COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, ApRIL 1, 2021
New wife can’t stop thinking about husband’s old girlfriend
DEAR ABBY: I’m a young wife.
I married after three months of
dating my military husband. He
was previously in an on-again/off-
again relationship
that lasted about
eight years, during
which she had a
baby with another
man, etc. I believe
my husband is still
in love with her. After constantly
asking him, he says he just wishes
her well and he doesn’t have any
romantic feelings. I’m not sure
what to do, and I just keep over-
thinking it. Any thoughts?
— HATES HUSBAND’S
HISTORY
DEAR H.H.H.: Stop torturing
your husband — and yourself —
by constantly asking him about
his feelings for his unfaithful
ex-girlfriend. Get to work
building your self-esteem, and
you will have less to worry about.
Your husband’s history (bag-
gage) is his own. You are making
a mistake by dragging it into your
marriage. If you concentrate on
the positive, you will have a hap-
pier marriage, and so will your
husband.
DEAR ABBY:
Shortly after a
DEAR
retired, not-so-
close friend moved
ABBY
to another city,
he began sending
emails about events he had read
about in social media, news out-
lets and magazines. At first there
were only a few a day, but as the
days increased, so did his emails.
I responded to some of them, but
he never commented on them. He
just sent more and more to the
point that his daily emails are
more than I can — or want to —
read. I am spending too much time
deleting them. What should I do?
Should I ask him not to send them
anymore, or should I stay quiet so
as not to hurt his feelings?
— INBOX FULL IN
MISSOURI
DEAR INBOX FULL: Your
friend may be sending these items
because, as a retiree, he has little
to do but cruise the internet for
entertainment. It would not be
rude to tell this not-so-close friend
you don’t have time to review all
of the emails he has been sending
and ask him to send fewer.
It’s the truth. However, if he
doesn’t comply and the barrage
continues, feel free to block them
or create a filter for these emails
that sends them to a folder where
they can be scanned and deleted.
DEAR ABBY: My husband of
32 years often tells me women
compliment him on his looks or
the way he dresses. I compli-
ment him often, but I think it’s his
way of telling me that he’s still
“got it” and I should be proud
to have a husband who’s hot and
good-looking.
Am I crazy for not enjoying
hearing what other women think?
If anything, it has caused some
insecurity on my part. I have
have been on a handful of trips
together in recent years, and
after every one of them, I said to
myself, “Never again!” She can
be extremely annoying.
She talks ALL THE TIME and
complains nonstop. Her feelings
are easily hurt, and she’s the least
self-aware person I know. I have
traveled with friends without any
issues. I asked a couple of them
about this, but got no answers.
She already asked (last year/
pre-pandemic), “Where will we
go next?” Help!
— BOTHERED BEYOND
BELIEF
DEAR B.B.B.: Do not raise the
subject of travel with her. Make
plans with someone with whom
you would like to enjoy the expe-
rience and, when your SIL asks,
respond honestly. Tell her — as
gently as you can — that it’s not
going to happen because the last
times you traveled together she
complained nonstop and spoiled
the trip for you.
asked him to stop sharing these
comments and told him I’m tired
of hearing them — especially
since I have told him repeatedly
what I think of him, his looks and
his way of dressing. Am I wrong?
— LOVES HIM INSIDE AND
OUT
DEAR LOVES HIM: I don’t
think you’re wrong. But has it
occurred to you that your husband
may do this not out of ego but
because HE is insecure? People
who are secure within themselves
do not feel the need to continually
toot their own horns the way your
handsome, stylish husband does.
Try this: The next time he
does it, smile, nod in agreement
and tell him you agree with his
admirer. And repeat as necessary.
DEAR ABBY: How can I
explain that I’d like to try trav-
eling solo (or worse, with
someone else) to my overly sensi-
tive sister-in-law? We have known
each other for many years. I am
divorced, and she’s widowed. We
News of the Weird
Volkswagen hoaxes media
with fake statement on
name change
DETROIT — Volk-
swagen of America
issued false statements
this week saying it would
change its brand name to
“Voltswagen” to stress its
commitment to electric
vehicles, only to reverse
course Tuesday, March 30,
and admit the supposed
name change was a joke.
Mark Gillies, a company
spokesperson, confirmed
Tuesday the statement had
been a pre-April Fool’s Day
joke after having insisted
Monday the release was
legitimate and the name
change accurate. The com-
pany’s false statement was
distributed again Tuesday,
saying the brand-name
change reflected a shift
to more battery-electric
vehicles.
