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At deMers Mechanical Services LLC, we know all there is to know about commercial refrigerator and freezer services. We have the knowledge, training, experience, and skills to handle just about anything. That's what makes us the best choice for all your commercial freezer and cooler needs. But that's not all that makes us exceptional—we're also hardworking, dedicated, and passionate about our work.
With all these great attributes, it's not hard to see why we have so many loyal clients who rely on us to serve all their commercial fridge and freezer needs.
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Our company has been working in the freezer and refrigeration industry for quite some time now and it has given us a lot of insight. After working with many clients, we've learned that one of the top requirements for clients is choice and options. And that's why we proudly offer a variety of different services to suit all your commercial freezer needs. From installation and repairs to inspections and maintenance, we do it all. And no matter what type of system you have, we have you covered.
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Pancakes baked with chicken fillet and mushrooms
Pancakes baked with homemade mozzarella
with fried chicken and mushrooms in cream.
Delivery in the city of Vinnytsia:
When ordering from UAH 890, delivery within the city is FREE.
When ordering up to UAH 890:
69 UAH (up to 3 km)
99 UAH (from 3 - 15 km)
Delivery is carried out by a taxi service.
Delivery to other cities of Ukraine:
According to carriers' tariffs.
Order payment
In cash
Cash payment upon receipt of goods is possible in all chain stores in Ukraine. Payment is made exclusively in the national currency. We issue you a sales receipt as confirmation of payment.
Payment by card on the website
Payment of the order online with a Visa or MasterCard bank card. Delivery of goods is possible only after confirmation of payment.
You can pay for your order online with a Visa or MasterCard bank card. Payment by payment cards is carried out in the following way: when placing an order on the website, you will be asked to choose a payment method. In the Payment column, you need to select "Payment by card on the website".
After that, you will be redirected to the page of the bank's secure payment system, where you will need to confirm the payment.
Please note that only the client whose full name was entered on the website during the application process can receive the goods paid for by payment card, therefore, when receiving the order, you must have your passport with you.

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Two Separate Judges say the Federal Government has Acted Illegally in their Attack on Oregon's Ranchers!
February 5, 2016 in News by RBN
I have known that the United States Constitution has been undermined for some time, beginning with Abraham Lincoln. I have also know of the incorporation of the united States that is based in London, England. However, now, there are at least two Superior Court Judges, who are also common law judges under the Postmaster General of their respective regions in Alaska and Colorado, are pointing out the actions of the Bureau of Land Management and the actions of criminal politicians in the united States government to undermine the American view of government and law. This is especially enlightening with what has been going on with the Bundys, the Hammonds and the death of LaVoy Finicum.
Judge Anna Maria Riezinger and Judge Bruce Doucette issued a letter in which they exposed the illegal actions of the BLM and the unconstitutionality of what is really taking place in Oregon.
In speaking with Judge Bruce Doucette (Colorado) via telephone, he told me that this is all true and that one could reference Judge Reizinger's website (Alaska) for more information, as well as his Facebook page.
After verifying the information did come from these judges, I'm providing you with a letter that they jointing issued on January 4, 2016. America, it's time to wake up! Conservatives and Liberals are not going to save you from this. We, must stand against this tyranny! No presidential candidate, nor any congressman, is talking about this!
The entire idea, according to Judge Bruce Doucette is to undermine the Law of God and Christianity, which our nation was built upon, and establish a Beast, or false god of the State. Read and judge for yourselves… then make your stand!
Issued by Judge Anna Maria Riezinger
January 3, 2016
Although it may come as a surprise to many Americans we have been mischaracterized and misidentified as British Crown Subjects for the better part of a hundred years. This travesty has never been corrected; instead, the British Crown, a commercial investment organization, has kidnapped and press-ganged American land assets into the international jurisdiction of the sea and has pillaged our labor and our resources without mercy in criminal conspiracy and contempt of our Constitution. They have been aided and abetted in this activity by members of the American Bar Association and the Internal Revenue Service acting as licensed privateers.
These vipers nurtured in our bosom pretending to be our "Friends" and our "Allies" and even our "Trustees" have practiced identity theft against the American people, have involved us in their own private bankruptcies as sureties obligated to pay their debts; they have pretended that because of their fraud against us, we have "abandoned" our property including our land patents, our bank accounts, and our organic states. They have usurped against our lawful government, enslaved our people, and acted as criminals in our midst.
The corporations responsible for this behavior are no different and no better than Walmart or Sears or Burger King; they have used names like "Bureau of Land Management" or "United States Department of Agriculture" and so on under color of law.
The "Bureau of Land Management" is not an actual unit of the American government. It is a foreign corporation whose only business here is to provide us with "essential governmental services".
The land patents to the western states are owed to the States of America and the Indigenous Tribal Governments without exception. The only ownership accruing to the Federal United States dba District of Columbia Municipal Corporation or in other corporate guises is vested entirely in the ten square miles of the District and limited to its Boundary Stones. The only ownership vested in the Federal Government in the western states or anywhere else is a lease interest in facilities that have been provided to expedite their service missions.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) facilities being occupied by American Militiamen were bought and paid for by the people of this country for the use of the BLM with the understanding that the BLM is a unit of the American government and is working in good faith for the people of this nation.
However, according to the public and private records, the BLM is not in fact any part of our lawful government at all and has not been so for decades. It is a privately owned foreign "governmental services corporation" operating under color of law; it has no business interfering in the activities of the ranchers and farmers, occupying government facilities under conditions of fraud, or otherwise presenting false claims of interest, ownership, or authority.
The Hammonds and the Bundy Family are Priority Creditors of all the governmental services corporations which are now or which have operated in this country in the past. They are tax exempt and their "vessels in commerce"— meaning the various trusts and public utilities operated under their NAMES without their knowledge or consent— are all tax-prepaid. They and their countrymen are owed the patent to all land within the geographically defined boundaries of their respective states, free and clear of liens, encumbrances, or other presumptions against their property rights by foreign corporations operating under conditions of self-interested fraud.
