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Re: Sailboat Fishing
Fishing? Yup. There is "Fishing" and there is "catching fish". My fly rods and waders are for "Fishing". Hove to with a hand line is for "catching fish".
We do not clutter the boat with rods. If we had kids to share it with that might be different. A home made hand line, work gloves with leather palms, a piece of black PVC pipe split and snapped over the stern rail, a cod jig for weight with its hooks removed and a gaff.
The hand line is 200' of heavy mono (200#) wrapped around a gently tapered piece of marine plywood that has pieces of 1x1 fastened across the wide (10") end as a handle. The cod jig is a heavy shiny weight at the bottom on a swivel. 6, 6/0 snelled hooks on 50# leader at 2' intervals above it. The hooks are on a section of the heavy mono also on a swivel. The hooks get hooked into the handle when not in use and it stores in a small tub. This rig is lowered over the stern rail so you can pull down when retrieving. A sacrificial piece of PVC is snapped on the rail to protect the line. The gaff has a piece of line attached to keep from loosing it overboard.
This rig is not for fishing while sailing around here but I am sure it would catch fish in the right spots. We sail to a "bank", hove to, lower the hooks and drift over the structure. This is usually in water 50' or less. Ground fish are what we catch. There is always the possibility of a large halibut. I have a halibut rig with heavier hooks when that is a real possibility. Haven't had to deal with a monster yet. My old spear gun is available just in case.
The fish go into a cooler of ice and get cleaned at the dock. Fresh fish are my favorite protein. Nothing else compares. Today's killed halibut is to die for! Ha!
Bait can be anything. We catch a couple of mackerel or harbor pollock before we go fishing for food. Any fish can be cut into chunks for bait and the fish don't seem to mind if it has been frozen. Last weeks catch works.
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Socal Sailboat fishing
After 5 pages lots of information on fishing in Florida, one contributor out of SF bay a few in the PNW, what about So Cal?
I have been sailing between San Diego and Dana Point. What is the chance of catching anything in these waters if I get a rod and troll while cruising? Any suggestions on fishing rigs for this type of fishing? What might I catch here?
I am racing tonight with a guy that fishes a lot but I think he mostly goes way offshore towards Mexico and does not fish locally. I know he has no interested in sailboats unless there is a race involved.
Re: Sailboat Fishing
Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico - Florida Coast.
We use a heavy boat pole with a Penn trolling real and drag a 1.5 to 2.5 inch shiny silver spoon about 50 to 100' behind the boat. We have a couple of bolt on rod holders on the stern pulpit. Set the drag just tight enough so it will peel out line when something hits it. When you hear the reel go, yell "FISH ON" at the top of your lungs and watch the kids go crazy. Tighten up the drag and make the kids reel in the fish. In the Gulf, Spanish Mackeral are plentiful, fun to catch, they hit at any boat speed, they are beautiful in the pictures, they're fairly easy to fillet, and taste pretty good if you cook them up same day... with Lemon Pepper.
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Making slow ahead on those really light days in the south I cast forward off the bow and sail over the lightly weighted white rag lure. Fish hiding in the boat shadow are waiting for you.Here on the left coast ,salmon are rarer and fussyier but with a licensed clam gun you can still fill the bucket.Molluscs like clams, oysters and scallops freeze or can well and feed you well after the EI runs out. edit I just saw this was an old thread but wha the heck .still timely.
Re: Sailboat Fishing
Great info everybody, thanks for the hyperlinks and reading material suggestions... after always fishing from a dock or a powerboat fishing from a sloop is quite different!
We fished for salmon for many years outside of San Francisco in
our Coronado 25. Without the sails up in water that was usually
somewhat rough it was like spending the day in an industrial sized
cloths dryer. A couple of ways to get your lures down without
downriggers, which I think are a pain in the neck:
Luhr Jensen - - Sinker Release
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The trip I took with my son and daughter in law from Ft. Lauderdale to Nassau, Bahamas was the best fishing I've ever had. We were using a pole and a small blue plastic "flying fish" (don't know what brand, name, etc). We let out about 100-125' of line while sailing about 4-6 knots and we caught at least one good sized fish each day. Mahi, tuna, jack?, barracuda (which we didn't eat). We'd throw the line over as soon as we got going and forgot about it until we heard the reel screaming. We were mostly off the wind so we would ease the sheets on all the sails to slow the boat to make it easier to reel the fish in and then used a long gaff to bring it onto deck. By the time I left the boat the reefer was full. They continued to catch fish regularly using the same lure and technique the whole time they were in the Bahamas.
Here in the PNW we regularly catch Dungeness crab and Spot prawns. Occasionally we can catch a salmon but without a downrigger and a 12lb ball it's rare. We do catch quite a few Ling cod jigging with a "Buzzbomb".
Bob, of Boat Bits fame, now has a blog dedicated to fishing from sailboats.
Check it out...Fishing Under Sail
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I could see someone being disappointed if they went into The Art of Fielding thinking it was a baseball book.
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You need to look at what really matters and whether it's 60 gallon or 80 gallons don't mean squat and will make no difference in performance THERE IS NO DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE in performance between a 60 gallon tank and an 80 gallon, all other things being the same! What you need to consider is the compressor type and motor, in this case that is just a simple single stage pump of a very common model sold on home type compressors. The motor will be a 240 volt, most likely a Century or possibly an Emerson either of which is so-so quality. The point is don't pay much for this thing because it can be bought for as little as $400 new if it is the 3 1/2 HP 15 AMP version (usually mounted on a 60 gallon tank), that 3 1/2 HP can be listed as high as 6 to 7 HP "Peak" but if the motor is 15 AMPs the HP is about 3 1/2 and the "Peak" rating is just sales gimmick non-sense. These little single stage pumps have a comparatively short service life to a good two stage so if it has a lot of time on it then it may have reduced performance. Open the drain valve and check for rust colored water which would indicate internal tank rusting, if it rusts through and starts leaking it is scrap and CAN NOT be repaired! Check for excessive oil around the pump crankcase vent which would indicate pump wear and blow-by which are common ailments of a high time pump. Regardless of what kind of specs you find published by the manufacturer about the best you can expect from that little single stage pump is going to be about 10 to 11 CFM@90 PSI for the 15 AMP version and no more than 13 CFM for the larger versions, that's if and only if it is like new because these figures decline as pump time increases. Once again, look at what counts and DON'T be swayed by the size of the stinkin tank it simply will not make the thing perform any better in spite of the common myth!
