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Look up! An IMAX at Old Mill
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An IMAX movie screen is coming soon to a theater inside the Regal Old Mill Stadium 16 at Bend’s Old Mill District. The upgrade will introduce higher-quality audio and visuals, a bigger screen and a more accommodating seating arrangement. The new format, based on technology first conceived in 1967, will allow for showings of regular or 3-D movies. Internal construction to convert the theater could start after the summer movie season ends, said Robbie Arrington, marketing manager for Regal Entertainment Group, based in Knoxville, Tenn. Arrington said he did not have specific start or end dates for the construction, which has been approved by the Old Mill District. Currently the closest cinema with an IMAX theater is the Regal Valley River Center Stadium 15 in Eugene. A few other cinemas in the Portland area also feature IMAX theaters. See IMAX / A7
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Bend’s Ashton Eaton, 23, won his first decathlon as a pro at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships Friday in Eugene, claiming his title as America’s best decathlete. On Friday, he cleared 16 feet, 6¾ inches in the pole vault, left, and broke the U.S. record in the decathlon 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.52 seconds.
Ashton Eaton: U.S. champion The former Mountain View High School and University of Oregon star didn’t just win the decathlon at the U.S. championships on Friday — he dominated. On his home track in Eugene, Eaton tallied 8,729 points, winning by more than 700 points. Up next: the world championships in South Korea later this summer, and perhaps the 2012 London Olympics.
‘Safety myth’ eased Japan’s embrace of nuclear power
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Budget belt-tightening threatens to send school librarians the way of the card catalog. In Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, all 48 elementary and middle school librarians would lose their jobs under a budget proposal that faces a vote next week. School officials across the country say they have little choice but to eliminate librarians, having already reduced administrative staff, frozen wages, shed extracurricular activities and trimmed spending on supplies. Technological advances are also changing views of librarians: As more classrooms are equipped with laptops, tablets or e-readers, students can often do research from their desks that previously might have required a library visit. See Librarians / A7
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“There was an unreasonable overconfidence in the technology of Japan’s nuclear power generation.” — Banri Kaieda, minister for economy, trade and industry
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By Norimitsu Onishi SHIKA, Japan — Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.” “It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.” A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to address Alice and the visitors to the building, declares that there is an “ace” form of energy called nuclear power. It is clean, safe and renewable if you reprocess uranium and plutonium, the Dodo says. “Wow, you can even do that!” Alice says of nuclear power. “You could say that it’s optimal for resource-poor Japan!” Over several decades, Japan’s nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to persuade the Japanese public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power. Plant operators built lavish, fantasyfilled public relations buildings that became tourist attractions. Bureaucrats spun elaborate advertising campaigns through a multitude of organizations established solely to advertise the safety of nuclear plants. See Japan / A6
SALEM — If local lawmakers could shepherd the renewal of the region’s groundwater program and secure funding for the Oregon State University-Cascades Campus, Rep. Gene Whisnant, RSunriver, said it would translate into a successful legislative session for Central Oregon. One down, one to go. On Friday, the Senate passed the bill renewing the Deschutes Water Mitigation Program, pavIN THE ing the way, proponents said, for LEGISLATURE development in the region and protection of the river. Passed by a wide margin, the bill now goes to the desk of Gov. John Kitzhaber. Whisnant said he expected Kitzhaber to sign it. The program ensures that when water is pumped from the basin, enough water is put back in the river to offset the pumping. See Water / A6
STARTING WITH A SPLASH Chris Pietsch / The (Eugene) Register-Guard
Ashton Eaton takes a victory lap at Hayward Field in Eugene on Friday after winning the decathlon on the second day of the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships. For full coverage, see Sports, Page D1.
After narrow vote, New York becomes largest state to legalize gay marriage By Michael Gormley The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers Friday, handing activists a breakthrough victory in the state where the gay rights movement was born. New York becomes the sixth state where gay couples can wed and the biggest by far. “We are leaders and we join other proud states that recognize our families and the battle will now go on in other states,” said Sen. Thomas Duane, a Democrat. Gay rights advocates are hoping the vote will galvanize the movement around the country and help
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Revelers celebrate the passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York on Friday. it regain momentum after an almost identical bill was defeated here in 2009 and similar measures failed in
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2010 in New Jersey and this year in Maryland and Rhode Island. Though New York is a relative latecomer in allowing gay marriage, it is considered an important prize for advocates. The gay rights movement is considered to have started with the Stonewall riots in New York City’s Greenwich Village in 1969. A huge street party erupted outside the Stonewall Inn Friday night, with celebrants waving rainbow flags and dancing after the historic vote. “I am spellbound. I’m so exhausted and so proud that the New York State Senate finally stood on the right side of history,” said Queens teacher Eugene Lovendusky, 26, who is gay and said he hopes to marry someday. See Gay marriage / A7
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Naomi Horton, 10, of Crescent City, Calif., hustles through wading pools at the start of the Pacific Crest Weekend Sports Festival Kids’ Splash Pedal-n-Dash event Friday in Sunriver. Competitors of all ages will tackle Pacific Crest triathlon, duathlon and running events today and tomorrow in Sunriver.
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