BLM employees are here to provide "essential governmental services". Those services do not include acting as undeclared commercial mercenaries operating under color of law and against the best interests of their employers and benefactors. Any federal employee offering to harm or interfere in the normal occupations of their employers, that is, the people of this country, or to prohibit their employer's customary use of the land and resources they are heir to is acting as an Outlaw in contempt of the Public Law and the actual Constitution and is subject to arrest under the Bounty Hunter provisions of the United States Statutes-at-Large.
Being employed by BLM like being employed by JC PENNY confers no special authority, grants no immunity, and is not a license to undertake any activity that would otherwise be unlawful—including trespassing on private property, making fraudulent claims, and racketeering under armed force. The rule for federal employees and law enforcement officials including "Federal State" and "Federal County" officials is that if you can't do it in your private capacity, you can't do it at all.
Members of the Press Corps are similarly reminded of their responsibility to safeguard public safety and obey the Public Law, including their obligation not to incite, misrepresent, or engage in insurrection against the lawful government of the people, by the people, and for the people. This is not a country of the corporation, by the corporation or for the corporation. Anyone needing to be reminded of that fact should question both their education and their sanity.
The highest Law Officer in this country is the County Sheriff who has accepted the public office, received his bond, and taken his Oath. He is enabled to deputize as many men as he needs to enforce the Public Law within the borders of his county and may require the use of any and all equipment and facilities paid for with public funds in pursuit of these ends. He works directly for the people of his county and is accountable only to them.
All federal employees are guests of the people of each county and state. So long as they pursue their lawful duties and do not inappropriately presume upon, threaten, harass, or otherwise offer to harm their hosts, over-reach their lawful jurisdiction, or make false claims against land assets they are owed safe conduct and support. The moment they breach the peace, break the Public Law, offer contempt against the Constitution, engage in operations under color of law—including trespass on private property, cattle rustling, armed racketeering and so on, they are subject to arrest like any common felon.
The people of this country are the employers, benefactors, and Priority Creditors of all federal corporations, all federal employees, all federal contractors, and all federal officials. The people did not grant their hirelings any power to harass them, indebt them, mischaracterize them, change their political status, seize upon their property, defraud them, trespass upon them, or engage in any other criminal activity whatsoever.
It must be squarely recognized that the burning of barns is arson. The theft and removal of livestock is cattle rustling. The bringing of false claims of indebtedness and obligation is fraud. The presentation of weapons, especially tactical weapons, employed in any of these activities is assault and attempted racketeering under force by undeclared private mercenary forces. It is now easy to recognize that these are crimes masquerading as "law enforcement".
The private in-house laws of corporations must remain in accord with the Public Law or those corporations must be liquidated as crime syndicates and their assets distributed to those they have harmed and to their lawful creditors. This includes the BLM, the UNITED STATES, the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, the STATE OF OREGON, or any other corporation found to be operating in violation of the Public Law and their own charter.
Any questions may be addressed to:
Judge Anna Maria Riezinger
(907) 250-5087
Judge Bruce Doucette
(720) 338-0394


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I've been a fan of Malwarebytes for years. It's always been one of the most effective tools against badware on the market. In fact, many other more expensive "security suites", upper level technical support have been known to remote into a users machine, and install Malwarebytes to rid it of infections the antivirus was unable to get rid of. I'm not mentioning names (Symantec, Adaware), but actually I applaud tech support for doing what it takes to clean a machine.
The good news is Malwarebytes has gotten even better. In the past I'd always rename Malwarebytes as well as other security programs when installing them on an infected machines. The reason is simple, many malware programs will prevent any code that might interfere with it's nefarious purpose from running, especially Malwarebytes! Now Malwarebytes includes a great new feature, "Chameleon". Chameleon provides a long list of alternative exe's to run when your machine is already infected and the virus is preventing Malwarebytes from being started from the standard executable.
To access Chameleon you need the latest version of Malwarebytes, available at http://www.malwarebytes .org. Go to the program in your start menu, right click on Malwarebytes and click on "Open File Location". Chameleon will be visible, double click on Chameleon and a list of alternative installers appears. Double click on any of them and a command line appears asking you to "click any key to run", once started the command line tells you it's "killing known malicious processes please wait"then it launches the Malwarebytes update which runs automatically. Once updated Malwarebytes launches and does a quick scan. This is usually enough to get your foot in the door so to speak. Then you can continue to run (multiple) full scans with Malwarebytes and your other favorite tools to finish the clean-up.
Running Malwarebytes from a USB drive as a portable app isn't supported at this time but I'm working on that…
So for now to use Chameleon, you need Malwarebytes already installed on your computer. Malwarebytes is a free program but a paid version is available for a lifetime single fee of 24.95 USD and they often offer generous discounts on their paid version if your patient.


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Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience (May 9, 2012 • 32(19):6485– 6489 • 6485), they identify a reaction to negative language inputs which shuts down unconscious processing.
For the last quarter of a century, psychologists have been aware of, and fascinated by the fact that our brain can process high-level information such as meaning outside consciousness. What the psychologists at Bangor University have discovered is the reverse- that our brain can unconsciously 'decide' to withhold information by preventing access to certain forms of knowledge.
The psychologists extrapolate this from their most recent findings working with bilingual people. Building on their previous discovery that bilinguals subconsciously access their first language when reading in their second language; the psychologists at the School of Psychology and Centre for Research on Bilingualism have now made the surprising discovery that our brain shuts down that same unconscious access to the native language when faced with a negative word such as war, discomfort, inconvenience, and unfortunate.
They believe that this provides the first proven insight to a hither-to unproven process in which our unconscious mind blocks information from our conscious mind or higher mental processes.
This finding breaks new ground in our understanding of the interaction between emotion and thought in the brain. Previous work on emotion and cognition has already shown that emotion affects basic brain functions such as attention, memory, vision and motor control, but never at such a high processing level as language and understanding.
Key to this is the understanding that people have a greater reaction to emotional words and phrases in their first language- which is why people speak to their infants and children in their first language despite living in a country which speaks another language and despite fluency in the second. It has been recognised for some time that anger, swearing or discussing intimate feelings has more power in a speaker's native language. In other words, emotional information lacks the same power in a second language as in a native language.
