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With UC's recent success in football that started their return to bowl games in 1997, more and more former Bearcats are going onto the NFL and having lucrative careers. The 1998 draft gave the Bearcats a record five draft picks and Artrell Hawkins, Brad Jackson, Jason Fabini, Derrick Ransom and Rodrick Monroe all had decent NFL careers.
In 2009, that was surpassed by the six picks from Brian Kelly's Orange Bowl team (Connor Barwin, Kevin Huber, DeAngelo Smith, Brandon Underwood, Mike Mickens and Trevor Canfield). So, seeing a Cincinnati Bearcat drafted is commonplace now. (Unlike 1983-86, 1990-93, 1995-96, when no Bearcats were selected.)
While not all that are picked stick, there still is a fair amount of former Bearcats "representing the C" in the NFL.
One of those is fan favorite Haruki Nakamura from Mark Dantonio's first recruiting class who was a sixth-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in 2008. With an injury-depleted defensive backfield in Baltimore, Nakamura stands to gain more playing time this year. Previously, he's made his name as a key reserve and a special teams hustler.
"It's the 'next man in' philosophy that we have here," said Nakamura reciting a phrase familiar to Bearcat fans. "Regardless of whether you're a starter or a back-up, everybody's ready to play."
I connected with Haruki at Ravens training camp recently during a lunch break in between practices. At the time he was looking forward to getting a lick on Tony Pike and the Panthers on the 12th, and looking ahead to the "bump and run" with Mardy Gilyard and the Rams September 2nd.
"Oh yeah, I've been waiting to get Mardy for a long time--I can't wait for that one," said a seemingly salivating Nakamura. "Picking on guys you used to play in college--it's funny. It's fun to see those guys in the league."
This is year three for Nakamura and he's played all three for Coach John Harbaugh (one of three former UC assistants under Rick Minter with NFL head coaching jobs--Pittsburgh's Mike Tomlin and Rex Ryan of the Jets being the others).
"He's been doing a heck of a job the last couple years," said Nakamura of Harbaugh. "His first year he was building a base, trying to start from scratch. Now, we're basically working for the championship this year. He's kept us even keel, we've been on a steady plane going up. We're extremely excited about this year."
Nakamura and Harbaugh have shared in the Ravens success with back-to-back playoff years, highlighted by an appearance in the AFC championship game in their rookie season. Still, both coach and player find time to talk UC football on occasion.
"We've had tons of conversations, especially when they play during the season," said Nakamura. "He's a Miami (OH) graduate, so I'm on him when that week comes around."
As for UC's new head coach, even though he played for Dantonio and Kelly, Haruki Nakamura is a Butch Jones fan.
"I had a chance to have a bunch of conversations with Butch this year," said Nakamura. "He's got the right mindset as far as taking Cincinnati to the next level. I think Mark Dantonio brought in a very physical tradition of football. He just wanted to be hard-nosed and wanted to dominate people. Brian Kelly came in with the glamor and that's what we needed at the time. Butch is basically the balance of those two."
"He knows how to coach an explosive offense," continued Nakamura. "He knows how to coach a different style of football. He's just a nice fit. I talked to a lot of guys that played at Cincinnati and we feel like this year could be a big year. They've got a tremendous amount of talent and it's not like they have a quarterback situation. Zach Collaros has proven himself. He's just got to stay level-headed and just make plays."
While Nakamura was involved with three bowls at UC (Fort Worth, International and Papajohns.com) none were of the scale that the Bearcats have seen the last two years in the Orange and Sugar Bowls. Like many ex-Bearcats, there's a wee bit of jealousy, but a lot more pride than anything over their success.
"You're very proud of what those guys are doing," said Nakamura. "My senior year, we won 10 games for the first time in I think 50 years. Just to see it continuing to show promise, you're very proud of the tradition that they're building. Cincinnati has great tradition, people just don't know about it."
Meantime, while wishing the Bearcats well, Nakamura must concentrate on the rigors of NFL training camp. And, getting ready to face the Cincinnati Bengals on September 19th at Paul Brown Stadium.
Nakamura usually fields a few ticket requests for that one and plans to oblige--as long as his friends/fans wear their Ravens jerseys.
"I usually only just do a few," said Nakamura with a chuckle. "A couple of friends, my mother and my sister. The guys, Lamonte Nelms and those guys, I get them tickets all of the time. I'm always staying close with the friends I had when I went to college."
To see Haruki Nakamura, you may not guess he was an NFL player. But, if you KNOW Haruki Nakamura, you know that being smaller means nothing to him as he can deliver a hit with anybody. Plus, his judo training from his parents gives him a few tricks that many aren't aware of.
In Nakamura's world, it's the size of the heart and mind that matter (as it should).
"I finished college around 193, I'm probably about 197 now," said Nakamura. "I don't want to put on too much weight. The way I play, I'm a very intense guy--an effort guy--I don't feel putting on all that weight is all that big of a deal."
Many former Bearcats that were on the receiving end of a "slobber-knocker" from #13 in their playing days would probably agree.


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What If, the Euro collapse ?
Let us start off by saying that we do not see the Euro collapsing and being shelved, at least not yet, anyway. No exit process was written into their rules anyway. But it is technically possible, so better to be forewarned.
The former Governor of the Bank of Israel, Prof. Yaakov Frenkel, has predicted a possible collapse of the Euro within the next three years.
Frenkel was quoted by the Bulgarian news agency BTA as saying that if European Union leaders fail to deal successfully with the Greek financial crisis, the European currency would not survive.
Full Collapse
Simply put, the Eurozone would revert to what it was before the Euro existed. The European Central Bank would have to return all of its gold to the member States in proportion to their initial contributions. Their old currencies would have to be resurrected and Euro reserves converted back to the mix passed to the European Central banks from the beginning of the Eurozone.
Dollar reserves would be built up again to replace the lost Euro reserves.
The world's Foreign Exchange Markets would be in chaos. Confidence in most if not all currencies would almost disappear. By extension the ripple effect through the economies of the world and business in general, would be destructive. There would be a huge scramble for all hard assets, but particularly precious metals. Briefly the U.S. Dollar would reign as king.
