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The nation's top U.S. electrical design firms weathered the storm during the economic slowdown with slim margins, fierce competition, and drastically reduced opportunities. By diversifying their services and expanding into new areas, however, the companies are now reporting a brighter outlook ahead.
Case in point: Nearly 75% of the firms on this year's annual proprietary Top 40 listing met or exceeded their revenue expectations for 2012 (Fig. 1), despite working in what nearly three-quarters of the respondents characterized as a "fair" business climate (Fig. 2).
For example, Kansas City, Mo.-based Burns & McDonnell (No. 1) had the best sales year in its history by earning $2 billion in sales, including $500.7 million in electrical design revenue in 2012. The company surpassed the $1 billion mark just five years ago. CEO and Chairman Greg Graves attributed the jump to strong activity in the electrical transmission group and the global practices group, which specialize in design-build projects for transmission and distribution, process, energy, water, and federal work.
But Burns & McDonnell, which experienced a 24.6% increase in year-over-year electrical design revenues, wasn't the only firm to enjoy more than a 20% increase from last year's numbers. Pasadena, Calif.-based Tetra Tech, Inc. (No. 4) had an 81.1% increase, Madison, Ala.-based Mesa Associates (No. 5) jumped up 51.4%, Folsom, Calif.-based Glumac (No. 12) reported a 50% rise, Sparks, Md.-based KCI Technologies, Inc. (No. 19) posted a 110.7% jump, and Gaithersburg, Md.-based Shah & Associates (No. 26) experienced 107.7% growth.
Glumac, which was ranked as No. 19 in last year's listing, jumped up seven spots in this year's ranking. Angela Sheehan, CFO, attributed the 50% growth in electrical design revenue to the mission critical facilities market, which went from $2 million in sales in 2011 to $10 million in 2012.
"Mission critical projects have a stronger focus on electrical engineering than a lot of the other types of work we do," Sheehan says. "We started working with a strategic client seven years ago, and that work is just now starting to take hold. Fortunately, we have the type of people with the project experience that positioned us for that work. A lot of it has to do with doing the right thing at the right time and having a little bit of luck."
Not all of the firms on the Top 40 listing, however, experienced increases in revenue. Seven reported a decrease in electrical design revenue, and four of those slipped down in rankings by reporting more than a 20% decline in year-over-year revenues, including: Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Carollo Engineers, Inc. (No. 21) with a 29.3% drop; Orlando, Fla.-based TLC Engineering for Architecture, Inc. (No. 22) with a 24.6% decrease; Portland, Ore.-based Interface Engineering, Inc. (No. 25) with a 26.8% drop; and Albuquerque, N.M.-based Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers, Inc. (No. 28) with a 20.7% decline.
Overall, the companies on this year's listing reported total electrical design revenues of $1.348 billion in 2012 (click here to see a PDF of the Top 40 Electrical Design Firms List).
Expanding operations
When the economy slowed down, many electrical design firms were forced to lay off employees. In 2012, however, more firms hired new workers than made reductions in the workforce (Fig. 3). A total of 23 firms added employees while eight companies laid off employees, and 12 didn't change head count. In 2013, respondents indicated that those numbers would climb even higher, with 30 firms saying they expect to add head count (Fig. 4).
Tetra Tech added the most employees of any of the Top 40 design firms with 1,000 new workers. David Bloxom, vice president, attributed the rapid company growth to multiple international acquisitions.
"We have acquired several firms in Canada, and we now have an active electrical transmission and distribution engineering practice in Canada," say Bloxom.
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Spectrum Engineers, Inc. (No. 30) only added 10 employees in 2012, but this year, the company is planning on adding more employees in anticipation of a greater workload, says David Wesemann, president and principal electrical engineer.
"When we take on additional work, we want to have the staff onboard and already trained," he says. "We strive to hire ahead of the curve so we don't respond too late as markets continue to expand and local economies rebound."
One way companies are preparing for the upcoming upturn is through opening branch offices. According to this year's survey, 18 firms opened or closed branch offices while 22 companies had the same number of branch offices in 2012 (Fig. 5). While Glumac didn't open any new offices last year, the company opened new branches in Corvallis, Ore., and Shanghai, China, in 2011. Glumac, which hired 80 new employees and laid off 40 workers in 2012, is now starting to see growth across both of these locations.
To recruit new talent, Glumac situated its Corvallis office near Oregon State University's School of Engineering and hired its students as interns. After only one year, Glumac has been able to hire four interns as full-time employees, Sheehan says.
Burns & McDonnell also keeps its eye open for new talent. Over the last year, the firm has hired 400 new employees and opened branch offices in Hampton Roads, Va.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Calgary, Alberta; and Portland, Maine.
"We open branch offices based upon specific market tendencies or the ability to attract great new folks," Graves says. "We believe very strongly in organic growth whenever possible."
Working overseas
American engineering firms are not only expanding nationally, but also globally. A total of 8% of the responding firms outsourced some of their electrical design work overseas in 2012 (Fig. 6), and this percentage is expected to increase to 10% by 2013 (Fig. 7). For example, Burns & McDonnell, which does a significant amount of work in Canada and Qatar, recently acquired an engineering firm in Mumbai, India, named it Burns & McDonnell India, and has about 300 people working there every day.
For 2013, the company plans to outsource 2% of its electrical design. Although Graves says outsourcing may not be right for some clients, such as the federal government or aviation, some of the clients in the United States require the company to use a lower source of engineering talent.
"We have found that our fellow employees in Mumbai, India, are terrific engineers," he says. "We realize that there are some in the industry who may have concerns about quality of work, but those concerns are completely unfounded."
Grand Island, N.Y.-based Cannon Design (No. 24) has also had success outsourcing electrical design work overseas. In fact, the firm outsourced nearly 40% of its electrical design work in 2012, which includes 20% to China, India, and the Middle East and another 20% to Canada. For the overseas work, Cannon Design designs through 50% to 65% construction drawings before turning a design over to local partners to wrap up. The international offices look over their shoulder in early design for peer reviews, and then Cannon does the same for final design and construction. In addition, the Shanghai office technical staff members have also been used for some 24/7 domestic project and reference standards production, including the conversion from 2D to 3D/BIM software.