Dr Yan Jing Wu of the University's School of Psychology said:"We devised this experiment to unravel the unconscious interactions between the processing of emotional content and access to the native language system. We think we've identified, for the first time, the mechanism by which emotion controls fundamental thought processes outside consciousness.
"Perhaps this is a process that resembles the mental repression mechanism that people have theorised about but never previously located."
So why would the brain block access to the native language at an unconscious level?
Professor Guillaume Thierry explains: "We think this is a protective mechanism. We know that in trauma for example, people behave very differently. Surface conscious processes are modulated by a deeper emotional system in the brain. Perhaps this brain mechanism spontaneously minimises negative impact of disturbing emotional content on our thinking, to prevent causing anxiety or mental discomfort."
He continues: "We were extremely surprised by our finding. We were expecting to find modulation between the different words- and perhaps a heightened reaction to the emotional word - but what we found was the exact opposite to what we expected- a cancellation of the response to the negative words."
The psychologists made this discovery by asking English-speaking Chinese people whether word pairs were related in meaning. Some of the word pairs were related in their Chinese translations. Although not consciously acknowledging a relation, measurements of electrical activity in the brain revealed that the bilingual participants were unconsciously translating the words. However, uncannily, this activity was not observed when the English words had a negative meaning.
Source: Bangor University


text: Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mikey is over, they gladly welcome him back into their circle. The three young men make a pact to have fun and avoid commitment. However, when all three find themselves involved in serious relationships, they must keep their romances secret from one another.


text: On multi-link rear suspension, three transverse and one longitudinal link per wheel (four-link principle) each absorb different forces. This means that longitudinal and transverse dynamics can be configured precisely and almost independently of each other, achieving maximum directional stability and comfort. Only small modifications need to be made to the structure of the multi-link rear suspension for it to be suitable for use on front-wheel drive models as well as four-wheel drive cars.


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I've wanted to run the Mount Mitchell Challenge (MMC) held outside of Asheville, North Carolina ever since I heard of it. Earlier this decade, my sister spent some time living in Asheville and I loved visiting her. Well, more than a decade later my sister and I will be road tripping down to MMC this weekend. As a bonus I'll get to catch up with my ultrarunning buddies, Greg Loomis and Mike Mason, both of whom are on the Charlottesville Running Company/Bad to the Bone Running Team. I'll be pacing Mike at the Massanutten 100 in May and, hopefully, Greg will let me pace him at the Grindstone 100 … if I don't run it myself.
For those of you who don't know, the Mount Mitchell Challenge is a 40 mile race from Black Mountain, NC to the top of Mount Mitchell, the highest spot east of the Mississippi River at 6,684′, and back down. The Black Mountain Marathon starts at the same place and time as the Challenge. The Challenge course follows the Marathon course, except where the marathoners turn around near the Blueridge Parkway, the Challenge runners continue to the summit of Mount Mitchell. Both finish at the same place.
As some long time readers might remember, I've got added incentive to do well this weekend, as back in September I challenged my sister to a race. She'll be running the Black Mountain Marathon and the Challenge. While on paper I've got to make up 13.8 miles, the two complete datasets I could find on MotionBased.com pegged the distance at 38.10 and 38.30 miles. That puts the total differential between the BMM and MMC at 12 miles. Still a heck of a lot of ground for me to make up on Gretchen… especially with the extra 1,500′ or so of climb that I face during those 12 miles. Should also be a bunch more ice up on top, too – the National Weather Service just put out an Ice Storm Warning for Asheville.
I'm picking my sister for the win big time and that's not just me sandbagging. At hair under a year ago, my sister and I ran at the Seneca Creek Greenway races. I ran the 50k at an honest, non-race effort in 5:06:42. Gretch ran the marathon in 6:08:50…. it was her first run EVER over 13 miles!?! She ran the marathon in 6:08:50. It's worth noting that the marathon was actually an ultra, as the only deviation between the courses was a 3.5 mile loop around a lake. That means that at Seneca Creek I had a cushion of about 62 minutes and 3.5 miles. Based on Gretch's average pace, she would have been 21:23 quicker had she finished after a true marathon. That would have put me only 40 minutes ahead with me at a 50k and her at a marathon. I have no clue how I can run another 7 to 9 miles up the side of a mountain in those 40 minutes, especially considering that she's much better trained this year.
Anyone wanna take a stab at the Powell sibling time differential? I'll post my guess tomorrow evening!
3 Quick Updates: [2/22/08 11 p.m.]
(1) Rather than a day of freezing rain up on Mount Mitchell, it was sunny and nearly reached 60 degrees today, so there'll be far less ice than I expected tomorrow. That means I don't have to carry my Kahtoola Microspikes (review) up the mountain. On the downside, it means I still don't have a chance to test that out for real!
(2) I'll be violating one of the time tested rules of ultrarunning tomorrow – Don't try anything new on race day. In the wake of yesterday's discussion of the La Sportiva Raceblade and Fireblade, I picked up a pair of the Fireblades at Foot Rx down here in Asheville. Afterwards, Gretchen and I headed over to Montreat to run the first couple trail miles of the course with Mike Mason. I liked the Fireblades enough in those 5 or 6 miles that I'll wear them instead of my new pair of Asics 2130s and my completely dead pair of Montrail Hardrocks.
(3) So far commenters have split completely on gender lines regarding whether my sister or I will finish first tomorrow. I think my sis will come in a decent bit under 6 hours. Yeah, there's a good bit more climb than when she ran 6:08 at the Seneca Greenway Marathon, but there'll be a lot less ice and mud tomorrow – not to mention this one will be about a mile and a half shorter. I'm guessing that I'll come in around 6:10 to 6:15 based on some solid women's times from recent years. Now for my official prediction – Gretchen by 28 minutes. (I'll reveal my calculations if I'm remotely close to being correct.)


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On Saturday night John, Ben, and I ran into Dan Norris at the Urban Tavern, the bar in the Hilton. After scaring away the rest of his team, we sat down (or did I sit down first and then scare them away?).