Partial Collapse
More likely the Eurozone will shrink first. The poorer Southern countries of the E.U. would be cast out of the Eurozone and would have to revert to their previous currencies. Spain would return to the Peseta, Greece to the Drachma, etc.
The example of Argentina un-pegging from the U.S. Dollar should be seen as the precedent for this process. The wealthy of Argentina found their capital hammered when it was forcefully converted from the U.S. Dollar to the Peso in that process too. So the lifting of deposits, which is happening now, from the banks in Greece, Portugal and now Spain, was only to be expected. If they had their own currencies, either the fall in the value of those currencies would deter that capital flight, or the imposition of Exchange Controls would block it.
In the case of Europe, we would also expect to see Exchange Controls imposed immediately all countries that leave the Eurozone did so. This would prevent the capital hemorrhaging from the country that left the Eurozone in disgrace. The exchange rate of the exiting countries would initially fall heavily then take a long time to recover, if they managed to recover economically at all. By leaving the zone, these countries, would ensure they would suffer at least one, if not more, decades of growing poverty, much as is expected to happen with them remaining inside the Eurozone.
With the richer nations remaining in the Euro, the exchange rate of the Euro would soar at first, hammering its global trade competitiveness but attracting the world's capital. It would jump against all currencies, but most decisively against the U.S. Dollar, as its indebtedness would fall and prospects would improve.
If Germany Leaves The Eurozone
It is possible in one scene to see Germany recognizing no further advantage of remaining in the E.U. and opting to leave. This is unlikely, but technically possible. If it were to do so, there would be few really strong economies left behind, in the zone. This would be a disaster for the Euro, which would tumble against the U.S. Dollar. If the poor countries of the Southern part of the Eurozone remained in the E.U., then the Euro would remain on an ever deteriorating slope.
Germany would return to the Deutschmark and follow a similar currency path that it experienced prior to the creation of the Euro. This would mean repeated upward revaluations, usually preceded by denials of such revaluations from the Bundesbank.
In that event, the U.S. Dollar would be favored as the global reserve currency almost exclusively and would rise on foreign exchanges, despite so many reasons why it should fall. It would in fact be falling but slower than other important currencies, giving the impression of strength in weakness.
Resource producing currencies would soar. In an attempt to lower their exchange rates they would turn to lowering their interest rates in the hope of maintaining the export competitiveness of their locally manufactured goods. With resources having an international market price, outside their own currency, such nations would drive down their exchange rates, provided local inflation allowed it [As China is doing now and as was suggested by the I.M.F. recently].
The overall result would be a volatile and damaging use of currencies as part of trade wars. Should that happen, Protectionism and Exchange Controls would become commonplace, particularly in smaller economies.

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The latest entry in the popular Guitar Hero video game series has now hit store shelves, but there has been some public discontent over the game's playable avatar of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. On September 11th, surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl issued a joint statement expressing that they were "dismayed and very disappointed" that the Cobain avatar could be used to play any song in Guitar Hero 5, not just Nirvana tunes. Meanwhile, Cobain's widow Courtney Love has been raging on Twitter over the guitarist being included in the game to begin with, claiming Cobain would have loathed the game and that she would sue video game maker Activision over his image use.
Okay, let's put aside the fact that both Love and Grohl had to give permission for Activision to use Cobain's image and Nirvana's music in the first place (making Love's assertion that she never approved the likeness very odd). More importantly, let's also push aside the cultural and historical baggage. Yes, Nirvana was the most important rock band of the 1990s, largely due to how it was resolutely spat in the face of rock music convention. Nirvana was at the center of the alternative rock revolution, which by its nature denounced commercial opportunism and despised the corporate music industry machine. Despite his well-documented drug problems, Cobain's 1994 suicide is often interpreted by rock scholars as the ultimate act of defiance in the face of unwanted stardom. Nirvana does hold a hallowed place in rock history, but the group shouldn't be treated as a sacred cow, never meant to mingle with the sort of artists they mocked and despised in a blockbuster media product. As a huge Nirvana fan myself, I too am certain that Cobain would have intensely hated his image appearing in the game. Then again, Cobain hated a lot of things, chief among them cleaning his apartment. The inclusion of a playable Kurt Cobain avatar in Guitar Hero 5 is definitely ill-advised, but it's not because it devalues everything Nirvana stood for, as Love in particular suggests. It's ill-advised because it looks utterly stupid.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Three additional Tennessee women's basketball home games, including high-profile non-conference match-ups with North Carolina, Stanford and Rutgers, will be televised during the 2012-13 season, the school announced Wednesday. That brings the total to 20 regular-season Lady Volunteer games scheduled for TV during the upcoming campaign.
The Tar Heels come to town for a 1 p.m. contest on Dec. 2 that will be carried by SportSouth and FOX Sports Tennessee. The Lady Vols lead the all-time series by a 14-3 count, including victories in the past two meetings. Then-fifth-ranked UNC came to Knoxville in 2007 for the most recent game, with then-top-ranked UT prevailing, 83-79.
Stanford and Tennessee face off at Thompson-Boling Arena at 4 p.m. on Dec. 22, with SportSouth broadcasting the 30th contest between the two schools. UT owns a 22-7 lead in the series, with Stanford winning, 97-80, last season at Maples Pavilion.
The Big Orange women welcome Rutgers to Knoxville on Dec. 30 for a 1 p.m. tussle on SportSouth. The Lady Vols won their eighth in a row over the Scarlet Knights last year in Piscataway, N.J., walking away with a 67-61 triumph. UT leads the series, 18-3.
In addition to the TV information on those three games, UT also released start times for six non-televised home dates. Those games include Nov. 15 vs. Rice (7 p.m.), Nov. 25 vs. Alcorn State (2 p.m.), Nov. 28 vs. Middle Tennessee (7 p.m.), Dec. 28 vs. Davidson (7 p.m.), Feb. 10 vs. Ole Miss (2 p.m.) and Feb. 21 vs. Auburn (7 p.m.). The Feb. 10 date features the "Live Pink, Bleed Orange" game.
