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143: Homecoming Sells Out in 9-Minutes! Plus our Interview with Nicole O'Mara
By Crystal | February 14, 2020 | 0
There's a lot of hype around the online sphere for the Peloton Bike, but there's a new movement gathering around the Peloton Tread.
After all, some people enjoy their bike workouts, but others do need a good run.
Nicole O'Mara is one such Peloton enthusiast who's mostly made the switch to the Tread.
Nicole shares her experience of making the switch with Crystal and Tom O'Keefe.
Could the Peloton Tread be more your speed?
Homecoming Sells Out in 9-Minutes! Plus our Interview with Nicole O'Mara
The sickness is setting in.
I don't feel good. I think it has arrived. I blame you.
You should. I had it. I still have the cough.
I over did it signing up for homecoming. That's what the final straw was.
Not to give too much details, but I lost three-and-a-half pounds. That is not hyperbole. Low carb bulimia is not advisable, but it is effective. Hopefully, you don't get that end of things.
I hope not.
I also learned a very valuable lesson about when and when not to sneeze. Let's leave it at that. What do you have in store for people?
We are going to talk about Peloton, shocking. We're going to talk about homecoming. We've got lots to talk about. We have an interesting article from Motley Fool Investing. We're going to talk about an instructor that's no longer with Peloton. We have a visit from the Peloton Prophet, then all kinds of little detailed information about things that are happening.
Before we get to all that, shameless plugs, don't forget, we're available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, wherever you get your podcasts, you can find us. While you're there, be sure and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Of course, you can find us on Facebook, Facebook.com/theclipout. While you're there, like the page, join the group. You'll get all sorts of things like handy tips about how to get your homecoming tickets. We had people saying that we were the reason they got their tickets. They were like, "Thank you, Crystal, for the tips. I have tickets now and it's all because of you." That's what they said. That's another valuable service that we offer. Of course, you can feel free to leave us a review there in Apple Podcasts or Facebook, wherever. We have a new review. It's from iLisa1983. She says, "Peloton Prophet FTW. I only had my bike for about six weeks and binge-listened to all the episodes because I was so pumped. I especially love the Peloton Prophet and getting insider information. Keep up the good work."
To be clear, the Peloton Prophet does not work for Peloton, so it is not technically insider information.
We like to put that disclaimer on there, so Peloton doesn't think we've infiltrated the company. That's all of that. Let's dig in.
I can't tell you how relieved I am that we got homecoming tickets today. I can't even imagine what this household would have looked like had we not managed to secure at least one ticket. I would stand out on the sidewalk and wait patiently for you. By patiently, I mean at the comedy cellar. It would not have been good. We don't mean to rub it in the face for people who maybe tried and didn't get tickets, but I'm just saying it would've been ugly.
I was ready to go. I had three computers. I had my phone. I've talked about my coworker before who's my boss who gives me a lot of crap for a lot of things, including how slow I am. He slow-shames. He speed-shamed me. I got to work and he was there and I was like, "This is not good a day for him to be here. Today's a big day for me, you can mess with me all you want after I have the tickets, but until I have the tickets, you need to leave me alone. From 11:00 to 11:15, do not talk to me." It's 11:00 to 11:15 because we're Central time. They went on sale at noon Eastern. He came over and stood next to me while I was typing in the credit card information and he was like, "What are you doing?" I was like, "Stop it. I will tell you in 30 seconds when this goes through." Then it went through and I was like, "We can all breathe now, people."
I feel confident that the people were breathing the whole time. I got it too.
I'm so grateful you did because the first time, mine didn't go through. It was like, "We had an error. Could you do that again?" I was like, "No," so I did again and it went through that time. It was all good.
Last year 2019, it's all out in twelve minutes. This year in nine minutes.
I actually don't know how many minutes it was last year. Last year 2019, the difference is that they had Saturday packages and Sunday packages and there were all kinds of confusion. Saturday sold out fast. Sunday never sold out. If it sold out in twelve minutes last year, that was only for Saturday. This year it sold out in nine minutes for the whole shebang.
It was when people are upset because they didn't get to pick there. The thing is even if you did get to pick, you probably wouldn't have gotten to pick.
I get that people want to be in a class with somebody. They probably need to figure that out. They need to say like, "I want to take a class with this person," and add a box to be able to do that. Then you'd link each other, but it's so hard. I think that it went beautifully compared to 2019. It was perfect compared to 2019. Last year 2019, it didn't even happen on the first day.
The site didn't crash, they didn't have to refund a bunch of tickets and have everybody start over. It was a market improvement over the last year 2019.
And I know that it sold out really fast, but there are 750,000 subscribers to Peloton and there are 3,000 tickets. You can see that coming.
Unless they figure out a way to accommodate more people. This is not going to get better anytime soon. At least I hope it's not. If it gets easier to get tickets, it means nobody's interested anymore.
It's tough because a lot of people are like, "I don't want to deal with it on Peloton. I don't want to deal with homecoming weekend. I want to go on my own. I've been whatever." I get that. For us, we have to go. I mean that I want to go. We can't go to New York two or three times a year, so this is it. I want to see as many people as possible. I love it.
Hopefully, you got your tickets. If not, if you're wait-listed, hopefully someone has a change of plans.
For those of you wait-listed, there's a lot of you that have a very good chance of getting in because you can refund up until for one. The schedules come out on March 9th, so whatever classes you picked, "I have these five bike instructors, I have these three tread instructors," so let's say that people get their schedules on March 9th and they're not happy with it, so now they're not going. They're going to be asking for a refund. That means you on the wait list move up in line. I do think that's going to help.
A lot of people that can go to New York frequently that live close or travel a lot for work, if they don't get the classes they want, I think you will see them bailing, and those wait-list people will move in.
It happened in 2019.
Keep your fingers crossed. Don't lose hope.
Another date you need to know is February 24th. You can make changes on your preferences for the instructors you chose up until February 24th. Log in and make your changes. That's February 24th, schedules come out on March 9th, refund until April 1st.
I thought it was interesting that someone posted on our page that people in the UK, they were wanting to buy tickets and they were struggling because it made you enter a zip code and they don't have zip codes. Over there, they call them postal codes.
It wouldn't accept foreign zip codes. They only accepted US zip codes.
I thought it was great that apparently some people that lived over there, they only knew one zip code and it was 90210.
There are a lot of people coming from 90210. That made my day. That was so funny.
If you see lots of people with British accents, but with large sideburns, it's because of 90210.
I think this is going to be great. Did you want to talk about anything that's coming up for homecoming? You talked about you wanted to go through the site and talk about all the stuff. Now you look like you have no idea what I'm talking about.
I was like, "You should go through the site." Were there any highlights that you saw that you thought people should know about?
Things are different from last year 2019. One thing I've learned about Peloton is they change things every year. They don't do the same thing twice, which I appreciate. Last year 2019, everybody was ticked off that there were a limited amount of spots for the community run. This year 2020, no limit. Everybody was invited. Friday, 3:00 PM, everybody can join the community run. That means that it doesn't count as one of your classes, which I don't think it did last year 2019 either. You still get a studio class. This year, another thing that's different is you don't get to pick your studio class because last year 2019, you had the stress twice. You had the stress of buying the ticket. Then once you had the ticket, you had to go and pick your instructor. That was insanity. That was a knockdown drag-out fight and everybody ended up pissed off about it.
