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	<title>UCOG Today [Paul Kieffer]</title>
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	<description>News and views from the German-language region of Europe</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 06:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>German mating season 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=519</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 05:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Life in Europe</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My amateur anthropological observation of young Germans led to additional insights this year on the customs of the native population in my vicinity.   






&#160;A trailer prepared for the evening ritual.


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&#160;A sapling placed by a female native at the&#160;house of a desired male native.


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 As happens every year here in this part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it worth it?</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=518</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Sabbath Thoughts</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gospels tell us that Jesus&#39; disciples accepted their calling to follow him. They were with him constantly, which was not unusual back then for the students of great teachers. 
Being followers meant that Jesus&#39; disciples had given up their professions, along with other things. That&#39;s why the apostle Peter asked Jesus: &#34;See, we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Kieffer gets published</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Family</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My nephew Lon &#39;s book on caregivers has been published and is available on amazon.
Lon is named after my oldest brother (his first son), who is named after my dad.  With 25 years of service as a healthcare professional, he knows his field pretty well. His attention in recent years is devoted to Caregivers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You didn&#39;t see that 40 years ago</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=516</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Life in Europe</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In contrast to America &#8211; and Switzerland &#8211; Germans did not tend to &#34;fly the flag&#34; when I first came to Germany 41 years ago.
Maybe they did not identify (or want to identify) with their country, which at time was still divided  as a result of World War II. Of course, you saw the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A minor kitchen makeover</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=515</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Life in Europe</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I got back to Germany last month, my refrigerator had given up the ghost. 
It was a fairly large (for German standards) refrigerator with a  freezer compartment and a crisper compartment, and originally it was mounted in a large vertical cabinet as part of a built-in kitchen Monica had installed when we moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Night to be much observed&#34;</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=514</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>UCG-Germany</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I met some friends for our church&#8217;s traditional &#34;Night to be much observed.&#34;
Each year at the beginning of the 15th day of the first month of the Hebrew sacred calendar (in March or April according to our Roman calender, depending on the date)  we meet to commemorate the night when the Israelites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Train nostalgia: TEE &#34;Rheingold&#34;</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=513</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Life in Europe</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I waited for my train to Berlin this morning at Cologne&#39;s main station, a bit of train nostalgia rolled on the other side of the platform. 






&#160;Today&#8217;s special &#34;Rheingold&#34; route.


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&#160;The TEE &#34;Rheingold&#34; had a special dome car,&#160;which was unique on the German train system.


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 A special nostalgia TEE (&#34;Trans Europ Express&#34;) train, the &#34;Rheingold&#34;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ, our Passover</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=512</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Sabbath Thoughts</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1 Corinthians 5:7, Paul wrote that &#34;Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.&#34; This statement holds profound meaning for Christians. 
Paul wrote these words to the Corinthian church, which was allowing one of its members to continue in a sexual sin. This was no ordinary sin, even for the profligate Corinthian society of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Admitting our mistakes</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=511</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Sabbath Thoughts</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone makes mistakes. That is part of being human. 
When others ask us for forgiveness, we are obligated to fulfill their request (Matthew 6:12-14).
But what if we are the one asking for forgiveness? If we recognize a mistake in our conduct, we will need to seek forgiveness. That is part of Christian fellowship. Seeking and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See ya later alligator!</title>
		<link>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=510</link>
		<comments>http://www.ucog.org/blog/?p=510#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kieffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Back in the USA</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Or maybe not, since this one won&#8217;t be doing much anymore.  
The city of Mobile owns a piece of undeveloped property about two hundred yards from our house. The property borders on Moore creek, and city trucks bring  in dirt and take it back out again in some kind of ongoing job preservation [...]]]></description>
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