Tennessee also is a host site for the NCAA First/Second Rounds, March 23 and 25. March 23 first-round tip times are 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., while the second-round game on March 25 is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Both rounds will be carried on ESPN2 HD.


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PNC hires loan officer
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PNC Financial services has hired Scott Cramer as a mortgage loan officer for its Indiana territory.
Cramer lives and resides in the area, and will be covering the Ben Franklin, Blairsville, Farmers and Indiana University of Pennsylvania branches.
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Summit to address obesity and other health care issues in Mississippi
This grant provides support for the Healthy Mississippi Summit, held June 15, 2006, which convened business, education, health care, spiritual and political leaders to address the causes of chronic diseases in Mississippi--specifically, poor diet and lack of physical activity. The goal of the summit was to improve wellness where Mississippians live, work and learn. The summit stems from the Mississippi delegation's participation in the National Governors Association's Healthy America initiative. Approximately 1,200 attendees participated in interactive sessions on replicating successful environmental and policy change strategies for preventing childhood obesity in Mississippi. This project will be considered successful if several public policy initiatives and goals for preventing childhood obesity are advanced.
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This section of the site is aimed at journalists, bookers, photographers and other members of the media interested in issues related to cluster munitions.
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Professional Association of Innkeepers International 2013 Las Vegas Tradeshow This year our National Conference was held in Las Vegas at the Historic Tropicana Hotel and Casino. Continuing education is like an iPad that has just been plugged into the wall socket. The iPad has been working just fine, but you notice in the corner of […]
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Frank & Ralph have just returned from the annual PAII conference in Little Rock, Arkansas and we are still trying to sort through all the information and ideas that we brought back. PAII is the educational organization of our B&B industry and many of the experts in travel and tourism industry are represented at the annual conference. We attended lectures on […]
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Hi everyone
I've finally gotten around to putting together a nice "meet and greet" site to introduce people to myself and my work. I plan to use this space to offer support for themes (when I develop more) and to show my current interests. Also in the process of adding a blog where I want to post freebies (bits of design material, perhaps some CSS etc).
I would be very grateful if you could give me some feedback and most importantly, let me know if you see any bugs (this is my second responsive layout so if you're browsing on a non-desktop device I'd like to hear what you think).
My site can be found here: http://www.webbymatt.co.uk
Thanks for your time
Hi Matt,
Couple of things:
User user-centered -> user-centred (US / UK spelling)
development, but focus my -> development but focus my
One of the first things I did was try and click on the underlined phrases "web designer" and "frontend developer" (isn't it front end – two words?) and they aren't links. I also absentmindedly tried clicking on 'Contact' (in 'contact me')
The three buckets on the front page have no consistent message – the first is a piece of your work and the other two are links out to third party sites.
Re. marketing your self, I would avoid the phrase, 'I don't profess to know everything about it' under SEO . The fact that you mention it's a fast moving industry should get that point across without having to spell it out with a negative statement.
Under 'HTML/CSS development', the comma should come after the 'and', not before (and, by using)
Under 'User Experience, no need for a comma after 'and' (spec and testing )
Minor details aside, it's a nice clean design, if a little lacking in visual punch at the top.
Thanks very much for your feedback, some really good points there. I was unsure about the highlighting in the intro text myself – is it a link or not? I wanted to add emphasis but without looking like a link.
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ORDER Chinnappa Reddy, J.
1. A Division Bench of this Court consisting of Desai and Ranganath Misra, JJ. gave certain directions in Inder Pal Yadav and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. , modifying a scheme prepared by the Railway Administration for the purpose of absorbing 'retrenched Railway Casual Labour, Incorporating the directions of the Court, the Railway Board issued a circular to the General Managers of all Indian Railways, paragraph 5.1. of which is relevant and is as follows :
5.1. As a result of such deliberations, the Ministry of Railways have now decided in principle that casual labour employed on projects (also known as "Project casual labour") may be treated as temporary on completion of 360 days of continuous employment. The Ministry have decided further as under :
(a) These orders will cover :
(i) Casual labour on projects who were in service as on 1-1-1981; and
(ii) Casual labour on projects, who, though not in service on 1-1-1981, had been in service on Railways earlier and had already completed the above prescribed period (360 days) of continuous employment or have since completed or will complete the said prescribed period of continuous employment on re-engagement after 1-1-1981.
(5) The decision should be implemented in a phased manner according to the schedule given below : -
Length of Service (i.e. continuous Date from which may be employment) treated as temporary. (i) Those who have completed 1-1-1981 five years of service as on 1-1-1981. (ii) Those who have completed 1-1-1982 three years but less than five years of service as on 1-1-1981. (iii) Those who have completed 1-1-1983 360 days but less than three years of service as on 1-1-1981. (iv) Those who complete 360 days 1-1-1984 after 1-1-1981. the date on which 360 days are completed which ever is late.
2. The petitioners before us who are 149 in number claim that they are entitled to the benefits of the modified scheme and they pray that they should be forthwith taken back into employment. The Railway Administration admits that 84 of the petitioners arc entitled to the benefits of the scheme as they were in employment on January 1, 1981 and that the remaining 65 petitioners are not entitled to the benefits of the scheme as they were not in service on January 1, 1981 having been retrenched sometime prior to that date. The contention of the Railway Administration is clearly wrong in view of the express provision in paragraph 5.1. (a) (ii) that "these orders will cover casual labour on projects, who, though not in service on January 1, 1981, had been in service on Railways earlier and had already completed the above prescribed period (360 days) of continuous employment or have since completed or will complete the said prescribed period of continuous employment on re-engagement after January 1, 1981." A direction will, therefore, issue to the respondents to include the petitioners in the scheme for absorption as formulated pursuant to the directions of the court.
