COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, JAnuARY 15, 2022
Wife gets no support in dealing with MIL
and, in the five years we have
been married, has never once vis-
ited her son. I take him to visit
her because he can’t get a driver’s
license because of medical issues.
Our child and I aren’t even
allowed in her home. We have
to sit in the car. She acts like our
child doesn’t exist, but she has pic-
tures of her other two grandchil-
dren on Facebook and drives to
see them almost weekly. My hus-
band sees nothing wrong with her
behavior and says he “won’t take
sides.” I don’t know what to do. —
PEEVED IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR PEEVED: Please
accept my sympathy for your situ-
ation. While your husband refuses
to recognize there is anything
wrong with his mother’s behavior,
DEAR ABBY: I need some
advice regarding my moth-
er-in-law. She has hated me since
the first time she met me because
I’m not from the country but from
“the city.” I have given her gifts
for birthdays and holidays and
invited her on day trips with us,
but she always refuses.
She also makes up lies about
me. She claims I have STDs,
spend all her son’s money, etc.
She even spread a rumor that I
wouldn’t allow her at our wed-
ding. She lives 46 miles away
it is off the charts. I hope you
realize that most men stand up
for their wives and children when
they are mistreated.
Because you can’t change
your husband or his witch of a
mother, and you made no men-
tion of leaving the marriage, you
will simply have to adjust to it.
Start by planning an activity you
and your child can enjoy while
your husband is visiting his mom,
rather than sitting for hours in the
car. Even better, arrange “other”
transportation for your husband.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a
24-year-old woman who has been
in a relationship with a man for
seven years. “Ken” is 27 years
older than I am. (I pursued him.) I
love him, but I have always been
DEAR WANTING: You
became involved with Ken
while you were still very
young. It appears you never
gave yourself time to fully
develop as an individual. You
state that you are still “in a
relationship” rather than a mar-
riage, which may be a blessing
considering your ambivalence.
Many women would be glad
to live their life in a relation-
ship that has all the positive
qualities that yours has with
Ken. I am sure you both will
discover this when you move
on. However, since you asked
my advice, talk this through
with a licensed relationship
counselor before making any
final decision.
slightly confused about my rela-
tionship with him, and he knows
this. Lately, I have been feeling
very guilty. My heart knows that
my love for Ken isn’t enough for
what he truly deserves.
He’s a good, honest man, and
I enjoy our relationship. We get
along great, have a lot in common
and make a great team. I am com-
fortable with us and our life.
But recently I have realized that
I want to be on my own, alone,
and not in a relationship. I feel a
strong desire to focus on me and
only me, so I can grow into the
person I envision myself being.
Any advice besides the obvious
— my leaving the relationship?
— WANTING MORE IN
WISCONSIN
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica
which is a very exciting
discovery about Mars and
not a study to disprove”
the original premise.
This finding “is huge
for our understanding of
how life started on this
planet and helps refine the
techniques we need to find
life elsewhere on Mars, or
Enceladus and Europa,”
Steele said in an email,
referring to Saturn and
Jupiter’s moons with sub-
surface oceans.
The only way to prove
whether Mars ever had
or still has microbial life,
according to Steele, is to
bring samples to Earth
for analysis. NASA’s Per-
severance Mars rover
already has collected
six samples for return to
Earth in a decade or so;
three dozen samples are
desired.
Millions of years after
drifting through space,
the meteorite landed on an
icefield in Antarctica thou-
sands of years ago. The
small gray-green fragment
got its name — Allan Hills
84001 — from the hills
where it was found.
Just this week, a piece
of this meteorite was used
in a first-of-its-kind exper-
iment aboard the Inter-
national Space Station. A
mini scanning electron
microscope examined the
sample; Thomas-Keprta
operated it remotely from
Houston. Researchers
hope to use the micro-
scope to analyze geologic
samples in space — on the
moon one day, for example
— and debris that could
ruin station equipment or
endanger astronauts.
By MARCIA DUNN
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. — A 4 billion-year-old
meteorite from Mars that
caused a splash here on
Earth decades ago contains
no evidence of ancient,
primitive Martian life after
all, scientists reported
Thursday, Jan. 13.
In 1996, a NASA-led
team announced that
organic compounds in
the rock appeared to have
been left by living crea-
tures. Other scientists were
skeptical and researchers
chipped away at that
premise over the decades,
most recently by a team led
by the Carnegie Institu-
tion for Science’s Andrew
Steele.
Tiny samples from the
meteorite show the car-
bon-rich compounds are
actually the result of water
— most likely salty, or
briny, water — flowing
over the rock for a pro-
longed period, Steele said.
The findings appear in the
journal Science.
During Mars’ wet and
early past, at least two
impacts occurred near the
rock, heating the planet’s
surrounding surface, before
a third impact bounced it
off the red planet and into
space millions of years
ago. The 4-pound rock was
found in Antarctica in 1984.
Groundwater moving
through the cracks in the
rock, while it was still
on Mars, formed the tiny
globs of carbon that are
present, according to the
researchers. The same thing
can happen on Earth and
David J. Phillip/The Associated Press
The meteorite labeled ALH84001 is held in the hand of a scientist at a Johnson Space Center lab in Houston, Aug. 7, 1996. Scientists say they’ve
confirmed the meteorite from Mars contains no evidence of ancient Martian life.
could help explain the pres-
ence of methane in Mars’
atmosphere, they said.
