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Look for underutilized areas. Think abandoned shopping malls, office buildings or industrial areas. |
Consider public transportation and cut down on the need for parking space. |
Include community development like storefronts, temporary markets and farmers markets. |
Tie federal support functions to the neighborhood. Food and beverage, conference facilities and childcare services can serve more than just employees. |
Invest in shared parking facilities. That way locals can use the lots during non-business hours. |
I encourage you to read her whole op/ed piece, which is rather pragmatic. The big takeway: security is no excuse for the federal government to build and operate inefficiently. |
As more federal facilities are located in America's cities, it's not a bad thing to ponder. |
DEERFIELD, Ill., April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) will release first-quarter 2019 financial results at 6:30 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, April 24. The release will be available at caterpillar.com/earnings and the full text of the news release will also be available on PR Newswire at about 6:30 a.m.... |
A real-time, listen-only teleconference and webcast of the quarterly results call that Caterpillar conducts with security analysts and institutional investors will begin at 10 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, April 24. Listen-only presentations and supporting materials will be available before the webcast at caterpillar.com/inve... |
The call can be accessed in real-time at caterpillar.com/irwebcast. Listeners should go to the website at least 15 minutes before the live event to download and install any necessary audio software. The transcript from the conference call will be made available at caterpillar.com/irwebcast following the webcast. |
For those unable to participate in the live broadcast, the replay will be available at caterpillar.com/irwebcast shortly after the live event. There is no charge to access the webcast. A telephone replay of the call will not be available. |
It's time to give your pooch what the little fellow has always wanted: a doggie raincoat made out of discarded umbrellas. |
If you're still struggling to find a gift for your Animal Lover or the Kids, we're here to help. This year, we've made a series of five videos to try out some of the gifts in our 2010 Holiday Gift Guide: Low-Impact Luxury for High-Impact Giving in person -- and help you make the right pick.Our gift guide is action-pack... |
The duality was in evidence during New York Fashion Week where she showed her spring/summer 2017 collection in the pristine surroundings of the Whitney Museum of American Art while models moved to music that included the Bee Gees' "Massachusettes" and Young Thug's "Pick Up the Phone," with the "F" word repeated several... |
The second half of the collection is California cool with Coachella-ready clothes — loose and colorful prairie dresses, a fringe macrame skirt worn with a suede top, and crop top and ankle-length pants in an orange and blue batik print. |
It all comes together in the last look as Burch pairs a batik print tie blouse and skirt with a white cotton cardigan emblazoned with patches of the state of Maine, a lobster, a sailboat and a lighthouse. |
Baltimore is known for lacrosse. So perhaps it's no surprise that Maryland is on the cutting edge of the sport's latest national trend -- adults picking up their sticks and returning to the fields to stay in shape. |
In recent years, the popularity of lacrosse has been on the rise. More than 90,000 people gathered in Philadelphia last weekend to see the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays win their first NCAA championship in 18 years. |
This weekend, more than 20,000 people are expected to come to Baltimore and Harford counties for Lax Splash, one of the largest youth lacrosse tournaments in the country. Lax Splash, host to more than 300 teams, unofficially ends the youth lacrosse season. |
But it's not just collegiate or youth lacrosse that is growing. More adults are getting back in the game, too. Approximately 186,000 young athletes today play the game, making lacrosse the fastest-growing sport in the United States, according to US Lacrosse, the sport's Baltimore-based governing body. But the total num... |
"Lacrosse has always held a special place in the culture of Baltimore," says Steve Stenersen, US Lacrosse executive director. "So here we are seeing it develop from a game into a lifetime sport." |
Maryland may be the only state with an official men's masters league, the Maryland Masters Lacrosse League, for players 35 or older, says Joe Avveduti of Alexandria, Va., who chairs the Masters and Grand Masters Committee for US Lacrosse. |
Teams competing in the league include players for Pickles Pub, Toyota, Interlock Paving and a group called the Geezers. |
Grand masters teams have players 45 or older, with many teams fielding athletes in their 50s and 60s. |
