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Throughout the 1980s, McNutt threw himself into Republican Party politics, serving as chairman of the 1980 Navarro County Reagan-Bush campaign. And politics led him to the woman who would become his first wife, 22-year-old Alicia Nygaard. Nygaard's father, Max, was a major player in Republican circles. The Nygaards regularly hosted President Ronald Reagan and his family when they would visit, and they counted conservative icons like the late Lyn Nofziger as intimates. Michael Reagan and Alicia Nygaard were very close and went to Arizona State University together.
McNutt started courting Nygaard after her society debut in 1983. He asked if she wanted to attend the 1984 Republican Convention at the Dallas Convention Center, where Reagan was nominated for a second term. He had tickets. "But she knew that he knew she had a standing invitation to the presidential box instead of just the open admission tickets he had," a Nygaard family friend says. "He was networking as much as he was asking her out."
If Alicia Nygaard knew, she didn't mind, and friends say she was swept away by McNutt's kindness and thoughtfulness. "He has a way of winning people over," the Nygaard family friend says. "He's very charming at first. People like that are. He wanted to pray on the first date."
The courting in 1984 led to a lavish wedding in April 1986, which in turn led McNutt to a job working for the Reagan-Bush transition team in Washington, D.C. Friends say that it wasn't long after the wedding that Nygaard started seeing past the face McNutt showed to the world.
"She saw his confrontations with his father over how he embarrassed the family with things he did, and how they couldn't keep covering up for him," Smith says.
Brother Bob McNutt—who took the reins of Collin Street Bakery when Bill McNutt Jr. retired in 1998—says that he was never privy to any confrontations or interventions between his father and brother. "I wasn't called into the room to say, 'Here, your brother needs—' I don't know what," Bob says.
In 1987, McNutt began working in the Reagan administration's Office of Management and Budget in Washington, which reports to the White House and, in a broad sense, is part of it. There he handled privatization issues. "Bill is one of the best networkers that I have ever known," says a former colleague who is now an oil executive in Houston who declined to be named. "He made a lot of friends in a very short time. Bill was introduced to me by a mutual friend from Dallas. Early in 1988, he left to join the Bush for President campaign staff, which I believe was his main goal in going to Washington. Bill was considered hardworking and innovative, and he was especially computer savvy, which was not so common 20 years ago. Like many on the transition team, after President Bush took office, he was appointed to a position in the Bush administration."
McNutt's career in Washington was a success. But his personal life was in shambles and deteriorating quickly. A source close to the couple at the time says McNutt would obsess about other women, following them around. In one case, the source says, McNutt was so taken with a woman at an event that he tried to take her picture while she was using the toilet.
"He followed her into the bathroom," the source says. "Her brother was there and nearly got into a fight with Bill."
But McNutt's lawyer, Hank Judin, describes it much differently. "This question is laughable," Judin writes in an e-mail. "This is the case where, because the lines for the ladies room were long at a public event, a young man brought his sister into the men's room. Bill and others in the crowded men's room thought this was hilarious. When a number of them whipped out their cameras, the young man and the woman promptly departed. Someone reported the incident to the arena security forces. When they learned the man and woman had been in the men's room, they laughed and walked off."
Much more serious is the accusation that McNutt physically and psychologically abused his wife—alternately being cruel and remorseful. Smith describes an example of his dual nature. An argument with McNutt turned violent, and it was serious enough that his wife had to go to the hospital—though her own priest told her not to report the incident because, the priest said, she couldn't save the marriage if her husband was in jail. When she came home, McNutt was on his knees, weeping and begging for forgiveness.
McNutt responded to Smith's allegation himself, writing, "The last question is outrageous and untrue. It doesn't deserve to be dignified. We were divorced over 15 years ago. My ex-wife and I are both remarried."
Two weeks after their second son was born in 1990, Alicia Nygaard McNutt left her husband in Washington, D.C. Their divorce was granted in 1994. The record is sealed. She kept their two sons away from McNutt.
Back in dallas in the late 1990s and early 2000s, McNutt, who was no longer a direct part of the family fruitcake business, tried to establish himself as a businessman. He started a direct marketing firm that he ran from home and was involved in several private equity investments and partnerships. McNutt had proven himself adept at making political connections, but he failed to do so in the private sector. Because of the nature of the investment business and the need for maintaining relationships, none of the people contacted who did business with him wanted to be named. But they weren't shy in their criticism.
"Oh, we have no problem throwing him under the bus, but that can burn you," says one former investment partner. "He just creeped us out. You mention Bill McNutt's name, and people will roll their eyes and shake their head."
McNutt eventually remarried—to Susana Rabel—in April 2006. At the ceremony, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, his groomsmen included his brother, an English lord, and Lamar Hunt Jr., among other notables. Beyond his new marriage, though, 2006 was a tumultuous year for McNutt. His father passed away at the age of 81. And his brother Bob removed him from the board of directors of Collin Street Bakery, severing all ties between Bill McNutt and the fruitcake company his father had built into a small empire.
"I just felt more comfortable, since I was going to have to move forward under my game plan, that it would be better to do that with a board that didn't include him," Bob McNutt says.
The next year, McNutt was among the class of 22 deacons confirmed to serve the congregation of the 4,600-member Highland Park Presbyterian Church. Deacons serve three-year terms. The membership makes recommendations, a committee nominates them from these recommendations, and then the congregation votes and elects the deacons. They are considered men of the highest spiritual character.
Again, though, McNutt appeared to have another side to his personality. While he was still basking in the embrace of Christian fellowship, a former employee, Halina Grodd, was sitting in the offices of the Highland Park Police Department, telling police how McNutt had been stalking her ever since she'd resigned in June. Grodd told Officer Joe Garber on August 20 that McNutt had been following her and making her feel threatened. He was obsessed, she told Garber, driving by her Lomo Alto Drive high-rise at all hours in his white Hummer, and calling and hanging up repeatedly. There hadn't been violence, but McNutt could be explosive, and she didn't know how far he might go, she told Garber. She was scared. She'd tried everything she could think of to that point, even contacting McNutt's brother Bob, asking for his help in reigning in his older brother. She said Bob McNutt was the one who told her to report Bill McNutt to the police. Bob McNutt declined to comment on this claim.
Garber took the report, but without specific charges or evidence in hand, police could not pursue the matter until laws were broken, according to HPPD Detective Marty Nevil.
An hour later, Grodd also reported the alleged harassment, threats, and stalking to the University Park Police Department, even though none of it had occurred within the UPPD's jurisdiction. She simply wanted a record of it within the same city where McNutt's McFarlin Boulevard home is located.
Nothing came of the allegations. McNutt wouldn't be so fortunate a year later.


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Residents are being warned by Fredericksburg Police Chief Steve Wetz to not believe the information printed on pieces of paper being taped to houses in an attempt to secure landscaping jobs.
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According to the report "Managing Expatriates' Return," published last year by The Conference Board based in New York City, two-thirds of the HR expatriate managers who responded said their expats cost three or more times their domestic salaries. Many experts estimate that number to be as high as $250,000 a year, or $1 million to send an expatriate family overseas on a four-year assignment.
Now consider these statistics: Repatriated managers in U.S. firms leave their companies at twice the rate of domestic managers without international experience. Another study cited in the Conference Board report shows that 20 percent of repat managers leave their companies within one year after returning from overseas assignments—and as high as 50 percent leave within the first three years.
It's impossible to know the opportunity cost to these organizations of losing their repatriates' global experience. But the good news is it's not hard to take the first steps in addressing the problem. Global Workforce assembled the following round table of experts to discuss the key issues.
