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It started Saturday while cleaning out the shed: I found my two old Apple iBooks, dead, but still resting comfortably in their cases. My 12" iBook suffered a motherboard failure five years earlier, and the iBook G4 14" lost its mind when the hard drive crashed. At the time it was too expensive to get either repaired as both had gone out of warranty, so they were banished to the shed.

Then it hit me: why couldn't I use both iBooks to create one, working laptop?

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Around 80% of people who lose weight by dieting end up gaining it back within two years.  And a lot of them end up heavier than they were before.  Obviously, the secret to staying thin LONG-TERM is exercise.

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Some friends of our just got back from an amazing vacation. They had a great time but they both admitted that they were gone way to long to the point were everyone wanted to kill each other the last few days. This was not a good way to wrap up their vacation.

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(AP) – The state Department of Labor says long-term unemployment benefits in Idaho will expire after Dec. 31, though some jobless workers will be cut off sooner depending on when they started receiving the federal assistance. Agency spokesman Bob Fick says the jobless benefits are being scaled back because Idaho’s jobless rate is improving and a new federal law is phasing out emergency assistance for long-term unemployed workers.

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Saturday afternoon, family, friends and a community remembered Army Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown, a Jerome soldier killed by enemy explosives in Afghanistan two weeks ago.  Over a thousand  people gathered with them for his funeral service at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.  Brown was killed 10 months into deployment.

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You'd think with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Birthdays, we'd have enough holidays to go around.

I thought we'd get some nice ideas by asking what YOU would do if you could pick your own holiday.  Here are some of my favorites that you came up with:

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As the world waited to watch the new season of the acclaimed television program "Game of Thrones," my kids and I were instead having an all-day "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" marathon. The show, featuring cartoon versions of Captain America, Iron Man, The Hulk, and Thor, airs on Disney's XD and is pretty cool.

Especially if you're a three-year-old named Jack.

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You know cigarettes and excessive alcohol consumption are bad for you. But what about sugar? A California doctor says it’s not just unhealthy, it’s downright toxic.

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Do you ever have moments when it seems like all the tearjerker TV shows and movies are on and you can't help but watch them? It is kind of like when your husband watches Star Wars for the 100th time. He knows what happens and how everything ends but he still has to watch it. It is the same thing with women...if it makes us cry, we watch it.

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There are some services that Twin Falls city could provide but for one reason or another either can’t or doesn’t.  That leaves opportunities for other organizations to provide the services.  And to help with those opportunities the city hands out grants to help the organizations provide those services.  The end result is that the services get provided at sometimes a big cost savings to the city.  The grants are called Municipal Powers Outsource Grant Funding. 

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