light up the night sky in Rome. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
In Denmark, while there were fewer restrictions than in 2020, the traditional wild celebrations were still heavily curtailed, with the authorities calling on people to "avoid big celebrations".
Here you can see fireworks being let off behind the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, ahead of the Queen's New Year's Speech.
Fireworks can be seen behind Copenhagen's Amalienborg Palace ahead of the New Year's Eve speech by Queen Margrethe II. Photo: Keld Navntoft/Ritzau Scanpix
And in Switzerland, light shows replaced traditional firework displays in major cities.
Zurich had a Silvesterzauber display created by Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter, illuminating several buildings in the city.
Don't miss the #Silvesterzauber in #Zurich tomorrow & on 1st & 2nd January. See here: https://t.co/LSIfVWsgMZ @1000Switzerland
Photo credit SilvesterZauber pic.twitter.com/a4VPtykVX5
— NewInZurich (@NewInZurich) December 30, 2021
And in Geneva, people were able to enjoy Swiss artist Dan Acher's Borealis sound and light show with Covid-19 restrictions in place.
Tests in Geneva, Switzerland. Come experience Borealis tonight 31/12 till the second of 2022!#borealis #artforchange #northernlights pic.twitter.com/6Oo65vhOe8
— Dan Acher (@Dan_Acher) December 31, 2021
The Swiss government did not update its Covid-19 measures on Friday despite rising infection rates, so clubs and restaurants were open on the night, with restrictions in place.


Recognized by Lead SA 2018 as a Western Cape regional program of excellence, Transkei Outreach Project aims to bring together students from Cape Town and their rural peer counterparts to engage academically and culturally, according to the founding partner and project co-ordinator Rowan Harmuth (back row, right, with his team).
Following its fruitful outreach in July 2018 with student participants from Rondebosch Boys' High School, Rustenburg Girls' High School and Springfield Covent and Rhenish Girls' High School, the program returns this June for annual outreach to Isolomzi Senior Secondary School.
Located in Transkei (1,300 km from Cape Town), Isolomzi SSS welcomes volunteer students from the city every year to share their academic knowledge and offer humbling experiences across different socio-economic backgrounds.
During the two weeks of outreach in 2018, each day consisted of three 90-minute tutoring sessions in Maths, Maths Literacy, Accounting and Life Sciences fully led by visiting students to encourage direct, peer-to-peer interactions. The program's academic success has been attested by the significant growth in Isolomzi students' matric pass rate from 66 percent in 2013 to 100 percent in 2017.
In between teaching, the young people chatted, exchanged views, understood how others live and engaged in meaningful discussions beyond academics.
Outside tutoring, the city students had opportunities to immerse in vibrant local culture, including a visit to local sangoma, or a traditional healer in South Africa, who shared her Xhosa beliefs. Another trip down the Gates river allowed students to explore the local fauna and flora, followed by a fun afternoon of swimming in the pool lined with weavers' nests.
On the last day of the program, the headmaster of Isolomzi hosted a traditional send-off ceremony that consisted of speeches, the Isolomzi choir singing and the first rugby team performing their Transkei "haka," or a ceremonial dance.
The students then replied with Rondebosch war cry to express their gratitude for the hospitality.
Transkei annual outreach project is made possible with the help from donors and sponsors who believe in the better future led by the younger generation of South Africa.
If you are interested in supporting the program to continue extending equal educational opportunities to rural community, please reach out to Mr. Rowan Harmuth at rowan.harmuth@rondebosch.com.