Soon after Joe Leva showed up, spotted us through the window actually. I asked if he saw my ORACLENERD hat, he said no, that it was Dan's squared off conservative haircut that gave us away. Apparently Joe and Dan worked together at Piocon.
I've been re-introduced to Joe recently as someone at my client site worked there as well. Anyway...
I was trying to take a picture of Joe and John, and apparently he was taking a picture of Dan and I at the same time.
Please note the admiration that Dan apparently holds for me...I am quite honored.


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- Introduction
- Founding and growth
- An open-system approach
- Network systems
- Wintel competition
- Java
- Open-source software and purchase by Oracle
- References
Sun Microsystems
- Introduction
- Founding and growth
- An open-system approach
- Network systems
- Wintel competition
- Java
- Open-source software and purchase by Oracle
- References
- Date:
- 1982 - 2010
- Ticker:
- Share price:
- $138.56 (mkt close, Jul. 19, 2024)
- Market cap:
- $380.39 bil.
- Annual revenue:
- $52.96 bil.
- Earnings per share (prev. year):
- $4.47
- Sector:
- Technology
- Industry:
- Computer
- Safra A. Catz
- Headquarters:
- Palo Alto
Sun Microsystems, former American manufacturer of computer workstations, servers, and software. In 2010 the company was purchased by Oracle Corporation, a leading provider of database management systems.
Founding and growth
Andreas Bechtolsheim, William Joy, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy founded Sun Microsystems, Inc., in 1982 for the purpose of selling low-cost high-performance desktop computers running the UNIX operating system. Those computer workstations found immediate acceptance among engineers, software developers, and scientists who benefited from having dedicated machines rather than sharing more expensive minicomputers or mainframe computer systems.
Unlike its Fortune 500 competitors, Sun did not have revenue from other sources to fund development of its computer workstations. This meant that the company needed hundreds of millions of dollars in start-up investments, as well as large purchase agreements, in order to develop a hardware-manufacturing infrastructure and to attract prominent hardware and software engineers. In 1983 the company signed a multimillion-dollar original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Computervision Corporation, to develop computer-aided design and engineering programs. This was the first of many large OEM agreements through which Sun built computers for companies that sold the workstations under their own labels.
In 1984 McNealy added Khosla's titles of chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) to his own presidential duties. McNealy was the key executive who struck the strategic deals with Sun's initial equity investors and major customers, which at that time included Eastman Kodak Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (now AT&T Corporation), Olivetti & C. SpA, and Xerox Corporation. Kodak and AT&T had taken equity positions in the young company, and all four became major OEM partners for Sun equipment. These arrangements brought the company strong revenue and profit growth. In 1988, six years after start-up, Sun surpassed $1 billion in annual sales—only Compaq Computer Corporation had reached the billion-dollar mark faster—and the company had shown only one quarter without profits.
An open-system approach
By using the UNIX operating system, which had long been a part of the computer science curriculum in universities worldwide, Sun was able to claim that its workstations incorporated international standards and were therefore "open," whereas its competitors' products were "closed" because they used proprietary operating systems. Moreover, UNIX computers were used during the development of ARPANET—the predecessor to the Internet—which had been established by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1969. This combination of UNIX and universities helped place Sun's computers among the most common Internet servers. In large part because of the success of Sun's marketing position, its major competitors—Digital Equipment Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and the Hewlett-Packard Company—shifted their product research and development, marketing, and sales investments away from their own operating systems in favor of UNIX.
Network systems
Sun later sold many new and replacement network systems to the U.S. government. In 1986 Sun made its largest single sale of computers to a government agency when the National Security Agency signed an agreement for $500 million worth of Sun equipment.
Sun's engineers pioneered many important technologies adopted by the computer industry. In 1984 it released its Network File System software, which became a standard for computer file sharing across networks. In 1987 Sun became the first large computer company to use reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) microprocessors in its primary product lines.
Wintel competition
Despite its technical and financial strengths, the company faced growing competition in the 1990s from versions of so-called Wintel machines that used Microsoft Corporation's high-end Windows NT operating system and Intel Corporation's most-advanced Pentium microprocessors. Although Sun's equipment, especially its high-end SPARC microprocessor architecture, was generally much faster and more reliable than Wintel systems, it was more expensive and far more complex to operate. Wintel computers controlled more than 85 percent of the worldwide market share for desktop systems, but they had a much smaller share of the market for the more profitable high-performance workstation and server systems used in business and on the Internet. Sun generally sold well in the server market, where performance was usually more important than price.
In 1996 Sun joined an Oracle-led effort to build a network computer (NC) to rival Wintel's dominance in business. Designed to use applications and data that resided on separate servers, the NC had minimal capabilities of its own. By 1998 the NC initiative had faltered. However, the project sowed the seeds for the purchase of Sun by Oracle a decade later.
McNealy was famous for his assertion that "the network is the computer," which epitomized Sun's approach to networking interoperability. In 1995 Sun introduced the Java programming language to overcome some of the problems associated with networking different manufacturers' machines, often running different operating systems. According to its supporters, Java was a "write once, run anywhere" computer language, meaning that software written in Java would not have to be rewritten for each computer operating system. If it ran on a UNIX computer, it should also run on a Windows machine or a Macintosh through the use of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). JVMs were shipped with UNIX, Windows, Macintosh, and other systems as well as with Internet browsers such as Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Such versatility made Java a popular language to use when writing applications for the Internet and, to many observers, seemed to portend a diminishing importance for individual operating systems.
However, in 1997 Microsoft released a JVM that was incompatible with other JVMs, in effect breaking the "write once, run anywhere" promise of the program. In November 1998 a U.S. federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing Microsoft from distributing further copies of its version of Java. Although Microsoft in 2003 won a reversal before a three-judge federal appeal panel on being forced to distribute Java with its operating system, the court also upheld the injunction preventing Microsoft from distributing its own version of Java.