BTW, since "Peak" HP has been discussed so much here in the past I thought it might be of interest that CH has recently started rating that 15 AMP motor at a much more realistic 3.2 HP instead of the BS 6 1/2 HP number!
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first direct arena Leeds is a purpose built major entertainment venue located in the centre of Leeds. The first direct Arena's unique 'super-theatre' style has been designed to enhance the customer experience with all seats facing the stage. Everyone, spectators and performers alike, can enjoy a more intimate atmosphere with reduced viewing distances relative to the capacity of the venue – over 12,300 seated or 13,500 with a standing floor.
first direct arena Leeds primarily hosts live music, comedy and entertainment shows along with sporting events creating a modern, cutting edge, multi-event venue for Leeds. Some of the huge acts that have graced the first direct Arena include Elton John, JLS, Andrea Bocelli, Kaiser Chiefs, Micky Flanagan, Cirque Du Soleil and Miranda Hart.
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Children under the age of two are admitted free, except for children's shows (e.g. Cbeebies etc.) where the age limit may be lower. Children without a ticket will not be allocated a seat and must sit on the parents lap. Children aged 14 years and under are encouraged to purchase seated tickets. Any under 14s in the seating area must be accompanied by an adult.
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Premier League Darts (17/02/15) - Awesome
Great night atmosphere was electric glad we were near the front, cant Waite for next year hope we get even better tickets .
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Kaiser Chiefs (17/02/15) - Great night
Really impressed with venue. Paid extra for the luxury experience as a present for my wife. Warm greeting from staff and nice touch with welcome glass of bubbly. Great to be able to relax in comfortable seated area before gig, meal provided was good. Arena layout very good and great view from seats, entrance/exit really good. Great that experience allows you to go back into lounge at end of show to give time for crowd to disperse. Now to the band, Chiefs were great again, really got crowd going and lighting/effects very good. Would recommend paying extra for the experience.
Jo WW, 16/02/15
The only thing Id criticise with the venue is the size/view/clarity of the screens when youre up in the gods just meant straining a bit.
Kaiser Chiefs (16/02/15) - Entertaining and Creative but ruined by support
Really took some getting into following the support act hence the good rating. They kind of set the mood for me and it wasnt a good one, I wasnt expecting anything overly special but words cannot describe how annoying & repetative they were with some weird computerised/monotone voice intended to replicate old fashioned radio/tv broadcasting, had they at least made the effort to involve the crowd personally by actual speaking themselves or attempting vocals themselves it would have been a little more bearable. I was actually at the point where I just wanted to walk out. Once the Kaiser Chiefs came on it took me sometime for my ears to recover from the support act and my mood to lift. With the Kaisers one or two performaces and involving crowds were almost identical to when I saw them at a festival last year which was a bit predictable from my point of view. The sound and lighting was really good and obviously the songs themselves were performed brilliantly as expected, I also liked the creativity towards the end with the mock backstage roasting. The atmosphere when I predict a riot came on made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up!
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Located on Dyer Street next to Leeds City Bus Station and approx. 15min walk from first direct arena the coach station provides national and regional connections to a wide variety of destinations.
Leeds Bus Station is Wheelchair Friendly, which allows easy access for wheel chair users. All bays at the station have also been modified so that wheelchair users can get on and off buses easily.
We are also registered as a "Safe Place", which allows support and help for any persons with a disability to come into the station and ask for assistance.
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Leeds City Station on New Station Street is around a 15min walk from first direct arena and a major hub on the national, regional and local rail network providing connections to a wide variety of destinations.
Nearest Taxi Ranks
Available at a number of locations adjacent to the Arena - Merrion Way (after 2200), Wade Lane, Merrion Street, Woodhouse Lane, Cookridge Steet and Portland Way.
Travel Information Updates available at www.leedstravel.info
Live travel information will be available at customer services in the Arena during events.
By road
Within 400m of the Arena, over 2800 car parking spaces are provided at four main car parks:
Woodhouse Lane Car Park (1,226 spaces including 12 wheelchair accessible spaces). Recently refurbished multi-storey car park on Woodhouse Lane with access to / from Woodhouse Lane and the A58(M) Inner Ring Road. 5 minutes walk from the Arena.
The Merrion Centre Car Park (1050 including 12 wheelchair accessible spaces). Multi-storey car park part of the Merrion Centre and the nearest to the Arena with access to / from Merrion Way.
St John's Centre (285 spaces). Multi-story car park part of the St John's Shopping Centre with access to /from Merrion Street.
Rose Bowl Car Park (273 spaces). The Rose Bowl has two public car parks – one surface with 73 spaces (including 5 wheelchair accessible spaces) and an underground multi-storey car park with another 200 spaces with access from Portland Crescent, via the left-in only junction with Woodhouse Lane. Exit is via Portland Crescent, Portland Gate, Cookridge Street to the Woodhouse Lane / Claypit Lane junction.
first direct arena has been designed to be accessible to everyone. If the information you require is not listed below, please contact our Accessibility co-ordinator by telephone on 0844 248 1585 or in person at the first direct arena new on-site Ticket Office. This is located to the left hand side of the main entrance doors at the venue, past the first direct bar. Opening hours are Monday-Friday 10.00am-5.00pm and Saturdays 10.00am-3.00pm, subject to change. The ticket office opens early on show nights and on sale days.