Many women also play into their 40s and 50s, but the women's game has not yet developed official masters or grand master leagues, US Lacrosse says. |
Adult players compete in a handful of tournaments across the country, including the popular Vail Lacrosse Shoot-Out and the Lake Placid / Summit Lacrosse Tournament. |
Many Mid-Atlantic teams will travel to Baltimore June 18 for the Charm City Baltimore Lacrosse Classic in Patterson Park. Men's masters have competed in the International Lacrosse Federation World Championships since 1994. Grand masters have competed in the worldwide competition since 1998. |
"Master's level lacrosse is just exploding," says Stenersen. |
For some, returning to lacrosse is like coming home. |
Hunter Francis, 47, credits the sport with helping him center his life. |
A player for the University of North Carolina, Francis left the sport behind when he starting climbing the corporate ladder. Out of college, he joined the Chubb Insurance Group, first in Atlanta and then in Boston. |
His job was demanding. He traveled the country, entertained clients and kept a suitcase packed in his car. He tried to maintain some balance, but slowly things fell apart. |
During a particularly rough patch, when Francis was commuting between Washington and Baltimore, his weight ballooned to 255 pounds from his normal 195 pounds. The 6-foot-3 former goalie's waist expanded from 36 inches to 42 inches. He was overweight, overworked and unhappy. |
Slowly, Francis reconnected with lacrosse and found his way back to health. "I was having a values crisis," he says. "And I would say lacrosse saved my life." |
Today, Francis has chucked the corporate job. He wears a handful of lacrosse hats, including director of Team Toyota's six adult teams. His weight has returned to normal, and so has his waistline. He stays in shape by working out at the gym and playing a lot of lacrosse. Francis estimates he plays as many as 120 games ... |
He plans to play at the Grand Masters level for a U.S. World Team in 2006. |
Not everyone has made such a dramatic conversion. But many players put in hours at the gym and stay in shape to continue playing the game they love. |
In the Baltimore area, there has been a proliferation of more casual teams akin to pick-up basketball. In Jarrettsville, for example, a group of guys has been meeting every Sunday for years to play lacrosse. |
The oldest player, Jack Edwards, 73, says he played on the first team at Towson University, then the Maryland State Teachers College at Towson, in 1958. |
"I've never really stopped playing all these years," says Edwards, who still takes the field as a defenseman. "We don't try to bang each other around. ... I say, keep going out as long as you can." |
Edwards even returned to his Sunday-morning play after open-heart surgery in 2000. He stays in shape by walking and trying to keep up with his young grandson. |
He has been an inspiration to his teammates, many of whom are in their 50s and 60s. George W. Denlein, 58, also plays on Sundays. The pick-up games work because most everyone subscribes to a practical motto, says Denlein: "We have to go to work tomorrow." |
Denlein also has founded a competitive grand masters team, A Touch of Gray, which competes across the nation. He plays defense, although he admits, "I used to be a lot faster." |
Grand masters lacrosse has slightly different rules, says US Lacrosse's Avveduti, 53, a former All-American at the U.S. Naval Academy who still plays as a midfielder. |
"Lacrosse is a very physical sport," he says. "We've got guys in their 60s playing so we've put in place some restrictions on bodily contact." |
At the master's level, for example, players can hit other players within five yards of the ball. At the grand master's level, players can only hit the player with the ball. |
The women's game doesn't permit direct hitting. But it can still be a rough sport. Andi O'Connor and her sister, Laura LeMire, both in their 40s and with five children between them, play for Team Toyota, keeping up with athletes in their 20s. Their team recently won the Women's U.S. Lacrosse Association Tournament for ... |
In addition to coaching young girls, O'Connor stays conditioned by working out at a local gym. She's also become hooked on deep-water running classes, which she says help her stay in shape without risk of injury. |
For older players who have fallen away from lacrosse, Francis says it's never too late to return. With an explosion of players, it's easy to find teammates of all skill levels. |
"If you put your stick down, you can always come back," Francis says. "I'm a testament to that. ... It's like riding a bike." |
Cross-train: Mix up your workouts with other sports, including cycling, running, deep-water aerobics or swimming. |
Diet: Cut the calories and try to return to your game weight. Suggestions include going heavy on fruits and vegetables. |
Practice: Play as much lacrosse as possible. Some athletes play as much as three times a week or as many as 100 games a year. |