Sun also developed Java to enable a return to simpler and cheaper terminal-like network devices, particularly for database inquiry systems—such as airline reservation systems, inventory control systems, and televisions with Internet connectivity—but also for use in personal digital assistants (PDAs) and various automotive and household appliance interfaces as well. In 1998 Motorola, Inc., signed a licensing agreement with Sun to use Java in its cell phones and pagers. In response, Microsoft joined the competition with a smaller version of its operating system, Windows CE, for use in network devices and appliances.


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For the gingered greens and tofu, I used broccoli greens and stems. The leaves of broccoli greens are a little thicker than other greens so they hold their shape well. They have a mild taste and worked perfectly here. The tofu was marinated for five minutes in a mixture of soy sauce, dry sherry, and rice vinegar. Then, it was broiled in the marinade until browned on each side. The greens were simply stir fried with ginger and vegetable oil and then hit with some chili oil, lime juice, and cilantro. For serving, the tofu and sauce were spooned atop the greens, and all was sprinkled with cilantro and chopped, toasted cashews. I also added some sliced hot chiles to the garnishes. It was just that easy.
Kurt gets nervous when dinner includes the phrase stir fry because I usually botch it horribly. But, this time, all went well. In fact, he proclaimed this a success and would be happy with it in our regular meal rotation. I really liked it too. The chili oil and sliced fresh chiles gave it a good punch of spice, and the marinade became a delicious sauce for the dish. I'm glad I finally pulled that book off the shelf again.


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Climate activists are calling on President Biden to take steps to fire David Malpass, the head of the World Bank, after he publicly waffled on whether he believes that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are causing climate change, saying "I'm not a scientist."
Malpass made the comments after former vice president and noted climate activist Al Gore called him a "climate denier" at a New York Times event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly earlier this week.
🌎🔥 Today I asked World Bank president @DavidMalpassWBG if he believed in the scientific consensus that the man made burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet.
— David Gelles (@dgelles) September 20, 2022
"I'm not a scientist," he said.
Here's a thread about the remarkable exchange. 🧵 1/ pic.twitter.com/t0nQheybzi
Malpass subsequently tried to clean up his comments, telling Politico on Friday that it was a "poorly chosen line." Malpass defended the bank's investments and said he would not resign.
That did little to silence the calls for his removal.
"We need climate leaders in the World Bank, we need climate leaders in the Federal Reserve, we need climate leaders in every high aspect of office," said Thanu Yakupitiyage, a spokesperson for 350.org, an anti-fossil fuel climate advocacy group.
"If he's not going to be the one who really pushes and pressures the World Bank in a new direction which really works on climate initiatives, then he has to go," Yakupitiyage said.
It's beyond belief that at this late date the American running the World Bank is a climate denier.
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 21, 2022
Biden better find a sentient human for the post.
Now. https://t.co/2iDStshbx5
The White House is making its displeasure public
Malpass' climate controversy quickly reached top White House officials, who were in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly. One senior administration official told reporters that it "obviously raises eyebrows."
On Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre directly criticized Malpass and the bank — and would not say whether President Biden retains confidence in Malpass' leadership.
"We disagree with the comments made by President Malpass," Jean-Pierre told reporters. "We expect the World Bank to be a global leader of climate ambition and mobilization of significantly more climate finance for developing countries," she said, noting the Treasury Department "has and will continue to make that clear."
The United States plays a key role in nominating the president. But other nations that are shareholders in the bank would have a say on any change in leadership, Jean-Pierre said.
"Removing him requires a majority of shareholders — so that's something to keep in mind," she told reporters.
It's not the first time Malpass has come under fire
Malpass was nominated for a five-year term at the bank in 2019by former President Donald Trump. The World Bank's board typically approves the nomination of the United States, which is the bank's largest shareholder.
He has long been criticized by climate and environment advocates because of the bank's continued financing of fossil fuel projects around the world. They argue that more should be done to move to cleaner energy sources.
Malpass' latest comments were a "remarkable gaffe," said Scott Morris, co-director of sustainable development finance at the Center for Global Development — but he said there's a deeper fault-line between the bank and climate activists.
"The climate advocates are increasingly frustrated that this institution that really is a central player is not demonstrating the kind of ambition on climate that they think is needed," Morris said, explaining Malpass had not pushed to lead the bank in that direction.
"You compare him to where the climate community thinks the bank needs to go and it simply isn't ambitious enough," Morris said. "He clearly is not trying to push the bank further in the right direction and has demonstrated no particular ambition around climate beyond the baseline of support the bank is providing right now."
Lisa Frank, executive director of the Washington Legislative Office of Environment America, said it was good that Malpass eventually acknowledged that his remarks fell short. But she said actions speak louder than words. "Investing in fossil fuel projects is incompatible with what we need to do to tackle global warming," Frank said.
World Bank President David Malpass said he didn't consider resigning after facing criticism for dodging repeated questions on the science of climate change. (He later walked back his response)
— POLITICO (@politico) September 23, 2022
"When asked, 'Are you a climate denier?' I should've said no," he told @PoliticoRyan. pic.twitter.com/ETOzME1Ntx
Malpass admits he could have done a better job on the question
Earlier this month, the World Bank touted spending $31.7 billion in fiscal year 2022 to help countries address climate change and has called itself the "world's largest financier of climate action in developing countries." Projects range from expanding the solar industry in India, to biodigester programs across Sub-Saharan Africa, to increasing affordable electricity access in Nigeria.
Malpass defended the bank's record on climate, saying it had made a "forceful leadership job" and was using climate science to find investments that would have the greatest impact. He said he was caught off-guard by the question about his climate change beliefs.
"When asked 'Are you a climate denier?' I should have said 'No,'" Malpass said. "No one's said that other that Al Gore, and it was pretty much off-topic," he said at the Politico event.
"It's clear that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are adding to, are causing climate change, so the task for us — for the world — is to pull together the projects and the funding that actually has an impact," he said.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Chapter 23.—Of the Mission of the Holy Ghost Fifty Days After Christ's Resurrection.