In Canada, Cannon Design maintains four architectural offices, but is only licensed in Saskatchewan for engineering. The firm provides conceptual planning, facility assessment, energy, lighting design, and commissioning services in conjunction with other Canadian project teams.
"The benefit of outsourcing is that we sometimes make out better on production costs," says Ted Fowler, principal for Cannon Design. "The fact that you are working 24/7 really helps in expediting the work. It doesn't matter where you are located as long as you are able to communicate well and have the right people doing the work. Technology can pull everyone together."
Other companies, however, are working internationally but not outsourcing electrical design. For example, Tetra Tech maintains 350 corporate offices globally, performs a large share of energy work in-house, and has Tetra Tech employees based in different countries.
Because codes and requirements can vary widely from one country to the next, having in-country employees is a significant advantage, Bloxom says. In addition, Tetra Tech can train its employees and build institutional knowledge by having offices overseas, says Charlie MacPherson, a vice president for Tetra Tech.
Going green
In addition to working internationally or outsourcing, many of the nation's top electrical design firms are also basing their work on green or energy-efficient design. In fact, 25 of the 40 firms reported that at least 20% of their design work revolved around energy efficiency (Fig. 8).
For example, Spectrum Engineers reported that in 2012, 95% of its work was based on green and energy-efficient design. The reason why energy efficiency is so important is because a green building equates to less energy and lower operating costs, Wesemann says. Owners can achieve a clear benefit over the life cycle of the building, which equates to less money spent on operation and maintenance. For example, Spectrum is working on several projects that are striving for NetZero status, and the firm's philosophy is to design sustainable, environmentally responsible buildings whether or not the owner is seeking LEED certification.
"Ten years ago, green buildings were almost never discussed, and five years ago, it was an afterthought late in design," Wesemann says. "Today, it's almost the first thing discussed in the initial design meeting. Due to private and government sustainable green building initiatives and the public's awareness regarding green projects, it's almost the most important aspect of a building."
Scott Gerard, a principal for Wheat Ridge, Colo.-based M-E Engineers (No. 15), says his firm's clients want to promote the fact that they are being environmentally conscious. While the premium to go to a sustainable design may be a 1% to 2% increase, operationally, they can save that over a 10-year period. To conserve energy, they are investing in LED lighting, more energy-efficient mechanical and HVAC systems, and photovoltaic systems.
"Buildings have improved their efficiencies over a 10-year span," he says. "If you look at 2002 versus 2012, it is night and day as far as the energy code. In the past, it wasn't thought of as much across the United States to save energy."
Boushra Hanna, senior vice president and electrical department head for Glen Allen, Va.-based H&A Architects and Engineers (No. 18), expects to see more projects with requirements for green design due to the federal standards and policies in energy intensity reduction and the executive orders for renewable energy.
Kenneth Diehl, Jr., senior vice president of Nashville, Tenn.-based Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. (No. 8) agrees. His company, which expects to have half of its work based on green or energy-efficient design in 2013, believes that these designs will be in greater demand than ever before due to new codes and regulations coupled with the increasing pressure on owners to reduce operating costs. The challenge, however, will be in finding capital to implement savings opportunities in existing buildings. Of course, the country's largest engineering firms are also getting involved in renewable energy projects, including on-shore and off-shore wind and photovoltaics. For Spectrum, photovoltaic projects are more abundant than wind energy jobs at this time.
"Solar, unlike wind, is available everywhere, so it's the first renewable source we go to," Wesemann says. "Wind is selectively available, so wind projects are few and far between. The economics of building a wind turbine has to have enough wind to pay that investment back."
In the on-shore wind industry, Tetra Tech is seeing a push toward larger turbines, which can provide more electricity and save money during construction, says Senior Vice President Craig MacKay. On the solar side, the age of the large solar thermal projects is over, and Tetra Tech is seeing a transition toward more modest photovoltaic systems — ranging from several megawatts to more than 100 megawatts. These projects are often located as close as possible to interconnection points to minimize costs and increase efficiency.
"The renewable market has been the most active power sector in the United States and Canada in the last few years," MacKay says. "There's been some twists and turns with production tax credits, but it's stayed a robust market, and we're planning on participating in it as it grows."
Pursuing hot market segments
The nation's top firms not only expressed their involvement in renewable energy projects, but also voiced their views about the hot and cool markets in 2012. Fifteen of the 40 firms listed health care as one of their top three hot markets (see List), a trend Wesemann attributes to the aging of the U.S. population.
"Unlike most industries, regardless of the economy, there will always be a need for education and health-care facilities, and to some degree, for public services," Wesemann says. "These markets will always be strong markets due to the aging population, aging infrastructure, and continued complexity of these building types."
In the health-care industry, engineering firms have noticed a shift from the construction of large-scale hospitals to smaller clinics. Diehl from Smith Seckman Reid says health care is in a period of transition, and anytime this occurs, there will be a change.
"Health-care facilities will have to change to make money in the future," he says. "It probably means there will be less hospitals as we know them today and more clinics and outpatient services, which have better reimbursement rates."
Oftentimes, these clinics are moving into nontraditional settings like retail centers or pharmacies to make it more convenient for consumers, says Scott Webb, principal/mechanical engineer for Tulsa, Okla.-based MPW Engineering LLC (No. 40). In addition, Sheehan noted that more health-care providers are redesigning their spaces with a focus on sustainability and flexibility. By having a more efficient design, they can have a multi-functional space with less square footage.
An additional area of growth for many design firms is the education market, specifically colleges and universities. In fact, 17 of the 40 firms considered education/institution as one of their top three market sectors.
In the education market, most engineering firms are reporting an uptick in college and university work. For example, Glumac is designing student unions to be energy-efficient, inviting, and flexible as a way for universities to help attract students going forward. Smith Seckman Reid is also seeing a surge in university work, and Diehl attributes this growth to the bubble in the population driving more students to universities as well as the fact that Americans are now placing a higher value on a college education.
