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Jun 30, 2011 at 5:02 pm #1276141
Do not know if this has been extensively covered, and if it has I am sorry. I am new to the forum and cannot exactly find the search button, which I know is many peoples pet peeve.
But baking soda is almost as multiuse as you can get. You basically remove all of your sanitation needs if you bring it. Mixed with a little bit of hydrogen peroxide you make your toothpaste, mix it in some water and rinse/swish you destroy bad breath, use for deoderant just as a powder, antacid, make into a paste for bug bites, hand soap in a 3:1 ratio of water to baking soda, clean all of your utensils and pans (all 1 pot and 1 utensil for some of you :D ), deoderize basically anything, and the last thing my mind and my research can think of is extinguishing any fires. Apparently it can do that.
So it is pretty useful.Jun 30, 2011 at 5:33 pm #1754844
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@greg23Locale: Colorado
Under Help, at the upper right is "Advanced Search". Use it with "all words", then from the results, select 'Forum' or 'Articles' to narrow it down. It is not the sharpest tool in the shed.Jun 30, 2011 at 5:42 pm #1754848
Thanks for the info, and from the response I have a feeling this was/is a pretty heavily covered subect. That is my fault then.Jun 30, 2011 at 5:46 pm #1754850
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No fault sir!
There are endless tirades about the inadequacies of the BPL 'Search'. Your oversight was one of self-preservation, and well understood.
Carry on.
…back to Baking Soda.Jun 30, 2011 at 6:05 pm #1754857
Scott SMember
@sschloss1Locale: New England
Baking soda also makes a pretty good shampoo–mix in a 5:1 (or so) ratio of water:soda.Jun 30, 2011 at 6:21 pm #1754862
DougBPL Member
My mom used to give us baking soda in water to relieve an upset stomach.Jun 30, 2011 at 6:41 pm #1754867
Tohru OhnukiMember
@erdferkelLocale: S. California
Add some peppermint oil to a small container of baking soda for toothpowder. Just wet the brush and dip..Jun 30, 2011 at 9:34 pm #1754901
My family being one with many pets, I can personally attest to how well it works as a deodorizer, also have used it as a toothpaste and it works well and doesn't taste half bad, even better with some mint oil as previously suggested.
Now being that it is so multi-use how much do you think would be enough to carry? I mean you would be using it to wash dished, as a deoderant, soap, tooth paste, help your bug bites and rashes so it would seem pretty heavily used.
Now although I am only in the learning part of UL hiking, I feel like this would be something I would sacrifice weight for as I can use it for so much. Mostly it cuts down on complication if I can use one thing to do many things, less stuff, even if it were to weigh more.Jul 3, 2011 at 7:09 pm #1755729
Al NicholsMember
@everreadyLocale: Sh!^^% Ohio
I heard the baking soda is not LNT. Baking soda does not naturally occur in nature. I don't recall where I heard this though.Jul 3, 2011 at 8:39 pm #1755754
Mary DBPL Member
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If you can believe wikipedia (I do take their stuff with a grain of salt), baking soda definitely does occur in nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate
"Sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogen carbonate is the chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that is crystalline but often appears as a fine powder. It has a slightly salty, alkaline taste resembling that of washing soda (sodium carbonate). It is a component of the mineral natron and is found dissolved in many mineral springs. The natural mineral form, nahcolite, is found in dissolved form in bile, where it serves to neutralize the acidity of the hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach, and is excreted into the duodenum of the small intestine via the bile duct. It is also produced artificially.
"Since it has long been known and is widely used, the salt has many related names such as baking soda, bread soda, cooking soda, and bicarbonate of soda. In colloquial usage, its name is shortened to sodium bicarb, bicarb soda, or simply bicarb. The word saleratus, from Latin sal æratus meaning aerated salt, was widely used in the 19th century for both sodium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate. The term has now fallen out of common usage."
