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- Fix Bugs
- Simpler Interface for "Simple" Builds
- Internationalization with Gettext
- Internationalization of SCons
- LIBOBJ Support
- Library and Application Versioning
- Performance Improvements
- Integrate Code Coverage into Testing
- Regression Testing of Performance
- Distributed Compilation
- Better Java Support
- Improved Target-File Caching
- Dynamically Determine Documentation Toolchains
- Batched Builders
- Better Windows Installation
- Standalone Executable
- Python Software Foundation
- Eclipse Plugin
- Other ideas
Fix Bugs
As with all projects, bugs and requests for enhancements and new features accumulate. Many of them only involve a couple of weeks worth of effort, but the primary developers are busy enough that there's just not enough time to get to them. Dealing with a few small bugs, a couple of medium enhancements, or a single large new feature (and including tests and documentation) is a tremendous way for inexperienced programmers to get their feet wet, gain experience, and sharpen your Python skills.
The idea here is to choose a reasonable set of bugs to tackle: not too hard and not too easy. You can get advice from the mailing list as to the difficulty of various bugs, but judging how long it will take to do a task is one of the skills that young programmers must develop.
The issues database contains the prioritized list of active issues that is a good place to look for issues to fix. If someone's name is on the issue, don't hesitate to contact them to see if they would be willing to let you work on it and if it's a good candidate. That person would also be a good source of information and advice while working on the bug.
Mentor(s): StevenKnight, GaryOberbrunner, GregNoel, others
Simpler Interface for "Simple" Builds
The attraction of systems like CMake and GNU automake is that they provide a very simple interface (parseable as a Python script) that handles a wide number of typical builds. The idea is to design and implement an interface that is as simple as CMake and automake for the kinds of tasks they handle, while still allowing the full power of SCons for the tasks that they don't handle well.
A prior project has provided a great deal of the automake functionality for SCons. Although it is useful, the interface is not simple. One approach to this task would be to take that implementation and extend it with a very simple interface.
This task requires skills in language synthesis and language design, plus the ability to conceal unnecessary complexity behind a simple façade. The interface should "just work" for a wide range of common tasks, keeping the implementation details out of sight.
Mentor(s): GregNoel, possibly StevenKnight
Internationalization with Gettext
The gettext set of library functions allows a program to deal with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) issues. The entire suite contains functions to use a translation catalog to convert a string in one language into another and handle the various numeric and date formats. Providing this support to programs being built would be very useful.
GNU uses the autopoint command to determine the getttext infrastructure. SCons will need a similar configuration step to determine exactly what it needs to do.
SCons will need a builder for the msgfmt program, which compiles the catalogs into binary format, and possibly for other programs as well.
This project will need someone who understands i18n, l10n, and the gettext model.
Mentor(s): GregNoel, StevenKnight
Internationalization of SCons
SCons itself needs to be internationalized. There's a Python gettext module to do the heavy lifting, but locating and marking all the strings that need to be translated, plus setting up the infrastructure to provide translations, is a lot of patient, detailed grunt work.
LIBOBJ Support
GNU autoconf can replace missing or broken library functions with versions that are locally compiled and included in a program. It provides support for alloca, error_if_line, getloadavg, lstat, malloc, memcmp, mktime, obstack, realloc, strtod, strnlen, fnmatch, fileblocks, and probably others.
It would not be a stretch to extend this facility to generating header files for specific circumstances; dirent.h comes to mind.
SCons should have such a facility. It's far more than a summer project to provide not only a complete framework but also all the functions (not to mention the configure tests that determine if the replacement is needed); however, establishing the framework and a few of the configure tests and corresponding functions should be well within scope.
Mentor(s): GregNoel, possibly StevenKnight
Library and Application Versioning
SCons has no direct support for versioned libraries and applications, that is, packages that may have multiple versions installed at the same time. SCons supports neither installing a versioned package nor choosing between multiple packages for a particular build.
In the former case, the need is for a cross-platform "link" (or "symlink"?) action, with generic chaining so that libfoo.so can be symlinked to libfoo.so.1, which is linked to libfoo.so.1.2, which is linked to libfoo.so.1.2.3 (the actual installed library). Similarly, an application might be installed as prog2.3 and needs a symlink to prog. In addition, when cleaning ('scons -c'), it needs to remove the link only if it refers to the correct object (i.e., it should not remove a link created by a later installation). See Bug#1947 for other aspects of this task.