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Cottages to rise from the ashes
PUBLISHED: 08:46 06 September 2002 | UPDATED: 12:36 03 March 2010
PICTURESQUE thatched cottages ruined by a blaze ripping through the roof are likely to be restored.
It took fire fighters from Suffolk and Norfolk around three hours to extinguish the fire after it broke out just after 8pm on Wednesday.
PICTURESQUE thatched cottages at Euston ruined by a blaze ripping through the roof are likely to be restored.
It took fire fighters from Suffolk and Norfolk around three hours to put out the fire which broke out just after 8pm on Wednesday.
Heaps of blackened straw, dragged from the roof by firefighters and pieces of broken furniture in smoke-stinking piles yesterday lay outside the 17th Century homes in the village near Thetford.
Despite the bleak outlook, the pretty rural scene is certain to be restored as the building's structure was yesterday pronounced safe and because the site is listed along with many other buildings in the village, owned by Lord Grafton's Euston Estate, it must be rebuilt.
The fire started in the chimney breast in the Lamberts' home and spread rapidly along the shared roof of the semi-detached homes, converted from three cottages.
Jean and Dennis Lambert were picking through the debris yesterday hunting for toys belonging to their eight-year-old son Neil, who went to school as normal yesterday.
Mrs Lambert, 50, said: "We've been living in the village 19 years and moved to this house 18 months ago. It was just idyllic. Now it just looks such a mess. You just don't think it will ever happen to you."
"We've mostly lost stuff from the bedroom. The firemen were absolutely brilliant. They dragged most of our furniture out in time."
The family's pet chipmunks and their chickens, goats and ducks were well away from the fire and will be cared for by Mrs Lambert's sister and her husband, who live next door to the cottages.
Neighbours Raymond and Irene Vaughn were not as lucky and almost everything is destroyed - apart from their clothes.
Mr Vaughn said: "Not a lot of it is salvageable but our clothes are not even damp. Hopefully we'll be able to move into another house in the village while they rebuild, but that could take up to 12 months."
Neighbours, friends and the estate have pulled out all the stops to help the residents - the Euston Estate has even offered to store the furniture for their tenants.
Divisional officer Paul Collins from Suffolk Fire Service, explained the house could be restored because of the way it was built nearly 300 years ago.
"The unsupported gables at either end are sufficiently strong to make it maintain a perpendicular aspect and the three chimneys are satisfactory as well.
"The wattle and dung walls are in fact stronger that a single line of bricks, so the whole thing is structurally sound."
A fire investigation was launched in the cause when the first fire engine arrived at the homes but will take months to established how the blaze began.
Fire broke out in a car at Felixstowe Motor Company yesterday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to the scene in Beach Station Road, Felixstowe and put out the blaze in 17 minutes.
Floor paint was spilt on the main road in Stowmarket and fire crews were called after reports of an unknown chemical spill.
It turned out to be 125 litres of floor paint. Police are liaising with the council over the spillage.


