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Finally I was at the headquarters of the occupation located in Zama, Japan, for assignment. I was interrogated by officers of the 8th Army and the 1st Cavalry division. I told them: trained as an interpreter, I wanted to be an interpreter. Neither they nor anyone else knew whether I would be going back to the States for discharge in a few months, like the immediate discharge of all soldiers serving twenty-one months that occurred only a month ago or to stay on until my twenty-four months were up. Longer than twenty-four months was also a possibility. They were dubious about my becoming an interpreter. For that need, they used Nisei and local Japanese who understood English and that was enough for them. Would I like to take on a clerk/typist job? No. Well, all right, we’ll authorize you to go to the 7th Cavalry regiment, responsible for half of Tokyo, and see if they need an interpreter.

When I got there, the response was, “Sure, I could use you.” Lieutenant Chester Sargent, who was responsible for regiment intelligence, interviewed me and explained that he could use a Caucasian interpreter. He had to pay for local maintenance people and buy stuff from local vendors. His Nisei interpreter either may not have negotiated as well as he might and/or his language skill was not so great. Lieutenant Sargent wouldn’t know that for sure either way, but if I came along and kept my mouth shut, it would not embarrass anyone. Then later I would apprise him of what I thought. That was a use of an interpreter that the higher-ups hadn’t even thought of. In addition I took on an entirely different assignment too. I borrowed his copy of a Tokyo city map, which showed the boundaries of the regiment, and I made copies of it and of overlays that showed the location of the Japanese police stations and kiosks, and other prominent buildings. He seemed very pleased. I liked the job, but both his jobs were frustrating my desire to be an interpreter. I wanted conversations back and forth and neither task allowed me to do that.

Six months after the beginning of the occupation, some of my Minnesota buddies were working for three days around Election Day under the new Japanese constitution, and I was missing out on that. An interesting development was brewing: I was going on a secret mission. I had no idea of when or what to expect. It came soon enough.

In my bunk sound asleep, I was shaken awake at midnight and told to get dressed and come down to the regiment conference room. I did. A military intelligence colonel was explaining there was evidence implying an attempt to take the life of the newly elected prime minister, Shigera Yoshida. The colonel was there to authorize a top-secret jeep patrol that would leave immediately and find where the prime minister, or PM, was sleeping, stay near it, circle around it, and “keep your eyes open.” The patrol would be kept small to draw the least attention. Also the patrol would operate until noon the next day—about twelve hours of continuous duty—and was just three men: (1) me, the interpreter who was to find out where the PM was staying from the Japanese police who were near him and also might be guarding him, or if and when the PM was about to leave, find out where he was going and when; I was also to drive the jeep; (2) the radio operator, who would advise command headquarters (CHQ) of any developments and receive new orders; and (3) a lieutenant who was in charge of the patrol.

The three of us heard the colonel’s briefing, which emphasized two important things: (1) Intelligence did not know if the attackers would be a lone gunner, a mob, or anything in between. The patrol had to be alert to all these possibilities and fire if and only if necessary to protect the PM. (2) No one (read, the media, I suppose) should know that the U.S. army had to protect the new prime minister. It would make the occupation look much shakier than it was.

Fully apprised and carrying our weapons, we went out to pick up the jeep. The lieutenant handed me the keys. Having never driven a jeep, I fumbled around unable to start. The lieutenant, annoyed, had me change places with him and he drove us off. I was carrying a rifle. The lieutenant asked if I had a pistol. I said that I’d never received training with a pistol. This time he was disgusted. But there was no choice. We all had to obey those orders as best we could.

We circled around the prime minister’s residence with somewhat varying routes over largely a wooded area for twelve hours. The PM never left his residence, and my contact with the Japanese police was minimal but adequate.

Initially I was thrilled with the assignment. This was really big stuff! I could be a hero. In the first few hours I peered into the shrubbery as we passed at a fairly low speed, maybe twenty miles per hour. I looked for motion anywhere. There were no cars parked along our route or anyplace that permitted humans to hide except the shrubbery or the deeper woods.

