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6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD SATuRDAY, SEpTEmBER 26, 2020 COFFEE BREAK Wife starts to resent man’s constant demands for gifts DEAR ABBY: I feel uncom- fortable receiving gifts, and I find it hard to meet my husband’s requests for constant gifts, espe- cially when I feel I already give so much. He constantly asks me to buy him things, some of which are very expensive. I’m a saver, not a spender, and I try to watch my budget. I already pay all the household bills, even though we make the same amount of money. I owned my house before we met, and he chips in with occa- sional upgrades and maintenance or takes me out to dinner once in a while. But I pay for the vast majority of expenses, as well as perform the majority of chores. I have sacrificed and paid for all our vacations because I wanted the experience, and I accept that. The problem is, he seems to feel unappreciated, suggesting that if I gifted him more often, he would know he was constantly thought of. He says he buys DEAR me random gifts — ABBY usually small items to which there are strings attached or implied reciprocity. These requests, especially when he buys for himself quite a bit, seem like a smack in the face to me. I feel he’s impulsive with purchases, and won’t be happy until I have nothing left. How do I handle meeting my husband’s need for constant vali- dation without going bankrupt or having all the love sucked out from resentment? Mentioning my finan- cial limitations doesn’t seem to quench his thirst for more. — EXCESSIVE IN NEW YORK DEAR EXCESSIVE: If my reading of your letter is accurate, you are doing all the heavy lifting in your marriage. What, exactly, is your husband contributing except to ask for more? Gifts are sup- posed to be freely given, not dis- pensed because they are requested. Whether your husband is greedy, selfish or extremely needy, I can’t guess, but the balance is off in your marriage. This is why I’m recommending you consult a mar- riage and family therapist. If your husband is willing to go with you and discuss these issues, they can daughter. We tried one more time last year at a restaurant, and it was the same. Since then, we have skipped family gatherings. I don’t know why she feels she has to tell us what to do. Please help. — PUSHED AROUND IN KENTUCKY DEAR PUSHED: Have you talked to your mother about this? She may, for whatever reason, need to feel she is in control. If she isn’t hosting the gathering, this may be her way of maintaining dominance in her relationship with her sister, her children and grandchildren. I’m not sure you can change your mother, but please don’t cut yourself off from the rest of your family. If you aren’t seeing them individually, please consider it. be resolved. If not, please go alone so you can gain clearer insight into what (and whom) you are dealing with. DEAR ABBY: My mother likes to tell people where to sit at every family gathering. It can be anywhere, including at a restaurant or even at my aunt’s house. It’s annoying and feels disrespectful. I’m 49, and my girls are in their early 20s. I try to be patient, but she doesn’t consider health condi- tions or if someone is left-handed. My older daughter was severely traumatized by a former neighbor and doesn’t do well with strangers. A few years ago, my cousin’s boyfriend came, and my mother ordered my daughter to sit next to him. It was horrible for my News of the weird Too much candy: Man dies after eating bags of black licorice 3 accused of creating man cave under Grand Central Terminal By Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer BOSTON — A Mas- sachusetts construction worker’s love of black lic- orice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutri- ents out of whack and caused the 54-year-old man’s heart to stop, doc- tors reported Wednesday, Sept. 23. “Even a small amount of licorice you eat can increase your blood pres- sure a little bit,” said Dr. Neel Butala, a cardiol- ogist at Massachusetts General Hospital who described the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. The problem is glycyr- rhizic acid, found in black licorice and in many other foods and dietary sup- plements containing lic- orice root extract. It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals called electrolytes. Eating as little as 2 ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks could cause a heart rhythm problem, especially for folks over 40, the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis- tration warns. “It’s more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Bel- gian beers, have this com- pound in it,” as do some chewing tobaccos, said Associated Press NEW YORK — Three railroad workers have been suspended for turning a storage room under New York’s Grand Central Terminal into an unauthorized “man cave” with a television, a refrig- erator, a microwave and a futon couch, officials said Thursday, Sept. 24. A Metropolitan Trans- portation Authority investigation found man- agers at Metro-North Railroad were unaware of the hideaway beneath Track 114. “Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of Manhattan real estate — especially one this close to good transportation,” MTA Inspector General Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General via AP This photo from August 2019 shows a portion of a storage room three railroad work- ers converted into a “man cave” under Grand Central Terminal in New York. The space also had a refrigerator, a microwave and a futon couch. A Metropolitan Transportation Authority investigation found managers at Metro-North Railroad were unaware of the hideaway beneath Track 114. Dr. Robert Eckel, a Uni- versity of Colorado car- diologist and former American Heart Associa- tion president. He had no role in the Massachusetts man’s care. The death was clearly an extreme case. The man had switched from red, fruit-flavored twists to the black licorice ver- sion of the candy a few weeks before his death last year. He collapsed while having lunch at a fast-food restaurant. Doc- tors found he had dan- gerously low potassium, which led to heart rhythm and other problems. Emer- gency responders did CPR and he revived but died the next day. The FDA permits up to 3.1% of a food’s con- tent to have gycyrrhizic acid, but many candies and other licorice products don’t reveal how much of it is contained per ounce, Butala said. Doctors have reported the case to the FDA in hope of raising attention to the risk. Jeff Beckman, a spokesman for the Her- shey Company, which makes the popular Twiz- zlers licorice twists, said in an email that “all of our products are safe to eat and formulated in full compliance with FDA weather regulations,” and that all foods, including candy, PICK’N PATCH We will be OPENING La Grande’s Certified Arborist on October 2nd! Where: Corner of Booth Lane and Lower Cove Road When: Friday and Saturday: 9am-6pm Sunday: 10am-4pm Monday-Thursday: By appointment What you will find: Small corn maze, several varieties of pumpkins and gourds, straw bales, corn stalks. If you would like to schedule a school field trip or other event, please call the number listed below. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ PickNPatchFarm farmkidsatoregonwireless.net Please call I’m putting together a Dormant Season Pruning List M ICHAEL Certified Tree Care Planting • Pruning • Removal M. Curtiss PN-7077A 541-786-8463 CCB# 200613 michaeltcurtiss@yahoo.com 541-786-2421 AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 52/69 Kennewick 51/70 St. Helens 50/71 48/70 49/72 53/70 48/71 Condon SUN MON TUE WED Clear to partly cloudy Partly sunny and nice Sunny and pleasant Sunny and nice Sunny and nice 70 36 79 39 80 38 Eugene 10 10 8 48/73 72 37 78 43 79 38 10 10 10 La Grande 44 65 35 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 5 4 10 40 61 35 Comfort Index™ 5 78 44 10 10 10 ALMANAC NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Thursday Low Thursday High: 109° Low: 24° Wettest: 4.27” 72° 40° 68° 42° 71° 46° Thursday Trace Month to date Trace Normal month to date 0.45 Year to date 2.99 Normal year to date 7.54 0.07 0.07 0.52 13.13 11.43 0.02 0.03 0.64 25.34 15.75 PRECIPITATION (inches) HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY 35% N at 6 to 12 mph 3.0 0.13 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 10% of capacity 23% of capacity 43% of capacity 49% of capacity 14% of capacity 7% of capacity Hermiston Crater Lake Aurora On Sept. 26, 1963, San Diego had its hottest day ever with a high of 111. San Diego has remarkably consistent tempera- tures all year; it normally stays in the 60s and 70s. SUN & MOON SAT. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset 6:45 a.m. 6:42 p.m. 4:52 p.m. 1:04 a.m. SUN. 6:46 a.m. 6:40 p.m. 5:25 p.m. 2:09 a.m. MOON PHASES STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday) 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 WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Death Valley, Calif. Angel Fire, N.M. Columbus, Miss. High: 78° Low: 41° Wettest: 0.94” 710 cfs 36 cfs 49 cfs 48 cfs 78 cfs 25 cfs Full Oct 1 Last Oct 9 New Oct 16 Beaver Marsh Powers 52/78 First Oct 23 51/76 Silver Lake Jordan Valley 37/63 Paisley 37/69 37/73 Frenchglen 38/67 50/82 Klamath Falls 37/76 McDermitt 38/67 RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY MON. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 69/51/pc 74/56/s 67/37/s 76/43/s 68/42/s 70/47/s 82/65/s 83/60/s 69/30/s 76/35/s 71/53/s 82/56/s 70/48/s 77/48/s 66/36/pc 71/42/s 63/36/pc 72/40/s 73/48/s 79/49/s 72/42/pc 76/43/s 70/46/pc 74/46/s 65/40/pc 76/43/s 66/42/s 80/45/s 59/35/pc 68/42/s 72/42/pc 78/44/s 76/37/s 82/41/s 71/36/s 79/37/s 46/70 Lakeview 36/71 REGIONAL CITIES City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview Grand View Arock 40/67 39/69 Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs. SUN. Diamond 37/65 Fields Medford Brookings Boise 45/68 50/84 59/82 38/70 34/68 Chiloquin Grants Pass Juntura 30/69 35/66 32/68 Roseburg Ontario 46/71 Burns Brothers 47/77 Coos Bay Huntington 36/62 38/67 Oakridge 38/66 46/70 Seneca Bend Elkton Council 39/64 43/66 37/68 Florence THURSDAY EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin 38/61 John Day 36/67 Sisters 51/71 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. 42/67 Baker City Redmond 51/66 Halfway Granite 48/70 Newport 51/71 77 43 42/67 44/72 49/71 49/65 69 39 8 Corvallis Enterprise 40/61 44/65 Monument 44/68 Idanha Salem TONIGHT 3 Elgin 42/63 La Grande 42/64 Maupin Comfort Index™ 49/64 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg Lewiston 48/67 Hood River 46/68 TIllamook 39 64 32 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 Walla Walla 47/72 Vancouver 49/70 49/70 Baker City Carolyn Pokorny said in a news release. “But few would have the chutzpah to commandeer a secret room beneath Grand Cen- tral Terminal.” Three Metro-North employees — a wireman, a carpenter foreman and an electrical foreman — were suspended without pay pending disciplinary hearings. The investigation began after the MTA’s office of the inspector gen- eral received an anony- mous tip in February 2019 alleging that there was a “man cave” under Grand Central with “a couch and a flat screen t.v.” where three specific employees would “hang out and get drunk and party.” Investigators found the room, which had wooden cabinets designed to con- ceal the TV and futon, according to the report. Railroad officials said the space presented a fire hazard because rescue workers would have had difficulty accessing an unmapped room. “should be enjoyed in moderation.” SUN. City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla MON. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 67/42/pc 71/46/s 70/46/pc 74/51/s 61/34/pc 70/37/s 82/51/s 92/54/s 65/52/s 71/56/s 67/46/pc 72/48/s 71/39/s 72/41/s 71/39/pc 74/43/s 68/42/s 74/47/s 70/52/pc 77/55/s 78/55/pc 93/57/s 67/33/s 77/40/s 76/50/s 86/50/s 71/49/pc 77/50/s 62/39/pc 69/44/s 72/44/pc 75/47/s 63/34/s 73/39/s 64/43/s 71/47/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 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny 45 31 63 32 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Partly sunny Partly sunny 51 35 68 38 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Partly sunny Mostly sunny; nice 49 27 60 31 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Partly sunny Mostly sunny 59 35 67 42 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Mostly sunny; nice Partly sunny 64 32 65 35
