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    Adventures of a currency trader : a fable about trading, courage, and doing the right thing / Rob Booker.

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    Includes index.Book fair 2012.xv, 221 pages :Praise for ADVENTURES of a CURRENCY TRADER "A truly easy, unique, and enjoyable read! Rob has done it onceagain to teach us in the funniest way possible... how not to make themost common trading mistakes. If you are tired of reading how-tobooks, this is perfect for you. I highly recommend this book to alltraders. Everyone will learn something about themselves by readingthis book."—Kathy Lien, author, Day Trading the Currency Market,and Chief Strategist, www.dailyfx.com"Adventures of a Currency Trader is a must read foranyone who has ever traded or is thinking about trading in theForex markets. Rob Booker has a unique way of taking years ofmarket knowledge and transforming it into an educational andentertaining experience. It has quickly become a cult classic in mytrading library!"—H. Jack Bouroudjian, Principal, Brewer Investment Group"Brilliant! Rob's humor and humanity shine through in thisparable about trading and life. Filled with wisdom and wit, it's anexhilarating rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys ofthe learning curve, with many valuable lessons learned along theway."—Ed Ponsi, President, FXEducator.com"Rob's fable of everyman 'Harry Banes' is destined to become atrading classic. This is both the missing piece and the foundationthat comes before the strategies and methodologies. The search forthe Holy Grail begins and ends in the heart and mind. The journeyis authentic and real and if you're willing to take it with Rob,you will be rewarded in the end. Seldom has psychology and wisdombeen so entertaining!"—Raghee Horner, trader and author of Forex Trading forMaximum Profit and Days of Forex Trading"In a series of insightful and entertaining vignettes, RobBooker teaches both the novice and the experienced trader some hardwon truths about the currency market. It's a must read book writtenby a guy who survived the trenches and went on to prosper in thebiggest and most competitive financial market in the world."—Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, Forex CapitalMarkets LLC, and author of Technical Analysis of the CurrencyMarke

    The Biggest Fish

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    This story is an excerpt from a longer interview that was collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. In this story, Robert A. (Rob) Royster describes the trials of bringing home his biggest fish

    Onchorhynchus mykiss

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    Wildlife Biologist Rob MacDonald holding Rainbow Trout. Resident fish such as the Rainbow Trout draw anglers from around the world to Southwest Alaska. Catch-and-release fishing is encouraged to conserve these fish and is required in some areas

    WR 280 Practicum Report: Wildlife Management Techniques

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    Wildland RecreationAs part of the Wildland Recreation Spring Practicum, the author worked at the Fort St. John Fish and Wildlife Branch of the Ministry of Environment and Parks for two weeks, under the supervision of Rob Woods, Habitat Protection Technician. The author's volunteer work gave him an understanding of wildlife management techniques that included radio telemetry, classified counts, and ungulate aging/Harvest Cards

    Cattle rob(1;29) originating from complex chromosome rearrangements as revealed by both banding and FISH-mapping techniques

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    Sixteen carriers of rob(1;29) (one of which was homozygous) from six different breeds (four Italian and two Portuguese), two heterozygous carriers of rob(26;29), three river buffaloes and two sheep were cytogenetically investigated in this study by using banding and FISH-mapping techniques (the latter only in cattle and river buffalo). Single- and dual-colour FISH were used with bovine probes containing both INRA143 (mapping proximally to BTA29) and bovine satellite (SAT) DNA SAT I, SAT III and SAT IV (mapping at the centromeric regions of cattle chromosomes). The combined use of these probes, the comparison of rob(1;29) with the dicentric rob(26;29) and with both river buffalo and sheep chromosomes (biarmed pairs) allowed us to hypothezise that rob(1;29) originated from complex chromosomal rearrangements through at least three sequential events: (a) centric fusion with the formation of a dicentric chromosome; (b) formation of a monocentric chromosome with loss of SAT I from both BTA1 and BTA29, most of SAT IV from BTA29 and, probably, some repeats of SAT III from BTA1; (c) double pericentric inversion or, more probably, a chromosome transposition of a small chromosome segment containing INRA143 from proximal p-arms to proximal q-arm of the translocated chromosome

