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PAS Technology, Cresskill, NJ, launched a new website to introduce its PAS CMM automated CMM programming tool, which the firms says reduces programming time by as much as 90 percent. PAS CMM takes any CAD or CAM model to complete a CMM program in minutes. It's an offline solution for programming any CMM machine in a DMIS environment.
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The whole point of an IRA (Roth or otherwise) is to save for retirement. Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned, and you may find yourself needing to withdraw money from your Roth IRA before age 59½.
The most important thing to know is this: Contributions (that is, the money that you put into your Roth) can come out at any time, free of taxes and penalties.
Distributions of Earnings
When it comes to distributions of earnings, however, things get a bit more complicated. That's why I prepared this handy flowchart (and the following explanations) to help you determine whether or not distributions of earnings will be subject to income taxes and/or penalties. 🙂
Please note, this flowchart only applies to earnings when your Roth does not include any amounts converted from a traditional IRA or other retirement plan. If your Roth does include such amounts, please see "Distributions After a Roth Conversion" below.
Qualifying Reasons for Distributions
The following are the "qualifying reasons for distributions" referenced in the first step of the flowchart:
- You have reached age 59½.
- The distribution was made to your beneficiary after your death.
- You are disabled.
- You use the distribution to pay certain qualified first-time homebuyer amounts.
5-Year Rule
Any earnings distribution prior to the first day of the fifth year after your first Roth was established will be taxed as ordinary income, at whatever your tax rate is at the time.
Example: You open a Roth IRA on May 18, 2009. The 5-Year Rule is satisfied as of January 1, 2014.
Other Exceptions to 10% Penalty
Even if your distribution is not for a "qualifying reason," you may be able to escape the 10% penalty (but not ordinary income taxes) if any of the following situations apply:
- You have unreimbursed medical expenses that exceed 10% of your adjusted gross income.
- You are paying medical insurance premiums after losing your job.
- The distributions are not more than your qualified higher education expenses.
- The distribution is due to an IRS levy of the qualified plan.
- The distribution is a qualified reservist distribution.
- The distribution is a qualified disaster recovery assistance distribution.
- The distribution is a qualified recovery assistance distribution.
All Roth IRAs Are Viewed as One
When applying each of the above rules, the IRS views all of your Roth IRAs together as one big Roth IRA. For example, once you've met the 5-Year Rule for one of your Roth IRAs, you've met it for all of them. Also, distributions from a Roth will not count as distributions of earnings until you've withdrawn an amount greater than the total of all of your contributions to all of your Roth IRAs.
Example: In 2013, you contribute $2,000 to a Roth. In 2014, you open a Roth with a different brokerage firm, and contribute $3,000 to it. By 2015, each Roth has grown to $5,000. You could withdraw $5,000 from either (but not both) of the two Roth IRAs without having to pay taxes or penalties because your total contributions were $5,000 and because the IRS considers them to be one Roth IRA.
Distributions After a Roth Conversion
If, you've converted money from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, things get slightly trickier.
Any distributions of converted amounts (assuming they were taxable at the date of the conversion) will be subject to the 10% penalty (though they'll be free from ordinary income taxes) if the distribution occurs less than 5 years after the first day of the year in which the conversion occurred. If, however, the distribution was for a "qualifying reason" or you meet one of the "other exceptions" above, the distribution will be free from penalty.
If the conversion included amounts that were not taxable (because they came from a nondeductible IRA), those amounts will not be subject to the 10% penalty even if they are withdrawn from the Roth prior to the first day of the fifth year after the date of the conversion.
Order of Distributions
According to IRS Publication 590B, distributions are assumed to occur in the following order:
- Regular contributions.
- Conversion and rollover contributions, on a first-in-first-out basis (generally, total conversions and rollovers from the earliest year first). Take these conversion and rollover contributions into account as follows:
- Taxable portion (the amount required to be included in gross income because of the conversion or rollover) first, and then the
- Nontaxable portion.
- Earnings on contributions.
Example: During 2013, you contribute $5,000 to a Roth IRA. You also convert $20,000 from a traditional IRA into your Roth IRA. Of that $20,000, $13,000 was taxable upon the conversion, and $7,000 was not because it came from nondeductible IRA contributions.