You get one class, and for those of you who are new to this whole realm, not everybody's going to get a Bike class. There are 3,000 people coming. There's no way to fit 3,000 people on the bikes in one weekend. We think there are only 70 Bikes, so you can't. The math isn't there. That means, some of you are going to be on Treads, some of you are going to be on Bikes, some of you are going to be in Yoga. You've got to pick from two and then you say, "I would like these instructors," and you pick from five on the Bike, you pick from three on the Tread. All of that was different from last year 2019. In March 9th, you're going to get handed an instructor. That's all different.
That instructor is yours to keep. Do you get to take them home?
No, Tom. Another thing is they have said that there is a community celebration, but we don't know. Is it Friday night or is it Saturday night? We don't know anything yet. We do know it's at a place called Terminal Five and it's a giant ballroom. It seats 3,000 people. The look of the place tells me we're going to have another musical guest, but I don't know if that's the case. That is purely speculation on my part. I'm very curious to see.
It's a concert venue. I think it very much stands to reason that there will be some musical guests attached.
Also it's in Hell's Kitchen. That would be the first time I've been in Hell's Kitchen. Not that it matters. I just like saying that. There are two hotels that they recommended. There was the EVEN and then there's the Crowne Plaza. I have heard that the rooms are all booked at the Even already. In Crowne Plaza, last I heard they're still available. "Can you transfer an event package to another member?" No, you can't. Don't even try. They're not going to let you. It's not happening.
I can't scalp mine on the secondary market?
You cannot. Also another question I have heard a lot, "Can I still attend the warehouse sale?" No, you can't. It says, "Only if you have a package." They stuck with it last year 2019. They were like, "No." There are a lot of people who are like, "I live in the city but I'm not going to the homecoming, so I want to come hang out with you." No, you can't. We can always meet up with people, but they can't come to these things. It's not a thing. It's going to be a great time. I know there are some of you that are nervous like, "I don't know if I'm going to like all these people." You will because there's a ton of first-time people that come, you will recognize people.
I feel like as it gets bigger, you're getting more first-time people coming. A lot of people are like, "I liked it better when it was smaller." The people that had been doing it every year are starting to be like, "No, thank you." Because of that, more first-timers can come. It's at least based on chatter online, that was my takeaway.
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I think that you will have a good time. You're only going to get one studio workout, but you could come Thursday if you wanted or you could stay an extra day, obviously if your schedule budget allows.
If you do, that's something to consider.
The other thing I will tell you is last year 2019, on Sunday it was really dead. There might be some things that you want to do that you didn't think you should stay for. It was slow in the open space where they had all the instructors compared to Saturday. I don't know what it'll look like this year because the schedule is not out, but keep that in mind. People seem to be focused on the Saturday activities. Also, everyone stays up late the night of the celebration. There's a lot of drinking. A lot of people don't make it to their classes Sunday morning.
Do you have any anecdotal evidence that would back up this theory?
Make sure that if you want to take classes, show up on those mornings because they usually have a waitlist right there that you can hop in.
Odds will be very good on the Sunday. I think you're three for three now, right?
No, I did my classes last year 2019.
Didn't you have a Sunday class blew off last year 2019?
I don't think so because I only had one and I took yours. All the years are starting to mingle.
Anyway, there's a whole bunch of information for you and more tips and things to look for and whatnot. We talked about the stock price and the quarterly earnings reports.
I was so pumped after that earnings call.
We were so wrong, which is another good example of why you should not come to this show for investment advice. We do not know what we're talking about. Motley Fool, an investing website and I believe podcast, had an interesting article about why the stock decline after that quarterly earnings report was dumb.
Literally, the title is Why Investors Overreacted on the Peloton Q2 Earnings. They overreacted for sure. We talked about in the last episode, I'm not going to recap all of that. I felt like it was great and I explained to you about the difference between last year versus this year and how it meant that there were 6,000 orders they pulled in the second quarter, which meant they lowered their quarter earnings, like estimates. Apparently, that was the panic button issue because they lowered third quarter so, "It must be terrible." I feel like, "If you had gone to the earnings call, maybe you would have understood that."
That's the problem with the stock market. They're basically trying to incentivize them to not deliver the Bikes as quickly as possible so they would land in a different fiscal quarter. That's dumb and short-sighted. Thank you, Peloton, for not doing something dumb.
This article covers that. They covered how it's going to make this year compared to last year. It's going to be tough because if you're looking at Q3 compared to Q3, that's not going to be apples to apples anymore. All of that was addressed in the earnings call. Their recommendation is to stay in the course because the Peloton raised the full year guidance. They reduced the third quarter, but they raised the full gear from $1.53 billion to $1.55 billion. That is a 68% year-over-year at the midpoint. That is crazy high growth. As I said in the last episode, it's going to be between 920,000 and 930,000 subscribers. That is an increase of 81% in subscribers at the midpoint over last year 2019. Those are fantastic numbers.
Basically, it's a bunch of people that want to make money right now and they're mad about it.
That's the way the stock market is.
They're like, "Gut your company and give us all the cash now and then we will love you."
They haven't figured out that Peloton is different.
JJ had resurfaced.
Jennifer Jacobs, for those of you who are new to the community, she popped up on the internet. She was on the television show, I'm sure everybody's heard of called The Doctors. Jennifer Jacobs was on and she was in a segment that they were talking about how to get out of a weight loss plateau. There was also one of our own Pelotoner, Sherri. I know she is a Peloton owner and I know she has worked with Jennifer Jacobs. Jennifer Jacobs had tips for her. They worked out together. They did a whole thing and Jennifer Jacobs did a great job. I think that she is hitting the media circuit hard. She is trying to make her own niche as an influencer outside of Peloton.
I think that's smart. If you want my tips for overcoming the weight loss plateau, I would recommend the stomach flu. The Peloton Prophet has returned and has a new prediction for us.
Lots of people have been asking. I have been getting messages daily, "When is the new super studio opening?" The Prophet says in March. I don't have an exact date. The Peloton Prophet did not give me one, but The Peloton Prophet is very confident it's happening in March. That means for those of you keeping score, we're going to have all new experiences during homecoming. We don't know how big the studio is going to be or how many bikes there will be or how many treads there will be. We do know that it's all going to be in one place. How amazing will that be?
That's pretty cool. Do we know anything about places to wait nearby?
We don't. It's in Hudson Yards, which actually is huge. It's like a giant mall thing, I think maybe you can walk around. Don't forget, Dr. Jenn Mann might be there, Tom.
I'll wear a disguise. I'll wear a tracksuit. She'll never expect to see me in athletic wear.
Your laugh will give you away. That is very exciting though. I can't wait to see.
It'll be cool to see what the new digs look like. Here's your moment of awe. There was an engagement at the studio.
It happened live. Peloton social media captured it. It was all over the place. It was right after Kendall's ride on February 8th. It was Dina M and Jeremy B from Laredo, Texas got engaged. That was sweet. I wonder if they're going to have the wedding at Peloton.
I'm going to predict, no. Although if they do, Matty should become an officiant.
That would be amazing.
You want to get remarried just so we could do that?
I do. I wonder if Matty would do that.
The Comeback program is officially a year old.
They have guests, but do you know how many people that they have provided comeback bikes for? One year, 400 bikes. It's amazing. For anybody out there who say Peloton doesn't do nice things, suck it. I disagree with those people. That is a lot of bikes. I can't do math. Is it like five a week? That's a whole bunch. A YouTube video was created by Peloton and it's amazing. I feel like you need to cry if you watch this but in a good way, like in a heartwarming beautiful way. If you didn't cry Tom, you have a heart of stone.
