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Jim and his mother were looking at what was now officially their new house. He was still living at home while he attended a local college. He had and his mother had always had a very good relationship, so it was a good arrangement, and now she had just bought a new home that they were preparing to move into.
All of the rooms were quite spacious compared to the old house, and were all still empty of course, and his mom was definitely thinking of getting some new furniture.
"Isn't this wonderful!" she said in a pleased fashion.
"Yeah," Jim agreed, thinking how nice it really was.
"And no neighbors to worry about," she mentioned. She grinned. "I feel like we should just run around naked in our new place!"
Jim grinned. "You mean … just take everything off?"
"Yes! And enjoy all of this!"
Jim didn't quite know what to say.
"Do you want to?" she asked, wrinkling her nose at him.
"Uh …" Jim hesitated.
"Oh, come on," she coaxed. Just once … just for fun."
"I … I guess we could," Jim said, surprised by his mom's enthusiasm to do that.
It was summer so they were both wearing a shirt and shorts and flip-flops. It took them only a moment to shed their minimal attire, and suddenly they both were, naked together. His mother was a bit heavy set, but shapely and she had large full breasts which drooped just slightly with their weight, and two broad deep pink nipples curving over their rounded ends. Jim had glimpsed his mother naked on a few occasions, but to just be standing there naked with her was a new experience for both of them.
Jim blushed as he felt his penis responding in a way that he was unable to prevent. Very quickly it pushed up right in a prominent display.
"Oh, my!" his mother exclaimed, seeing his erection.
"Sorry about that," he apologized, feeling quite self-conscious to be having a boner in front of his own mother like that.
"I feel flattered," she told him and gave him an admiring smile. "I didn't know if I could inspire you in that way."
Jim grinned modestly. "Well … yeah."
She stepped over and they shared a naked embrace, their smooth bare skin touching and coming together in a pleasing way, with Jim feeling her mammary fullness press against him as his penis pushed upward between them in a conspicuous fashion, as they did a small kiss on the lips.
"This is certainly a nice way to break in our new house," she said happily.
Jim was surprised by how uninhibited his mother was being, and it was fun and exciting.
They did another small kiss on the lips.
"Maybe we should make love right here," she said unreservedly. She grinned. "We are in the bedroom."
Jim realized that was where they were, standing in one of the bedrooms.
She added in a soft whisper, "Nobody would know."
She took a hold of his hands and she dropped down onto the soft carpeted floor and he did the same. In a moment more he was on top of her with his stiff penis pushed fully into his mom's accommodatingly wet vagina.
"Oh … that feels so good!" she told him.
It felt good to Jim, too. It was incredible to have his erect penis actually in his mom's vagina.
They looked at one another.
"It great doing this with you, mom," Jim said as he began to slide his organ in and out of hers.
They spent the next five minutes leisurely fucking and savoring how wonderful it felt to share that physical intimacy as mother and son. Jim's penis moved in and out, making small wet noises that combined with their breathing.
"Oh, honey … keep fucking me," she said.
Jim had never heard his mother talk like this before, but he had never shared a sexual moment with her before, either.
"Oh … it feels great to fuck you," he said back. And it did.
She moaned and started climaxing, tensing beneath him, her hands pushing down on his buttocks to ensure that his boner was as far into her as it could be. This excited Jim and suddenly he was ejaculating, his semen throbbing from his penis to fill her vagina.
When it was all finally over they laid there on the soft carpet recovering.
"I haven't been fucked like that in years," she sighed contentedly.
Jim smiled. "It felt so good to fuck you, mom."
She looked at him a little unsure. "Did you like it?"
"Maybe we should just do this more often," she suggested. "I mean, if you like fucking your mother."
"I sure do," Jim said truthfully. "I really do."
They kissed.


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Do you want to play an Arrows Edge slot machine? Well, it is a software company that specializes in online gaming. It was founded in 2014. With a heavy concentration on PC and laptop players, they started off small, thus it's fair to argue that some of their early titles in the catalog look unprofessional.
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I just spent the greater part of last weekend in cars and airplanes, and my body absolutely hates me. My neck hurts, I have a headache, and my hip flexors are so wound up I can hardly stand up straight. Sound familiar? Here are the three exercises I hit immediately upon arrival at my destination after extended travel.
Start by lifting and lowering your head, with your elbows pulled in towards each other. For added intensity, lift and lower your head and hips at the same time, hinging over one of those three spots. Repeat 10 times per spot.
Want to ramp up this mobilization? Place the peanut on top of a yoga block or thick book, and follow the same steps as listed above.
What happens to your glutes and hamstrings when you sit on them in an airport for 5+ hours? THEY GO TO SLEEP. They shut off. They peace out. And once they're asleep, its a real pain in the you-know-where to wake them back up. This single-leg bridge variation is a great way to wake up your stubbornly sleepy booty so it doesn't miss out on all the holiday fun.
Lie on your back with one leg hugged in tightly to your chest. Press into the ground with your other foot, and lift your hips as high off the ground as possible. Hold for 5 seconds. Slowly lower. Repeat 10 times per side.
Sitting for hours at a time promotes tight and angry hip flexors. This is a great way to coax a nasty psoas out of its holiday tantrum.
Start by finding your anterior-superior iliac spine (ASIS, also known as the "pointy front hip bone"). The bottom ball of the peanut goes just inside this bone. With the peanut in place, lie on your stomach. Start by taking deep breaths into the peanut. Once the initial intensity subsides, lift and lower your back leg, on the same side as the peanut. Still not enough to loosen those hip flexors? Try adding a push up into a cobra position as you lift your back leg. Your psoas(..es?) will be singing "Joy to the World" in NO time!
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Feel free to comment below, or let me know what YOUR go-to exercises are after a long travel day!
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Saving Hopes returns with 1.7 million viewers
August 19, 2012 Diane Wild
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Deja-View: SAVING HOPE Returns with Another 1.7 Million Viewers
Canada's #1 new series/summer drama tops BIG BROTHER for a second time
Another 1.7 million viewers tuned into last night's all-new episode of SAVING HOPE. Head-to-head against BIG BROTHER, Canada's #1 new series/summer drama also delivered 6% more viewers than the CBS/GLOBAL simulcast (1.6 million total viewers). SAVING HOPE continues to surge, with last night's episode delivering new series high overnight audiences with the key A18-34 and A18-49 demos. Last night's episode picked up from the emotional fall out after a cliffhanger episode that delivered a series high 1.9 million viewers on July 26 (overnight audience was 1.7 million) and saw Charlie (Michael Shanks) taken off his ventilator.
In next week's episode, "A New Beginning" (Thursday, Aug. 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV), Joel (Danielle Gillies) returns to the OR for the first time since injuring his hand but gets cold feet. Kinney (Wendy Crewson) decides that Joel needs to get away from the hospital, and invites him to come with her on a Continuing Medical Education expedition to her hometown of Elsinore. During their field trip, a woman gets pinned underneath a truck and Joel and Kinney lead the rescue effort. Back at Hope Zion, Charlie (Michael Shanks) meets a newly deceased therapist who suspects it's an emotional block that is keeping him in his coma. Meanwhile, Alex (Erica Durance) examines a man with swelling in his chest after an accident at the gym, and discovers he has an underlying condition not common in men.
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The rumors are probably true
BY Ransom Riggs
Those rumors floating around the office lately about your job being on the line? Worrisome, sure, but easy enough to dismiss -- after all, they're only rumors. But according to a new book, Rumor Psychology: Social and Organizational Approaches, you might want to start cleaning out your desk and scouring the want ads. Rumors -- especially workplace rumors -- tend to be more reliable than we think.
"In a workplace setting — what we call a stable organizational grapevine — people are very good at figuring out the truth," says author and professor Nicholas DiFonzio. "If you tell me something and I work closely with you, I know whether you're a credible source. But even if I'm not so sure, in workplace settings the network connections are so dense that it's easy to cross-check information."
After awhile, the rumor becomes a sort of self-correcting information machine -- not unlike the socially-authored encyclopedia Wikipedia, which a study in the respected journal Nature recently concluded was, at least in terms of its science articles, nearly as accurate as the Britannica.
Of course, there's a difference between workplace rumors and workplace gossip, the difference being people often secretly want juicy bits of gossip to be true, and so truth falls beside the wayside.