There came a point sometime within the patrol’s twelve duty hours when I was really tired and somehow didn’t feel there was going to be any attack by anybody on anybody. What had started as enormous enthusiasm and alertness faded into indifference and sleep deprivation. Anyway, we had accomplished our mission. When we returned to regimental headquarters, another team was sent out to continue the same patrol for protecting the prime minister.

Years later it occurred to me that the reason I was chosen as interpreter was that I was white. The colonel did not want the smallest thing to become a political reason for a possible failure. When working out the patrol details, he probably thought, “Yeah, let’s put a white guy in as interpreter!”

It seemed to me that protection of the prime minister by us Yanks was strategically aimed at thwarting the Russians. I was personally having a little problem in understanding why we were fearful of the Russians. In basic training we saw a number of training films, in particular on two occasions there were films to make anticommunists more comfortable with the Soviets. Winston Churchill had said in regard to becoming an ally of the Soviets that he would make a deal with the devil himself if it helped to defeat Hitler. The films showed charming footage of the salt-of-the-earth peasants being mowed down by Nazi machine gunners and depicted “Uncle Joe” Stalin as a “tough but fair” leader. The two films were different but conveyed the same message.

However, in the first week of the PM patrols, I was obsessed by the pro-Soviet training films and a new factor. I had been following the Nuremberg trials for war crimes, where this point was made. If a soldier was presented with an order by his superior, he need not obey it, provided that he was ready to take the consequences if later he finds out that he should have obeyed it. One consequence could be conviction for treason. It meant to me that I, a lowly private, should consider disobeying an order if it were clear to me that the order was wrong, but I had to be very sure. I was neither pro nor anti Soviet. I just thought a good venting of the issue by a respected news source would help everybody understand what was going on, including me and others who wanted to learn more. I knew from the training films that the U.S. was pro-Soviet in 1945 and as far as I knew nothing had changed.

I had been given an A pass, so when I was off duty I could leave the regiment compound and go wherever I chose. In a day or so I went to the office of Time magazine. The office was a small room with a desk and phone for one reporter. I gave him the scoop on the prime minister protection patrol that I thought he would gobble up for a front page story. Instead he gave me a frowning look and made clear that he would do no such thing. I left discouraged and resigned.

Amazingly these patrols continued on and on, 24/7, and were never canceled the entire time I was in Japan. No shot was fired in anger. There was never an attempt on the life of the PM. While I was in Japan, I myself had to do a share of the patrols, about once a week, eight hours of duty. An enormous number of times I had to ask the Japanese police where the prime minister was. On one occasion I could not quite get the answer. One of the policemen, pulling out a piece of paper, was about to write something. I knew what he was up to and I began shaking my head. He was going to write out the name of the place the prime minister was going and I knew too little of the written language to find this helpful. He wrote anyway and, surprise, I was able to decipher two words meaning move and forward out of the hundred Kanji words I had learned in Minnesota. I put that together with what I knew of the politics and habits of the prime minister and figured that he was going to the Progressive Party’s office. The police verified my guess. With my detective work confirmed, I was pleased and on my way.

Later Yoshida, known as “Cherry Blossom,” was succeeded as prime minister by Shidehara, known as “Wisteria.” The codes were used in the squadron and for discussion between interpreters on the patrol and the Japanese police. Now you know them too. To give you a degree of comfort, sixty-plus years later, you are in no danger of having top-secret knowledge. De facto declassification started almost immediately.

(This is an excerpt from MILITARIST MILLIONAIRE PEACENIK: Memoir of a Serial Entrepreneur by Alan F. Kay and reprinted with the permission of the author)

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Is spirituality outlandish?

Imagine that you are a materialist—that you believe only those “things” that you can see, touch, hear, taste, and feel. Your world and its workings are all explained by things. You view spiritual teachings that include spirit, soul, afterlife, and life-giving energy as myth and outlandish. You believe that science has deciphered our universe with the discovery of atoms, molecules, DNA, and electronic chips.

You understand that much of our modern life is influenced by electronic devices but you are stumped as to how they work. No need, the scientists understand all that. You feel that those who are spiritual should learn enough science to realize that there are no unseen, immaterial, spirits or other apparitions out there. What is this science which needs to be learned? What does 21st-century science teach?

