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8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021 COFFEE BREAK Surprise revelation of twins’ paternity is a family bombshell DEAR ABBY: My son’s new wife — who has a daughter — insisted that his two children are not biologically his. After a DNA test, it turns out she was right. They aren’t. My son, my husband and I are heartbroken. His twins are 10, and they don’t understand what’s going on. My husband and I are trying to gently remain in their lives with phone calls and limited visits. My son’s wife refuses to visit with us until we stop communicating with the children, promise never to talk about them and display no pic- tures in our home. She’s trying to convince our son to stop seeing us, as well. What to do? — DISAPPOINTED IN TEXAS DEAR DISAPPOINTED: Those children, regardless of who their birth father is, were raised believing you and your husband are their grandparents. DEAR If you love them, do ABBY not knuckle under to your son’s new wife or it will be only the beginning of how she will attempt to control you. She does not have the right to dictate who you (or your son, for that matter) see and communicate with. She also does not have the right to order you to remove any object from your home. If your son opts to turn his back on those children, that’s a decision only he can make. If he also chooses to turn his back on you, then you raised a milquetoast instead of a man. DEAR ABBY: I’m a married man, and I love my wife. We’re not living together at the moment due to unfortunate circumstances. Being far away from her, I get extremely lonely. I have a co-worker who became a good friend, and I have feelings for her. I have told her how I feel, and we have hung out a few times — nothing sexual. Now she’s moving away, and I feel heartbroken. How should I deal? I’m fi ghting back tears for someone I’m not even with. What do I do? — HEARTBROKEN DEAR HEARTBROKEN: A relationship does not have to be with our boss and two colleagues. When “Joan” came on the call, “something” was hanging from one of her nostrils. She may have had a cold. I scratched my nose and mustache a few times, trying to alert her of what was hap- pening, to no avail. She didn’t react. No one else said anything. What would the correct pro- tocol have been? Should I have left it alone or was I right to try to let her know? I did what I would have done in person. Should I have privately texted her? Please advise. — TELECOMMUTING WOES DEAR TELECOMMUTING: If the person with the leaky nose had been you, wouldn’t you have wanted to know? Yes, you should have texted her. sexual to be meaningful, and your co-worker was fi lling a space in your life that was empty. That you feel a sense of loss and sad- ness that she is moving is not surprising. Not knowing the unfortunate circumstances that caused the separation between you and your wife, I can only advise you to start looking for a way to mend fences or change those circum- stances so you can live together again, because clearly, you’re not doing well on your own. If that’s not possible, start giving serious thought to how you plan to live the rest of your life, because this way isn’t working. DEAR ABBY: The other day I was on a video conference call NEWS OF THE WEIRD Ancient shell horn can still play a tune after 18,000 years WASHINGTON — A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the dis- tant past. The shell was found during the 1931 excavation of a cave with prehistoric wall paintings in the French Pyrenees and assumed to be a ceremonial drinking cup. Archaeologists from the Univer- sity of Toulouse recently took a fresh look and determined it had been modifi ed thousands of years ago to serve as a wind instrument. They invited a French horn player to play it. “Hearing it for the fi rst time, for me it was a big emotion — and a big stress,” said archaeologist Carole Fritz. She feared that playing the 12-inch shell might damage it, but it didn’t. The horn produced clear C, C sharp and D notes. The researchers say it is around 18,000 years old. Their fi ndings were published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Carole Fritz via AP This combination of photos in February 2021 shows two sides of a 12-inch conch shell discovered in a French cave with prehistoric wall paintings in 1931. Using modern microscopy techniques to examine how the shell was modifi ed and hiring a French horn player to test it out, researchers found the shell could produce C, C sharp and D notes. Using carbon dating of related artifacts in the cave, researchers esti- mate the age to be around 18,000 years, making it the world’s oldest seashell instrument known. Conch shells have been used widely in musical and ceremonial traditions, including in ancient Greece, Japan, India and Peru. The shell instrument found in the Marsoulas cave is now the oldest known example. Previously, a conch shell instrument found in weather Syria had been dated to about 6,000 years old, said another Toulouse archaeologist, Gilles Tosello. The discovery was made after a recent inventory at the Natural History Museum of Toulouse. 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In Norway, heavy vehicles are required to use snow chains from mid-November until the end of March regardless of the road conditions in the Scandina- vian country. Skogmo said that because the man’s truck did not have chains, “we found grounds to open a deportation case against the foreign driver.” — The Associated Press AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION 39/49 TONIGHT Norway deports truck driver for not using snow chains unusual holes in the shell. The tip of the shell was broken off, cre- ating a hole large enough to blow through. Microscopic inspec- tion revealed the opening was the result of deliberate craftsmanship, not accidental wear, according to Tosello. By inserting a tiny medical camera, they found that another hole had been carefully drilled in the shell’s inner chamber. They also detected traces of red pig- ment on the mouth of the conch, matching a pattern found on the wall of Marsoulas cave. “This is classic, really solid archaeology,” said Margaret Conkey, an archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the research. “This discovery reminds us that their lives were much richer and more complex than just stone tools and big game.” Marsoulas cave is not located near an ocean, so the prehistoric people must have either moved around widely or used trading networks to obtain the shell, Conkey and the researchers said. Using a 3D replica, the archae- ologists plan to continue studying the horn’s range of notes. They hope to hear the shell played in the cave where it was found. 13 Beautyrest ® Motion Base TOGE THER FOR A CLE AN OCE AN Sustainable comfort with Seaqual Fabric Technology. Each Queen mattress recovers 50 plastic bottles from the world’s oceans. Starting at $ 599 ©2020 Simmons Bedding Company, LLC. 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