8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, AuguST 25, 2020
COFFEE BREAK
Girl’s tantrums stymie man’s relationship with her mother
DEAR ABBY: I have met the
most remarkable woman, but
after eight months of serious
dating, I have realized that she
has the worst and most manipu-
lating 10-year-old
daughter ever. She
constantly claims
sickness, and now
even mental health
issues like anxiety
and panic disorder, although they
have never been formally diag-
nosed, to prevent her mother and
me from having time together.
Immediately after her mother
agrees to her daughter’s request
and lets her get her way, the kid
becomes happy and energetic,
and goes back to playing. (I feel
she is laughing in my face.) The
numerous cancellations and tan-
trums are very upsetting, and it
hurts my feelings when the person
I love most in the world sets me
aside.
I had considered proposing
marriage. I have a
13- and 17-year-old
DEAR
who are both
respectful, energetic
ABBY
and happy. They
have been through a
lot since their mother abandoned
us, but they would NEVER con-
sider acting out like this girl.
Last weekend I was asked to
bring her requested dinner and
then leave, because she wanted
Mommy to watch her paint. Abby,
they are together every day,
almost all day, and close relatives
refuse to watch the child.
Is a resolution possible? Should
because, as it stands, it is going
nowhere.
DEAR ABBY: I have a friend
who has stopped by unannounced
several times. She’ll send me
a text, but without giving me a
chance to respond, she just pops
over. One time I was in the middle
of studying for an exam and it
wasn’t a good time. Other times
I was busy doing something and
was startled when she showed up.
Finally, I mentioned something
in a text about how much I liked
her as a friend but would really
appreciate if she would wait for
a response to her text before
stopping by. It has been two or
three days now, and she hasn’t
responded. I even said I didn’t
want to hurt her feelings and hope
she understands.
I stay or should I go? When do
I have the right to say enough is
enough? The constant exclusions
make me feel insignificant.
— COUNTED OUT
DEAR COUNTED OUT: If
“close relatives” refuse to watch
the child so your lady friend
can have a break, there may be
more to this story than you have
written. The girl is fighting for
her mother — and winning. From
where I sit, Mama could ben-
efit from some discussions with a
child psychologist and lessons in
how to say no to her daughter.
Adult relationships are sup-
posed to make both parties feel
better, not insignificant. As to
whether you should stay or go, I
think you would be wise to take
a break from this relationship
I would think most people feel
as I do about unannounced vis-
itors, but I could be wrong. I
would like to ask her how she
would feel about it, but before
I do, I need to know what’s
“normal.”
— BUSY AND BOTHERED
DEAR B & B: It is consid-
ered normal good manners to ask
if it is convenient — and wait for
a response — before stopping by
someone’s home so it will not be
an intrusion. You were studying,
but many people work from home
and also don’t want to be dis-
turbed. Others prefer to be “pre-
sentable” before they have com-
pany. Interesting, isn’t it, how
many self-centered individuals
become hypersensitive when
called on their behavior.
News of the Weird
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learned skills in graduate school
or in their career endeavors.”
College students make
find of a lifetime
FULTOM, Mo. — Undergrad-
uate researchers from Westmin-
ster College in Fulton, Missouri,
made a paleontological discovery
of a lifetime — a 7-foot-long tric-
eratops skull from the Badlands
of South Dakota.
The private liberal arts college
in a press release reported three
students and four alumni joined
David Schmidt, Ph.D., associate
professor of geology and environ-
mental science, in June and July
for his seventh Westminster fossil
expedition at the Grand River
National Grassland. Schmidt said
the annual dig is extremely pop-
ular among Westminster students,
according to the college’s press
release. But this year, COVID-19
derailed plans and no course
credit was available.
Even so, students signed up
for the excursion. The Westmin-
ster group usually expects to find
fragments of dinosaur bone and
the occasional complete bone
during this field work. But a
During their field research, the
Westminster group usually expects
to find fragments of dinosaur
bone and the occasional isolated,
complete bone. But everything
changed, the press release stated,
Fossil reveals
first evidence of
megapredation
XINGYI, China — A fossil
from China proves the adage there
is always a bigger prehistoric
marine reptile.
Some 240 million years ago,
a dolphin-like ichthyosaur swal-
lowed another marine reptile
only a little smaller than itself,
according to the new research at
iScience. The ichthyosaur died
almost immediately, but the last
meal became a fossil, preserving
the first evidence of megapreda-
tion, or a large animal preying on
another large animal.
Scientists in 2010 excavated
a nearly complete skeleton of an
almost 16-foot long Guizhouich-
thyosaurus, which could grow
longer than 21 feet, according
to the report, and the abdominal
region of the fossil showed an
“obvious block of packed bones
bulges. Researchers discerned
those were the remains of anther
marine reptile — a 12-foot-long
thalattosaur.
Ryosuke Motani, professor of
earth and planetary sciences at the
University of California, Davis,
co-authored the paper on the find.
Photo from Westminster College
Faculty and students from Westminster College of Fulton, Missouri,
pose during their excavation this summer of a triceratops skull in the
Badlands of South Dakota.
when a rancher found something
unusual poking out of the earth
along a slope as he repaired a fence
in the summer of 2019.
The rancher alerted the
National Forest Service, and their
officials contacted Schmidt, who
just arrived with his research
group. Schmidt determined the
object was a tip of a triceratops
horn and would require months of
careful excavation, but that work
had to wait until this summer.