- Steve Shephard is a senior member of the technical staff for Colchester, Vermont-based Hill Associates, a telecommunications education and consulting firm. He is also the author of "Across the Great Divide: Managing Cross-cultural Transition" due to be released this spring.
- Carol Jones is the regional director of international human resources for Deloitte & Touche LLP in St. Louis. Until February she was with St. Louis-based Monsanto, working with approximately 100 assignees to and from the United States.
- Michael Tucker is the president of Tucker International, a cross-cultural consulting firm based in Boulder, Colorado. He is an organizational psychologist with more than 30 years' experience working with individuals and companies to help them succeed internationally.
- Kevin Jeffries is the director of international HR for SBC Communications Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. SBC has maintained international operations since 1990 and currently has approximately 70 American expatriates in Chile, China, France, Korea, Mexico and South Africa.
- Ann Tagawa is a trainer and consultant for Prudential Relocation Intercultural Services in Boulder, Colorado. She has worked for 10 years in the areas of needs assessment and design and delivery of cross-cultural training programs.
- Martin Bennett is the director of training and consulting services for Bennett Associates, a Chicago-based intercultural training management firm. He has more than 22 years of experience in the field of cross-cultural education and training.
Throughout the round-table discussion, several themes emerged as key strategies for implementing a successful repatriation. It's clear that HR must work closely with line managers and expatriates throughout the term of the assignment to implement programs and strategies that will safeguard the assignment. It begins with managing expectations and it ends with creating a receptive, globally minded environment to which your expats can return.
As Steve Shephard of Hill Associates pointed out: "Repatriation begins at the time you put your name in the hat to go overseas." So our conversation started there.
Manage expectations with a repatriation agreement.
The most simple lesson this round table brought forth is that HR can head off a slew of problems by doing one thing: making sure everyone involved has realistic expectations about certain key issues. Can such an obvious idea really be a standard problem? Absolutely.
In general terms, expats are sent overseas to do one of three things: "fight fires," develop their management skills or satisfy a job-rotation requirement. The majority of assignments are firefighting missions that call for immediate attention. In such cases line managers and HR are happy to find an appropriately skilled person who has a profile indicating he or she will adapt well in another culture. There's little thought given to anything beyond the short term.
If you can get the key people involved—the line manager, the would-be expat and yourself—to talk through long-term expectations, you'll improve your odds of a successful repatriation. Carol Jones of Deloitte & Touche LLP explained: "We encourage our assignees to sit down with the people who've asked them to go on assignment [to ask questions like:] 'Why am I going? Am I supposed to go out there to fix this technology problem in Japan? Or am I supposed to learn everything I can about the Japanese way of doing business because I need this for managing my next assignment?'"
Simply put, expats need to know why they're going to a foreign post. It makes a difference if it's simply a functional assignment and not meant to be an opportunity to develop management skills. If they mistakenly believe it's the latter, of course they'll be disappointed when they return to a lateral position years later.
Michael Tucker of Tucker International added that expats these days are often very direct about asking what the company will offer them when they return: "[Expats ask:] 'What are your plans for me, assuming I do well and this works out?' And there should be a pretty darn good answer to that. There can't be a guarantee, but there should be an international/domestic career-planning process with options laid out and requirements set so you can tell the person: 'These are the things you need to do to be continually seen as an attractive person and to get the best assignments after this,'" Tucker said.
Of course, with organizational change, it's tough to predict what the company's hiring needs will be several years down the road. But today's international assignees are going to expect you to try: "I think most HR people would say that employees just aren't accepting the job anymore unless they're given some sort of assurance that at the end of the assignment, there's a job for them somewhere in the 50 states," Tucker said.
Once you've had a conversation, put what was discussed in writing. Create a repatriation agreement outlining the expectations of each party. Shephard shared his suggestions for what should be included in a repat agreement: information about compensation, transportation, schools, the domestic residence, in-country support and placement following repatriation.
Money matters also are bound to become a big issue for returned families if they come home with unrealistic expectations. According to Ann Tagawa of Prudential Relocation Intercultural Services, expats experience approximately a 30 percent decrease in salary after losing their expat bonus. She said: "They lose all the perks like their housing allowance, their children's tuition, the [club memberships]. Someone once described it like being Cinderella and midnight has struck: They're stripped of all these things."
At the same time, expats are struggling with a significant number of one-time expenses, such as a house and new cars. Tagawa added: "Companies can alleviate some of this by providing financial counseling for their expats before they expatriate. Then when they return, [companies] can provide tax counseling and financial planning to help ease this process, as well. Almost [all expats are] going to have to go through some [financial] loss unless they've been saving like crazy while they were overseas."
Carry career planning throughout the assignment.
Before the employee accepts the assignment, he or she wants to know that it fits logically into his or her career path and that the company will value the experience. Up-front discussions and a repatriation agreement may have allayed any fears at the outset, but once expatriates are overseas and they haven't heard any ongoing discussion of their career advancement, they're likely to begin worrying. "There's always that issue of being out of sight, out of mind; and that's the most difficult thing to overcome. I think every company struggles with it," Kevin Jeffries of SBC Communications explained.
According to our experts, career anxiety is an early symptom of repatriation. It often sets in long before the employee returns home. And with reason—according to a study by the Conference Board, 60 percent of respondents reported that fewer than 25 percent of their expats know what their home-office position will be as close as four months before their return.
There's another dynamic that makes the situation different from domestic career planning. Martin Bennett of Bennett Associates explained that international assignments tend to create an attitude of dependency in expats since so many details of their lives are handled by their companies while they're abroad. This often carries over into their career-development plans. "If a person's not working on their own career advancement as they would if they were in their home environment, then they'll quickly find out that companies aren't necessarily going to have a position for them."
So what can you do? Create opportunities for expats to manage their career development themselves. Several panelists stressed the importance of sharing information about available positions worldwide. Provide home leaves so expats can check in with business contacts at the corporate office. Establish a resource center that expats can call on a regular basis throughout the last year of their assignment. "We have our Staffing Center here [in the States] that's responsible for staffing throughout our whole company. And we have specific individuals who have responsibility for our international folks, both on the expatriation side and the repatriation side," Jeffries explained. "They know [what's available] and they know the skill sets of the people whom they're trying to place."
Even if your expats have taken a proactive approach to their career planning, they're still going to need you to keep them informed. Bennett said that he has worked with repats who were stunned to learn some things that their peers had known far in advance. "We saw many angry people in repatriation because No. 1, they didn't understand that when a company downsized people were going to be asked to leave. They hadn't had all the warnings that their colleagues [at home] had who are now situated very well in other companies," he said.
It's important to challenge your expats to maintain relationships with several of their colleagues to help them monitor organizational changes. Providing them access to a corporate intranet and an Internet e-mail account was suggested. Some companies organize regular visits from home-office personnel. But the favorite idea among our round-table participants was establishing expatriate/mentor partnerships.
"The most successful program I've found is AT&T's HR International," Shephard said. He described the program: "Every employee sent overseas has a person who's responsible for their well-being and is two levels above them in the corporation. That person is tasked with ensuring that the offshore employee is kept in the loop and comes home periodically for meetings and just to hang around the office and be seen."
Tagawa explained a common oversight in such a mentoring arrangement: "One problem with reorganization and personnel changes is the person who's assigned as a mentor and knows what that expat's going to be doing may not even be with the company four or five years from now. So it's the kind of thing that if it's offered to the expat, and there are changes like that, then management needs to put someone else into that position to continue the process and not leave the expat just dangling out there."
Prepare repats for reverse culture shock.