    Rob and Bert in Tokyo

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    This essay is steeped in contradiction: it is as much an attempt at mourning, coping, and letting go as it is an exercise in remembrance, rediscovery, and reconnection. One of the many areas of international legal scholarship where Rob Cryer left his mark is his oeuvre on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). To pay tribute to, and get re-acquainted with, Rob-the-person, I re-read his 2010 article on the ‘dignified dissenter’ in Tokyo, Dutch Judge Bert Röling. In that article, Rob uses the memoranda and the opinion of Bert-the-judge to assess his conceptual and legal contributions to the IMTFE judgment. They also serve him as a vehicle to get a better grasp of the author behind the text and the values and dilemmas that shaped Röling’s positions on the IMTFE bench. What more can we learn and understand about Rob Cryer while ‘reading Rob reading Bert’? What aspects of Röling’s legacy did he choose to foreground, and what qualities did he appreciate most? How did Rob treat his character when shedding light on the more contentious elements of Röling’s work? Even if this essay fails in its therapeutic purpose, it might still add a few mosaic pieces to the collective construction of Rob’s portrait in this volume

    Sub-Series 4: Publications : Affirmation and Affirmation News - Documents Found with Newsletters, 1994-1997

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    A paper discussing the author, Rob Casteel, and his struggle with AIDS

