Sausage factory worker killed in meat grinder
This part got me:
Late Tuesday night Raper was working at the Bar S plant in Lawton where he was in charge of cleaning the machinery.
“He slipped and went into the machine. He was still conscious at the time,” Ferris said. “So I can imagine the agony he was in, and he lost both of his legs in this accident.”
Ferris says it took about two hours to free Raper, but the trauma was just too much.
All the geeky blogs are all over this today.
Here’s a good article about Spotify, but this is what I understand:
It’s a free online music streaming service that includes ALL major music labels.
Free, as in, you get 20 free hours of music per month in the first six months, then 10 hours per month after that, and you get more if you want to pay.
From my understanding, the free service is available by invite only right now, or you can sign up for the paid versions immediately.
Dan Warren, a 39-year-old scientist as well as a fan of Barack Obama’s policies and his speaking voice, dissected the audiobook of the President’s autobiography, “Dreams From My Father” and reconstituted it as a 32-minute audio fable entitled “Son of Strelka, Son of God.”
More details at buzzbrewery.com
Thirty years ago, the first space shuttle launched into the stratosphere. Chris Bray and his father Kenneth watched — and took a picture. Then last Friday, the shuttle Atlantis took its final trip. Again, the Bray men were there. And again, the two snapped a photo to capture the moment.
The side-by-side photos, which are up on Chris Bray’s Flickr photostream, immediately went viral on the Web.
The first shot shows 13-year-old Chris with then 39-year-old dad looking through binoculars at the space shuttle Columbia’s first launch on April 12, 1981, from the Kennedy Space Center.
The second snap comes three decades later and recreates the same moment at the last shuttle voyage. The young son is now an adult. His father is now gray-haired.
Chris Bray wrote on his Flickr page of the side-by-side images: “The picture we waited 30 years to complete.”
The younger Bray told the Washington Post, “We’ve always loved that first photo. Taking a similar one for the last launch seemed like the perfect opportunity to celebrate the shuttle program and our relationship by putting the time passed in perspective, celebrating the interests we share, and illustrating the father/son bond we’ve maintained over the years.”