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Device controversyMedicare's move to limit coverage on speech-generating devices irks ALSadvocates. B1
A turdulent ride —Most airline seats simply aren't made to accommodatethe human body.A3
Plus: Lost no more —A British explorer vessel, missing for nearly170 years, is found.A3
By Andrew Clevenger
• A Prineville company aimstoward a prototype to makethat futuristic concept a reality
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WASHINGTON — Five Portland-area counties
have spent $700,000 on federal lobbyists since the beginning of 2013, according to lobbying disclosure forms.
Life-saving letter carrier — A Bend mailman is honored for saving a colleague.B1
Clackamas County leads
the way, with $150,000
Talking alcohol —State's
spent in 2013, with an
liquor commission, legislators meeting in Bendthis weekto discuss Oregon'sbooming alcohol industry.C6
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additional $80,000 spent so far this year. Marion,
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Multnomah and Yamhill counties all spent $80,000
last year and are on pace to match that with $40,000 each in the first
ln worldnews —British Prime Minister DavidCameron's impassioned plea tokeep Scotland in theUnited Kingdom.A6
half of 2014. Washington County was right behind,
And a Wed exclusive-
$30,000 so far this year. In Central Oregon, Crook and Jefferson counties have never hired a federal lobbyist, and
with $80,000 in 2013 and
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Deschutes County has not
had one since 2007. No other individual counties in
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By Derek Willis
Members of the Samsonteam, from left to right, Larry Moore, Jason Cole, Sam Bousfield and David Sestak, reassemble a model of
New York Times News Service
the "Switchblade" flying car built for wind-tunnel testing at their Prineville hangar earlier this summer, upon returning from AirVenture, an annual show sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association and held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Your Facebook profile doesn't have boxes to check which political party you belong to or whether you voted in the last election. But political organi-
By Peter Baker New York Times News Service
zations that already know
figures he's heard nearly
a Prineville company that's aiming to have a prototype of its three-wheeled, two-passenger "Switchblade" ready
these things can now deliv-
every Jetsons reference out
for its first test flights next
at Boeing's facility in Long
er Facebook ads to fit your
there, and every wisecrack about the carnage that would surely unfold if the average driver could take to the skies.
spring. Wednesday night,
Beach, California. After
he visited the Bend Airport with members of the Bend
members up to speed on his invention and field questions
three years working with Boeing, he got to thinking that maybe the time was right for the flying cars that people have been talking about throughout the history
on the technical aspects of
of aviation.
political preferences. At least two statewide
campaigns have in the last year used the new tool,
"Custom Managed Audiences," to reach Facebook
users who are registered voters or political supporters. Facebook says Terry McAuliffe's election as
ByScott Hammers The Bulletin
Inventor Sam Bousfield
But he's not about to let
the skeptics put him off his dream of building a flying car.
Bousfield, 58, is the force behind Samson Motorworks,
chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association to bring
his design. An architect by trade, Bousfield, of Redmond, was
dabbling in aviation design about 15 years ago, when some of his ideas caught the attention of engineers
"It is something people have expected in the future. They know it's gonna hap-
pen — it's just a matter of
WASHINGTON — In or-
when," he said. "And in our case, it's now." Technically speaking, the Switchblade — so named for the way the wings fold under the body for ground travel — is not a flying car, but a flying motorcycle. Bousfield said aviation design and motorcycle design are much
dering a sustained military campaign against Islamic extremists
ANALYSIS in Syria and Iraq, President Barack Obama
on Wednesday night effectively set a new course for the remainder of his
presidency and may have ensured that he would pass
more similar to each other
than either are to car design, as bothare largelyfocused on minimizing weight. SeeFlying car/A5
his successor a volatile and
incomplete war, much as hispredecessorhad left one for him.
Virginia governor in 2013
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and this year's re-election effort of Sen. John Cornyn,
R-Texas, are examples of successful user targeting via voter lists. The company introduced the tool in
February 2013 and recently
upgraded its capabilities. Linking the two iso-
Sept. 11 tales of love and loss — now open to all By David W.Dunlap
lated sets of data and
New York Times News Service
teasing out information on voter preferences and
ALBANY, N.Y. — Twenty stories above ground zero, its existence and whereabouts
opinions is a new front in
been spartan office space at I Liberty Plaza was trans-
formed by victims' relatives into a shrine reserved only for them.
microtargeting. Even smaller campaigns
known only to those who needed it, the Family Room
expressions of love and loss
could use the technique to
served for a dozen years as a most private sanctuary from
filled its walls, its floors and, finally, its windows, obscuring views of the World Trade Center site below, as if to say:
sway small but crucial sets of voters with specific messages. Facebook's most no-
a most public horror. In that time, what had
A profusion of intimate
Jim and John and Lorraine
and Harvey and Jean and Welles and Maritess and Gary and Katherine and
Jonathan and Judy are here with us, not down there in the ruins. "What tower? What floor? That was the way other peo-
ple saw our loved ones," said Nikki Stern, whose husband,
James Potorti, was among those killed on Sept. 11, 2001.
stories of love and loss — has opened to the public for the
"It was adamantly not how we wanted to define our loved
first time, at the New York
ones. The Family Room was the beginning of the storytelling that was controlled by the families."
the personal communion between the victims' relatives
This week, 150 miles north
of ground zero, the Family Room — and a thousand
State Museum in Albany. The exhibition speaks of and those who were killed Sept. 11, when terrorists took down the twin towers.
SeeFamily Room/A5
table achievement maybe that it makes some of the
sophisticated approaches used during the 2008 and
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