I do have a heart of stone though.
This is a beautiful video. They did such a good job on it.
My heart only is malleable for you and I guess the kids and stuff. They're okay. Matty and Anna made a trip to Cleveland. There are not a lot of cities people in St Louis can make fun of. I feel like Cleveland is one of them. Look at all the cool bands they won't let in.
That's true. That is a really good point.
Take that Cleveland listeners.
They also had a wonderful visit from Matty Maggiacomo and Anna Greenberg. They were there for a meet and greet on February 12th. You could get all of your gear personalized if you brought it in. I'm super jelly because we didn't have that here.
They had a little machine that would stitch your name on it?
That's spiffy. You could probably find a store that would do that.
I know, but there's something about having it done officially. I like the official stuff. There's a ton of illegal Etsy stores out there that I can buy Peloton knock-on stuff, but I would like to buy the real Peloton stuff.
I bought a cool Clip Out Crystal shirt. It's just not the same.
They take the logo and use it in these illegal Etsy stores. It's pretty egregious. The ones on Instagram are really bad though.
It's like those Facebook t-shirts that lists 100 adjectives, "I'm a soccer drive mom who loves starfruit and once went to Australia and also now I have a t-shirt." What is happening? It's like someone threw a bunch of refrigerator magnet poetry at a T-shirt. There's a new artist series. They're doing Peloton's celebration of artists I've met. The last time it was The Spinners. This time it's with smokey Robinson.
The first one is with Hannah Marie Corbin. There's going to be a ride on Thursday the 13th at 8:30 PM Eastern. Hannah is also doing a Post-Ride Stretch On Demand on Sunday. Then Matty is doing a stretch on Valentine's Day at 8:35 AM Eastern and Denis Morton is doing a 30-minute Yoga Flow on Tuesday the 18th at 6:00 PM Eastern. It's all good stuff. The ten-minute stretches really threw me off. They'd never done that before, so I'm curious.
Finally, there's an instructor quote collection that's on sale.
It's been up, but they brought back everything and they placed it under the Sale tab. In the past, it was a new collection. When you went to the page, it was right there but this one was buried under the Sale tab. A lot of people missed it, but they brought back all of the sports bras for all the instructor quotes that were in the winter collection last year. They have all the t-shirts. Aall of the instructor stuff was back. I think we're down to very limited selection again, but there was everything a couple of days ago.
The takeaway here though is maybe every once in a while, you have to come through those other sections.
You should keep an eye out on that sale one because they don't announce it all the time. When they do announce it, they announced it after it's been up for a while. For those people that constantly keep an eye on the boutique, they get the dibs and then they tell everybody on Facebook and it's gone. I'm one of those people, so that would be me. Sorry.
Joining us is Nicole O'Mara. Nicole, how is it going?
I'm good. How are you?
We're excited this is happening.
Me too, I'm very excited. I've been thinking about it since you emailed me.
Tell us how you originally found Peloton.
Peloton came into my life because my very good friend was an avid SoulCycler. She was preparing for her wedding and she was spending so much money on taking these SoulCycle classes that her husband had said, "You have to stop doing this." She did some research and found out that there was this bike that came out that you can purchase and take these classes from home. Me not being athletic or doing any physical activity, I made fun of her and said, "This is ridiculous. You're going to ride a bike in your apartment." She said, "Yes." I realized I hadn't purchased my husband a birthday present yet. I said, "This is the time. I'm going to do this." I bought it and they called me later that day and said it's coming in a week, which was perfect because it arrived on his birthday. I was thinking, "He uses Spin many years ago, this will be pretty good." During that time, I was doing a lot of research about it. I said, "I want to get into shape. I want to lose some weight. This is something that I want." Even though it was a present for him, I still say it's my bike.
How does he feel about that?
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When we would argue over whose turn it was to take a class, he'd say, "This is my present." I'd say, "I bought it." I would always win. It was a battle in the beginning.
You said you weren't working out before this. You work out all the time, so I didn't realize that.
I lived in the city for several years. While I was there, I had a personal trainer because even though I belong to a gym, I couldn't trust myself to go. If I did go, I wouldn't know what to do. Someone wasn't forcing me to do something. I got a trainer. When I moved out of the city, I was here for a few years and did absolutely nothing. To get a bike and to all of a sudden start working out with something that was completely new to us. It was a great addition for us.
Who has more rides?
I do. He did celebrate his 250th. We went into Studio Four and it was great.
I can't remember what number on. I was like, "I know it's a lot more than 250."
It would have been a lot more, but I had bought the tread years ago. That's what had happened.
What do you think your fitness level is now compared to then?
It was a zero then. I work in the city so walking up subway stairs. I used to not be able to do that without huffing and puffing. I'm able to do that. I did the Peloton 5K. I remember Alex had a 90-minute ride. I must have taken that class twenty times. Being able to have a cardio level that I could do at all is something that's mind-boggling to me that I have the ability to do pretty much anything after not doing anything for a long time.
You got the tread, how did you end up forming the You Get To Crew? How did that happen?
Having the bike, I immediately fell in love with Alex. I loved his positive vibes. I love hip hop music. It was an instructor that I immediately had a connection with besides him being easy on the eyes. The thing was important to me, wanting to take a class because you love the music and liking the person and their vibe. When I had gotten the tread, my friend Gina had said to me, "If you like Alex, you're going to love this girl, Jess." I got the tread and I saw that she had a twenty-minute '90s hip hop class. I said, "If there's nothing else in the world, I love more than '90s hip-hop." I took it.
Song after song was as if it was being taken off of my playlists. The songs that my friends say, "I can't believe you still listen to this music," I was like, "This is great." Her vibe is so positive and great that I fell in love with her immediately. Her tagline, "You don't have to, you get to." It's a privilege to be able to move our bodies like this. It's something that hit home for me a lot because I didn't know physical activity for such a long time. I also was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis many years ago. Being a young woman living with MS and I couldn't find anything that I wanted to do to improve myself physically, it was something that was hard to wrap my head around.
When she said, "You don't have to do this. You get to do this," it took my breath away because riding the bike, I would do it because there are many people out there that are physically unable to do that. It's something that I would always think of whenever I would step into any class. As soon as she said that, I was like, "This is amazing." I was at the bike studio with the Feel Good Family. We were taking one of Alex's Club Bangers classes and she walked past me. I stopped her and I said, "You're Jess Sims." She said, "Yes."
At first, I thought that she was shocked that she had been recognized. Little did I know that Gina had done the same thing two seconds before in the lobby. She was coming off of her fangirling and she turns a corner and I'm like, "I need to come into a studio. I want to take a class with you." She said, "Anytime you want." I spoke to a couple of my other girlfriends that were liking her. I said, "We should do this." Every week I would go in and I would see her. I said, "We started this tribe and we're at 100 members. We're at 200 members." She was flattered and blown away because at that time, she was the newish tread instructor. We hit 1,300 members and it happened in less than a year.
It is crazy particularly since she arrived at either the tail end or after all the rest of the instructors had left the group. It is fascinating that it's grown as much as it has, considering that she's not even in the group. You do a great job of allowing Jess to have a voice in the group through you. That's awesome that you do that.