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I have a goodly amount of NOS sightDOCTOR mounting kits for various firearms; these are brand new factory kits, never used or mounted. All kits ;are black; a typical kit consists of the mounting plate and dovetail bar (already screwed together), two screws for the red dot sight, and one or two hex keys. Just as they came from DOCTOR USA. I am still going thru bags and boxes; lots of extra parts, weaver bases, etc. Would like to move the two different AR kits (one for handle-mount which is also see-thru; one for flat top mounting on a weaver base), I have many of these. I also have some up for sale on eBay (seller = nevadabarry).
Prices are the kit price + $6.00 shipping for USPS first class mail (AR kit shipping might be a little more). Paypal acceptable. TIA! please email any questions: barrytuttleman@yahoo.com; local pickup in carson city is OK.


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Customer steals $20 from Athens store
Joe Johnson
A customer Monday evening stole $20 from JC Food Store on West Hancock Avenue, Athens-Clarke County police said.
The man handed the owner a $20 bill for a scratch-off lottery ticket, which the proprietor placed on the cash register before bending down to get the lottery ticket from under the counter, at which time the customer snatched the money and left the store with both the $20 bill and the lottery ticket, according to police.
The theft was recorded by the store's video security system, police said.
The store owner reportedly told police the suspect was a frequent customer whose mugshot had appeared in the Bad & Busted magazine several times.
She said the black male suspect was wearing a black hoodie with the logo of a deer on it and a black skull cap, according to police.