While it is cheaper to produce baking soda artificially, there are natural deposits where it is mined:
"Naturally occurring deposits of nahcolite (NaHCO3) are found in the Eocene-age (55.8–33.9 Ma) Green River Formation, Piceance Basin in Colorado. Nahcolite was deposited as beds during periods of high evaporation in the basin. It is commercially mined using in-situ leach techniques involving dissolution of the nahcolite by heated water that is pumped through the nahcolite beds and reconstituted through a natural cooling crystallization process."
Just for fun, here are 60 uses of baking soda: http://www.i4at.org/lib2/60soda.htm
Since tomorrow is July 4, how about celebrating the occasion? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqEK5ECcsDoJul 3, 2011 at 11:25 pm #1755791
Franco DarioliBPL Member
@francoLocale: Tarptent
I started a thread, here, sometime ago (2 years ago ?) about baking soda.
As the thread evolved members kept adding uses , to the point that someone had to poke some fun at us (and rightly so…)
For some reason, possibly I had baking soda in my coffee instead of sugar, I took offence to that.
Later I realised how silly it was but left the comment just to prove that I get cranky too.
BTW, if you rub some baking soda paste into your belly button, it will instantly remind you not to take one self too seriously.
Works for me.
FrancoJul 4, 2011 at 8:08 am #1755831
Haha I would imagine baking soda in your coffee would ruin that for you. And everyone can get cranky, it is just a matter of time.
I was never really worried about baking soda being natural or not, but I guess it could matter to some people.Jul 8, 2011 at 3:05 pm #1757290
Steven McAllisterBPL Member
@brooklynkayakLocale: South West US
Baking soda used as a body deodorant can lead to rash as it's PH can irritate, especially after repeated use.
I think I read that baking soda is no longer considered a good option for stomach problems.
If I remember correctly it can relieve stomach upset temporarily, but can lead to more stomach upset later on when the stomach counteracts the PH imbalance.Apr 3, 2012 at 3:03 pm #1863203
Alan MooreMember
@alan_in_azLocale: Sunny Southwest
Sprinkle baking soda in your boots and also in your socks if you suffer from super cheesy feet – works really well – & quite quickly – your tent mate will thank you.
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Do you dare to hair down there?
It is an occupational hazard that I often end up shocking the people I am talking to especially if they don't know me well or have just walked into a sex talk with Emma and weren't expecting it. Heads up, if you walk up to my group at lunchtime we will more than likely be talking about sex. We might be discussing consent, what a sex party is like, how to write a good dating profile or techniques for giving head.
However, apparently the most shocking thing for everyone was when I stated that I had pubic hair. My colleagues found this to be my most outrageous comment yet. "Inconceivable" they cried. A woman can't have hair down there! Well, they can. And they do.
I remember when, twenty years or so ago an older, more experienced lover suggested I try shaving my pubic hair. Not all of it, just the undercarriage, as it were. It was shocking and scary and felt amazing when he went down on me again. When I described it to people suggesting they try it I said "you know how when you have just shaved your legs everything feels like silk? Well, imagine a tongue…" Needless to say a few of my more daring girlfriends tried it.
I enjoyed being so risqué, so out there, it was unusual and it wowed the men I slept with. Then it became a bit more mainstream. I got more extreme with the amount I removed at times. Occasionally I would even remove the lot! Shocking! And uncomfortable as it grew back and frankly I thought it looked ugly and like I was a prepubescent girl. Not for me.
And then it became the norm for everyone to wax the lot. All the time. There was a time before this. Historical documents refer to Carrie on Sex in The City accidentally getting one (Season 3, episode 14, 200) and thinking it was too much. "My insides are on my outside" Carrie says. Then they trick Charlotte into getting one too. Maybe that is how it started, one girl getting one, it hurting and then tricking another friend into it as a joke. One of my colleagues has been getting her vulva completely waxed from the age of thirteen. No one else even saw it until she was 16. That was an approximate $1,440 and three years of unnecessary pain and regrowth she did not need to endure. Let alone the rest of her life, a further $20,000 at least if she stops at say 60 and the price doesn't go up.
