COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JuLY 21, 2022
Childhood friendship begins breaking down for teenagers
get upset and insist I was wrong.
Either way, she seemed to have
great loyalty to Kelly.
Over the years, Kelly’s mother,
“Brittany,” and I became friends
and, over the last two or three, we
have grown very close. I allowed
it to happen because I thought
Kelly had matured. Unfortu-
nately, I was wrong. Meanwhile,
Nadia has been seeing more
clearly what a difficult person
Kelly is and is pulling away from
her.
While I’m happy Nadia has
found healthier friendships, I am
worried about how this may affect
my friendship with Brittany. She
tends to be defensive about her
kids and will probably not be able
to see how much her daughter
has hurt Nadia over the years.
Advice? — MOM PROBLEM
DEAR ABBY: My 15-year-old
daughter, “Nadia,” has been
friends with another girl, “Kelly,”
since they were 8. Over the years,
I have had my concerns about
Kelly because she lies. She can
also be very manipulative, and
she hasn’t always treated Nadia
well.
Nadia and I have had
numerous conversations about
this friend over the years, and I
have expressed my feelings about
Kelly’s behavior. Sometimes
Nadia would acknowledge Kelly’s
wrongdoings; other times she’d
provides for their needs.
I’m glad the kids are not angry
with him, and I’m trying to be
understanding about their need
for love and acceptance from him
(even though they are no longer
young children). However, I can’t
help feeling anxious, angry and
jealous because, in spite of his
many poor choices, they prefer
spending time with him more
than with me.
He has always been an irre-
sponsible parent, and it crushes
them each time he goes back to
jail. No matter what, they run
to his rescue whenever he needs
something, be it money, trans-
portation, etc. How can I handle
this in the best way for the sake
of my children without causing
stress on them and our relation-
ship? — STABLE PARENT IN
IN MASSACHUSETTS
DEAR MOM: I do have some.
Stay out of it. It’s common for
childhood friendships to wane.
By now you should have real-
ized friendships cannot be forced.
All it does is breed resentment.
Unless Brittany raises the sub-
ject, avoid discussing it. Cross
your fingers and hope that Kelly
might not even realize Nadia is
less available. However, if Brit-
tany asks, simply say that the
girls’ friendship, like other teen
relationships, seems to have run
its course.
DEAR ABBY: My ex-husband
has been incarcerated off and on
for the last several years. The kids
adore him and want nothing more
than to spend time with him,
even though I am the responsible
parent who cares for them and
CALIFORNIA
DEAR PARENT: Please
accept my sympathy. You have
been forced into the role of the
authoritarian parent, while your
husband has adopted the role of
loosey-goosey fun parent, which
is how your children still regard
him. It isn’t fair, and I feel for
you. But until they wise up on
their own, there’s nothing you can
do about it. So try not to spend
too much time dwelling on it.
Live your life. When faced with
a circumstance that’s not likely
to change soon, that’s all anyone
can do.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Researchers: Chinese-made GPS tracker highly vulnerable
most users included, by conti-
nent: Brazil, Mexico, Spain and
Russia.
The Associated Press
BOSTON — A popular
Chinese-made automotive GPS
tracker used in 169 countries
has severe software vulnerabili-
ties, posing a potential danger to
highway safety, national secu-
rity and supply chains, cyberse-
curity researchers have found.
A report by the Boston
cybersecurity firm BitSight says
the flaws could let attackers
remotely hijack device-equipped
vehicles, cutting off fuel to
them and otherwise seizing con-
trol while they travel.
The researchers say users
should immediately disable the
MV720 GPS tracker until a fix
becomes available. The report
was released Tuesday, July 19,
to coincide with an advisory
from the U.S. Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency
listing five vulnerabilities.
BitSight said it tried unsuc-
cessfully for months — begin-
ning in September, with CISA
joining it in late April — to
engage the manufacturer, Shen-
zen-based MiCODUS, in dis-
cussion addressing the vulner-
abilities. The Associated Press
telephoned and emailed the
company but got no response. A
person who answered a phone
number listed on its website was
unable to respond in English.
CISA said in a statement
that it was not aware of “any
active exploitation” of the
vulnerabilities.
GPS trackers are used glob-
ally to monitor vehicle fleets —
from trucks to school buses to
military vehicles — and protect
them against theft. In addition
to collecting data on vehicle
location, they typically also
monitor other metrics, such as
driver behavior and fuel usage.
Female lion killed by
new male companion at
Birmingham zoo
Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated Press, File
The U.S. Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington is pictured on Feb. 25, 2015. A popular Chinese-
made automotive GPS tracker used by individuals, government agencies and companies in 169 countries has severe software
vulnerabilities, posing a potential danger to life and limb, national security and supply chains, cybersecurity researchers said
in a report released Tuesday, July 19, 2022, to coincide with an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency listing six vulnerabilities.
Via remote access, many are
wired to cut off a vehicle’s fuel
or alarm, lock or unlock its
doors and more.
Using the MV720, which Bit-
Sight says costs less than $25
per unit, a malicious user could
remotely cut off the fuel line
of a vehicle in motion, know a
vehicle’s real-time location for
espionage purposes or intercept
and taint location or other data
to sabotage operations, said the
principal BitSight researcher on
the project, Pedro Umbelino.
He said multiple malicious
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scenarios are possible: First
responders’ vehicles could be
crippled, or a hacker could
shut off an engine and demand
a cryptocurrency ransom of
victims to avoid calling a
mechanic.
The main vulnerabilities:
The device comes with a default
password that more than 90%
of users don’t change, and there
is second, obscure but hard-
coded password that works for
all devices, BitSight found. It
also found security flaws in the
software of the web server used
to remotely manage the GPS
devices.