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Buying Pret A Manger, JAB Acquires a Healthy Chain With Heart
Posted May 29, 2018	 by	Dale Buss
JAB Holdings keeps taking bigger bites of the prepared-food universe, now agreeing to buy UK-based Pret A Manger, the London-headquartered global chain of sandwich shops that prides itself on freshly-prepared food, organic coffee, punning in-store food photography and a purpose-driven mission that includes donating to food banks and committing to sustainability.
A Tradition of Giving Back
"This is a day of celebration at Pret," stated Clive Schlee, CEO of Pret A Manger, who celebrated by "thanking the people who really matter by giving each of our employees £1,000 to celebrate."
Today's a big day for us. We're welcoming JAB, our new owners, and we're thanking the people who really matter by giving each of our employees £1,000 to celebrate. A huge thank you to our amazing teams around the world. ❤
A post shared by Pret A Manger USA (@pretusa) on May 29, 2018 at 11:44am PDT
The blogging CEO added: "This agreement recognises the hard work of all our amazing teams around the world. Bridgepoint has been wonderful owners of the business for more than a decade. All of us at Pret believe JAB will be excellent long-term strategic owners. JAB believes in Pret's values and supports our growth plans. I am really looking forward to this next chapter of Pret's story."
Freshly made, ready to go, and all you need to bring a little happiness to your day on the move.
A post shared by Pret A Manger USA (@pretusa) on May 23, 2018 at 8:25am PDT
Expanding JAB's Holdings
Already owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Panera Bread and Keurig Green Mountain, JAB's press release announcing its plan to buy Pret A Manger did not disclose the terms of the deal. According to the FT and the Wall Street Journal, it's valued at roughly $2 billion. JAB also is in the process of buying Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Panera Bread as it looks to the global soft-drinks business as well as coffee and QSR.
How can you participate in the #skiplunchfighthunger campaign? Buy a City Harvest cookie this week and help feed young New Yorkers and their families for the whole summer.
"We're very excited to partner with Pret and its talented team to continue their extraordinary growth story," said JAB CEO Olivier Goudet.
"Management's proven track record and commitment to customer service, investment in innovation and approach to freshly prepared food position Pret well as it capitalises on evolving consumer taste and lifestyle preferences. We look forward to working with Clive Schlee and his management team, while promoting the Pret brand and supporting Pret's impressive culture for the next phase in the company's growth with JAB."
Love is love ❤
A post shared by Pret A Manger USA (@pretusa) on Jun 25, 2017 at 10:50am PDT
Growing Global
JAB is buying Pret from the Bridgepoint equity firm and its majority owner and minor shareholders. The U.K.-headquartered Pret not only is rapidly growing its U.S. presence—where it currently operates 92 stores—but it also has outlets in Hong Kong, China and France for a total of 530 stores worldwide.
The brand tries to differentiate itself as healthier, including a menu that includes colorful salads, "protein pots" and beetroot hummus; outfitting each store with its own on-site kitchen to boost freshness and local sourcing; and sustainability experiments such as its vegetarian stores in the U.K.
We see our new Mango Chia Pot in our immediate breakfast future.
A post shared by Pret A Manger USA (@pretusa) on Jul 17, 2017 at 5:42am PDT
We're making a global commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle as much plastic as possible @Pret. We've got a long way to go and I hope this pledge keeps us on track. pic.twitter.com/OTllNQRhJj
— Clive Schlee (@Cliveschlee) May 3, 2018
McDonald's bought a 33% stake in Pret in 2001, but Pret's ensuing rapid international expansion overextended the company financially. Amid Pret's retrenchment, McDonald's sold its stake to Bridgepoint in 2008.
Pret logged 10 straight years of sales and earnings growth and nine straight years of like-for-like sales growth under Bridgepoint. "The brand continues to thrive around the world," Schlee said, "thanks to our simple recipe of freshly prepared food, served by genuinely engaged teams."
Our Mediterranean Mezze Salad shines even when the clouds are out.
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For a sub-£28,000 hot hatchback to record a 0-60mph sprint that's closer to six seconds than it is to seven should produce exactly the sort of reaction from regular buyers of fast front-drivers that Hyundai was hoping for.
On a greasy track, our test car averaged 6.4sec from rest to 60mph, while clearly struggling for the traction necessary to use full power in either first or second gear.
On a perfect day and after a perfect start, we wouldn't rule out shaving several tenths off that showing, although we'd be surprised to see the car go under 6.0sec.
It's bafflingly rare to see launch control fitted to the powerful, front-driven, manual-transmission hot hatchbacks on which it'd be of more help than on almost any other kind of performance car, but it does appear on the i30 N.
Unfortunately, although it works fairly well, our quickest runs were recorded with the traction and stability aids completely disabled – and they were produced in only a fairly hit-and-miss fashion.
That's because Hyundai's engine for this car may have plenty of torque but it's delivered in a bit of a sudden rush of boost in the middle of the rev range.
It's very difficult to moderate in the lower gears and can easily disrupt the driven axle's hold on even dry tarmac if you inadvertently use that little bit too much accelerator.
The engine pulls hard once grip returns but doesn't have the balanced, linear feel of the 2.0-litre turbo in the Civic Type R and doesn't rev nearly as keenly above 5000rpm.
The engine sounds nicely venomous, if very induction whoosh dominated, from the outside of the car – but from the inside, your appreciation of it is handicapped by Hyundai's Active Sound Design engine noise synthesis system. It plays through the audio speakers at a volume you can choose to ignore in certain driving modes but it becomes much too loud and artificial-sounding in others.
Mercifully, though, you can configure the car for enhanced engine response combined with less exhaust noise fakery using the Custom driving mode.
Deserving of much more praise is the shift quality of the i30 N's six-speed manual gearbox, which has just the right effort level and nicely defined feel, and the brakes, which are powerful and work through a nicely feelsome and progressive pedal.


Darrel williams— no one behind damein williams.. ware and west are free agent next year.
dwayn washington - ingram might be gone and he kamara backup. He shown he can play..
which rb should i take a risk on.
I don't like any of those but I'd say D. Washington. Being behind Kamara isn't a bad thing.
In a deep format, I'd say Washington is slightly more valuable than Williams.