41. "Thereafter, having confirmed the disciples, and having sojourned with them forty days, He ascended up into heaven, as these same persons were beholding Him. And on the completion of fifty days from His resurrection He sent to them the Holy Spirit (for so He had promised), by whose agency they were to have love shed abroad in their hearts,14731473 Cf. Rom. v. 5 to the end that they might be able to fulfill the law, not only without the sense of its being burdensome, but even with a joyful mind. This law was given to the Jews in the ten commandments, which they call the Decalogue. And these commandments, again, are reduced to two, namely that we should love God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind; and that we should love our neighbor as ourselves.14741474 Matt. xxii. 37–40 For that on these two precepts hang all the law and the prophets, the Lord Himself has at once declared in the Gospel and shown in His own example. For thus it was likewise in the instance of the people of Israel, that from the day on which they first celebrated the passover in a form,14751475 In imagine. slaying and eating the sheep, with whose blood their door-posts were marked for the securing of their safety,14761476 Ex. xii—from this day, I repeat, the fiftieth day in succession was completed, and then they received the law written by the finger of God,14771477 Ex. xxxiv. 28 under which phrase we have already stated that the Holy Spirit is signified.14781478 Luke xi. 20 And in the same manner, after the passion and resurrection of the Lord, who is the true passover, the Holy Ghost was sent personally to the disciples on the fiftieth day: not now, however, by tables of stone significant of the hardness of their hearts; but, when they were gathered together in one place at Jerusalem itself, suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as if a violent blast were being borne onwards, and there appeared to them tongues cloven like fire, and they began to speak with tongues, in such a manner that all those who had come to them recognized each his own language14791479 Acts ii (for in that city the Jews were in the habit of assembling from every country wheresoever they had been scattered abroad, and had learned the diverse tongues of diverse nations); and thereafter, preaching Christ with all boldness, they wrought many signs in His name,—so much so, that as Peter was passing by, his shadow touched a certain dead person, and the man rose in life again.14801480 The reference evidently is to Acts v. 15, where, however, it is only the people's intention that is noticed, and that only in the instance of the sick, and not of any individual actually dead.
42. "But when the Jews perceived so great signs to be wrought in the name of Him, whom, partly through ill-will and partly in ignorance, they crucified, some of them were provoked to persecute the apostles, who were His preachers; while others, on the contrary, marvelling the more at this very circumstance, that so great miracles were being performed in the name of Him whom they had derided as one overborne and conquered by themselves, repented, and were converted, so that thousands of Jews believed on Him. For these parties were not bent now on craving at the hand of God temporal benefits and an earthly kingdom, neither did they look any more for Christ, the promised king, in a carnal spirit; but they continued in immortal fashion to apprehend and love Him, who in mortal fashion endured on their behalf at their own hands sufferings so heavy, and imparted to them the gift of forgiveness for all their sins, even down to the iniquity of His own blood, and by the example of His own resurrection unfolded immortality as the object which they should hope for and long for at His hands. Accordingly, now mortifying the earthly cravings of the old man, and inflamed with the new experience of the spiritual life, as the Lord had enjoined in the Gospel, they sold all that they had, and laid the price of their possessions at the feet of the apostles, in order that these might distribute to every man according as each had need; and living in Christian love harmoniously with each other, they did not affirm anything to be their own, but they had all things in common, and were one in soul and heart toward God.14811481 Acts ii. 44, iv. 34 Afterwards these same persons also themselves suffered persecution 309in their flesh at the hands of the Jews, their carnal fellow-countrymen, and were dispersed abroad, to the end that, in consequence of their dispersion, Christ should be preached more extensively, and that they themselves at the same time should be followers of the patience of their Lord. For He who in meekness had endured them,14821482 Adopting the Benedictine version, qui eos mansuetus passus fuerat, and taking it as a parallel to Acts xiii. 18, Heb. xii. 3. There is, however, great variety of reading here. Thus we find qui ante eos, etc. = who had suffered in meekness before them: qui pro eis, etc. = who had suffered in their stead: qui propter eos, etc. = who had suffered on their account: and qui per eos, etc. = who had suffered through them, etc. But the reading in the text appears best authenticated. enjoined them in meekness to endure for His sake.
43. "Among those same persecutors of the saints the Apostle Paul had once also ranked; and he raged with eminent violence against the Christians. But, subsequently, he became a believer and an apostle, and was sent to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, suffering (in that ministry) things more grievous on behalf of the name of Christ than were those which he had done against the name of Christ. Moreover, in establishing churches throughout all the nations where he was sowing the seed of the gospel, he was wont to give earnest injunction that, as these converts (coming as they did from the worship of idols and without experience in the worship of the one God) could not readily serve God in the way of selling and distributing their possessions, they should make offerings for the poor brethren among the saints who were in the churches of Judea which had believed in Christ. In this manner the doctrine of the apostle constituted some to be, as it were, soldiers, and others to be, as it were, provincial tributaries, while it set Christ in the centre of them like the corner-stone (in accordance with what had been announced beforetime by the prophet),14831483 Ps. cxviii. 22; Isa. xxviii. 16 in whom both parties, like walls advancing from different sides, that is to say, from Jews and from Gentiles, might be joined together in the affection of kinship. But at a later period heavier and more frequent persecutions arose from the unbelieving Gentiles against the Church of Christ, and day by day was fulfilled that prophetic word which the Lord spake when He said, 'Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves.'14841484 Matt. x. 16
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I believe this is a positive development leading to a lower debt burden and a more sustainable economic model, overall. Unfortunately, our "leaders" are doing everything possible to avert such an outcome. They are stuck in an outdated growth model, quite obviously at odds with financial, environmental and geopolitical reality. So from now on I shall call them our "trailers" - they are nothing more than modern day economic Luddites.
Let's focus on geopolitics, an area that should theoretically be of particular expertise amongst our leaders... oops, I meant trailers. How much brains does it take to realize that continuous credit expansion vs. earned income leads mathematically to a vast wealth transfer to commodity producers, particularly the petro-dictatorships. We are not only putting the rope around our own necks - we are financing it, too!
And how about the environmental effects? Our trailers' actions aim to salvage the borrow-consume model, i.e. Permagrowth. It's simply not possible on Terra; not with nearly 3 billion Indo-Chinese now clamoring to join Our Club.