3. Shri Krishna Murthy, learned Counsel for the Railway Administration brings to our notice the difficulty which will be experienced by the Railway Administration if without any limitation persons claiming to have been employed as casual labour prior to January 1, 1981 keep coming forward to claim the benefits of scheme. We understand the difficulty of the Administration and we therefore, direct that all persons who desire to claim the benefits of the scheme on the ground that they had been retrenched before January 1, 1981 should submit their claims to the Administration before March 31, 1987. The Administration shall then consider the genuineness of the claims and process them accordingly. The Writ Petition is allowed accordingly.


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Giant Arctic Mosquitoes!Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 09/23/2015 - 14:55
A number of media outlets picked up a story recently about increasing swarms of giant mosquitoes endangering caribou and blotting out the Arctic Sun. Evidently this all came from a research report that stated the obvious, a longer, warmer summer would lead to a longer mosquito season in the Arctic. Having lived in Alaska, I can verify that the mosquitoes there are huge and their swarms can almost blot out the Sun, or at least it seems that way if you are getting bit. The problem here is that there is no evidence that there are more or larger mosquitoes emerging from the tundra of the north lands. This is yet another case of airhead news writers misunderstanding the facts or twisting them to fit their desired narrative.
Crank of the Week – August 2, 2015 – Hillary ClintonSubmitted by admin on Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:25
Finally giving a more or less straight answer to a question—perhaps a first for Ms. Clinton's presidential champagne—Hillary has come down in favor of the President's new "Clean Energy Plan." According to a web posting, Hillary said "You don't have to be a scientist to take on this urgent challenge that threatens us all. You just have to be willing to act." In other words, don't bother to understand the science or the possible ramifications, just trust me! Interesting that during the same week she refused to answer a question about the Keystone Pipeline, saying she wouldn't comment while the Obama administration was still weighing its decision. What a cop out.
Burning Dinosaurs & CO2Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Tue, 06/16/2015 - 11:45
The Triassic–Jurassic boundary 200 million years ago marked the beginning of the dinosaurs' dominance of the entire planet. Following the worst ever extinction event at the end of the Permian, 252 mya, dinosaurs started showing up in the fossil record around 245 mya but did not spread to all areas of the globe until the end of the Triassic. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) posits one possible explanation for why the spread of dinosaurs was stymied. Sadly, this interesting but not conclusive report was immediately seized upon by climate alarmists as a cautionary tale about atmospheric CO2 levels. A news item in Science online labels modern levels "alarming" and implies that a fiery fate, like the one that held the dinosaurs at bay for so long ago, awaits us all.
The Tide Is Turning, Time For Global CoolingSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 05/28/2015 - 14:37
Climate scientists have constructed models to predict what Earth's climate will look like decades, even hundreds of years in the future. Unfortunately, many major components of Earth's climate system have not been accurately monitored for very long. This makes such predictions suspect if not laughable. A case in point are variations in ocean circulation and temperature. In the Atlantic there is a cycle for sea surface temperatures variation called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). The AMO is linked with decadal scale climate fluctuations like European summer precipitation, rainfall in Europe and India, Atlantic hurricanes and variations in global temperatures. A new study in the journal Nature reports that the AMO is again transitioning to a negative phase, meaning the vaunted "pause" in global warming may be with us for decades. In fact, scientists at the University of Southampton predict that cooling in the Atlantic Ocean could cool global temperatures a half a degree Celsius.
If At First You're Not Believed, Lie, Lie AgainSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Mon, 02/16/2015 - 13:26
Proving the old adage, if your first lie isn't believed lie again and make it a whopper, NASA GISS announced another study proclaiming imminent climate catastrophe. This time it's the US Southwest and the scourge is not just drought, it's Megadrought! The report predicts that decades-long droughts are likely to ravage the US Southwest and Great Plains within the next century. "This drying could be worse than any other in the past 1,000 years, including a 'megadrought' seven centuries ago that helped drive an ancient civilization to collapse," wails Nature online. But just how did the researchers come to this conclusion and what evidence do they base their predictions on? As it turns out the whole thing is a house of cards.
Review: Disasters & Climate Change by Roger Pielke, Jr.Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:02
The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change is the latest book by Roger Pielke, Jr., noted political scientist and professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). In it he addresses the controversial subject of whether natural disasters are becoming more frequent and more fearsome due to manmade climate change. This short volume is an excellent summary of his work in this area and a reference that anyone serious about climate change should have on their shelf. After receiving an advance copy of the work, here is my review.
Half-truths, Lies & Climate ChangeSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 13:23
It is no secret that there is much misinformation bandied about regarding climate change and the related subject of green energy. Half-truths and lies are spread by advocates on both sides of the debate, most often via the Internet. Recently, climate alarmists trumpeted a report claiming that 23% of the world's energy was now being supplied by renewable sources, clearly an attempt to bolster the claims of the wind and solar industry. At the same time, a report appeared that powering a car via electricity is 10 times less efficient than via fossil fuel. These are only two of the bogus, misleading reports to surface recently, promoted by both warmists and skeptics. Sadly, the public is caught in the middle without the scientific or technical background to judge the truth of such pronouncements.
The Ignorance of Climate AlarmismSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 08/06/2014 - 13:31
One of the sad side effects of the global warming climate scam is the way otherwise fairly intelligent people have been snookered into believing the dumbest things. An example in point: in a world where millions die each year due to malnutrition, US Secretary John Kerry lectured African leaders attending a summit in Washington that creating more farms in Africa causes too much carbon pollution. Can you imagine the response of any national leader, being told he must let his people starve because a bunch of rich nation, ivory tower science boffins have this unproven, wild idea that CO2 might cause the world to warm by a degree or two a hundred years from now? This is the type of imbecility that comes from following a pernicious untruth down a rabbit hole of false assumptions. Yet around the globe people seem defenseless against the infectious ignorance that is climate alarmism.
