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They just posted this so I thought I would post it here.

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We’ve landed here in Michiana (the border land of Michigan and Indiana) after a bit of travel that involved Erika flying by herself with all three kids and me driving a 16 foot Penske truck (towing our Camry) by myself for 18 hours straight.  We will be here until June 27th or so while I [...]

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I’m leaving in 5 minutes to pick up the U-Haul truck and the computer is being packed up after this one last quick post.  So not enough time for a full post, but here are two quick photos.  I also posted the video of my actually graduating, escorted by my trusty bodyguards.  More photos to follow, [...]

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Graduation weekend kicked off last night with a classic New England clam bake.  We got all dressed up and civilized then made a royal mess as we ripped apart whole Maine lobster, tried to keep sleeves from dragging in melted butter and made liberal use of the provided lobster bibs.  While the all you can [...]

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A few years ago CRS started a volunteer program to place volunteers with local partners to do grassroots work, along the lines of Peace Corps, JVC or the Farm of the Child where Erika and I volunteered.  At a conference a few weeks ago I met a woman in her early twenties who had just finished a stint volunteering with CRS in Kenya.   I mentioned I was going [...]

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Thought I would share a few interesting maps.  The first is a normal map and then the others are distorted by various characteristics.
“Normal” Map
  
 Here is the same map that takes each country and sizes it for population size intead of land mass size.

And now a map with countries represented according to child mortality rates.

These maps [...]

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