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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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Why We Remember

The importance of remembering our Soldiers on Memorial Day.
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For the fifth year on Memorial Day, community members volunteered their time to read the name, age and hometown of every soldier killed in Afghanistan since 2001 and Iraq since 2003. This year it took 13 hours, 15 minutes to complete the reading (8:30 a.m.–9:45 p.m.).
I find we always have a positive response when the call goes out to obtain volunteer readers. Several have read on more than one Memorial Day, some have read all five. Each year we have new voices that join in to make this memorial possible. One of the areas we have experienced a shortage was in people coming down to listen and remember.

Posted inOpinion

Transcending Anger

Opinion on anger and how it effects who we are.
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Anger stems from the perception of some kind of imbalance. Much of the anger represented by a fair share of media outlets seems to focus on reactive situations of a “knee jerk” modality. Such situations exhibit the primitive side of human nature. The primitive side of human nature is only one side of the human coin. The other (not opposite) side of the human coin represents the “mind over matter” variable of humanity. A less attuned mind will allow the human body to continue with its “knee jerk” reaction. This “knee jerk” reaction will continue to occur, sometimes uncontrollably.

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Judicial Restraint and Unrestrained Dishonesty

Chief Justice Roberts earns the Glass Slipper this week while Walden receives The Boot.
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Conservatives talk a good game about “judicial restraint” when it suits their purposes. But last week John Roberts, the conservative chief justice of the US Supreme Court, actually practiced it.
Roberts cast the deciding fifth vote to declare that the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” is constitutional. He held that Congress didn’t have the power to impose a mandate on individuals to buy health insurance under the interstate commerce clause, but that it could constitutionally impose a tax penalty (as the law provides) on people who refuse to buy it.

Posted inCulture

Our Picks For 07/05-07/12

Events going on in the area that we’re sure you would enjoy.
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Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships
thursday 5 – sunday 8
What better way to prep for the London Games than to watch some of our local Olympic hopefuls square off in events like the long jump, decathlon, pole vault and, hopefully, the hammer throw. It all goes down at Summit Field where some 1,500 young athletes will converge for a chance to move on to the Junior Olympics. Free All Ages. Summit High School.

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Spider Bites: The Amazing Spider-man can’t erase memory of how much better its story could be told.

Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone star in the new film The Amazing Spider-man.
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I’m sure there will be people who argue that The Amazing Spider-man should be evaluated on its own merits, as a work separate from the legacy of Sam Raimi’s Spider-man films over the last decade. And I respectfully ask—after I catch my breath from the hysterical laughter—“You’re joking, right?”
Leave aside for a moment the cynical reality that Sony had to make this movie sooner rather than later, in order to preserve its rights to the character after Disney’s deal to buy Marvel Comics. The fact remains that we are not even a generation removed from one of the great pop-culture one-two punches in blockbuster history (I’m pretending that Spider-man 3 never happened, as should we all). We saw what a pretty-close-to-perfect Spider-man movie looks like. We know that it’s possible. And because we know these things, how is it possible to look at The Amazing Spider-man and not recognize how much it lacks?

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Bend Parks Board’s Mirror Pond Play

The parks board members get this week’s glass slipper.
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Last week the Bend Parks Board wisely put the breaks on a plan to include a Mirror Pond management study in a proposed November bond request that includes a number of attractive projects, including the completion of the Bend River Trail through some key property acquisitions, the reconstruction of the perilous Colorado Avenue spillway and the construction of a seasonal ice rink on the former site of the Mt. Bachelor Park and Ride lot. The district, which owns much of the land around Mirror Pond in the form of Drake and Harmon parks was under a fair amount of pressure to take the lead on the Mirror Pond project.

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Our Picks For 06/28-07/04

This weeks picks we are sure you will enjoy.
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The Nature of Words’ Bookplate Auction and Reception
thursday 28
This is your first chance to hear about this fall’s Nature of Words conference lineup! Or just hobnob with all a bunch of smart writer-types at this benefit for the organization. The evening includes a live literature-themed auction, readings by NOW students and live music. Beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres served free with ticket. $35 on bendticket.com. 5:30-8:30pm. Atelier 6000, 389 SW Scalehouse Ct., Ste. 120.

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