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Share this Story: Higher demand for flu shots this year as vaccine clinics open Monday
Higher demand for flu shots this year as vaccine clinics open Monday
"We know that COVID is still around and we're concerned about the so-called twindemic that we may experience, which would place a tremendous burden on our health care system."
Lynn Giesbrecht
Pharmacist Deviyani Patel stands in the Shopper's Drug Mart in Emerald Park, Saskatchewan on Oct. 14, 2020. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post
As flu vaccine clinics across the province prepare to open Monday, pharmacist Deviyani Patel has already seen an increase in the number of people asking about how they can get their flu shot.
It's an increase she is more than happy to see.
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"This year more than other years we want to make sure we don't have a bad flu season," Patel said in a recent interview.
"If we have a COVID second pandemic and we have a very bad flu season, I think it will overburden our health care system."
Patel works at the Shopper's Drug Mart in Emerald Park, where she is also an associate owner. She said people are more aware of the upcoming flu season and recognizing the value of a vaccine this year because of the pandemic.
In a survey carried out by Shopper's Drug Mart across the country, Patel said 57 per cent of Canadians said they intended to get their flu shot, compared to only 40 per cent in 2019.
In September, the Ministry of Health announced it had ordered 36.5 per cent more flu vaccine doses than last year in anticipation of a higher demand. With last year's order totalling 436,000 doses , that puts this year's order at more than 595,000 doses.
Flu vaccine clinics launch across the province on Monday, and the Saskatchewan Health Authority said it is running 36 clinics that will operate by appointment only, with an additional 18 drop-in clinics for more vulnerable populations that may have barriers accessing transportation or a phone. One of the clinics will run out of the International Trade Centre at Evraz Place in Regina, but is separate from the COVID-19 testing facility currently set up there.
"We know that COVID is still around and we're concerned about the so-called twindemic that we may experience, which would place a tremendous burden on our health care system," said SHA spokesperson James Winkel in an emailed statement.
Winkel noted that the influenza season in the southern hemisphere — which is typically around six months ahead of Canada in its flu cycle — has been mild this year. He attributed this to a higher uptake of the influenza immunizations and preventative measures for COVID-19 like social distancing and wearing masks.
"That all played a very big role in the decrease in the number of influenza cases they saw in the southern hemisphere. And we hope that will be the situation here as well," he said.
Despite the hope of a milder flu season, both Winkel and Patel stressed the need for people to still get their flu shot.
"But we have the flu vaccine and it's our best shot at preventing a flu pandemic and so getting the vaccine, it's the best thing you can do to help protect yourself from the flu," Patel said.
Getting a flu shot will look a little bit different this year, however.
Winkel said appointment-based flu clinics are new this year to help ensure physical distancing and limit the number of people at a clinic at any given time. People are asked to bring a mask and their health card to help health care staff move people in and out of their appointments as quickly as possible.
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When people worldwide want to learn about freshly-harvested vegetable produces, homey transient houses, quality tertiary schools, Igorot food menu, native artworks, limestone caves and other wonderful offerings of the Cordillera region, they no longer visit a pile of books and magazines in the library.
Rather, they sit in front of their computers at home and "Google" things up. In just seconds, they are given pages of results from different web pages that may guide them to find the exact information they wanted about the Cordilleras.
The Internet is the newest and the most convenient source of information. It gives almost anything and everything, from scoops about our favorite Hollywood stars to the promo code of a shopping mall to get 50% off on select items.
Thus when Americans, Indians, Egyptians, Britons, Filipinos in far areas, etc. want to learn more about the mysterious Sleeping Beauty of Kalinga and the cold breeze of Baguio City, they rely on the magic of the Internet.
And if your business is not on the Internet, you are losing a million worth of opportunities to be discovered by the world and get customers who will give you much fortune!
The Internet brings you and your business to people in every corner of this planet. So, how do you market your business beyond the borders of the Cordillera region reaching prospect customers?
A website becomes your official page on the Internet that feeds users with truthful and reliable information about your business.
In developing a website, you need a writer who creates text contents, graphic designer who provides the site with visuals and a programmer who does the coding.
