B6 THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD • THuRSDAY, NOVEmBER 17, 2022
COFFEE BREAK
Widow encounters happiness after years of violence
was severely depressed and needed an-
tidepressants. I tried many times to get
him help and had family interventions,
only to end up being threatened with
getting all my teeth knocked out.
My dilemma is that one of our
friends has become more than just a
friend. This man is a kind, caring indi-
vidual and has done more for me this
last couple of weeks than my husband
did my entire marriage. I have been
so happy recently, but I feel guilty for
feeling this way and wonder if I should
be ashamed for not grieving longer. I
feel maybe I’m doing something wrong
by being happy and not having to deal
with the abuse. What do you think? —
DEAR ABBY: I have been a widow
for six months. My late husband was
a physically and verbally abusive al-
coholic. I spent numerous nights in
the ER waiting to be seen and nursed
many black eyes throughout the years.
During all those years of abuse, which
was witnessed by numerous friends
and family, I remained faithful and
dedicated to him and our marriage, but
due to the toxicity of our relationship I
SURVIVOR IN VIRGINIA
DEAR SURVIVOR: What I think is
that you should be grateful you are free
of your abusive late husband. I see no
reason why you should feel guilty for
not grieving the death of that disturbed
individual. That said, it’s very import-
ant you take your time before getting
into another exclusive relationship.
You are extremely vulnerable now. You
need to heal from the years of abuse
you experienced, and possibly receive
counseling to ensure you don’t drift to-
ward the “familiar” or overlook warn-
ing signs of another potential abuser.
DEAR ABBY: My husband’s brother
and his family live out of state. They
house. What do you think? — NEED-
ING A BREAK IN OHIO
DEAR NEEDING: I agree that this pat-
tern — established heaven knows how
long ago — has placed an unfair bur-
den on you. Your husband is long over-
due for a conversation with his brother
to see if something can be worked out.
However, if your brother-in-law is un-
willing, you may have to have your
smaller family celebrations the night
before or night after the holiday.
never invite my husband’s parents to
spend any holiday with them. In fact,
they initiate no visits with them at all
or travel to the area where we live. (We
live in the same city as my in-laws).
My dilemma: I do not want to have
my husband’s parents at our house for
every holiday dinner we host. My chil-
dren are getting older (one is married),
and we don’t see them often. Sometimes
I want to get together with just our im-
mediate family, but then I feel guilty if I
don’t always include the in-laws. I think
my husband’s brother should step up
to the plate and invite his parents for at
least one holiday. I don’t think it’s fair
to expect us to always have them at our
█
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded
by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box
69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Iranian who inspired ‘The Terminal’ dies at Paris airport
The Associated Press
PARIS — An Iranian man who
lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles
de Gaulle Airport and whose saga
loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg
film “The Terminal” died Saturday,
Nov. 12, in the airport that he long
called home, officials said.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri died after
a heart attack in the airport’s Termi-
nal 2F around midday, according an
official with the Paris airport author-
ity. Police and a medical team treated
him but were not able to save him, the
official said. The official was not au-
thorized to be publicly named.
Nasseri lived in the airport’s Termi-
nal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in le-
gal limbo because he lacked residency
papers and later by apparent choice.
Year in and year out, he slept on
a red plastic bench, making friends
with airport workers, showering in
staff facilities, writing in his diary,
reading magazines and surveying
passing travelers.
Staff nicknamed him Lord Al-
fred, and he became a mini-celebrity
among passengers.
“Eventually, I will leave the airport,”
he told The Associated Press in 1999,
smoking a pipe on his bench, look-
ing frail with long thin hair, sunken
eyes and hollow cheeks. “But I am still
waiting for a passport or transit visa.”
Nasseri was born in 1945 in Solei-
man, a part of Iran then under Brit-
ish jurisdiction, to an Iranian father
and a British mother. He left Iran to
study in England in 1974. When he
returned, he said, he was imprisoned
for protesting against the shah and
expelled without a passport.