In the latter case, the need is to be able to choose a version of a library or application that's not the default (either an older guaranteed-stable version or a newer maybe-not-stable version). How this is done varies between systems; the design of the feature should hide that level of detail. Robert Lupton of Princeton has an Python implementation for selecting applications that works in his environment (it also can specify version dependencies to automate much of the selection), but it's not clear if it's sufficiently general-purpose.
Doing both aspects of this for a single summer is probably too much, unless there's some existing technology that can be leveraged.
Mentor(s): StevenKnight, GregNoel, Robert Lupton (rhl at astro princeton edu), others
Performance Improvements
SCons would get much wider adoption if its performance were improved. The subsections below describe different techniques. In general, the techniques can be divided into two major styles: top-down, by eliminating the need to execute entire phases, and bottom-up, by speeding up individual functions that contribute too much to the runtime.
Large-scale Optimizations
There have been proposals to optimize SCons' performance by eliminating the need to reparse the SConscripts every time. Other proposals have approached the issue by identifying only those SConscripts that contribute to the current rebuild and only reparse those.
This section describes some large-scale changes that are intended to eliminate entire phases of SCons' operation in some circumstances.
One idea is a daemon that monitors filesystem changes. SCons could query this daemon to learn what files have changed since the last build. The daemon might also keep the SCons environment in memory to make "startup" instantaneous. On Windows, the daemon could easily be implemented using public APIs (FindFirstChangeNotification, ReadDirectoryChangesW). On some UNIX-like systems, there is the fam utility to monitor changes to files (there is a bit of prior art several years back when someone prototyped something like this on IRIX, but it never became widespread).
- Another idea is to cache the DAG itself, in addition to the dependencies. When SCons is started, it would check to see if any of its inputs (which would include files such as SConscripts, option files, imports, and so forth, as well as command-line options) have changed from the last run. If not, it would reuse the cached DAG instead of running the SConstruct to rebuild the DAG from scratch.
Mentor(s): probably StevenKnight
"Fast Unsafe" Build Mode
Normally, SCons emphasizes correct builds over everything else, including speed. For larger projects with multiple hierarchal directories, it would be a boon to have an 'instant build' option that would just build the changed files in a leaf directory, sort of as a syntax check before building and linking everything that depends on the changed files in other directories. This would ease the pain on large projects where only a small part of it at a time is being modified and a quick compile check would suffice.
The idea is to trade a guaranteed correct build for a fast development cycle when correctness is not desired. This feature would be intended for savvy users, and it would be up to them to diagnose any problems that result from missing dependencies.
The feature could require modifications to SConscripts to take advantage of it. It could also impose restrictions on the information provided by calling SConscripts (perhaps so that the imports could be cached) so that only the local SConscript needs to be evaluated. Additional restrictions and caveats are also possible. And when a full build is done, the affected files may be rebuilt, even if it is not strictly necessary.
Bug#1939 is one possible way to implement this project. Other ways are possible. A good proposal should consider alternatives.
Mentor(s): Josh Leavitt <Josh dot Leavitt at hill af mil>, GregNoel, StevenKnight
One important aspect of performance is to be able to document the changes in performance. The SCons project has started developing some benchmarks where the performance of routines believed to be critical can be tested and documented. The task here would be to build some more of these benchmarks.
There are two complimentary approaches in use: "micro" benchmarks that profile an actual SCons run that exercises one particular feature, and "nano" benchmarks that do side-by-side comparisons of internal functions. Microbenchmarks are used to identify code that seems to be more expensive than one would expect. Nanobenchmarks explore possible alternative implementations of code highlighted by microbenchmarks.
Any project to work on performance should describe how the project plans to measure the performance. It's not enough to just say, "I'll use the Python profiler," the idea is to discuss how you'd use it, what pieces you think you'll measure, how you plan to set reasonable performance targets and track progress against them, etc. Development of any necessary tools, subsystems, or other infrastructure for measuring performance is fine, but should ideally aim for tools that are generally re-usable and useful in the future, not one-offs just for the project.
Mentor(s): GregNoel or StevenKnight
Integrate Code Coverage into Testing
Code coverage is a form of testing that determines how much of the code has been executed during testing. Wikipedia lists five types of code coverage:
- Function coverage - Has each function in the program been executed?
- Statement coverage - Has each line of the source code been executed?
