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Philosophy Degree: What to Do with It? - Associated Content
Apr. 2: Music Lounge - Painted on Water - WGNtv.com
Best of the Battle Plan: How to Exit an ETF Trade - Yahoo Finance
Review: “Police, Adjective” a philosophy lesson in ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Philosophy Degree: What to Do with It? - Associated Content

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 07:41 PM PDT

Realistic Options for Your Philosophy Degree

There are several things you can do with your philosophy degree. A degree in Philosophy provides you with lots of skills that are important in almost every industry. Philosophy hones your analytic skills, your ability to reason, and really gets you thinking outside the box.

Philosopher then Lawyer?

If you are thinking about getting a Philosophy degree, you might consider going to law school. Students with a Philosophy degree tend to score really well on the law school admission test. Why is this? Taking advanced logic helps with the logic games portion. Core Philosophy such as Metaphysics and Epistemology help students with the analytic portions. Obviously a Philosophy degree will also help with your reading comprehension. Philosophy is some of the toughest reading out there. Being able to get through complex reading will make that section feel like a breeze.

A Philosophy Degree is Excellent for a Career in Business

Once again the complex skills you learn with your degree in Philosophy can open up a lot of doors. Your ability to argue your point is extremely valuable in almost any occupation, especially in business. All the ability to sell services and products is your ability to convince someone else that they need whatever it is that you are selling. All the arguments you write for your philosophy degree are just you convincing your professor that your position is correct. Another aspect of a philosophy degree is your ability to produce well articulated proposals. There is probably nothing more complex than a well argued philosophy paper.

Journalist with a Philosophy Degree

Being able to write and write well is a necessity for surviving a philosophy degree. If you would like a career where you can be more creative, try writing professionally. Every time you read a political article, someone is usually arguing a point. Writing is an excellent way to voice your opinions and make concise arguments for or against anything.

Last but not least... Most people with a philosophy degree want to teach

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Apr. 2: Music Lounge - Painted on Water - WGNtv.com

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT

Turkish Pop Duo

WGN News

The Turkish traditional art of marbling paper with dyes floating on water, Ebru, dates back at least to the 16th Century. Its technique, philosophy and history are reflected in the creative spirit of Painted on Water's partners, vocalist Sertab Erener and composer/guitarist/arranger and album co-producer Demir Demirkan.

Ebru has been passed down as a practical art, with its techniques of preparing water, pigments, paper, and hand-made brushes, combs and other instruments, from master to apprentice. Much the way that Ebru marbled paper has been used in bookbinding and in combination with calligraphy, its visuals and philosophy frame the alchemic fusion of Turkish classical and folk melodies with jazz, modern rock and blues created by Painted on Water.

To purchase a copy of the cd:

Painted on Water

For more information about the duo:

www.paintedonwater.com

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Best of the Battle Plan: How to Exit an ETF Trade - Yahoo Finance

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:14 AM PDT

Here's a classic Trading Lesson from earlier this year on the subject of properly exiting trades.

Today I was planning on following up on yesterday's lesson in ranking stock sectors, but because the market is so overbought I thought it would serve us best to look at how to exit positions, especially in a bull market.

In the Model Portfolio of my Daily Battle Plan, we have taken exactly 50 trades over the past 12 months and the track record has been 42 winning trades and 8 non-winning trades (84% of the trades have been profitable). All have been in ETFs and the trades have been done both on the long side and the short side. Every trade scaled-in on pullbacks on the long side and exited into strength (on the short side we shorted into the strength and bought back into the selling). This is a fixed formula and philosophy I've traded with and have written about for the past 14 years.

The exit we primarily use for long ETFs is when the ETF closes with its 2-period RSI of more than 70, the position is exited. That's it and it's backed by many years of statistical results.

On Monday we had two positions, one in ^SPY^ the other in ^FXI^. Each came close to triggering an exit signal on the close Monday, especially FXI. But the 2-period RSI was below 70 on each. Some traders may have exited early and if the market had turned down on Tuesday, they would have looked correct for the trade. Those many traders that waited another day though were well rewarded as SPY and FXI closed significantly higher on Tuesday and triggered sells on the close. The profits were locked in and now we're in cash waiting for the next round of signals.

Yesterday (Wednesday) the market was basically quiet. But as I'm writing this on Thursday morning, the market is called to open much higher taking an overbought market condition to even more overbought.

The question is "did we exit too early?"

In hindsight, it may be so in this trade for at least today. But if you look at thousands and thousands of simulated trades going back more than a decade, you'll see that exiting with RSI levels between 60-75 has been opportune to lock in gains and exit positions. As I tell everyone, no one exit strategy consistently sells at the top. The goal is to sell into high probability exit zones, which means selling into strength.

Our testing shows that the 2-period RSI in the 65-75 zone is on average a wonderful place to exit short-term trades. Sometimes the ETF and stock will rise further and sometimes it will immediately reverse lower. The key is that you are using the same philosophy over and over again. You're scaling into ETFs and stocks as they pull back to predetermined levels and you're selling into strength, again into pre-determined levels. You're trading like the specialists and market makers have done for decades and you're even going a step further. You're using structure, discipline, and quantified behavior to guide you each day. And as you can see from the performance of the Daily Battle Plan Model Portfolio, along with the success that market makers and specialists have had for decades, its the single best way to trade each day, especially when you're trading ETFs.

Buy on the pullbacks at pre-determined levels, and sell into the strength, again at pre-determined levels. It's a proven formula for trading success.

80% correct in ETF trades since October 2008, Larry Connors' Daily Battle Plan includes incisive market commentary, charts of the day, a Model Portfolio of past trades and daily pre-market audio commentary to help traders prepare for the trading day. For a free, 7-day trial to Larry Connors' Daily Battle Plan, click here or call 1-888-484-8220 ext 1. today.

Larry Connors is CEO and Founder of TradingMarkets.com and Connors Research.

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Review: “Police, Adjective” a philosophy lesson in ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Eccentric and esoteric, "Police, Adjective" is a philosophy lesson in disguise, a bone-dry comedy if it's a comedy at all. Cristi (Dragos Bucur) is a Romanian undercover cop assigned to bust a pot-smoking teenager. The officer's lot is not a happy one. The stakes are small and the hours drag (we see looooong real-time shots of the suspect's house from Cristi's stakeout across the street).

Most of his police co-workers perform their jobs with passive-aggressive apathy; Cristi is alone in wondering aloud if what they are doing is worthwhile. Busting the teenager will send him to prison and ruin his life, even though marijuana is likely to be decriminalized soon.

This is a film of ideas rather than action. Director Corneliu Porumboiu tells his tale with industrial-strength irony directed against a rigid official orthodoxy. When Cristi and his schoolteacher wife, Anca (Irina Saulescu), discuss the imagery in a sappy love ballad, he contends that it's superficial and she argues that it's symbolic. Ultimately, she says, what words mean depends on the rulings of the council that created the dictionary, the Romanian Academy.

In the same way, Cristi's intuitive crisis of conscience launches a theoretical discussion of duty and morality when his coolly rational boss conducts a tutorial on the meaning of "conscience," "law" and "police." The ideological interpretations that are thrust on Cristi box him into responses he doesn't really believe. What looks like reasoned debate is actually an object lesson in coercion.

To take the film at its drab face value would be a mistake; there is sharp satire at work here. Cristi's colleagues are a rogue's gallery of foot-draggers and boobs, willing to fritter away their time with discussions of how to make their frowzy city a glittering tourist destination. As Cristi's indoctrination on his responsibilities grinds on and on, it appears to be a comic scene. But the film's trick is making us take seriously what appears to be a parody.

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