Provisions have been made to cater for wheelchair users. Lifts have been installed and it is possible to enter the arena by all main entrances. Access to the upper tier of seating (BLK 321 and above) may require the negotiation of steep steps and so may not be suitable for the elderly, infirm or those with mobility problems, the front of BLK 321 and above is 19m from ground level and rises to 29m at the rear of the block.


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Arsenal are heading back to Asia this summer to visit the Club's passionate supporters in the Far East.
Following a successful tour of Malaysia and China in July 2011, the first-team squad will be back in the region for a prestigious friendly against Manchester City. Arsène Wenger's team will face their Premier League rivals at Beijing's famous 'Bird's Nest' Stadium in the inaugural China Cup on Friday, July 27.
The game will coincide with the opening day of the London Olympics - four years after Beijing hosted the summer Games.
Two days later Arsenal will visit Hong Kong to face regional champions Kitchee FC. The fixture is Arsenal's first in that area since 1995 and will give the Club's huge Hong Kong fan base the opportunity to see Wenger's team play live ahead of the 2012/13 season.
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis said: "Asia is an important region for us and our return there this summer will build on our successful tour last year. We have a huge and passionate following in Hong Kong and mainland China and it is important for us to continue building our presence there."
Ticket details and travel options for supporters wishing to attend the matches in Beijing and Hong Kong will be available soon on Arsenal.com. Look out for further developments and news regarding the Club's summer pre-season schedule.
Prior to Sunday's match, Arsenal and Manchester City will warm-up in T-shirts with their names in Mandarin on the back as a nod to our forthcoming game in the 'Bird's Nest' Stadium.
And look out for a fans' banner in Mandarin which translates as 'Greetings to our fellow Gooners in China'.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Robert Lubbers was born in Brooklyn, New York on 10 January 1922. Bob started his comics career doing freelance work for pulp magazines, after attending the Art Students League in New York. In 1942, he was employed by Fiction House, where he worked as art director from 1945 until 1950. He worked on almost all published comics, such as 'Captain Wings', 'U.S. Rangers', 'Captain Terry Thunder', 'Rip Carson', 'Commando Ranger' and 'Firehair'.
After 1950, Bob Lubbers joined United Feature Syndicate and took over the 'Tarzan' daily comic and Sunday page. Between 1954 and 1958, he worked with writer Al Capp on 'Long Sam', and in 1959, he succeeded John Spranger on 'The Saint'. Lubbers switched to King Features in 1960, where he drew 'Secret Agent X-9' under the pseudonym Bob Lewis (1960-67).
Secret Agent X-9
Lubbers also came up with 'Robin Mallone' for Newspaper Enterprise Association in 1968. Between 1970 and 1977, he worked with Al Capp again, this time as assistant on 'Li'l Abner'. After doing some comic book work for Marvel in the late 1970s ('The Human Fly', 'Black Goliath', 'Defenders'), Lubbers focused on advertising art and pin-up illustrations, before retiring in 1989.


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Did Windows 8 kill PC sales?
posted at 5:00 pm on April 12, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
For the first time in more than 20 years, I didn't have any machines to update when Microsoft first released Windows 8 (although I later did play with it a bit in a virtual drive on my Macbook and Mac Mini). My, how times have changed. Where in the past a new Windows release would have prompted a big increase in computer sales, Windows 8 seems to have turned into sales poison. Or is it the emergence of full-power tablets?
Has the shift from PC to tablet finally reached the point of no return? There's been chatter about the "post-PC" era for years, particularly after the introduction of the iPad. But recent data suggest that we may finally have reached the tipping point.
Since the start of the year, the PC market has seen its steepest quarterly decline ever — 13.9 percent, according to a report from International Data Corp. That news comes on the heels of a Gartner report predicting the PC market will shrink as much as 3.5 percent over 2013 in favor of ultra-light notebooks and tablets. …
None of this is particularly surprising. But it is bad news for Microsoft, whose new Windows 8 system is being partly blamed for the market's poor performance. When the company introduced Windows 8 in October, the operating system was supposed to help a flagging PC market gain — or at least lose less — ground against tablets, with a new touch-based interface. Instead, sales of PCs have dropped faster, and analysts are saying that sales aren't coming back.
"At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market," said Bob O'Donnell of IDC in a press release. "Microsoft will have to make some very tough decisions moving forward if it wants to help reinvigorate the PC market."
Yahoo Finance is much less diplomatic about it. The PC sales market tanked this year, and a large share of blame goes to Microsoft:
As if that news wasn't' troubling enough, it appears that a pivotal makeover of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system seems to have done more harm than good since the software was released last October.
"This is horrific news for PCs," said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. "It's all about mobile computing now. We have definitely reached the tipping point." …
In an attempt to keep the PC relevant, Microsoft released a radical new version of Windows last fall. Windows 8 has a completely new look that's similar to the design of the software running the most popular smartphones and tablet computers. The overhaul requires a relearning process, a leap that many consumers and corporate buyers aren't ready to take.
All signs so far point to Windows 8 being a flop. …
The newest version of Windows is designed to work well with touch-sensitive screens, but the displays add to the cost of a PC. Together, the changes and higher prices "have made PCs a less attractive alternative to dedicated tablets and other competitive devices," O'Donnell said.
From the very limited experience I had with Win8, I was … not impressed. Win7 was a much better desktop and laptop experience, far more intuitive to existing users and more stable than the last several Windows products, at least in my experience. I was a little surprised that Microsoft dumped it all for a completely fresh start. It should be noted, though, that running Win8 in a "virtual machine" caused a lot of performance issues, which I knew was the case, too.
Honestly, I think I'd still prefer a Win7 environment to the MacBook OS, as it seemed as though I had better control over performance. But if Win8 is the only option, I think I'd prefer to stick with what I have.
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I was wondering if there is any new technology being introduced into fundamental bee hive construction or design? I'm aware of Styrofoam hives and some rather expensive looking plastic hives found in Europe. On the surface, it appears that Nuc's are taking on new construction techniques and materials......but not the basic hive.Regards,Tucker1
Bees only need a hollow space. How do you make that high tech?