OK then, let's borrow a few trillion dollars on the government's credit, by all means. But for heavens sake, let's invest it wisely to transform our economy and society while it is still possible. Because it soon won't be: a) the lenders won't lend to us (US) and b) the environment won't wait. Or how about this novel idea: let's finance everything ourselves by increasing our saving rate back to a double digit percentage, like we did 20 years ago, instead of spending every penny. Shocking, eh?


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Supporting the global profession
Everyone closely connected to the audit profession, from regulators to the general public, will need to work together in order to close the expectation gap.
What is the expectation gap in audit?
Although the expectation gap in audit was defined in a number of different ways throughout the years, it is most commonly known as 'the difference between what the public expects from the auditing profession and what the auditing profession actually provides'.
However, ACCA defines the expectation gap in audit as 'the difference between what the general public thinks auditors do and what the general public would like auditors to do'. The expectation gap in audit is a topic that attracts attention. It broadly measures public concern about audit.
Historically, some in the profession might have portrayed the gap as being due to the public's lack of understanding rather than being a legitimate concern. We do not agree. Even though there might be a gap in knowledge, that doesn't cancel the calls for auditors to do more or better.
The gap doesn't seem to have narrowed since the term was first used. The persistence of the expectations gap reflects, in part, the fact that public expectations of audit can grow in line with what auditors can accomplish.
The three gaps
While it's common to refer to 'the expectation gap', in truth there are several gaps. We suggest a new approach to addressing the expectation gap. We propose thinking about the gap as having three components: the knowledge gap, the performance gap and the evolution gap. We then propose addressing each of these separately.
A wide knowledge gap can make it harder to understand the true evolution gap. For example if they are unaware of policies that are already in place. The performance gap focuses on areas where auditors do not do what auditing standards or regulations require. This could be because of insufficient focus on audit quality or differences in interpretation of auditing standard between practitioners and regulators.
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There is an urgent need for audit to evolve and to listen to the public's legitimate concerns about audit. It's vital to ensure that the knowledge and performance gap components are addressed as part of properly addressing the evolution of the audit profession.
Closing the expectation gap in audit will support a more constructive discussion about how audit can evolve to meet society's expectations of it. We call upon all stakeholders connected to the audit profession, including professional accountancy bodies, audit firms, regulators, journalists and politicians to contribute towards reducing the expectation gap in audit.
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Key messages:
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I had just turned off the evening news and was on my way to the kitchen to begin dinner when Lizzie ran up to me, grabbed my waist and with very serious eyes, looked up to me and asked me this question. "Mommy, what if Santa can't afford Christmas this year?"
Lizzie had been in earshot of the evening news and no doubt heard enough of the financial woes and was concerned. I hesitated, not wanting to scare her, but also not wanting to lie to her. Her father and I had expressed concern about bills, the holidays, and taxes–all of which may have contributed to Lizzie's question and concern. I wasn't sure what a 7-year-old should be told; but since I had always prided myself in open discussion, I decided to take the time and talk with Lizzie in an effort to answer her question.
You don't have to be a news buff to be aware that times are tough right now. Protests are happening in every country including our own, news of banks making money but still charging a checking fee for customers; and there is fighting between politicians with ranting and raving depending on where their support dollars are coming from. It's crazy, and on a more basic level, every household is trying to re-budget and pay back debt. Many of those households are full of children with holiday wish lists longer than your credit card receipts.
Parents with children such as Lizzie will be more effective at teaching their children the true meaning of the holidays, the depth of family love, and mentoring responsible spending if they take these sorts of questions seriously. Lizzie asked a serious question in her 7-year-old mind.
Here are five important tips that can be used again and again as the holidays grow closer.
1. Santa has nothing to do with money. Santa is about feeling loved and cared for. The toy you love most, and that will make you feel most loved, is the one Santa will try his best to get. It is important that as a parent, you help guide your child with gift requests. If you know your child wants a $100 toy, and you can only afford $50, then suggest another toy that would make your child feel just as loved. Don't do this in a critical manner, but in a loving, supportive manner. Something such as this, "I know you want that toy, but that is so much money for one toy. What other toy could you get that would make you feel just as loved?" If you do this with a loving tone of voice, you are teaching compassion, understanding, and problem solving.
2. Reassure your child that adults like the spirit of the holidays too, and they are not going to let a Christmas go by–no matter how poor they are–without celebrating. No matter who you are, you should make every effort to celebrate holidays with your child. No matter what holiday you celebrate, children learn from the ritual and the spiritual concepts that surround the holidays.
3. Make the focus of the holidays on friends and family. Look at "wish lists" but also promote thinking of others. Children are very egocentric at young ages; that means it's more important for parents not to be. Children who turn into generous, compassionate, and loving adults were nurtured by loving, compassionate and generous parents. You don't have to be wealthy to be generous, loving and compassionate. Perhaps try sorting out good but used toys or books that are no longer age appropriate and going with your child to donate them to a children's hospital or shelter where these might be greatly appreciated.
4. Parents need to set a budget for gifts and stick to it. The best gifts of all are the ones that cost the least, but speak the loudest of love and caring. Last year, a friend of mine bought me three pairs of running socks (I am a runner. I use these every single day). Inside the toe of each sock, she rolled up a slip of paper that had a quote of something I had said to her that meant the most throughout the year. Six quotes…so meaningful. It was my FAVORITE gift. The idea of giving a gift is thinking of what the person would like, or letting them know how they touched your life.
5. Let Lizzie know frequently, and any other child, that the economic crisis may mean everyone has less, but it will never take away their family. Santa may not be giving out as many gifts, but that's okay because you have the best gift of all with one another. Children (and parents) who are reassured that their family is strong and loving can endure this and anything else.
To be honest, Lizzie, you may not get the biggest, most expensive toy this year, but the holidays will have more love than last year because the bigger you get, the more loving you become, and the more grateful I am to be your parent.
Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist and co-author with Janine J. Sherman, of Start Talking: A Girl's Guide for You and Your Mom About Health, Sex or Whatever. Read more about the book at www.StartTalkingBook.com and more about Rapini at www.maryjorapini.com.