Missing “spirits” of science

Since the early 20th-century, physicists have been pondering seemingly fantastic theories that explain our world. Some of these still puzzle physicists. Our universe is believed to have come from a dot or so-called singularity. Mysteries shroud the basic components of atoms and molecules. They are energy but their description and their apparent ability to be in many places at the same instant of time still confound scientists.

Science in the 21st-century has added an array of bizarre theories to explain our world. Although Einstein dispelled the notion that there is something in “empty” space or a vacuum, recently a Nobel Laureate described the vacuum as “full of stuff” having enormous amounts of energy. Furthermore, 96% of our universe is missing “dark matter” and “dark energy” which have not been found, identified, or characterized—like spirits lost in the abyss.

Is science fantastic?

In 1543 Copernicus’ book was published describing the universe not revolving about the Earth but instead we rotated about the Sun. What followed was upheaval, a succession of scientific discoveries, and a new world-view.

Modern science’s foundation is its theories. The “fantastic” findings have resulted in perturbations akin to those of the 16th-century. Scientists have discarded previous theories and dogma. In order to rationalize our world physicists are now embracing the concepts of parallel universes and seven other dimensions (in addition to the four we know).

So what is our universe?

Universal information

We live in the information age with IT (information technology) and company CIOs (chief information officers). Scientists’ have proclaimed that the universe is merely information. Seth Lloyd of MIT and Jack Ng of the University of North Carolina, leading scientists in quantum-information theory and quantum-gravity theory, stated in 2004 that the universe is the ultimate computer, having performed 10123 operations so far. They said that “…the universe is computing itself.”

In a quest to achieve the ultimate computer to process information, scientists envision quantum computers utilizing a weird phenomenon of quantum particles, entanglement, in which information can travel instantly—faster than light! So we have an information universe, but like the information in a computer, energy is required to access the information.

Is the universe spiritual?

Today, science and spirituality agree our universe is energy. All the “things” of our world are made up of minuscule bits of energy a billion trillion times smaller than so-called “fundamental particles.”

In another article I describe how our brains’ misperceive the world by simplifying the energy waves of the universe as things. The ancients didn’t coin terms like String Theory, zero point energy, black holes, mutliverses, quantum entanglement, or Big Bang, but spiritual teachings at different times, in different places, guiding different cultures professed that our world is energy and that spirit, God, life, and afterlife were energy.

In the 20th- and 21st-centuries numerous physicists have declared our universe is information, mental, and spiritual. I leave it to you, dear reader, to decide if spirituality is outlandish, if science is fantastic, or if both appear to reveal the same spiritual message using different words.

Leo Kim, Ph.D. was a research associate at MIT, scientist, and executive in the biotechnology industry. He studied with healers such as Barbara Brennan, Bernie Siegel, and Deepak Chopra, and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist. To learn about his new book, Healing the Rift, visit: Healing the Rift.

Internet advertising is one of the most effective ways of marketing. It can reach innumerable audiences by breaking the barriers of geographic locations and time. Internet advertising is done through various applications present on the World Wide Web. These include search engine result pages, e-mail marketing, affiliate marketing, and social media marketing. The primary benefit of advertising through the web is the lower costs that incur while distributing the information to huge mass audiences.

Technical and Creative Marketing

Internet advertising, also known as online advertising, is a technical and creative mode of marketing. The various aspects to be considered involves design, content, potential market, and prospective audiences for the product. Internet advertising helps in reaching the product to millions of people at very low cost as compared to the other traditional techniques of marketing. The various types of strategies used in Internet marketing require your creative skills, which can either, make or break the advertising plan designed by you.

Steps for Effective Internet Advertising

An effective Internet advertising includes four steps that help in promoting the product online. These include-

- Planning: The chief component of Internet marketing is a well-planned marketing plan, which helps, in online promotion of the product. It involves observing your product and services as well as of your competitors. A businessman should finalize the best plan suitable for your business.