I don't know - I keep thinking about one of those giant igloo coolers fitted with top bars. That would be pretty high tech for a nest cavity.
For the price though, I prefer the Betterbee polystyrene nucs
Seriously, I wonder how well that worked?
You have to admit the cooler is a quick and easy starter. It looks like it's bigest limitation is it would not provide much room to grow after it is filled. You would almost have to create a frame to be able to stack and it would be hard to make water tight and mess up bee space. The insulation may be able to be overcome by drilling holes and using the expanding foam. The window frame formula. This would start to add up quickly in cost.


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You don't need heated gear....just nuke 5 or 6 Hot Pockets and stick'em where ya get cold
Wanted to add an update. I have used my Gerbing's gear a handful of times so far, mostly to/from work in upper 20s to low 30s. Today I finally tested the charging system's ability to support it while idling.With the bike turned off, my battery usually reads between 12.9v-13.1v. Pulling into the garage after getting back from work today (i.e. fully warmed-up engine), I checked it while at idle and it read 13.8v, never varying more than +/- 0.1v over a few minutes. I then hooked up the heated gear and turned it up at the way, testing the battery every minute or two for 15 straight minutes while the bike idled (needed enough of a test period to notice the slowest drain, if any). Voltage never varied at all!Turning off the bike, I tested the battery and saw the same high 12s/low 13s as usual. To see how quickly the gear drains the battery with the charging system disengaged, I turned up the gear to max again (engine still off) with the voltmeter connected. Within 10 seconds, it dropped about 0.5v and kept that pace until I finally disconnected the gear after about 40 seconds.What that means is that an additional 104w drain (77w for jacket + 27w for gloves) on the system at idle RPMs does not drain the battery. It was reassuring to know for me personally, because I have never had to to turn the jacket above 1/3 of the way on the temp controller and the gloves above 1/2. It also means that even if someone is wearing all 4 pieces of Gerbing's gear and doesn't turn up the controller beyond about 60% of the way or so, the Raider will easily support it even at idle (104w/177w = 58%).And that's just with the two items I own. I will repeat it when I get the heated pants and insoles just to see whether the additional drain makes a difference at idle.I should emphasize that I am neither an EE nor an expert mechanic, this was just a test anyone with a voltmeter can conduct. Please don't take this as the final word by any means; your mileage could very well vary!Stay warm.


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Lakeland Police want to remind residents that as the Detroit Tigers Spring Training Season begins they will need to expect an impact to traffic. On Thursday, February 27, 2014 and extending through the end of March the Detroit Tigers will hold Spring Training home games at Joker Marchant Stadium. All homes games will begin at 1:05 p.m. and the public should expect traffic delays on Lakeland Hills Boulevard in the area of Tiger Town from 11:00 a.m. to approximately 5:00 p.m. For those not attending a game, we request the use of Florida Avenue as an alternate route. Those traveling on Lakeland Hills Boulevard are requested to be mindful of pedestrian traffic attempting to cross the street.
If you are coming to a game and arrive from the south, all traffic should turn right/east onto Bella Vista and enter the parking area off of Gilmore Avenue or Lake Avenue. If you are coming to a game and arrive from the north, all traffic should turn left/east onto Granada Street and follow signs for parking. The main entrance, Al Kaline Drive, will remain open before and during the games for traffic.
In order to facilitate a timely exit, right turn only out of Al Kaline will be permitted. All Granada Street traffic will either turn north on Lakeland Hills or east towards West Lake Parker Drive. All Bella Vista Street traffic will go east towards West Lake Parker Drive, south on Lakeland Hills Boulevard or cross over to Florida Avenue. Traffic in this area can expect delays from about 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.


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Comments come two years after he called employees unruly "animals" and comparing himself to a cattlemaster
Terry Gou, 63 -- the CEO and major shareholder of Hon Hai Precision Industry Comp, Ltd. (
) -- is making headlines again for interesting comments he made at his company's annual shareholders' meeting.
I. Mission to Replace Migrant Workers With Machines is Moving Ahead
At one point he dropped a hint that Hon Hai's massive subsidiary Foxconn may have completed work on an automated plant for its top consumer electronics client, Apple, Inc. (
). The factory lies in Chengudu, China he says,
We haven't talked much about the factory, but it's manufacturing a product from a very famous company.
Foxconn also makes motherboards and laptops for most major PC OEMs, with orders of several million for most of the world's top PC makers. It also manufactures all of the current generation of video game consoles
and Amazon.com
, Inc.'s (
Kindle eReaders/tablets
Foxconn's new robots are seeing signs of success. [Image Source: AFP/News9]
But it seems likely that Apple would get first privilege at Foxconn's new automated assembly line for a number of reasons. As the primary manufacturer of the roughly
60 million iOS devices Apple sold in Q1
, Apple is likely far and away Foxconn's largest client, with annual device orders approaching a quarter billion units.
Apple is also one of the most demanding clients, as it is always trying to squeeze its manufacturers' to lower costs, while demanding
some of the industry's most challenging smartphone assembly techniques
an uncompromising level of secrecy
. That makes robots particularly attractive as they never ask for raises or leak prototypes of your upcoming product designs.
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou
If Apple is the recipient of the new factory, it could be a rather interesting relationship as Foxconn's robotics effort is
backed by a key alliance with Apple's nemesis, Google
Inc. (
). After initially
struggling in its automation bid
, it appears that Foxconn is
finally turning the corner
. Foxconn's latest robots -- enhanced by
Google's growing robotics prowess
-- are being manufactured in-house at a rate of roughly 30,000 robots per year. For now, Foxconn is closely holding these robotic workers. Mr. Guo comments:
We don't sell them, because we don't have enough for our own use yet.
Some are less than happy with the Taiwanese CEO, complaining that he's abusing his workers, while looking to replace them with robots. But that's what's come to be expected in recent years as Foxconn's success -- and controversies -- have exploded.
