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Follow Tim’s example at Tim’s Place and GIVE SOMEONE a HUG TODAY! “oh yeah” (video)

Tim Harris, owner of Tim’s Place, is the country’s only restaurant owner with Down’s Syndrome, and the joy he gets from serving people good food carries over into his diner’s most famous export: hugs! Tim’s restaurant is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is open 7 days a week.

Love you, Tim!!!

 

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Simon Black: HOW TO CONDUCT YOUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE ON A BANK OR BROKER

January 20, 2012
Santiago, Chile

Greetings once again. It’s another beautiful, sunny day in Chile today, and I’m about off to our farm south of town to spend a wonderful weekend with good food and great friends. Before I sign off for the week, though, there are a few questions I wanted to address:

First, Louise asks, “Simon, that last edition of SMC really blew me away, I appreciate you serving up such [...]

Lessons In Food And Life: ‘We Knew How To Be Poor’

Lessons In Food And Life: ’We Knew How To Be Poor’ (November 10, 2011)
“I thought about being poor. I thought about what it means, and how many of us are feeling just like that these days. I thought about the skills required to do it well – to be poor with dignity, poor with meals on the table, poor with enough to pay for the rent. These are real concerns for so many, and [...]

The average wedding in the US costs $30,000.00! That’s a down payment on a house!

by Mellowbride

Seriously, the marketing begins when we’re about two. Dream wedding! “Spend a huge amount of money on what is effectively an announcement to the world that the two of you are now married.”

I know a guy who works at a pizza place who has been saving up for a wedding for four years because his girlfriend wants a $30,000 wedding. How did she pick this number? It’s what her [...]

I think I hear a pencil about to snap…

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/0…

The yield on Portugal’s 10-year bond jumped 11 basis points to 4.80 percent … That left the difference in yield, or spread, with bunds 11 basis points wider at 166 basis points, after earlier reaching 172 basis points, the most since March 10, 2009.

Greek 10-year bonds dropped … sending the yield up 20 basis points to 8.17 percent. The yield premium over bunds jumped 25 [...]