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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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A sign inside Facebook headquarters in Men› io Pa«,canfornia, where Ma«K»g,of Bend,

out of cars and onto bikes

engineering team.

get there.

The Bulletin

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,

EDITOR'5CHOICE

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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By Robert Pear

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New York Times News Service

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. The nation’s health

Pitfalls on bankin’sg Internet frontier

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

ees'domesticpartnersare

health care benefits, while 28

numbers are about to dwindle

WASHINGTON

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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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