Another hot market for the engineering firms is the power industry. In fact, 23% of the engineering firms on this year's listing named this market segment as their top area of expertise (Fig. 9). While Burns & McDonnell's energy group has seen clients hold back certain projects due to the uncertain future of coal and nuclear, the transmission projects to improve electrical reliability have moved forward.
In turn, this is creating a strong market for engineering firms. For example, Tetra Tech reported a year-over-year growth in both electrical transmission and distribution and substation design.
"The infrastructure has been somewhat neglected over the last 10 to 20 years," MacKay says. "Coupled with that, there is load growth, population has shifted, the system in place needs to be enhanced, and new capacity must be added."
Facing a dip in slowing markets
For every hot market, however, the design firms noted cool markets that postponed projects and delayed investment. For many firms, the commercial sector, namely retail and private office, topped the list as their slowest market in 2012. The continued slow pace of work in commercial sector construction had an impact on overall business opportunities, Hanna says.
"Retail and private office were slow markets due to the lack of confidence in the economy by private investors," Hanna says. "We do expect them to rebound, but believe a full recovery may still be a few years out."
One reason why the private office market took a hit in 2012 is because when there is a downturn in the economy, companies start to delay moving because of the significant cost associated with moving to a new space.
"There were a lot of firms that were holding off on making moves," Sheehan says. "If the market vacancy rate was going up, they wanted to hold off until the rate was higher, and they could secure a lower rent per square foot."
While some companies moved to new offices or redesigned their existing space to make it more employee-friendly, the market was not as active as it is typically for Glumac, Sheehan says. Smith Seckman Reid also experienced a dip in private office work, and Diehl attributes the slowdown to the 8 million unemployed Americans.
"You don't need offices if you don't have jobs," Diehl says. "I think we are also finally seeing the impact of computers. We don't need as many people anymore to do the things we used to do."
Another market that was hard hit in 2012 was retail, and one contributing factor to the slowdown was the convenience of online shopping, says Gerard of M-E Engineers. Rather than showcasing all of their products in stores, companies are instead selling a lot of their inventory online.
"The retail market is shrinking in terms of actual building space because it's more of an online environment," Gerard says. "I see that trend continuing, but I think retail outlets can only get too small. Not everyone will buy everything online, and sometimes they may go into a store and then buy it online."
The problem with the trend toward smaller stores is that some owners are shrinking their engineering fees along with their stores' square footage, Webb says.
Sometimes, they erroneously think that a smaller store will require less engineering expertise, but that is not always the case. Also, the selection of engineering firms is much more fee-driven than in the past, Webb says.
Other trends that Webb sees in this market is that in the building sector, contractors are hiring unlicensed professionals to design the mechanical and electrical systems on smaller projects, and they're also waiting until the last minute to hire engineering firms so they can keep their fees down.
"They decide not to spend any money until they have to pull the trigger," Webb says. "In the past, we would get involved a year or two before construction began, and now we are getting involved right before. If you don't know if you have the project until it starts, you have less time to plan."
Looking ahead
Even though the last few years have been challenging for the commercial engineering and construction industry, Graves believes that it's soon time for a rebound. As such, Burns & McDonnell is preparing to take advantage of opportunities once it does turn around. In fact, the company recently launched a Kansas City-based Global Facilities Group, which will focus on the design and construction of commercial projects.
"I think the job of a firm like ours is to enter a market two or three years before it becomes vibrant," Graves says. "While the commercial industry still has some recovery yet to go, now is the time to get good at it. Strength is just right around the corner."
Other firms feel the same way about the general business climate for 2013. In terms of electrical design revenues, nine respondents expect more than a 10% increase, eight firms predict a 6% to 10% increase, and 13 companies anticipate a 5% or less increase (click here to see Fig. 10). Only six respondents plan to report a decrease in sales for 2013, and four companies predict their revenues will remain the same.
The nation's top design firms are also expecting to have an even more significant increase in their backlog for 2013. While 62.5% had an increased backlog in 2012 (Fig. 11), 87.5% expect to have an increased backlog for 2013 (Fig. 12).
"Spectrum is very optimistic about 2013," Wesemann says. "People are willing to spend construction dollars and spend now. We feel an uptick continuing as we look back over the past couple years."
Fischbach is a freelance writer based in Overland Park, Kan. She can be reached at [email protected].


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- Employees may have multiple interpretations of leaders' messages about plans and goals
- Leaders must send realistic messages instead of overly optimistic ones
- Frequently reiterating goals helps keep everyone on the same page
- Executives should focus not just on the message but its intended impact
I was once in a company meeting listening to our CEO lay out the annual new direction for the business. After the meeting, we all brought the plan back to our respective teams. As the plan worked its way through team meetings, company newsletters and the like, the original message got lost.
We all had our own interpretation of what we heard. As multiple interpretations of the plan were set in motion, we were left with a lot of unintended outcomes -- and disappointing results. The CEO was frustrated and other leaders were left scratching their heads.
Suddenly, I thought of a "Death by Chocolate" party I went to when in college. We had all gone to that party with a common objective -- bring chocolate, eat chocolate and be happy -- only to be separated by our different interpretations or standards for what constituted "ideal" chocolate.
What happened at that party was happening in our company. Everyone had a different interpretation for what they thought the plan meant and how they would bring it to their teams to implement.
If a simple concept like chocolate could generate so many different opinions, attitudes and points of view, how many more would occur when a complex strategy was at stake? When images and points of view differ and we can't communicate a consistent message, we wind up with a meltdown: the result isn't what we expected and everyone is disappointed.
The "chocolate conversation" dilemma is always the same. This has held true throughout my career and with a diverse number of companies I have worked with, from entrepreneurs to global Fortune 500 companies.
There are three common mistakes that exist in all these organizations:
Not facing into reality
Leaders by nature tend to have an optimistic view. Usually it's a compelling worldview: "We will grow" or "We will be best in class." That visionary point of view inspires people to follow. But to people on the front line, dealing with the day to day, it can sometimes feel out of touch with reality.