Make sure your website contains essential information about your business mission, contact options, products and services, ways on how your clients avail of your offerings, news stories and promotional announcements and all the reasons why you should be trusted by customers.
After the text and graphics contents are finished and enhanced on a web hosting portal, it is time to register your website. Some web hosting companies automatically register your website upon getting their website development services.
Why is having a website the priority when marketing on the Internet? All people fully trust the official website, not other websites that mention your business.
Create a business page on Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn and other social networking sites where your customers are. It is like constructing a house in the neighborhood of the people you love to be neighbors with.
Do a research on the social networking sites that most of your target customers are using. Facebook is for the general mass so it is safe for any business to appear on this site. LinkedIn is for professionals. Google Plus is for business-minded persons. Twitter is for social influencers who love posting their rants and obsession of pop culture items.
After filling up registration forms with information that comprehensively introduce your business, upload pictures of your products and services.
Update your page with convincing description of your offerings. Offer discounts and promo codes to those who actively interact with your page.
The most important here is 24/7 monitoring because customers might contact you on any of your social page. Try to communicate with them especially if they have questions.
People nowadays prefer contacting a business for inquiries using social networking sites. Emailing is getting boring and obsolete. Emailing is for Business-to-Business transactions.
Check out these social media pages of RIGHTS SLU, Cafe Sapore and New Media Services.
Bloggers are writers using their website to communicate a message with honesty although they still inject commercial value. People using the Internet rely on blog articles to find TRUE and FIRST-HAND information about resorts, restaurants, products, people, companies, etc because bloggers tell the truth according to their OWN experience compared to marketing contents aired on TV which are undeniably manipulated for marketing's sake.
If you know bloggers in your community, invite them to experience your products and services. And in return, the bloggers give an honest review of your offerings on their blogs and social media pages.
You may contact one blogger then the blogger gets in touch with other bloggers who share the same niche. If you are offering transient houses, get travel bloggers. If you are offering real estate consultancy services, invite business bloggers. "Personal" bloggers may work in any niche.
The set up is simple: pamper the bloggers with free sample of your offerings. But please do not fool them by giving them better offerings. Give them what you provide to ordinary customers. Give them extra information about your business which may be discussed in the articles they will make.
If you can blog on your own, open a blog website. You can avail of free blogging web hosting spaces on Blogger (I use this), WordPress (developers prefer this),Tumblr (most teenagers love this) and other free sites.
Developing a blog site is easier so you can slow down in exploring on how to beautify your blog. It is recommended that you identify yourself so you may use the first person point of view to show that all the contents represent your thoughts about the perks of your business.
Boost the credibility of your business by sharing your expertise to the world. On top of your talk engagements, maintain an online reputation that identify you as an expert in your business.
Write articles about the current issues in the industry you are involved in. Give fair commentaries and witty suggestions. If you are not good at writing, why not hire a writer who could help you construct sentences.
Stay away from your obsessing your business when writing. People will always know your business once they are introduced to you.
Submit your write-ups to any website accepting submissions like article directory sites.
Take note that in doing this, it is the substance of the article that matters and not the number of times you mentioned your business.
When people read your article online, they start giving you respect as the knowlegdeable person about a certian industry. They look for you and inquire about having your expertise that influence their lives- then it is time to do business with them.
The Internet is free and it shall be utilized to advance your business goals. To have more assistance in marketing your business beyond the borders of the Cordillera region, contact me. I am blessed to have learned many techniques for working as a Public Relations and Communications practitioner in an Australian web and mobile company.
We shall be discussing one by one as long as we have the chance to do so. For questions, just email me. To outsource website development, graphic design and SEO services, try checking out Eyewebmaster, owned by Rosendo Cuyasen Jr., a fellow Igorot who is based in Cebu.


