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The Magazine Time, plans to elimate 600 jobs in the near future!

PaulOctober 29, 2008

According to Time Inc. Editor in Chief John Huey is planning on Laying off over 600 jobs:

Time Inc., the world’s largest magazine publisher, plans to cut 6 percent of its work force — more than 600 positions — and will revamp the organization in a way that could radically alter the culture at the company.

[via Nytimes.com]

With the way the economy is, we have more and more people who are having trouble with Layoffs. I got a list of companies right now who is laying people off. If you want to check it out just CLICK HERE.

Now let’s talk about the bigger picture, people are worried and want to get through this with out getting hit hard. So what is true hardship, that comes when you least expect it and want it. I’ve come to the conclusion that it will happen in the best of times. You see most people don’t know what hardship is until it hits them in the square on the head.

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Having seen this coming a mile a way, I thought I would come up with ways to be prepared and I’ve done a lot of hard work to be prepared, you two could be prepared. If your interested just click this link and check out all my article on getting prepared. If that doesn’t help you just go out and use google to the fullest. You see if your not ready for the end how can you be ready for the beginning. You will sooner or later be dealt a deck of cards and not know where to go next.

I am not trying to say everyone will loose there jobs but that doesn’t mean your safe where you are. You must strive to be better than are RIGHT now!! For if you don’t you will never have the chance to survice this Recession. I am so sure we are heading into the mouth of t he tiger right now, there is no turning back. Are you prepared?

With Black Friday for 2008 quickly approaching!!

PaulOctober 27, 2008

Since Black Friday is approaching next month, I Figured it is time to point to places where you could find them. Now that being said, I don’t think people should take some of these ads serious because of all the possibility. Where these ads are being placed is not going to be the absolute final end all price. Knowing these competitors like I do, they are going to have an ace in the hole. You will probably not find out until a week or a few days before black Friday.

They will of course try to keep the really juicy stuff out of the hands of people who blab about this on the net.

Why do they have Black Friday?

The term “Black Friday” originated in Philadelphia in reference to the heavy traffic on that day. More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black (i.e., turning a profit).

[via Wikipedia]

Now that being said you can expect to save a lot on Electronics, maybe even laptops. You could even save money buying a Playstation 3, or an Xbox 360. That it why there is so much hype in this so called black friday. With the possible recession looming over our heads, everyone is worried about being laid off.

Here are some great sites to watch to see what might be coming your way:

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Black-Friday.net

Bfads.net

Black Friday Info

Toy’s R Us Big book

Black Friday Ads

Deal Taker – Black Friday

theblackfriday.com

With these links you should start to find the deals and plan out where you want to be in the coming future. If you have any other websites just put them in the comments section for all to see.

I want to hear what people think about Black Friday ads. Is it right to to have this information early, or is it wrong? Do you think they will stop this in the near future? These are all the questions I have been wondering? Is this right for them to hide this information or do they have a real need to hide it? Why not come up with another Black Friday date? I want to hear you comments and your ideas on this and other post.

Largest Employer : University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is planning layoffs!!

PaulOctober 23, 2008

Is this the beginning or the end of the recession? After seeing this today I wanted to talk about this development. If they layoff a large number of people is this going to effect your chances of finding a job? Here’s what they had to say:

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has plans to reduce its 50,000 workforce by a small percentage. UPMC did not immediately release any specifics.

“As the economy deteriorates, we are proactively taking these steps to ensure that our growth in expenses is not outpacing our growth in revenues,” a UPMC statement said.

[via WTAE.TV]

So now that they have said this, what’s the percentages of the workforce are going to be laid off? I wanted to talk about how you could get ready for the imminent day of this. Here’s some good links to consider:

5 ways to improve your chance of getting hired.

Are you asking to be scammed?

And here are some other companies who are planning layoffs or have laid off people:

Mahalo Lay’s off around 10% of it’s workforce!!

Merck Laid off 13% of it’s workforce

With all this that is going on in the world I thought it was something that needed to be said and let people know about these developments.

Taking back Program Controls : For the Beginners!

PaulOctober 1, 20081 Reply

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So, let’s face it, this is one of the most annoying problems there are with programs. Programs that you think are shut down but are actually still active in the Taskmanager. So I figured I’d talk about some of the most common fixes for these problems. Now as you know there can be any number of programs or glitches as they say, causing the problems. So let’s talk about the why, shall we.

Most of the time programs don’t quit because they are waiting for some kind of response from the system or the System is waiting for the program to close by itself. It could also be a problem with a Virus or Root kit? How do you fix it?

Fixing the problem is somewhat just trial and Error. It isn’t always the hardest thing to do but sometimes people overlook the easiest solutions. So here are some easy ones:

Check to see if one of the Microsoft updates are causing the problem — Sometimes you might not realize it, but having installed an update can cause problems like KB951748. That one caused a major Headache for Zonealarm. So it is wise to check each months updates when you start seeing problems, sometimes it could of been happening for a while but it can sometimes cause troubles.

Do a Hijackthis scan — Just in case it is virus this will tell you what programs might be the virus. You will need to go Analyze the logs so go HijackThis Log Analysis Site 1 and HijackThis Log Analysis Site 2. Check the logs to see what viruses might be on your system. Just Remember that if you delete something important to your system you will have to install the Operating System.

Boot into Safe Mode and Clean out your Prefetch Directory — Yes that is right, if you boot into Safe Mode and clean the cache you sometimes help fix problems. You see most programs loaded in cache sometimes get corrupt and might cause problems.

Uninstall any programs that you think might problem — This one is easily overlook because most people don’t realize that a program is loading up with your knowledge and might cause a variety of problems. You can also check the Msconfig for that programs that might not need to be loaded up when you start windows.

These are just a few ways to fix the problem and I think if you do this most of your problems will go away. There are of course other solutions depending on your system configuration. As with any changes to your system, please talk to your computer care specialist if you have any questions.