    Dr. Robert J. Shallenberger

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    Dr. Robert J. Shallenberger oral history interview as conducted by Jerry Grover. Dr. Shallenberger joined the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1980, and would retire in 2002. He would eventually become Chief of Refuges before returning to the field to work on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. After retiring from Fish and Wildlife, he worked for the Nature Conservancy, and spends time with two Friends’ Groups. Organization: FWS Name: Robert J. Shallenberger Years: 1980-2002 Program: Refuges Keywords: Biography, Employees (USFWS), History, Biologists (USFWS), Management, Wildlife refuges, Work of the Service, Aviation, Habitat conservation, Conservation, Endangered species, Migratory birds, Hawaii and Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Midway Atoll National Wildlife RefugeOral History of Dr. Robert J. Shallenberger Interviewed by: Jerry C. Grover Oral History Program U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center Shepherdstown, West Virginia Years worked for Fish and Wildlife Service: 22 years Offices and Field Stations Worked, Positions Held: Refuge Manager, Hawaiian and Pacific Islands NWR Complex, Honolulu, HI Departmental Manager Development Program, Washington, D.C. Wildlife Biologist, Division of Migratory Birds, Washington, D.C. Wildlife Biologist, Division of Refuges, Washington, D.C. Deputy Assistant Director, Refuges and Wildlife, Portland, OR Deputy Assistant Director, Refuges and Wildlife, Albuquerque, NM Chief, Division of Refuges, Washington, D.C. Refuge Manager, Midway Atoll NWR, Hawaii Deputy Refuge Manager, Hawaiian and Pacific Islands NWR Complex, Honolulu, HI Most Important Projects: Midway Atoll, establishing the CARE Group; Refuges 2003. Colleagues and Mentors: Dick Smith, Jim Gillette, Marv Plenert, Dave Olsen, Dale Coggeshall, Joe Mazzoni, Robert Smith, John Doebel, Mollie Beattie, Jerry Leinecke, Bob Streeter, Don Berry, Dan Ashe, John Rogers, Rollie Sparrowe, Ken Grannemann, Dick Myshak. Most Important Issues: Habitats on Midway, Refuge System organic legislation Brief Summary of Interview: Dr. Shallenberger talks about early life, going to college, and figuring out what he wanted to do after he graduated from Whitman College. After deciding to go to graduate school at UCLA, he started his own company, consulted on various projects, and the Corps of Engineers before joining the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1980, which he would retire from in 2002. He held many different positions with the Service and would become Chief of Refuges before returning to the field to work on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. After retiring from Fish and Wildlife, he worked for the Nature Conservancy, and currently spends time with two Friends’ Groups. He says the two constants in his life have been flying and photography, and feels that he wouldn’t have gotten certain jobs without the support of various Fish and Wildlife colleagues. Dr. Rob Shallenberger, February 2016 2 THE INTERVIEW February 3, 2016 Jerry: This is Jerry Grover, a retired Ecological Services & Fishery supervisor in the Portland Regional Office and representing the Association of Retired Fish & Wildlife Service Employees. I am at the home of Dr. Rob Shallenberger on Kamuela, Hawaii to do an oral history on his career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The purpose of this interview is part of a program to preserve the history, heritage and culture of the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) through the eyes of its employees. Joining me today is my wife Judy, also a FWS career retiree. Rob, could you start off with your full name, when, where you were born Rob: I was born Robert J. Shallenberger on May 14, 1945 in Worchester, Massachusetts. We moved to the west coast when I was two, so I’m a west coast boy growing up; lived in Palo Alto, California. Dad was a professor at Stanford and so we spent a lot of time around the campus; he was an avid striped bass fisherman, which is how I got into the critter kind of thing. I have three brothers and two of us really got into natural history and two of us didn’t. So I did a lot of camping in the Sierras with my dad and one brother. Jerry: For the record, when did you retire and what was your position; where were you? Rob: I retired in 2002, and I was in Honolulu. My position scenario is a little convoluted, but I started with the Fish and Wildlife Service in Honolulu as a refuge manager in Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Refuge Complex. Spent four years in Honolulu in that job and somebody convinced me to go to Washington D.C., which is a story in and of itself because my wife was born and raised in Hawaii and she had no desire to go to D.C. Jerry: We can get into that. So what was your position at retirement and your grade? Rob: My grade was GS 15 and I was the refuge manager at, or assistant; see at that time they called it Deputy Refuge Manager for the Hawaiian Complex. Jerry: Okay, and then your boss was the Pacific Island Administrator? Rob: Yes. Jerry: Okay, that’s good. Let’s go back to your Palo Alto days that led you to go to school where? Rob: I went to school at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where I had visited the area because my grandfather was a rancher in Washington state. And also I had heard that Whitman had better pheasant hunting than the other schools I was looking at, which makes me not a very credible source of guidance for my kids on where to go to