She wants to play as much of a role as she can. The instructors are very limited in what they can do with their tribes, but if something great is going on like I'll ask her advice on something. We do a lot of challenges. I'll say, "We're doing a monthly challenge. How do you think we should balance this?" I'm not a fitness instructor. I don't know what I'm doing. I want everyone to be able to do what they're physically able to do and to do it safely. She'll say, "Be careful. Don't work out too much. A rest day is important." She'll give the advice to us, which is great. She'll interact with us as much as she can. The tread instructors are lucky because the classes are small. If you've ever taken a class with her live, there's a five-minute window between when the camera starts and when it goes live for a replay. During those five minutes, she'll ask everybody in the studio their name, where they're from and something funny like, "What's your favorite food?" She cares that she wants to know about everybody. It's wonderful to have an instructor that cares about that stuff.
Since you have a tread too, where do you gravitate there?
My bike has collected a lot of dust since I've gotten the tread. I feel very accomplished on the treadmill because I'd never run before. My friends have run marathons and I say, "You are out of your mind." The fact that I can even keep up any pace, I amaze myself. I feel very accomplished on the tread. I liked the bootcamps. I like being able to take the class and go on the floor and do weights and stuff. I feel proud after taking a biking class, but the tread for some reason all of a sudden, I feel like, "I could be a runner even though I may run slower." I think that I'm moving in the direction of being a runner.
I never realized it because it's about exercise, so I never thought about it. How many people are intimidated by running versus biking?
When you're running, you're propelling yourself, your entire body. Whereas biking, you're using your legs to propel yourself on wheels. It's a lot harder to run than it is to bike. That's why it's so intimidating. When you don't have the fastest speeds like myself, you can see an improvement as well as you go through time. I was never super-fast on the bike either. I don't know because there are so many people that own the bike, there are a lot of people that are at the bottom of the leaderboard with me. On the tread, that's not necessarily true.
Who was the tread a present for?
A few years ago, at HRI and the buzz was the tread because they had announced it and everyone was talking about it. My husband, his name is Lucas, he said, "This tread seems interesting," because they were talking about the bootcamps and stuff like that. I went and saw the other room and I reserved one. Funny enough, it came the week before Christmas, so there you go. It was his Christmas present. They wheeled it in. He was like, "What is that?" I'm like, "Merry Christmas." He's like, "What?" The same arguments happened. I thought it was my birthday present, I should be able to ride it. That's my Christmas present. I should be able to run. I'm like, "Take it easy over there." I live my life with it's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.
I was picturing the conversation when he was like, "That sounds interesting," and you're like, "If you insist." He was like, "I didn't insist."
Do you consider Jess your favorite instructor on the tread, but Alex is still your favorite bike instructor? How do you manage that?
Alex is my person on the bike. I have nothing against any of the other instructors, but as you know, you vibe with one person more. Jess is definitely my person on the tread. I love her techniques. She's funny, quirky and she says things sometimes, I'm like, "What?" With the whole You Get To Crew, we laugh at it. It's not that we mock her because that's not what we're doing. Can you believe that Jess says that she can't stand the word bulb? I'm at home and I'm like, "What did she say?" You have a whole conversation about it and it's hysterical. We'll change our pitchers to things that she doesn't like, hashtag in different locations to stick it to her. She interacts well and she's very quirky. I liked the way that she teaches classes. I feel like I'm able to follow her well and she's a nice person.
I like her listening games. I liked how playful she is with the other instructors. When she went on the trip with Becs and she had all those funny things, those were the best Instagram stories ever until Matty scared the crap out of her. Tom, I don't know if you've seen it, but I'm sure you've seen it. Matty is going to do her class for her and so she did an age progression filter on Matty for the class and he's an old man in the picture. She said, "Grandpa Matty."
The banter back and forth is great. It's very playful, but they're also supportive of each other.
Do you think that the community for the tread is different than the community for the bike?
The community for the tread is how the community for the bike was when the bike first started. I've had the bike for several years. I remember taking classes and there were 400, 500 people in the class. Even when I started to take the tread classes, there were 40 people in the class. There were 400 people in it the class when Jess did it. Matty's Gaga run, there are a lot of people in it, but it's great to have been in the beginning because when you see the same 40 names on the leaderboard, you get to know them a little bit better. It's the same thing when I was on the bike. You would see the same people in your classes and you meet them in person and you get to make that connection.
I feel that everyone that got the tread that it's being had is very similar to how the bike was when the bike first started. Everyone is very tight-knit. I want that to continue in the You Get To Crew because everybody there was inspiring. They amaze me with their accomplishments. It's nothing against people who ride the bike because they're amazing too. When someone tells you they ran a marathon, you can't help but be in awe of those people. We started doing this thing in which we feature somebody every single day. I asked people who want to participate to send me their leaderboard name, something about themselves, what you do for a living, your favorite memory of Jess and why you consider yourself to be a badass.
The things that people say that they have accomplished, we're talking cancer survivors, people that are living with cancer, parents of twins, people that have one child, people who have special needs kids. Someone who tore both of their ACLs and then played basketball in college. Someone who got hit by a car and ran a marathon. A woman who plays first out of all women in this di-tri competition. These people are amazing. I'm in awe of them. I'm lucky to be with them. There was a woman that we featured and she said that Peloton allowed her to step back into her power.
That made me warm and fuzzy because that's exactly what we're doing every single time. We're getting on the bike or stepping onto this tread. We're taking the power back. We're taking time for ourselves. Everyone could be doing a million other things every single time but they choose to get on one of those pieces of equipment. I feel that us showing up for each other, we're showing up for the instructors also. To have a leaderboard go from 40 people to 400, how great does that make you feel? How great does that make the instructors feel? I feel like that because it's starting up, that community is tight. It's an amazing thing to be a part of because everyone was amazing.
Part of that comes from the leadership within each group because every group has their own vibe. I appreciate how you have such a positive personality and you're always cheering people on and saying great things to people. I know lots of other people appreciate that too. You have a lot to do with that community doing well.
Thank you. I appreciate them.
Do you have that in your job place?
No, definitely not. I'm a private banker in Manhattan. I'm positive for my clients but no. When I was first diagnosed with MS, I had this calm that came over me and I said to myself, "I'm going to be living with this for the rest of my life. I need to be strong. I need to be mentally there." As I was coming to terms with it myself, I realized that my family around me was having a harder time than I was having. Coming to terms with this is something that's happening to me. I tried to be extra strong for them. I realized that that's something that I've carried with me. The number of times I said, "I'm fine," when I wasn't, but I had to be fine for them because they were falling apart in the inside.
I have that positivity in me. I want everything to be fine because it has to be. In the group when it's like, "I wanted to get three miles in my 30-minute class," it's like, "You got 2.98. You'll get it next time. Everything's fine. We're all doing a great job. We're all showing up. We're all here for each other." If I'm taking a class that's on-demand and one of my friends had gotten a milestone and called out, "Congratulations on your 200th run." I cheer as if I'm standing right next to them screaming behind them to keep going. It's a crazy thing that you have this connection to people virtually. It's an amazing thing. To answer your question, no, I do not have that in my career in the least. I feel like it's something that I had grown into, for sure.
This question is non-Peloton related, but I'm curious what exactly does a private banker do?
I have a very wide range of clients, mostly based in Manhattan. Anything that you need as a business owner, I do for you and I make your life a lot easier than it needs to be. You call me when you need a transaction to be done, you need to order checks, you need that. It's a lot of schmoozing. I'm interacting with people all day, so maybe that does help me with my interactions with people. I talk to everybody and make their lives a lot easier.