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For a while now the medical articles have been coming out about how we actually need pubic hair. How it is actually healthy for us to have some hair down there and that removing it may make us more susceptible to infections like genital warts and molluscum contagiosum. Removing your pubic hair can also increase the likelihood of boils and abscesses.
Look we know that removing it all at all times without thought is commercialism gone wild. We understand that the continued policing of beauty standards is wrong but I don't see how we convince a bunch of prepubescent girls that that hair that is now growing there isn't gross when the whole world is telling them it is unnatural and young boys have never seen a bush. Of course, they are going to be repulsed by something they find strange and unfamiliar. We have hijacked pubic hair and removed the choice for young people about what they think is sexy for them. That is what bothers me the most. Choice should be just that choice. I never felt I had a true choice about shaving my legs when I was young, it is what all women did. So I started shaving at 13 when there really wasn't any hair yet and no one was looking anyway. Sound familiar? It hasn't been considered feminine to have leg hair for quite some time now, since about the 50's or 60's. To this day, no matter how much I want to get my feminist on I can't bring myself to sport leg hair in public. It saddens me that young girls feel the same way about their pubic hair even though they should feel safe to be individuals and not to conform. By teaching that pubic hair for young men and women is "dirty" and "disgusting" aren't we perpetuating the idea that your genitals are dirty and disgusting and must be sterilised and uniform in appearance to acceptable? Let's celebrate diversity and choice in our expression of our sexuality instead. Dare to hair. Or not. It is up to you. Just put some thought into it.


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From 1962 to 1966 Jimmy Conway trained for John Galbreath's Darby Dan Farm with whom he would enjoy his greatest success. In his first year with Darby Dan, Conway conditioned the filly Primonetta to 1962 American Champion Older Female Horse honors then the following year won two of the U.S. Triple Crown races with Chateaugay. The colt won the 1963 Kentucky Derby at 1¼ miles, finished second to Candy Spots in the 1³/16 mile Preakness Stakes, then won the 1½ mile Belmont Stakes. Chateaugay would be Conway's fifth Champion, voted 1963 American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse.
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The roots
My opinion on ones past, problems, ect.
My old theatre teacher told me a story once. It went something like this.
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Oven Pone
Whole Grain Recipe
A truly Southern Style bread baked in a wood cook stove. Made with cornmeal, New Orleans molasses, a bit of sugar and salt with all purpose flour pulling it all together.
Recipe Ingredients
Cold water
4 quarts sifted cornmeal
1/2 cup *blackstrap molasses
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 cup all purpose flour
*Blackstrap molasses are also known as New Orleans molasses. Even though blackstrap molasses is made from the same foods from which we derive sugar, it is probably the most nutritious sweetener you can buy.
Recipe Directions
Add enough cold water to cornmeal to make a soft batter.
Scald well, mashing the lumps.
Add New Orleans molasses, sugar, salt, and flour.
Grease Dutch oven well, and put in pone mixture.
Put in oven of wood cook stove and let bake from 5 to 6 hours with a good fire.
Then open your stove and let the pone remain until morning.
Before you go to bed, or about 11 o'clock, put another stick of wood on.
Nutrition Information
Recipe Yields: 1 Serving Oven Pone.
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- Whole Wheat Molasses Bread
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S.I.F.I (K) Plan
Over the past thirty years, defined contribution (DC) plans have become the preeminent retirement vehicle for the U.S. workforce. Retirement service providers have traditionally been measured based on metrics like the quality of their technology and websites, the flexibility of their investment menu and the strength of their participant education program. But as plan sponsors see the yawning gap between participants and a secure retirement, priorities are changing. Under the new paradigm, DC plans and service providers will be evaluated on actual participation and savings rates and the ways they improve these rates, and on the availability of low cost investment products that perform to documented performance criteria. In short, DC plans will be evaluated not by the effort put forth by providers, but by how well they deliver results and prepare workers to retire with dignity.