II. Billionaire -- "[My employees] are also animals... [and] animals gives me a headache"
While he prefers to be referred to by his Anglicized name, Terry Gou, Mr. Gou's true name is Gou Tai-ming. He got in on the ground floor of the U.S. outsourcing trend, designing connectors for the Atari console at a small startup factory in Taiwan in 1980. By 1988 he had moved to China, setting up a factory in Shenzhen.
Today, Foxconn has expanded astronomically to account for a whopping 40 percent of all consumer electronics manufacturing worldwide. While it has facilities in Europe, Mexico, and South America, the heart of its manufacturing empire still lies in China where it has 13 factories in nine cities. Foxconn is China's biggest employer and its Shenzhen facility is a veritable "city" of its own, with between 250,000 and 450,000 seasonal employees.
Most of the assembly of Apple products has traditionally been done in Shenzhen.
Controversy began in July 2009 when an employee who lost an iPhone prototype was
beaten by plant guards and then fell to his death
. Foxconn claimed that the employee committed suicide, but some believed that he was murdered.
And if there was any ambiguity in that case,
a spate of suicides
in 2010 was far less ambiguous. Reportedly
a total of 14 employees
killed themselves
Foxconn's Apple-geared plant
that year. While this
wasn't that high a suicide rate compared to U.S. suicide rates
, it nonetheless drew controversy as local media reports indicated
a "hellish" working environment
. Foxconn admitted to making many employees work 12 hours a day, six days a week. And some employees were reportedly working even longer -- working up to 18 hours.
Chinese protest Foxconn's harsh working conditions. [Image Source: AP]
Aside from the employees who committed suicide -- who were compensated under the company's insurance plan -- at least one employee was
allegedly "worked to death"
. Foxconn refused to give that employee's family anything.
Perhaps more than anything, Mr. Guo's response rubbed many the wrong way. At his 2012 annual shareholders meeting two years ago, he remarked in Chinese [translated]:
Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.
The attitude struck many as heartless for someone with so much money governing a workforce that he paid so little. Indeed many of his policies -- including punishing employees who talk while working on the assembly line or
who take too many lavatory breaks
-- seem to
border on inhumane
Foxconn's weary workers are asked to skip meals to attend unpaid meetings and are punished for taking too many bathroom breaks. [Image Source: Southern Weekly]
In 2010 when the suicides struck, Foxconn employees were making around $140 USD a month ($1,680 USD/year),
according to
ABC News
, while Mr. Guo's 13 percent stake in Hon Hai made him worth roughly $5.9B USD.
Others countered such criticism pointing to the charitable work Mr. Guo had done in his parents' former hometown in Gewan, Shanxi Province, China.
III. Foxconn Owner Continues to Blame Dead Sweatshop Workers for Suicides
Today criticism about Foxconn's
rising levels of unpaid employee overtime
and its admission to
using underage "interns"
-- illegal under China's laws -- continues to draw ire from international observers, even as his defenders counter such such accusations.
His defenders, though, will have a tough time defending some of his remarks at the shareholders meeting. He first characterized the dead workers as greedy gold-diggers, complaining:
We at first gave a compensation that was so high, the families of the suicide victims' would never be able to spend it all.
To put that claim in context, employees who attempted suicide, but failed were given
roughly CN¥180,000
in a one-off "humanitarian" payment -- or about $29,000 USD. The families of those who actually succeeded in killing themself on average were
paid around CN¥100,000
-- or roughly ~$16,000 USD. At the 2010 national average wage for migrant manufacturers (
$196 USD per month
) that's roughly
seven years worth of pay for the workers who killed themselves
or 12 years for those who failed. It's a lot of money for a migrant worker's family, to be certain, but "more than they could spend" seems like a pretty harsh exaggeration.
But he didn't stop there. He cited a statistic he claimed to have read in "some news article" that stated that mosquitos were the leading cause of death worldwide, followed by suicide. Actually
neither suicide nor malaria
are in the top ten causes of death, let alone the top two, according to the
World Health Organization
From that flawed statistic, his rant took an even more troubling turn. He remarked:
This [the suicides] is what happens when your company reaches a certain scale. It wasn't because the workers were tired. Some of it was because the work is monotonous, but 90 percent of it had to do with personal relationships or because of family disputes.
It's sad to see such comments, but this isn't the first time we've seen them, certainly. In 2010
he stated
If a worker in Taiwan commits suicide because of emotional problems, his employer won't be held responsible, but we are taken to task in China because they are living and sleeping in our dormitories.
That claim seems highly specious as the family members and friends of the dead workers almost all claimed that their chief reason for wanting to kill themselves was feelings of hopelessness about their harsh job and low pay. Many family members said their deceased sons or daughters had sadly wanted to send a message about Foxconn's abusively low pay.
And ironically, if that was the employees' intent it worked. Perhaps Mr. Guo is more bitter that today base employee wages for Foxconn's migrant workers in China are roughly CN¥2500 (~$402 USD/month) on average -- nearly three times what they were in 2010. The unruly "animals" had
cut into Mr. Guo's profit
While his employees are reportedly enduring hellish working conditions, billionaire Foxconn chief is enjoying a dream life. He recently married his much younger dance teacher (left).
[Image Source: Taiwan News/Forbes]
In his book,
The Sayings Of Terry Gou
, which employees are virtually forced to read and quote, he comments:
A leader must have the decisive courage to be a dictator for the common good... Behind every accomplished disciple, there is a stern mentor... You can't go wrong trying to stick with the strictest and most demanding boss.
Together his words paint a picture that this billionaire king of Chinese manufacturing views himself as a wrangler of sorts, forever driving his obedient herd about in its pens. In Mr. Guo's own words his employees are animals -- and like many ranchers he seems to have little sympathy if one of his herd "falls off". After all, to him they're just animals -- he can always find more to replace those that fall, be they men or machines.