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How to Determine Whether Automation is Worth the Cost | Sherpas in Blue Shirts
There is a lot of talk in the marketplace about the benefits of automation. Even so, people ask Everest Group whether automation is worth the journey. Essentially, they want to know if, after having gone through the cost and effort of automating and deploying a robotic or cognitive agent they will have saved enough money to warrant the initiative.
Here's an interesting use case that answers that question. We worked with a client that had moved its business process work to rural sourcing in India. Its average cost for labor was $2.00 an hour. Yet, they deployed robotic process automation (RPA) agents. Why? Because it made sense – the company got a high rate of return from digitizing its workforce.
What can we learn from this? First, even low-labor-cost areas are rich targets for deploying service delivery automation (SDA). Second, the benefits go far beyond saving money. For the company I mentioned, automation improved throughput, the time it took to clear the backlog. It also improved the quality of the work; the error rate dropped precipitously in an RPA model versus a low-cost labor model.
The company was excited about the cycle time reduction for clearing its backlog. Sending the work to India involved a several-week backlog; but the automated solution cleared the backlog almost instantaneously. The reduced cycle time and improved quality delivered a huge benefit to the company's customer experience.
The second component that enabled the cycle time reduction was the proximity of the work to the claims area. By moving it to an automated platform and making that data regularly available to the claims area, they were able to use the data in new ways.
Finally, automation eliminated the complexity of shipping work to India and the governance work involved in going offshore and satisfying regulators. The automated solution needed much less regular scrutiny and was easier to operate.
It was also easier to change. One of the issues around automation is whether you've "hardened your arteries" – diminishing the ability to make coding changes. It turns out it's much easier to make script changes in RPA than going through the process of changing policy and process in a remote location.
So it was a real win-win-win in what appeared at first to be sending work to a very low-cost arena. It made sense to switch to automation just on the basis of the savings from labor replacement and eliminating the complexity of managing a remote low-cost labor workforce. But with the improved cycle time and work quality, the decision became a no-brainer.
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Server receives $4,500 tip after an incident with homophobic diners
The world is changing very fast in deep, I do not know whether this speed will stop or not, but recently, a group on Facebook called Do Good Tour shared an image of a receipt from an eatery in Madison, Wisconsin. On the receipt, somebody denoted a dash close to "TIP" and left a message that said: "Service was good, but we don't tip sinful homosexuals." Someone chose to leave their server without a tip dependent on their sexuality.
When it came to the knowledge Eric Salzwedel the co-founder of Do Good Wisconsin, he responded to this occurrence. The Facebook post supported individuals to participate in #VENMOCHALLENGE where they could give cash to this worker and later on, they would be surprised with the tip that was collected by their local community.
Facebook group "Do Good Tour" shared a receipt that was left for one of the workers working in an eatery
250 individuals participated in this event and raised $4,500 that was subsequently given to the worker. On this whole situation, Eric (Co-founder) said: "Seeing the receipt made me angry both as a person of faith and a person who has spent the last 18 months learning about the challenges facing members of the service industry throughout the COVID-19 pandemic."
Below is the picture of the receipt with the message on it:
Image source: Do Good Tour
After this episode, the co-founder of this group chose to make another challenge where individuals could give some cash and later give this "tip" to the server. Around 250 people participated in the challenge and they raised around $4500
After $4,500 was raised, they ensured that the amount was secured and would be well-received. After they server their money, they chose to give a part of the total to The Trevor Project.
With this end, some people reacted and criticized this tipping system:
One said: Maybe America should change their ways and not rely on tips as a form of payment/income. Its so fked up. Imagine giving your best and providing excellent service only to receive nothing or lesser than what's expected to be given? What a motivation killer.
A second one added: Keep business and pleasure separate. You did business with the restaurant and you were satisfied with the service. Tip appropriately. Keep your nose out of the waiter private life.
While a third one said: Sad that people feel the need to be so awful, how dare they use the word "sinful" their actions were far from godly. Love that the server got a great tip and lots of support in the end.
What do you think about this story? Let us know in the comments below
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When setting up a new Facebook page, it may be hard to decide what type of page to setup. With several options to choose from such as: company, brand, cause, local business, fan and artist, you may have a hard time deciding which type is god for you. Generally is you are setting up a page for your personal life and friends to interact on, a fan page works best. To sign up for a personal fan page you can do so right on the Facebook homepage. If you want to setup a company/cause type page you would do so here.
Personal Fan Page: Indexed in Google, fans can only friend you and cannot see your profile unless you are public, connect with friends and family.
Business Like Page: Indexed in Google, fans can like you and see your profile at anytime, connect with customers/clients/vendors, ability to use widgets to pull content from your page onto another website/blog.
If you would like to interact with friends and family, a personal fan page works best. If you own a business and are looking to connect with customers/clients/vendors and such, a business page is a must have.
Either way, Facebook is a great way to connect with people you know and to market yourself and your business without even leaving your house.


