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BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING survivor Patrick Downes has finished the race on the prosthetic blade he has needed since losing his left leg in the 2013 attacks.
Downes completed the course in five hours, 56 minutes, 46 seconds. He reached the finish line minutes before 2.49pm, when the explosions on Boylston Street three years ago killed three people and wounded hundreds more.
There to greet Downes at the finish line was his wife, Jessica Kensky. She, too, lost her left leg in the 2013 bombings, and had to have her right leg amputated afterwards.
“I feel like I’m celebrating the body that I have left, and it feels spiritual,” Downes told the Boston Globe in the run-up to the marathon. He and Kensky live at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.
Adrianne Haslet, a professional ballroom dancer, also lost a leg in the attacks and was returning to the course as a runner. She completed the first half of the race in 4:47:17.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
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Listening devices all over the city which they promise they will not use for bad
@Conor Brady: they aren’t listening devices in the way you’re thinking, they are noise level (and sometimes pitch) devices.
@Martin Byrne:
I’m not taking any chances. I’m staying away from big cities anymore, big brother is watching us!!
Trump is determined to silence New York, particularly its media
Just last year there was an article that they will install mandatory noise generators in the electric cars because they are too quite… So we have a noise issue, then a solution comes along, but it is too quite so we make it louder and then spend money to try and make it quieter again. Profit.
The city that never sleeps should not sleep. Welcome to New York. Enjoy!
Your talking about men not snowflakes so who care. Just don’t put too much milk in my tea .
They don’t mention how the recorded noise is going to be tackled after all the data is gathered, I imagine the solution would be more elegant than Trump style walls and barriers…New York, you need more trees and fountains!
“Noise Reduction Technology in Space Shuttle’s Lift off Using Water Mist”
https://youtu.be/08aHEmuzMLI
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https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/F_Preventing_Fires_on_the_Launchpad.html
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