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8B — THE OBSERVER THuRSday, SEpTEmBER 24, 2020 COFFEE BREAK Mom makes snide remarks about new boyfriend’s weight DEAR ABBY: I’m a 35-year-old single mom. I’ve dated a few people over the last seven years, but none of them wanted to commit. Several months ago, I started seeing “Joey,” a friend of a couple of years. He’s sweet, respectful, hardworking, and he helps me whenever I need it. Joey is on the heavy side, but he’s clean and kempt. I introduced him to my mom, and she continues to say he is “gross.” She refers to him only as “that man” and never by his name. He has always been very polite and has never said anything to her out of the way. mother to discourage you. As an adult, it’s important to make your own deci- sions and live your own life without interference. DEAR ABBY: My younger sister is a bipolar, narcissistic, psychotic, evil woman with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psy- chology and counseling. She has hated me from birth. I know exactly what she is, and she can’t stand that I do. She spreads lies about me because our mother was alive for my wedding and not for hers and, according to her, it’s my fault. (Mama died 10 years ago.) I made her maid of honor at my wedding and godmother — FOUND A GOOD GUY IN THE SOUTH DEAR FOUND: Nothing you can do will make your mother accept Joey. Most parents judge the men in their daugh- ters’ lives by how they treat their daughters, rather than a number on the scale. Has it occurred to you that she may be afraid your rela- tionship with Joey could develop to the point you will no longer be around to do chores and help her with the bills? From your description of him, “that man” is defi- nitely a keeper. As long as he is good to you and your son and you care for him, please don’t allow your DEAR ABBY My son and I have lived with Mom ever since my divorce, and I have helped her out with more than my share of the bills and groceries. I’m currently trying to buy a house, but the market is competitive with the low interest rates. I work full time, take great care of my son and do lots of chores around the house. How can I convince my mother to accept Joey, or should I ignore what she says as long as he’s good to my son and me? DEAR CAN’T GO ON: That your sister has graduate degrees in psychology and counseling does not guar- antee that she isn’t mentally ill. Your relatives are aware of her mental health issues and have advised you not to overreact. Perhaps you should take that to heart. Find another godmother for your child, because clearly this one is unsuit- able, and spend as little time around your sister as you can. If necessary, start replacing unsupportive family members with friends you can trust to be sup- portive. The only thing you should NOT do is continue to allow your sick sister to rule your life. to my child, but no matter what I do, she complains to anyone who will listen about what a horrible person she thinks I am. Because of her education, family members believe everything she says without question. Our adult lives have been spent with her shutting me out and gossiping about me to extended family. How can I convince my rela- tives to listen to me? I have no one on my side when it comes to her because the family knows about her mental health issues and tell me to get over it. I can’t! Please help me. — CAN’T GO ON LIKE THIS News of the Weird ‘MIGHTY MICE’ STAY MUSCLEBOUND IN SPACE, BOON FOR AS- TRONAUTS ever, soon formed — Alpha and Beta. The center does not use names beginning with the letters q, u, x, y and z. According to the center, when more than 21 named trop- ical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, the center names additional storms using the Greek alphabet. The National Hurricane Center rotates lists of names every six years, thus the names this year will be the names in 2026. “The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for rea- sons of sensitivity,” according to the center. The only other year the center ran through all 21 names was in 2005, but it took until Oct. 22 to reach the end and start with the Greek alphabet. Kim Wood is an assistant pro- fessor at Mississippi State Uni- versity’s