After career planning, our expert panel cited handling the cultural transition as the next difficult challenge. When our conversation turned to culture shock, Jones summed it up, "I think the most difficult adjustment is that they don't expect to have to adjust."
Shephard, having experienced repatriation and reverse culture shock firsthand after five years in Spain as a teenager, described the experience of an expat: "You go [overseas] and although, yes it's different, you're prepared for it, so the transition is somewhat manageable. Now, in the course of your four-year tour, you've learned new languages; you've learned to operate in a multicultural and multinational environment; you know how to do business with people from different cultures; you've adapted to a set of skills that you never had before. You've had a big office and a car with a driver. You've lived in a huge house. And now you're going home.
"Well, this is when the problem starts to happen," Shephard continued. "Your company typically treats your return as an [evacuation]—because how hard could it be? You're coming home. But point of fact, [where you came from] is now home, and as a consequence, your return to your passport country is just like another foreign assignment."
Shephard described what our experts said was a common experience of repats when they're faced with friends and family members asking about their time overseas: "Their eyes glaze over for the first 10 seconds because they don't have a clue what you've talking about or they brand you a braggart because: 'All he ever talks about is the time when he was in Abu Dhabi. Well, who cares about that?' But in fact that's all you have to talk about." This is a painful experience that often causes the returnees to migrate to the social sidelines.
You might be surprised by the type of person who has the most difficult time with this cultural adjustment. Tucker explained: "We find that those who adapt most completely to living and working in another culture are the ones who have the toughest time coming back again. We think that it's because their lives have changed so much… Their values have changed, their lifestyles have changed and so readjusting back to the home environment is really hard for them."
That begs the question: Would you be better off selecting a person less-likely to adapt well? Tucker responded: "[No,] but it's even more important to do training on the other end—and to help people remember how they adapted to the other culture and pull out all those skills and attitudes and apply them back in their home country."
Other than planning a debriefing session in the form of a traditional intercultural training program, what can you do to help them cope? And what are the issues you should be prepared to deal with? To start off, you should identify whether any of your expats are likely to experience more trouble than average and expect to give those individuals more attention during their adjustment period. Younger expats who've embraced the culture completely (older people have more experience adjusting to life's transitions), a spouse planning to re-enter the workforce and children are going to need your support more than the others; although it's likely that every repatriate, to some degree, will suffer some discomfort.
Also, the members of our round table suggested you make a commitment to help your expatriates start the readjustment process before they return. "Give at least six months' notice to the repat family that they're going to be coming back home. That's really important because it gives them a chance to reach closure on the assignment, say their goodbyes, finish their projects, complete the work that's under way and try to tie up all the lose ends," Tagawa said.
Several intercultural service providers have programs to incorporate the adjustment period into the last year of the overseas assignment. Tucker explained his company's program: "We like the employee and the spouse to complete [our "Repatriation Planning Guide"] several months before they come back. It starts them thinking about the international assignment, summarizing how they've learned and changed, and preparing them for the repatriation process... [When they return] we help them focus on some of those issues they've already identified. We like to wait and do the training a few months after they've come back, so they've experienced a lot of the repatriation difficulties."
Cultivate a global mindset in your home office.
Let's say you do everything right up until this step. You defined expectations upfront; you established ways for expats to manage their career development and stay connected to the home office; you acknowledged the difficult cultural conflicts your repats would be experiencing; and you implemented methods to help them with the transition. Even so, your repat program isn't in the clear. It has yet to face its toughest challenge: incorporating your repats into their new work environments.
Shephard described the situation from the assignees' perspective: "[Repats] want to use their new-found skills. They feel empowered. They feel special. They feel like they've done something good for the company, and they have. … But what happens is HR and line management don't understand this since they haven't been through it, so they put [the repats] in cubicles and they bring their salaries back down to where they're supposed to be in the domestic environment." Then, doing what feels like mundane work and using none of their newly acquired skills, some of the repats quickly grow dissatisfied. Shephard continued: "I now have interviewed hundreds of people. I've seen the same cycle over and over again, and it works like this: They get bored; they get frustrated; they get angry; and they leave."
At this stage, more than any other, our experts advised handling repats with care. It's not difficult to show your repatriates that the company values their international experience—so long as your company actually does. Members of the round table suggested holding a homecoming reception. They also suggested asking the repat to give a presentation to key executives or present his or her findings in a report. The repat could be invited to participate on a global task force, or could be encouraged to contribute his or her international perspective during regular meetings.
If your company is committed to developing a global business, making repats feel valued will be a simple task. Managers won't forget to use their repats as internal resources and will look for ways to make use of their global competencies. If this isn't the case, you have a bigger job at hand. You'll first need to work at establishing a corporate value that embraces the idea of transforming your company into a global learning organization.
It makes sense that if your repats feel the organization isn't receptive to their perspectives, then they'll soon become reluctant to contribute. Jones explained the situation at Monsanto: "The hard part is to get the employees to go through the debriefing because they feel somewhat hesitant to showcase their knowledge [in this] organization that they're trying to fit into. So we're trying to get upper management to send the message that employees are going on assignment, that it's an investment, and that the company wants a return on the investment and expects an acquisition of knowledge while they're out and a transference of knowledge when they come home."
The intercultural training offered a few months after arrival in the home country will be of use in this area too. As our experts said, trainers can help the employees learn to recognize some of the skills they developed. And the counselors may help the repat find a new position within the organization that will make use of these skills.
So why aren't companies offering repatriation assistance more consistently? Tucker said: "For many years, we've had the lip service of people who say they want to do repatriation training, but that seems to be the last place they put their money. … More are doing it now than before, but it's still the poor stepchild of the intercultural services."
Tucker said that the reason may have to do with trying to determine whose budget would cover the expenses. He added that some of the problem may be that HR and the line managers simply don't understand the importance of the issue. Tucker explained: "[They may be thinking] 'What's the problem? I mean, this is our country, after all, and we don't have a problem.'"
Even so, Tucker believes companies recognize that retention is a challenge: "I think many companies would say the loss of talent upon repatriation is a bigger problem today than overseas failures." And at a million dollars a shot, most of us would agree that it's an issue worth reevaluating.
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President Barack Obama authorized such airstrikes Thursday when the Islamic state militant group advanced on Irbil, in northeaster Iraq, where U.S. military trainers are stationed.
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Chuck Elmore at Floridas Turnpike says his agency instituted the first safety gate to prevent toll collectors from casually crossing electronic toll-only lanes. We reported a similar gate we saw at the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The project manager there said the idea came from the kind of safety gates used on a number of fire trucks to prevent firemen falling off from their standing positions on the side when the firetruck careens around a corner. The gate is jointed so it will pull toward the person, or rise vertically to let them pass, but which will not simply push forward into the toll lanes. At least two tollsters we know of have had collectors killed since ET was introduced when they walked in front of vehicles, though in one case it was in a regular cash lane. Many agencies attempt to get collectors to use stairs and tunnels or bridges but even then some crossing of lanes at grade is inevitable.
