{"id":6624,"date":"2018-01-20T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T07:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2018-01-20T00:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T07:50:42","slug":"this-weeks-not-so-nasty-news-twnsnn-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=6624","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News {TW\u2019NSNN}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . . from John, awaiting Nancy\u2019s draft of her week\u2019s news.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #1: No injuries reported  &#8230;<\/span><br \/>\nAbout 1.5 miles north of Lake Erie&#8217;s north shore, or about 60 miles north of Cleveland, Ohio  &#8212; no one was hurt.  That&#8217;s the good news.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Wind-tower-snaps-in-middle-turbine-and-blades-on-ground-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6621\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Wind-tower-snaps-in-middle-turbine-and-blades-on-ground-259x300.jpg 259w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Wind-tower-snaps-in-middle-turbine-and-blades-on-ground.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 85vw, 259px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other aspect is good or bad depending on your view of wind towers. I suspect this one will be available cheaply &#8212; if you want one.<br \/>\nCanadian authorities are investigating.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #2: It will stink no more &#8230;<\/span><br \/>\nOne of the biggest rubbish dumps in South America has closed in Brazil after almost 60 years.<br \/>\n The Estructural dump, about 18 miles from the country&#8217;s capital, Brasilia, had processed more than 1,000 tonnes of rubbish every day.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grbage-dump-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grbage-dump-289x300.jpg 289w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grbage-dump.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 85vw, 289px\" \/><br \/>\nGood news, then, that it has been closed.  But maybe not in the short term for the people of the nearby <em>favela<\/em>, Portuguese for slum. Folks have made a living for 67 years by sorting through the garbage. They have been offered new employment in a cleaner environment, a recycling job.<br \/>\nSome are not happy with the change, but this seems like good news to me.  Maybe in a year or so, they will think so too.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #3: Mother and daughter  &#8230;<\/span><br \/>\nRose, an ER nurse, and daughter Morgan, just a regular nurse were flying from Charlotte, NC to Utah. A man needed medical help so the airline provided the equipment and the mother-daughter team provided the know-how. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Delta-note-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Delta-note-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Delta-note.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe man was unresponsive, had vomited, and had blood pressure of 56\/30.  That&#8217;s not good!  Very dehydrated.<br \/>\n They got an IV going and hand squeezed 4 liters of fluid into him.<br \/>\nA Pittsburgh area physician was linked-in and offered advice, the plane stayed on its flight path at a pedal to the metal velocity.<br \/>\nAnd the interesting part: For the first time ever, Morgan forgot about her fear of flying.<\/p>\n<p>And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . . from John, awaiting Nancy\u2019s draft of her week\u2019s news. Item #1: No injuries reported &#8230; About 1.5 miles north of Lake Erie&#8217;s north shore, or about 60 miles north of Cleveland, Ohio &#8212; no one was hurt. That&#8217;s the good news. The other aspect is good or bad depending on your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=6624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News {TW\u2019NSNN}&#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-6624","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-1IQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","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=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}