Big Bang Blunder and the Carbon Pollution CanardSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 06/04/2014 - 13:40
Hoards of non-scientists have been making a career out of pushing "settled science," particularly when it come to climate change, the eco-socialists' favorite excuse for dismantling the world's existing economic and industrial base. Unlike the notoriously squishy science of climate change, physics is viewed as being mature and on a more solid foundation, at least by those who are physicists. Given the recent furor caused by the IPCC and NCA reports, plus the US EPA's ham handed attempt to institute CO2 Cap & Trade without the agreement of Congress, it is instructional for scientific outsiders to review recent events in both fields. Read on, believers in the myth of settled science and those who think scientific questions are resolved by consensus.
The Fall Of CaliforniaSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 15:12
Over 4,000 years ago, the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley faded and disappeared. Never heard of the Harappans? Theirs was a Bronze-Age civilization located where Pakistan and northwest India are today. With large, well-planned cities, municipal sewage systems and writing that has never been deciphered, they had a civilization equal to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece. But the Harappans fell victim to what most view as a modern horror—climate change. Sometime around 2,100 BC the monsoon cycle, vital to all of South Asia, faltered. The reliable rains stopped, and man's earliest civilizations fell. Now we are told that California—that progressive paradise on the Pacific—is poised on the brink of its own drought spawned disaster. So desperate have things become that one restaurant chain has threatened to stop serving guacamole and vintners are turning to witchcraft. Can the total collapse of Californian civilization be far behind?
California Dreamin' Of Wetter TimesSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 02/05/2014 - 15:03
California, the state that raises 30% of US fresh produce, is in the grip of a severe drought. Billed as the driest period in the state's recorded rainfall history, climate change alarmists have hastened to blame the parched conditions on anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Paleoclimate history tells a different story, however, and highlights the amazingly short attention span of AGW advocates. Going beyond the 163-year historical period, science shows that there have been other, longer lasting and more severe droughts than the current dry spell. Today's drought is minor when compared with ancient Megadroughts, which occurred between 850 to 1090 and 1140 to 1320. In fact, the worst droughts suffered by the American Southwest all happened so long ago that human memory fails us.
Arctic Vortex VexationSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 01/09/2014 - 14:33
You may have notice that the news media talking heads and TV weather presenters have discovered a new term recently—the Arctic Vortex. In a splendid demonstration of how the weak minded are quickly consumed by group think, and ill understood terms get repeated ad nauseum, the Arctic Vortex has dominated the news during the past week in the US. In truth, the phenomenon is not new. What is new is that its current foray south is being loudly attributed to global warming. For years the effects of a warming Arctic have been the subject of scientific speculation. Dubbed Arctic amplification, some claim it will enhanced extreme weather in the middle latitudes. The fact that such linkage is tenuous at best has not stopped ignorant politicians like the UK's David Cameron and the US's Barack Obama from blaming recent nasty weather on that old nugget, anthropogenic global warming. There is, however, some evidence to the contrary from one scientist who studies atmospheric dynamics and variability under different climates.
Happy New Year 2014!Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/01/2014 - 12:07
All of us here at The Resilient Earth wish our readers the happiest of New Years. As you all probably know, 2013 was not the best of years for the global warming backers of the world. In the US, we have experienced the lowest number of tropical storms, tornadoes and wild fires in decades. The year past saw more record lows set than record highs and drought conditions eased in many places. While this does not disprove the global warming hypotheses, all those factors were cited by AGW proponents as outcomes of rising global temperatures. The fact that the opposite of the warmists' predictions have taken place weakens the theory and casts doubt on the whole climate change scam. Given that both North America and Europe are in the grip of frigid winter temperatures it is an AGW true believer indeed who continues to insist the world is getting hotter.
The Super Storm MemeSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 12:38
Unless you have been living in one of the few truly remote areas of the planet, you have been exposed to them. Climate change memes that pass from person to person and are repeated without thought or critical examination. They range from the subtle—bad weather is being increased by global warming—to the banal—over 97% of scientists agree about climate change. We are bombarded with these unsubstantiated ideas over and over again, from talking heads on TV, newspaper headlines, our friends and even the president of the United States. They are blatant untruths that have become legitimized by repetition, until school children and adults alike patriot them to each other. The recent tropical cyclone, Haiyan, has triggered another round of meme infection: it was the worst storm in history, tropical storms are getting bigger every year, there are more storms every year, and, of course, they are all caused by global warming. Trouble is, these "facts" are all false.
Fifth IPCC Climate Change Report ReleasedSubmitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Mon, 09/30/2013 - 12:21
The long awaited full text report is finally available. The Final Draft Report, dated 7 June 2013, of the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis was accepted but not approved in detail by the Twelfth Session of Working Group I and the Thirty-Sixth Session of the IPCC on 26 September 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. This report consists of the full scientific and technical assessment undertaken by Working Group I. While the final draft of the underlying Working Group I report is still subject to copy-editing and corrections in proof as normally applied to scientific reports the fundamental tone and content of the report has been set. No screaming warnings; no predictions of impending doom. The most shocking thing is that our knowledge of climate change has not advanced in almost a decade. Simply put, climate scientists are puzzled by the way nature is acting.


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When cruising for multiple days, we use an actual float plan.
When day sailing, we don't use anything. Probably a mistake.
When cruising to a near by port for the night and back, we just tell a family member or friend (usually my Dad).
I want to get a SPOT, but I would still do a formal float plan for multiple day cruising.
Day sailing.. No.
Extended Cruising.. we used file a detalied Float Plan, but now with SPOT we are much more laxed and will simply send a proposed itinerary to loved ones and friends who need to know.
We do. We sometimes have the wife's kids aboard, and so it is all the more important.
BoatUS has a PDF that you can download and fill out. Handy.
|I am here as a result of a filed float plan. When a waterspout flipped a 34 ft catamaran that I was delivering , the Coast Guard was on the scene after I had spent only 16 hours in the water. My wife contacted another professional captain after I had failed to establish contact with her within a predetermined window of time. After repeated attempts to contact me via VHF, cell phone , and , SSB met with no response , they called the C.G. . Regardless of the length or location of my sailboat deliveries [even daysails] , I have always filed a float plan. As much as I love the ocean, I don't want to spend the rest of my life there.
|we always file a FP when making a passage, but that is it. We give it to friends, typically.
|Between Text and SPOT, anyone needs to know where i am will know.
|I haven't done so far, but then our sails have never been out of sight of our home harbour. Will leave one with a friend when we head out to Telegraph harbour in August though, seems prudent.