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07/01/2008, Oriental town dock
I took a nap, drove over to pay the Deatons bill (it was a lot less than I feared), and then walked the dogs to the sailboat. The first challenge was getting them in. At first they didn't understand why I was taking them into this strange place, as if it wasn't ours. The lady in the sailboat next to us was giving me the evil eye, as if I was a trespasser. It must have looked pretty odd to be introducing dogs to a sailboat that was apparenty in mid-cruise. Even though the boat was a foot or two from the dock at most, it was still too far. Eventually I had to lift both dogs onto the boat, which was easily doable from a dock roughly the same height above water as the boat. Once aboard, they did fine. The deck, even the non-skid, is slippery on the dogs paws. I'm going to have to keep a very close eye on them until they get their sea legs and of course even afterwards. The cockpit is large enough for myself and the dogs without being too cramped. If there were a few more passengers, however, it would admittedly get a bit cozy. The companionway steps are too steep for the dogs. The good thing about that is when I put them below, they will stay below; the bad news is that I have to lift them in and out of the cabin every time they go in or out. I won't be surprised if they learn to climb up and down by themselves over time. Oh, by the way, if you were wondering where your hat went, Matt, I've got it.
I was fully prepared to anchor in the harbor, but wonder of wonders there was a spot free at the town dock. Perfect. Transient boats can stay there for two days at a time. My new Oriental friend Pat was there waiting and grabbed my docklines as I landed. Pat and his wife are taking my space at the rv park when we depart Thursday or Friday. Pat drove me back to Deatons to retrieve the scooter. The great thing about a town dock space is that I can drive the motorhome right up to the space and very easily load things into the boat. Plus, it makes getting the dogs acclimated easier since we don't have to dingy in and out yet. I do plan to take them on several dingy rides over the next few days. There'll be pictures, of course. I celebrated with a hamburger, hush puppies and a 1/2 and 1/2 ice tea (half sweet and half unsweet). It's 2:00 p.m. here and I'm either going to take the dogs for a walk to the boat or take a nap, or both. I also need to pick up and pay the bill at Deatons this afternoon... yikes.
07/01/2008, Deaton Yacht Service to Oriental Town Dock
Not 1000 yards from Deatons I got stuck in the mud. That's right. I took this boat all the way from Annapolis to Oriental and never got stuck once. Stuck during the first 5 minutes. Fortunately it was only very slightly stuck. A few thrusts forward and then reverse and then forward and I was off. Thank goodness. It would really have sucked to have to call Deatons and tell them to come save me already. Cause, I went the wrong way around the marker. The marker that was marking the shoal. Red Right Return. Green Right Depart. Now I remember. The 2 mile cruise to Oriental harbor was otherwise uneventful. I gradually took the engine up to 6 knots and used the electronic autopilot most of the way. Matt, do I have a turbo charger on this engine. I wouldn't think so but I thought I heard one?
07/01/2008, Deaton Yachts
My plan to get up in the middle of the night and unload the rebounder at the boat yard wasn't excatly a success. I was just too exhausted to get up at midnight so I didn't drive out of the self storage RV place until 4:00 a.m. I was able to park the motorhome near the dock where the boat was, but it was still a rather long walk. I unloaded the heaviest items and gradually worked them to the dock as the sky went from dark to light. The moon was just a sliver. I haven't noticed the moon in a long time. Then I slowly moved all the things in the picture onto and then into the boat. About 1/2 of it is stored. I was so tired by 8:00 a.m. I had to take a break. Headed back to the rv storage park, took the dogs for a walk and fed them, then ate some leftovers (picture of yesterday evening's dinner is posted above) and headed back to the boat. I really wanted to get out of the boat yard already so I filled the water tanks, let the engine run for a while to make sure it would, then cast of the docklines and headed out.
06/30/2008, Tropical Dreamer
The sailboat isn't taking on water. This stream of water is the air conditioner on the sailboat working. Marine air conditioners use water pumped from the ocean to release the heat created by the compressor. It took about an hour to prime the pump, but once it started pumping water, the air conditioner started going strong. I don't know yet how good the system is. Frankly it seemed rather weak by Tucson standards, but it was probably 90 decrees in the boat when I turned it on so it may take a few hours to chill the boat down. The plan is to bring the motorhome down late tonight and unload my belongings into the boat while it is docked and while the marina is closed for the night. Then tomorrow I will head out and anchor outside the town dock and begin transitioning the dogs.
06/30/2008, Deatons
I have to admit I asked one of the dockhands to drive the boat into this slip as I didn't want any problems while parking near the other expensive sailboats. Amazingly, the engine started right up and began purring like new after 9 months of storage. The engine appears to be charging the battery bank just fine, although the batteries are well charged from the solar and wind turbine. While the boat was going through the main area of the yard several of the marine tradesmen commented at the apparent quality of the installation Matt did. They refered to it as a "custom install" and I could tell they appreciated the work that went into Tropical Dreamer over the course of the last month. It is a good sign that I was somehow able to get the boat in the water by the end of June, which was my main objective.
This is how good the folks at Deaton's Yacht Service are - They noticed that I hadn't painted the bottom of the wing keel (it was not possible while it was on blocks). They could easily have just let me go in, knowing that barnicles and growth would build up over the ensuing months on a part of the boat that nobody would notice but which would inevitably have a small affect on speed and efficiency. Not Deatons. They stopped the travel lift, set me up with more bottom paint, a fresh roller with a long stick extension, and let me paint the bottom of the bottom with two coats of the really good stuff before she went into the drink. Now I can sleep better at night knowing that the bottom is completely protected.
06/30/2008, Deatons Yacht Sertive
I stopped into the office to check on tomorrow's drop in. They were pretty busy tomorrow and offered to put her in today. I had about 30 minutes notice before the travel lift arrived. That was enought time. I was ready!
06/30/2008, Oriental, NC
I woke up this morning refreshed and ready to go. Took the dogs on a nice walk and then headed over to the boatyard. First I scheduled the boat to go in the water tomorrow morning (Tuesday, July 1, 2008), got the nuts and bolts I needed to finish the dingy and got it ready to go. Then I washed it and hoisted it up on the davits. I was worried that the dingy wouldn't fit due to the Hydrovane, but the dingy inflatable tube lays nicely against the big stainless steel tube support for the vane and it may even be more stable than before. The guys shifted the stands over so I could finish the bottom paint. I even put plastic bags over the stands after they were moved so they wouldn't blemish the already painted areas. Then I started moving things around in the boat to make room for the loads of my belongings that will start to come today and in the next several days. The rear cabin is going to be the main storage room until I get things more organized, which will take some time. This time tomorrow I should be in the water.


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The company did not give away the loss numbers for FY14, though it has taken steps to arrest the decline. Skoda has trimmed its India workforce by 15%, sources said.
Despite tough market conditions, we have reduced our losses. The operations are sustainable and efficient, said Rao.
The company has also trimmed its dealership numbers, from 100 last year to about 85. However, it continues to have a presence in 65 cities.
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RUSTON, La. - The Louisiana Tech Ticket Office will be hosting a Select-A-Seat event at Joe Aillet Stadium on Saturday in conjunction with the T-Day Spring Game where fans will be able to select their season ticket seats in the stadium.
The LA Tech Ticket Office will be placing a brightly colored tag on 100 of the best West Side seats currently available for purchase for the 2013 season. Fans can easily pull the tag off the seat and take it to the Game Day Central table located by the north ramp on the West Concourse of Joe Aillet Stadium to purchase their season tickets.
Available season ticket packages will include West Stands Reserved, West Stands Group and Family Pack seats.
The T-Day Spring Game will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Joe Aillet Stadium as the Bulldogs wrap up its first spring under new head coach Skip Holtz. The Tech Football Museum at the Charles Wyly Athletic Center will be open from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and stadium gates (West Side ONLY) will open at noon.
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We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.
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Margot Robbie may be reprising her "Suicide Squad" character for a Harley Quinn spin-off film.
The Australian beauty portrays the super villain in the upcoming DC Comics' superhero movie, and executives at Warner Bros. are so impressed they're already planning a stand-alone film with Harley Quinn as one of the main characters.