- Strategy: This step involves making a strategy through which you can well execute your marketing plan. This also involves choosing the best online medium and suitable advertising budget in order to get maximum output and sales.

- Tracking: You can always know the success rate of your ads by tracking them. Through tracking, one can also make out that which ads are attracting more audiences and which part of the ad attracts them the most.

- Studying: After tracking your ads, you can easily study the numbers of visits and thus can verify whether your advertising statistics helped you in promoting your product on the web or not.

Tips for Avoiding Internet Advertising Mistakes

Although, Internet is a cheap and effective way of advertising, but one must always follow certain tips to avoid any kind of mistakes that can take place. Some of these include-

- Save Money: Always advertise your product through sites that deliver quality service, which can help you in increasing sales.

- Avoid Pop-ups: Avoid advertising through pop-ups as the increasing use of pop-up blocking utilities has made pop-ups less applicable.

- E-marketing: It is a very good tool for online promotion but it must be used properly. Avoid sending SPAM mails to people and only contact those who have opted for your product listings.

Target Your Efforts

If you want your online ads to reach the suitable audiences, then you should always target your efforts. This means your ad should be reachable and accessible only by the people that are interested in buying the product. For targeting, you need to buy display ads on various websites or can also purchase cost-per-click (CPC). Through CPC, customer is directly linked to the website of the business. Although, CPC is an expensive way of Internet advertising, it assures you of reaching the qualified audiences which results in more sales and profits.

James Copper is a writer for http://www.bigstrategies.co.uk

Beagle puppies for sale – selecting the right one. This article will discuss about the cute and cuddly beagle puppy, and how you can go about selecting the right one. Beagle puppy can surely bring a lot of joy and life to the household.

The bark to welcome you home from a hard day of work and having a loyal, loving guard making sure that everyone in the house is safe. There are no words that can describe the connection someone can have with their dog. It is unexplainable how completely different animals which have no way of communicating with each other, can have the ability to have such an emotional and mental connection with one another.

It is a wonderful mystery that man and animal can have such an emotive link. So now gather the information needed and go down to the pet store, and pick the right beagle puppy that offers the potential for such companionship.

The first issue that I will touch on will be the pricing, as price is one of the most important factors when you do choose a beagle. It is a reflection of both the breed and quality of the dog that you are purchasing. A good one in a reputable pet store will usually cost you anywhere between $500 to $1, 000. Get suspicious when the price goes below or way, way above it. Even the best breeds in the world should cost around this range.

Ask the right questions like what is the expected weight and height of the dog may be. Someone in the know should tell you that the puppy you are considering to buy should reach a height of about more than 15 inches and weigh anywhere from 10 – 12 kgs. That is a sign of a healthy and happy beagle dog.

One of the best advices given to be a long time ago when selecting a puppy is that when one does decide to buy, he or she should try their darnest to find one at a rescue shelter. This means that these recued dogs have already been housebroken somewhat and they are usually over the stage of chewing, even in the case of young puppies.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that a dog at a shelter is a dog that has something fundamentally wrong with it, the majority of cases that actually come through these shelters are due to families or individuals realising that they simply do not have the time or the money to deal with these dogs.

While it is a shame, you can be one to rescue them for their dispositions and help them to resume a normal healthy life with a new family. A beagle puppy is quite a sight to behold and soon in your care they will grow into a healthy pedigree of those well known hunting dogs in the British Isles. This of course, if can be done only if you make the right choice when choosing one.

Clarence Clark is an avid Beagle lover providing valuable advice at http://www.iluvbeagles.com where he shares Beagle info and training tips with Beagle lovers worldwide. Click Here to gain FREE access to this Beagle networking website.

There are many adwares that your computer can acquire while surfing the net. If you try to look for one, you will be presented with a lot of choices. But then, the varying kinds all have varying functions and features. If you do not have a basic idea about what you want, you will be facing a dilemma. This dilemma will only be solved once you already know what type of adware you want removed out of your system.If you base on the titles alone, you will have a definite idea about what their focus is about. If it says something about firewall, then you know that it will serve as the filter when you constantly browse through numerous websites.

