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Bike Big: Hit the road this summer for some big-time mountain biking

Oakridge calls itself a mountain biking Mecca and the title suits it.
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Oakridge, Oregon: If you haven’t heard, you need to.
You could do it in a weekend, but you might need a week to really get a feel for riding Oakridge.  Oakridge calls itself a mountain biking Mecca and the title suits it.  But somehow this Cascade biking gem is still unknown, or least unfamiliar to many Bend riders. Two hours from Bend and located on Hwy 58, the small logging town offers around 500 miles of trail in the surrounding Willamette National Forest.  Downhill is the riding theme for the area, and nowhere is that more evident than in their signature Alpine Trail.  The  15 miles of singletrack will drop you over 3,000 feet as you ride past mountain vistas, through alpine meadows and into old growth forests.

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No Longer a Shining City Upon a Hill

An opinion towards the Republican leadership.
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Ronald Reagan said, “America was a shining city up on a hill.”  Back then, maybe. But no one can honestly say that now.  We are on a slippery downhill slope.  Perhaps sometime in the future America can recapture that moment.  Only the wisdom of real leadership can make that a reality. And it doesn’t look like it will happen anytime soon.
From day one of Obama’s presidency, the Republican leadership in Congress has played partisan politics. Mitch McConnell stated it succinctly, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”  The rest of the Republicans follow like penguins in a march to the sea.  Never once has the Republican leadership asked:  How can we work together for the good of the people? With no plans of their own, they only attack, distort, and disrupt.

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The Founding Mothers

An opinion between men and women.
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If it had been the Founding Mothers, John Adams would write to Abigail Adams at the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to, “Please remember the gentlemen.”  But fair being fair, they wouldn’t.
Instead, we MEN would NOT gain the vote until 1920, earn 76 cents for every dollar earned by women and be legally mandated in certain draconian states to submit to degrading, demeaning, dehumanizing and invasive ultrasound probes of the male genitals during routine physical exams by women doctors!

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Scientology Column Was a Bad Joke

Opinion of the Scientology column.
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It’s the Ann Romano article. Is that a joke? Is there any documentation of Scientology? Would she/you do the same thing to Baptists/Catholics/ etc.? I am overwhelmed with the content; there is nothing about The Week in Review. It’s not a week in review. It’s without resource-fullness, which makes it just trash.
Is there a mature person writing the article? Is there a 27 year old or a 44 year old. Her immaturity is all over the article and perhaps that’s the intent. If so, then it’s just trash and if the Source prints articles like that, what’s a reader of the Source to do? Just look at the ads? It does get me riled up.

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A Plague on Both Your Helicopters

AirLink and Life Flight get this week’s Boot.
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A core doctrine of classical economics is that competition is a good thing. According to orthodox theory, it produces better products and services, greater efficiency and lower prices.
But things don’t always work out that way, at least in the health care field. Case in point: the crazy air ambulance situation Central Oregonians are stuck with.
Up until this year there was only one air ambulance service based in the region: AirLink, operated by St. Charles Health System, the parent company of St. Charles Medical Center. AirLink had reciprocal arrangements with other air ambulance services around the state so that its subscribers were covered if they had to use those services.

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The Deadly Addiction to Cheap Meat: Antibiotics and feed lots are putting consumers in harm’s way

America’s cheap meat habit is costing more than we bargained for.
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America’s cheap meat habit is costing more than we bargained for. The factory farming of cows, pigs, poultry and fish sucks up 29 million pounds—80 percent—of antibiotics sold in the United States.
Many illness-causing bacteria are now resistant to most or all of the antibiotics that once killed them. While the overuse of antibiotics on humans has contributed to this public health crisis, the most egregious factor in creating antibiotic resistance is the routine, widespread, greed-driven dosing of livestock. About a quarter of U.S. meat and poultry samples contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Our Picks For 07/11-07/18

This week’s picks we are sure you will enjoy.
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Crooked River Roundup Horse Racing
wednesday 11 – saturday 14
Gather up your derby hats and your mint juleps, pack the buckaroos into the wagon and head out to Prineville for the region’s only on-track betting event with a chance to win big while playing the ponies right in our backyard. This isn’t the Kentucky Derby, though. The atmosphere here is more Pendleton Round-Up than Churchill Downs, which means plenty of fun for the whole family. $5. All ages. Gates at 6 p.m. Races at 7:15 p.m. Crook County Fairgrounds, 1280 S. Main St., Prineville.

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Race Big: Why race in one sport when you can race in three?

Armed with a desire to prove they can do it, beginner triathletes are flocking to the multi-sport event.
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“The best part about triathlon newbies is they still know how to have fun while competing,” says Joanne Stevens who runs a triathlon training program in town.
Only a childlike sense of excitement could propel the average athlete/couch potato past the finish line of a race that includes swimming, biking and running. Armed  with a desire to prove they can do it, or just a need to cross another thing off their bucket list, beginner triathletes are flocking to the multi-sport event.

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Riding High: Glass off with tandem paragliding

Those who really want to fly should consider taking a ride with U Fly Tandem, a local paragliding business in Bend.
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There are plenty of extreme sports for adrenaline junkies in Central Oregon. But those who really want to fly should consider taking a ride with U Fly Tandem, a local paragliding business in Bend.
Lisa Darsonval started U Fly in 2010 as a way to supplement her income.
“I love paragliding and wanted to share it with other people,” she said. “We thought, ‘What would we want to do to bring in some additional income?’ And this seemed like something fun to do.”

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The Name of the Game: Lucrative franchise branding can’t salvage Game of Thrones lack of innovation

First in a series of novels, Game of Thrones has been through the proverbial entertainment media ringer.
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First in a series of novels, Game of Thrones has been through the proverbial entertainment media ringer. It’s been a comic book, a board game, a card game, an HBO series and, finally, a video game. The books were a hit, the HBO series is doing well, but the game… well, it could draw comparisons to Dragon Age, The Witcher or Elder Scrolls, except that it just doesn’t measure up to the standards set by either.
The setting is the land of Westeros, and while that seems a decent enough environment to base a game – and it is wonderfully envisioned by the developers, Cyanide – there are only two story threads that the game tracks. The first is the story of Ser Mors Westford, a knight of the Night’s Watch working from Castle Black in the shadow of the Wall. Mors is a foul-mouthed veteran with a gruff appearance and demeanor.

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