ACKNOWLED G EMENTS

Thanks to Arthur Flowers, Blair Rodman, and Lori Notaro for their help

in reading and research, and to Karen Hunt for her work on the cover.

Thanks also to Stanford Wong for providing the book s title, as well as

friendship and encouragement over the years.

I m grateful to Virginia, Adam, and Jonathan for lending me Deke; to

Bobby for bringing dinner; and to Katie and Jacob for proving their mettle

by hanging in there.

My thanks to June Flowers for keeping everything running smoothly

and cleanly, despite fielding 50 reader phone calls a day; I m sure she would

do it all for nothing.

I owe Deke Castleman a deep debt of gratitude for his dedication and

commitment, and an even deeper debt for his words, a great many of which

appear in these pages.

And I have a special thank you for Bethany Coffey for having the

foresight to recognize the potential early.

Finally, thanks to the l_as Vegas Advisorreaders, who ve supported us

through thick, thin, expired coupons, and 3rd class mail.