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This year's jury is chaired by Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis and includes the curator Annie Fletcher and the writer and lecturer Declan Long.
Long said the each of the four shortlisted artists represented "remarkable developments" in art.
(my emphasis)Yiadom-Boakye's figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture. The way in which an audience might project meaning on to these figures is a key point of interest for Yiadom-Boakye, addressing the very problem of representation – particularly with regards to black subjects – in figurative painting and public spectatorship at large.
(my emphasis)Yiadom-Boakye's paintings suggest a narrative but the people and places depicted are carefully ambiguous ciphers of the imagination. Occasionally there are small traces of specificity, such clothing or hairstyles, but largely the figures and scenarios appear unfixed to any clear associations of race, class, gender or location.
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The problem: many Area 51 suggestions are similar / duplicates of other proposals. The classic example of this week was Astrophotography which was a duplicate of (wait for it...) Astrophotography.
The current solution: rely on a group of volunteers to check out the new proposals and use a combination of the poor search feature and their memory to identify and close duplicates (which works as long as five volunteers (the number required to close) do this).
The proposed solution: just as the other sites provide similar questions as soon as you've entered the question title, so Area 51 could identify similar proposals. This would:
- Save a lot of manual work (identifying and closing new proposals).
- Be more friendly for new users (who may wonder why their great ideas are closed).
- Not be a lot of work for developers (since it is a reuse of an existing feature).
What do you think?
Oh, and could someone please close Astrophotography? Done thanks.
Update: if you do this please also add a check on the words code, programming and any of the popular languages (C++, Java, etc). Anyone adding a description with these words gets the message, Is this in conflict with Stack Overflow? This will also prevent all the SO subsets...
Update 2: if the previous update is a specific instance, perhaps a more general option could be added: that of adding synonyms at time of creation. E.g. when creating a proposal about firearms you could also add synonyms like shooting.
Bounty: it seems like I need to offer bounty to get some momentum here. So the bounty will be offered to whoever (in order of preference):
- Resolves this issue (i.e. from SO team).
- Anyone who can improve to this proposal, either by refining it or by explaining why it should not be implemented.
- Anyone who adds good testimonials to increase the chance that this will get implemented.
If it gets implemented, it will save a lot of work so please support if you agree.
Bounty awarded: to @David for his implemented solution. In a couple of weeks it would be good to check if this is sufficient.
New related question: Automatically search existing sites for Area 51 site suggestions


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Investing Made Mobile: 5 Apps for the Smart Investor
The stock market is a fast-flying, quick U-turn, up and down game to play. It's both exhilarating and exhausting. And, if you're like most people, you're exceedingly grateful for your financial advisor, broker, and/or portfolio manager. They keep your market investments growing (generally), and give you peace of mind when it comes to overall stock market stability. But, even with the experts managing the majority of your investments, it can be incredibly rewarding to manage some of your stock investment (even a small portion of it). Plus, investing doesn't have to be so scary; it should be cheap and easy.
The fleeting and furiously changing stock markets require constant attention to detail and lickity-split decisions that can turn the tables in your favor or send your values plummeting. That's why investment-centric mobile apps are a match made in finance heaven—the ability to invest at your fingertips from anywhere on a device that you already always have in your purse or pocket, simply makes sense. (Investing via mobile app is also a great way for beginner investors to experiment with small initial amounts to experience how the stock market works.) Give investing via mobile app a try on these top picks:
If you love playing games on your phone, this may be the app for you. With the intuitive user functionality, Kapitall seamlessly allows for trading to be conducted by dragging and dropping icons representing different companies. Take the "game" to the next level by competing with other users for cash prizes in virtual trading tourneys. And, just like a video/smartphone game, you can collect Koins the more you use the app and then cash them in at the app store.
Even if you're a regular at investing, sometimes a new trading program takes a little getting used to. Want to try it out before you put your own money on the line? Kapitall has you covered with a virtual $100k in a portfolio you can practice with before putting your real investment on the line. Fees range for the different actions you can take within in the app, but there's a flat commission rate of $7.95 per trade. (Registration is free and there are no hidden fees.)
This free app isn't a platform for actual investing. It's more like your own stock expert on-call 24/7 to offer an unbiased explain the market. The app helps users comprehend what's best for their investments through simple, clear chart and portfolio comparisons. The app is free because FinMason is not giving out any personal advice; other than the invaluable information presented, they have nothing to sell.
Robinhood—one of the more popular, well-known apps in the app store—launched in March 2015 with a commitment to cutting down the brokerage overhead. The app's greatest selling point is there are no fees to buy or sell stocks. Plus, there is no minimum amount of cash needed to use the platform, so you don't need to go all in right away to try it out. Another handy function of the app is its notifications on scheduled events like splits and dividends. You can count on the fact that the pricing information you'll see on Robinhood is true, thanks to real-time streaming of data from exchanges.
When it comes to mobile apps, Acorns is as easy as it gets as it runs automatically after the initial set-up which begins by linking your credit and debits cards to the platform. The app then rounds up to the nearest dollar on the purchases made on your cards. (It's the loose change you carry around in your wallet or pocket and deposit into a home change bucket...but instead of a loose change jar, it's an app that then invests it in various funds. The funds it invests in are decided on upon your risk tolerance—are you an investor, gambler, or trader? Acorns charges 0.25 percent of annual assets for accounts over $5,000, and only a $1 a month for accounts that stay under $5,000.
Even if you're a passive investor, you're likely nervous about losing track of the status of some of your accounts. Betterment allows users to sync other accounts, so you can view the comprehensive picture of your net worth. App set-up starts off easy with a few questions: Age? Retired or not? Annual income? And then, choose an investment goal, after which Betterment invests your money in a diversified manner in global low-cost index funds. The app's algorithm then tells users where they're at in relation to the selected investment goals. Once you set your initial portfolio allocation you're not locked in; you can factors like stock allocation and the investment timeline. Pricing and annual fee percentage is dependent on account balance and there are no restrictions on withdrawals or transaction fees.
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