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The key elements of retirement planning
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Fiduciary Service Model
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A pre-selected menu of investment options
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Fully transparent fee arrangement
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Plans that Deliver Results
When you consider young participants – those who have 31 to 40 working years before they retire – the probability of reaching a comfortable retirement is significantly less under voluntary savings plans compared with programs like SiFi. The following chart (per EBRI Issue Brief 349) shows the percentage of highly and non-highly compensated employees who are expected to reach an 80% income replacement ratio by retirement age under two plan types:
Voluntary Savings Plans
Non-highly compensated employees 45.7%
Highly compensated employees 27.0%
S.I.F.I. Type Plans
Non-highly compensated employees 79.2%
Highly compensated employees 64.0%
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If you own a smartphone, shop online, or chat via messenger with a customer service rep – congratulations, you are a user of AI! Voice recognition and search assistants (like Siri or Alexa) are available on 3.9 billion Apple, Android and Windows devices being used worldwide. Over 4 billion people globally are using messaging apps.
The White House recently released a report on the current state of AI and its potential to help address major challenges society faces.The way we live, connect and search on a daily basis is completely transforming- and it's just the beginning.
Into the Future
Changing the way we use technology on a personal basis also means enhancing the way we do business. Integrating artificial intelligence into the workplace holds untold potential to increasing efficiency, certainty and productivity in our work. But what does it mean for contracts professionals?
We are seeing it rise up in the contract management space, making data extraction painless for legacy contracts and providing faster and better insights into contractual data. It's going to change the way contracts professionals work on a day to day basis, ultimately affecting both their business and their career.
What are you doing to get ready for AI? Join us for a webinar with IACCM on Tuesday, February 28th as we explore the history of AI, what it means for contracts professionals and how you can develop a plan to take advantage of this game-changing technology.
Eliminate Your Risk with 100% Contract Certainty™
Last week, Exari teamed up with IACCM for an insightful webinar to explore the meaning of "Contract Certainty" and how you and your business can work towards achieving it. Attendees also got a look into our Universal Contract Data Model™ and what's in store for the future with the newly announced CMA Contiki and Exari combination.
Exari's Founder and Chief Product Officer, Jamie Wodetzki, kicked off the webinar with how you can begin to eliminate contractual uncertainty, like contracts that have expired, risks buried deep into the fine print and gaps in the paper trail. He addressed Revenue, Supply Chain, Process and Title Uncertainty, and the risks associated with each.
With all of the potential risks that live within your contracts, it's crucial to have an enterprise view. This will allow you to constantly keep track of your businesses relationships with vendors, customers and trading counterparties. By having complete insight into all of your contractual data, you also gain an enterprise view of your business's risk, the contractual risk score and a breakdown of where it lives. For example, your customer risk score might be lower than your liability risk score, giving insight into which ones you need to dig deeper into and work on.
Mike Maziarz, Exari's VP of Marketing and Product Management, closed out the webinar with how we're allowing our customers to move towards 100% Contract Certainty™, with the help from our Universal Data Model™. Mike also commented on the exciting Exari and CMA Contiki merger and how we complement one another to strengthen 100% Contract Certainty™ even further. If you haven't watched the webinar recording yet, I won't ruin it for you!
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Why Everyone Should Stress-Test (Not Just Big Banks)
"You're wanted upstairs. Now. As in, immediately."
There's nothing quite like these words to kick off a relaxing day at the office. You head up to the executive suite wondering what fire-drill, or firing offense, awaits.
As you walk in, the Wall Street Journal flies across the room and lands at your feet.
"Our biggest back office vendor has been hacked. It's a disaster. Apparently it happened a week ago. So why am I finding out about this in the Journal? What's our legal position?"
You pause. You think. Where is the contract? Did I negotiate that one? Was there an obligation on them to report incidents like this as soon as they occurred? What's our obligation to notify affected customers? How much time have we got? What if the vendor goes under? Can we terminate and switch vendors? Or was this exclusive? Can they hide behind capped liability?