On the other hand, if it is about privacy and guard, it is primarily about protecting the important files and data that is inside your computer. This is why it is still advisable to look up the over all description that is inherent in each adware remover. Why do you need adware remover?Pests are not only available in household. There are also pests that can be found on computers. These pests are way different from viruses. One difference is that “computer pests” can cause your computer to malfunction and show some unusual behaviors. And unlike viruses, there can replicate, hide and scatter to all your files in an instant. All the while, you are the unknowing victim of something that could have been avoided immediately.

Firewalls in your computer are effective tools. Most computers have them already. But it is really not an option when you want an adware to be detected and stopped.The only thing that firewalls are good at is to filter those sites that you consider are of unworthy sources. Once you have the lists inputted into your system, the usual flow of information from the Internet will be blocked even before you they have the opportunity to load. Even if you have blocks and firewalls, you can expect adware to infiltrate into your system. Take note that these things are clever enough to hide themselves into files or folders that seem harmless. The usual remover will not see them coming until later on when it is too late to stop them.It is a different story with adware remover. If you want to be protected from these threats, you need to arm yourself with an adware remover that blocks and prevents adware from getting into your system. The choice is ultimately yours.

You can opt for the software that should be installed into your computer if you anticipate more future adware intrusion. Or you can have the kind only prevents its existence once detected initially. Computers are not anymore safe from those who want to take advantage of another. With the endless and valuable information that they can achieve, you can expect them to come up with other means of conquering your privacy. You can also expect adware removers to be developed to solve these problems.

As long as there are adware out there, removers will be updated to combat them. You do not have to go back to the traditional method of keeping files and private information. As long as you have an adware remover, then you can rest assured that nobody and nobody will inside your system.

Carl R. LeRoy is the owner of Home Based Business Ideas and writes on a variety of subjects. To learn more about starting your own home based business earning 6 streams of income Please visit us @ http://www.pluginprofits.com/main-24715

Sometimes you need to look away from the big resorts on St Lucia for your honeymoon destination, so check out La Haut Plantation

A top honeymoon destination on St Lucia is a hard one to call because there is a lot of competition especially in the Soufriere area with the romantic Pitons. It is well worth checking out La Haut Plantation which gets rave reviews from guests, and has a great deal going for it, not the least of which are the stunning views.

It has a reputation as a great place, with outstanding staff who look after you really well. They are the kind of people who don’t ever seem to be troubled by requests and can never do too much for you.

Incredibly it manages to accomplish with some flair being a really top honeymoon destination, with being a very nice family vacation resort. Saying that resort isn’t probably the right description, for a hotel that is in the middle of a working plantation perched on a hillside, so the description could be better as an ideal family holiday hotel.

Whatever you choose to call it, the fact that it is half way up a mountain means the setting is quite stunning, well away from tourists, hustle and bustle, and yet within easy reach of the town of Soufriere, the Pitons, beaches, and other things to do and see. You will however require a hire car for your holiday due to the isolated nature of the property although there are other options worth thinking about if you don’t intend to explore.

The first is the shuttle that runs to Anse Chastanet every day at 10am coming back up to La Haut Plantation at 4pm. The hotel has two pools but if this is a family holiday, children will want to go to the beach. Anse Chastanet is a great beach, and well worth bringing your own snorkelling stuff. You’ll want to supply your own lunch because the beachside restaurants are expensive. There are good grocery shops in Soufriere so the best suggestion is to buy food for lunch if you don’t want extra expense. It is also great to mingle with the local people an opportunity denied to most people on a package holiday.

You don’t want to be walking anywhere outside the hotel, apart from Soufriere. Being up a steep hill, it’s no fun at all.

You can get a taxi through La Haut Plantation, he seems to be their tame personal taxi. If you want to go exploring, and you don’t want to hire a car, then you’ll find him great fun, and not difficult to come to a price if you want him for a full day.

La Haut Plantation is a lovely place altogether. If you are looking for peace and quiet so you can just relax, then it is perfect. It is an unrecognised but nevertheless top honeymoon destination for this reason. You will also see families here, although in terms of it being a family holiday hotel, it would really be for families with smaller children, because teenagers could well get bored in such a small place. Its position is really unsurpassed, and worth it for the views alone, never mind the excellent rooms, service, and food.