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Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP)
The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) (.pdf) describes our annual planning work to address ongoing and emerging transportation issues. Preparation of the UPWP is required by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and serves as the basis for federal funding assistance for transportation planning. The UPWP helps our member agencies coordinate various planning activities and relate transportation planning concerns to other planning activities in the region. Funding support for the work program comes from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
Dutchess County and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) provide the required matching funds for all UPWP tasks. We carry out our planning responsibilities in accordance with the federal Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) and related regulations and guidelines.
New: The DCTC is now accepting planning proposals for its 2022-2023 UPWP. Please see our Call Letter, Application, and Guidelines (.pdfs) for more information. Proposals are due November 30, 2021.
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Previous Accomplishments
Mark Debald
Transportation Program Administrator
DCTC@dutchessny.gov
Transportation Council
2021-2022 Program Highlights
We've identified the following planning objectives for our 2021-2022 UPWP:
Complete Moving Dutchess Forward – our new long-range Transportation Plan for Dutchess County.
Complete Poughkeepsie 9.44.55, our consultant-supported analysis of the Route 9/44/55 interchange and east-and west-bound aerials in the City and Town of Poughkeepsie.
Complete the 2021 Traffic Count Program, collecting volume, classification, and speed data at about 160 locations throughout the county.
Complete our annual analysis of speeding patterns on county and local roads using data collected from the annual traffic count program.
Review and update the Functional Classifications of state, county, and local roads throughout Dutchess County.
Assist Dutchess County Public Transit with completing its countywide transit plan.
In conjunction with the County's Complete Streets Committee, continue our public safety campaign to increase awareness of walking and bicycling safety issues in Dutchess County.
Update the FFY 2020-2024 TIP to reflect changes to programmed projects or to add new projects based on statewide funding awards.
Complete the federal certification review for the MidHudson Valley TMA.
2020-2021 Accomplishments
We worked with member agencies, local communities, and stakeholders on a variety of transportation planning activities during the 2020-2021 program year, highlighted below:
In conjunction with the Dutchess County Planning Department, we supported the County's response to the COVID pandemic. Serving as essential workers, Council staff were reassigned to COVID response duties during the spring and summer of 2020. These duties included work as call center staff, contact tracers, and logistics planners for food distribution operations to homebound persons.
Completed substantial work on a new countywide long-range Transportation Plan. Titled Moving Dutchess Forward, the plan will serve as the strategic guiding document for improving transportation in Dutchess County over the next 25 years.
Completed substantial work on an in-depth analysis of the Route 9/44/55 interchange and arterials in the City and Town of Poughkeepsie. Titled Poughkeepsie 9.44.55, this milestone effort will identify ways to make the arterials and interchange safer, more accessible, and better connected with the community.
Completed the 2020 Traffic Count Program, collecting volume, vehicle classification, and speed data at 163 locations across the county. We also deployed tube and video counters to count people walking and bicycling on the William R. Steinhaus Dutchess Rail Trail and Harlem Valley Rail Trail.
Completed an analysis of speeding patterns on county and local roads using data collected from the traffic count program. The analysis identifies road segments with high percentages of 'high-end' speeders, defined by staff as those travelling more than 10 mph over the posted speed limit.
Completed the Arlington Main Street Redesign Initiative, which detailed a preferred design concept to make Main Street in the Town of Poughkeepsie a more walkable and safer street. The effort built upon recommendations from the 2017 Arlington Pedestrian Plan (.pdf).
Updated the Traffic Data Viewer with 2020 traffic count data. The Viewer shows traffic data via an online mapping application that provides data on volumes, speeds and heavy vehicles and includes a range of tools to analyze, chart, and export data.
Continued to lead the County's inter‐departmental Complete Streets Committee. This work included progressing the County's traffic safety education campaign, Watch Out For Me, and continuing the County's GTSC-funded pedestrian safety education program for children, older adults, and transit customers in the Poughkeepsie area.
Provided planning support to Dutchess County DPW for its new Universal Accessibility Program that provides project funding for walking improvements on County facilities such as CR 69 (Dutcher Ave) at Henry St in the Village of Pawling.
In conjunction with OCTC and UCTC, completed Connect Mid-Hudson, the new regional transit plan for the MidHudson Valley. The plan identifies ways to improve regional transit services in the tri-county area to include using a common passenger information and mobile payment platform across systems, staffing a transit ombudsman office to advocate for transit customers and better coordinate services, and introducing microtransit services in underserved markets.
We rely on federal planning funds to carry out our metropolitan transportation planning process. These funds, allocated on an annual basis and programmed through the UPWP, come from two primary sources: the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Planning Program (PL) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5303 Metropolitan Planning Program (MPP). The funds are authorized through the federal surface transportation authorization, the most recent being the FAST Act. For 2021-2022, the federal allocation for New York State is estimated to total $32.4 million. The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) distributes the funds to the 14 MPOs in New York State based on a formula that accounts for each MPO's planning area population and its TMA status.
These planning funds, like other federal transportation funding, are administered through NYSDOT on a reimbursement basis. We must first perform the planning work, after which we are reimbursed for the federal share of the cost. Our staff administer UPWP activities and submit quarterly reimbursement requests and activity reports to NYSDOT.
As with most federal transportation funding, a 20 percent local match is required for the federal planning funds used in the UPWP. NYSDOT provides a 15 percent toll credit/in-kind service match, while Dutchess County provides a five percent monetary match.
Our 2021-2022 UPWP (.pdf) annual funding estimate totals almost $677,000 (about $547,000 in FHWA funding and $130,000 in FTA funding). We also have over $703,000 in unspent FHWA funding from previous years that are available for programming as needed. We will program all of these backlog funds for the 2021-2022 program year. For information about our previous UPWP, please see our 2020-2021 UPWP Performance & Expenditure Report (.pdf).