He applied for political asylum in
several countries in Europe. The UN-
HCR in Belgium gave him refugee
credentials, but he said his briefcase
containing the refugee certificate was
stolen in a Paris train station.
French police later arrested him,
but couldn’t deport him anywhere be-
cause he had no official documents.
He ended up at Charles de Gaulle in
August 1988 and stayed.
Further bureaucratic bungling and
increasingly strict European immigra-
tion laws kept him in a legal no-man’s
land for years.
When he finally received refugee pa-
michel Euler/The Associated Press, File
Merhan Karimi Nasseri, shown sitting among his belongings at Terminal 1 of Roissy Charles De Gaulle Airport, north of Paris on Aug. 11, 2004, lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles
de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal.” He died Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in the airport, officials said.
pers, he described his surprise, and his
insecurity, about leaving the airport.
He reportedly refused to sign them,
and ended up staying there several
more years until he was hospitalized in
2006, and later lived in a Paris shelter.
Those who befriended him in the
airport said the years of living in the
windowless space took a toll on his
mental state. The airport doctor in
the 1990s worried about his physi-
cal and mental health, and described
him as “fossilized here.” A ticket agent
friend compared him to a prisoner in-
capable of “living on the outside.”
In the weeks before his death, Nas-
seri had been again living at Charles
de Gaulle, the airport official said.
Nasseri’s mind-boggling tale
loosely inspired 2004’s “The Termi-
nal” starring Tom Hanks, as well as a
French film, “Lost in Transit,” and an
opera called “Flight.”
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Claim of new world record for
longest beard chain in Wyoming
CASPER, Wyo. — Facial hair enthu-
siasts claimed to have set a new world
record for longest beard chain during
an event in Wyoming on Friday, Nov.
13, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.
Participants gathered at Gaslight So-
1970s sandals worn by Steve Jobs
auctioned for $218K
LOS ANGELES — The California
house where Steve Jobs co-founded
Apple is a historical site, and now the
sandals he wore while pacing its floors
have been sold for nearly $220,000, ac-
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
32/48
Kennewick
22/44
St. Helens
30/47
26/39
23/38
34/47
33/48
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Mainly clear
and cold
Mostly sunny
and chilly
Plenty of sun,
but chilly
Increasing
clouds; chilly
Cloudy
10 36 16
38 13
39 15
40 24
Eugene
1
1
1
27/47
38 22
39 25
41 30
0
1
1
La Grande
18 38 20
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
1
2
14 38 20
Comfort Index™
2
42 28
3
3
3
3
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 88°
Low: -13°
Wettest: 1.25”
34°
14°
35°
17°
37°
19°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
0.00
0.55
0.35
6.26
7.83
0.00
2.74
0.93
13.67
14.51
0.00
5.13
1.36
25.52
20.39
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
35%
NE at 4 to 8 mph
4.4
0.04
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
1% of capacity
27% of capacity
9% of capacity
27% of capacity
8% of capacity
7% of capacity
High: 66°
Low: 0°
Wettest: none
North Bend
Burns
Powers
32/58
SUN & MOON
THU.
926 cfs
5 cfs
8 cfs
71 cfs
N.A.
11 cfs
New
FRI.
6:53 a.m. 6:55 a.m.
4:21 p.m. 4:20 p.m.
none 12:39 a.m.
1:49 p.m. 2:07 p.m.
Nov 23
First
Nov 30
Full
Dec 7
31/50
Grants Pass
Silver Lake
Last
Dec 16
Jordan Valley
13/34
Paisley
15/29
18/40
Frenchglen
13/36
31/51
Grand View
Arock
23/35
15/35
16/36
Klamath Falls
19/39
Lakeview
16/34
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
13/38
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
48/34/s 51/33/c
Bend
34/17/pc 42/24/pc
Boise
37/19/s 40/18/s
Brookings
59/42/s 60/42/s
Burns
36/6/s
39/7/s
Coos Bay
55/33/s 55/35/c
Corvallis
46/24/s 46/27/pc
Council
30/9/s 32/11/s
Elgin
37/20/s 38/20/s
Eugene
47/22/s 45/28/pc
Hermiston
36/20/s 34/19/s
Hood River
39/25/s 38/25/pc
Imnaha
28/18/s 40/23/s
John Day
39/21/s 42/21/s
Joseph
34/19/s 38/19/s
Kennewick
38/18/s 33/19/s
Klamath Falls 39/14/s 42/16/s
Lakeview
34/3/s
36/7/s
Diamond
11/34
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
22/37
33/55
38/59
13/35
18/29
Chiloquin
FRI.
