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Hope you are having a great holidays. We would like to share with you that Boomer411.com was recently selected by BoomerPlaces, (as it says on their website, is a portal site for Baby Boomer Generation and Seniors) to be one of the top 10 website destinations for Boomers and Seniors. Once you are on the BoomerPlaces website, look on the left side of the screen, under the section ‘Boomer Sites’.

It is all about you and the value Boomer411 can give you in quickly finding information on the web. Let’s work together and discover new possibilities in the year 2008 and beyond. Let’s make the internet more meaningful and relevant to the Boomer Generation, and we can only do it by working together, by joining hands. Like the little grape stem holding on to other grape stems…

So what do you say?

In this season of holidays and Christmas Cheer, a season of being thankful for what we have, sometimes it is easy to get carried away by the traditions and practices of the season and lose sight of their ultimate purpose. Today’s quote reminds us to always look for reasons to be thankful, and happy

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
~ The Hausa of Nigeria

On behalf of the team at Boomer411.com, we would like to thank you for your continued support and trust. Let’s continue this great work together next year as well to accomplish bigger and better things. Again THANK YOU.

Also, we would like to Wish You AND YOUR loved ones happy holidays and A Very Happy New Year

In observance of the holidays, we will be doing very limited posting for the next week and will resume back in the next year.

It is our pleasure to announce that the new search portal, www.Boomer411.com is now live in its Beta release. The purpose of this new web site is to bring you a unique search experience, that will hopefully enable you to find information on the web more easily. This search engine is focused on the concerns and interests of anyone that is older than 45 years and only indexes articles/content on the web that is relevant to this demographic group.

I would like to call out the following features of this web site…

• A new way of drilling down within your search results to find the information you are looking for
• Ability to discover new, related information pertaining to your search keyword
• Articles and content selected by experts in the field for indexing on the web site
• Ability to vote on links that you found to be useful 
• Ability to create watchlists and keep an eye on what others in the community are finding useful
• and much much more…

We would love to hear your feedback, thoughts and suggestions. Please check it out and see it for yourself and be sure to tell your friends about it. So here is Boomer411 beta for your surfing pleasure.

Also, if you are a practitioner in a field of interest to Baby Boomers and if you would like to help select content on the web to be indexed on site, please click here to discuss this further with us.

“To be or not to be, that is the question;” said Shakespere in his famous Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act III, scene I.

 But I guess in relation to the current situation, we can slightly modify this question in this way. “To rely or not to rely on government help in retirement, that is the question”. This probably is a question on many future retiree’s minds. As we read in the news about the underfunding of retirement benefits such as pension, retiree insurance, social security, etc by both private corporations and local, state or federal governments. It is natural for one to wonder what would happen to his or her retirement if these legacy promises cannot be kept for some reason, as people discovered to their shocking at United Airlines during its bankruptcy proceedings, for example .

This story about the worry on some local and state government officials’ faces regarding their respective government’s ability to shoulder, this seemingly huge, responsibility for paying for their retiree’s insurance premiums might be a clue of things to come. Or may be not. Only time will tell.

Naturally one begins to wonder if ever that were to happen to my company, my employer; then would my personal retirement accounts (including 401 (k), SEP, etc accounts) be large enough to cover my retirement living expenses? The answer in many cases is a seemingly uncomfortable “No”. But so be it. If we at least know where we stand; where we are headed and if we care enough to change it, may be we can change the course of a few things and get us closer to having a decent amount in retirement. Don’t you agree? The earlier we learn what the truth is, isn’t it better to help us take action to secure our future? Because, afterall, we learn in investing basics that time is your ally if you have it on your side and it is your enemy if you don’t have time on your side, as far as the growth of your investments is concerned. So the sooner we know the truth, the more time we have on our side and a better chance we have to use it to our advantage.

Last week, we asked you to answer this riddle. As promised, here is the answer to that riddle.

Answer: 

Three flowers: rose, tulip, daisy.

 Have a great week ahead…