Kelly Wilson runs St Lucia Vacation Spots as well as being a contributor on occasions to Worldwide Vacation Spots and he thinks it would be worth your while to check out Caribbean Vacation Spots especially any information you can find about St Lucia, the best of the Caribbean Islands

The Big 12 has provided the nation with several of the very best and most powerful college football teams this season, so it comes as no surprise that the Big 12 Championship football game will be something marvelous to behold. But which teams will you get to see when you purchase Big 12 Championship football tickets from http://www.stubhub.com/big-12-championship-football-tickets/ ? And better yet, who will win the game? Here are some of the teams with the best chances of winning the Big 12 title, and thus, the teams with the best chances of securing a BCS Bowl game bid.

1. Missouri

Wondering why Missouri is our top choice to win the Big 12? Getting to the Big 12 Title Game is the most important factor in winning the game (you can’t win it if you’re not there), so after eleven weeks of college football, the Missouri Tigers have the best chance at making it to the game, and thus, a better chance of winning the game than any other team- including undefeated Texas Tech. The Tigers are 8-2 overall with a 4-2 conference record. Their next closest opponents in the North Division of the Big 12 are the two 6-4 overall (3-3 conference) teams, Kansas and Nebraska. With only two regular season games ahead of them, Iowa State on the road and Kansas at home, Missouri would have to have a monumental breakdown not to make the Big 12 title game. Once there, they have a decent shot of upsetting the South Division winner, whoever that might be, because of their offense, which ranks 6th in the nation in overall yardage and fourth in the nation in passing yardage. While Texas Tech gets all the hype, Missouri is no spring chicken when it comes to putting points on the board. They have the fourth highest points per game average at 45.1, right behind the No. 3-ranked Red Raiders (47.9). Which brings us to…

2. Texas Tech

The Red Raiders will probably field more wagers to win the Big 12 than any other team in the division. And why not? They’re the No. 2 overall offense in the country, they beat then-No.1 and division rival Texas in a shootout a couple of weeks ago and then put up 56 points on a then-one loss team, Oklahoma State, last weekend. They look pretty unbeatable right now, so barring any unforeseen injury to either quarterback Graham Harrell or future NFL receiver Michael Crabtree, the Texas Tech Red Raiders are a very good bet to win the Big 12. The payout you will get from picking this team in a futures bet, however, is probably not as god as you’d see with Texas, Oklahoma or Missouri.

3. Oklahoma

Oklahoma plays Texas Tech this next weekend in what should be another dandy of a game. The Sooners can win the South Division title with a home game victory over the Red Raiders, landing them in the Big 12 Championship game. It all depends on the next game. If the Sooners can pull it off, they could see their name on Big 12 Championship football tickets this December.

4. Texas

Texas barely lost to Texas Tech the week before last, and with just one loss in conference play so far, they could still get the top spot in the South Division. Of course, that would mean that Texas Tech would have to blow at least one of their last games (preferably to Oklahoma), and then have both Oklahoma and Texas Tech lose their last regular season games. If you’re looking for a long shot, Texas is your team.

Written by Brent Warnken, sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells Big 12 Championship football tickets, sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world.

The secrets to amazing business is not a secret at all; in fact it is all about commercial common sense that should be applied to any situation. One thing about business is that there is a tried and true formula out there, the basic backbone of any triumphant story of millionaires reads like a sort of weather pattern that most of us fail to pick up and avoid the most chaotic of storms. If you compare success stories of some of the worlds best and brightest, then you will see that certain familiarities do rise up from practiced diction – things you must pick up on and apply to yourself to get you started on the road to amazing business success.

Be in the right place - that’s right – at the right time. Luck can be engineered and this statement doesn’t mean that success should just fall on your lap just because you happen to tumble across the sport marked X. What this means is whatever you do in business; you have to calculate to an exact science so that when you do decide to take the plunge, you know where you have to be and what you have to do.