One of the toughest balancing acts that leaders face is communicating the optimism of a message and acknowledging the obstacles an organization has to overcome.
As a leader, ignoring the day-to-day reality and concerns of people can undermine credibility and diminish trust.
Cascade communication
Although town halls, intranets and webinars are in vogue, the main vehicle for communication throughout organizations is the cascade. The problem with the cascade is that the further from the originator of the message you are, the less familiar you are with the context.
Communication among the top layers in a company may be connected and well understood, but by the time it reaches the front line, the context is missing, and the message is unclear.
Leaders must practice message discipline — consistently and frequently talking about what is relevant to achieve your goals. Message discipline, strategically used, avoids confusion and drives operational discipline in your organization.
Communicating without a goal
How much of your communication achieves its intended impact? What is your intended impact? Is it simply to impart information?
Most communication starts with a topic list. Worse, it's usually one-sided, the topic list of the communicator not the receiver. You can fix this by getting clear on your goal. Likely you want to frame (or reframe) the way people see the world or to move them to action, or both.
Knowing that goal, and thinking about what the audience wants, closes the intention impact gap.

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Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009-2010 and UDFj-39546284
The farthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the universe appears as a faint red blob in this ultra-deep-field exposure taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This is the deepest infrared image taken of the universe. Based on the object's color, astronomers believe it is 13.2 billion light-years away.
The most distant objects in the universe appear extremely red because their light is stretched to longer, redder wavelengths by the expansion of the universe. This object is at an extremely faint magnitude of 29, which is 500 million times fainter that the faintest stars seen by the human eye.
The dim object is a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang, only four percent of the universe's current age. It is tiny and considered a building block of today's giant galaxies. Over one hundred such mini-galaxies would be needed to make up our Milky Way galaxy.
Follow-up spectroscopic observations with the planned James Webb Space Telescope later in this decade will be needed to definitively confirm the object's distance.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field infrared exposures were taken in 2009 and 2010, and required a total of 111 orbits or 8 days of observing. The new Wide Field Camera 3 has the sharpness and near-infrared light sensitivity that matches the Advanced Camera for Surveys' optical images and allows for such a faint object to be selected from the thousands of other galaxies in the incredibly deep images of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team


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Politics & Government
Mueller leaves behind an FBI more focused on national security
Robert S. Mueller III is leaving behind a different FBI from the one he joined.
The prep school and Princeton graduate came on board 12 years ago as a straight-edge prosecutor, a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam who once spent nine months building a case against a California branch of the Hells Angels. The phrases "war on terror" and "al Qaida" never arose during his Senate confirmation hearing. The word "email" came up but once.
He took office Sept. 4, 2001.
"I thought I'd be spending time on those kinds of cases I had been doing as a prosecutor: organized crime, narcotics cases, public corruption cases and the like. . . . And I had some idea of where I wanted the bureau to go," Mueller recounted this week in a farewell meeting with reporters. "And then a week later we had September the 11th."
Now, after serving longer than any other FBI director aside from J. Edgar Hoover, Mueller is about to depart at the age of 69. He'll leave behind a law enforcement agency that's larger, endowed with stronger powers and far more focused on terrorism than when he joined. Some problems he inherited have been solved. Other challenges have arisen in their stead.
In fiscal 2001, the bureau had a budget of $3.3 billion and a staff of about 27,000. By fiscal 2012, the bureau's budget had expanded to $8.1 billion and the staff grown to about 34,000 employees.
After 9/11, Mueller identified counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cybercrime as the bureau's new top three priorities. They still are. Asked this week to identify his nightmare scenarios, Mueller cited an attack on a plane and a cyberattack on a financial institution or other critical facility.
"It took me a while to fully understand that the training I had, which was principally to investigate criminal acts after they had occurred, was not going to be the paradigm for the future," Mueller said.
At first, he had a lot to repair.
A joint investigation by the House and Senate Intelligence committees, completed in December 2002, concluded that "the FBI was unable to identify and monitor effectively the extent of activity by al Qaida and other international terrorist groups operating in the United States." The investigation further noted "the FBI's reliance on outdated and insufficient technical systems."
Mueller shook up the bureau in response. He created an intelligence office to coordinate activities, added thousands of intelligence specialists and partly pivoted away from traditional targets such as drugs and white-collar crimes. New tools have been deployed. That includes, Mueller recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee, a "very few" drones used for domestic surveillance in a "very, very minimal way."
The Government Accountability Office subsequently praised the bureau's post-9/11 progress, citing "commitment from the top, a dedicated implementation team, involvement of employees in the process and the achievement of key milestones."
Still, some changes have been awfully pricey.
When Mueller took office, he inherited an information technology updating that included a vaunted "Virtual Case File" system to replace old-fashioned paperwork. Over several years, the new system remained bug-ridden and elusive. The bureau finally pulled the plug on the $170 million Virtual Case File project in 2005, replacing it with a system called Sentinel that went online last year.
"There were missteps. One of the things I regret is not asking enough questions early on about information technology," Mueller acknowledged. "We had to reboot, reset that, but we did get it done."
In other cases, including the investigations of U.S.-based Muslims and the collection of massive amounts of telephone data, the transitions to a post-9/11 world have alarmed some skeptics and civil libertarians. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the information-gathering programs have "been instrumental in contributing to the prevention of terrorist attacks."
After having the traditional 10-year term as director extended by two years, Mueller's last day in the hulking J. Edgar Hoover Building will be Sept. 4. He'll be replaced by James Comey, a former top Justice Department official.
Mueller and Comey were allied in some key moments during the Bush administration, including a 2004 episode in which both threatened to resign over the White House's frantic push for a controversial wiretapping program. During one tense late-night confrontation, Mueller had what Comey later diplomatically called a "brief, memorable" exchange with the attorney general.
Precisely what Mueller, a Ranger-trained, former rifle platoon commander in the 3rd Marine Division, told the markedly smaller Attorney General Alberto Gonzales remains something known only to the few men present. The moment, though, was a defining one for Mueller's tenure, as was his 2002 refusal to let FBI agents take part in interrogations that used harsh techniques such as waterboarding.