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Signing to ABC-Dunhill Records (later absorbed by MCA), Buffett achieved notoriety but not much else with his second (released) album, White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973), which featured a song called "Why Don't We Get Drunk" ("...and screw?" goes the chorus). Buffett revealed a more thoughtful side on Living and Dying in 3/4 Time (1974), with its song of marital separation "Come Monday," his first singles chart entry. But it took the Top Ten song "Margaritaville" and the album in which it was featured, 1977's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, to capture Buffett's tropical world-view and, for a while, turn him into a pop star.
By the start of the '80s, Buffett's yearly albums had stopped going gold, and he briefly tried the country market again. But by the middle of the decade, it was his yearly summer tours that were filling his bank account, as a steadily growing core of Sun Belt fans he dubbed "Parrotheads" made his concerts into Mardi Gras-like affairs. Buffett launched his Margaritaville line of clothes and opened the first of his Margaritaville clubs in Key West. He also turned to fiction writing, landing on the book best-seller lists.
His recording career, meanwhile, languished, though a hits compilation sold millions; a 1990 live album, Feeding Frenzy, went gold; and a 1992 box-set retrospective, Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads, became one of the best-selling box sets ever. Buffett finally got around to making a new album in 1994, when Fruitcakes became one of his fastest-selling records. It was followed in 1995 by Barometer Soup and Banana Wind in 1996. The following year, Buffett began working on a musical adaptation of Herman Wouk's novel Don't Stop the Carnival with the author himself. After Broadway producers expressed little interest, the production ran for six weeks in Miami during 1997. In spring of 1998, Buffett released a collection of songs from the production as he began mulling over the idea of taking the play on the road. In 1999 he released Beach House on the Moon as well as Live: Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday.
During the first few years of the millennium, Buffett's newly launched Mailboat label issued close to a dozen concert recordings, as well as the 2002 studio album Far Side of the World. Two years later, Buffett allowed RCA to distribute his second Mailboat studio album, License to Chill. Live albums recorded in Hawaii and Boston appeared in 2005, followed by an all-new collection of songs called Take the Weather with You in 2006 and two more live sets, Live in Anguilla in 2007 and Feeding Frenzy: Live in 2008. In 2009, Buffett released Buffet Hotel, his first new studio album in three years; it debuted at 17. Next up was Songs from St. Somewhere, which arrived in August of 2013 and debuted at four on the Billboard charts. Three years later, Buffett released 'Tis the SeaSon, his first Christmas album in 20 years. ~ William Ruhlmann
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His life away!!
I still have the mixed cd that I used to listen to when s**t was bad.
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I started listening to Jimmy's music with his second album, white sports coat n pink crushstation s . Been loving his songs since. 42, shows, in FL., Vegas, Dallas, Michigan.
I asked him how he got it, and he said a friend of a friend of a sailor....
This is a true story.
I finally got the real scoop. Kids are always watching. And sometimes listening. ... thanks son for a great birthday present.
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Wayne Law presents documentary Vincent Who? April 5
Film commemorates 30th anniversary of murder of Vincent Chin
DETROIT (March 29, 2012)—Wayne State University Law School's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, in collaboration with the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, is pleased to welcome award-winning filmmaker and producer Curtis Chin to the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium from 6-8 p.m. April 5. Chin will screen his documentary film Vincent Who?, winner of the 2009 National Association for Multicultural Education Media Award. Following the screening, Chin will answer questions from the audience. This event is free and open to the public.
The event commemorates the 30th anniversary of the death of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American beaten to death outside a fast food restaurant in Highland Park, Mich. by two unemployed auto workers in 1982. Witnesses heard the attackers blaming Asians for the loss of their jobs. The murder generated public outrage over the lenient sentencing the two men originally received in a plea bargain. The case became a rallying point for the Asian American community and the attack and was considered a hate crime by many, but it pre-dated hate crime laws in the United States.
"The murder of Vincent Chin was a national tragedy that highlighted the problem of hate crimes and discrimination against the Asian American Community," says Peter Hammer, professor of law and director of the Keith Center. "The 30 year anniversary of the incident provides an opportunity to reexamine these issues."
"As we commemorate the tragic death of Vincent Chin, we can celebrate the strides that not only the state of Michigan has taken in cultural equality, but the United States as a whole," says Kyle Kamidoi, president of the Wayne Law Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. "The city of Detroit was the epicenter for the Asian Pacific American equality movement, and that is something this city takes pride in. Although the APA community still faces racial obstacles today, Vincent Who? shows the successes of the past and gives continued hope for the future."
Vincent Who? explores the legacy of Chin's murder through interviews with the key players at the time as well as a new generation of activists whose lives were impacted by him, according to the film's website. It also looks at the case in relation to the larger narrative of Asian American history, in such events as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese-American internment during World War II, the 1992 L.A. riots, anti-Asian hate crimes, and post-9/11 racial profiling.
Curtis Chin is an award-winning writer and producer who has written for ABC, NBC, Fox, the Disney Channel and others. As a community activist, he co-founded the Asian American Writers Workshop and Asian Pacific Americans for Progress. In 2008, he served on Barack Obama's Asian American Leadership Council, where he participated in helping the campaign reach out to the Asian American Pacific Islander community. He has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Newsweek and other media outlets.
The Keith Center honors the life and legacy of Judge Damon J. Keith, civil rights icon, one of our country's leading jurists and a 1956 Wayne Law alumnus. By developing programs and opportunities that promote his vision of equality and justice under the law for all people, the Keith Center is advancing learning at Wayne Law, encouraging community engagement, and promoting civil rights in one of the most culturally rich and diverse cities in the United States. For more information, visit http://keithcenter.wayne.edu/.
Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution offering more than 400 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students.
For more information about the Wayne State University Law School, visit law.wayne.edu.


