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An Analysis of the New Roth 401(k)/403(b) Plans
No full textThe Roth 401(k)/403(b) provisions, effective for tax years beginning on or after Jan 1, 2006, combine characteristics of Roth IRA and traditional 401(k)/403(b) plans in one retirement program. Under the new provisions, employee contributions to a Roth 401(k) plan can be made in the same dollar amount as under a traditional 401(k)/403(b) plan. The new provisions were set to expire for tax years beginning after 2010; however, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, P.L. 109-280 (PPA 2006), repealed the sunset provision as it applied to pensions and IRAs, thereby making the Roth 401(k) provisions permanent. The most significant benefit of a designated Roth account is that qualified distributions are not includible in gross income. Many employers do not currently offer their employees the option to invest in a Roth 401(k). Increasing the rate of return from 8% to 12% significantly increases the value of the Roth 401(k) alternative as compared with the traditional 401(k)/403(b) alternative
University-affiliated retirement development : a resource for universities
No full textThesis (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, Center for Real Estate, 2004 [first author]; and, (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, Center for Real Estate, 2004 [second author].This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references.by Christopher B. Helsaback & David B. Ritchey.S.M.in Real Estate Developmen
Masiero, Pia. Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books: The Making of a Storyworld.
No full textRoth studies is now a crowded field. There are a biannual journal – Philip Roth Studies – hundreds of articles and more than thirty books devoted to the works of the man who is, by common consent, the best living American novelist. In this context it is difficult to make an original scholarly contribution, but Masiero succeeds admirably, in two respects: firstly, hers is the first monograph to focus on what she calls ‘the Zuckerman books’; secondly, she is the first Roth critic to produce a b..
Cecil Roth, Historian of Italian Jewry: A Reassessment
No full textI have a confession to make. I have long been a fan of Cecil Roth (1899-1970) and his histories of Italian Jewry. My copy of Roth\u27s The Jews in the Renaissance, published in 1959, was one of the first books in Jewish history I acquired as a youth, years before I became interested in the profession of history. This relatively worn copy still adorns my shelf and dates quite accurately my fascination with this engaging popularizer of the Jewish historical experience from my high school years
Ku86-Deficient Mice Exhibit Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and Defective Processing of V(D)J Recombination Intermediates
No full textAbstractKu is a heterodimeric DNA end binding complex composed of 70 and 86 kDa subunits. Here, we show that Ku86 is essential for normal V(D)J recombination in vivo, as Ku86-deficient mice are severely defective for formation of coding joints. Unlike severe combined immunodeficient (scid) mice, Ku86-deficient mice are also defective for signal joint formation. Both hairpin coding ends and blunt full-length signal ends accumulate. Contrary to expectation, Ku86 is evidently not required for protection of either type of V(D)J recombination intermediate. Instead, V(D)J recombination appears to be arrested after the cleavage step in Ku86-deficient mice. We suggest that Ku86 may be required to remodel or disassemble DNA–protein complexes containing broken ends, making them available for further processing and joining
Israel's worst king? : the story of Ahab in light of its relationship to the stories of Saul, David and Solomon
No full textIn the story of King Ahab (I Kgs 16.29-22.40), Ahab is declared to be the worst person in the Hebrew Bible(I Kgs 21.25)seemingly because he repeats the infamous crimes of King Saul, King David and King Solomon. Because of the similarities in the behaviour of Ahab with his three predecessors, however, the story is a story about these three kings as well. As a result of the associations, Ahab's evil status is challenged. Views of the character Ahab in other literary traditions lend credence to the suggestion that Ahab does not live up to his bad name, and a close reading of the text of the story supports the suggestion. Such a reading leads to seeing King Ahab as a character who
is a composite of Saul, David and Solomon at their worst. These correspondences between the four kings lead to several results. Without saying that Ahab is not wicked, the correspondences (relatively) normalise the moral character of Ahab (in that Saul, David and Solomon may be considered 'normal'), while they diminish the moral character of the three kings by their association with Ahab. As a result, Ahab is viewed in a different and better light than what he is declared to be, while Saul, David and Solomon are viewed
in a lesser light. The diminishing after-effect also leads to rereading the stories of Saul, David and Solomon in the light of the story of Ahab. Read from such a perspective, their stories become stained by the stigma of being associated with Ahab
Jewish Thought in Newtonian England: The Career and Writings of David Nieto (In Memory of Jacob J. Petuchowski)
No full textDavid Nieto (1654-1728), the first rabbi of the new Bevis Marks Synagogue and the hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation of London at the beginning of the eighteenth century, is not an unstudied figure in recent Jewish historiography. From the early portrait of Moses Gaster to the later elaborations of Cecil Roth and Moses Hyamson, and from the exhaustive bibliographical study of Israel Solomons to the pioneering study of Nieto\u27s thought by Jacob Petuchowski, Nieto\u27s public career and theological writings have been examined as well as any other Jewish intellectual figure of early modern Europe.1 Yet each of these studies, especially Petuchowski\u27s book, was completed over thirty years ago. In the interim, new scholarship in Jewish history, particularly in the history of Marranism and Sabbatianism, has illumined the broader cultural ambiance of Nieto\u27s era.
What did I say? versus What did I think?: Attributing false beliefs to self amongst children with and without autism.
No full textThe task used most widely to assess recognition of false belief in self and others is the ‘Smarties’ unexpected contents task. Amongst individuals with and without autism, the Self and Other-person test questions of this task are of an equivalent level of difficulty. However, a potential confound with this task may allow the Self test question to be passed without false belief competence. Three groups of participants (with autism, developmental disability and typical development) undertook a new unexpected contents task which did not suffer from this confound. The main finding was that participants with autism performed significantly less well on the Self test question than the Other-person test question on this new task. Individuals with autism may have greater difficulty representing their own beliefs than the beliefs of other people
U.S. House of Representatives Floor Coverage: Tributes Honoring Jamie L. Whitten
No full textU.S. House of Representatives Floor Coverage of tributes to Jamie Whitten by his colleagues: G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery; Toby Roth; Ike Skelton; Gene Taylor; Frank R. Wolf; Pat Roberts; Benjamin A. Gilman; Earl Hutto; David R. Obey; Bennie Thompson; Henry B. Gonzalez; Thomas J. Barlow III; Harold L. Volkmer; Mike Parker; Barbara B. Kennelly; Steny H. Hoyer; Ford, Harold E.; and E. de la Garza. Whitten thanks colleagues for tributes
On single-crystal total scattering data reduction and correction protocols for analysis in direct space. Corrigendum
No full textThe name of the third author of the article by Koch et al. [Acta Cryst. (2021).A77, 611–636] is corrected.The name of the third author in the article by Koch et al.(2021) is incorrectly given as Yiu Liu. The correct name is YuLiu, as given above.ReferencesKoch, R. J., Roth, N., Liu, Y., Ivashko, O., Dippel, A.-C., Petrovic, C.,Iversen, B. B., v. Zimmermann, M. & Bozin, E. S. (2021). Acta Cryst.A77, 611–636
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