"I know he has changed the FBI . . . in fundamental and crucial ways," Comey said in July at his Senate confirmation hearing.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who first met Mueller several decades ago when she was the mayor of San Francisco, likewise praised him as a "man of high integrity and very strong values." Even Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a frequent critic of FBI actions, said Mueller had "done a good job of transforming the FBI from a law enforcement agency into a national security agency."
Comey will inherit some "hard choices" on the budget, Mueller acknowledged. The new director also will face some key administrative decisions, perhaps including finding a replacement for the 2.4 million-square-foot Hoover building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
A tall, white-haired grandfather who survived a bout with prostate cancer, Mueller has a portfolio spread among a myriad of mutual funds as well as stock in blue chip companies such as Chevron, IBM and General Electric, according to his annual financial disclosure statement.
Still, he's not going to be resting on his investments. Mueller said he expects to do some public speaking and teaching after he leaves the FBI, as well as some "internal" investigative work in the private sector. He'll also have to adjust to life outside the pressure cooker.
"I'm ambivalent. (I'll) miss it," Mueller said. "But the time has come."


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Vidarbha Cotton crisis worsen–Three farmer's suicides Reported in Day
Nagpur-April 20, 2012
The non-receipt of declared relief aid to vidarbha cotton even after lapse of four month and sudden crash in cotton prices due on going stringent restriction on cotton export ,three more vidarbha farmers suicides reported today include one woman farmer ,they are identified as
1.Gajanan Thorat of Village Garm Mahsal a in Karanja taluka of Washim
2.Kamalabai chavan of Village Wadner in Kelapur of Yavatmal
3.Gajanan Ghotekar of Village Kothoda in Kelapur of Yavatmal,
informed farm activist Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti VJAS,
Maharashtra Govt. declared relief aid to cotton farmers of vidarbha in last December 2011 to the tune Rs.2000 crore but till today not single paisa has been paid to distressed farmers more over suddenly union Govt. Of India on 4th March impose the blanket ban on cotton export then imposing srigent conditions of cotton export has severely affected the raw cotton rates was traded above @Rs.4200/- quintal but after the export ban brought down @Rs.3400 quintal ,this is reason to give trigger to restarting farm suicide spiral in vidarbha, Tiwari added.
"Don't vote CONGRESS-NCP, they will destroy
Nation-Dying Farmers Suicide Note
"I can not do the marriage of my daughter and please save my family .please do not vote Congress –NCP ,these parties will destroy nation" this is last request made by Gajanan Ghotekar ,cotton farmer of village kothoda in kelapur taluka of yavatmal district who committed suicide on 19th April night to mounting debt of bank taken for the tractor and non-payment of installments ,police has recovered this suicide note from Ghotekar's family members and verifying it's hand writing but in last five years lot of suicides notes of cotton farmers who committed suicides alleging state driven wrong policies are recovered but administration failed to take corrective action " Tiwari added.
In India 7 million cotton farmers families cultivating cotton in 12 million hectors from states of Maharashtra ,Gujrat,AP,MP,Rajthan and Punjab who are in debt trap due to cotton crop failure this year and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has been demanding UPA Govt. to remove all barriers of export in Agri. Products which is being supported by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prathiraj Chvan ,Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy but corrupt cartel of commerce ministry has managed to continue the anti-farmer policies which is being reflected in farmers suicides of vidarbha ,our all protest and requisitions are shown dustbin ,this is mouch more humiliating "Tiwari informed.
"All earlier GOM meeting have been high-jacked and Babus involved commerce Ministry and Cotton Advisory Board CAB has been giving fabricated data of national cotton consumption and production to justify the restrictions imposed for cotton export which are not in line with ground reality .We are till confused to understand the justification to protect finger counting people by pushing more than 10 million agrarian in deep economical crisis " Tiwari added.
"when Indian domestic demand is just 20 million bales as against national production of 33 million bales there is no reason put restrictions when interest of domestic textile mills are fully protected .the decision to ban Indian cotton export is another example rampant corruption going on in UPA Govt. there is big names involved in the sudden export ban will expose the all misdeeds of commerce ministry hence for the first time farmers suicide issue has given focus of wrong policies of state ,we will see that the truth is prevailed" Tiwari added.


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With Obama in Power, What is Next?
Van Jones is founding president of Green For All and a contributing editor to YES! Magazine.
|With Obama in Power, What is Next?
Van Jones has been a critical bridge between the environmental and social justice worlds through his call for green collar jobs. This is one of the key promises of the Obama campaign.
But this interview, which was conducted on November 12, 2008, will appear in full in the Spring issue of YES! Magazine.
In November 2004, as the progressive world was in deep mourning after the close re-election victory of President George W. Bush, YES! published a lead article by Van in the Healing and Resistance issue that turned out to be extraordinarily prescient. Van showed what we had won during the build-up to the election, and showed how a progressive shift was on the way—or could be.
He later agreed to become a YES! contributing editor, and has written for us on such important topics as rebuilding after Katrina, forming common cause across black and brown, and the movement to stop the destruction of an urban farm in South Central Los Angeles.
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Map 2: President Wilson's tour plan to the Pacific Coast, fall of 1919.
In the fall of 1919, President Wilson set off on a cross-country speaking tour designed to convince the country that the United States should become part of the League of Nations. He hoped in particular to create public pressure that would convince senators to ratify the treaty that would make the country part of the League. Starting in Columbus, Ohio, he reached the West Coast and was making his way back to Washington when his doctor ordered him to stop the tour after his speech in Pueblo, Colorado on September 25, 1919.
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One Direction have been crowned the most popular music act on Planet Earth in 2013 ahead of Katy Perry, Eminem and Justin Timberlake.
Liam, Niall, Louis, Harry and Zayn were named the Global Recording Artists of 2013 – a brand new award that factors in music streams, digital downloads and physical CD sales.
The IFPI, which promotes the international recording industry, awarded them the prestigious honour yesterday.