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Blake Lively has been criticized for an Instagram post that's been deemed racially insensitive.
The 28-year-old actress is currently wowing fans with some incredible ensembles at the Cannes Film Festival in France. She shared a snap of herself in a stunning gold sequinned gown, and drew attention to the fact that her bottom is getting bigger with her second pregnancy.
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Nick Jonas has teamed up with characters from 'Sesame Street' to perform a new song called Check That Shape.
The Chainsaw singer is set to appear on Saturday's (May 21) edition of the beloved children's TV show.
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Gigi Hadid makes an effort to stop the outside world from invading her personal life.
The 21-year-old model is hot property at the moment, in demand because of her successful career in fashion and high profile relationship with pop star Zayn Malik. With so much attention surrounding her though, Gigi admits she sometimes needs time out from being a famous name.
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She's quickly ascended the ranks to become one of the world's most in-demand models, and Cara Delevingne landed herself another gig fonting the June/July 2016 cover of W magazine.
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Kylie Jenner has reportedly moved on after her split from Tyga by dating Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor.
Kylie, 18 and Tyga, 26, who began dating in 2014, split for good earlier this month after a turbulent on-off relationship.
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Eva Longoria is reportedly tying the knot with fiance Jose "Pepe' Baston this weekend in Mexico.
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The folks at Ibis have used the latest technologies to eliminate most of the alloy bits found in the original Mojo Carbon frame. In the SL version, the dropouts are compression molded carbon fiber and are far lighter than their aluminum counterparts. The dropouts use stainless steel inserts to ensure durability. The head tube cups and seatpost insert are also carbon fiber. The actual composite layup is enhanced by the integration of higher modulus fibers, meaning less material can be used while maintaining the same strength and stiffness. Less material means less total weight. And, for the icing on the cake, steel pivot hardware has been replaced with lighter and stronger 6/4 titanium.
Ibis makes full use of the dw-link to provide an optimal blend of all-mountain suspension characteristics. One of the most notable traits is its built in anti-squat. The position of the linkages creates resistance in the suspension to the rearward transfer of mass and subsequent compression (squat) of the rear end as you stomp the pedals and accelerate. This anti-squat transfers your pedal input into forward motion instead of "monkey motion." According to Dave Weagle, the dw-link creator, the anti-squat properties built into the Mojo SL rear suspension allow Ibis to use a more lightly damped shock. This translates into greater bump sensitivity, traction, and control in all trail situations whether accelerating or coasting. The Mojo SL has that "buttery smooth" feel of a coil spring without the weight penalty. With the dw-link, the chainstay length increase is minimal and occurs at a constant and smooth rate. Pedal feedback as the suspension cycles is nominal and doesn't markedly change from the small to the big ring. We've found it to be a square-edge bump-eating machine.
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Lil Wally Burnham (Shane) as a defensive coach and a TE Coach named Courtney Messingham from MO State.
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Can't find anything on it. Link?
"I believe the state color for Alabama should be primer," Larry the Cable Guy.
Messingham sounded very familiar to me and now I see why, he was the HC of Upper Iowa while I was there. The team was not very good then and he was in a pretty tough spot, recruiting to Fayette, IA and they were transitioning to DII at the time with no conference affiliation at the time. I think he will be a good fit to coach TE's. He was a very nice guy and many of the guys really liked him.
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Rhoads may very well do ST.
Originally Posted by CrossCyed
Rhoads may very well do ST.
Is the staff full now?
Messingham is a UNI grad, and was on former UNI and KU coach Terry Allen's staff at Missouri State.
Wasn't TA an assistant coach at ISU after he was fired from KU?
Kind of meh on Messingham. Just something about him does not scream good position coach. Hopefully I am wrong.
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Originally Posted by 06Panther
Messingham is a UNI grad, and was on former UNI and KU coach Terry Allen's staff at Missouri State.
Wasn't TA an assistant coach at ISU after he was fired from KU?
Originally Posted by A-town Cy
Is the staff full now?
I believe so. Shane Burnham did coach ST at Elon, but I believe Rhoads was considering ST to stay "coaching" a little bit.
So here's basically what we've got for position groups:
QB: Herman
RB: Pope
TE: Messingham
OL: Bliel
WR: Wells
DB: Ash
LB: W Burnham
DL: S Burnham/Bray
ST: Likely one of S Burnham/Rhoads.
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Can't find anything on it. Link?
I can't link to Walter's mouth.
Messingham I believe is a W'loo East grad and QB'd some of the best teams in state history.
He was at UIU for only 1 year, maybe 2 as they transitioned to D2 and I think quickly realized he was on a sinking ship.
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
Originally Posted by d4nim4l
Kind of meh on Messingham. Just something about him does not scream good position coach. Hopefully I am wrong.
Well, he'll have plenty of talent to work with.
Especially on offense, the role of position coaches hinge much more on what the OC wants. With Herman running an especially gimmicky offense, Messingham will more than likely have to adapt to what Herman wants anyways.
Either way, I hope we actually throw to the TE this year.
Originally Posted by PolkCityClone
I can't link to Walter's mouth.
you could if you were really good!
I'm pretty sure we'll have 9 coaches. We only have 8 right now, not counting Rhoads.
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I've looked around but found varying information on this subject. I have some circa 1995 Shimano RSX dual pivot calipers, but I'm guessing this information would be useful for anyone with similar era Shimano road brake calipers.
I need to know what brand/model brake pads will definitely fit in the slightly narrower caliper slots on these particular brakes. To keep costs down, preferably something that is currently in production (rather not hunt down new old stock). I also really don't want to have to file down the post or the slot to make something fit. Does anyone use similar brakes and know for sure either way?


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Birth Name: Noelia Lorenzo Monge
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Birth Place: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Years Active: 1999–present
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Noelia Lorenzo Monge (born August 31, 1977 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), mostly known as Noelia, is a Puerto Rican pop singer who rose to fame in 1999. She is the first daughter of Puerto Rican singer Yolandita Monge. Her self-titled debut album was certified as a gold album in the United States. During her career she has had nine Latin ''Billboard'' Top 40 hits.
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Why protected/private access specifier cannot be used Interfaces declaration ?
You can declare a protected class or indeed a private one - but only within another one. At that point it's either visible to classes derived from the outer one (in the case of protected) or not (in the case of private):
What does a private class mean? That it cannot be used ever outside this class? Why would you ever have such a class? (How would you run/test it?)
What would a protected class mean? That it can only be seen by classes that extend it. So when you type a class skeleton (some where outside the world) it is not visble but when we say extends the class dynamically becomes visible?
Package protected class makes sense - It is visible to the classes inside the package and not really for public consumption.
There is no sense in having private or protected access specifiers for class or interface because these two makes more sense when it comes to variables or methods for achieving encapsulation of the data.
There is no such thing as an access specifier in Java. The term is 'access modifier'.
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May 30, 2016
Some Charlotte students are actually excited for school to start. Saturday, Charlotte Middle School administrators held an open house to show off the nearly $28 million facility to incoming students.
The new building is equipped with four state-of-the-art computer labs and more than 200 computers. The middle school hallways are color-coated as part of an effort to separate fifth graders from eighth graders.
Teachers' classrooms have collapsible walls that allow them to expand the size of their classrooms or combine teaching efforts with other neighboring teachers.
The building is nearly 200,000 square feet. Taxpayers will start by paying an additional $5 million each year, but that number may be reduced over the next 30 years as the building is paid off.
Administrators say they hope to open up the building to the community for civic organizations, meetings and activities.
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Is College Worth It? Only If You Do These Eight Things!