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leggings (= trousers worn by women that stretch and fit very closely to their legs) that look similar to jeans
'Dozens of students were kicked out of class on the first day of term – for wearing jeggings. Furious parents have condemned Samuel Ward College in Haverhill, Suffolk, for its "draconian" ban on the fashion item. Jeggings are denim-style leggings made popular by celebs including Paris Hilton and Fearne Cotton.'The Sun 9th September 2010
These days, women who hit the high street looking for a pair of trousers are bombarded with a dazzling array of options. Will they be cropped or full-length, loose linen or tight denim, 'low-rise' or on the waist, boot-cut or straight, classic slacks or informal jeans, leggings or … jeggings?
love them or hate them – it looks like jeggings aren't going to disappear quite yet
In the fickle world of fashion, leggings, those soft, tight-fitting trousers commonly worn with long T-shirts or sweaters, have had more than one wave of popularity in the last couple of decades – and yes, I was one of those people wearing them the first time round! Twenty years on, and they've made a definite come-back, but in true 21st century style, the range of options is bigger and better. Those of us who like the comfort and convenient stretchiness of the classic legging, but still prefer the look and feel of our beloved old denim, can now have the best of both worlds. Enter jeggings – leggings designed to look like tight-fitting jeans.
First appearing in early 2009, jeggings initially met with mixed reactions, some critics thinking that the faux zip flies and pockets on certain styles looked rather naff. However, fuelled by their popularity among young celebrities, notably singer Beyoncé and UK TV presenter Fearne Cotton, jeggings have become one of the hottest clothing items of 2010, and that peculiar blend of denim and Lycra is now a high-profile option in the majority of high street fashion stores. Love them or hate them – it looks like jeggings aren't going to disappear quite yet.
The term jeggings is a blend of the words jeans and leggings. Though leggings may seem like a modern invention, the concept of this kind of leg covering goes right back to the 14th century, when they were worn by men and often described as hose, breeches or even stockings. The word legging itself isn't a newcomer either, dating back to 1763 as a reference to an 'extra outer covering to protect the leg'.
Jeggings is not the only neologism based on the word leggings. Other recent blends include meggings (men/male + leggings), very tight jersey trousers for men, and treggings (trousers + leggings), leggings which have the look and styling of trousers. None of these new words have made it into printed dictionaries yet, but they reflect a recent trend within the fashion industry of inventing new descriptions by blending words referring to familiar, conventional garments. Other contemporary examples include coatigan, a blend of coat and cardigan referring to a long woollen jacket which can be worn in place of a coat; shacket, a blend of shirt and jacket referring to a jacket with the appearance and style of a shirt; and skort(s), a blend of skirt and shorts describing baggy shorts which resemble a skirt when worn. If you'd like to see some further examples, check out this online guide recently published by the UK retailer Debenhams. Though many of these new terms are likely to be ephemeral, there's always the potential for one or two to stick, such as for example the word tankini (a blend of tank top and bikini describing a style of women's swimsuit) which has now earned a place in several mainstream dictionaries.
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With more than 200 practical recipes, this book helps you perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently. The R language provides everything you need to do statistical work, but its structure can be difficult to master. This collection of concise, task-oriented recipes makes you productive with R immediately, with solutions ranging from basic tasks to input and output, general statistics, graphics, and linear regression.
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"Wonderfully readable, R Cookbook serves not only as a solutions manual of sorts, but as a truly enjoyable way to explore the R language—one practical example at a time."—Jeffrey Ryan, software consultant and R package author
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Good, but sloppy
By R-noob
from Vancouver
Comments about oreilly R Cookbook:
Puzzled by the poor editing.eg.Explaining to use the StringsAsFactors parameter, the example is> dfrm <- read.table("statisticians.txt", header=TRUE, stringsAsFactor=FALSE)and we've dropped the 's' ??
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Good and to the point
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Great book for getting started with R
By carstenj
from Copenhagen, Denmark
The statistical programming language R can be quite overwhelming for newcomers. There seems to be so many different ways of accomplish common tasks. Before you can start doing any kind of data analysis, you need to get data into R. In addition, once the data is available you might need to manipulate it to get it into the right form. All such basic and common tasks can be difficult in a new programming language. The R Cookbook is a wonderful resource for helping out with such issues. For anything besides most basic calculations, you need some data. The cookbook contains many recipes for reading data from various source files like CSV and HTML to more advanced stuff like fetching data from databases. Once you have the data in R you need to store and manipulate it in different data structures according to your needs. This is also covered. All recipes are organized in different themes making them easy to find. Please pay special attention to chapter 12 with useful tricks, which really do contain a number of quite useable tips.Do NOT buy this book if are looking for an introduction to statistics. The R Cookbook assumes knowledge of various basic statistic methods and algorithms and will only show you how to apply these methods and algorithms in R. If your focus is on learning various plotting techniques then the R Graphics Cookbook also from O`Reilly might be more appropriate.I review for the O`Reilly Reader Review Program and I want to be transparent about my reviews so you should know that I received a free copy of this eBook in exchange of my review.
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Do not buy this trash
By PaE
from BKK
I bought this book with the hope this book can explain the function explicitly and thoroughly. This is not for you.For example, in page 154, attach(suburbs) .... this can't be accomplished because the author never told in the book how to get the data!!!I tried searching for the data that the book referred, but nothing found!!Compared to R graphics cookbook by Chang, This book is inferior to that book in every dimension. In R graphics cookbook, Chang starts by telling reader to install package "ggplot2 and cookbook". So, no problem for reader to catch up.Trust me, do not buy this trash. Everything this book mention is free on internet and easy to get data to mimic.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Valuable Tool
By pcsnow
from Seattle, WA
I took a course in data mining and found that this book was my most valuable resource with the exception of "R in a Nutshell". I really liked the explanations and the examples. I downgraded my rating because this book unlike most O'Reilly programming books does not provide code for the examples. I wanted to run the examples 12.12 and 12.13 which describe sorting syntax. It was a pain that these examples could not be provided. It seems that some O'reilly books now are requiring purchasers of the book to also buy Safari access as well. Guess, it's just business. My usage did not focus on statistics but on manipulation of files. There are lots of other sections that treat those topics as well.
