{"id":9647,"date":"2019-09-28T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:11:10","slug":"not-so-nasty-news-sept-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=9647","title":{"rendered":"Not so Nasty News Sept 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #1:  Snow<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-a-snow-stevens-pass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"528\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-a-snow-stevens-pass.jpg 795w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-a-snow-stevens-pass-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-a-snow-stevens-pass-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><em>I think the photo is by Joel Moreno of KOMO News \u2013 Seattle.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/seasons-first-snow-arrives-at-stevens-pass\"><strong> Stevens Pass, WA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are at an elevation of 2,240 feet and 54 miles SE of the Pass. At this time \u2013 Sat. Noon \u2013 we are along the edge of the airflow bringing the coldest and wettest air to the region.  That is off to our east, in western Montana, with the coldest air now still north of Edmonton, Alberta.<br \/>\nWe may, or may be not, have 5 inches of snow by Monday morning. Then it will melt rapidly.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping for a nice October so I can do the things I put off while hiking in the Cascades.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #2: Nothing is &#8220;tougher&#8221; <\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Toughness is actually a technical term meaning a combination of strength (resists being pulled apart) and ductility (deforms without rupture). Spider silk is tough and the silk of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darwin%27s_bark_spider\"><strong>Darwin&#8217;s bark spider<\/strong><\/a>  is twice as strong as any other.  The orb-shaped web usually begins as a single strand called a bridge line, it is the toughest and has been seen 80 feet in length.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-b-spider-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"602\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9644\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-b-spider-web.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-b-spider-web-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>With clothing, the term &#8220;silk&#8221; is used but that word is most often associated with the material taken from the cocoons of the larvae of the Mulberry silkworm; that is, a moth. [<em>Bombyx mori<\/em> \u2013 if you care to look.]<br \/>\nNow there is a jacket [ Moon Parka ] ready for Christmas sales made from silk from bacteria.  My guess \u2013 I can&#8217;t afford one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/ecology\/jacket-spider-silk-29082019\/\"><strong>Moon Parka 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backpackers.com\/moon-parka-the-spider-silk-coat-by-spiber-and-the-north-face\/\"><strong>Moon Parka 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #3:  Cute <\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A photographer had an idea. Worked out well. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-d-stealing-the-Sun-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9645\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-d-stealing-the-Sun-300x265.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-d-stealing-the-Sun.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/auto\/amazing-photos-man-loading-sun-suv\"><strong>Follow this link, if you haven&#8217;t seen the sequence.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #4:  I hope he was dressed! <\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rescuers say the man somehow survived despite only carrying a pocket knife.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/2-hikers-rescued-in-separate-incidents-in-olympic-national-park-after-falls\"><strong>Rescue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In various ways the items in the photo below are called hiker essentials.  Don&#8217;t hit the trail without them.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-f-the-ten-essentials-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-f-the-ten-essentials-1024x516.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-f-the-ten-essentials-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-f-the-ten-essentials-768x387.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-f-the-ten-essentials-1200x604.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27-f-the-ten-essentials.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.<br \/>\nJohn <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Item #1: Snow I think the photo is by Joel Moreno of KOMO News \u2013 Seattle. Stevens Pass, WA We are at an elevation of 2,240 feet and 54 miles SE of the Pass. At this time \u2013 Sat. Noon \u2013 we are along the edge of the airflow bringing the coldest and wettest air &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=9647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not so Nasty News Sept 28th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-2vB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}