This is a never ending debate and a subject which is constantly argued about by traders and everyday I get emails from members asking how can they buy pullbacks before the breakout. There is almost an obsession for some people, they want to be in stock before breakout.
"Traders who buy on pullbacks may miss some major movers that don't pullback and are sure to be in all the moves that fail to follow through. Buying pullback ensures you will be in most reversal moves."
In the stock market you can buy breakouts and make money. You can also make money buying pullbacks. There are hundreds of breakout based methods in public domain on both side. If you are interested in buying pullbacks then look at the RSI2 method which I have shared before. It buys pullbacks.
As a general observation after studying the markets for last 12 years or so and especially studying stocks which go up 100% plus in a year or 25% plus in a month, I can tell you that if you are primarily a pullback trader you will miss out on some of the best opportunities in the market.
Buy first pullback after a major breakout. You can define major breakout in many ways like say a multi month trend line , or breakout above channel, or breakout above 200 day moving average or a breakout of 25% or more from a 52 week low, or any such major milestone.
Buy first pullback to 50 day moving average. This is like most commonly used swing trading method. Some time back I studied the most popular swing trading courses and most rehash this same concept again and again. Same soda different bottle and different color. 50 ma becomes 20 MA or 39 MA or some other MA.
Buy double bottom at top of the range on trending stock. Again this is extremely popular method. You find a trending stock on longer time frame that has in recent days gone in to range. You buy a double bottom pattern in that range. These kind of methods work well on high float stocks and stocks with high liquidity. Especially well on stocks in S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100. The Curtis Faith setup which I shared sometime back is a good example of that kind of setup. IBD also talks about this setup as one of the bases to look for in leading stocks. Typically you should not try and trade these kind of setups on small cap stock. In most small caps there is one big rally and then they exhaust themselves. Buying such pullbacks on most of them would make you a bag holder. Such setups work well on established stocks where there is lot of fund support. The funds like buying dips so the setup works. For small cap most of the time it is one rally and end of story.
Retracements to Fib levels is another very popular pullback buy techniques and if you just run a search you will find over 1000 such swing trading setups.
Retracements to 10 or 20 day lows. This is another very popular method for buying pullbacks and again tends to work on bigger stocks.
Retracement to ATR channel is another commonly used pullback method.
Oscillator based pullbacks. There is a vast array of oscillator based methods. Most traders have some sort of oscillator like Stochastics on their charts and such pullback methods are very popular. If you go to the Wealthlab archives you will see examples after examples of pullback based systems that have performed well in backtesting.
The key to trading pullback again boils down to selecting the right kind of stocks to trade pullbacks on. Some stocks like momentum stocks or growth stocks are best traded using breakout methods. Because they are very prone to sudden burst of momentum phases which can go vertical without any pullbacks.
By the time you get first pullback the move might be over. You can hope for a pullback but the stock is not obliged to offer you that low risk buying opportunity. That is the nature of small caps and stocks with above average momentum.
These kind of stocks will give you nice pullback buy opportunities. Because the trading dynamics behind them is very different. These are large mature businesses that have large fund holding and everytime they dip below a certain level buyers step in. that is why if you study carefully the hundreds of pullback systems which have shown to be performing well in backtest, they typically use S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100 as their universe. Same way if you want to trade say the S&P mini or Nasdaq mini or any YM mini you will see pullback based methods work best. Both pullback based and exhaustion based methods tend to do well on established markets. They also tend to do well in range bound markets and may not do well in bull markets or highly trending markets.
If you want to develop pullback based method then you need to work at it for months and trade it in live and then perfect them. For me breakouts work and I spend my time and energy on breakouts. I have cumulative 12 years and thousands of trade experience of trading breakouts and I have done very well using them so I stick to them.
One of the key points Mark Minervini emphasized in his seminar was to find a method that suits you and then perfect it by going in to microscopic details on it. He gave an example of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Saying both are very good friends , then why Buffet has not bought Microsoft shares. Because his expertize is value investing and he sticks to it. He has significant edge in doing whast he does. He does not go around becoming a growth investor or CANSLIM investor next.
Recently I was reading a book on hedge fund managers. They were all leading hedge fund managers and some of them suffered big losses in 2008, and they were asked what was one of the biggest mistake they did and most said that their big mistake was to trade too many strategies. They said that when they started their hedge fund they had core set of strategies they traded and were very successful with them for years. But then they got in to the game of becoming multi strategy hedge funds trading different markets and strategies and then they lost their edge and their core goal after 2008 debacle was to gt back to their core strategies.
As against that most novice want to trade a bunch of styles. They want to be day trader, Cramer followers, growth investors, turnaround traders, macro traders, quant traders, value traders, options traders, futures traders and whatever else they might hear of next. They want to trade pullbacks, breakouts, exhaustions and in doing so they are too exhausted. It does not work so they go from one site to another site, from this book to that book, from this newsletter to that newsletter and in the process blow up their account.
As against look at people like Minervini , he trades one method and has been at it for 15 years. It took him 10 years to develop and fine tune that method. Look at Dan Zanger he trades very simple breakout method and he has perfected it over many years. Before doing that he blew up 3 times. Look at any other traders who has survived the learning curve and prospered for 10 years and you will see that they trade very few setups but on that setup they have extensive experience.
Why is this focus on setup important. There is very good reason for it. Because your brain works in certain manner when it comes to developing procedural memory. If you try and beat the rules of how procedural memory works you will never succeed. Procedural memory is extremely task specific. It is built as a mechanism to overcome cognitive load. It allows you to perform a task efficiently once developed. Once you develop one procedural memory and then attempt next thing , the mind can handle it. That is why setup selection is key. You select a setup and develop a procedural memory to trade it. That is how you become good at it.
Trading psychology is about understanding how your brain and mind works and manipulating it to become profitable trader. It is extremely important to understand procedural memory and how it works and how it is developed if you want to be successful and profitable trader.
And if you study procedural memory you will realise how you are daily self sabotaging your own procedural memory development.
I think you are right - better to perfect one method.
Nice post. Yes you're right. Too often we get lost amongs different styles and books. Lately I'm trying to focus on trend follow styles (close to 52w high/low), obv that goes in that directions and easy options plays. But the road to make it really good is still long!