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Just curious if anyone else files float plans with family and/or friends when they sail. I do. I even leave at least a note on the fridge when I take my kayak out alone on my way home from work saying where I'll be and when I expect to be home.
Last summer I was on the other end of a SAR case when a sail club member neglected to check in with one of his kids during a week-long sail on the Chesapeake. He had not left a formal float plan with them but he arranged to call his two kids at a pre-determined time each night. On the night of a severe thunderstorm he called one but not the other, assuming that the one he called would notify the other. The kid he didn't call called the Coast Guard.
I happened to be the last call made on his cell phone and that evening received a call from USCG Sector Baltimore. I missed the initial call but when I saw on my missed call log one from USCG Sector Baltimore I hit redial. It put me straight to the watchstander's desk. He told me that they got my friend's cell phone record from Verizon which is how they knew that I was the last one he called. Then the kid was so excited that I just hit redial and was able to reach him that he forgot the reason why I called. He explained that they had just upgraded their phone system after the Rescue 21 system went online and they weren't sure how well it was working.
Once I got him back on track the questions he asked me matched exactly the information on the CG float plan form that I use. Unfortunately, I had no information to give them other than that my friend sounded fine when I talked to him.
Needless to say, when the Coast Guard showed up at his anchorage that stormy night and found that he and his wife were fine and had turned their cell phone off, they were NOT happy.
We ended up using the experience for training after one of our sail club meetings.
I was happy to see that the system works and I make sure to provide as much information as possible to the two people I email our float plan.
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Depending on how you look at it, Karatedo (or just karate), like Judo and Aikido, is also relatively new to Japan. Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957), is the person generally credited with having introduced and popularized what we know as Okinawan Karate on the main islands of Japan. The official date given is 1936, but Funakoshi had been teaching in Japan for at least 15 years at that time.
Okinawa is the main island in a small group of islands about 500 miles south of Japan. Although subjugated by Japan around 1600, Okinawa remained fiercely independent. As Japan controlled it in name only, the nationalistic Japanese would never have considered Okinawans as truly Japanese. Therefore, anything Okinawan would have been considered inferior in the eyes of the Japanese. However, Funakoshi was able to accomplish what many before him had tried and failed. He publicized his system of Okinawan Karate and taught it openly in Japan, thus setting the basis for the blossoming of styles and schools which is characteristic of Japanese karate today.
Funakoshi had trained in two of the popular branches of Okinawan karate of the time, Shorin ryu and Shorei ryu. He was a student of Anko Itosu and Yasutsune Azato, who had worked to introduce karate to the Okinawa Prefectural School System in 1902. Funakoshi worked specifically to introduce modernizations into karate and to spread it to Japan.
Whereas jujitsu incorporates striking techniques (atemi-waza) along with throws and joint manipulation, karatejutsu, the art (jutsu) of the empty (kara) hand (te) is considered to be a method of combat designed to achieve an opponent's subjugation through the use of techniques of percussion alone.
The style seems to have been a highly developed art centuries ago on the Asian continent. Some believe it originated as a form of boxing for sport. Others believe that the art (at the time, better known in Japan as Kenpo), might have developed as an overspecialization of ancient exercises performed in China and India as means of total integration (very much as yoga or tai chi are practiced today). These ancient exercises were intended to further the development and maintenance of a condition of good health and supple functionality which would make it possible for a man to live fully and well.
No matter what its original purpose, we cannot be other than impressed by the exceptionally large number of techniques of attack, counterattack, and defense in which the arms and legs act as extraordinarily efficient weapons of combat. Arms and hands are used to punch (tsuki) or strike (uchi) with devastating force. The use of legs and feet in kicking (keri) is also extremely diversified and powerful. Moreover, these tactics can be used effectively as instruments of pure defense; that is, to neutralize a technique of attack or counterattack launched by an opponent, who will thus be unable to even reach his target.
The big misconception is that until Funikoshi introduced his style of Okinawan karate, nothing like it existed on the mainland of Japan. This is a false assumption!
Various systems of effectively striking an opponent in combat in order to achieve his subjugation without resorting to the use of mechanical weapons or any other techniques, were well known and practiced by Samurai warriors in Japan throughout the feudal era. The art of striking appeared in almost every major specialization of Japanese jujitsu from even the earliest records.
Those systems of percussion, as well as others such as Kenpo, were no doubt a well established part of Japanese society by the time Funakoshi introduced Okinawan karate. Even at the time Funakoshi was introducing his system, there were already many other Okinawan karate men such as Kenwa Mabuni and Motobu Choki, living and teaching in Japan!
So why is Funakoshi given all the credit for introducing something that had existed for centuries? Quite simply, Funakoshi understood the concepts of marketing! Funakoshi understood the Japanese mindset, and tailor-made his system to fit into that mindset. He did not try to push Okinawan Karate on the Japanese; instead, he made his Karate Japanese.
[Side Note: Dojo is the Japanese word for school. Do means "way", and jo means "place"; the "place of learning the way".]
His campaign was so successful that the general population throughout the world are at least familiar with the concept of karate, and all immediately associate it with Japan. Only those who are familiar with its history know that it is uniquely Okinawan.
Funakoshi always referred to what he taught as simply "karate"; however, in 1936 he built the Shotokan dojo in Tokyo, and the school or style he left behind is usually called Shotokan.
Although Karatedo is a formidable combative method, the fact is that it is too rigid in both practice and application to be truly effective in combat. Without a full range of tools to deal with every possible scenario, including throws, takedowns, holds and strangulations, you will never have everything you may need to effectively subdue an opponent. This is especially true in the area of law enforcement.
If you want to learn what realistic Combat is all about, click on this link, or the "Combat Jujitsu" button at the top of this page.