Are you an employee of the bank and they assign you to certain people or do people say, "I need a private banker," and they hire you one-on-one? How does that work?
I'm an employee of the bank and I bring in my own clients. If you're looking for a banker to bank The Clip Out, give me a call.
It'd be a lot of like, "Can you make sure our overdraft protection is working?" You worked for the bank, but you go and find the clients. How do you find people that need private banks? That seems like such a niche.
It's going on meeting people. It's very interesting because if you talk to a business owner and you say, "Who do you bank with?" They name one of the megabanks, and it's like, "How is that working out for you?" They say, "They don't care about me. I'm a client to them." I'll say, "If you ever want personal care, let me know and we can set something up." It's amazing how much people don't know that they need a private banker until they have one. It's a very interesting job. I love my job. I've been at the bank for several years.
Were you always in banking or did you fall into that?
I was always in banking professionally. I went to college for criminal justice and forensic science and I stepped into banking. I knew that I will work at a bank and they got me in and I switched to the bank that I'm at. When I first started, I worked in the compliance department and the anti-money laundering area. I switched over to a sales position. I switched over to the private banking position.
How often do you get in the studio?
It's as much as I can. Jess's schedule changed. She used to teach 5:30 on Thursdays and I would go every Thursday. I try and go in every Saturday that I can. It's great because I'm very fortunate. I live 40 minutes outside of the city. I work in Manhattan so I can leave work, take a class and go home. On the weekends and stuff, especially people that want to come in, it's amazing. The You Get To Crew, they fly from everywhere to come in for these classes. I feel very responsible that when they're coming in, I try and organize things, whether it's a group class. I was emailing with the studio.
I have three group classes booked. We have people coming in. I have a group of friends that I met through the tread. It was like you had to take a certain number of classes every week. I was placed on a team with these five amazing people and I clicked with them immediately. I talked to these women every single day. We are on Messenger all day. They're all coming in. I took off of work and we are doing all things Peloton. I feel like they're my best friends. It's like I've known them forever. We're taking Jess's class and they can't wait to meet her. The majority of them had never even been in the studio before. They're flying in from all over. We have someone coming in from Utah. We have somebody coming in from here and from there, so I use it as an excuse. I say to my husband, "I have to go, my people are coming in. I have to organize everything." It's great to meet people face to face. As much as I can, I'll be in the studio.
What is your leaderboard name?
My leaderboard name is CocoLoco6. Obviously, my name is Nicole. When I was born, my older sister couldn't say Nicole so she called me Coco. My entire family calls me Coco. It's very rare that anyone ever calls me Nicole. The Loco comes in because I'm a little crazy and the number six because my birthday is on the sixth. It's been a name that I've had my entire life.
Do you find that being a little crazy is something people look for in a private banker?
What's interesting about it is that I remember when my sister had come to the city one day because she lives in Ohio. She came to the city and she said, "I want to see where you work. I need to see you in a professional setting." I said, "Sure." She comes in and everyone's like, "Nicole's sister is here. We have to meet her." She said to my boss, "Is Nicole different in work than she is outside of work?" My boss is a young guy. He's a couple of years older than me. He said, "No, she's the exact same person." My sister said, "That's petrifying." I can't be anything other than like how I normally am. People love it.
It sounds like it's a career based on relationships. If you have a little personality, you have no relationships.
When I joined my boss's team, he said, "When it comes down to it, it doesn't matter what you know because you don't know what I can teach you, but people like you and that's what we need." I said, "Me, sure, whatever."
Are you from the New York area or the Ohio area?
I'm from the New York area. I grew up on Long Island. I went to school in Pennsylvania and when I graduated, I moved right into the city when I had first started working.
Your sister grew up in New York and moved to Ohio, she's doing it backward.
She's a professor at the University of Dayton. After all of her many years of schooling, that's where she settled.
Do you have any advice for people starting out with the bike or the tread?
I would suggest taking classes with every single instructor. Once you find your people, connect with their tribe. I don't think that I would have enjoyed the biking community of Peloton as much as I do if I hadn't met the Feel Good Family. The same thing with the You Get To Crew. If I didn't have them, I don't think that I would enjoy it as much because I feel you get good friendships with that. Set a schedule for yourself so you know that every single day you're going to take this class at this time. You're depending on yourself to show up every single day. If you set a schedule, find your people and everything will fall into place.
How can people find you on social media?
You Get To Crew on Facebook and @YouGet2Crew on Instagram.
Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy private banking day.
That wraps up another episode. What do you have in store for people in the next episode?
I am excited because Tunde is on the next episode. I got to introduce her because Tom wasn't here at the beginning.
That's a story we will tell in the next episode. I was running late for no fault of my own as you can tell because we are still married.
That is true.
That is what people will have to look forward to.
Tunde tells a lot of stories. You do not want to miss it.
Until then, where can people find you?
People can find me at Facebook.com/CrystalDOkeefe. They can find me on Instagram, Twitter or on the Bike and at the Tread at @ClipOutCrystal.
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Book Indexes: Multivolume Indexes
Filed under: Contributor Article,indexing,On Indexing — An American Editor @ 11:53 am
Tags: AElfwine Mischler, book, copyeditor, editor, Egypt, Egyptology, entry, Howard Carter, index, indexer, indexing, indexing software, locator numbers, locators, Middle East studies, page number, page proof, records, series, Sky Indexing, sort, subentries, volumes, William Flinders Petrie
Ælfwine Mischler
Last year, I had the pleasure of indexing the third and final volume of a history of Egyptology while creating a combined index of volumes 1–3. (I confess that I have a bit of a soft spot for this book. Volume 1 was my first paid index — and a complicated text for a first-timer — and I was thrilled that the author included me in the acknowledgments.)
When I indexed volumes 1 and 2, the publisher had not thought of having a combined index in the last volume, so I did nothing out of the ordinary in indexing the first two books. When the publisher asked for a combined index, I asked colleagues for any tips or tricks, and they alerted me that it would be a lot more work than just merging the first two files into the third. They were not joking! (Fortunately, I was able to negotiate a higher per-page price.)
More Editing
The publisher gave me PDFs of the final indexes for volumes 1 and 2, and I compared these carefully with the indexes I had written. I wanted to see any changes the publisher had made and refresh my memory of both the subjects I had indexed and their organization.
In my indexing software (I use Sky Indexing), I made a copy of each volume's index and entered the publisher's edits, and then increased the locator numbers (a locator is a page or a range of pages) by 1000 in volume 1 and by 2000 in volume 2. Thus, for example, page 35 in volume 1 became 1035 and page 35 in volume 2 became 2035. I then merged these into a new file, in which I indexed volume 3. I changed the page numbers to the correct forms with volume numbers as a final step so I would not have to type 3: before every locator for the new items.
The real extra work came in creating and organizing subentries. Many entries in volumes 1 and 2 had only a few locators without subentries. When the indexes were combined, these entries had too many locators and I had to make subentries. This required going back into the PDFs for those volumes and rereading those pages.
Other entries in a single volume had subentries, but there were so many in the combined index that they became unwieldy. I reworded some subentries to combine them, but more often, I put the subentries into broad categories and split them into nested entries.
Two of the great names in Egyptology illustrate this editing process.
Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, had only five locators in the index of volume 1 (covering from antiquity to 1881), with no subentries. In volume 2 (covering from 1881–1941), he had 14 subentries. In volume 3, the discovery of Tutankhamun covered 40 pages in two chapters, and in the combined index, Carter was in two nested entries:
Sir Flinders Petrie also appeared in all three volumes. In the volume 1 index, he had seven locators with no subentries. (In volume 1, which covered a much longer span of time, the managing editor and I agreed to use longer strings of locators to save space.) In volume 2, there were 26 subentries for Petrie. In volume 3, the Petrie entry was nested to break the subentries into broad categories:
I made some other changes in the combined index. Many of the big names had a subentry "career" or "early career" or "legacy." These were all force-sorted as the first subentry under the name. Volume 1 discussed many books. I reviewed these entries and removed some from the index that were mentioned with little or no discussion. This was relatively easy to do in the indexing software because I could group all the records that had italics in the main entry. If a book had only one locator, I reread the page in the PDF. Sometimes there was sufficient discussion to keep the title in the index. In addition to these smaller edits, I reorganized some of the large entries.
When I was finished with the editing, I changed the locator numbers to volume and correct page number — an easy task in the software.
This long, complicated index needed a final check. For this, I generated a page proof in numbered order. (This option may not be available in all indexing software.) I went through the page proof line by line. This allowed me to check that double-posted items were correct; for example, that 2:17–20 appeared in both "Petrie, Sir William Flinders, methods and techniques of: excavation" and "methods and techniques of archaeologists: of Petrie."
With a Heads-up
In this situation, I did not know that a combined index would be required in the last volume of the series when I worked on the first two volumes. What if I had a heads-up on another project? What would I do differently in indexing the early volumes?
I would create subentries for anything that was likely to appear in the following volumes, even if it did not require subentries in the current volume. When I was finished editing the index with the extraneous subentries, I would suppress them in the current index, saving them for the later combined index.
This could be done in one of two ways. I could save the index with a different name, and then in the new one, consume the extraneous subentries, that is, remove the subentries but retain the locators, which my software can easily do. When I made the combined index, I would merge the file with the subentries into the new file.
Or I could duplicate each of the entries with extraneous subentries in one file, label them with a color code and filter them out, and then consume the subentries in the unfiltered records. To make the combined index, I would unfilter the records with subentries.
Either way, the combined index would still be more work than a single-volume index, and I would charge a higher rate. A combined index is more than the sum of its parts. Be aware of this if you are either of the parties negotiating for such an index.
Ælfwine Mischler is an American copyeditor and indexer in Cairo, Egypt, who has been the head copyeditor at a large Islamic website and a senior editor for an EFL textbook publisher. She often edits and indexes books on Islamic studies, Middle East studies, and Egyptology.
Indexes: Part 7 — Lessons Learned in Using DEXembed for the First Time
Filed under: Contributor Article,Editorial Matters,indexing — Rich Adin @ 4:16 pm
Tags: AElfwine Mischler, begin code, Bookmarks, DEXembed, Digital Publications Indexing, DIP, DPI SIG, embed, end code, entries, Find and Replace, InDesign, index, indexes, indexing, levels, Qur'an, Seth A Baislin, Sky indexing software, sorting, sub-subentries, sub-subentry, subentries, subentry, Sue Klefstad, switch, Word, XE fields
Editor's note: This version of the post incorporates corrections made by the author to the Options and Advice sections.
I recently created an embedded index in Word for a book that will be published as an ebook and in print. I chose to use DEXembed because colleagues advised that its syntax — a space between the curly brackets and the enclosed text — will work better when the text is converted to an ebook.
A quick explanation of an embedded index: For a print book, the index is written after the book has been designed, using a PDF file of the final pages and page numbers as locators. This is changing, and many publishers are now asking for embedded indexes. For an embedded index, the indexer uses something else as locators. Depending on the program used, this could be paragraph numbers, word numbers, or temporary bookmarks. After indexing, the program embeds the entries by inserting field codes that look like this: { XE "main entry:subentry" }. The index is then generated from the field codes so the pages numbers are displayed. In an ebook, they may also be linked to the location in the text. If the book is designed as hardcover and paperback with different pagination, the embedded index entries will give the correct page numbers for each edition.
Embedded indexes are more work for the indexers, so most of us will charge more for an embedded index.
Options in DEXembed
DEXembed (available from the Editorium) is a Word add-on that allows the indexer to use dedicated indexing software rather than Word's clunky built-in indexing function. DEXembed can use paragraphs, words, or numbers as locators — but only one type in a given document. Paragraph number was the best choice for this project, but the author had sometimes used auto-spacing and other times had used Enter twice between paragraphs. I told him repeatedly that he had to remove the extra Enters and make the spacing between paragraphs consistent (which he did) and that he could not change the paragraphing after I had started indexing. (More on that in the second part of this article in February 2019.)
Experienced colleagues in the Digital Publications Indexing Special Interest Group (DPI SIG) say that Word does not handle ranges of locators well. It is therefore better to mark only the beginnings of entries that are less than two pages long. DEXembed offers three options for ranges: Mark them with bookmarks, mark them with beginning and end codes, or do not mark them. The documentation for DEXembed says that publishers usually prefer begin and end codes.
Before starting my index, I sent two small sample indexes to my author's publisher — one using bookmarks and one using begin and end codes — and asked which worked better for them. They got better results with the bookmarks, which also meant one less step for me in the end. Hurray!
I Won't Talk to You
DPI SIG members also advised me that Word and InDesign use different syntax for some things, and I had to take this into consideration while indexing. I also found that my Sky indexing software and Word do not always communicate well.
This index required a separate scripture index of Qur'an verses. In Word, you can use an f-switch that is coded with \f followed by a name to make two indexes at once { "heading1" \f "subject" } and { "heading1" \f "quran" } (See Seth A. Maislin's blog for more.) However, my colleagues advised that InDesign will reject XE fields with a backslash.
A suggested solution that I followed was to use two levels of subentries, with the main entries for the two indexes. That is, I had only two main entries, for which I used bold text, and my first level of subentry was the real main entry I wanted. The sub-subentry was the real subentry I wanted. The designers can adjust the indentation and spacing to make these appear as two separate indexes:
The chapter and verse numbers presented two other problems of their own. How to write something like 2:10? First, Word signals heading levels with a colon, so I had to use a backslash before the colon to tell Word that this was a literal colon, not a subheading signal. I admit that at that point, I had forgotten the warnings of my colleagues that InDesign would reject these entries.
As of this writing, I am waiting for the author's comments and corrections, and the results of a small test index for the publisher: three entries using a backslash and colon, and three using a plus sign to be replaced by a colon in the generated index. If I do indeed have to remove \: from the index, I want to be sure that + is not a signal for something else in InDesign.
A second problem in writing chapter and verse numbers was the sorting. I knew that in Sky, I had to enter one- and two-digit chapter numbers with preceding zeros so they would sort properly. Thus, Chapter 2 was entered as 002 and Chapter 16 as 016. The verse numbers following the colons, however, sorted properly in Sky without additional zeros.
Word was not happy with that, but I could only learn that at the end. I finished my index, embedded the entries, generated the index, and then found that Word had mis-sorted the verses so that, for example, 18:70 came before 18:7. I had to open Sky, add the zeros to the verses, re-embed the entries, generate the new index, and remove the extra zeros from the generated index.