Volkswagen’s inten-
tionally fake news release,
highly unusual for a major
public company, coincides
with its efforts to repair its
image as it tries to recover
from a 2015 scandal in
which it cheated on gov-
ernment emissions tests
and allowed diesel-powered
vehicles to illegally pollute
the air.
In that scandal, Volk-
swagen admitted that about
11 million diesel vehicles
worldwide were fitted with
the deceptive software. The
software reduced nitrogen
oxide emissions when the
cars were placed on a test
machine but allowed higher
Research team reports
breakthrough in
turboencabulator, more
ARKHAM, Mass. —
Researchers at Miskatonic
University in Arkham,
Massachusetts, recently
announced a breakthrough
in the development of the
turboencabulator.
For a number of years,
engineers at the presti-
gious rival of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Tech-
nology have worked to
bring perfection to the idea
of a Lee/Kirby transmis-
sion — that is, a means
to not only supply inverse
reactive current for in uni-
lateral phase detractors but
also provide the automatic
synchronization of cardinal
grammeters.
The original machine
had a base plate of prefam-
ulated amulite surmounted
by a malleable logarithmic
casing in such a way that
the two MacReady bearings
were in a direct line with
the panametric fan. The
latter consists simply of six
hydrocoptic marzlevanes,
Jens Meyer/Associated Press, File
A worker completes an electric car ID.3 body at the assembly line Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, during a press tour at
the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG (VW) in Zwickau, eastern Germany.
emissions and improved
engine performance during
normal driving. The scandal
cost Volkswagen $35 billion
(30 billion euros) in fines
and civil settlements and led
to the recall of millions of
vehicles.
The company’s fake
news release resulted in arti-
cles about the name change
in multiple media outlets,
including The Associated
Press.
The fake release could
land Volkswagen in trouble
with U.S. securities reg-
ulators because its stock
price rose nearly 5% on
Tuesday, the day the bogus
statement was officially
issued. Investors of late
have been responding posi-
tively to news of companies
increasing electric vehicle
production, swelling the
value of shares of Tesla as
well as of some EV startups.
James Cox, who teaches
corporate and securities law
at Duke University, said the
Securities and Exchange
Commission should take
action to deal with such
misinformation, which can
distort stock prices.
“The whole market has
gone crazy,” Cox said. “We
need to draw a pretty clear
line in the sand, I believe,
about what is permissible
and what isn’t permissible.”
This week’s Volkswagen
incident bears some sim-
ilarity to one in 2018 in
which Tesla’s CEO Elon
Musk tweeted that he had
secured the funding to take
the company private — a
comment that drove up
the stock price, Cox noted.
Later, it was revealed that
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the funding had not been
lined up. Musk and Tesla
each agreed to pay $20 mil-
lion in penalties to the SEC.
Late Tuesday, VW
issued a statement con-
firming that it won’t be
changing its brand name to
“Voltswagen.”
“The renaming was
designed to be an announce-
ment in the spirit of April
Fool’s Day,” the company
said.
Tim Calkins, a clinical
professor of marketing at
Northwestern University,
said April Fool’s jokes are
common in marketing. But
he said it’s rare for a com-
pany to deliberately mislead
reporters.
“The problem is that in
the short run, you can fool
people, and it seems cute
and entertaining,” Calkins
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
39/52
Kennewick
38/58
St. Helens
39/60
Hood River
36/62
40/65
41/60
36/59
Condon
FRI
Baker City
34 71 37
Comfort Index™ 10
La Grande
10
69 35
Eugene
36/61
8
69 42
63 40
51 35
10
10
3
62 36
51 35
10
10
4
10
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 95°
Low: -9°
Wettest: 2.13”
50°
20°
48°
25°
52°
25°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.14
0.79
1.09
2.17
0.00
0.66
1.41
5.69
4.18
0.08
1.24
2.13
13.17
7.63
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
30%
SSW at 6 to 12 mph
9.7
0.14
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
39/62
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
15% of capacity
70% of capacity
58% of capacity
81% of capacity
54% of capacity
101% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
5420 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 109 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
40 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
509 cfs
Minam River at Minam
310 cfs
Powder River near Richland
301 cfs
Kingsville, Texas
Daniel, Wyo.
Savannah, Tenn.
OREGON
High: 72°
Low: 13°
Wettest: Trace
Brookings
Rome
Scappoose
The snowiest April ever in New York and
New England began on April 1, 1874.
Snow fell at Cape Cod, Mass., every Satur-
day that month. Up to 60 inches of snow
accumulated in parts of New Hampshire
and Vermont.