The manufacturer,
MiCODUS claims an installed
base of 1.5 million devices
across 420,000 customers, said
BitSight. Its research found
they included a Fortune 50
energy company and an aero-
space company, a national mil-
itary in South America and in
eastern Europe, a nuclear power
plant operator and a national
law enforcement agency in
western Europe. It did not name
any of them. Countries with the
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/68
Kennewick
57/76
St. Helens
60/79
63/81
55/84
Condon
66/89
60/81
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Clear
Sunny and nice
Sunny and
pleasant
Plenty of
sunshine
Sunny and hot
89 49
89 50
91 51
Eugene
8
7
7
55/84
89 58
91 60
95 63
7
7
5
La Grande
61 87 57
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
8
4
8
56 84 56
Comfort Index™
3
90 63
7
6
5
8
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 120°
Low: 28°
Wettest: 2.19”
91°
38°
92°
42°
96°
44°
0.00
0.01
0.37
4.47
5.81
0.00
0.22
0.42
8.98
10.48
0.00
0.32
0.49
17.76
15.01
PRECIPITATION (inches)
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
20%
NW at 7 to 14 mph
13.0
0.34
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
54/72
19% of capacity
78% of capacity
32% of capacity
93% of capacity
12% of capacity
76% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1690 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 125 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
117 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
63 cfs
Minam River at Minam
410 cfs
Powder River near Richland
18 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Stanley, Idaho
Cartersville, Ga.
OREGON
High: 100°
Low: 37°
Wettest: Trace
Rome
Meacham
Brookings
SUN & MOON
FRI.
5:25 a.m. 5:26 a.m.
8:32 p.m. 8:32 p.m.
12:24 a.m. 12:46 a.m.
2:46 p.m. 3:53 p.m.
MOON PHASES
New
Jul 28
First
Aug 5
Full
Aug 11
57/85
Grants Pass
Last
Aug 18
Jordan Valley
60/92
Paisley
47/92
Frenchglen
57/93
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
56/91
61/97
59/94
Fields
59/91
60/94
Klamath Falls
47/89
Lakeview
44/90
McDermitt
56/95
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
68/55/c 69/57/c
91/52/s 92/55/s
96/63/s 94/64/s
68/55/pc 73/56/s
90/49/s 92/49/s
69/52/s 67/52/s
83/51/pc 85/53/s
93/55/s 93/56/s
87/56/s 89/55/s
84/53/pc 84/54/s
95/61/s 96/61/s
81/61/s 88/62/s
90/58/s 92/59/s
90/49/s 92/49/s
85/58/s 87/57/s
94/61/s 98/64/s
89/48/s 90/50/s
90/47/s 92/48/s
Boise
67/96
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
59/97
Silver Lake
48/89
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
51/90
57/89
50/68
Ontario
67/96
Burns
44/89
Chiloquin
FRI.
A tornado killed two people in separate
mobile homes near Hartly, Del., on July 21,
1980. These were the fi rst tornado-related
deaths in Delaware since Aug. 21, 1888.
THU.
Beaver Marsh
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
51/88
45/87
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
55/80
Coos Bay
Huntington
52/88
53/91
Oakridge
59/93
68/95
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
Council
51/87
56/90
52/91
54/69
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.
53/81
John Day
51/92
Sisters
56/78
89 59
57/92
Baker City
Redmond
53/66
Halfway
Granite
54/83
Newport
52/64
87 54
59/90
57/79
57/83
Corvallis
Enterprise
56/84
61/87
Monument
61/86
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
5
Elgin
59/87
La Grande
61/81
Maupin
Comfort Index™
66/89
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
64/91
Hood River
65/90
TIllamook
51 87 45
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Walla Walla
67/94
Vancouver
59/77
55/71
Baker City
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A
female lion was fatally injured
while being introduced to a
newly acquired male companion
at the Birmingham Zoo in Ala-
bama, officials said Tuesday,
July 19.
Akili, who was born in 2005
in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
and had been at the Birmingham
Zoo since 2007, couldn’t be
saved after being injured by a
lion named Josh, who had been
at the zoo since April.
The slow process of intro-
ducing the two lions to each
other had begun previously,
the zoo said in a statement, and
Akili was badly injured within
minutes of a meeting on July 18.
“Animal introductions are
always risky because wild ani-
mals can be unpredictable and
we cannot control their inter-
actions,” said Hollie Colahan,
the zoo’s deputy director, in a
statement.
The introduction was done on
a day the zoo was closed so no
visitors were present, said Jen-
nifer Ogilvie, a spokeswoman.
“Josh is fine and will con-
tinue to receive the excellent
care he always receives,” she
said.
Josh was brought to the zoo
as replacement for another male
lion that died in 2021, the state-
ment said. Dozens of people
expressed sorrow over Aki-
li’s death in response to an
announcement by the zoo on
social media.
“How devastating. She was a
beauty,” one person wrote.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
FRI.
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
91/62/s
76/54/c
86/52/s
91/59/s
64/50/pc
75/50/pc
96/64/s
94/60/s
90/58/s
81/58/pc
72/54/s
92/48/s
85/54/s
83/56/s
85/59/s
89/62/s
83/47/s
89/63/s
Hi/Lo/W
94/63/s
78/56/pc
87/53/s
92/61/s
63/50/pc
79/52/pc
96/64/s
97/62/s
93/61/s
83/60/pc
74/55/s
93/52/s
87/58/s
86/57/s
88/60/s
92/63/s
85/49/s
92/64/s
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
Sunny and cooler
Sunny; not as hot
64
45
83
47
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny and nice
Sunny; not as hot
75
53
92
55
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Plenty of sunshine
Sunny and pleasant
73
42
78
42
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny; not as hot
Sunny and nice
85
58
89
57
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Breezy in the p.m.
Sunny and nice
87
45
87
57