So many questions. So little time. So many angry executives.
What happens next depends in large part on how well you stress-tested your contracts before an event like this. If you planned ahead and created a trusted source of operational contract data, you can probably answer many of these questions quickly and with confidence. If you did nothing to prepare, you will likely spend the day (or the week) running around like a headless chicken, looking for contracts, scrambling through paperwork, and wondering how to say "I don't know" without sounding like an idiot.
And this is just one stressful event.
There can and will be many others: corruption scandal, currency crisis, regulatory investigation, product recall, patent litigation, credit crunch, and more.
But don't stress out. Stress test. Get ahead of the problem. If you stress test ahead of time, you can fix the weak links. If you wait for a crisis, it's too late.
Join us for a free webinar on Thursday, October 29th at 11am EDT to find out how to best prepare for a crisis and protect your company and your job. Click here to register or to learn more.
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The 5 Scariest Questions Your CEO Could Ask About Your Contracts, Pt. 2
Welcome back for installment two of The 5 Scariest Questions Your CEO Could Ask About Your Contracts, based off our recent webinar of the same name. In Part 1, we detailed the first three situations in which not knowing your contracts inside and out could make you shake in your boots: 1) an M&A event 2) a rogue vendor and 3) an MFN clause. Let's dive into the rest.
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"Why is the Times calling me for a comment on a data breach of one of our biggest vendors? They would've told us about that, right?"
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Seeing as your business' and clients' sensitive information may be compromised by a breach of a vendor, you will also need to have an immediate and comprehensive understanding of your disclosure obligations to all of your customers. Which events require you to disclose what, to whom, and within what timeframe? Did you make promises to customers that have already – albeit unknowingly – been broken?
Companies often believe that implementing comprehensive cyber security protocol internally is enough to protect themselves from the many liabilities that stem from a hack or data breach, forgetting the exposure caused by third party vendors.
The Risk Riddle
"What are the 10 riskiest contracts and what are we doing to manage that risk?"
This is a riddle indeed, as it may seem easy enough to answer but it turns out you need more than just an educated guess to answer with certainty. Your CEO probably does not want a vague, opinion-based, "it depends," which doesn't instill a high degree of confidence and, frankly, looks lazy. So how would you go about reassuring the CEO that their risk and legal experts have a handle on the riskiest contracts ?
To start, you'd need an accurate, high-quality, objective way to measure contractual risk across your contract portfolio. You may intellectually and instinctively know which vendor or customer relationships wave red flags (that Caracas-based company, perhaps?), but your contract language may tell a different story. If you do not have a way to assess risk embedded in contract language, there's a good chance those high-risk contracts are not receiving the attention they require. And if you can't articulate risk measurements when asked by the CEO, you're essentially neglecting your responsibility as a legal or compliance officer to be on top of your risk. In other words, this little question may in fact be the scariest of them all, as it exposes not only your business risk, but your own weakness.
So what to do? Here are a few general rules to follow:
- Deal with early termination risk ahead of time; due diligence is too late
- The devil is in the details in strategic contract relationships – keep an eye on gaps
- Beware the MFN – it amplifies bad pricing unless very carefully managed
- Don't wait for a crisis to manage risk; be proactive
But how, you ask? You're right, it's probably impossible to remember the precise details of every pricing and disclosure clause, to monitor every vendor and partner, and to monitor all your risk.
The one tried-and-true way to gain control and visibility over your contract portfolio is to invest in contract management software that organizes and reports on contract data so the answers to your CEO's scariest questions are just a few clicks away.
The best software on the market today is the Hub™, an out-of-the-box solution that allows users to store, organize, access and report on the content of and risk in all of their contracts in one central place.