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Bhubaneswar: The Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), faculty of engineering and technology of Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) and acknowledged as Numero Uno among institutions of higher education in Odisha, has staved off the huge worldwide impact of the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure placement of about 85 per cent of the total eligible students of the 2021 graduating batch in top-notch companies.
Around 30 per cent of these students have received job offers during Day Zero dream campus drive involving reputed companies with Amazon proffering the highest package of Rs. 30 lakh per annum with the average annual salary received by the students being Rs. 6.3 lakh.
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The remaining around 55 per cent of the students have received offers from reputed MNCs and Day-1 and Day-2 recruiters like Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, DXC, Capgemini, Hexaware, HCL, NIIT Technologies, Infogain, Tudip Technologies, V-Construct, L&T Technologies, NCC, Global Edge and several others.
Besides, reputed digital marketing corporate, Mediamint, has evinced interest in recruiting a sizeable number of talents from SOA this year based on their Centre of Excellence model which could lead to placement of approximately 95 per cent of the students by end of the campus recruitment season.
More than 90 companies have participated in the campus recruitment drive in ITER this year. Besides, reputed corporates have shown their inclination towards SOA for setting up learning hubs in the campus based on the students' performance. This would result in the students receiving enormous exposure in the industry domain in the days ahead.
Exposed to the excellent facility of training programs in coding, technology, soft skills, aptitude and intermittent counseling, students in SOA are expected to achieve their targets and recognized for their knowledge and skill at all levels.
A six-member team of ITER students, who participated in the Smart India Hackathon 2020 conducted by the Ministry of Education, emerged champions winning the problem statement RK57 (Digital Policing) winning a prize money of Rs. one lakh. Another significant achievement was the performance of the students in the TCS CodeVita Season 9 conducted by Tata Consultancy Services.
Microsoft has extended career opportunity to nine students from SOA which is the highest in eastern India for the second consecutive year while consulting major Deloitte, with offices in USA, has committed for premium category selection with a package of Rs. 7.6 lakh per annum for a significant number of talents.
Besides, the joining conversion ratio in Day-1 companies, Cognizant, Wipro and Infosys has received huge appreciation from the said corporates indicating the best conversion ratio in eastern India.
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Theratechnologies withdraw EU application for tesamorelin (Egrifta)
1 August 2012. Related: Side effects.
On 22 June 2012, Theratechnologies, the Canadian-based company responsible for developing tesamorelin, a growth hormone releasing factor (GHRF) that reduces central visceral fat, released a press release relating to regulatory issues. [1]
Foremost of these was the announcement that filing for approval in the EU has been withdrawn, meaning that although approved in the US, European patients will not be able to access this option in the near future.
The brief detail cited lack of safety data (>48 weeks) concerning the increased levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and the lack of cardiovascular endpoint to evaluate the risk/benefit ratio.
Community commentary of the company studies have also highlighted the inadequacy of the trial design for regulatory studies, which involved discontinuing treatment in all patients at the end of the study. This resulted in the unethical issue of withdrawing successful treatment from responders, but also ensuring that no longer term safety or management data continue to accrue during follow-up, while regulatory submissions were ongoing. [2]
The press release also referred to further data required on long-term safety by the Canadian regulatory agency, that the company needs to answer within 90 days and a manufacturing deficiency relating to the regulatory decision in Brazil
The FDA approved tesamorelin in the US in November 2010.
While tesamorelin is far from an ideal treatment, and may only be suitable for a minority of patients with lipohypertrophy, in the absence of effective treatment, it is disappointing that European patients with be further denied access, especially as European patients participated in the research.
However, it also raises the issue of disparity of approaches by the US and European regulatory agencies.
The FDA have approved a range of treatment to mediate metabolic complications, none of which have received EU licenses, even within a limited and narrow indication.
Theratechnologie Press Release. Theratechnologies provides regulatory update on tesamorelin. (22 June 2012).
http://www.theratech.com/sites/default/files/news_release_en/th-06222012-en.pdf (PDF)
FDA approves tesamorelin for reduction of central fat accumulation. HTB November/December 2010.
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Q: Is it possible to avoid code repetition when an object should return a modified copy of itself? I'm currently writing some classes that represent symbolic mathematical expressions. All of these are immutable.
However, I found myself often repeating the same kind of structure, so I created an interface to avoid repetition, but find myself unable to avoid duplicating the "substituteInside" method (see below), which returns a copy of the object with components corresponding to "find" replaced with "replace".
This behavior is the same for all instances of this interface.
In my current solution, the interface requires implementing a method createOp which returns the modified copy of the object.
interface UnarySymbolicOp<InType : Any,
                          OutType : Any,
                          OpType : UnarySymbolicOp<InType,OutType,OpType>> :
        Symbolic<OutType> {

    // Arg may be a complex expression
    val arg: Symbolic<InType>

    fun createOp(mesh: Symbolic<InType>) : OpType

    override val variables
        get() = arg.variables

    override fun <V : Any> substituteInside(find: Symbolic<V>, replace: Symbolic<V>): OpType {
        return createOp(arg.substitute(find, replace))
    }
}

The interface can then be implemented as follows: these classes represent the operation of getting some component of an expression.
data class GetX(override val arg: Symbolic<Vector3d>) : UnarySymbolicOp<Vector3d, Double, GetX> {
    override fun createOp(mesh: Symbolic<Vector3d>) = GetX(arg)

    override fun eval() = arg.eval().x
}

data class GetY(override val arg: Symbolic<Vector3d>) : UnarySymbolicOp<Vector3d, Double, GetY> {
    override fun createOp(mesh: Symbolic<Vector3d>) = GetY(arg)

    override fun eval() = arg.eval().y
}

data class GetZ(override val arg: Symbolic<Vector3d>) : UnarySymbolicOp<Vector3d, Double, GetZ> {
    override fun createOp(mesh: Symbolic<Vector3d>) = GetZ(arg)

    override fun eval() = arg.eval().z
}

This improves things as other methods returning a copy of the object can use that method and thus can live in the interface, but I still have to copy this method everywhere, while it basically always does the same thing.