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Beyond Facilitating Communication: The Value of Designated Interpreters
Dr. Michael Argenyi (a Preventive Medicine resident at The University of Massachusetts Medical School) reflects on the value of designated interpreters in his own professional experiences.
How I Bridge 2 Worlds as a Deaf Medical Student
Victoria MacPherson (Osteopathic Medicine) outlines her unique insights on patient care.
Designated Interpreters:
A Model to Promote the Diversity and Inclusion of Deaf Professionals in Academic Medicine
Authored by Dr. Wyatte Hall, Dr. John Cullen, and interpreter Marlene Elliot, this article in the Journal of Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC, January 8, 2019) highlights the hidden costs incurred by deaf professionals and institutions when models outside of the designated interpreter model are used.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners in Emergency Medicine
Co-authored by Alicia Booth, this publication in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (2018) explores the challenges that can ultimately lead to successful inclusion of DHoH students in emergency medicine.
Designated Interpreters are Different
Alicia Booth outlines the unique relationship between Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters, particularly in medical environments. Role adaptation and flexibility are key to this new and evolving specialty area of sign language interpreting…
Leading Practices and Future Directions for Technical Standards in Medical Education
Although physicians with disabilities bring unique perspectives to medicine and contribute to a diverse physician workforce of culturally-competent practitioners, they remain underrepresented in the profession. This publication in the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (November, 2018) concludes that 'schools should consider the principles of universal design to create policies and assessments that work for all learners, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for after-the-fact accommodations.'
Technical Standards and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Medical School Applicants and Students: Interrogating Sensory Capacity and Practice Capacity
Applicants to medical schools who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHoH) or who have other disabilities face significant barriers to medical school admission. One commonly cited barrier to admission is medical schools' technical standards (TS) for admission, advancement, and graduation…
Health Professionals with Disabilities: Motivating Inclusiveness and Representation
Medical schools seeking to increase representation of minorities in the profession have sought to improve matriculation and graduation rates of racial and ethnic minorities [1]. But one minority group whose needs remain neglected in the medical field is persons with disabilities…
Medical Schools' Willingness to Accommodate Medical Students with Sensory and Physical Disabilities: Ethical Foundations of a Functional Challenge to "Organic" Technical Standards
Students with sensory and physical disabilities are underrepresented in medical schools despite the availability of assistive technologies and accommodations. Unfortunately, many medical schools have adopted restrictive "organic" technical standards based on deficits rather than on the ability to do the work…
Understanding the Work of Designated Healthcare Interpreters
Interpreters who work regularly with a deaf health professional are often referred to, in the U.S., as designated healthcare interpreters (DHIs). To date, there have not been any systematic studies that specifically investigate the work of DHIs, yet the number of deaf people pursuing careers in the health professions continues to grow (Zazove et al., 2016), and the number of qualified DHIs to work with these professionals is insufficient (Gallaudet University, 2011)…
Deaf doctor makes patients feel heard
The personal story of Dr. Philip Zazove, an author, physician, and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is one of the first deaf physicians in the United States and is dedicated to improving health care for the deaf and hard of hearing community…
Accommodating Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Operating Room Environments: A Case Study
Increasing numbers of deaf students in the health professions require accommodations in the clinical setting to ensure effective learning and accurate communication. Although classroom learning barriers have long been identified and addressed, barriers to clinical education have been far less analyzed…
Commentary: What Are the Benefits of Training Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Doctors?
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHoH) individuals are underrepresented among physicians and physicians-in-training, yet this group is frequently overlooked in the diversity efforts of many medical training programs. The inclusion of DHoH individuals, with their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and struggles contributes to medical education and health care systems in a variety of ways, including…
Helping Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Succeed in STEM
Tilak Ratnanather and his postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins in the departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
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"Their work was innovative, student-centered, and just outstanding....read more "
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"Alicia has provided both direct interpreting services and managed my Designated Interpreting team for several years as a medical student and resident physician in family medicine. She has a well-developed and intuitive sense for my needs, the traits necessary in...read more "
- Michael Argenyi, MD Northwestern Family Medicine PGY-1, Erie Family Health
"Alicia/Designated Interpreters strives to provide high quality interpreting services with the needs of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing client at the forefront. She/they believe in tailoring the services to be fully accessible for the client to maximize his/her potential without accessibility...read more "
- Sue Gudenkauf Interpreting LLC, RID CT/CI, SC:L, Q-MHI
"Alicia is passionate about her service to the deaf community, and it shows in her every action. While she was working with a team who provided services to our two Deaf/HoH medical students, I could count on her to be...read more "
- Jeanie Robertson Disability Director
"As the first deaf medical student at the University of Wisconsin, many doubts, fears, and uncertainties within myself and the medical school administration clouded the excitement of my acceptance letter. Nonetheless, hiring Alicia was the best decision we collectively made...read more "
- Josh Reiher, MD Integrative Medicine Fellow, Saint Anthony North Family Medicine Residency
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package com.dotweblabs.friendscube.rest.resources.gae;

