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BURGER KING(R) Brand Positioned for Growth in Taiwan
And more from the Taipei Times
Ever since we lost the one in Yonghe several years ago… I figured Burger King would just fade away here in Taiwan. In the past month, I’ve seen 2 new ones… and now this news…
I might have [...]

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I wish I could do as good a job with restaurant reviews as the hungry girl who blogs at A Hungry Girl’s Guide to Taipei… but I already know I’ll fall far short. For example, I have no pictures and just don’t have the knack for writing about food/restaurants like she does. In my defense, [...]

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If you don’t know what POSK is… here’s the first one
From: The World’s Last Night, CS Lewis, pp 89-91

Life on Other Planets
I…fear the practical, not the theoretical, problems which will arise if ever we meet rational creatures which are not human. Against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already [...]

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A friend asked me this this question today…
Actually she asked “Do you believe that Mary had other children?”
I wrote the following reply…
————snip from email————–
Short answer… yes.
Actually I never gave it much thought because of this passage in Matthew 13:
54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. [...]

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RealLivePreacher recently posted Why political debates aren’t very helpful
From that post…
So the debate becomes just another format for candidates to deliver campaign speeches. True, the speeches are more off-the-cuff, so you can see how they react under pressure. But that’s what we are hearing. Sound bites and campaign speeches. We hear what the campaigns want [...]

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So the NU v. Mizzou game went just about as I called it. I’d look even more psychic if I’d have stuck with my original pick of 50-17.
You win some… you lose some… and some you lose… you lose badly. Unfortunately, this week NU travels to Lubbock where things may get ugly again. Possibly even [...]

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Some of you know that my degree is in accounting. I probably wouldn’t choose that one again if I could go back (I’d choose physics, most likely), but I did enjoy studying business, finance and economics. I found such study valuable in much of my work after college and before coming to Taiwan.
I’m not claiming [...]

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Home service (or furlough) is a regular part of most missionaries’ lives.
For us, it comes about every 2-3 years and consists of us visiting various people and churches in the USA. Our next home service is scheduled for November 2008 to March 2008.
It seems like this experience used to be called furlough and that most [...]

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yeah… I know that Mizzou is gonna win this one… probably about 43-17 or so…
but I still picked NU to win 33-31 over at Huskerpedia (because 32-31 was already taken)
Here’s the deal… Mizzou has always been the sleeping giant of midwest football (along with Illinois) and it seems like they’ve finally put fences up around [...]

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