school. Jerry: Did you get your Ph.D. there? Rob: I got my PhD at UCLA. When I got to UCLA with its 25,000 students after leaving Whitman with about 900; it was culture shock! Bad enough to go to L.A. but I did it because I followed a major professor who I had worked with at various projects and he helped me get in. So I did my doctorate on seabirds in Hawaii. Jerry: After UCLA, where was your first assignment? It was here in Hawaii with the refuge system? Rob: Actually, I got my PhD in 1973, and I started a natural history film company. I did consulting 3 work on various construction projects and highways. My first federal job was with the Corps of Engineers, believe it or not, as an ecologist in the Pacific. I traveled all over the Pacific. It wasn’t until 1980 that I actually took a job with the Fish and Wildlife Service. I think I was able to do that because I got on the Federal Register for the Corps job and that made it possible for me to be selected for the refuge manager position in Hawaii. I stayed in that job for four years. Jerry: What did they hire you as? Rob: Refuge manager. Jerry: Refuge manager, not a refuge biologist? Rob: No. Jerry: Okay, and what grade? Rob: I started as a 12. I didn’t have a lot of history with the Service prior to taking that job but I had hunted on a few refuges and I’d done a lot of birding and photography but frankly the idea of being able to work on the land was exciting to me. When I had done that for four years, I began getting a lot of pressure from within the Service to go into Washington and go to the Departmental Manager Development Program (DMDP). And it was an interesting decision because we were perfectly happy in Hawai’i. My wife’s father was a cattle rancher, so I had free meat. My brother was a fisherman so I had free fish. And I lived in a house that I had paid off the mortgage and so it was real hard to pull me out of here, but I did it. So I went into the DMDP Program, a year-long program, and a really good opportunity to find out not only what’s going on in the Service but other agencies and on the Hill and so on. I did that for a year, and then I did a position in Migratory Birds in D.C. for a year and then I did a year in the Refuge Division; Jim Gillette was the Chief at the time. With the help of some people well established in a position including Marv Plenert and Dave Olsen and Jim, I was able to get the Deputy Assistant Regional Director, Refuges and Wildlife position in Portland Jerry: Let’s go back one moment. When you were going through the DMDP Program, some of your assignments that you had, what were they? Rob: When I was in the DMDP, I did three or four months on the Hill with the Environment and Public Works Committee. Then I did an assignment with the Audubon Society working on their Adopt a Refuge Program. And I did assignments in Endangered Species, and I can’t remember what else. Jerry: Who was your mentor in D.C. for that? Rob: Dick Smith. Dick was really interesting. I appreciated his candor and we worked really well throughout my whole career. And we fished a lot together, were in a car pool together and so I got to know him well and he was a big help. Jerry: That’s interesting because you came out of refuges as a refuge candidate back with the DMDP, and Dick Smith was head of the Research. Rob: That’s right. Well, I had been doing research in the Wildlife Management Branch for that year before I worked, after the DMDP and before I worked in Portland. Yeah, Dick was a big help. Jerry: Let’s go back one other step. When you were hired into the federal position, who hired you here in Honolulu? Rob: That was Dale Coggeshall. Jerry: Dale, okay. Let’s go back, the connection with D.C. and the Flemming Award. Rob: Dale had encouraged me to sort of broaden my sights; I would have been perfectly happy to stay in Hawaii, my wife wanted to be there, I was having it good, making a lot of progress, but he put me in for the Arthur S. Flemming Award, which is 4 given to ten government employees under the age of 40. Jerry: Is this an Interior award or is it government wide? Rob: No, it’s government wide. And I went back for a big ceremony and it was just kind of a big deal for me; I had never even heard of it. I think I was the first Fish and Wildlife Service person to ever get it, so it gave me an excuse to get back there and meet some people and I could be a little more objective in terms of what my options were. The Departmental Management Program has changed over years, as you know, but it’s still a great opportunity to get out. Dick was insistent that I take on projects outside the agency. Jerry: Okay, that’s good but then you ended up back as the Deputy Assistant in Portland for Refuges, and if I recall, you lived up on Bull Mountain. Rob: I did, in Tigard. Jerry: How long were you in Portland? Rob: Three years. Including a bit of time going out to Malheur NWR to deal with the Hammonds. JUDY: Guess who’s back? Rob: I know, it was interesting to see that happen. I can recall being asked to do some tough assignments including holding a meeting at Bonners Ferry about listing the Selkirk caribou. But the Hammond one, everyone got to know; “Rob, it’s your turn, you go try to do something.” Jerry: Who was manager at Malheur NWR at that time? Rob: Well, Forrest was there, Forrest Cameron for a while. Jerry: Yeah, but that would have been before Forrest. Rob: Yeah, it was before Forrest. Jerry: The guy with the Italian sounding name. Rob: Oh, Mazzoni. Jerry: Was Joe Mazzoni there? Rob: Mazzoni, yeah. When I left Portland, I went to Albuquerque as Joe’s Deputy. I remember this Hammond thing; I called him