Answer the CEO with Speed and Certainty
Imagine your boss were to ask you one of the five scariest questions this afternoon. Let's take the one about the most favored nation clauses. You know you have to identify the worst pricing you've ever granted along with any price variation and discounts included in the agreement. With the Hub, it's as easy as opening Exari Hub to the main dashboard:
You can then search for all the contracts with Most Favored Nation clauses, adding filters (such as geography, value, etc.) as you require. With the Hub, what may have been a desperate hunt for contract data becomes a simple click and search.
To learn more about the Hub, read the data sheet, visit our website or contact one of our sales reps for a conversation or to schedule a demo.
Special thanks to Jamie Wodetzki, whose webinar inspired and informed much of these blog posts!
The 5 Scariest Questions Your CEO Could Ask About Your Contracts, Pt. I
And how to respond without losing your cool (or your shirt)
Even if you're not scared of your CEO, you may be scared of the questions they could ask about your risk and liability. It's a good thing your contracts can probably tell you everything you need to know.
We recently produced a webinar called The 5 Scariest Questions Your CEO Could Ask About Your Contracts. Pulling from the webinar, we'll go through the five scenarios in which your ability to mine into your contract data could make a massive difference to your business and your reputation. Because we think this topic is so important for corporate legal professionals, we'll take two blog posts to dig into the risks and solutions presented by your contracts.
Ready? Let's go.
M&A Event
"I don't need to worry about contract surprises, right?"
In the case of a merger and acquisition – whether you're buying something, selling something, or spinning off a piece of the business – your contracts, especially revenue and sell-side contracts, will get a lot of attention. The evaluation of your businesses value depends on many things, and on many things being certain. "Surprises" are rarely a good thing in this case, as they usually mean a reduced evaluation.
So what does your CEO mean by contract surprises? A surprise could be a missing contract, which leads to uncertainty and, thus, risk. Other surprises could be unaccounted for 'termination for convenience' or 'termination for change of control' clauses in your client contracts. Because such clauses mean a client may choose to end the relationship simply because they do not like the post-merger or post-acquisition relationship, it's essential to understand where such clauses exist so that the risk they pose can be accounted for in negotiation and evaluation efforts. Furthermore, in the unlikely scenario that you have a client agreement with language that sees for strict customer consent, there's the possibility that a customer withholding or delaying consent would, in turn, delay and potentially compromise the closing of a lucrative M&A deal. In short, when these types of clauses are "surprises," the value will be less than expected and the CEO will not be a happy camper.
The Rogue Vendor
"We have a problem with a vendor – they're claiming that they own part of our product/want to create a competing product/have already approached our biggest customer – but our contracts with them are tight, right?"
In the unlikely but unfortunate case of a vendor attempting to become a competitor, all of your contracts with this vendor would come under the microscope. If you've had a long business relationship, you'll most likely have a long and messy contractual history as well. You'll need to locate all the executed agreements you have with the vendor – including amendments – so as to understand your precise rights. Are you sure the copies you've found are the signed copies? Do they have the right to terminate? Do you have non-compete language? If yes, you'll need to ask if are there any loopholes? Have they expired? Do the non-compete clauses apply after termination? Did we ever neglect to account for ownership of new things we created? Only once you can answer all of these questions with certainty can you know how to move forward in the case of a vendor gone rogue.
The Price Tap
"I have a strategic account insisting that they receive the best pricing we've ever granted to any client. What is this pricing?"
If you're going to concede a Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause, you need to do so with your eyes wide open. MFN clauses are usually dangerous but, when used strategically, may help secure important business. What do you need to know when the CEO asks for the worst pricing you've ever agreed to? You need to know the pricing, of course, but also what types of price escalation and what discounts were used, as these are things you'd likely need to offer to this new strategic account. You'd also need to find this out very quickly: if you charge more than the lowest price, you're in breach of the new contract; if you charge less, you're in breach of all of your other MFN agreements. Yikes.
Check back or subscribe to our blog feed to catch the next post, where we'll finish up the list and talk about how you can answer even the scariest questions about your contracts.
Click here to watch the webinar.
Upcoming Webinar: What is Contract Lifecycle Management?