Nationally known author and career expert Donald Asher will present "Is College Worth It? Only If You Do These Eight Things!" at the University Center Ballroom October 3rd from 1:00- 2:15. The topic is perfect for students planning for their college experience as well as seniors trying to put everything together for upcoming interviews and their transition to the world of work.
Don Asher's presentations are always fast paced, informative and at times hilarious, so plan to join Career Services for this special speaking engagement.
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Copenhagen Cyclery: A Chicago Source for Danish Bikes
Store Profile
- Location: Chicago, Illinois and online
- Website: copenhagenbike.com
Store History
- Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Centrally located in Chicago's eclectically vibrant Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood, Copenhagen Cyclery is dedicated to enlivening the American cycling scene by offering exclusive lines of beautifully designed and expertly crafted European bicycles and accessories. Our city bicycles, cargo bikes and accessories represent the best in class in both craftsmanship and luxury details heretofore unavailable Stateside.
A 1-and-a-half-year-old newcomer to the busy retail area of Milwaukee Street in Wicker Park, Copenhagen Cyclery sells Danish bikes by Velorbis (who makes most of their stock) in addition to Italian Abici bikes, Dutch Batavus cycles, and Danish Larry vs Harry models.
While most of these high-quality commuter bikes clock in over the $900 mark, they also carry less expensive accessories including bags, baskets, and wall-mounted bike racks.
Velorbis bikes are designed in Denmark and manufactured in Germany, where they're constructed from powder-coated, rust-proof steel frames with Brooks leather seats and grips. The company explains, "All of our low maintenance bicycles are specially built to resist the tough Scandinavian weather where snow, frost and salt constantly threaten to attack every single component of your bicycle." Perfect for Chicagoans.
If you're not in Chicago, Copenhagen Cyclery's website has online ordering and national delivery. All the brands mentioned above can be purchased online, but accessories are for sale in-store only.


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Injuries have beset the Seahawks not only on offense but now on defense, with Marcus Trufant and Lofa Tatupu having to wear protective devices over their injured hands Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers.
RENTON — Look at all of the injuries that have hit the Seahawks, and one wonders just how they are going to be able to get through Sunday's game against San Francisco.
Earlier this week, it was injuries to the offense that forced Seattle to sign two free agents, Billy McMullen and Samie Parker, and to reduce its roster to four running backs with the injury to Maurice Morris and the release of Justin Forsett.
The epidemic has spread to the other side of the ball. Starting cornerback Marcus Trufant has a cracked bone in his left hand, coach Mike Holmgren said Friday, and will have to play with a protective device over the hand this week. Also, starting linebacker Lofa Tatupu was to have his bruised right knee drained Friday, as the fluid buildup limited his flexibility. He will play Sunday with a cast for his banged-up right thumb.
Trufant was injured in a collision in practice Thursday.
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"I did it before. I played with a cast in college," Trufant said, referring to a time during his junior year at Washington State. "Injuries come and they go, but if you got to cast it up, that's what you have to do."
Wide receiver wildness
Seahawks wide receiver Bobby Engram said he's never seen one position take such a hit with injuries as the Seahawks' wide receivers have.
"This is pretty bizarre," Engram said. "It's going to test our resolve, but we've got a resilient group of guys here and we're going to be fine."
Engram is out with a broken right shoulder that is healing but hasn't yet allowed him to practice. Deion Branch is practicing but not ready to play as he returns from knee surgery. Ben Obomanu and Nate Burleson are out for the season with injuries. That leaves the Seahawks with two second-year players, Logan Payne and Courtney Taylor — both will start Sunday, coach Mike Holmgren said — and McMullen and Parker.
"They're trying real hard," Holmgren said of McMullen and Parker. "I realize what we're asking them to do, it's hard."
The Seahawks might also work backup quarterback Seneca Wallace into the mix after he practiced at the position, and have until today to decide whether to sign rookie Michael Bumpus from the practice squad.
The need for a punt returner could factor into the Bumpus decision, but that evoked memories of a day in training camp when Bumpus dropped three punts.
Bumpus saw time in practice with the offensive starters.
"I didn't have any assignment errors," Bumpus said. "I felt like I put myself in a pretty good position."
But the absences of veterans are still felt.
"The toughest was losing Nate for the year," Engram said. "I thought Nate was really primed to have a big year for us."
Burleson suffered a torn left ACL last Sunday at Buffalo.
Branch practiced all week, including team drills, but remains doubtful for Sunday as his rehabilitation from knee surgery continues.
"He is improving. He's feeling better about things," Holmgren said. "I can't say we took a giant leap forward this week, but he did practice a little bit, which is a good sign."
• Two Seahawks who hail from the Houston area expressed concern for friends and family with Hurricane Ike bearing down on the Gulf Coast region of Texas. LB D.D. Lewis and DT Red Bryant said their families have evacuated the area. DT Rocky Bernard and RT Ray Willis are also from near Houston. There have also been evacuations from DB Jordan Babineaux's hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.
• RT Sean Locklear is doubtful because of knee pain. Willis will likely start again in his place this week.
• Floyd Womack will start at right guard Sunday for Rob Sims, who is out for the season. Womack played some right guard for the Seahawks in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
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I have posted much on this forum because I intend to eventually hop into the track cycling world XD.
I have a Windsor Hour.
Now, Assuming I want to turn this into a TT bike for individual/team pursuit, is the geometry right? I think the S/T angle is 73 degrees for my frame size.
When riding on the top of the drops (I had flipped the stem upside down becasue the angle on it was retarted when right side up), im not to stretched out, but Idk. Im 5' 9.75". I was considering a shorter stem + bullhorns if indeed I did also grab a pair of clip on aeros, to bring them closer to me so Im not so stretched out when Im riding the aeros.
What is everyone's take on this? I havent really seen anything on this forum specific to TT/pursuits.


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Welcome to Hibernate Tutorial Series. In previous tutorials we saw how to implement Inheritance in Hibernate: One Table Per Hierarchy.
Today we will see how to implement Hibernate Inheritance: One Table per Subclass scheme.
You may want to look at previous tutorials. Here is the complete list for you.
Hibernate Tutorial Series
- Introduction to Hibernate Framework
- Hibernate Maven MySQL Hello World example (XML Mapping)
- Hibernate Maven MySQL Hello World example (Annotation)
Understanding Relationship Mapping
- One To One Mapping example (XML Mapping)
- One To One Mapping example (Annotation)
- One To Many Mapping example (XML Mapping)
- One To Many Mapping example (Annotation)
- Many To Many Mapping example (XML Mapping)
- Many To Many Mapping example (Annotation)
- Self-Join One To Many Annotations Mapping example
- Self-Join Many To Many Annotations Mapping example
- Inheritance in Hibernate
Introduction to Inheritance in Hibernate
Java is an object oriented language. It is possible to implement Inheritance in Java. Inheritance is one of the most visible facets of Object-relational mismatch. Object oriented systems can model both "is a" and "has a" relationship. Relational model supports only "has a" relationship between two entities. Hibernate can help you map such Objects with relational tables. But you need to choose certain mapping strategy based on your needs.
One Table Per Subclass example
Suppose we have a class Person with subclass Employee and Owner. Following the class diagram and relationship of these classes.
In One Table per Subclass scheme, each class persist the data in its own separate table. Thus we have 3 tables; PERSON, EMPLOYEE and OWNER to persist the class data. Note that a foreign key relationship exists between the subclass tables and super class table. Thus the common data is stored in PERSON table and subclass specific fields are stored in EMPLOYEE and OWNER tables.