before I went out there because I knew he had had experience with it. And I remember walking through the Hammond’s living room and seeing all the elk heads on the wall wondering if there was room on the wall for mine, because nobody made any real progress with them. Jerry: Dealing with the Hammonds, what was that particular issue; was it all grazing or was it land issue? Rob: It all had to do with grazing a portion of the refuge when they move their cattle from their ranch to the BLM areas, and they were just leaving their cattle on areas too long and just being ornery. Jerry: Were they the only ranchers that had permits that were leaving their animals on? What about the other? Rob: No, as I recall, the other ones were setting a good example, but they weren’t following it. Jerry: The Hammonds weren’t. Rob: Yeah. Jerry: How interesting, giving today’s situation with the refuge, and there’s still four of them left there. Rob: Really? I haven’t followed it in the last few days. [Break in tape] Rob: ….because the job I really wanted, the Chief of Refuges, came up when Bob Karges retired. 5 Jerry: Chief of Refuges, D.C.? Rob: Yeah. So I went from Albuquerque to that Regional Chief of Refuges job and stayed there for seven years. Jerry: Wow, okay, I guess you bought a home and settled down? Rob: Yeah. Jerry: Did you have any family, Rob, any kids. Rob: Well, I had two kids that were living with my ex-wife in California. And then my son, Matthew, was living with us and so he went from school to school and ultimately wound up at the end of my D.C. stint getting into William and Mary, so he stayed. Jerry: So you were seven years as Chief of Refuges, then what? You were still a 15 then? Rob: Yeah. And then I came up to a tough choice, because I had a chance to sort of put together a project on Midway Atoll. And then actually go out and be the first official refuge manager at this closed Navy base. That was a challenge because we established a partnership with a private company to run the operation jointly - the Midway Phoenix Corporation. Jerry: Midway Phoenix, and they built the Captain Brooks house and some of the newer facilities out there? Rob: Yes. That was a tough thing, and you’ll hear about it, I’m sure, when you talk to Robert Smith because he was my supervisor; he and John Doebel were sort of jointly supervising me at that time and they both were behind the selection and knew I had a lot of experience out there and could make this project work. But it didn’t work as well as anybody expected and ultimately they were kicked off the island. But the project was terrific in terms of what we were trying to accomplish and opportunity for people to visit and dealing with the environmental issues and dealing with the Navy. Jerry: Some of those environmental issues were what? I know about the lead paint on the buildings and there were batteries that were just dumped into the ocean there. Rob: The military spent a lot of money trying to leave that place in a better state than it was when they closed it in 1993. So the estimates were they spent over 90 million dollars, I never really documented that but in terms of the number of people and the kind of equipment and the barge trips and all that sort of stuff, I’m sure it was a lot of money. The deal with Midway Phoenix was, and it was in the agreement, that they would operate the facility at no cost to the government. Well, that didn’t turn out to be very realistic, even though everybody, I think, gave it a try; it ultimately didn’t work. Jerry: What year are we talking then? Rob: In ’93 there was an executive order that closed the base, or the Naval Air Facility. In ’96, the executive order transferred it from the Navy to the Interior Department, that’s when we officially got it. The agreement with Phoenix was also signed in ’96. Jerry: And the reason that Phoenix did not operate this at no cost to the government was what, just lack of people coming out there? I understand they were offering expeditions or trips through National Geographic or what? Rob: Well, they had a number of angles, but the ultimate issue was unless they could fill an airplane, and a big airplane; they started with a small one, but unless they could fill it and dependably fill it, they couldn’t earn money off that visitor program to compensate for the expenses of running the facility. A lot of things turned out to be more expensive than they anticipated. Jerry: Did they also, in the agreement, were they also responsible for the power plant, and sewage, and maintenance of the roads, and buildings? 6 Rob: Yes!. And they sent some engineers out there to look at the facility before they signed the co-op agreement, so it wasn’t as if they didn’t know, couldn’t anticipate all the unforeseen expenses, but we knew it was going to be spendy. And they did put a lot of money into it, but they would have liked to amortize that expense over a longer period of time, but the relationship just deteriorated and ultimately they left. After the Midway project….