import com.dotweblabs.friendscube.rest.guice.SelfInjectingServerResource;
import com.dotweblabs.friendscube.rest.resources.StatusResource;
import com.dotweblabs.friendscube.app.client.shared.entity.actions.Status;
import com.dotweblabs.friendscube.rest.services.StatusService;
import com.dotweblabs.friendscube.rest.services.WebTokenService;
import com.dotweblabs.friendscube.rest.utils.Base64;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import org.restlet.util.Series;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * @author Kerby Martino
 * @author Kerby Martino
 * @version 1.0
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class GaeStatusServerResource extends
        SelfInjectingServerResource implements StatusResource {

    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(GaeStatusServerResource.class.getName());

    @Inject
    StatusService statusService;

    @Inject
    WebTokenService webTokenService;

    String clientToken;
    String statusId;
    Long userId;

    @Override
    protected void doInit() {
        super.doInit();
        Series headers = (Series) getRequestAttributes().get("org.restlet.http.headers");
        String authValue = headers.getFirstValue("Authorization").replaceFirst("Basic ","");
        clientToken = Base64.decode(authValue).replaceFirst("Authorization:","");
        statusId = (String) getRequest().getAttributes().get("status_id");
    }

    @Override
    public Status create(Status status) {
        if(validateClientToken(clientToken)){
            status.setUserId(userId);
            status.setCreated(new Date());
            status.setModified(new Date());
            statusService.create(status);
            return status;
        } else {
            setStatus(org.restlet.data.Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST, "Invalid client token");
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Status read() {
        if(validateClientToken(clientToken)){
            Status status =  statusService.read(statusId(statusId));
            if(status == null){
                setStatus(org.restlet.data.Status.CLIENT_ERROR_NOT_FOUND, "Status with id " + statusId + " does not exist");
            }
            return status;
        } else {
            setStatus(org.restlet.data.Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST, "Invalid client token");
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Status update(Status status) {
        if(validateClientToken(clientToken)){
            Status saved = statusService.read(status.getId());
            saved.setModified(new Date());
            saved.setMessage(status.getMessage());
            saved.setAttachment(status.getAttachment());
            statusService.update(saved);
            return saved;
        } else {
            setStatus(org.restlet.data.Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST, "Invalid client token");
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void remove() {
        if(validateClientToken(clientToken)){
            statusService.delete(statusId(statusId));
        } else {
            setStatus(org.restlet.data.Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST, "Invalid client token");
        }
    }

    public Long statusId(String statusId){
        Long result =  Long.valueOf(statusId);
        return result;
    }

    public boolean validateClientToken(String clientToken){
        if(clientToken != null && !clientToken.isEmpty()){
            Long userId = webTokenService.readUserIdFromToken(clientToken);
            this.userId = userId;
            LOG.info("Client token=" + clientToken);
            LOG.info("User id=" + this.userId);
            return userId != null;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

}

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Barbara E. looking strong during Wednesday's WOD.
We are happy to announce we will be adding a third Olympic Weightlifting class to the schedule starting Monday, May 4 at 6:30 pm. This will be a 90 minute class with a 10 person cap. This class will run every Monday for a total of 4 weeks to start. We've had a lot of success and growth from our athletes with the current weightlifting classes so we are really looking forward to being able to offer more. You must pregister for all Weightlifting classes in Wodify.
We are holding an in house lifting competition on Saturday June 6 starting at 11 am. Get to Weightlifting class and work on weaknesses to prep for this in house meet. This meet has been specially created for our athletes. Let's all come together and spend the afternoon pushing each other to have fun and move some weight! Singlets are not required, but are encouraged as you are prepping for official meets. We would like for you to make an effort to attend a minimum of 3 Weightlifting classes before participating in this in house meet.