But two scientists who
took part in the original
study took issue with these
latest findings, calling them
“disappointing.” In a shared
email, they said they stand
by their 1996 observations.
“While the data pre-
“Unsupported spec-
ulation does nothing to
resolve the conundrum
surrounding the origin
of organic matter” in the
meteorite, they added.
According to Steele,
advances in technology
made his team’s new find-
ings possible.
He commended the
sented incrementally adds
to our knowledge of (the
meteorite), the interpre-
tation is hardly novel,
nor is it supported by the
research,” wrote Kathie
Thomas-Keprta and Simon
Clemett, astromaterial
researchers at NASA’s
Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
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measurements by the orig-
inal researchers and noted
that their life-claiming
hypothesis “was a rea-
sonable interpretation”
at the time. He said he
and his team — which
includes NASA, German
and British scientists —
took care to present their
results “for what they are,
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
40/52
Kennewick
36/50
St. Helens
35/52
35/51
29/38
32/40
36/51
36/50
Condon
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
Cloudy
A snow shower
in the a.m.
Low clouds
35 22
37 27
38 27
Eugene
1
2
3
36/48
39 29
40 36
41 34
3
2
3
Comfort Index™
La Grande
1
27 39 27
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
1
1
2
23 39 27
Comfort Index™
4
37 36
5
6
4
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 82°
Low: -17°
Wettest: 0.81”
35°
19°
43°
30°
43°
33°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Trace
Month to date
0.27
Normal month to date 0.31
Year to date
0.27
Normal year to date
0.31
0.01
0.83
0.76
0.83
0.76
0.00
2.78
1.46
2.78
1.46
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
50%
S at 6 to 12 mph
2.4
0.04
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
41/62
1% of capacity
24% of capacity
18% of capacity
25% of capacity
18% of capacity
25% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1360 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
15 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
295 cfs
Minam River at Minam
148 cfs
Powder River near Richland
53 cfs
Del Rio, Texas
Boulder, Wyo.
Astoria, Ore.
OREGON
High: 56°
Low: 21°
Wettest: 0.80”
Medford
Burns
Astoria
WEATHER HISTORY
On Jan. 15, 1780, ice in the New York
Harbor was thick enough to allow the
transport of heavy cannons. While river
ice can stop boat traffi c, it can also create
possibilities.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
7:28 a.m.
4:36 p.m.
2:26 p.m.
6:05 a.m.
SUN.
7:28 a.m.
4:37 p.m.
3:18 p.m.
6:58 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Jan 17
Last
Jan 25
New
Jan 31
First
Feb 8
26/42
Beaver Marsh
21/48
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
35/57
Coos Bay
36/52
Burns
Jordan Valley
24/38
Paisley
26/47
Frenchglen
26/45
Grand View
Arock
29/35
25/39
Fields
32/54
Klamath Falls
20/45
Lakeview
16/42
McDermitt
22/41
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
52/42/c 52/44/c
54/29/pc 56/35/c
38/24/pc 38/25/pc
57/44/pc 54/45/s
38/19/c 40/22/c
56/39/pc 55/43/c
47/35/pc 50/40/c
31/24/c 32/23/c
39/23/c 38/28/c
48/37/pc 52/42/c
42/29/c 45/32/c
38/31/pc 48/40/c
44/34/c 45/32/c
44/34/c 44/36/c
41/30/c 45/34/c
42/31/c 43/34/c
45/23/s 46/26/s
42/17/s 43/21/s
Diamond
26/42
24/41
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
Boise
26/38
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
SUN.
25/36
Silver Lake
24/49
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
19/38
34/58
43/57
Ontario
28/37
24/44
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
24/40
32/54
Oakridge
22/31
30/35
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
20/33
30/44
30/52
Florence
THURSDAY EXTREMES
High Thursday
Low Thursday
23/39
John Day
28/53
Sisters
38/56
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.
23/30
Baker City
Redmond
39/53
Halfway
Granite
35/47
Newport
37/54
43 33
27/44
35/55
37/51
39/54
43 31
4
Corvallis
Enterprise
23/39
27/39
Monument
28/42
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
20 33 20
Elgin
24/39
La Grande
28/41
Maupin
Baker City
29/37
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
38/57
31/38
Hood River
29/38
TIllamook
Lewiston
Walla Walla
32/42
Vancouver
Forecasts and graphics provided
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City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SUN.
MON.
Hi/Lo/W
38/34/pc
50/36/pc
38/24/c
54/35/pc
54/39/pc
48/38/c
37/29/c
40/29/c
38/30/c
51/36/pc
62/41/c
53/28/pc
52/37/c
51/36/pc
36/29/c
40/33/c
43/27/pc
37/31/c
Hi/Lo/W
41/36/c
50/40/c
38/28/c
55/35/pc
50/43/c
52/43/c
37/29/c
43/33/c
46/36/c
51/40/c
62/46/pc
55/34/c
57/42/pc
51/40/c
39/30/c
44/38/c
47/29/c
43/36/c
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 cloudy
Partly sunny
33
24
38
23
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mainly cloudy
Cloudy
36
29
38
28
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
35
21
38
25
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly cloudy
Mainly cloudy
41
30
42
33
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Low clouds
Mostly cloudy
33
20
39
27