Maybe I'll Talk a Little Bit
Another difference between Sky and Word is how they handle text to be ignored in sorting. Sky's sorting automatically ignores prepositions at the beginning of subentries, but Word's does not. Sky also allows the indexer to code other things to be ignored in sorting. I commonly do this with the al- that begins many Arabic names.
For the embedded index, I had to enclose items to be ignored in angle brackets, but then in Sky, they all sorted to the top because they started with symbols. I was not sure that Word would put <al->Bukhari, <al->Ghazali, <al->Tabari, etc., in the proper places in the generated index. On this, I did have success, but I had to go back to the few subentries that begin with prepositions and enclose the prepositions in angle brackets.
DEXembed uses a text file to embed the entries, and all the bold and italics are lost in the process, although their coding remains. Once the entries were embedded, I had to edit the XE fields to get the bold and italic formatting back. (See Sue Klefstad's blog post for details.) This was not difficult with a Find and Replace using wildcards (but be sure to turn off Tracked Changes!), but it was an extra step to perform.
Advice for Embedded Indexing
It is important to communicate with the author and publisher before beginning an embedded index. Learn how the Word manuscript will be handled after indexing and how it will be published. (There is more information on the resources page of the DPI SIG website.)
Once you have written your index in your dedicated indexing software, always embed in a copy of the document. Always keep the original "clean" and do not embed in it. Sometimes Word does not embed the entries properly and you might have to try again. DEXembed does have a function to remove embedded entries, but if Word gives you run-time errors as it did to me (see the second part of my February 2019 column), you will want to try again in a clean copy so there is no chance of stray coding in the file.
My thanks to colleagues Sue Klefstad and Seth A. Maislin for their invaluable blog posts, and to other colleagues in the DPI SIG for their advice in e-mail messages.
Indexes — Part 5: Names in Indexes
Filed under: Business of Editing,Contributor Article,indexing,The Order of Things — Rich Adin @ 9:46 am
Tags: accuracy, best practice, computer program, concordance, copyeditor, endnote, family, footnote, history, index, indexers, indexing, names, research, sources, subentries, subentry, title
A potential client recently asked me what an index is. Does it contain every name and event in a book? How is it different from a concordance?
A concordance maps every occurrence of words in a work or corpus, usually with the surrounding words to provide some context. A concordance might categorize the words by parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or by form (run, running, runny). There are, for example, concordances for the Bible, Shakespeare, Old English literature (which has a limited corpus), and the Qur'an (in Arabic). For most books, though, a concordance is not very useful.
Imagine a book about aardvarks — do you really want to know where every occurrence of the word aardvark is? Wouldn't you rather want to know where to find information about the diet, habitats, mating habits, diseases, and natural enemies of aardvarks? That is what a well-written index provides. Indexers create entries for the topics discussed in a book and — if they do the job right — break long topics into subentries so readers can easily find what they want. Nobody wants to check all the pages in a long string of page numbers (or other locators) to find particular information.
What about names of people — should every instance of every name appear in an index?
Not usually. A computer-generated index might pick out all the words beginning with a capital letter and index them without differentiating between those that are passing mentions and those attached to substantial information. If a page says that Fay Canoes went with Bob Zurunkel, and that Fay did X, Y, and Z, and Fay said "yadda yadda" and "blah blah blah," Fay is going to be indexed for that page, but not Bob. He is just a passing mention there. If Fay appears many times in the book, a human-produced index will usually have subentries for Fay, but a computer-generated index will not.
Often, a trade book or one that has limited space for the index will have longer strings of locators — and, thus, fewer subentries — and fewer details in the index.
As I said, usually not every occurrence of every name will appear in the index. There are exceptions, of course, and indexers should anticipate the needs of the reader. For example, in local histories, even passing mentions of every person or place (building, street, town, etc.) should be indexed because they might serve as clues for later researchers. In a handbook of literature, every author's name might be indexed even if they are only mentioned in passing, but book titles might be indexed only if there is substantial discussion of them. What constitutes "substantial discussion" is sometimes a subjective decision.
Authors used as sources may or may not be indexed, and practice varies from one field to another. In the social sciences, it is common to have a separate name/author index that includes all sources, even if they are named only in parentheses, without subentries. The indexer has to refer to the bibliography to get the first name or initial(s) of authors, so bibliography pages should be counted in the page or word count used for pricing the index.
In other works, sources might be indexed only if there is substantial discussion of their material, or only if the source name appears in the text as opposed to only in a footnote or endnote. Authors and editors should make their expectations clear to the indexer before indexing begins.
Human indexers can decide which names to include in an index. They can also index people with nicknames properly (e.g., recognize that Frank and Buddy are the same person), people whose names have changed over time, and people who are referred to by a title or family relationship. A computer program will not index such people correctly, if at all.
So what goes into an index? That depends on the nature of the book, needs of the reader, practice in a given field, and space available for the index. If you have particular needs or questions, discuss them with your indexer before work begins. If you are the indexer, be sure to have this conversation before you begin the work.
Book Indexes — Part 4: The Metatopic
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A few years ago, I was asked to index a book about a medieval ruler and the mosque and city he built. The book was primarily an architectural history, but it included substantial information about the city and about the ruler's childhood in central Asia and its influence on the mosque's architecture.
But I was told that the names of both the ruler and the mosque, and the name of the city, were not to appear in the index.
I interpreted this to mean that those names were not to be main entries. There were entries on the other cities in the country discussed, so I put the forbidden city as a subentry under "cities," and I made entries for "education of X" and "rise to power of X" even though I knew that they ought to be subentries under the name of the not-to-be-named ruler.
Being very much a newbie at the time, I asked for a volunteer to peer review my index. My reviewer rightly asked why I had not put main entries for the ruler and the city. When I told her that that was what the editor and author had requested, she suggested that I make a second version of the index with those items properly indexed and give the editor the choice. I did that, but the editor replied that they had decided on the first option. I later saw that in the published version they had also removed the education and rise-to-power entries, as well as the cities main entry so that the "forbidden city" was nowhere to be found in the index, although the other two cities retained their main entries.
Why? I have never understood why the client did not want those items in the index when they were so obviously part of what the book was about.
Long-time indexers say that they were taught decades ago not to index the main topic of the book — what indexers now call the metatopic. Now, though, whenever we peer-review an index, the metatopic is the first thing we look for.
It has been found that when readers use an index, they usually look first for the metatopic that is apparent from the book title or subtitle. If the book is about aardvarks and readers do not find "aardvarks" in the index, they do not conclude that the index is bad; they conclude the book is bad, with nothing about aardvarks.
Obviously, you cannot put everything as subentries under the metatopic, or you would be indexing the whole book. A joke among indexers is of a graduate student who was asked to index his professor's book. When it came to the metatopic, he started to add page numbers — 1, 2–3, 4, 5–7 — and then threw up his arms with "It's on every page!"
But under the metatopic(s) — there can be more than one — an indexer can put subentries that cannot stand alone as main entries, such as a definition or other items that readers are unlikely to look for in the index, and then add See also cross-references to guide the reader to the entries for the main discussion. Every main entry in the book should relate to the metatopic(s) in some way.
Here are some of the subentries I put under the metatopic "Egyptology" and the See also cross-references in the index of a three-volume history of Egyptology. (This was a run-in index, which is reflected in the wording, but I am displaying it here as an indented index.)
