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Flood Waters in the Midwest

This is a bit off topic for this blog, but significant nevertheless for me. I’m from St. Louis Missouri, where area rivers are overflowing their banks. I have extensive pictures posted at my flickr account which can be found here: Jim Parker ’s Flickr

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My Journalist Friend

Thanks to Anton for announcing my blog on jcu92.org (Jim Parker Checks In ).  Anton is one of those friends that when you haven’t seen or talked to him in many, many years, when you finally talk to him, it is as though you had been talking to him every day for the past week.

That’s always nice.

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Enough is enough

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Who Reinvents the Firm?

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Old Media version 1.0045

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