An elated Niall Horan said: "Incredible news. It's great to have a chart that includes everything from iTunes and record stores, to YouTube and Spotify.
"Again a huge thank you to all of our fans for such an amazing 2013."
Last year, One Direction hit number one on both sides of the Atlantic with their third album 'Midnight Memories' and became the first group in US history to debut at number one with their first three records.
Their singles 'Story of My Life' and 'Best Song Ever' notched up over 300million YouTube views between them and 1D were also one of the most played artists on Spotify.
Eminem is in second spot after the worldwide success of his acclaimed eighth album 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2', Justin Timberlake is third and Bruno Mars and Katy Perry complete the top five.
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The CW network announced plans for a new reality show that is undoubtedly inspired by the hit book-turned-movie, "The Hunger Games."
The name of the show is "The Hunt" and it will match 12 teams of two people to battle it out in "The Arena," which is a fenced-in enclosure in the middle of the wild. They will be left without food, water and shelter.
A casting announcement reads, "Contestants will live outdoors, in the wild, scavenging for food, shelter and protection from natural enemies that lie up every tree, in every stream, behind every boulder…and at the same time competing with other teams for the same resources and necessary tools needed to persevere."
One rule for teams to enter "The Arena" is teammates must already have an existing and compelling relationship.
The Hunt is set to premiere this summer on Wednesday, July 31 at 9 p.m. right here on the CW Philly.
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Heritage breed turkeys are making a comeback.
These birds taste more like the turkeys that Native Americans and settlers ate in the 17th century, compared to today's Butterball turkeys.
Just 20 years ago, some heritage turkey breeds were nearly extinct. For instance, in 1997 there were fewer than 10 Narragansett breeding birds left. Today, there are more than 2,000, according to a new census from The Livestock Conservancy.
"It's impressive," says Richard McCarthy, executive director of Slow Food USA. The Narragansett is enjoying a remarkable revival." Other varieties, including the Midget White, the Chocolate, and one known as Lavender, have rebounded as well.
So, what's driving this resurgence? Part of the story is flavor. "The taste is very robust," says Dana Kee of Moose Manor Farms, who raises Narragansetts. "It's not just a vehicle for gravy."
Kee says as more people look to connect with where their food comes from, her farm is beginning to thrive.
"People love a story," says Dana Kee. "They like to know the history of a thing." So the story of the Narragansett draws her customers in. The birds "were likely brought here by what we would call the pilgrims," Kee says.
Well, not exactly.
The early settlers from England actually brought their own live turkeys with them when they sailed crossed the Atlantic. "The [colonists] were looking to recreate the familiar," says culinary historian Kathleen Wall of Plimoth Plantation.
When these British turkeys mated with the native, wild American turkeys, their offspring produced the heritage breed varieties we have today.
In 1929 L.E. Cline, the author of Turkey Production, described the beginnings of the Narragansett breed:
"The early settlers of the Narragansett Bay came from England and quite naturally brought their domesticated livestock ... among these were the Black Norfolk turkeys. ... Since the country surrounding Narragansett Bay was inhabited by the native wild American turkey, the blood of the Black Norfolk and the wild turkey were soon blended."
Kee says the demand for her birds is growing. She sold her Narragansett turkeys for upwards of $6 a pound. "And I sold out about two days after I posted they were available."
Heritage breeds don't have as much meat as the Broad-Breasted White Turkey, the most widely available commercial bird. And they cost six times as much. But Kee says they're worth the premium because of the care and time that goes into raising heritage birds. Her Narragansett turkeys hatched last spring. Compare that to the Broad-Breasted White birds, which tend to reach butchering weight in about three months.
Slow Food USA's McCarthy says putting a heritage breed on the holiday table creates a broader context for the American Thanksgiving meal.
"The New World experience with food is one in which we bring parts from our past, but here we make something together that is new and different," McCarthy says.
People seek out these heritage turkeys just as they seek out heirloom tomatoes and apples — for variety and flavor. But, it goes beyond just taste. Preserving these foods protects the bounty of tomorrow.
McCarthy says these heirloom foods also hold the genetic material that could form the building blocks of a future food supply — especially if disease or climate change makes today's commercial crops and livestock vulnerable.
"In almost every case, if we continue to eat and value these foods, then they have a future."
So, in order to save breeds like the Narragansett turkey, we must eat them.
Heritage breed turkeys are making a comeback on Thanksgiving dinner tables. These birds taste much more like the turkeys that Native Americans and settlers were eating in the 17th century compared to today's Butterball. NPR's Allison Aubrey visited a farm in Maryland to find out why saving these heirloom birds has turned into a new American passion.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Wow, it's beautiful here.
DANA KEE: Oh, thank you.
AUBREY: Thank you for having me.
KEE: It's kind of crazy.
AUBREY: I've just arrived at Moose Manor, a farm on the banks of the Potomac River where farmer Dana Kee raises Narragansett turkeys, a heritage breed that traces its origins back to the colonists who settled around here in the 17th century.
KEE: Hi, turkey.
KEE: Hi, gobble, gobble, gobble, yeah.
AUBREY: They really are talking to you, huh?
KEE: They are. They love it when people come over.
AUBREY: Dana says Narragansetts love to show off. They prance around us and puff up to show us their bright feathers.
KEE: Their heads are sort of purple and blue, and they've got these giant red wattles and...
AUBREY: Very striking...
KEE: Yeah.
AUBREY: ...To watch.
KEE: Yes.
AUBREY: These birds have quite a history.
KEE: They were likely brought here by what we would call the pilgrims.
AUBREY: Well, sort of - the early settlers from England actually brought their own live Norfolk turkeys with them across the Atlantic. Then these British birds met the native wild turkeys, and their offspring produced birds like the Narragansetts, which taste very different from the turkey we're used to today.
KEE: It's got more flavor. It tastes very robust, not gamy necessarily, but it's not just a vehicle for gravy.
AUBREY: As commercial turkeys started to take over in the decades after World War II, heritage breeds went into decline. Twenty years ago, birds like these were on the verge of extinction. There were fewer than 10 Narragansett breeding birds alive.