In 2014, you withdraw $8,000 from your Roth. The first $5,000 is free from tax and penalty because it's a return of your contributions. The next $3,000 is assumed to come from the taxable portion of your converted amount. As a result, it will be free from income tax, but it will be subject to the 10% penalty because the distribution occurred prior to the first day of the fifth year after the date of the conversion.
In 2015, you withdraw another $15,000 from your Roth. The first $10,000 will be the remainder of the taxable portion of the conversion (and will again be free from income tax but subject to the 10% penalty). The remaining $5,000 will be considered to have come from the nontaxable portion of the conversion, and it will be free from both tax and penalty.
Admittedly, things can get a bit tricky. Hopefully this helped to clear things up. 🙂

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Posted by Jason Diaz Categories: Apple, Cameras, Smartphones, Editorial, Handhelds
Disclaimer: this is pure speculation based on rumors, track record, and wishful thinking. So, no hurt feelings if it doesn't come to pass.
The way we see it, Apple methodically has been updating its entire Mac lineup with HD front facing cameras. The first to receive it was the iMac in mid-2011, quickly followed by last year's Macbook Pro lineup and subsequently the newly refreshed generation of MacBook Pros and Macbook Air; the lineup includes the 11-, 13-, and 15-inch as well as the flagship Macbook Pro with Retina display. The result is 720p high-definition video chat. The missing ingredient is the inclusion of HD FaceTime chat for iOS devices. Sure, the back of an iPhone 4/4S, iPad 2, and new iPad are technically HD cameras, and one could switch to that camera with a quick toggle, but it's still not ideal for most video chat interactions. I'm postulating that Apple could potentially introduce its first HD front-facing camera for iOS devices with the iPhone 5.
Now, the alleged iPhone 5 leaked parts have been pegged to be as thin as 7.6mm, super thin when compared to the current iPhone 4S at 9.3mm. Consequently, the current iPod touch is 7.2mm thin, yet still rocks a high-defintion rear camera. Therefore, in theory, Apple could manage a front facing camera upgrade with room to spare (albeit not much.) This piece of hardware hasn't been upgraded in 2 years, 3 months, and 3 days according to Siri. Currently, there are other smartphones in the market that have high definition front-facing cameras, but with abysmal video chat software when compared to FaceTime. This has lead me to surmise that iPhone 5 is a prime candidate. Now, imagine making a FaceTime call in high definition with the iPhone 5 and its 1136x640 display, connecting to another iPhone 5 or Mac with FaceTime HD camera. The result is HD video chat (or, technically, almost HD) on both ends, and we think we'll be seeing it later this week. It would sure pair nicely with the global LTE that the iPhone 5 will be sporting.
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Germano callup forces difficult decision on Baker
ARLINGTON -- There was a point in Spring Training when pitcher Justin Germano thought he might have cancer and never pitch again in the Major Leagues.
Turns out he didn't have cancer. He simply needed an unidentified procedure to have a mass removed and now, with that scare in the past, Germano is back in the Major Leagues. Germano was called up on Thursday while pitcher Scott Baker was designated for assignment.
"I really don't know what to think," Germano said. "I'm just happy to be here and get the call…help the bullpen, eat up some innings and give them some rest."
Baker was called up on Wednesday to do just that and he pitched 5 1/3 innings in a 9-2 loss to the Rockies. He allowed two runs and manager Ron Washington said he did a "tremendous" job. But the Rangers are still concerned about the workload of their bullpen and wanted another long reliever for Thursday. So Baker, who would have been unavailable for at least three days, was designated for assignment despite pitching well on Wednesday.
"It stinks," general manager Jon Daniels said. "He did everything we asked. Unfortunately we are at a spot where the bullpen is taxed because our starters are not getting deep into games."
The Rangers have 10 days to either trade Baker or put him through outright waivers. If Baker is not claimed off waivers, he could still take his release and become a free agent.
"We'll see if there is trade interest," Daniels said. "If there is not, we'll ask waivers."
The Rangers could have kept Baker by optioning Nick Martinez back to the Minor Leagues. But right now the Rangers want him in their bullpen rather than pitching every fifth day in the Minors. He has a 2.41 ERA in two starts and two relief appearances while opponents are hitting .222 off him.
"We feel Nick can be a winning piece in the bullpen and we wanted to keep him," Daniels said.