geosciences department and part of its meteorology team. In writing for The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and com- mentary from academic experts, she pointed out four hurricanes have hit the U.S. coast this year — Hanna, Isaias, Laura and Sally — which is more than usual by this point in the hurricane season. More surprising, she continued, is how this year has broken records for earliest named storm for their rank. “For example, Edouard became the earliest fifth named storm on July 6, beating 2005’s Emily by a week,” according to Wood. “Fay was the earliest sixth named storm, showing up almost two weeks earlier than Franklin did in 2005.” The Greek alphabet contains 24 letters, but Woods doubted anyone was willing to consider that list will run out before hurri- cane season ends on Nov. 30. By Marcia Dunn/Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Bulked-up, mutant “mighty mice” held onto their muscle during a monthlong stay at the Interna- tional Space Station, returning to Earth with ripped bodybuilder physiques, scientists reported Monday. The findings hold promise for preventing muscle and bone loss in astronauts on prolonged space trips like Mars missions, as well as people on Earth who are con- fined to bed or need wheelchairs. A research team led by Dr. Se-Jin Lee of the Jackson Labora- tory in Connecticut sent 40 young female black mice to the space station in December, launching aboard a SpaceX rocket. In a paper published in the Pro- ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lee said the 24 reg- ular untreated mice lost consid- erable muscle and bone mass in weightlessness as expected — up to 18%. But the eight genetically engi- neered “mighty mice” launched with double the muscle main- tained their bulk. Their muscles appeared to be comparable to sim- ilar “mighty mice” that stayed behind at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. In addition, eight normal mice that received “mighty mouse” treatment in space returned to Earth with dramatically bigger muscles. The treatment involves blocking a pair of proteins that typically limit muscle mass. A SpaceX capsule brought all 40 mice back in good condition, parachuting into the Pacific off the California coast in January. Some of the ordinary mice were injected with the “mighty mice” drug after returning and quickly built up more muscle than their untreated Dr. Se-Jin Lee/University of Connecticut School of Medicine via AP This August 2020 photo shows a normal mouse and a “twice-muscled” mouse developed at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Findings published Monday, Sept. 7, show muscle-bound mice, similar to the one pictured, held on to their bodybuilder-type physiques during a one month space mission. companions, Lee said. The scientists completed the experiment just as the coronavirus was hitting the U.S. “The only silver lining of COVID is that we had time to write it up very intensively” and submit the results for publica- tion, said Dr. Emily Germain-Lee of Connecticut Children’s Med- ical Center, Lee’s wife who also took part in the study. Both are affiliated with the University of Connecticut. While encouraged by their findings, the couple said much more work needs to be done before testing the drug on people to build up muscle and bone, weather spacewalk last fall, and Andrew Morgan. They are listed as co-authors. without serious side effects. “We’re years away. But that’s how everything is when you go from mouse to human studies,” Germain-Lee said. Lee said the experiment pointed out other molecules and signaling pathways worth inves- tigating — “an embarrassment of riches ... so many things we’d like to pursue.” His next step: pos- sibly sending more “mighty mice” to the space station for an even longer stay. Three NASA astronauts looked after the space mice, performing body scans and injections: Chris- tina Koch and Jessica Meir, who performed the first all-female ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON RAN OUT OF STORM NAMES EO Media Group MIAMI, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center has exhausted its list of storm names for 2020 and for only the second time since the center