Contracts serve as the backbone of the modern business. They contain nearly all the information you need to be able to assess the health of your business and your business relationships, both internal and external. The best Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions available today not only automate contract creation, they import key data points from legacy contracts, so you can search, sort, share and report on the data of your entire contract portfolio.
In order to better explain what we mean by "the best solutions," we're hosting a free webinar on CLM. Think it might be interesting?
How to Increase Sales, Reduce Cost and Minimize Risk with Intelligent Contract Management
The pressure is on. Regardless of your industry, you are expected to deliver more with less: more revenue with less cost and more results with less risk.
The good news for Legal and Sales Operations teams is that intelligent contract management can help you meet these challenges, with substantial benefits flowing to your bottom line.
Ending the HR Document Pile-up [Recorded Webinar]
Human Resources is a document intensive field. HR professionals in companies with large workforces, high employee turnover and/or global offices, end up devoting a significant amount of time to necessary but low-value paperwork.
Exari sponsored a webinar to show how HR departments, swamped with paperwork, can get back the time to perform higher value work by automating their documents. You can view the recording here.
Document automation helps HR departments reduce the time it takes to create essential HR documents like offer letters, consultant contracts, warning letters, COBRA notifications and more. Add in contract management, and HR managers can gain fingertip access and complete visibility into new and existing documents.
In addition to outlining the best types of HR documents to automate, the webinar included a demonstration of Exari's Document Assembly and Contract Management products for HR professionals. If you would like to learn more, request a recording of the webinar here, or to see the solution in action, request a demo.
HR Document Automation Webinar
Human Resources is a document intensive profession, but you can end the HR document pile up by automating your documents. Join us for an informative web-seminar on Thursday, June 21 and learn how document automation can alleviate the burden of creating important HR documentation. The webinar will be recorded and shared with all registrants for you to watch at your convenience.


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Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has issued a recruitment notification for the recruitment of Senior Engineer, Deputy Manager through recruitment notification. Candidates who have completed B.E, B.Tech, M.Sc can apply for the new recruitment notification from Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).
Eligible candidates can apply offline for the Senior Engineer, Deputy Manager Job on or before 30 Oct 2015. Find more information about the vacancy like Age limit, Selection Process, Qualification, Application fee, How to apply etc can be found below.
Company Name : Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)
Vacancy Name : Senior Engineer, Deputy Manager
Educational Qualification : B.E/B.Tech, M.Sc
Total No of Vacancy : 02 Post
Salary : Rs.20,600-46,500/- p.m
Job Location : Pune
Last Date to Apply for this job : 30 Oct 2015
Address for the Job Vacancy : Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) , Pune
Detail of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) Senior Engineer, Deputy Manager Recruitment:
Sr.Engineer (E-III) recruitment in Bharat Electronics Limited on contract basis
Qualification: B.E/ B.Tech in (Mech/ Electronics/ Chemical/ Instrumentation) from any AICTE approved College/Institution (or) MSc (Chemistry) from UGC recognized University with First Class for Gen/OBC candidates and Pass Class for SC/ST/PWD candidates.
Experience as on 01/10/2015 : 3yrs & 6 Mths.
Domain Knowledge and exposure: Electronic fuses technology & application . Fuse Manufacturing process for electronic fuses (Percussion, Proximity & Time) . Testing of fuse sub-assemblies. Explosive assembly & Booster pellet integration .
Job Description : Supervision of Fuze Assembly Line (EPD, Proximity & Time), Supervision of explosive assembly processes at Vendors premises & ensuring that the explosive elements are as per specification , Testing of electronic modules & PCB's , Testing of Safe & Arm & assembly of detonators
Pay Scale : Rs.20600-46500
Age Limit: 34 yrs as on rt September 2015.
No.of Post: 2
Application Fee: Rs.500 by a crossed Demand Draft drawn on any scheduled Bank in favour of BEL payable at Pune.