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Get on the motorway, big truck crash ahead and traffic is completely stopped because its happened over the on-ramp so no traffic can get through. While I was sat there waiting, I got a text on my phone (iPhone 5) and thought I might as well have a look, wasn't anything important so I didnt open it (ie. unlocking the phone, I read the preview on the lock screen), while I had the phone up, I decided to snap a quick photo of the incident, then put my phone back on the passenger seat away from me.
Next thing I know, a cop comes up to me and asks for my licence, so I show it to him, he writes down a few things, asks if its my car, so and so. Then says "Expect your ticket in the mail" and I replied "excuse me? What for?" (Keep in mind, he had not said anything prior to this, other than "Can I see your licence" and "is this your car". He said "don't text and drive" to which I replied "Well actually Im not, and the car is stopped" and he just walked off. Another thing to note here, he hadnt pulled me over, he actually just walked up to me because traffic was completely stopped.
I knew that this law had exceptions with regards to traffic flow, because I read about it when it came out. I called mum after this happened and asked her to find me the link for it and email it to my phone (I had pulled over off the motorway when I did this) and read up about it when I got to my friends place. It clearly states on the NZTA website: "A driver may, while driving a vehicle, use a mobile phone to make, receive, or terminate a telephone call if the vehicle has stopped for a reason other than the normal starting and stopping of vehicles in a flow of traffic." - Land Transport (Road User) Amendment Rule 2009, Clause 7.3A, Section 6. (http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/rules/docs/road-user-amendment-2009.pdf)
Now I'm confused to what I can do. I know I'm not paying their fine, but thats not what I'm annoyed about, I'm more annoyed with cops blatantly not knowing the rules they're meant to be enforcing. The 20 demerit points are kind of annoying too but not enough to cause a problem as my record is clean. What do I do to get this cancelled?
Please, save the "dont text and drive" lectures for those of you that want to come in and say that, I know the rules, I know I can use my phone there, and I was taking a photo and glancing at a text, not like I was typing an essay or making a call, and the car was stopped, as you can see from the above picture, all traffic infront and behind was stopped due to the accident in front, clearly not normal stopping and starting of the flow of traffic.


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The LED spot family U-TURN by BELUX invites for playful interaction with light. The spot is easy to turn into a maximal action radius and it is even completely rotatable. U-Turn is a flexible light tool which ensures high enjoyment with the lighting radius.
The central elements of the U-Turn lamps are the ball joint and the round large light head. In its middle there is a magnetic deepening, which is placed on top of a metal sphere. This mechanism allows an easy moving of the light head and enables a large action radius. The deepening can be separated, turned and fixed again from the ball with one simple handling since it is magnetic on both sides. This is how direct or indirect LED light can be chosen for the U-Turn lamp. Moreover it is possible to change the light angle with a simple turn – similar to the Zoom of a camera.
The high quality material out of aluminium die cast is also mirrored in the robust design. The U-Turn Clamp Lamp is especially flexible and playful. This edition has the sphere joint directly connected with a big clamp. This one allows fixing the lamp at uncountable objects – starting with heating pipes, up to bookshelves – offering perfect flexibility.
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Insights Into Time & Place Management — Quick Insight 5 | TPM
does the influence of time & place management (tpm) policies on job performance differ by worker age?
Based on an analysis by Matthijs Bal, Ph.D., Reader in Human Resource Management, University of Bath, School of Management and Annet de Lange, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Department of Work, Stress and Health of the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
April 2014—Employers provide Time and Place Management (TPM) policies for a range of reasons, such as to help employees to manage work and family responsibilities and to improve employees' attitudes toward their work and workplace. In addition, they hope—but often do not know for certain—that the effects of TPM policies on employee attitudes will translate into higher job performance as well. However, little research has examined the mechanisms through which TPM policies might influence job performance, and even less is known about whether these relationships differ for older and younger workers.
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The Sake Education Council
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The Sake Education Council (SEC), the first primarily English language-based organization created to promote sake education outside of Japan, will provide certification training and seminars around the world.
Currently there are two levels of education and testing. Candidates passingLevel I receive the title of Certified Sake Professional (CSP), while those passing Level II are designated Advanced Sake Professional (ASP).


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Pass the Baton
today's reading.
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom...
think about it.
What do Paul's final instructions include (4:1-5)? What from that list do you need to work on? How does Paul view the end of his life (2 Tim 4:6-8)?
the blog.