Use technology because it can help you reduce costs, be portrayed as innovative, be on the cutting edge of your industry and increase efficiency and overall productivity in your company. This means that you should embrace it and make it your bedfellow, allowing your entire operation to be digitised if possible. Technology is what drives profits now a days and a more efficient corporate strategy that uses technology means that higher profit margins.

The power of your business lies in the power of your employees. Once you realise that, you will stand a better chance in surviving the bloodthirsty corporate arena. The employees of a corporation are the most valuable assets that you can possibly have – they could mean the success or failure of your business. Treat them well and always higher someone who is not only good at what he or she does, but has all the qualities to grow with the company and give it some innovation and new direction. Just because you founded the business means you hold all creative licence, that is business death is only a single point of view is allowed breathing space. Creativity breeds ideas that could set your business on the path of massive success.

Last, but certainly not least is – be prepared to be flexible in your business line of thinking. If you have to, you will certainly change your entire structure, your direction and your strategies. The market is the one that should be the one that dictates your moves. Being stubborn in your position could mean failure and a crash. Also, don’t be afraid to take risks and diversity your business into new areas of risk if it means good profits. As long as you keep these ‘secrets’ to amazing business success close to you, you will always have good prospects ahead and if nothing else, the knowledge that your foundations are rock solid.

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Ladies, poker is no longer just for the boys! With players like Annie Duke, Jennifer Tilley, and Clonie Gowen in the limelight right now, you have every right to feel inspired that you too could win that World Series of Poker Championship Bracelet. Besides, jewelry looks better on ladies, right?

Well, to get to the World Series of Poker, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. Each year more and more people try their luck at the tournament, but that means that each year the competition gets tougher and tougher. To get ready for it you are going to need to get your game in shape. One of the best ways to do that is to play, play, play. Yes, you could play online, but that is not the same as playing face to face. So get your girlfriends in on the game. Have them come over, and start shuffling the cards.

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Building and contents insurance are a way of protecting the shell of your home and your contents inside against disaster and loss. If you take out the protection together you can often get savings compared to taking each policy individually with different providers. Another way to get the best deal of the insurance is to allow a specialist broker to search on your behalf.

There are different levels of building and contents insurance so before taking out the cover it is essential to check out the terms and conditions to see what is and is not covered as there can be exclusions as there are in all types of insurance. Contents insurance has to be considered carefully as if there are any items of particular value in the home these might not be included in the policy. Items such as jewellery, collections and high tech gadgets may not be covered but can often be added on for a little extra.

To get a quote for contents insurance you would have to calculate how much the contents of your home add up to so you would need to take an inventory. Of course the higher the insurance level you want, the more home contents insurance will cost, so it is essential that you calculate correctly as you could pay over the odds for protection you do not need. However do not just take a wild guess as you could under insure and if you should lose all the contents of the home in a fire this would be disastrous. Usually when taking out a standard home contents insurance policy you would be protected against such as fire, theft and accidental damage. However you would have to check the small print with a fine tooth comb before buying and also check to find out if the policy covered such as flooding as often this needs adding onto the policy and you have to pay out extra.

When looking into taking buildings insurance you would also have to take into account the worst case scenario and how much it would cost to rebuild your home from the ground up if it should be totally destroyed. Buildings insurance would pay for the cost of rebuilding the shell of the property but the contents of the home are not included in this. Buildings insurance would usually also protect such as outer buildings, pools, garages and patio furniture. Usually a policy will cover damage caused by fire, vandalism and theft at least; however you would need to check the small print to find out if your home was covered for what are classed as “Acts of God”, for example storm and flood damage. Sometimes these have to be added onto the policy as extras particularly if you live in an area prone to flooding. When taking into consideration how much building insurance you need do not factor in land, however you would need to take into account such as clearing the area to rebuild.

All homeowners should have building and contents insurance as without protection if the worst did happen you would be covered for both rebuilding your home and for replacing all the contents of the home. Without a policy to fall back onto you would lose everything.

David Thomson is Chief Executive of BestDealInsurance an independent specialist broker dedicated to providing their clients with the best insurance deal on their home insurance, car and life insurance.