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cURL and libcurl, Development, Open Source
On billions and "users"
At times when I've gone out (yes it happens), faced an audience and talked about my primary spare time project curl, I've said a few times in the past that we have one billion users.
OK, as this is open source I'm talking about, I can't actually count my users and what really constitutes "a user" anyway?
If the same human runs multiple copies of curl (in different devices and applications), is that human then counted once or many times? If a single developer writes an application that uses libcurl and that application is used by millions of humans, is that one user or are they millions of curl users?
What about pure machine "users"? In the subway in one of the world's largest cities, there's an automated curl transfer being done for every person passing the ticket check point. Yet I don't think we can count the passing (and unknowing) passengers as curl users…
I've had a few people approach me to object to my "curl has one billion users" statement. Surely not one in every seven humans on earth are writing curl command lines! We're engineers and we're picky with the definitions.
Because of this, I'm trying to stop talking about "number of users". That's not a proper metric for a project whose primary product is a library that is used by applications or within devices. I'm instead trying to assess the number of humans that are using services, tools or devices that are powered by curl. Fun challenge, right?
Who isn't using?
I've tried to imagine of what kind of person that would not have or use any piece of hardware or applications that include curl during a typical day. I certainly can't properly imagine all humans in this vast globe and how they all live their lives, but I quite honestly think that most internet connected humans in the world own or use something that runs my code. Especially if we include people who use online services that use curl.
curl is used in basically all modern TVs, a large percentage of all car infotainment systems, routers, printers, set top boxes, mobile phones and apps on them, tablets, video games, audio equipment, Blu-ray players, hundreds of applications, even in fridges and more. Apple alone have said they have one billion active devices, devices that use curl! Facebook uses curl extensively and they have 1.5 billion users every month. libcurl is commonly used by PHP sites and PHP empowers no less than 82% of the sites w3techs.com has figured out what they run (out of the 10 million most visited sites in the world).
There are about 3 billion internet users worldwide. I seriously believe that most of those use something that is running curl, every day. Where Internet is less used, so is of course curl.
Every human in the connected world, use something powered by curl every day
Frigging Amazing
It is an amazing feeling when I stop and really think about it. When I pause to let it sink in properly. My efforts and code have spread to almost every little corner of the connected world. What an amazing feat and of course I didn't think it would reach even close to this level. I still have hard time fully absorbing it! What a collaborative success story, because I could never have gotten close to this without the help from others and the community we have around the project.
But it isn't something I think about much or that make me act very different in my every day life. I still work on the bug reports we get, respond to emails and polish off rough corners here and there as we go forward and keep releasing new curl releases every 8 weeks. Like we've done for years. Like I expect us and me to continue doing for the foreseeable future.
It is also a bit scary at times to think of the massive impact it could have if or when a really terrible security flaw is discovered in curl. We've had our fair share of security vulnerabilities so far through our history, but we've so far been spared from the really terrible ones.
So I'm rich, right?
If I ever start to describe something like this to "ordinary people" (and trust me, I only very rarely try that), questions about money is never far away. Like how come I give it away free and the inevitable "what if everyone using curl would've paid you just a cent, then…".
I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but I'll do it anyway: I give away curl for free as open source and that is a primary reason why it has reached to the point where it is today. It has made people want to help out and bring the features that made it attractive and it has made companies willing to use and trust it. Hadn't it been open source, it would've died off already in the 90s. Forgotten and ignored. And someone else would've made the open source version and instead filled the void a curlless world would produce.
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everybody runs this code all the time
I was invited to talk about curl at the recent FOSS North conference in Gothenburg on May 26th. It was the first time the conference ran, but I think it went smooth and the ~110 visitors seemed to have a good time. It was a single track and there was a fairly good and interesting mix of talkers and subjects I think. They're already planning to make it return again in spring 2017, so if you're into FOSS and you're in the Nordic region, consider this event next year…
I took on the subject of talking about my hacker ring^W^Wcurl project insights. Here's my slide set:
At the event I sat down and had a chat with Simon Campanello, a reporter at IDG Techworld here in Sweden who subsequently posted this article about curl (in Swedish) and how our code has ended up getting used so widely.
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a new curl logo
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The original logo for the curl project was created in 1998 by Henrik Hellerstedt. When we started version controlling the web site contents in June 2001 it had already been revised slightly and it looked like this
I subsequently did the slightly refreshed version that's been visible on the site since early 2003 which sort of emphasized the look by squeezing the letters together. The general "cURL" look was obviously kept.
It was never considered a good-looking logo by anyone. People mostly at best thought it was cute because it looked goofy and it helped provide the web site with a sort of retro feeling. Something that was never intended.
(As you can see I shortened the tag line slightly between those two versions.)
Over the years I've tried to refresh the logo and even gently tried to ask around for help to get it revamped, but it was never done and my own futile attempts didn't end up in any improvements.
The funny casing of the word cURL might've contributed to the fact that people considered it ugly. It came with the original naming of the project that was focused on the fact that we work with URLs. A client for URLs could be cURL. Or if you'd pronounce the c as "see", you'd "see URL". The casing is really only used in the logo these days. We just call it curl now. The project is curl, the command line tool is curl and even I have started to give up somewhat and have actually referred to libcurl as the curl library several times. "curl" with no upper case being the common denominator.
When I got this offer to refresh the logo this time, I was a bit skeptical since attempts had failed before, but what the heck, we had nothing to lose so sure, please help us!
We started out with their own free-style suggestions on a new logo. That proved these guys are good and have an esthetic sense for this. To me that first set also quite clearly showed me that the funny casing have to go. A lower case version seemed calmer, more modern and more in line with our current view of the naming.
As an example from their first set, a clean and stylish version that tried to use the letter c as a sort of symbol. Unfortunately it makes you mostly read "URL".
As step two, I also suggested we'd try to work with :// (colon slash slash) somehow as a symbol, since after all the :// letter sequence is commonly used in all the URL formats that curl supports. And it is sort of a global symbol for URLs when you start to think about it. Made sense to me.
Their second set of logo versions were good. Really good. But they mostly focused on having the :// symbol to the left of 'curl' and that made it look a bit weird. Like ":// curl" – which looks so strange when you're used to seeing URLs. They also did some attempts with writing it "c:URL" and having the // as part of the U letter like "c://RL" but those versions felt too crazy and ended more funny-looking than cool.
An example from the second set with a colon-slash-slash symbol on the left side:
The third set of logos were then made for us with various kinds of :// variations put on the right side of the curl, the curl in lowercase only.