Run: Consider some track workouts or sprints to build up your speed. |
Lift weights: Hit the gym for weight workouts to strengthen your muscles. |
“We’re going to hopefully get this resolved short of litigation. That’s our hope,” Coker said last week. |
Sandra Kaiser, Evergreen’s vice president for college relations, declined to comment on a possible settlement or allegations in the tort claim. |
According to the claim, Brown was subjected to “open hostility on an almost daily basis” from students, student employees, faculty and staff. Her tenure got off to a rocky start when protesters disrupted her swearing-in ceremony, blocking the podium and chanting “(expletive) cops!” according to the Cooper Point Journal... |
After that, a faculty member emailed her to say police “were basically fascists” and the disruption was to be expected, according to the claim. Another faculty member told Brown, who is white, that her wearing a uniform and carrying a firearm was meant to “prove she had more ‘privilege’” and intimidate the faculty memb... |
After the problems associated with the Day of Absence last year at The Evergreen State College, the annual event was not held this year. |
Later a drawing circulated on campus showed Brown in “suggestive clothing, a KKK type hood, and holding a geoduck that appears to be ejaculating,” according to the claim. |
According to the claim, Brown told her supervisors about these and other issues but her concerns were ignored. Brown was told because she was a police officer “she should essentially expect to be treated differently and in a hostile manner by both TESC employees and students,” according to the claim. |
Brown left a job as a deputy chief with the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office to become chief at Evergreen. After she resigned, she took a job as a patrol officer with Tumwater Police Department and a pay cut of more than $15,000. |
Evergreen already has settled claims with other people involved in last year’s unrest. |
In September, Bret Weinstein and his wife, both Evergreen professors, agreed to resign as part of a $500,000 settlement. Weinstein’s criticism of the school’s annual Day of Absence made him a target of protesters, and the couple filed a $3.85 million tort claim alleging the college failed to protect them from “verbal a... |
In December, another professor, Naima Lowe, resigned in exchange for $240,000 to settle her tort claim of discrimination and a hostile work environment, according to an Evergreen spokesman. |
Lowe faced online attacks after video showed her confronting other faculty members during a protest. |
New Orleans Airport as Field Hospital New Orleans's Louis Armstrong Airport reopens to commercial air traffic, after serving for two weeks as a makeshift hospital. Medical teams said there were many heroic efforts and few deaths. But they criticized FEMA and the American Red Cross for bureaucratic delays that affected ... |
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport reopens to commercial air traffic. For more than two weeks it was the site of a makeshift hospital. |
Medical teams said there were many heroic efforts and few deaths. But they criticized FEMA and the American Red Cross for bureaucratic delays that affected their ability to care properly for patients. |
The microSD card slot and removable battery are the two main arguments people make for the Galaxy S4 over the HTC One. However, only the 16GB S4 is currently available in the US and it has less than 10GB for apps. |
I have to uninstall large games (they can run from 1GB to 1.5GB each in size) from my Galaxy Note II due to internal memory limits and the inability of Android to move or install apps to microSD without rooting. This same issue is starting to appear as new Galaxy S IV owners are discovering that their 16GB model only h... |
In today's smartphone world, Android manufacturers shouldn't release high-end devices with less than 32GB, and the microSD argument for the S4 over the HTC One may not be as big of an issue as many make it seem. |
Out of the box, you can only install apps on Android devices to the internal storage, and with high-end games and more advanced apps consuming so much memory, I think it's a problem when you have to make app usage choices based on memory limitations. The microSD expansion is good for those who store movies, music, and ... |
I have a 64GB microSD card in my Note II, because I thought I would use as much as possible. In reality, I only have a couple of GB on it, since I tend to rent movies on Google Play (temporary storage need) and stream my music using Songza, Slacker Radio, or other services. Thus, I really do not have huge memory needs,... |
The HTC One comes in 32GB and 64GB (AT&T and unlocked Developer Edition), and that is the size of internal storage that all Android devices should support. There can be lower-cost 16GB models, but no flagship should launch with just 16GB of internal storage capacity. This is especially true when much of that 16GB is us... |
