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My Partner and friend Duncan McGregor celebrates his 80th birthday on October 31, 2020

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  Bob Carter (left) and Duncan McGregor are inspecting a press sheet from Arthurs-Jones' six colour Heidelberg Speedmaster. This is a photograph taken in 1987 and published in Print Action.  Bob began his printing career from the bottom rung and worked his way to chief production manager. Duncan did the same in the sales department leading, encouraging and rewarding others for a job well done. When it became time to take over the firm Dunc stepped up and put his stamp on a company that had been in business since 1905. This and other postings are backgrounds to my search for refinement. InRefinement Inc. is an organization with one employee me. There are people, institutions, work places, artistic and sporting endeavours that inspire - or otherwise - our goals and life styles. Duncan McGregor is one of those people who changed my life with seven little words, "Would you like to work in sales?' It was 1964 and I was 23 years of age. The old Sterling Rd plant with the modern

November 3, 2020 Election Day in the United States of America

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                                            The Democratic Wannabes                     Four more years of DJT?                                   Joe Biden is (D) the Nominee  Three and a half years ago the Democrats wanted to impeach Donald J. Trump. Nothing has changed since. He continues to employ his 2016 race for the Whitehouse with the phrase 'Make America Great Again.' CNN has favoured Joe Biden, FOX has waved Trump's flag for more than four years. The coverage is 24/7 too. The Democrats and the Republicans have hurled every possible stone on to the Discontent Rock-pile in favour of their choice of government until a killing or major news event like Covid-19 momentarily captured the public's attention. The Opinion-laden News along with the newly created Fake News was top of mind for most of us. Book after book was written and published denigrating Donald J. Trump. The writers are former employees, former lawyers, current relatives, biographers and soldiers who ba