[break in tape]…..project as a refuge manager. And here after Midway, after being the Chief of Refuges, I wound up going back to the field as a refuge manager at Midway. Jerry: But as a GS-15. Rob: Yeah, but the only reason it’s a 15 is I said I wouldn’t take the job unless they guaranteed I keep my grade. It was funny. I have a file somewhere of all the emails and letters that people sent me when I made the decision to go from the Chief’s job to the field. About half of them lined up saying, “What were you smoking? What a stupid thing to do, you work your whole career to move forward, and then you go backward.” Well, if you knew what other people said, “You have the guts to do that and be really happy that you could do it,” which is really what the Park Service does a lot. People come into the Park system and they work up through several parks and then they go to Washington for four or five years and they come out as a superintendent at Yosemite or Yellowstone. Jerry: Yeah, but Yosemite is an SES. Rob: Well, it wasn’t at the time, but it is now. But there was no great equity in those manager levels, well, you know that. But Midway was a fascinating place for me; I’d been out there several times as a student and as a researcher and when I first got the refuge job in Honolulu. Jerry: But your focus was solely on Midway, you didn’t have rest of the refuge or the Hawaiian Complex, Johnston Atoll or any of the others? Rob: Well, I didn’t until I came off Midway, and then I moved back out into the Deputy Refuge Complex Manager. Jerry: Okay, let’s back up. When you were on Midway, who was the one that signed your performance evaluation? Rob: Robert Smith. Jerry: Robert Smith, and he reported to? Rob: John Doebel. Jerry: And then you went back to Honolulu as a Deputy to—? Rob: Jerry Lienecke! He had filled my job when I left in 1984, so he had been there forever. So frankly, this has a lot to do with why two years after I got off Midway and got back into Honolulu and found myself doing what I did 20 years before that I decided to take a job with the Nature Conservancy. Jerry: How old were you at the time then? Were you able to draw your retirement or was that something you postponed? Rob: Yeah, I did when I went to the Conservancy; that was in 2002. Jerry: So you retired as opposed to resigning? Rob: Right. Jerry: And how old were you then? Rob: Well I’m 70 now, do the math [chuckling]. Jerry: Okay, we can work that out later. So now you’re on another career after Fish and Wildlife Service, you have one with the Conservancy. Rob: Yes, I was the Director of Programs on the Big Island, and I did that for seven years and then retired from that. 7 Jerry: Retired from them, when did you retire from them? Rob: Let’s see, it would have been 2012. Jerry: Okay, so you’ve been three years without anything to do. Rob: Well, the irony of that, as you probably know from most of your interviews, is it’s hard to stop doing what you were doing. Jerry: So you’re doing TNC things? Rob: Well, I’ve done a little contract work for TNC and the Kamuela schools and so on, but most of my time is spent working two friends groups. I’m on the board of the Friends of Midway Atoll and Friends of Hakalau Forest. And I’m, at least according to my wife, much too busy, not playing enough. But those are both projects that I was intimately involved in their evolution, so it’s fun to still stay involved but not have the responsibility on a day to day basis; you get along real well with the managers and so we have, what I consider, to be very effective and hard-working people trying to support these two refuges. Jerry: Yeah, I see that the Friends of Midway Atoll, there is another Fish and Wildlife retiree; Bob Fields is on that group isn’t he? Rob: He is, he was the director or president for a few years; just came off that. Jerry: Are there other Fish and Wildlife folks on the friends group? Rob: Linda Watters is on the Midway one, and at Hakalau Forest, Dick Wass and Jack Jeffrey are both on the board. Yeah Dick, he retired many years before that. When I first was in D.C. we were trying to wrap our arms around how these friends groups have evolved and in some cases they were just terrific relationships and they found a nice niche where they could provide financial or other help. Other cases, they weren’t so friendly, it was just a ruse for getting into the board room to make decisions for the Fish and Wildlife Service. So I ran into managers with bad experiences and others that had great experiences. Ours, the ones we have now, are really quite good. We just started an endowment funding refuge projects on the Hakalau Forest refuge to deal with the vagaries of funding that go up and down, up and down. Jerry: Were any of your people in these friends groups, did they attend the friends training session back in West Virginia last week, the week before? Rob: Yes, they did. Jerry: So they got stuck in the snow - from Hawaii to the snow. Rob: Yeah, it was funny because we had some people visiting from New York, who were here; they had left New York the day before it stormed. So it works both ways. [break in interview.] It was all about trying to effectively manage the northwestern Hawaiian Island and trying to create protective regulations and some of that would really improve the way that area’s managed and the results. And we were pretty successful and I think we did ultimately lead to the establishment of the Marine National Monument that is unique. Jerry: That’s the one that I can’t even begin to pronounce. Rob: Papahanaumokuakea. It helped to clarify responsibilities of three agencies - NOAA, Interior and the sta

    An Interview with Rob Stephenson

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    Interview Rob Stephenson is an author, composer, visual artist living in Queens, NY. He has been creating texts, music, video, films, drawings, paintings, and installations for over thirty years. He has a BA in Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Electronic Media from Mills College. He is the author of Passes Through (FC2/University of Alabama Press) and frequently publishes in journals and anthologies. He received an outstanding achievemen..
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