Selection Procedure for Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) – Senior Engineer, Deputy Manager Post:
Candidates can apply on or before 30 Oct 2015.
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Application are to be submitted in envelope super-scribing the Post Applied for. Application should reach the Office of Dy.General (HR & A) BEL, NDA Road, Pashan, Pune-411021, Maharashtra on or before 30/10/2015.
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Maxxie: Straight germs.Mature
"What time's your lunch break?" I ask as I watch Hadley get ready for work, refusing to move from where I am under the duvet in bed.
"Uh, around one, I think."
"Wanna meet up at a cafe?"
"Sure. I'll call you before or something so you're not waiting for ages 'cause I got my times wrong." I smile, strangely proud of him for having a job and planning to go off to college and all that. He smiles back and I pull him down for a kiss.
"Get your ass to work," I chuckle.
He kisses back, "I would but someone's keeping me here." He lets out a giggle and I grin.
"Don't let Brent get too drunk," I wink, remembering what Brent gets like when he's drunk.
"Wha...? Y'know what, I don't even wanna know," he chuckles, planting another kiss on my lips. I kiss back and smile.
"I'll see you at lunch," he says smiling back.
I hum, "Bye, Bunny."
"Bye, Cinderella." He leaves before I can so much as pout at him.
After about ten minutes, I haul myself out of bed and into the shower to get ready for my own day. Since I work a night shift, I've got pretty much all day to do what I like.
So how am I going to spend it? I could mope, or worry about Cay, I could sit around being bored. I could watch a movie on my own, or treat my over active libido to some porn and my hand, but what I'd really rather do, is go house hunting.
Or apartment hunting. Doesn't matter much to me either way.
And that's how I've ended up sitting in my least favourite (an estate agent's) place, with a surprising amount of apartments and small houses near Hadley's college. I take the info for a few of them, and I'm just about to look at another set of pictures for this cute little house when my phone rings. I didn't realise it was so close to one already.
"Hey, Bunny," I say not bothering to excuse myself. The estate agent woman doesn't look too impressed, but I couldn't care less.
"Hey. So, I'm on lunch in like ten minutes. Got anywhere in particular you want to meet up?"
"Anywhere. I don't mind. Pick a cafe. There's plenty around there."
"I need to learn where they are first," he laughs a little. I hum thoughtfully, wondering where the nearest one to the book store is.
"The one where I worked was pretty good. Up the street to the left, big blue sign for Questa Cafe. It's not too far."
"I'll meet you there then, beautiful," he says, and I can't help the grin on my lips. I say my goodbye and turn back to the slightly irritable estate agent woman.
"Mr. Fuller," she says, a slightly exasperated tone breaking through in her voice, "are you going to take the information for this place, too?" I nod and then add as an afterthought: 'do you have a folder I could put all this in?'
When I sit down at the table with Hadley, he arches an eyebrow at the folder in my hands. I smile and push it towards him across the table. He opens the file and flicks through the photocopies of photos and info for the places I'd been looking at.
"You really are set on moving, huh?" I shrug.
"I just thought it'd be nice to properly buy a place together. We don't have to move anywhere if you don't want to." He pecks me on the lips. Not much of an answer there, Bunny boy. "Well anyways, have a look through those at some point and see if you like any of them. I'm gonna get a coffee, want one?" I mumble.
"Sure," he smiles. I get up and wander over to Damien, reaching over the counter to prod him.
"Stop staring at the pretty girl you work with and get me two coffees, bitch," I smile. He jumps and grins at the sight of me.
"Two coffees?" he smirks, "who're you with?" I gesture over at Hadley.
"The boyfriend." Damien looks over and chuckles a little, turning to make the coffee.
"They get smaller every time. Next time you come in, you'll be dating a midget."
"I doubt it," I say with a smile.
"Uh oh. I know that tone of voice," he laughs, and I blink. What tone of voice? "not heard you talk like that since you were with Alex." I scowl. He grins and ruffles my hair.
"Ew, straight germs."


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