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Useful R for Statistical Courses
By Eder Andrés Ávila Niño
from Paipa, Colombia
This is a book about how to use the R programming language to solve several statistical problems like combinations, probabilities, frequencies, quantiles, means, correlations, regressions and ANOVA analysis, and as a plus, time series analysis. This cookbook is perfect to students and professors looking for a computing tool that helps them to understand and teach statistical courses, respectively. That's because many times it is important to solve complex exercises that shows the several applications that a statistical topic, like the normal distribution, has in surveys, engineering, manufacturing and commerce, which implies performing several activities related to data retrieval, storage, processing, analysis and visualization.This cookbook explains the how-to of such activities providing a catalog of tasks to accomplish each of these, for example, how to read and write CVS files, prepare the data contained in those files, generate random samples, calculate the probability of X, test for normality, perform linear regressions and plot the histogram. Each task is described following this structure: Problem, Solution, Discussion and See Also, being the Discussion section the valuable resource of the R Cookbook, because this section explains the implications of using the given solution together with some tips and tricks. Those implications, tips and tricks makes the difference between the R Cookbook and a raw Internet search, so students and professors can learn about the rationale of a solving a statistical problem with R, not just the syntax of variables and functions.However, it is important to clarify that the R Cookbook is not a book for learning the essence of statistics; instead the R Cookbook is a suggested companion resource for the course main textbook. The R Cookbook will help the explanation and understanding of the core topics, exercises and applications, and simulate different problem scenarios.Finally and personally, I'd like to see a second edition, volume or update to include how to solve operations research problems using R, if possible. For instance, simplex method, duality, transport and network problems, and inventory and queuing systems are the most common ones in operations research. Note: This review is in exchange of the O'Reilly Bloggers Review Program (oreilly.com/bloggers).
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Great Book on R
By Joe
from Los Angeles, CA
About Me Educator
I'm in the process of porting the statistics projects I assign to my students over to R. This book has made the process almost effortless. The book is organized wisely and the explanations and code are easily understood. Separated into chapters based on the kinds of things that can be done with R, this book helps you quickly get the job done you need to do. Both input and output are clearly shown, with a brief explanation based on the statistics behind it all.I think it's especially useful to students who've been given a statistical analysis to do and who can use the book to figure out how to do that analysis in R. The book shares one of the reasons for using R;i.e., the ability to further explore the data by building on what we learn from previous analyses of the data. Both R and this book make it very easy to say things like, "If you split the data by gender, can you see any significant differences based on gender?"I'd quibble a little with his explanation of the confidence interval for the mean. On p. 197 he obtains a confidence interval and says there is a 95% probability that the mean is in that interval, which I think is not quite right. Either the mean is in there or it's not! However, if we found the confidence interval 100 times using the t.test, then the mean would be in about 95 of those intervals,which I think is saying things slightly differently.
A Cookbook For Data Analysis
By shawnday
from Dublin, Ireland
About Me Developer, Educator
The R Cookbook by Paul Teetor is a solid addition to the well respected series. Teetor provides a rich collection of useful examples written in the proven method and covering everything from installing, configuring and running R to carrying out sophisticated statistical analysis tasks that demonstrate the power of R. The book is targeted at a wide audience from R novice eager to just start playing in R to more experienced practitioners looking to hone and round out their R repertoire. It can be used as an introductory training source for those who like to learn by doing and extrapolating knowledge from examples. It also has the useful ability of function as a reference source when plotting a particular R exercise.The problem — solution — discussion pattern works well when the problem is clearly and concisely stated as Teetor does. As the book progresses it does move towards more advanced statistical manipulation and analysis, but then if you are using R in the first place then this is a fairly safe assumption. This is one of the more notable cookbook series for the thoroughness of the discussion. The inclusion of philosophical notes, parameter and options sections when necessary and finally the cross-indexing via the more information section set this book apart as a superb reference. In conjunction with the R in a Nutshell which was reviewed earlier, there are indispensable tools for the budding R enthusiast and in conjunction with the freely accessible R reference manuals from the Foundation form the optimal R library.My only gripe is that there is less focus in this book on the visualisation end of R. That is not to say that there not vis exercises in the book. Simply that it is heavier on the analysis end on the language which is actually well and good as this is crucial to the latter and an area that I for one need the instruction.This cookbook does not expect readers to arrive with extensive R knowledge and as I mentioned earlier is targeted for a broad audience of R practitioners.
Paul Teetor brings R to the masses
By PLSVN
from Houston, TX
Paul Teetor finally brings R to the masses! I've struggled for several months now to learn R on my own from a non-statistical background. I've struggled through several other books on R, but they never read as easily as Teetor's R Cookbook does. Coupled with O'Reilly's R in a Nutshell, if you have Teetor's R Cookbook on your bookshelf, too, R becomes a practical, useful, software tool you can become comfortable with.... even with R's steep learning curve. Teetor knocks the learning curve down to size!Hint: 2nd edition needs more Time Series discussion!
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Simple, yet powerful
By Michal Konrad Owsiak
from Poland
Simply put, one of the best R starters around. What you get here are recipes for most common problems you will face while working with R. This book is an extended version of 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R. However, the coverage of material is different. While 25 Recipes focus on getting started with R, R Cookbook penetrates the subject in greater details and goes beyond simple usage of R. You will find here not only how to load data, manipulate it and plot some graphic. You can find description of various statistical analysis as well.This book, is not for a reading in bed just before you go to sleep. It is too pragmatic. Simple definition of the problem and just after that, simple solution – that's what you get when it comes to each issue covered within the book. This is the strength of R Cookbook. On the other hand, it's weakness. If you cant find the question within table of contents it might be hard to get the answer for what you ask about. As I like pragmatic approach, I like the book as well. For me it's just perfect. Well, maybe just too short.
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