We get a good look at Christians ministering together and supporting one another with Paul and Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:1-8. Paul is the mentor, teacher and friend of Timothy. Paul knows he is nearing the end of his life and ministry, and as a result, we see him instructing, advising, challenging and, most importantly, encouraging Timothy to carry on for Christ.
So what can you do to follow Paul's example with others at home? School? Church? Work? Or, if someone has come along side you as a Christian mentor and friend, what about returning the favor? What can you do to encourage and help them grow? Tami W.
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mtx-1 is the code-name of the hardware which is marketed as MeshCube and 4G AccessCube. it is a very small (7x7x7cm) cubic embedded system based on the AMD Alchemy Au1500 and targeted mainly for wireless mesh routing applications. The stackable MiniPCI architecture makes it very flexible for other applications as well.
it features
- 400MHzAMD Alchemy Au1500 AD stepping SOC
- 32MB flash
- 1x 100Mbps ethernet port
- 1x USB host
- 1x USB device
- 1x serial port
- stackable MiniPCI bus (up to 8 cards)
- Power over Ethernet (802.3af)
Main Site: http://meshcube.org/meshwiki/
Manufacturer: http://4g-systems.biz
Linux support
- Linux 2.4
- Fully supported with some additional patches from http://meshcube.org/dev/kernel/
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I had all of those wonderful plans to really advance the research ball today ... and fumbled it away. Life intervened, I'm afraid, and took a big bite out of my day.
I read my email, my blogs and checked in on Facebook before writing The wizard of Id Nails It to start the day off with a chuckle. I got cleaned up to go out later, and when I came back I had the bright idea to see if the latest Everton's Helper had been posted online yet. Yes! Finally! I downloaded it and read some of it, then posted Everton's Genealogical Helper goes Quarterly - has anybody else posted that yet? I wonder why Leland didn't blog about it recently? Or even tell his readers that the latest EGH was available to read and download - subscribers have had to try to find it online without a notification. After that, I went to Costco for lunch and a toy drool, then picked up George for our weekly 3 mile walk on the bayfront - a perfect day today, sunny, about 68F. I stopped at the library for a book on the way home, got here at 1:15 p.m., and checked email before going off to church for Sara's memorial service. We got home after 4 p.m.
I wrote the Genealogy Search Engines: Ancestry.com - Post 4: New Search, Fuzzy Matches and then had to go off to Lolita's to pick up dinner - Linda was too tired to do anything but veg tonight. We ate, watched the news, and I was back after 6:30 p.m. to read email, read blogs, check Facebook and create more screen shots for my Search extravaganza - I did Footnote and FamilySearch Record Search tonight. I played on Facebook a bit - uploaded the Geni.com application so I have at least some family tree information on my page. I wrote a post for tomorrow morning, and then this post and I'm going to go read my genea-mystery book some more.
Genealogy today was 6.5 hours - 0.5 hour doing email, 0.5 hour reading blogs, 2.0 hours researching and writing blog posts, 1.0 hour reading EGH, 1.0 hour on Footnote and FSRS, 0.5 hour on Ancestry messing around, 1.0 hour on Facebook, etc.
Left for the future are my 3/10 presentation, my 3/5 ProGen homework, more Search posts, Project M and Project L, etc. The floggings will continue until the morale improves, I guess.
Genealogy and family research are an obsession for me. Yea, verily, I am a Geneaholic!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Genealogy Journal - 02/20/09
Posted by Randy Seaver at 9:18 PM
Labels: Facebook, genealogy blogs, online research
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I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
- February 21, 2009 at 5:11 AM
- Genealem said...
You have a great site, and I want to share the Kreativ Blogger Award with you.
You can drop by my writing blog at: http://writingyourmemories.blogspot.com/ to pick it up and the instructions.
- February 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM
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Climate Action Plan Mandates Transit Corridor-based Growth
Though called a climate action plan, the document presented to Berkeley planning commissioners Wednesday night looked more like a developer's dream.
The draft by city climate action planner Timothy Burroughs won the praise of Livable Berkeley, the city's leading "smart growth" advocacy group, now headed by executive director Erin Rhoades, spouse of former city planning manager Mark Rhoades, who is now a developer himself.
Livable Berkeley and allied groups had been less kind to the earlier draft, issuing a joint statement that faulted the document for its failure "to challenge the status quo," "leaving out any real discussion or education on the importance of increasing urban density on major corridors," and neglecting to "unequivocally state that increased density near transit provides the most significant greenhouse gas reduction."