Digging up the 3,000-pound
triceratops skull — which students
named “Shady” after community
members of the nearby town of
weather
Shadehill, South Dakota — made
the student and alumni group
giddy, begging to remain in the
field this summer longer than the
usual six to seven hours per day.
Pick axes, shovels, a telehan-
dler, a backhoe and a flatbed truck
brought Shady to the Westmin-
ster campus, where it is resting in
a secure location until the college
can raise funds for restoration.
“The entire goal of this, at
Westminster, is for students to use
the fossil specimens for under-
graduate research,” Schmidt said
in the press release. “So they have
practical experiences and use
Astoria
Longview
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Vancouver
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Condon
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THU
FRI
SAT
Mainly clear
Sunny and
pleasant
Sunny and
pleasant
Plenty of
sunshine
Sunny and
pleasant
86 45
89 45
85 45
Eugene
8
7
7
50/87
86 47
90 52
84 47
8
6
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La Grande
53 88 52
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
6
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50 85 48
Comfort Index™
5
86 50
80 44
9
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 121°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 8.79”
90°
47°
90°
49°
96°
49°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.31
0.51
2.92
6.89
0.00
0.04
0.63
13.06
10.69
0.00
0.12
0.46
25.31
14.91
Coos Bay
53/79
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
20%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
5.8
0.24
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
20% of capacity
42% of capacity
53% of capacity
66% of capacity
29% of capacity
33% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
OREGON
Rome
Lakeview
Brookings
TUE.
WED.
6:07 a.m.
7:40 p.m.
3:22 p.m.
none
MOON PHASES
614 cfs
88 cfs
113 cfs
46 cfs
117 cfs
33 cfs
First
Aug 25
Full
Sep 1
Last
Sep 10
Beaver Marsh
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New
Sep 17
Brookings
Paisley
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Frenchglen
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Diamond
Grand View
Arock
53/87
60/93
57/89
58/91
Klamath Falls
49/85
Lakeview
44/86
McDermitt
56/89
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
THU.
WED.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
THU.
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80/52/pc 80/52/s
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64/50/s 65/50/s
79/48/pc 79/49/s
93/61/s 94/56/s
92/52/s 91/54/s
88/56/s 87/54/s
83/56/s 82/57/s
79/52/s 81/52/s
89/44/s 87/45/s
89/55/s 88/56/s
85/51/s 84/52/s
86/55/s 85/55/s
91/58/s 89/57/s
84/46/s 82/43/s
89/60/s 88/60/s
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90/61/s 92/63/s
72/57/s 78/57/s
88/49/pc 89/45/s
67/51/s 68/51/s
86/51/s 84/52/s
90/56/s 90/53/s
88/49/s 85/50/s
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92/56/s 90/54/s
85/56/s 85/55/s
90/56/s 87/55/s
88/53/s 86/50/s
84/49/s 82/48/s
92/56/s 91/55/s
85/48/pc 87/50/s
86/46/pc 86/47/s
Boise
64/90
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City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Juntura
56/93
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48/86
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Medford
54/72
Ontario
61/93
48/88
56/91
WED.
SUN & MOON
6:06 a.m.
7:42 p.m.
2:10 p.m.
11:38 p.m.
49/83
REGIONAL CITIES
The temperature plummeted to 10 degrees
in Bowen, Mont., on Aug. 25, 1910. This is
the lowest temperature ever reported in
the United States in August.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Brothers
46/83
Roseburg
Huntington
51/83
52/86
Oakridge
55/90
64/94
Seneca
52/81
Grants Pass
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
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Chiloquin
Death Valley, Calif.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Apalachicola, Fla.
High: 97°
Low: 40°
Wettest: Trace
48/89
Council
50/87
John Day
Bend
Powers
54/91
50/81
50/88
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
Sisters
Florence
52/67
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Redmond
49/64
52/67
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.
Monument
51/90
52/86
Newport
Enterprise
50/85
53/88
47/82
52/85
Corvallis
54/84
82 46
Elgin
51/88
La Grande
54/83
52/88
Idanha
Salem
WED
7
60/89
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
51/84
Lewiston
61/92
Hood River
57/88
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Walla Walla
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PENDLETON — The avian
rehabilitation and education non-
profit Blue Mountain Wildlife,
Pendleton, reported a fledgling
osprey it was caring for died from
fungal lesions in its lungs.
The young bird arrived at Blue
Mountain Wildlife in late July/
early August, according to the
weekly report from the facility,
and had parasites in both eyes.
The osprey also would go into
“acute respiratory distress with the
least amount of stimulation,” and
died two days after admission.
“A necropsy revealed his lungs
were full of fungal lesions making
them almost nonfunctional,” the
report stated. “Aspergillosis is
caused by a fungus commonly
found in the environment. When
birds are stressed they tend to be
susceptible to the fungus.”
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St. Helens
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Osprey succumbs to
fungus
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“We have never found articu-
lated remains of a large reptile in
the stomach of gigantic predators
from the age of dinosaurs, such
as marine reptiles and dinosaurs,”
Motani said in a UC Davis press
release. “We always guessed from
tooth shape and jaw design that
these predators must have fed on
large prey but now we have direct
evidence that they did.”
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ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
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Sunshine
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MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny and pleasant
Sunlit and nice
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91
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EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A p.m. shower
Sunny and nice
71
42
79
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and pleasant
Sunny and pleasant
84
49
87
55
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Sunshine; pleasant
Sunny and pleasant
87
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88
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