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Comment on: Driver who struck and fatally injured MIT visit - Flash Player Installation
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Comment on: Driver who struck and fatally injured MIT visit - Flash Player Installation
A bike cannot stop on a dime. If you ride slowly, you can stop quickly. However, if you ride at 20 mph and lock your brakes, you skid and if you turn at all while in the skid you pancake on the paveme more »
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Comment on: Charities face fund-raising shortfalls after Marathon bombing - Metro - The Boston Globe
One thing we need in our society is jobs. The non-profit sector is a pretty cost effective source of employment. I would argue that the visibility and publicity engendered by the Walk for Hunger over more »
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Comment on: Charities face fund-raising shortfalls after Marathon bombing - Metro - The Boston Globe
I don't think you are being fair to Project Bread and are far too negative. I have done the Walk for Hunger a few times and it is a great and iconic event. It raises about half of their budget of 8.4 more »
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Comment on: Older bombing suspect purchased fireworks at N.H. fireworks store - Boston.com
According to the Fireworks company: "Weimer estimated only a negligible amount of explosives could be extracted from all 48 shells " According to a NY Daily News article: The fireworks Tsarnaev bough more »
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Comment on: Older bombing suspect purchased fireworks at N.H. fireworks store - Boston.com
WSJ story said he bought two kits which totalled 48 shells and each shell had 60 grams of powder. 48 X 60 = almost 3 kgs. That is not an insignificant amount even if there are fillers. If their powde more »
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Comment on: Boston bidding for 2016 world championships - News - Boston.com
Skating is not the same as it was before the scoring change, but it is much more transparent and logical. However, it is all about racking up points. You won't see any beautiful simple moves because more »
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Comment on: Boston bidding for 2016 world championships - News - Boston.com
Hartford hosted the World Figure Skating Championships in 1981. It was a great event and Boston/Providence has substantial experience hosting figure skating championships. US Nationals is more complex more »
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Comment on: Fenway Park worth preserving, not dismantling - Letters - The Boston Globe
I really dislike Fenway. The seats are tiny and uncomfortable, especially if you sit next to an oversize person. Boston claims to want the Olympics but won't replace a 100 year old pit of a ball park more »
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Comment on: Private group explores possible Boston bid for 2024 summer Olympics - Business - Boston.com
Lake Quinsigamond is the only viable course and it is not legal. The big hill shields lane 1 from the wind and it is unfair. Perhaps they can make an exception, but I don't see any internation regatta more »
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Comment on: Possible Boston Olympic bid deserves full consideration - Editorials - The Boston Globe
New Olympic Stadium seating 80,000, a white elephant velodrome seating 10,000, a white elephant swimming venue seating 15,000, a white elephant white water facility, a non-existant rowing facilty need more »
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Comment on: Private group explores possible Boston bid for 2024 summer Olympics - Business - The Boston Globe
I'd like to see you present this to the "Shark Tank" with such pie in the sky quotations. You would get shredded. Are you in line to make money of the study? more »
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Comment on: Private group explores possible Boston bid for 2024 summer Olympics - Business - The Boston Globe
Boston doesn't have the political will to do this. Boston cannot even build one arena or stadium with public dollars. You really think the additional venues for an Olympics (which are not very useful more »
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Comment on: Private group explores possible Boston bid for 2024 summer Olympics - Business - The Boston Globe
Fenway is private, Gillette stadium is private. Boston/Massachusetts would never build an Olympic stadium, a velodrome, a suitable swimming venue etc. When they last talked about hosting the Olympics more »
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Comment on: Failure to indict truck driver for death of a cyclist reveals bias - Editorials - The Boston Globe
Unfortunately, the 16 second video in the WHDH coverage is no longer readily available. However, you are either not watching the correct video or totally misinterpreting it. In the video, Motsenigos c more »
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Comment on: Keep wrestling an Olympic sport - Editorials - The Boston Globe
I don't think wrestling is going anywhere. It was a political move by the IOC intended to take the heat off of modern pentathalon. Now everybody is talking about wrestling and saving wrestling instead more »
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Comment on: No justice in decision not to indict trucker in cyclistâs death - Letters - The Boston Globe
All the trucker had to do was look in his right mirror after passing and he would have seen the carnage he had inflicted. I have trouble believing he didn't look at that mirror after passing. You saw more »
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Comment on: No justice in decision not to indict trucker in cyclistâs death - Letters - The Boston Globe
Here is the link to the WHDH coverage. In it you can see the truck overtake the bicyclist and you can see the bicyclist to the side of the truck as it approaches a very tight spot. The cyclist was not more »
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Comment on: No justice in decision not to indict trucker in cyclistâs death - Letters - The Boston Globe
The full 16 second video as shown on WHDH is, by itself, a damning indictment of the trucker. The cyclist is clearly ahead of him as he turns left off of Rt. 135 onto Weston Rd. he then proceeds with more »
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If you watch the video of the truck turning off of route 135 onto Weston Rd he is going overly fast for that location. The cyclist is clearly visible (as the driver admitted) in FRONT of the truck. Th more »
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Comment on: No indictment against truck driver in fatal Wellesley bicycle crash - Wellesley - Your Town - Boston.com
Watch the video of the truck make a high speed turn off of Rt. !35 onto Weston Road with the cyclist clearly ahead of him and proceed to blow by him unsafely in a dangerous intersection in a place whe more »
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Comment on: There must be a safe zone for bicyclists - Letters - The Boston Globe
I ride a lot and I also have spent a fair amount of time on that part of Commonwealth Ave. I doubt the truck made an abrupt turn from the LEFT lane. Instead he took over the road to make a sweeping ri more »
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Comment on: RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee - Business - Boston.com
I believe Schilling risked and lost most of his personal wealth. His house in on the market as well as his baseball memorabilia. I doubt he will end up too poor because he can probably earn a substant more »
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Comment on: RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee - Business - Boston.com
I agree. I can understand why a politician had to pull the plug rather than commit more funds. However, a reorg to reduce the run rate and tight management to get the next product out was the best way more »
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Comment on: RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee - Business - Boston.com
Start up finances are highly risky. The run rate was WAY too high 75 million to accomplish much especially with the employment goals RI negotiated with Schilling. Chaffee destroyed any value the compa more »
I have lived in Dover/Sherborn/Medfield/Needham near some of the major bike routes for 30 years and although I often encounter bikes, they rarely slow me down more than a little. Since I ride a bike, more »