But with a growing movement of foodies who love the novelty of undiscovered tastes and a renewed interest among conservationists and breeders who want to preserve the genetic diversity of the past, populations have rebounded.
A new census from The Livestock Conservancy finds there are now more than 2,000 Narragansett breeding birds. The explosion of interest has helped farmers like Dana Kee because people are willing to pay a premium for these birds - upwards of $6 a pound.
KEE: I sold out of the Narragansetts about two days after I posted that they were available.
AUBREY: So why do you think people are willing to pay for this?
KEE: I think a lot of people are really interested in preserving traditional food, and I think people like a story.
RICHARD MCCARTHY: I think food connects us to the past, to each other, and I think that it is also forward-looking.
AUBREY: That's Richard McCarthy, executive director of Slow Food USA, a group committed to preserving heritage foods. He says putting a turkey like the Narragansett on the table helps create a broader context for the American Thanksgiving meal.
MCCARTHY: The New World experience with food is one in which we bring parts of us from our past, but here we make something together that is new and different and creative.
AUBREY: McCarthy says people seek out these heritage turkeys just like they seek out heirloom tomatoes and apples - for variety and flavor. But he says these heirloom foods also hold the genetic material that could form the building blocks of a future food supply, especially if disease makes today's commercial crops and livestock vulnerable.
MCCARTHY: In almost every case, if we eat and value these foods, then they have a future.
AUBREY: So in order to save breeds like the Narragansett turkey, we have to eat them. Allison Aubrey, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Zimbra Adds Social Networking Features Yahoo's Zimbra unit continues to enhance its open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange and IBM LotusNotes.
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HP Hires Sun's Senior VP Of North American Sales HP has hired Randy Seidl, a key Sun sales executive to head up its Americas sales organization, putting more pressure on Sun.
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Phillip Phillips Gifts His Parents With a Car
Well, you can take the boy out of the south, but you can't take the south out of the boy. So true is this statement in talking about recent 'American Idol' winner Phillip Phillips, who decided to fork over his 'AI' gift directly to his parents. Mama must be proud.
Forget the rock star lifestyle and party mentality of the usual musician. This country boy wants nothing of it. Aside from the fame and opportunity that comes along with taking the crown in the hit FOX televised contest, Phillip was given a brand new 2013 Ford Fusion, which is valued at $25,000. But why take that? He's already got a car, his 2001 Ford Ranger truck, which he is perfectly happy driving. So after getting the Fusion, Phillip wasted no time in handing the keys over to mom and dad.
Poor Phil probably won't be driving for a few weeks anyway. The 'Idol' champ is slated for kidney surgery tomorrow (May 29) and will be recovering in a Malibu mansion for six weeks.
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Antidepressants and the effects on heart rhythms
Recent reports have suggested that patients who take higher doses of some antidepressants could have an increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms. Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, director of the MGH Psychiatry Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, explains a recent study published in the journal BMJ that he led and outlines what it means for people who take antidepressant medications.
Q. What did your study address?
A. The study looked at the relationship between antidepressant medications and changes in heart rhythms. In August 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning for the antidepressant citalopram (Celexa), based on something called post-marketing surveillance – a few reports by doctors that patients taking citalopram experienced abnormal heart rhythms or changes in their electrocardiogram, or EKG. Abnormal heart rhythms are not inherently bad, but if you have one, it could be an indicator that down the line there is potential to develop a more dangerous heart rhythm such as Torsades de Pointes, which can be fatal. For my team, the FDA warning raised more questions than it answered. We wanted to see real statistics on citalopram's effects on heart rhythms and to see if other antidepressants also led to changes in EKGs.
Q. What did you find?
A. Most antidepressants do not affect heart rhythms. But my team did confirm the observation that taking high doses of citalopram led to changes in EKGs. We also saw a similar effect in patients taking escitalopram (Lexapro). Our study looked across the entire Partners HealthCare electronic medical record system, including more than 1 million patients who have had EKGs, using tools developed by our colleagues at the i2b2 Center (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside). We saw that an irregular heart rhythm is quite common. Many people walk around with a modestly abnormal heart rhythm and never have a problem. But we do pay attention to it because again it is a predictor of risk.
Q. Should patients who are prescribed citalopram or escitalopram stop taking the medication?
A. Absolutely not. The effects on heart rhythm depend on dose; at lower doses, there's very little effect. People who are worried – especially those taking doses of citalopram more than 40 mg, or older people taking doses more than 20 mg – should talk to their doctor before making any change. It is important to remember that deadly abnormal heart rhythms are very rare, while depression – and its many negative effects on health – unfortunately is common. For the vast majority of people, the potential benefits of treating depression will outweigh the risks. Also keep in mind that our study showed there are a number of antidepressants that don't have any effect on heart rhythm, so there are many other options if you do not want to continue taking citalopram or escitalopram. There are also nonmedication treatments for depression, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman's Lil' Red Ed Pizza
The new title from chefs Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman, of Memphis's Hog & Hominy, highlights their trademark style of blending Southern ingredients and Italian techniques. The restaurant's most popular dishes – from the black-eyed pea tortellini to the butterscotch budino – are sprinkled throughout the book's 100-plus recipes, which include a ton of information for pasta makers. The Lil' Red Ed pizza is topped with country ham and pickled vegetables, adding a Tennessee spin to the traditional marinara pie.
Hog & Hominy's Lil' Red Ed Pizza
(Serves two)
For the pickled peppers
• 1 lb (500 g) assorted sweet and hot peppers such as bell peppers, serrano chiles, Anaheim chiles, and Italian sweet peppers
• 2 cups (16 fl oz/500 ml) Pickling Brine
For the Kalamata Olive Salad
• 1/2 cup (2 1/2 oz/75 g) pitted Kalamata olives
• 1/4 cup (2 fl oz/60 ml) sherry vinegar
• 2 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
• Leaves from 1 sprig fresh oregano
• Finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon
• Pinch of red pepper flakes
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
For the Pizza
• Pizza dough
• 1/4 cup (2 fl oz/60 ml) tomato sauce
• 1 1/2 oz (45 g) speck or country ham (preferably Benton's), diced
• 2 oz (60 g) fontina cheese, torn into pieces
• Freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
To make the pickled peppers, roast the peppers directly over a gas flame or on a hot grill, turning them occasionally with tongs, until blackened all over. Put the peppers in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let stand for a few minutes to steam and cool. When the peppers are cool enough to handle, scrape off the skin with a knife and remove the stem, seeds, and ribs. Cut the peppers into bite-size pieces and put them in a nonreactive bowl. Pour the pickling brine over the top, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 6 hours or up to overnight before using.
