Model Producer Notice Life Policies, Annuity Contracts, and Fraternal Benefit Society Certificates A recent Executive Order issued by Governor Cuomo, together with recent amendments to the insurance and banking regulations (the “regulations”) issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services (“Department”), extend grace periods and give you other rights under your life insurance policy or annuity contract if you can demonstrate financial hardship as a result of the novel coronavirus (“COVID‑19”) pandemic. These grace periods and rights are currently in effect but are temporary, though they may be extended further. Please check the Department’s website at https://www.dfs.ny.gov/...
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Millennials, This Is What Your Quarter-Life Crisis Is Telling You I caught up with MacNaughton on the latest episode of Unconventional Life, “How to Beat the Quarter-Life Crisis and Uncover Your Life Purpose.” MacNaughton grew up in the deep south of Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised Catholic and attended a preparatory school, where “good Southern values” were instilled into him. Unlike most kids, MacNaughton was reluctant to accept what he was told as fact. He challenged the status quo, doubted his religious teachings, and refused to participate in the mainstream culture. Source: Robert MacNaughton MacNaughton recalls asking grand questions like, “What are these things that our family and...
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Black men’s health disparities must be viewed within the larger context of public health, community wellness, and family formation. Healthy People 2020 recognizes both ecological and individual factors that determine health and wellness across the life span. Life expectancy summarizes the impact of risk across the life course. Consider life expectancy by race (Black:White inequities) and gender from 1900 to 2011. Although it has improved for all race/ethnicity and gender groups for the past 111 years, Black men continue to have substantially lower life expectancy at birth than Black women and White women and men ( Figure 1a ). 1 In 1900, the estimated life expectancy for White men...
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I n 2014 a leading life insurance company asked 2,000 of its British clients the things they would most like to do before they died. Some of the bucket list items were concrete goals – No 1 was “have a holiday home abroad”, while a little further down the list was “own a Mulberry handbag”. The great majority of the wishes, however, involved experiences rather than assets. The experience most desired by the largest number of respondents was to “swim with dolphins”; it was followed, variously, by “drive Route 66”, “ride a hot air balloon”, “hold a koala” and “do a parachute jump”. Perhaps more than any previous culture we routinely associate adrenaline with enlightenment. The bucket-list hit...
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Life of Pi (film) In Canada, a young writer meets Pi Patel; The writer has been told that Pi's life story would be a good subject for a book. Pi tells his story to him: Pi's father names him Piscine Molitor Patel after the swimming pool in France. In secondary school in Pondicherry, he adopts the name " Pi " (the Greek letter, π ) to avoid the sound-alike nickname "Pissing Patel". He is raised in a Hindu family, but at 12 years old, is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God". His mother supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in...
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