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Adventures of a currency trader : a fable about trading, courage, and doing the right thing / Rob Booker.
No full textIncludes 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
Structures for Relief & Resiliency: Enhancing Creative Applications of Technical Acumen through Constrained Conditions
No full textThe design of places, objects, and experiential operations are of great importance to the relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts that affect millions of people each year. Proactively designing for these scenarios requires a more than just sensitivity to the vexing nature of the people and their problems. The inter-disciplinary teams that assist in these efforts must be able to translate these activities into solutions that have insights into the structural, material, and construction considerations. Without these qualities, the tangible, useful, and deployable solutions could be marginalized until they become the lowest common denominator of design solutions.
The value of design is largely excluded from the operational considerations. Surprisingly, the manuals used by these agencies have very little, if any, information about the actual design standards for these necessary resources of food, water, shelter, etc. Design solutions, and the associated technical acumen necessary to create these solutions, are un-necessarily absent.
Addressing these challenges educationally also presents challenges. The multi-faceted nature of the problems, the constantly changing sites and users, and the diverse teams of experts needed often excludes this work from design studios or building technology courses—or worse, the complexity of the issues are marginalizes as simply a search for a “better” shelter.
This paper will argue that the constrained conditions related to disaster relief and resiliency are ideal topics for building technology educators as they amplify the importance of the tools, design tactics, and technical principles that are integrated into the process and they create an inherent evaluative standards for performance assessment (i.e., maximized material utilization, integration with means of production / deployment, and resiliency).
This paper will describe several projects that have been developed in the last few years by an inter-disciplinary team of students in the College of Design at Iowa State University as part of a design-build option studio called, Structures in Service: Design for Relief and Resiliency. This course’s activities are based on the premise that relief and resiliency efforts can be meaningfully improved by a dedicated group of integrated designers that are able to leverage the benefits of contemporary design and production tools towards these efforts.This presentation is published as Whitehead, Rob (2019) "Structures for Relief & Resiliency: Enhancing Creative Applications of Technical Acumen through Constrained Conditions," Building Technology Educator's Society: Vol. 2019Caryn Brause, Peggi L. Clouston, Naomi Darling (Eds.), Amherst, MA, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7275/3f90-0w54. Posted with permission. </p
Portentous and Predictable: Eero Saarinen, Ammann & Whitney, and the Failures of Kresge Auditorium (1950-1955)
No full textThis paper will examine how the problems of Kresge Auditorium stemmed from a structurally inappropriate building form, a set of under-designed and documented drawings/specs, and a building process that lacked oversight and engagement on-site from the design team—all deviations from established thin shell design and construction standards. This paper will argue that many problems were predictable and avoidable, but were exacerbated by contractual separation of responsibilities and lack of integration between the designers: Eero Saarinen & Associates, Ammann & Whitney, and the builder: George A. Fuller Company.This presentation is published as 2018 R. Whitehead, “Portentous, and Predictable: Eero Saarinen, Ammann & Whitney, and the Damaging Failures of Kresge Auditorium (1950-1955)” Proceedings of the IASS Symposium 2018, Creativity in Structural Design, C. Mueller and S. Adriaenssens (eds)., July 16-20, 2018. MIT, Cambridge, MA. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/iass/piass/2018/00002018/00000012/art00023 </p
Rob and Bert in Tokyo
No full textThis 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
No full textA paper discussing the author, Rob Casteel, and his struggle with AIDS
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Sub-Series 4: Publications : Affirmation and Affirmation News - Documents Found with Newsletters, 1994-1997
No full textA paper discussing the author, Rob Casteel, and his struggle with AIDS
An Interview with Rob Stephenson
No full textInterview 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..
Twelfth Night
No full textProduction of "Twelfth Night". Original music by Author 1. Nominated for 5 Matilda awards. Pensalfini, Rob (director
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Creativity and Songwriting
No full textThis study tested a number of theories of creativity in an experiment where a song was written and recorded every day for over 170 days using various techniques and ideas. 15 have been reworked, finalised, and released on an audio CD, attached as Appendix 1. The finished CD contains material from a number of styles and is intended to showcase the gradual progression of the songwriting process and the change in style over time, and explores the question of whether songwriting and creativity in general can be improved through regular practice. It also demonstrates a wide array of skill and fluency in songwriting and creativity gained from a large amount of practice, whilst also exhibiting examples of the material that was written in the daily songwriting practice routine.
The audio CD (Appendix 1) is accompanied by a data CD containing 100 recorded demos of songs written over the course of the experiment (Appendix 2) and a thesis explaining the creative process behind selected tracks, complete with a literature review of research into the current understanding of creativity. This is explored from both a psychological viewpoint and a more subjective viewpoint, relating specifically to songwriting. The thesis also attempts to find common ground between psychological practices aimed at improving general creativity, and more specific songwriting techniques, intended to explore how songwriters can produce a higher quality or quantity of work. It addresses such issues as writer’s block, songwriting as a routine, and also the relationship between the number of songs written and the quality of those songs, whilst also autoethnographically detailing the writing process of the songs written over the 170 day period, and the experience of the artist of the effects of the practice routine.
The project aimed to determine whether creativity could be improved by following a regimented practice routine over the course of a set period of time (in this case, roughly half a year). Both quantitative and qualitative data have been collected from this experiment and analysed from an autoethnographical perspective, and it has been determined that in this case, the artist’s perceived skill in songwriting has grown due to the amount of time specifically dedicated to it, the regular practice enabling a larger volume of higher quality work to be produced. Secondary research also showed that creativity in general was improved from the exercise, and that this enhanced creativity can be applied more generally than simply to songwriting
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