Handling the metatopic(s) is not always easy, and indexers have different ways to approach the task. The metatopic(s) may be easy to identify from the title or subtitle, or by reading the introduction and conclusion — which indexers read before beginning the index. On the other hand, in a complex scholarly book, the metatopic may not be readily apparent. An indexer may formulate the metatopic as a sentence or short paragraph before deciding on a concise phrasing suitable for an index entry.
As a reader, do you look for the metatopic when you open an index for the first time? Are you disappointed if you do not find it? Have you noticed a difference in indexing styles between older and newer books?

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Before this gubernatorial race ends, I have one more tale for you about how GOP nominee Bruce Rauner made his millions, and what that may tell us about how he might run Illinois.
This saga has some gray in it, like most of the stories that have come out in his bitter contest with Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn. But I'm writing about it because there's not a lot of distracting he said/she said stuff in this story. The facts are clear, and it provides a nice window on how the real world works — both the political world and the world of high finance.
The story is about how GTCR LLC, the private-equity firm that Mr. Rauner headed before he got in the gubernatorial contest — he's the "R" in the name — greatly increased the price of a medication used for premature infants with a heart defect. The huge hike, to nearly $1,500 from $77.77 for a three-vial treatment, came two days after GTCR gained rights over one of the few competing products.
It all looks pretty ugly, and frankly doesn't put any of the players in a good light. But there is another side that arguably makes it not as bad as it looks.
As first unearthed by GOP gadfly and former state party official Doug Ibendahl, the story concerns Deerfield-based Ovation Pharmaceuticals Inc., a high-flying biotech firm that GTCR acquired in 2002.
GTCR's business model has been to unearth niches that have no dominant firm, combine companies together to achieve pricing power, inject new management and then bail out, hopefully for a big profit. That certainly happened with Ovation, which GTCR later sold to a Danish company named Lundbeck Inc.
According to facts laid out by U.S. District Court Judge Joan Ericksen in Minneapolis, GTCR acquired a big chunk of Ovation by injecting $150 million into the privately held firm. Ovation then went on an expansion spree, acquiring from Merck & Co. rights to a drug named Indocin used to treat a condition in which a small hole develops in the heart of some premature infants. The condition can be fatal unless treated by medication or surgery.
Shortly thereafter, Ovation began talking with nearby Abbott Laboratories about obtaining rights to a related product Abbott was developing, known as NeoProfen. The talks were significant because, according to Ms. Ericksen's ruling, even now only four drugs have been approved by federal authorities to treat the condition, at least one of them a generic developed later.
"Two days after acquiring the rights to NeoProfen, Lundbeck raised the price of Indocin IV by almost 1,300 percent, to $1,500," her ruling states. And NeoProfen, which Abbott had projected would sell about about $450 to $500 for an equivalent treatment, ended up going for $1,500.
Based on that, the Federal Trade Commission sued, accusing Ovation of a violation of anti-monopoly laws.
The FTC lost the case before Ms. Ericksen. And it lost an appeal. In effect, the judge ruled the two drugs weren't competing against each other because physicians testified that the effectiveness of each drug, not its price, is what determined usage. And since the two did not share a market, there was no monopoly and no monopoly violation.
However, despite all of that, the facts of the case stand. What Ovation did may not have been illegal. But was it right?
Above and beyond the dismissal of the court complaint, Ovation paid Abbott big money for rights to NeoProfen. The initial agreement between the two called for payment of $2.5 million upfront, $15 million when the deal closed, $15 million later and a royalty of up to 7 percent of sales. Ovation also said at the time that the older drug, Indocin, needed expensive new production facilities if it was to remain a viable product.
Leaders of the biotech business would say that's just the way thing work: Development takes a ton of money, many products flame out, so pharmaceutical companies have to get what they can while the getting's good. In that vein, in an interview with the Sun-Times last year, former Ovation chief Jeffrey Aronin said the company had to spend $100 million just to develop and gain marketing rights to another product used to treat seizures in infants.
One other thing. As has been the case with most of these companies, the Rauner campaign says the candidate did not serve on the board of Ovation, and therefore did not have direct management responsibility.
But another GTCR official, Edgar Jannotta Jr., did. He's donated $405,000 to Mr. Rauner's campaign. Ovation caused an outcry when it similarly jacked up the prices of other livesaving drugs it acquired. In 2009, when Ovation was sold to Lundbeck, the price was $900 million. So this wasn't all about saving the world.
Some of you surely will say that this just is the way the business world works. But Mr. Rauner is running for governor, and he's been awfully vague about how he's going to keep his promises to cut taxes and boost school spending without slashing social spending on things like, well, Medicaid and pharmaceutical assistance to sick patients.
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Q: What are harmonic waves? I am studying waves for my examination. Harmonic waves is also in my syllabus and I don't know what it is. I searched for it on google and got two possibly different answers. One answer is from en.wikipidea.org, and the other from britannica.com.
Quoting from Wikipedia

A harmonic is a wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the fundamental frequency, the frequency of the original periodic signal, such as a sinusoidal wave. The original signal is also called the 1st harmonic, the other harmonics are known as higher harmonics.

Quoting from Britannica

The properties of harmonic waves are illustrated in the mathematical expression for the displacement in both space and time. For a harmonic wave traveling in the x-direction, the spatial and time dependence of the displacement ϕ is
$$ϕ(x, t) = Acos\Big(\frac {2\pi x} {\lambda} - 2\pi ft\Big)$$

From Wikipedia definition, it looks as it is standing wave while from Britannica, it looks as if standing wave is same as sinusoidal wave. To add to the confusion, my classmates have told me that it is same as periodic wave.
So, to conclude, my question is:
What is harmonic wave? Is it same as a sinusoidal wave or it is a standing wave or something else?
Please help me out. Thank you.

A: In the world of music...
In many different kinds of resonator, the system is capable of vibrating at multiple, distinct modes all at the same time.
Most tonal musical instruments are based around some kind of resonator; an vibrating air column, a vibrating string, a vibrating bar of metal,... Musicians call the lowest frequency of any of the vibration modes the "fundamental," and they call all of the others "harmonics."
For a strictly linear resonator (e.g., in a stringed instrument, or in a woodwind instrument with a cylindrical bore) the harmonics are integer multiples of the fundamental. For instruments that vibrate in more complex ways—metallophones, brass horns, and I don't know what else—some of the harmonics can be other, fixed ratios of the fundamental.
The ratios of the amplitides of the fundamental and its various harmonics are what give each instrument its own distinct timbre (i.e., characteristic sound).

A: Even though it's better to check the definition in the context, I'd use the term "harmonic" for a periodic sinusoidal signal (you get cosine with phase shift), thus a signal that has 1 frequency only in its spectrum.
Once the definition of the term is shared among the participants to a discussion, I'll be fine to define an harmonic travelling wave as
$f^t(x,t) = A \cos(kx - \omega t)$,
traveling with velocity $c = \omega/k$, as well as harmonic standing waves, those coming from the transformation of a traveling wave as the superposition of two standing waves (using properties of addition of cosines)
$f^t(x,t) = A \left[ \cos(kx)\cos(\omega t) + \sin(kx)\sin(\omega t) \right] = \\ \qquad \ \ \
= A \cos(kx)\cos(\omega t) + A \sin(kx)\sin(\omega t) = \\ \qquad \ \ \ =f^{s,1}(x,t) + f^{s,2}(x,t) .$

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