There, among that third set of suggestions, there was one that was a notch better than the rest. The new curl logo. We made it.
I offer you: the curl logo of 2016.
Used in a real-life like situation:
and the plan is as this image shows, to be able to use the colon-slash-slash symbol stand-alone:
The new curl logo is made by Soft Dreams. Thanks a lot for this stellar work!
cURL and libcurllogo
cURL and libcurl, Development
curl user poll 2016
It is time for our annual survey on how you use curl and libcurl. Your chance to tell us how you think we've done and what we should do next. The survey will close on midnight (central European time) May 27th, 2016.
If you use curl or libcurl from time to time, please consider helping us out with providing your feedback and opinions on a few things:
http://goo.gl/forms/e4CoSDEKde
It'll take you a couple of minutes and it'll help us a lot when making decisions going forward. Thanks a lot!
The poll is hosted by Google and that short link above will take you to:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JftlLZoOZLHRZ_UqigzUDD0AKrTBZqPMpnyOdF2UDic/viewform
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cURL and libcurl, Mozilla, Network, Web
My URL isn't your URL
May 11, 2016 Daniel Stenberg 24 Comments
When I started the precursor to the curl project, httpget, back in 1996, I wrote my first URL parser. Back then, the universal address was still called URL: Uniform Resource Locators. That spec was published by the IETF in 1994. The term "URL" was then used as source for inspiration when naming the tool and project curl.
The term URL was later effectively changed to become URI, Uniform Resource Identifiers (published in 2005) but the basic point remained: a syntax for a string to specify a resource online and which protocol to use to get it. We claim curl accepts "URLs" as defined by this spec, the RFC 3986. I'll explain below why it isn't strictly true.
There was also a companion RFC posted for IRI: Internationalized Resource Identifiers. They are basically URIs but allowing non-ascii characters to be used.
The WHATWG consortium later produced their own URL spec, basically mixing formats and ideas from URIs and IRIs with a (not surprisingly) strong focus on browsers. One of their expressed goals is to "Align RFC 3986 and RFC 3987 with contemporary implementations and obsolete them in the process". They want to go back and use the term "URL" as they rightfully state, the terms URI and IRI are just confusing and no humans ever really understood them (or often even knew they exist).
The WHATWG spec follows the good old browser mantra of being very liberal in what it accepts and trying to guess what the users mean and bending backwards trying to fulfill. (Even though we all know by now that Postel's Law is the wrong way to go about this.) It means it'll handle too many slashes, embedded white space as well as non-ASCII characters.
From my point of view, the spec is also very hard to read and follow due to it not describing the syntax or format very much but focuses far too much on mandating a parsing algorithm. To test my claim: figure out what their spec says about a trailing dot after the host name in a URL.
On top of all these standards and specs, browsers offer an "address bar" (a piece of UI that often goes under other names) that allows users to enter all sorts of fun strings and they get converted over to a URL. If you enter "http://localhost/%41" in the address bar, it'll convert the percent encoded part to an 'A' there for you (since 41 in hex is a capital A in ASCII) but if you type "http://localhost/A A" it'll actually send "/A%20A" (with a percent encoded space) in the outgoing HTTP GET request. I'm mentioning this since people will often think of what you can enter there as a "URL".
The above is basically my (skewed) perspective of what specs and standards we have so far to work with. Now we add reality and let's take a look at what sort of problems we get when my URL isn't your URL.
So what is a URL?
Or more specifically, how do we write them. What syntax do we use.
I think one of the biggest mistakes the WHATWG spec has made (and why you will find me argue against their spec in its current form with fierce conviction that they are wrong), is that they seem to believe that URLs are theirs to define and work with and they limit their view of URLs for browsers, HTML and their address bars. Sure, they are the big companies behind the browsers almost everyone uses and URLs are widely used by browsers, but URLs are still much bigger than so.
The WHATWG view of a URL is not widely adopted outside of browsers.
colon-slash-slash
If we ask users, ordinary people with no particular protocol or web expertise, what a URL is what would they answer? While it was probably more notable years ago when the browsers displayed it more prominently, the :// (colon-slash-slash) sequence will be high on the list. Seeing that marks the string as a URL.
Heck, going beyond users, there are email clients, terminal emulators, text editors, perl scripts and a bazillion other things out there in the world already that detects URLs for us and allows operations on that. It could be to open that URL in a browser, to convert it to a clickable link in generated HTML and more. A vast amount of said scripts and programs will use the colon-slash-slash sequence as a trigger.
The WHATWG spec says it has to be one slash and that a parser must accept an indefinite amount of slashes. "http:/example.com" and "http:////////////////////////////////////example.com" are both equally fine. RFC 3986 and many others would disagree. Heck, most people I've confronted the last few days, even people working with the web, seem to say, think and believe that a URL has two slashes. Just look closer at the google picture search screen shot at the top of this article, which shows the top images for "URL" google gave me.
We just know a URL has two slashes there (and yeah, file: URLs most have three but lets ignore that for now). Not one. Not three. Two. But the WHATWG doesn't agree.
"Is there really any reason for accepting more than two slashes for non-file: URLs?" (my annoyed question to the WHATWG)
"The fact that all browsers do."
The spec says so because browsers have implemented the spec.
No better explanation has been provided, not even after I pointed out that the statement is wrong and far from all browsers do. You may find reading that thread educational.
In the curl project, we've just recently started debating how to deal with "URLs" having another amount of slashes than two because it turns out there are servers sending back such URLs in Location: headers, and some browsers are happy to oblige. curl is not and neither is a lot of other libraries and command line tools. Who do we stand up for?
A space character (the ASCII code 32, 0x20 in hex) cannot be part of a URL. If you want it sent, you percent encode it like you do with any other illegal character you want to be part of the URL. Percent encoding is the byte value in hexadecimal with a percent sign in front of it. %20 thus means space. It also means that a parser that for example scans for URLs in a text knows that it reaches the end of the URL when the parser encounters a character that isn't allowed. Like space.
Browsers typically show the address in their address bars with all %20 instances converted to space for appearance. If you copy the address there into your clipboard and then paste it again in your text editor you still normally get the spaces as %20 like you want them.
I'm not sure if that is the reason, but browsers also accept spaces as part of URLs when for example receiving a redirect in a HTTP response. That's passed from a server to a client using a Location: header with the URL in it. The browsers happily allow spaces in that URL, encode them as %20 and send out the next request. This forced curl into accepting spaces in redirected "URLs".
Non-ASCII
Making URLs support non-ASCII languages is of course important, especially for non-western societies and I've understood that the IRI spec was never good enough. I personally am far from an expert on these internationalization (i18n) issues so I just go by what I've heard from others. But of course users of non-latin alphabets and typing systems need to be able to write their "internet addresses" to resources and use as links as well.
In an ideal world, we would have the i18n version shown to users and there would be the encoded ASCII based version below, to get sent over the wire.
For international domain names, the name gets converted over to "punycode" so that it can be resolved using the normal system name resolvers that know nothing about non-ascii names. URIs have no IDN names, IRIs do and WHATWG URLs do. curl supports IDN host names.
