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		<title>At the ballgame with brother Ted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick trip to Indiana to visit my brother Ted provided an opportunity to go to a minor league baseball game.
My brother Ted lives in South Bend, Indiana. I had not seen him for over four years, so it was time for a quick  two-day trip to South Bend, Indiana. While there I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kung-Fu football &#8211; Ouch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s World Cup final had some people complaining again about the quality of the officiating during the tournament.
Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 with a goal in the final minutes of overtime play to win the World Cup for the first time. For the Dutch, it was the third loss in a World Cup final  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Pride goes before destruction&#34;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quote from the book of Proverbs in the Bible comes to mind after Germany&#8217;s 4-0 World Cup victory over Argentina today.
Four years ago at the World Cup football tournament held in Germany, Argentina met Germany at the same stage of the tournament  and the game ended in a tie &#8211; including the 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ghost of Wembley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One German newspaper described today&#8217;s World Cup match between England and Germany as the &#34;ghost of Wembley&#34;.
Germany defeated England 4-1 to advance to the quarterfinals, but the game was closer for a while than the score indicates.  Germany had gone up 2-0 in the first half, but before halftime, with the score 2-1, an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=358</link>
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		<title>&#34;Raisin bomber&#34; crashes in Berlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That headline might have been published over 60 years ago, but it was again today in Berlin.
A &#34;raisin bomber&#34; made a crash landing today near Berlin&#8217;s Sch&#246;nefeld airport, shortly after take-off.  &#34;Raisin bomber&#34; or &#34;Rosinenbomber&#34; in German is the nickname for an historic DC-3 aircraft that offers 30 minute excursion flights over Berlin. 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camping with the grandkids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time out for some serious quality time with my grand kids!
I am at Inks Lake state park in Texas, not far from Austin, with my daughter Rachel and her  three children, Sean, Adrian and Maia (ages 9, 6 and 3). We have a &#34;limited use&#34; cabin near the lake (the view in the picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Take me out to the ballgame&#34;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time it was grandson Adrian who got his Opa out to the ballpark.
Things have changed since I played baseball as a kid. I started playing when I was 7 or 8 years old,  and we played a &#34;real&#34; game &#8211; our pitcher (and all our players) were kids our age. We did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Snipers&#34; behind the Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s surprise resignation by German federal president Horst K&#246;hler reminded me of an earlier German president who resigned a few weeks prior to the end of his second term, largely as a result of efforts to discredit him by &#34;snipers&#34; behind the Wall.
Walls can enclose, divide, support &#8211; or serve as protection for &#34;snipers&#34;. Such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=354</link>
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		<title>An unusual tailwind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s flight from the Frankfurt to Atlanta was one hour and six minutes shorter than scheduled!
Normally when the flight is south of Greenland, before reaching the Canadian coastline, strong headwinds begin to slow our progress down. I don&#8217;t know if the plane was on a slightly more southerly route (as a result of recent volcanic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=353</link>
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		<title>More Stops on My Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Pentecost weekend means a few more stops on my journey in serving the members in the German-language region.
Tomorrow I get up about 5:30 a.m. and I will need to leave my apartment for the Siegburg/Bonn train station at about 7:30 a.m. My train to the Cologne main station departs at 8:14 a.m. In Cologne [...]]]></description>
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