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Troubleshooting: Always Prepared

The Boy Scouts have a motto: "Always Prepared". Yet it seems as if Len and I no sooner prepare to troubleshoot one problem when another presents itself, and that's why I was crawling around in a chill wind, parting blades of grass and overturning rocks, looking for a 3X3 cm square metal tag.

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The fish eye

August 1, 2011 - 13 h 03

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The most interesting Come From Away

July 18, 2011 - 8 h 09

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Blind spots and backseat drivers

July 4, 2011 - 2 h 04

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He didn't tell me how to live

June 20, 2011 - 2 h 01

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Today's connectivity conundrum

June 3, 2011 - 10 h 02

At 4.11pm on Thursday, August 14, 2003, the power went out in Toronto for almost 24 hours. The blackout affected an estimated 10 million people in Ontario and 45 million people in eight US states.

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Just wait 'til you have children of your own

May 9, 2011 - 9 h 00

My 35-year-old niece's voice dropped to a whisper as she confided, "I'm in therapy because mom divorced dad when I was only 11, and that's why my life is a mess." Which made me wonder: what about my kids? Would they need therapy because I had done...

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Life is stranger than fiction

April 26, 2011 - 20 h 54

When the maid reached into the toilet and grabbed the black mass beneath the suds, she thought the small children living in the home had dropped their teddy bear into the toilet but, to her shock, the ‘teddy bear’ came alive in her hand.

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Mystery flight across Sacred Bay

April 11, 2011 - 10 h 00

Some people witness or hear about mysterious events and shrug them off -- I don’t.

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Crows making tools?

March 28, 2011 - 2 h 58

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Teddy's terrible fate

March 14, 2011 - 2 h 51

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