I don't think the external storage argument holds much water in today's smartphone world, especially when you look at the limitations of external storage. Apple has never had external storage support on the iPhone, high-end Windows Phone devices do not have external storage support, and the Nexus line doesn't support e... |
I prefer to select my smartphone based on design, functionality, and actual real-world usefulness, rather than just looking at specs like external storage that really don't mean much in actual use. |
Greenwich's Daniel Stroie swims the 500 freestyle as Greenwich hosts Darien in a swim meet Wednesday afternoon, January 6, 2009. Greenwich won the meet 128-58. |
Unlike its first two meets of the season, the Greenwich High School boys swimming team knew it would be tested a bit Wednesday against an improving Darien squad. |
That thought was emphasized the first event of the meet, as the Blue Wave and Cardinals swam to a first place tie in the 200-yard medley relay. |
As the meet progressed however, it was apparent the Cardinals were going to ace their first test of the season. |
Andrew Dillinger and Michael Dustin won two individual events apiece and Greenwich recorded first place finishes in each race in a convincing 128-58 FCIAC victory against visiting Darien. |
"I was very pleased with our performance today because we knew Darien was a good team," said Greenwich veteran coach Terry Lowe, whose Cardinals raised their record to 3-0. "We just came on strong during the meet in a very steady kind of way." |
The meet got off to an exciting start as Greenwich's foursome of Thom Lautenbach, Tyler Tambascio, Tony Martir and Dustin and Darien's quartet of William Plunkett, Jake Greene, Chris Weihs and Tyler Gould each posted a first place time of 1 minute, 45.11 seconds. |
"The first relay was beautiful for us," Darien coach Matthew Czplicki said. "We have never really come close to pushing Greenwich, so to see us do that in the medley relay off the bat was nice." |
Two-time defending FCIAC champion Greenwich received a 1-2 finish from junior Eric Minowitz and senior tri-captain Tom Sorenson, respectively, in the 200 freestyle to seize a 19-11 lead. Minowitz touched the wall in 1:52.68, while Sorenson clocked in at 1:55.14. Chris Janson of Darien placed third (1:56.03). |
The Cards padded their advantage by placing 1-2-4 in the 200 individual medley. Dillinger won the event in 2:05.80, senior Alex Jensen finished second (2:07.74) and junior Michael Romano was fourth (2:14.62), putting GHS ahead after three events, 31-15. |
"I like what I saw today," Lowe said. "The first couple of meets we were not tested, but today we had to respond in certain races and our guys did." |
Dustin, a junior, took first in the 50-yard freestyle (:22.69) and won his strongest event -- the 100 butterfly -- in :53.17. Dillinger's second individual victory came in the 100 freestyle, where he touched the wall in :49.41. |
As always, the Cardinals' divers produced standout performances. Junior Connor Brisson won the competition with a score of 303.95. Teammate Tyler Oe, a senior, placed second (206.35). Jake Botelli from Darien finished third (177.15). Brisson was especially pleased with his reverse 2 1/2 dive, a dive that earned him two... |
"My reverse 2 1/2 was the best I have ever done," Brisson explained. "It is a new dive that I am trying and I had never scored higher than a four on it before. I was on today." |
With Brisson, two-time defending FCIAC champion and senior tri-captain Mark O'Connell (he did not compete Wednesday) and Oe, Greenwich has a trio of divers that could put it over the top in close league meets and in the postseason. |
"We are all doing real good and we all push each other each day," Brisson said. "Whether it's new dives, entries or takeoffs, we are all pushing each other to do better." |
Jensen (4:59.09) edged the Blue Wave's Jake Green (5:00.61) in the 500 freestyle, Lautenbach, a senior tri-captain, won the 100 backstroke (:59.73) and Martir took first in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.60). |
"In the 500, you need to find your rhythm and find a speed that's comfortable and stick with it," Jensen said. "It's a tough swim." |
Said Lowe: "Alex swam a smooth race and remained in control, although it was a neck-and-neck race." |
Martir was happy with his winning time in the breaststroke, especially after he helped the Cards win the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:33.62) two events earlier. |
"I thought I did well in the breaststroke," Martir said. "Last year I went a 1:03 nine meets into the season, so it's great to get a 1:03 the third meet into the season. I'm not usually in there for the 200 free relay, so I was exhausted for the relay. It was real hard." |
Added Lowe: "Coming off a real good swim in the 200 free relay we wanted to see how Tony would handle the breaststroke. He did a great job." |
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