On Nov. 17, 1989, the temperature in
Raleigh/Durham, N.C., plummeted to 29
degrees, becoming the latest fi rst freeze
on record. The previous record occurred
Nov. 14, 1946.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
9/36
15/31
17/34
Roseburg
Ontario
19/40
Burns
Brothers
31/50
Coos Bay
Huntington
16/39
18/34
Oakridge
10/30
18/39
Seneca
REGIONAL CITIES
MOON PHASES
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
OREGON
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Marathon, Fla.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Blacksburg, Va.
19/39
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
Council
10/36
John Day
17/37
Sisters
30/55
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.
10/35
18/35
29/51
41 26
11/36
Baker City
Redmond
33/52
Halfway
Granite
25/46
Newport
32/49
39 19
27/37
28/47
28/48
Corvallis
Enterprise
14/38
18/38
Monument
15/34
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
1
Elgin
17/37
La Grande
20/35
Maupin
1
20/32
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
19/35
Hood River
18/34
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
18/38
Vancouver
28/48
29/50
Baker City
cording to an auction house.
The “well used” brown suede
Birkenstocks dating to the mid-1970s
set a record for the highest price ever
paid for a pair of sandals, Julien’s Auc-
tions said Sunday, Nov. 13.
“The cork and jute footbed retains
the imprint of Steve Jobs’ feet, which
had been shaped after years of use,” the
auction house said in the listing on its
website.
The sandals were expected to bring
$60,000, but the final sale price with an
accompanying NFT was $218,750, Ju-
lien’s said. The buyer was not named.
Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded
Apple in 1976 at Jobs’ parents’ house
in Los Altos, California. In 2013, the
property was named a historic land-
mark by the Los Altos Historical Com-
mission.
Jobs died in 2011 from complica-
tions of pancreatic cancer.
cial, a bar in Casper, where they stood
side by side and clipped their beards to-
gether to create a hairy chain that was
measured at 150 feet long, according to
the newspaper. That’s more than dou-
ble the Guinness World Record of 62
feet, 6 inches, set in Germany in 2007.
To participate, people needed to
sport a beard at least 8 inches long, ac-
cording to the Star-Tribune.
The event occurred on the sidelines
of the National Beard and Moustache
Championships, which took place
Nov. 14 at the city’s Ford Wyoming
Center.
In “The Terminal,” Hanks plays
Viktor Navorski, a man who arrives
at JFK airport in New York from the
fictional Eastern European coun-
try of Krakozhia and discovers that
an overnight political revolution has
invalidated all his traveling papers.
Viktor is dumped into the airport’s
international lounge and told he must
stay there until his status is sorted
out, which drags on as unrest in Kra-
kozhia continues.
No information was immediately
available about survivors.
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
35/22/s
44/24/s
36/19/s
51/29/s
49/33/s
47/22/pc
40/19/s
37/17/s
34/19/s
47/32/s
58/33/s
37/14/s
50/31/pc
48/26/s
30/16/s
38/23/s
36/16/s
32/20/s
Hi/Lo/W
41/25/s
47/27/c
39/20/s
46/31/pc
52/36/pc
48/25/c
38/15/s
36/20/s
37/21/s
45/32/pc
58/36/c
43/19/pc
49/33/pc
47/28/pc
32/19/s
39/24/s
40/21/s
34/22/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
27
13
36
13
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
33
20
37
16
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny; cold
28
9
31
15
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny
Sunny, but cold
34
19
34
19
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
36
16
38
20