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The Dominant Life Insurance Product
July 23, 2012 1 Comment
Life insurance has been around for centuries and comes in many shapes and sizes. Throughout the history of life insurance, there has usually been a prevailing “most popular” life product for any given period of time. For instance, in the 1960′s and 1970′s, whole life was the predominant life product by far. In the 1980′s, [...]
Read moreEvent Organizers Unite!
July 13, 2012 0 Comments
I’m happy to announce the formation of a new official contributor group within the WordPress project for the organizers of in-person events that promote WordPress. Though there are hundreds of people around the globe organizing WordCamps, WordPress meetups, hackathons, free classes and the like, since their “projects” were all happening locally there was never a [...]
Read moreWordPress 3.4.1 Maintenance and Security Release
June 27, 2012 0 Comments
WordPress 3.4.1 is now available for download. WordPress 3.4 has been a very smooth release, and copies are flying off the shelf — 3 million downloads in two weeks! This maintenance release addresses 18 bugs with version 3.4, including: Fixes an issue where a theme’s page templates were sometimes not detected. Addresses problems with some category permalink [...]
Read moreWordPress 3.4 “Green”
June 13, 2012 0 Comments
WordPress 3.4 is here and out the door. We’ve dubbed this release “Green” in honor of guitarist Grant Green whose soulful simplicity has kept many of us company during this release. This release includes significant improvements to theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds, and image captions — here’s a short clip with the highlights: For [...]
Read moreWordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 3
June 12, 2012 0 Comments
The third release candidate for WordPress 3.4 is now available. Since RC2, we’ve fixed a few lingering issues with the new live preview feature, as well as with custom headers and backgrounds. There are no remaining issues, and we plan to release 3.4 in the coming days. But if you think you’ve found a bug, [...]
Read moreWordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 2
June 7, 2012 0 Comments
The second release candidate for WordPress 3.4 is now available. Since RC1, we’ve made a few dozen final changes. Our goal is to release WordPress 3.4 early next week, so plugin and theme authors, this is likely your last chance to test your plugins and themes to find any compatibility issues before the final release. [...]
Read moreWordPress 3.4 Release Candidate
May 27, 2012 0 Comments
The first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.4 is now available. If you haven’t tested WordPress 3.4 yet, now is the time!
Read morePlugin Directory Refreshed
May 19, 2012 0 Comments
Been hanging out with a few WordPress.org hackers — Scott, Nacin, and Otto — the last few days in a BBQ-fueled haze of hacking to make plugin directory better. There are over 19,000 plugins listed and they’re really the heart and soul of WordPress for many people, so they deserve a little tender loving care. [...]
Read moreCalling All Contributors: Community Summit 2012
May 15, 2012 0 Comments
Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year. As annual events go, it’s easily my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending WordCamps and local WordPress meetups (which are awesome and you should try to attend [...]
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- Untitled April 9, 2013Long term care insurance solutions for today. Long term care is a very big concern for many aging baby boomers. However a traditional long term care policy has one major drawback. If you never use it, you lose it. In today’s market there is another option available where you can receive your money back. This […]Life Think Tank
- Should you buy life insurance with one lump sum premium? March 4, 2013Life insurance for your heirs – Single Premium Life Insurance Depending on your situation the simple answer is… quite possibly. In fact, single-premium universal life insurance, SPUL, may be one of the most overlooked, misunderstood life insurance products available today and rarely recommended by traditional life insurance agents. However, expert Tax-Free […]Life Think Tank
- Doing Your Heirs a Simple Favor Before You Die March 1, 2013The passing of a loved one is never easy for friends and family, but it can be even more difficult if the survivors do not have the information they need to make decisions and take care of final arrangements. Several years ago, my brother passed away quite suddenly on the other side of the nation. […]Life Think Tank
- How to Maximize your Legacy Estate Planning February 27, 2013Even though Congress has increased the estate tax exemption to $5.12 million for individuals and $10.240 million for couples, you still need to understand the threat of estate taxes on your legacy planning. Even though Congress has labeled these exemptions permanent, will they be changed in the future by another congress and president to fix […]Life Think Tank
- What is more important, your Will or your Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation? February 26, 2013Most people are often unclear about this complicated, yet simple question. A Will is a legal document that sets forth your wishes regarding the distribution of your property and the care of your minor children. Life insurance is a legal contract between you and the life insurance company who issued the policy. The simple […]Life Think Tank
- Premium Financing of Life Insurance: Why and When to Use it February 21, 2013If you’ve ever bought a house with a mortgage then you understand how to use other people’s money to leverage your assets to purchase something very expensive. Let’s combine that strategy with the purchase of high value life insurance. If you have a large estate value or a farm that you want to pass on […]Life Think Tank
- Life insurance policy reviews: How often should they be done? February 20, 2013If you’re reading this and you haven’t had a life insurance review in the last 12 months, NOW is the time to have a life insurance review. In fact they really should be called “Annual Life Insurance Reviews” so policy holders understand they should be completed every year. Did you know that an estimated 75% […]Life Think Tank
- Life Insurance: An Additional Asset Class February 19, 2013Back in a January 11, 2009 Palm Beach Daily News, an article by R. Marshall Jones, JD, CLU, ChFC titled “Life Insurance: An Additional Asset Class in Difficult Times,” the author makes the following observations about whole life (or permanent) insurance companies in the wake of the 2008’s economic turmoil: “Fortunately, the life insurance industry […]Life Think Tank
- Using Life Insurance for Estate Planning February 18, 2013How to Use Life Insurance for Estate Planning As Ben franklin said, “…in this world there is nothing certain but death and taxes.” Life insurance can help you when both of those situations occur. Obviously not the aspect of death, but it can definitely manage the tax aspect of his comment. As humans, one of […]Life Think Tank
- The Best Life Insurance Worksheet February 15, 2013The Best Life Insurance Worksheet So you’ve come to the realization that you need to buy life insurance. You’ve read and educated yourself at www.lifeinsurancethinktank.com and have some basic ideas of what types to review with your Retirement Life Solutions Specialist. Before you make that call, there is one more thing you might want to […]Life Think Tank
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