But Rhoades had no such problems with the new draft, declaring the group's support because of "changes that emphasize land use and transportation."
But the same changes that delighted Rhoades worried Gene Poschman, the commission's resident policy analyst and an outspoken minority member of a commission dominated by a development-friendly majority.
"Erin Rhoades is quite happy with this. Livable Berkeley is quite happy with this. The pro-growth people are quite happy with this," Poschman said.
"Its motto is build, baby, build," said the retired academic.
"In Berkeley, it doesn't matter what the problem is: The solution is increasing density," said Patti Dacey, another member of the commission minority.
And it took audience member Merilee Mitchell to point out one flaw in Burroughs' plan, the claim that "automobiles account for 47% of Berkeley's total greenhouse gas emissions."
But that was true, Mitchell noted, only when diesel-gobbling buses and trucks were added it.
Burroughs told commissioners he considered them automobiles as well, drawing a head shake from Poschman, who noted that, in Berkeley at least, a bus is not considered a car.
Poschman had prepared a detailed critique of the chapter presented to the commission, but Burroughs said that the papers presented represented only a policy document, and commissioners would have plenty of opportunity to shape the resulting plan when they helped crafted later implementing regulations that would give the plan teeth.
Burroughs said density wasn't the plan's goal. "The goal is getting people to move around without a car," he said.
Susan Wengraf, a commissioner running for the City Council seat held by the retiring Betty Olds, said that for people in the hills, getting out of cars requires now largely non-existent sidewalks and shuttles, given that AC Transit buses don't serve most of her hoped-for constituency.
Walking along sidewalk-less streets crowded with parked cars is dangerous, she said, leaving residents little choice but to drive.
And Commissioner Roia Ferrazares said she was concerned that the plan failed to include any coordination with current and planned conservation programs run by UC Berkeley.
During the meeting's public comment session, David Room, who served on the city-appointed Oil Independent Oakland by 2020 Task Force, said their efforts had also been aimed at getting people out of cars.
Jack Sawyer, a social psychologist and president of the Parker Street Foundation,which buys up property to covert into cooperative housing, asked why the plan didn't reflect the emissions represented by the goods consumed locally but produced outside the area.
Burroughs said calculating such embedded emissions was difficult, but added that some estimates were included in the plan.
Dacey later asked about emissions involved in new buildings, but the calculations cited by Burroughs in response involved only building operation, and not the substantial greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated by production of building materials such as concrete and steel. Dacey has been an advocate of retrofitting existing buildings, which studies show generates far fewer GHGs than new construction.
Jim Novosel, an architect and a commission swing voter, said he liked the plan's proposal to concentrate density on transit corridors. He said he would also like to see a requirement for publicly accessible open space requirements for new projects, rather than the little-used but expensive rooftop spaces builders now create.
Commission Chair James Samuels congratulated Burroughs and others on the city staff for creating a plan he said "is very well done."
"The goal of increasing density along transit corridors has been around a long time without ever achieving this level of clarity," he said.
But Ferrazares said that while the plan proposes that development follow transit routes, "we only have one fixed transit line, which is BART. It's a bit like putting the cart before the horse."
Commissioner David Stoloff, a stalwart of the majority with Samuels, Harry Pollack, Larry Gurley (absent Wednesday) and Wengraf, said that he foresaw "a huge backlash" resulting from any attempt to change zoning laws to create a buffer zone between greater density transit corridors and adjacent lower-density residential neighborhoods.
Berkeley's Climate Action Plan—available online at www.berkeleyclimateaction.org—has thus become the latest focus in the city's ongoing battle about the role of development in the city's future in which every issue, from preservation of the past to protection of the future, is recast into the language of builders, planners and their critics.
While the planners focused on their own particular charge—land use and related policies—the Climate Action Plan is much broader in scope, though many of its elements relate to planner concerns ranging from transportation to construction technologies. Burroughs is also assigned to the city's Planning and Development Department.
The plan's public comment period closes Nov. 7, and the final plan, after comments have been addressed and final editing concluded, will go to the city council for adoption in January. Wednesday night's meeting was the last public forum on the plan before the council holds hearing when the final draft is up for adoption.
Comments may be made online after registering at www.berkeleyclimateaction.org/signup.php