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Oregon hasmore than doubled from 2008 to 2012:8,433 households to 19,234.
The U.S. Forest Service is poised to once again approve a permit for the city of Bend to build a new $24 million water intake facility and pipeline in the Cascades foothills. On Friday, the Forest Service issued a notice of its draft decision to issue a permit for the project. It's designed to replace existing infrastructure that carries water from Bridge Creek to the city. Water from the Bridge Creek watershed
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the annual city supply. Yet the Bridge Creek project still faces opposition, in particular from a local nonprofit that sued in federal court to stop it last year. Paul Dewey, executive director of Central Oregon LandWatch, said the latest city proposal is the same as the project his organization fought last year. Previously, the city asked the ForestService to approve a plan to take more water from Bridge Creek. The city dropped that proposal last year after Central Oregon LandWatch filed suit, and submitted a new application to the Forest Service in which the city asked to take only the amount it currently withdraws from the creek. The design of the intake facility and pipeline, however, have not changed from the previous proposal. SeeWater/A5
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Steven Spielberg saw it coming. In June, speaking at a University of Southern California event with George Lucas, the Lincoln director said, "There's where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen mega-budget movies are
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going to change the paradigm" — forcing the industry to rethink its reliance on gargantuan spectacles. A month later, the first part of Spielberg's prediction has already come true: The latest high-profile calamity at the box office is the ill-buzzed "R.I.P.D.," which followed such heavily marketed titles as "Pacific Rim," "The Lone Ranger," "White House Down" and "After Earth" in failing to attract its expected audience. Meanwhile, "The Conjuring," a smaller, Exorcist-style chiller from "Saw" directorJames Wan, more than doubled its production budget in just one weekend. Summer 2013 is unquestionably the season of the iiber-flop. But do these numbers add up to the paradigm shift that Spielberg anticipates? For moviegoers exasperated by CGI whooshing — and 150-minute running times padded with a solid hour of action — a victory for the little guy might seem like
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• Cuts to food stamps in aneffort to control spending havesomeadvocates worried By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — The House ofRepresentatives passed a farm bill July 10 that made no allowances for food stamps, and with Republican leaders saying they would revisit the program later.
The legislative maneuver decoupledthe Supplemental Nutritional Allowance Program, or SNAP, as food stamps are now known, from agricultural policy. Since the 1960s, the two have been paired in a political marriage of convenience, in part under the
theory that by providing money for the needy to buy food will help create demand for the food grown by farmers. Earlier this year, the Senate passed a version of the farm bill that included more than $4.5 billion in cuts to SNAP funding over 10
years. The House tried and failed to pass its own farm bill that included cuts to SNAP totalling $20 billion over 10 years. InWashington,these efforts reflect a political effort to rein in government
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FDA proposesnew rules for food imports By Sabrina Tavernise New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — More than two years after Congress passed a landmark law meant to prevent the importation of contaminated food that sickens Americans, the
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Food and Drug Administration proposed rules Friday that for the first time put the main onus on companies to police the food they import. Major food importers and consumer advocates generally praised the new
rules, but the advocates also said they worried the rules may give the companies too much discretion about whether to conduct on-site inspections of the places where the food is grown and processed. They said
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such inspections must be mandated. The law itself was grappling, in part, with problems that have grown out of an increasingly globalized food
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TOKYO — Japan should look into acquiring offensive weapons and other new military capabilities and assume a more active role in regional security, the country's defense minister said Friday, giving an early glimpse of how the new conservative government could lead the nation further than ever from its postwar pacifism. The minister, Itsunori Onodera, said Japan should consider such steps as acquiring weapons to strike bases in hostile countries and aerial drones to monitor Japan's vast territorial waters in response to the growing capabilities of North Korea and China. He spoke after his ministry released an interim report on an overhaul of Japanese defense strategy underway by the administration of hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose Liberal Democratic Party won a decisive election victory Sunday. SeeJapan/A6
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