WHATWG states that URLs are specified as UTF-8 while URIs are just ASCII. curl gets confused by non-ASCII letters in the path part but percent encodes such byte values in the outgoing requests – which causes "interesting" side-effects when the non-ASCII characters are provided in other encodings than UTF-8 which for example is standard on Windows…
Similar to what I've written above, this leads to servers passing back non-ASCII byte codes in HTTP headers that browsers gladly accept, and non-browsers need to deal with…
No URL standard
I've not tried to write a conclusive list of problems or differences, just a bunch of things I've fallen over recently. A "URL" given in one place is certainly not certain to be accepted or understood as a "URL" in another place.
Not even curl follows any published spec very closely these days, as we're slowly digressing for the sake of "web compatibility".
There's no unified URL standard and there's no work in progress towards that. I don't count WHATWG's spec as a real effort either, as it is written by a closed group with no real attempts to get the wider community involved.
My affiliation
I'm employed by Mozilla and Mozilla is a member of WHATWG and I have colleagues working on the WHATWG URL spec and other work items of theirs but it makes absolutely no difference to what I've written here. I also participate in the IETF and I consider myself friends with authors of RFC 1738, RFC 3986 and others but that doesn't matter here either. My opinions are my own and this is my personal blog.
cURL and libcurlHTTPMozillaRFCURLWHATWG
A book status update
May 4, 2016 Daniel Stenberg 6 Comments
— How's Daniel's curl book going?
I can hear absolutely nobody asking. I'll just go ahead and tell you anyway since I had a plan to get a first version "done" by "the summer" (of 2016). I'm not sure I believe in that time frame anymore.
I'm now north of 40,000 words with a bunch of new chapters and sections added recently and I'm now generating an index that looks okay. The PDF version is exactly 200 pages now.
The index part is mainly interesting since the platform I use to write the book on, gitbook.com, doesn't offer any index functionality of its own so I had to hack one up and add. That's just one additional beauty of having the book made entirely in markdown.
Based on what I've written so far and know I still have outstanding, I am about 70% done, indicating there are about 17,000 words left for me. At this particular point in time. The words numbers tend to grow over time as the more I write (and the completion level is sort of stuck), the more I think of new sections that I should add and haven't yet written…
On this page you can get the latest book stats, right off the git repo.
BookscURL and libcurleverything-curl
c-ares, cURL and libcurl, Open Source
No more heartbleeds please
May 4, 2016 Daniel Stenberg
As a reaction to the whole Heartbleed thing two years ago, The Linux Foundation started its Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII for short) with the intention to help track down well used but still poorly maintained projects or at least detect which projects that might need help. Where the next Heartbleed might occur.
A bunch of companies putting in money to improve projects that need help. Sounds almost like a fairy tale to me!
In order to identify which projects to help, they run their Census Project: "The Census represents CII's current view of the open source ecosystem and which projects are at risk."
The Census automatically extracts a lot of different meta data about open source projects in order to deduce a "Risk Index" for each project. Once you've assembled such a great data trove for a busload of projects, you can sort them all based on that risk index number and then you basically end up with a list of projects in a priority order that you can go through and throw code at. Or however they deem the help should be offered.
Which projects will fail?
The old blog post How you know your Free or Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL provides such a way, but it isn't that easy to follow programmatically. The foundation has its own 88 page white paper detailing its methods and algorithm.
Risk Index
A project without a web site gets a point
If the project has had four or more CVEs (publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities) since 2010, it receives 3 points and if fewer than four there's a diminishing scale.
The number of contributors the last 12 months is a rather heavy factor, which thus could make the index grow old fairly quick. 3 contributors still give 4 points.
Popular packages based on Debian's popcon get points.
If the project's main language is C or C++, it gets two points.
Network "exposed" projects get points.
some additional details like dependencies and how many outstanding patches not accepted upstream that exist
All combined, this grades projects' "risk" between 0 and 15.
Not high enough resolution
Assuming that a larger number of CVEs means anything bad is just wrong. Even the most careful and active projects can potentially have large amounts of CVEs. It means they disclose what they find and that people are actually reviewing code, finding problems and are reporting problems. All good things.
Sure, security problems are not good but the absence of CVEs in a project doesn't say that the project is one bit more secure. It could just mean that nobody ever looked closely enough or that the project doesn't deal with responsible disclosure of the problems.
When I look through the projects they have right now, I get the feeling the resolution (0-15) is too low and they've shied away from more aggressively handing out penalty based on factors we all recognize in abandoned/dead projects (some of which are decently specified in Tom Calloway's blog post mentioned above).
The result being that the projects get a score that is mostly based on what kind of project it is.
But this said, they have several improvements to their algorithm already suggested in their issue tracker. I firmly believe this will improve over time.
The riskiest ?
The top three projects, the only ones that scores 13 right now are expat, procmail and unzip. All of them really small projects (source code wise) that have been around since a very long time.
curl, being the project I of course look out for, scores a 9: many CVEs (3), written in C (2), network exposure (2), 5+ apps depend on it (2). Seriously, based on these factors, how would you say the project is situated?
In the sorted list with a little over 400 projects, curl is rated #73 (at the time of this writing at least). Just after reportbug but before libattr1. [curl summary – which is mentioning a very old curl release]
But the list of projects mysteriously lack many projects. Like I couldn't find neither c-ares nor libssh2. They may not be super big, but they're used by a bunch of smaller and bigger projects at least, including curl itself.
The full list of projects, their meta-data and scores are hosted in their repository on github.
Benefits for projects near me
I can see how projects in my own backyard have gotten some good out of this effort.
I've received some really great bug reports and gotten handed security problems in curl by an individual who did his digging funded by this project.
I've seen how the foundation sponsored a test suite for c-ares since the project lacked one. Now it doesn't anymore!
In addition to that, the Linux Foundation has also just launched the CII Best Practices Badge Program, to allow open source projects to fill in a bunch of questions and if meeting enough requirements, they will get a "badge" to boast to the world as a "well run project" that meets current open source project best practices.
I've joined their mailing list and provided some of my thoughts on the current set of questions, as I consider a few of them to be, well, lets call them "less than optimal". But then again, which project doesn't have bugs? We can fix them!
curl is just now marked as "100% compliance" with all the best practices listed. I hope to be able to keep it like that even with future and more best practices added.
cURL and libcurlDevelopmentOpen SourceSecurity


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Like-for-like sales were down by 0.4%, however, this marked an improvement from the 2% like-for-like drop recorded in the first half of the year.
Greenyard saw a slight sales decline in its fresh-produce business during the period, but its horticulture unit recorded double-digit like-for-like growth, boosted by its acquisition of mushroom group Mykogen.
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Greenyard previously announced that its CEO, Marleen Vaesen, left the company on 31 January, after five years in the position.
Vaesen is set to be replaced by the group's current executive chairman, Hein Deprez, who will step down from his board role.
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