Following are the advantages and disadvantages of One Table per Subclass scheme.
- Using this hierarchy, does not require complex changes to the database schema when a single parent class is modified.
- It works well with shallow hierarchy.
- As the hierarchy grows, it may result in poor performance.
- The number of joins required to construct a subclass also grows.
Create Database Table to persist Subclass
CREATE TABLE `person` ( `person_id` BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `firstname` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `lastname` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', PRIMARY KEY (`person_id`) ) CREATE TABLE `employee` ( `person_id` BIGINT(10) NOT NULL, `joining_date` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL, `department_name` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`person_id`), CONSTRAINT `FK_PERSON` FOREIGN KEY (`person_id`) REFERENCES `person` (`person_id`) ) CREATE TABLE `owner` ( `person_id` BIGINT(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `stocks` BIGINT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `partnership_stake` BIGINT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`person_id`), CONSTRAINT `FK_PERSON2` FOREIGN KEY (`person_id`) REFERENCES `person` (`person_id`) )
Hibernate Inheritance: XML Mapping
Following is the example where we map Person, Employee and Owner entity classes using XML mapping.
File: Person.java
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; public class Person { private Long personId; private String firstname; private String lastname; // Constructors and Getter/Setter methods, }
File: Employee.java
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; import java.util.Date; public class Employee extends Person { private Date joiningDate; private String departmentName; // Constructors and Getter/Setter methods, }
File: Owner.java
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; public class Owner extends Person { private Long stocks; private Long partnershipStake; // Constructors and Getter/Setter methods, }
File: Person.hbm.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd"> <hibernate-mapping package="net.viralpatel.hibernate"> <class name="Person" table="PERSON"> <id name="personId" column="PERSON_ID"> <generator class="native" /> </id> <property name="firstname" /> <property name="lastname" column="lastname" /> <joined-subclass name="Employee" extends="Person"> <key column="person_id" /> <property name="departmentName" column="department_name" /> <property name="joiningDate" type="date" column="joining_date" /> </joined-subclass> <joined-subclass name="Owner" extends="Person"> <key column="person_id" /> <property name="stocks" column="stocks" /> <property name="partnershipStake" column="partnership_stake" /> </joined-subclass> </class> </hibernate-mapping>
Note that we have defined only one hibernate mapping (hbm) file
Person.hbm.xml. Both
Person and
Employee model class are defined within one hbm file.
<discriminator> tag is used to define the discriminator column.
<subclass> tag is used to map the subclass Employee. Note that we have not used the usual
<class> tag to map Employee as it falls below in the hierarchy tree.
The discriminator-value for
Person is defined as "P" and that for
Employee is defined "E", Thus, when Hibernate will persist the data for person or employee it will accordingly populate this value.
Hibernate Inheritance: Annotation Mapping
Following is the example where we map Employee and Person entity classes using JPA Annotations.
File: Person.java
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; import javax.persistence.Column; import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue; import javax.persistence.Id; import javax.persistence.Inheritance; import javax.persistence.InheritanceType; import javax.persistence.Table; @Entity @Table(name = "PERSON") @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED) public class Person { @Id @GeneratedValue @Column(name = "PERSON_ID") private Long personId; @Column(name = "FIRSTNAME") private String firstname; @Column(name = "LASTNAME") private String lastname; public Person() { } public Person(String firstname, String lastname) { this.firstname = firstname; this.lastname = lastname; } // Getter and Setter methods, }
Person class is the root of hierarchy. Hence we have used some annotations to make it as the root.
@Inheritance – Defines the inheritance strategy to be used for an entity class hierarchy. It is specified on the entity class that is the root of the entity class hierarchy.
@InheritanceType – Defines inheritance strategy options. JOINED is a strategy in which fields that are specific to a subclass are mapped to a separate table than the fields that are common to the parent class, and a join is performed to instantiate the subclass. Thus fields of Employee (joining_date, department) and Owner (stocks etc) are mapped to their respective tables.
File: Employee.java
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; import java.util.Date; import javax.persistence.Column; import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.PrimaryKeyJoinColumn; import javax.persistence.Table; @Entity @Table(name="EMPLOYEE") @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name="PERSON_ID") public class Employee extends Person { @Column(name="joining_date") private Date joiningDate; @Column(name="department_name") private String departmentName; public Employee() { } public Employee(String firstname, String lastname, String departmentName, Date joiningDate) { super(firstname, lastname); this.departmentName = departmentName; this.joiningDate = joiningDate; } // Getter and Setter methods, }
File: Owner.java
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; import javax.persistence.Column; import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.PrimaryKeyJoinColumn; import javax.persistence.Table; @Entity @Table(name="OWNER") @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name="PERSON_ID") public class Owner extends Person { @Column(name="stocks") private Long stocks; @Column(name="partnership_stake") private Long partnershipStake; public Owner() { } public Owner(String firstname, String lastname, Long stocks, Long partnershipStake) { super(firstname, lastname); this.stocks = stocks; this.partnershipStake = partnershipStake; } // Getter and Setter methods, }
Both Employee and Owner classes are child of Person class. Thus while specifying the mappings, we used
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn to map it to parent table.
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn – This annotation specifies a primary key column that is used as a foreign key to join to another table.
It is used to join the primary table of an entity subclass in the JOINED mapping strategy to the primary table of its superclass; it is used within a SecondaryTable annotation to join a secondary table to a primary table; and it may be used in a OneToOne mapping in which the primary key of the referencing entity is used as a foreign key to the referenced entity.
If no PrimaryKeyJoinColumn annotation is specified for a subclass in the JOINED mapping strategy, the foreign key columns are assumed to have the same names as the primary key columns of the primary table of the superclass
Main class
package net.viralpatel.hibernate; import java.util.Date; import org.hibernate.Session; import org.hibernate.SessionFactory; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { SessionFactory sf = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory(); Session session = sf.openSession(); session.beginTransaction(); Person person = new Person("Steve", "Balmer"); session.save(person); Employee employee = new Employee("James", "Gosling", "Marketing", new Date()); session.save(employee); Owner owner = new Owner("Bill", "Gates", 300L, 20L); session.save(owner); session.getTransaction().commit(); session.close(); } }
The Main class is used to persist
Employee and
Owner object instances. Note that these classes are persisted in different tables.
Hibernate: insert into PERSON (firstname, lastname) values (?, ?) Hibernate: insert into PERSON (firstname, lastname) values (?, ?) Hibernate: insert into Employee (department_name, joining_date, person_id) values (?, ?, ?) Hibernate: insert into PERSON (firstname, lastname) values (?, ?) Hibernate: insert into Owner (stocks, partnership_stake, person_id) values (?, ?, ?)
Download Source Code
Hibernate-inheritance-table-per-subclass_xml.zip (9 KB)
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UPDATED 5.20.2011 by Julie Montanaro
Dr. Mark Hash issued a written statement today in response to those charges being dropped:
"In July 2010 brake lines were cut on one of my cars. Due to my ongoing concern for my families security I am not releasing a statement at this time."
UPDATED 5.19.2011 by Julie Montanaro
A doctor arrested in a sting at a Tallahassee diet clinic is no longer facing criminal charges.
Court records show that the state attorney has dropped all charges against Dr. Mark Hash.
Hash was arrested back in November 2009 along with two employees at the First Impressions Weight Loss Clinic in Southwood. He was charged with prescription fraud.
Yet prosecutor Nick Bader says the state opted to drop charges in advance of Hash's June trial, saying they did not feel they had enough evidence to convict him.
A spokesperson for Florida's Department of Health says an administrative complaint is still pending against Hash.