SUN & MOON
THU.
FRI.
6:33 a.m. 6:31 a.m.
7:20 p.m. 7:22 p.m.
none 12:50 a.m.
8:59 a.m. 9:41 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Apr 4
New
Apr 11
First
Apr 19
40/64
Full
Apr 26
Jordan Valley
36/69
Paisley
39/68
32/67
Frenchglen
37/69
42/77
42/72
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
52/38/pc
68/36/c
75/48/pc
59/42/pc
70/35/pc
53/38/pc
60/38/pc
63/34/s
65/38/pc
61/39/pc
69/43/pc
62/41/pc
67/41/c
68/40/pc
64/40/pc
72/42/pc
68/32/pc
68/33/pc
Hi/Lo/W
55/41/c
69/40/c
77/49/pc
55/45/c
70/36/c
56/39/c
61/41/c
66/43/pc
67/42/c
61/42/c
69/50/c
64/44/c
68/41/c
69/41/c
65/39/c
68/48/c
67/34/pc
68/36/pc
Grand View
Arock
34/81
34/74
35/72
Klamath Falls
31/68
Lakeview
31/68
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
37/67
Fields
Medford
Brookings
42/59
Boise
44/75
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
33/73
32/66
32/68
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
30/62
Roseburg
Juntura
32/70
33/64
Beaver Marsh
38/53
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
Ontario
40/75
Burns
Brothers
37/63
Coos Bay
Huntington
34/63
37/68
Oakridge
35/63
42/75
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
36/62
67 40
38/68
34/68
Council
34/71
John Day
32/68
Sisters
Florence
39/53
37/71
Baker City
Redmond
39/51
59 32
10
Halfway
Granite
34/64
36/59
35/60
Corvallis
37/70
34/60
Newport
Enterprise
38/64
39/68
Monument
37/64
Idanha
Salem
MON
Showers
possible
10
10
38 64 41
Comfort Index™ 10
SUN
74 39
39 68 40
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
SAT
Cloudy and mild Clouds and sun;
pleasant
37/65
La Grande
37/61
Maupin
Thickening
clouds
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
44/66
45/64
43/63
37/54
Mainly clear
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Walla Walla
40/72
Vancouver
38/59
TIllamook
TONIGHT
so fitted to the ambifacient
lunar waneshaft that side
fumbling was effectively
prevented.
The new principle
involves generating power
by the modial interaction of
magneto-reluctance from
dilithium capacitive durac-
tance. The main winding
employs the lotus-o-delta
type placed in panen-
dermic semi-boloid slots
of the stator, every seventh
conductor connected by a
non-reversible tremie pipe
to the differential girdle
spring on the “up” end of
the grammeters.
The team in another
breakthrough connected
dual-polarized coaxial
cables via an Initech inter-
face from the turboen-
cabulator’s interocitor to
successfully charge and
operate a flux capacitor for
.00025 seconds, creating a
localized space-time differ-
ential, as predicted in Ein-
stein’s theory of special
relativity.
Physicist Ian Don-
nelly led the team. He said
this was the first step in
attempting to create an
oscillation overthruster,
which one day could allow
for the transportation
of objects through solid
matter.
He also said the team
continues to assess mea-
surements from the experi-
ment and soon will publish
the full results.
The Wayland-Yutani
Corporation is funding
the research.
— The Observer
said. “But in the long run,
you really do need positive
and good relations with the
media. For a company that
already has credibility prob-
lems, this is really a strange
move.”
Calkins said that while
the incident might not hurt
VW with consumers, the
company needs good rela-
tions with reporters to build
its brand image over time.
— Associated Press
FRI.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
66/44/c 66/47/c
58/36/pc 62/41/c
67/37/c 68/39/c
72/41/pc 73/42/c
51/38/pc 54/42/c
56/35/c 58/39/c
75/43/pc 78/45/pc
69/42/s 67/45/c
63/41/pc 65/47/c
60/40/pc 61/45/c
62/40/pc 64/44/c
68/33/c 70/35/c
64/39/c 66/43/c
60/39/c 61/41/c
59/37/c 59/42/c
65/40/pc 66/44/c
63/34/c 64/39/c
64/45/c 65/47/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Thickening clouds
Clouding up
43
33
67
37
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Clouds rolling in
Becoming cloudy
54
39
67
39
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Thickening clouds
Partly sunny
51
32
59
33
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Partly sunny
Cooler
64
40
64
41
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Clouding up
Thickening clouds
71
37
68
40