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By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
Matt King, a software engineer who isblind and SplitS time between SiliCpnValley and Bend,iShelping tp makeuserinterface easlel’fpl pepple pf all abllltles
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engineering team.
get there.
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Veteran A look back at the life of Richard WaynePerry, who "went out the wayhe wanted."A7
When Matt King built his dream home with his wife, Kim, in Bend in 2011, they
fall 2016, isn’t overrun by
drivers. As part of a trans› portation plan, the school is expecting only one-fifth of students to arrive by car. Walkers and bikers are
chose NorthWest Crossing because of its suburban feel
and walkability. Access to nearby businesses and
The ’grandmother hypOtheSiS’ I-low grand› mas helped shapehuman society.A3
schools was important to Matt, who is blind.
expected to account for 30
percent combined, while 20 percent are projected
The Kings didn’t know that just a few years after they settled in Bend, Matt
Obituary MosesMalone,
would be offered a job with
an NBA Hall of Famernick› named the "Chairman of the Boards," dies at 60.B7
Facebook, leave his position at IBM and their home in
to ride the bus. The rest,
the school anticipates, will either be dropped off or one of about 300 students
living in dorms. Students living on campus will not
Oregon, and move tothe bustling Bay Area. Considering Facebook’s company goal is to connect people across the world, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
And a Web exclusive› A soldier’s quest to release his female self. beuttbunetiu.curn/extras
be allowed to own cars. In
total, the university says its 10-acre campus will be able to serve around 1,900
students, a population it ex› pects to hit in five years.
"When I saw their mission
and my mission aligned, I was like, ’Wow,’" King, 49,
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Doctors anxious over coding changes
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Matt King works on his laptop at his home in Bend on Thursday afternoon. King, who is blind,
started working for Facebook atthe company’s headquarters in June as an accessibility engineer.
said. "I drank the Kool-Aid
as they say." For years, King worked as an engineer for IBM. He
started there after graduat› ing from the University of Notre Dame.
King is blind from retinitis pigmentosa. Although he was born with the disease,
and buses, and the school isn’t above using bribes to The university is work› ing on a plan to ensure its new four-year campus, which is scheduled to open on Bend’s west side in
By Kailey Fisicaro
Remembering arodeo
OSU-Cascades is ded› icated to getting students
he could see for many years; his vision decreased as the disease progressed. Last week, in a teal Face›
book T-shirt, King sat on his patio-style front porch in Bend, with a laptop nearby. King has an apartment in
Menlo Park, California,
User interface can be any›
where he is working full time on Facebook’s accessi› bility engineering team. As an accessibility engi› neer, King is helping make
thing from a keyboard to a screen to text on a website:
anything a person uses to navigate a device. In King’ s case, he’s making Facebook more adaptable. SeeKing/A5
the user interface easier to
use for people of all abilities.
University leaders say the transportation plan is driven by a desire to sup› port sustainable habits and to minimize the universi› ty’s contribution to traffic.
OSU-Cascades’ most direct attempt to cut down on driving is to limit the
number of parking spaces available to only about 300, something that will dis›
courage not only students, but also staff, from driving. However, the university is
also studying how it can reward students for finding
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New York Times News Service
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. The nation’s health
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care providers are under orders to start using a new
system of medical codes to describe illnesses and in› juries in more detail than
ever before. The codes will cover common ail›
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ments: Did a diabetic also
have kidney disease’? But alsoincluded are some that are far less common: whether the patient was
crushed by a crocodile or sucked into a jet engine. The more than 100,000 new codes, which take
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Matt King, of Bend, walks hand in hand with his children on
campus at Facebookheadquar›
effect Oct. 1, have poten›
ters in Menlo Park, California. For now, his wife and children are still living in Bend.
tial benefits, as they will require doctors to make a deeper assessment of But the change is providers, who fear that
claims will be denied and payments delayed if
Rethinking domestic partner benefits By Rebecca Beitsch
codes, or do not use them properly. Some doctors and hospitals are already obtaining lines of credit because they fear that the
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tem will cause cash-flow problems. "It’s a sea change for physicians," said Dr. Pardeep Kumar, a 46-year-old internist here
who is counting down to Oct. 1. "We will have to be very much more specific." SeeCoding/A8
Naturally, Mohammad problems, too. Mansour
they do not use the new
transition to the new sys›
Silicon Valley has helped enhance just about every aspect of modern life. Mansour figured it could help solve his money
many patients. causing waves of anxi› etyamong healthcare
By Michael Corkery New York TimesNews Service
percent did so for domestic
that the U.S. Supreme Court has legalized same-sex mar› riage nationwide, some states that offer health and retire›
considering changing those policies, in large part to save money or avoid discrimina› tion lawsuits. Before the ruling, 34 per› cent of state and local gov› ernments allowed unmarried
ment benefits to their employ›
same-sex couples to receive
marriage on their own, those
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health care benefits, while 28
numbers are about to dwindle
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partners of the opposite sex,
according to a study of public sector benefits by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Based on what happened in states that legalized gay
Maryland endeddomestic partner benefits for state em›
with lower interest rates than a traditional bank.
He then obtained a $10,000
ployees, which it offered only
loan from Prosper, anoth›
to same-sex couples, just a few months after it legalized
er online lender based in Northern Cahfornra.
same-sex marriage in 2013.
An accountant from
Arizona did the same after its legalization in 2014.
Queens, Mansour earns about $64,300 a year.
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