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BY BRADELY KLAPPER The Associated Press
When fries equal a trip to Autzen EUGENE (AP) — The oil that cooked game day french fries at Autzen Stadium Saturday afternoon will be shipped to Salem, mingled with oil that cooked Kettle Chips and converted into biodiesel, which fans with diesel-burning cars could burn on the way to the Tennessee game in two weeks. The loop from food to fuel will be completed because the University of Oregon athletic department has made a deal to hand over its cooking oil to Salem-based SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel Inside after each of this season’s No. 3 Ducks roll to seven home football games. easy win in season And here’s another loop: opener. Page B1 SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel was launched by three UO students in the incubator on campus. Their venture just announced production of its 20 millionth gallon of biodiesel fuel — a blend of vegetable and petroleum oils — which produces 78 percent less carbon dioxide and hazardous pollutants than pure petroleum-based diesel. The company expects to make more than six million gallons in 2013, UO graduate and SeQuential General Manager Tyson Keever said. It employs 100 in Oregon and Washington. “This is very meaningful for us to have the business come back and provide full service to the university,” Keever said. “It does have a very special place in our heart.” UO athletics is a bit late to the biofuels party. SeQuential has serviced Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium in Corvallis for a year and Washington’s Husky Stadium in Seattle longer
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Raising a building to raise hopes BY TIM NOVOTNY The World
“We are going to bring it
COOS BAY — Six inches of separation can create quite a bit of angst, depending on where that separation can be found. In downtown Coos Bay, it is located beneath the northwest corner of one of the city’s oldest buildings. James Tarantino, owner of the historic Chandler Building, said that half a foot is the extent of the structural rift that has been caused by a failure of some underground pilings. The building actually rests on a total of 32 pilings but, he says, only about 12 percent of those need to be corrected. Five were compromised initially and two were fixed after he and Mel Lesher took over ownership in 2010. Another one has since been compromised, bringing the current total to four in need of repair. After three years of inactivity, work resumed on those pilings earlier this month. Tarantino, now the sole owner, has not talked to the press during that time, but last week he broke that silence to address the situation, the building and
up to maximum practical recovery. It’s been doing exactly what we thought it would.” Ken Marquardt Owner of Ram Jack of Oregon
the future. As it turns out, the break-up of a partnership was the primary cause in delaying the repair of the breaking building. For reasons that he won’t go into, Tarantino and Lesher did not remain partners for long. Without Lesher, he says, he was back to square one. “There was an original partnership with an original plan,” he said, as he provided a tour inside the five-story building recently. After that partnership dissolved, he said he had to spend the last few years
trying to reorganize the plan to get this job done. Ram Jack of Oregon is now the contractor responsible for finishing the job. Owner Ken Marquardt estimates the raising of the building could come by the end of this week, if everything goes according to plan. That plan that calls for 22 points beneath the building to be raised, simultaneously, about six inches. He says that could take three to four hours, or all day. “We are going to bring it up to maximum practical recovery,” Marquardt said last week, adding that so far there have been no surprises. “It’s been doing exactly what we thought it would do.” Completed in 1909, the Chandler was the first of several multi-story buildings built along Central Avenue. It served as a hotel until the 1980s when new owners converted upstairs floors into lowincome housing. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 when it was owned by Tri-North Department Stores of Seattle. SEE CHANDLER | A8
Some flu vaccines promise a little bit more protection
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This 2012 photo shows a nurse loading a syringe of flu vaccine at the Mississippi Department of Health in Jackson, Miss. This fall, for the first time, certain vaccines will guard against four strains of flu rather than the usual three.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Flu vaccination is no longer merely a choice between a jab in the arm or a squirt in the nose. This fall, some brands promise a little extra protection. For the first time, certain vaccines will guard against four strains of flu rather than the usual three. Called quadrivalent vaccines, these brands may prove more popular for children than their parents. That’s because kids tend to catch the newly added strain more often. These four-in-one vaccines are so new that they’ll make up only a fraction of the nation’s supply of flu vaccine, so if you want a dose, better start looking early. But that’s only one of an unprecedented number of flu vaccine options available this year. Allergic to eggs? Egg-free shots are hitting the market, too. Plus there’s growing interest in shots brewed just for the 65-and-
Nazi trial Dutch-born member of the German Waffen SS is on trial in Germany for the killing of a resistance fighter in 1944.
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By Alysha Beck, The World
James Tarantino owns the Chandler Building in downtown Coos Bay. The building will undergo repairs for its sagging northwest corner within the next week or two.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is inviting former foe Sen. John McCain to the White House, hoping one of Congress’ most intractable foreign policy hawks will help sell the idea of a U.S. military intervention in Syria to a nation deeply scarred by more than a decade of war. Having announced over the weekend that he’ll seek congressional approval for military strikes against the Assad regime, the Obama administration is now trying to rally support among Americans and their congressman and senators. Monday’s meeting with McCain is meant to address concerns of those who feel Obama isn’t doing enough to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government for an attack in the Damascus suburbs last month that the U.S. says included sarin gas and killed at least 1,429 civilians, more than 400 of whom were children. On the other side of the spectrum, some Republican and Democratic lawmakers don’t want to see military action at all. Obama’s turnabout on Syria sets the stage for the biggest foreign policy vote in Congress since the Iraq war. On Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. received new physical evidence in the form of blood and hair samples that shows sarin gas was used in the Aug. 21 attack. Kerry said the U.S. must respond with its credibility on the line. “We know that the regime ordered this attack,” he said. “We know they prepared for it. We know where the rockets came from. We know where they landed. We know the damage that was done afterward.” Kerry’s assertion coincided with the beginning of a forceful administration appeal for congressional support. On Capitol Hill, senior administration officials briefed lawmakers in private to explain why the U.S. was compelled to act against Assad. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough also made calls to individual lawmakers. Further classified meetings were planned from
older crowd, and a brand that targets the needle-phobic with just a skindeep prick. “We’re moving away from the onesize-fits-all to choosing the best possible vaccine for an individual’s age and condition,” said Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic. “The flip side of that,” he said, is that “this will be a confusing year” as doctors and consumers alike try to choose. Federal health officials recommend a yearly flu vaccine for nearly everyone, starting at 6 months of age. On average, about 24,000 Americans die each flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some questions and answers about the different vaccine varieties to choose from:
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