To make the Kalamata olive salad, in a bowl, combine the olives, vinegar, oil, oregano leaves, lemon zest, and red pepper flakes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
To assemble the pizza, prepare a very hot fire for direct-heat cooking on a charcoal grill; you're aiming for at least 500° F (260° C). Put a pizza stone on the hottest part of the grill and let it heat for at least 10 minutes. Put the pizza dough on a lightly floured work surface. Flatten the dough and stretch it, using your hands and gravity, into a 10- to 12-inch-diameter (25 cm to 30 cm) round.
Transfer the dough round to a pizza peel lightly dusted with flour. Swirl the tomato sauce evenly over the dough round. Arrange the speck over the sauce, followed by about 1/4 cup (1 1/2 oz or 45 g) of the pickled peppers (reserve the remaining peppers for another use), then top with the fontina.
Slide the pizza off the peel onto the pizza stone, close the grill cover, and cook until the toppings are bubbling and the crust is well browned, 6-10 minutes, using the pizza peel to rotate the pizza 3 times as it cooks. Using the pizza peel again, remove the pizza from the grill and slide it onto a cutting board. Sprinkle with the olive salad and Parmigiano-Reggiano. Cut the pizza into wedges and serve right away.
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Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), native to Eurasia and now common in eastern North America, grows 0.6 to 1.8 metres (2 to 6 feet) high on riverbanks and in ditches. It has a branched stem bearing whorls of narrow, pointed, stalkless leaves and ending in tall, tapering spikes of red-purple flowers. Purple loosestrife was introduced into North America early in the 19th century. It is now considered a noxious weed in many parts of the United States and Canada, where it forms dense colonies and crowds out native wetland vegetation that provides food and habitat for wildlife. Swamp loosestrife, water willow, or wild oleander (Decodon verticillatus) is a perennial herb native to swamps and ponds of eastern North America.
The Eurasian yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris), an erect plant 0.6 to 1.2 metres (2 to 4 feet) high, is common on riverbanks in England and grows in eastern North America. The branched stem bears tapering leaves in pairs or whorls and terminal clusters of deep-yellow flowers. Yellow pimpernel, or wood loosestrife (L. nemorum), a low plant with slender, spreading stem and solitary, yellow flowers, is common in England. Many species of Lysimachia are visited by bees for the oil contained in hairs on the flowers rather than for nectar or pollen. Fringed loosestrife (Steironema ciliatum), a yellow-flowered perennial, is native to moist parts of North America and common in Europe.


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A standard American deck of playing cards has four suits - spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs - and thirteen cards in each suit. Two is the lowest rank, followed by other integers up to ten; then the jack, queen, king, and ace.
It's convenient for humans to represent these cards as suit/rank pairs, such as H5 or DQ: the heart five and diamond queen respectively. But these forms are not convenient for programmers, so to write a card game you need some way to parse an input string into meaningful components. For purposes of determining rank, we will define the cards to be valued from 0 (the two) to 12 (the ace)
Write a function which converts (for example) the string "SJ" into a map of
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(= {:suit :diamond :rank 10} (__ "DQ"))
(= {:suit :heart :rank 3} (__ "H5"))
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WESTFIELD, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's cross country teams turned in good performances at the NCAA Division III Regional Championships Saturday, hosted by Westfield State at Stanley Park Saturday.
The men finished 23rd in a field of 50 teams with 694 points. Middlebury won the meet with 94 points. The women were 32nd of 51 teams with 892 points. MIT was first with 58 points.
The men were led by junior Chris Jordan (Taunton, MA/Taunton HS), who finished 97th in the five mile race in 26:57. Freshman Michael Vaz (Dartmouth, MA/Greater New Bedford Regional Vo Tech) was 132nd in 27:38, junior Zach Switaj (Tamworth, NH/Kennett Regional HS) was 146th in 27:46, sophomore Eric Karstunen (Pembroke, MA/Pembroke HS), was 156th in 27:58, sophomore Scott Bernazzani (Abington, MA/Cardinal Spellman HS) was 160th in 28:02, , freshman Ryan Hayes (Kingston, MA/Silver Lake HS) was 178th in 28:19, and freshman Mike Bodden (Shrewsbury, MA/Shrewsbury HS) was 182nd in 28:21.
For the women, sophomore Katie Sheehan (Scituate, MA/Scituate HS) was 62nd in 22:59 for the race, with covered 6000 kilometers. Freshman Katisha Bellegarde (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS) was 142nd in 24:27, sophomore Renee Laurencelle (Tyngsboro, MA/Tyngsboro HS) was 220th in 25:56, sophomore Caitlin Dorr (Foxboro, MA/Foxboro HS) was 236th in 26:15, sophomore Meghan Cutler (Attleboro, MA/Attleboro HS) was 253rd in 26:36 and sophomore Jessica Connor (Worcester, MA/Doherty HS) was 272nd in 27:19.
"For both teams, it was a very good end to a very good season," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Jon Hird, "Our men came out pretty well. If we had run our absolute best race of the season, we might have been able to finish 20th. Our women ran hard, they were a little bit banged up but they turned in a good effort. Our last race here (the Little East Conference and New England Alliance Championships) was our high water mark, and it's a little more difficult to duplicate that in a race with so many runners. The New England Region is the largest in the country."
"Katie Sheehan ran very well," Hird added. "She ran a faster time this year than she did last year on a more difficult course. Our men moved up four places from last year."
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