originated its list of storm names in 1953. Tropical Storm Wilfred formed Friday, Sept. 18, becoming the 21st and last name on the list for this year. Two more storms, how- AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 57/64 Kennewick 58/64 St. Helens 59/65 TIllamook Hood River 53/65 54/68 59/64 57/64 Condon FRI SAT SUN MON Cloudy A brief shower or two A morning shower in spots Clouds and sun; warmer Mostly sunny and pleasant 68 44 79 45 78 41 Eugene 9 10 10 55/66 69 51 80 51 77 42 9 10 10 Comfort Index™ La Grande 9 47 68 48 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 9 8 3 43 64 47 Comfort Index™ 8 76 48 74 44 8 10 10 3 TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Tuesday Low Tuesday High: 110° Low: 20° Wettest: 7.52” 79° 50° 77° 58° 81° 52° PRECIPITATION (inches) Tuesday Trace Month to date Trace Normal month to date 0.42 Year to date 2.99 Normal year to date 7.51 0.00 0.00 0.47 13.06 11.38 Trace 0.01 0.58 25.32 15.69 HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY 45% WSW at 7 to 14 mph 0.5 0.11 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 10% of capacity 23% of capacity 44% of capacity 50% of capacity 15% of capacity 8% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday) 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 Death Valley, Calif. Bodie State Park, Calif. Houston, Texas OREGON High: 85° Low: 36° Wettest: 0.11” Rome Howard Prairie Newport An early cold snap chilled the East on Sept. 24, 1989. Mount Washington, N.H., was 18 degrees with winds up to 100 mph; it felt like the Arctic. SUN & MOON THU. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset FRI. 6:42 a.m. 6:43 a.m. 6:45 p.m. 6:43 p.m. 3:22 p.m. 4:12 p.m. none 12:02 a.m. MOON PHASES 702 cfs 37 cfs 49 cfs 44 cfs 70 cfs 26 cfs Full Oct 1 Last Oct 9 New Oct 16 Beaver Marsh 54/70 First Oct 23 Burns Jordan Valley Paisley Frenchglen 40/74 City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview Hi/Lo/W 64/55/r 65/49/c 73/56/pc 66/58/r 71/39/pc 66/58/sh 63/55/r 66/47/pc 66/49/r 66/58/r 75/55/pc 65/54/sh 68/52/c 69/53/pc 62/43/c 73/55/pc 71/41/pc 72/36/pc Hi/Lo/W 65/59/c 73/49/pc 72/53/pc 71/59/pc 75/40/pc 69/58/pc 69/55/pc 68/48/pc 67/52/c 73/57/pc 73/59/c 70/60/r 69/51/sh 74/49/pc 64/48/sh 70/64/pc 77/40/pc 78/38/s Grand View Arock 48/77 43/76 43/79 Klamath Falls 34/71 Lakeview 32/72 McDermitt Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs. SAT. Diamond 40/71 Fields 49/73 FRI. Boise 41/69 37/72 37/68 Medford Brookings 43/74 52/73 50/75 56/66 Juntura 34/71 Silver Lake Chiloquin Grants Pass Ontario 47/75 38/68 40/77 RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY REGIONAL CITIES WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration 54/69 42/64 35/61 Roseburg Powers Brothers 51/62 Coos Bay Huntington 40/65 45/65 Oakridge 43/66 49/74 Seneca Bend Elkton Council 41/68 46/69 43/66 Florence TUESDAY EXTREMES ALMANAC 39/60 John Day 41/67 Sisters 55/66 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. 46/71 Baker City Redmond 56/60 58/62 Halfway Granite 54/63 Newport 56/67 65 50 46/72 51/59 56/65 Corvallis Enterprise 43/64 47/68 Monument 51/68 Idanha Salem TONIGHT 41 68 43 45/66 La Grande 50/65 Maupin Baker City Elgin Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg 53/68 54/68 53/71 58/65 Lewiston Walla Walla 58/73 Vancouver 57/64 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 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 68/54/c 64/56/r 66/46/pc 73/54/c 60/55/r 63/53/r 75/51/pc 72/52/pc 71/52/c 64/56/r 69/58/c 67/43/c 70/57/c 65/54/r 61/46/sh 68/53/c 64/48/c 68/51/c Hi/Lo/W 67/59/pc 67/62/sh 67/52/pc 81/55/s 62/55/r 65/58/r 75/48/pc 68/58/pc 71/58/pc 69/62/c 76/58/pc 72/45/pc 78/58/s 68/59/r 59/52/r 71/57/pc 70/47/pc 67/58/pc 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 Spotty showers Showers around 45 38 62 45 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. A shower or two Inc. clouds 56 41 71 51 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK A p.m. shower Rain and drizzle 52 37 62 43 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR A passing shower Mostly cloudy 62 43 70 52 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Rather cloudy A shower or two 68 43 68 48
