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Apple's new lineup — The expected: NewiPhone, iPad and Apple TV.Theunexpected: Apple Pencil, a stylus.C6
• The plan isto breakthe fixed-wing altitude record,flying to the edgeof space Futuristic restaurant? Order, pick up your food and leave all without seeing anyone whoworks there. A3
Vandalism case that sparked outrage ends infine By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
The U.S. Attorney’s Of›
fice in Eugene announced Wednesday afternoon that
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it has resolved a vandalism case at Tumalo Falls last spring that drew national attention. A Prineville man who saw some children scratch› ing their initials into the
railing at a Tumalo Falls overlook in May went public with his anger over the van› dalism and posted a photo of the family on Facebook.
Chir opractors — How soon is it safe to start seeing one? Someparents are start› ing with their infants.D1
Brett Nelson, 41, said
he just wanted to make a
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point about the vandalism
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and what he said was a rude reaction he received from a man who was there
with a boy and girl. The photo drew more than 64,000 shares on Facebook,
and major newspapers and television stations
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Flame gun sold online in all but 2 states By Jessica Contrera The Washington Post
"This, my friends, is
picked up the story. Nelson said The Seattle Times, The New York Times and Joe Kiine/The Bulletin
Program Manager Eric Schmidlin works on the fuselage of the Perlsn 2 experimental glider Wednesday afternoon at RDD Enterprises in Redmond. Pilot Jim Payne plans to test fly the aircraft next week in Redmond.
By Beau Eastes eThe Bulletin
The sky is hardly the limit for the latest aviation project at the Redmond Airport. On Wednesday, the Perlan 2, an experimental glider that aims to eventually go more than 90,000 feet in the air, will make its initial test flight at the Redmond Airport. Next week’s low-altitude flight
the sailplane will run through a series of checks approximately 5,000 feet off the ground›
will be the first in-air test for the glider, which later hopes to shatter the fixed-wing aircraft altitude
into the camera with a
record of 50,722 feet set by Perlan Project founder Einar Enevoldson and his co-pilot and noted
deep chuckle. And then he brandishes his shiny new flamethrower. "I’m talking about gettin’ some for sure!"helaughs. Yes, a flamethrower: As in, a gun that shoots
flames. They are 100 per› cent legal and now, eas› ier to obtain than you ever
imagined. Mark Hoffman’s You› Tube channel was mostly
focused on shotguns and pistols until he got his hands on an XM42, one of
two personal flamethrow› ers put on the market this year and the subject of his rollicking video review. Anyone with $899 and an Internet connection can
buy one. No background checks, no permits, and in 48
states, no regulation. "Fire ’er up!" Hoffman hollers before blasting some grass with a 25-foot stream of ignited gasoline. Until this year, if you wanted to own a flame›
thrower, you would proba› bly have to build it yourself, or spend big on a vintage
"It’s going to be a mile› stone in aviation history,"
but will then ride high al› titude mountain waves in
boasted Doug Perrenod, the its later flights when it at› project coordinator for the temptsto go beyond 50,000 Perlan 2 launch. "This glid› feet. "Before, there’s never er is going to go higher than any other fixed-wing air› been a glider that could craft with a pilot in it. That
sustain pilots that high,"
includes the Air Force’s U-2 (spy plane). It really will be the edge of space." The dream of Enevold›
Perrenodsaid."A ircrafts
son, a former NASA test pilot, the Perlan Project
looks to build a glider that can travel to the edge of the
On theWed For more information about the Perlan Project, go to perlanproject.org. cockpit."
that go into higher altitudes
The Perlan Project devel›
have pressurized systems. Commercial aircrafts,for example, pump air into
oped its own life-support system for its high-altitude flights, a "re-breather" sys›
their planes for their crew
tem similar to underwater diving. "This is not an off-the›
and passengers. "Gliders don’t have en›
Earth’s atmosphere. The
gines, though," Perrenod Perlan 2, an 1,800-pound added. "What glider pilots glider with an 84-foot wing› have discovered at high span, will be towed into the altitudes is that they needed air like a traditional glider, some waytopressurize the
shelf thing," Perrenod added. "We’ ve taken some different components and
ideas and customized them for our own application.
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• EU leader’s refugee plan,A2
A Cleveland-based company called XMatter changed that in January
Nearly all of the refugees had come from Hungary a
flamethrower made of a
As hundreds of Germans held up "Welcome Refugees" signs last weekend, much of Europe watched in bewilder› ment. "Germany is the only
200-ounce carbon dioxide
country that is welcoming us,"
tank, a fuel tank and a liquid-shooting gun. When the trigger is pressed, the carbon dioxide pressurizes the fuel, and the fuel is set
said Alalie, a 37-year-old from
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Pressurizing the Perlan 2’s cockpit gives it a unique look among gliders, Per› renod says. "It resembles the private
spaceships built by Virgin Galactic, "Perrenod added. "We pressurized the cockpit
area, giving it windows in› stead of the big convention› al bubble on most gliders. It’s basically a spaceship with wings." SeeGlider/A6
channeling voters’ anger is becoming as much a thing as grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair. But this
election cycle, Republicans see something different
with real estate mogul and reality television star Don› ald Trump carrying that mantle and leading in the polls deep into the summer: The outsider is not (yet) crumbling under scrutiny. "What we’ re seeing is frustration with the inaction
in Washington, and it’s be› ing manifest through some of these candidates who are
not lifelong politicians," said Matt Wills, a former polit› ical director for Sen. Rick
Santorum’s 2012 presiden› tial campaign. SeeOutsider/A5
Why some countries welcome migrants warmly the thousands of refugees who arrived at the main train sta› tion in Munich.
into the air.
Almost everything from nose to tail (on the glider) is new technology. If we accomplish everything we’ re trying to do, this thing will wind up in the Smithsonian."
The Washington Post
flames can shoot 50 feet
By Eli Yokley CQ-Roll Call
The political outsider
By Rick Noack
ablaze at the gun’s tip. The
Outsider candidates: Any hope?
adventurer Steve Fossett in 2006.
World War II-era weapon.
with the X15, a $1,599
that covered the case.
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what dreams are made
of," the bearded man says
NBC’s "Today Show" were among the media outlets
out? The reasons are many, but
to welcome newcomers.
But why are there such deep divides within Europe? Why
one stands out: demographics. In Germany, for instance, a rapidly aging population is becomingincreasingly aware of the need to welcome foreign›
A doser look at the accom› panying map, which compares demographic trends across Europe between 2001 and 2011, helps explain some of the rea›
country with restrictive im›
do some countries welcome
ers. Other countries, where
sons Europe is so divided on
migration policies and where many said the authorities had
refugees, while others do ev› the aging trend is much less erything they can to keep them severe, have fewer incentives
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