He has not yet responded to our request for a comment.
Stephen Duncan, who was arrested in the wake of the FDLE investigation too, was offered a deferred prosecution deal in February. A spokesperson for the Department of Health says there is an administrative complaint pending against him too.
The clinic on Coolidge Court still has a First Impressions Sign posted outside, but the doors are locked and no furnishings are visible through the glass doors.
We did attempt to reach the one-time owners via their attorney to find out what has become of the clinic, but have not yet received a response.
UPDATED 11.3.09 6:50pm
Two Tallahassee diet doctors stand accused of prescription fraud and two clinic employees face felonies too. But today the owner of a weight loss clinic where they worked insists no one broke the law.
The First Impressions Weight Loss Clinic in Southwood is open for business and clients like Chris Cicatello were stunned by word of the arrest of two employees and the clinic's supervising physician.
"I was upset because they're good people working here. I've been coming here for three years and there's never been any problems with anybody working here. There's nothing that I've seen that they're doing wrong," Cicatello said.
Monday, the supervising physician here, Mark Hash, was arrested for prescription fraud and the clinic founder Jane Watts and another employee, Shakisha Curry, were arrested for practicing health care without a license.
FDLE contends the doctor was prescribing diet drugs without meeting the patients or evaluating them first. It's a contention the clinic owner vehemently denies.
"I can't see where he's broken any laws or rules of any kind," co-owner Karl Watts said.
Not freely writing prescriptions?
"No, ma'am. No."
All the clients who come to you have been evaluated and their medical histories checked before they received a prescription?
"Every single one, yes ma'am," Watts said in an interview Tuesday.
Watts also claims his wife, Jane, never presented herself as a dietitian -only a "nutritional consultant" and an attorney for fellow employee Shakisha Curry says she never claimed to be an LPN.
"She has graduated from nursing school. She's waiting to take her boards, but she had no idea the clinic web site was listing her as an LPN," attorney Chuck Hobbs said.
An FDLE spokesman says the agency stands by its findings and its charges which were leveled after five months of investigating.
Dr. Stephen Duncan - who runs Resolutions Weight Loss Center - faces nine felony counts of prescription fraud.
We tried repeatedly to talk with his attorney today, but with no luck.
A spokeswoman with the Florida Department of Health says both doctors have clear and active licenses and no prior discipline.
DOH spokeswoman Eulinda Smith says the Surgeon General has not made any decisions on whether to restrict or suspend their licenses based on the charges.
A spokeswoman with Capital Regional Medical Center says it has launched an investigation into the allegations against Dr. Stephen Duncan and its medical executive committee will ultimately make a decision about his hospital privileges. That could be before or after his criminal case is resolved.
Updated 11:44a.m 11/3/2009
Dr. Stephen Duncan, a weight loss physician, was arrested for prescription fraud Monday afternoon.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Duncan, the owner of Resolutions Weight Loss and the Men's Center of Tallahassee, was booked and charged Monday for writing prescriptions for appetite suppressants for patients he had never medically examined.
Duncan was scheduled for a first appearance Tuesday morning but was released on $9,000 ($1,000 for each felony charge against him) bond 6:56 p.m. Monday night.
Both clinics are still open. They say they'll continue with business as usual and let their attorneys sort through the legal issues.
We will bring you more details as soon as they become available.
UPDATE 11:15 pm
Two Tallahassee weight loss physicians are arrested for prescription fraud and are accused of writing those prescriptions for patients they've never even met.
With more than 11 counts of prescription fraud charges between them, the two weight loss specialists may have more to lose than their patients.
Their work revolves around getting people to see results when it comes to their waist size, but now the only thing 46-year-old Dr. Stephen Duncan and 48-year-old Dr. Mark Hash are seeing, are felony charges.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Duncan, the owner of Resolutions Weight Loss and the Men's Center of Tallahassee, and Hash, the supervising physician at First Impression Weight Loss in Southwood, were booked and charged Monday for writing prescriptions for appetite suppressants for patients they had never medically examined.
"Only a doctor can provide a controlled substance, but by law, doctors have to meet with the patients to determine if the controlled substance is medically necessary."
The doctors aren't the only ones in hot water.
Two others have also been slapped with felony charges.
61-year-old Jane Watts, the owner of First Impression Weight Loss, was arrested for presenting herself as a Nutritional Counselor and her employee, Shakisha Curry for posing as a Licensed Practical Nurse.
Both are charged with practicing a health care profession without a license.
FDLE says its investigation started after complaints from citizens came in and an investigation into other weight loss clinics is ongoing.
Three out of the four have bonded out, but Stephen Duncan will stay behind bars Monday night and will appear before a judge Tuesday morning.
Capital Regional Medical Center officials say Duncan's hospital privileges have not been revoked as of Monday, but their Medical Executive Committee will determine what action needs to be taken.
UPDATE 2:55pm
Official news release from FDLE:
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the Florida Department of Health today announced the arrest of four individuals employed with two Tallahassee weight loss clinics. Dr. Stephen Duncan, 46, owner of Resolutions Weight Loss and the Men's Center of Tallahassee, and Dr. Mark Hash, 48, supervising physician at First Impression Weight Loss, were charged with writing prescriptions for controlled substances with no medical necessity, a third-degree felony. Jane Watts, 61, owner of First Impression Weight Loss, and her employee Shakisha Curry, 35, were charged with practicing a health care profession without a license, a third-degree felony.
The investigation began in June 2008 when FDLE received information alleging Dr. Duncan was prescribing Phendimetrazine, a Schedule III controlled stimulant used to manage weight loss, to patients he had not medically examined. The investigation further revealed that Dr. Duncan prescribed Phendimetrazine from his Tallahassee office to patients visiting his clinics in Georgia and North Carolina, as well as to patients visiting his clinics in Orlando, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Chattahoochee, and Panama City, Fla. Dr. Duncan was charged with nine counts of writing prescriptions for controlled substances with no medical necessity.
FDLE began investigating Dr. Hash following allegations that he was prescribing Phendimetrazine to patients he had not initially examined. The investigation revealed that initial examinations of new patients were being performed by non-licensed individuals who also provided them with Phendimetrazine with little to no supervision by the physician. Dr. Hash was charged with two counts of writing prescriptions for controlled substances with no medical necessity.
Jane Watts was presenting herself as a Nutritional Counselor and Shakisha Curry was presenting herself as a Licensed Practical Nurse as part of First Impression's medical staff. Neither was licensed by the State of Florida to perform any medical service. They were each charged with practicing a health care profession without a license.
This case will be prosecuted by the State Attorney's Office, 2nd Judicial Circuit. All four subjects were booked into the Leon County Jail.
Two Tallahassee doctors who own weight loss clinics turned themselves in at the Leon County Jail today to face felony prescription fraud charges.
It comes after a months-long investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Dr. Stephen Duncan, a gynecologist and owner of Resolutions Weight Loss Center, is facing nine felony counts for writing prescriptions for controlled substances without medical necessity. An FDLE spokesman says he wrote prescriptions for a popular weight loss drug without ever meeting or examining the patients.
Dr. Mark Hash is also under arrest. The supervising physician at First Impressions Weight Loss Center in Southwood is facing two felony counts of writing prescriptions for controlled substances without medical necessity.
The founder of the First Impressions Clinic in Southwood and an employee there were also arrested. Jane Watts and Shakisha Curry are both accused of practicing health care without a license.
An FDLE Spokesman says it sent undercover agents into the clinics after getting information that the doctors were writing prescriptions without meeting or examining the patients.


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