The chart below shows a somewhat simplified comparison between Aikido, Judo, Karatedo, and Jujitsu; the different forms of martial arts typically associated with Japan. A blank box means little or no emphasis, a gray box means some emphasis (or in some schools), and a checked (+) box means high emphasis.
|Hits with fists
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|Low kicks & knee strikes
|High kicks
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|Emphasis on controlling attacker
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|Variety of responses to any attack
« Dependant upon whether the style is competition oriented, or self-defense oriented. Competition styles of karate and tae-kwon-do have only limited street applications.
As you can see, Jujitsu would not easily fit into either the 'hard' or the 'soft' categories of martial arts. Jujitsu can be described as BOTH hard and soft, or as we prefer to call it, a "Complete Martial Art".
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Kano, Jigoro - Kodokan Judo; Kodansha International; 1986.
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Those on the wish list are understood to include the BBC Knowledge deputy controller, Emma Swain; the BBC Fiction controller, Jane Tranter; and the Discovery Channel general manager, Jane Root.
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An index, while never the most glamorous section of any writing project, is essential to the readability and usability of longer nonfiction pieces, technical articles, and books. It is an alphabetical listing of keywords and concepts in the text. It contains "pointers" to those words and concepts, which are usually page, section, or paragraph numbers.[1] It generally appears at the end of a work. Building one need not be a chore, but it should not be an afterthought, either. It's important to make an index that is useful and comprehensive for your readers, but doesn't occupy too much of your valuable research and writing time. If you think it might, don't worry; you can hire a professional index writer.
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- For proper nouns, such as the "American Revolution," use all words in the proper noun as the heading. Capitalize proper nouns, but leave everything else lower-case.
- List all proper nouns separately: for example, "United States Senate" and "United States House of Representatives" would not be subentries under "United States."[14]
- You may also use a noun phrase, although you should usually invert it to put the term that the reader is searching for first. For example, "adjusting-height saddle" would be inverted to "saddle, adjusting-height."[15]
3Create cross references for acronyms and initial-isms. If your keywords will include acronyms, list the acronym and include a cross-reference to the full term.
- For example: MTB, see mountain bike
4Do not attempt to say too much. Good headers are clear and concise. Perhaps your book about comic books discusses Wonder Woman's influence on the feminist movement of the 20th century. "Wonder Woman's influence on the feminist movement of the 20th century" would not be a good header: it is long and unwieldy. You have a couple of options in this situation:[16]
- Put this as a subentry under the header "Wonder Woman," like so: Wonder Woman: and feminism, 24-48.
- Put this as a subentry under the header "Feminism," like so: Feminism: and illustrators, 45-50; influence of Wonder Woman, 24-48.
5Review your headings to make sure they work with the needs of the reader. It's important to remember you are creating an index that will make it easier for the reader to search for key terms or topics they will intuitively want to look for.[17]
- Look over the headings and consider if there are any key terms or topics that may be confusing for the reader and simplify or adjust any of the headings.
- For example, a bicycle maintenance text might discuss derailleurs, but a reader who is new to bicycle maintenance may not know this term and look for more common terms like "gearshift" or "shifter."
Part 3
Formatting Subentries
1Identify subentries. Once you have your headers, you will need to figure out whether those keywords or concepts need to be broken down into subentries. In some cases, such as a single recipe in a cookbook, you won't need subentries. In many cases, you will need them. Subentries should be as concise and informative as possible.[18]
- The most common reason to use subentries is to form subdivisions within big categories.[19] For example, if you have a cookbook to index, you might have "soups, cold" and "soups, hot" as headers, and specific recipes as subentries within those headers. Place a colon after the header, and then list the subentries in alphabetical order (excluding conjunctions), with their locators. For example:
- soups, hot:
- beef stew, 17; chicken noodle, 12; mulligatawny, 15; split pea, 13.
2Use subentries if the same header has more than 5 or 6 locators (e.g., page numbers). For example, if you were writing a political science textbook, "capitalism" is likely a header that readers will search for. It probably also has a variety of mentions with different contexts, so offering subentries that are more specific will help your readers locate the mention most relevant to their needs.[20]
- Place a colon after the header, and then list the subentries in alphabetical order (excluding conjunctions), with their locators.
- For example: capitalism: 21st century,164; American free trade, 112; backlash against, 654; expansion of, 42; Russia, 7; and television, 3; treaties, 87.
- You can use both kinds of subentries in the same index.[21]
3Punctuate properly. Separate subentries from the header with a colon (ice cream: lemon, 54). Separate subentries from each other with semicolons (ice cream: lemon, 54; Neapolitan, 55; strawberry, 56). Use a comma between each subentry and its locator (lemon, 54).[22]
4Do not include prepositions like 'a' 'an' and 'the' in the subentries. As well, as a general rule, use 'and' sparingly at the beginning of a subentry as it will reduce the reader's ability to quickly scan the index for a term or topic.[23]
- You can usually ignore any symbols, hyphens, slashes or numbers in the subentry terms.
- Do not repeat main terms in subentries If several subentries contain the same key word, they can be added in a separate header under the keyword, with a cross-reference back to the original header.
- If you are using a word processor with indexing software, the subentries can be set to recognize three classes of characters: letters, Arabic numerals, and symbols.[24]
5List the page numbers on which each subject appears. Publisher guidelines vary, but in general, you can use the Chicago Manual of Style as a guide to locators.[25][26]
- If the first locator number is 1-99, use all the digits for the second locator: 3-10, 99-104
- If the first locator number is 100 or multiples of 100, use all the digits for the second locator: 100-109, 200-255
- If the first locator number is 101-109 (or multiples), use only the changed numbers: 401-9
- If the first locator number is 110-199 (or multiples), use the changed numbers as necessary: 223-58, 112-18
- You can use the word passim to indicate that references are scattered over a range of pages: capitalism, 45-68 passim. This is best reserved only for when there are a large number of references in a section.[27]
- If you have access to a PDF version of the text, use the PDF search feature to ensure you have located every occurrence of a term and have the correct page numbers for each term.
6Add synonyms for the key terms. Consider your audience and the terms they will be more familiar with, especially if you are indexing a beginners manual or guide to a topic.[28]
- For example, a beginner cyclist may refer to patches on their tires as "tire patches", when in fact in cycling terms, a tire patch is actually called a "boot". So it may be important to include both terms so it is easy for a beginner cyclist to look up this information.[29]
7Add cross-references. Cross-references will direct the reader to topics that relate to a specific topic, or offer additional information.[30] "See" cross-references tell the reader to look for a different header, such as "Cycle. See Bicycle". "See also" cross-references offer additional or related information.
- Use the subentries to create "See also" cross-references. Italicize both words, and capitalize "See".
- Separate multiple cross-references with semicolons (See also saddle; kickstand).[31]
- Ensure the cross-references match the exact wording of the headings.
- For example: "Bicycle: maintenance, 4; purchasing, 8; saddles, 22; tires, 16. See also Tricycle"
Part 4
Editing the Index
1Review the index for cohesion and accuracy. Check all headings and subentries to ensure they highlight the key terms and topics in the text.
- Go through the text and check it against the index to ensure all major topics and concepts have been covered.
- If you used a word processor to create the index, double check that the program hasn't indexed an entire sentence from a section header that has no helpful referencing point. For example, a header might be called "Repairing bicycles isn't easy" and the computer index might add the whole phrase. This doesn't tell the reader anything helpful in terms of specificity of words or concepts, so it needs to be broken down into heading and subentry.
2Proofread the index. Review the index line by line for any spelling or grammar mistakes.[32] Do not include final punctuation on any line of the index.[33]
- The spelling in the index should always reflect the spelling found in the author's text.
- Proofing a hardcopy of the index is usually more effective than doing it on a computer screen.
- If you are using indexing software, it will have a spell check that can be customized, but checking the hard copy version is also a good idea to ensure you have caught any errors.
- Ensure all page number or locators are correct. Carry out a spot check of each page entry to make sure they match correctly.
3Format the index. Once the index has been edited and proofread, it should be formatted to the dimensions required by the publisher.
- In printed works, the indexes are usually set with a smaller font than the main text. So if the main text is twelve point, the index will likely be set at eight or ten point.
- The index is usually set in two columns. For large format books, the indexes may be set in three or four columns.
- Make sure the index entries are indented properly and consistent throughout.
- If possible, have someone try out the index who is unfamiliar with the work.
4Trim the index down, if needed. If the index seems too long or you are told by a publisher that is it too long, edit or rephrase headings and subentries to shorten them.
- Keep in mind minor or trivial entries can often be deleted, as well as some cross-references and acronyms.
Part 5
Preparing to Create a Professional Index
1Skim or read the text. It's best to have some familiarity with the subject you're indexing, so that you know what terms or concepts are important in the text. If you didn't write the work you're indexing, do some skimming or pre-reading before diving in to ensure you are aware of the key terms and concepts in the work.[34]
- If the text is not yet complete, you can still begin the process of building an index as long as the text has most of its final structure.
- If you're collecting page numbers by hand, finish editing and modifying the text first, as an edit could push a particular section or subject onto another page.
2Determine your indexing source. Maybe you are going to be using page proofs to do your indexing, or a printed PDF of the original document, or you may feel comfortable indexing directly from the computer screen. The method you choose will depend on what type of text you are indexing and whether you prefer having hard copies in front of you as you index or are fine working off a screen.[35]
- If you are indexing a printed book, you must use the final page proofs, in the final layout, to create the index. If the pagination is not final and you don't use the final page proofs, you may end up having to re-index the entire book.
- Using a searchable PDF version of the text will prevent you from accidentally deleting or altering the book's text or layout. It will also make it easy for you to search additional occurrences of words or phrases elsewhere in the book, ensuring a comprehensive listing of entries.
- You may prefer to just index directly from the computer screen, rather than a marked up hard copy, but it may be more difficult for you to comprehend the text on screen and to locate keywords and concepts in the text. So perhaps avoid this method if you are indexing a complex or very long book.
3Confirm the length of the index with the publisher. Before you start to compile the index, you need to know how many pages the publisher has allotted for the index, and how the index is going to be laid out.[36]
- Many variables can affect the length of an index, such as the average number of index entries per a page, as well as the typography and layout of the index. So discuss these details with the publisher.
4Check with the publisher about their style guide. It's important you understand the style requirements from the publisher of the text so you then know how to format the index.[37]
- The primary style guide is the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition[38]. However, certain publishers may have preferences for page numbers, alphabetizing, handling of headings, pictures, tables and figures in the text, etc. So always discuss these details with the publisher, if possible, before you start indexing.
5Check if you have access to indexing software programs. Most professional indexers use software to automate certain tasks, but these programs can be expensive and take time to learn and master.[39]
- Don't worry too much if you don't have access to indexing software as you can also use a word processing program like Microsoft Word to enter terms and page numbers.
- A word processor with an indexing tool can keep track of the page numbers for you and update the index automatically if the text changes.
6Manage your time, based on your indexing experience. Keep in mind indexing is a time consuming process. How much time you spend on indexing will depend on how experienced you are at indexing. So be prepared to spend a certain number of hours or days on the index, depending on the text, and plan your time accordingly.[40]
- For example, a 300 page text may take an experienced indexer 7 days to complete and a beginner indexer 2 weeks to complete.[41]
Community Q&A
Do I need to include the title on the index page?wikiHow ContributorYes. It tells the reader what part of the book it is.
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|This video explains how to build an index using Microsoft Word 2007.
- Before you begin indexing, refer to a completed index in another work, especially if you are new to indexing. Examine how the completed index is structured and formatted.
- If you're a copy editor, you will not usually get to read the index because it is usually created after you've participated in the production process.[42] But if you're a proofreader, you will be expected to read the index very carefully and check that its references are all accurate.
- Consider hiring somebody to compile your index for you. Various freelancers and services will index a text, for a fee. If you do hire somebody, choose an indexer with some understanding of the topic in question.
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