- Condition coverage - Has each evaluation point (such as a true/false decision) been executed?
- Path coverage - Has every possible route through a given part of the code been executed?
- Entry/exit coverage - Has every possible call and return of the function been executed?
There are at least three packages that do code coverage for Python: trace2html, Coverage, and figleaf. A Google search would probably turn up others.
The idea here is to add code coverage as a testing option. The project would be to evaluate the various tools available, pick one (or synthesize one), and integrate it into the standard testing procedures. It should be possible to visualize the output easily so that areas of untested code can be quickly identified. And the process should be well documented.
Mentor(s): GregNoel or StevenKnight
Regression Testing of Performance
The basis of this idea is to add features to the SCons testing framework (used for both unit tests and integration tests) to allow performance-critical subsystems to be monitored routinely. It would have to be self-scaling, either by running a standard mix of Python statements to provide a relative yardstick or by using a provided function to set the yardstick. The former would be useful for functions with an absolute requirement (e.g., no more than 100,000 instructions); the latter would be useful for functionality with "Big-O" requirements (e.g., if the standard is O(N^2), run some sequence with one input then with ten; the performance of the latter should be less than a hundred times the former).
The second part of this idea is to implement performance regression tests. It will require coordinating with developers to identify the portions of the code to be measured, jointly determining the performance requirement, and implementing the necessary tests.
Mentor(s): GregNoel or StevenKnight
Distributed Compilation
A model for being able to parallelize software builds by distributing work across a network of homogeneous machines would benefit many large projects. One possible approach would be to try to integrate (and generalize) some functionality like distcc, perhaps similar to the way that SCons has already integrated some ccache-like functionality. Another more ambitious approach would be to try to make use of existing grid computing systems. Since the scope of this project is only a summer's worth of coding, there probably won't be enough time to solve this big a problem completely, so a better idea is to try to carve out a manageable first step in your proposal.
(Note: Incredibuild recently added support for distributed SCons builds, which would meet the needs of some users. However, it is a closed-source commercial product, so it is not an option for most open source software projects.)
Mentor(s): probably StevenKnight
Better Java Support
SCons' Java support gets dinged by Java programmers for being relatively limited. Revising the Java support to be better is important to the acceptance of SCons in the Java community. There are a number of different pieces that could be carved out as well:
Revamp approach to Java
SCons' approach to Java is to build entire subdirectories of '.java' files into one or more '.jar' files. This is inadequate when only partial rebuilds are needed. The Java support could use some refactoring (even redesign) by someone who's familiar with the needs of large-scale Java projects, and has an itch to try to use the underlying flexibility of SCons to do better than what's out there.
Mentor(s): ??? Possibly StevenKnight
More Ant-like Behavior?
Ant is obviously the standard for Java compilation. As a general dependency tool, it leaves something to be desired, largely because so much of the nitty-gritty Java dependency management is actually in javac, not Ant. Nevertheless, Java programmers are familiar with the Ant model, and to the extent that we can find SCons-like ways to adopt parts of it, it would help make SCons more attractive (especially to Java programmers who are part of multi-language software projects).
Mentor(s): ??? Possibly StevenKnight
Port to Jython
Making SCons run under Jython, thereby allowing it to run under the Java VM, might also help make it more attractive to the Java community. Since SCons is all Python, it's actually not far from being able to do this, but there's a serious barrier with respective to Java's complete lack of a notion of a current directory and being able to chdir(). Working around that might involve some serious refactoring to completely eradicate chdir() calls from the SCons source (which by itself would be a good thing).
Mentor(s): ??? Possibly StevenKnight
Add a Groovy() builder that works with the Java() builder so that Groovy programs can be compiled and intermixed with Java.
A simple builder for Groovy is a small project that could combined with other small projects to fill up a summer. Integrating Groovy with Java is at least a medium-sized project.
Mentor(s): Russel Winder <russel dot winder at concertan com>, possibly StevenKnight
Improved Target-File Caching
The SCons CacheDir() function provides a framework for sharing built targets between developers, but it's relatively primitive. A project to tackle one or more potential improvements to it would be extremely welcome. Possible objectives include:
- Administrative tools for managing the cache directory, including aging/clean up of old targets, limiting the size of cache, etc. All subject to configuration options, of course.
- Some mechanism for locking write access to target files when multiple clients try to create the same target—or better, some distribution of locking logic so clients can detect that some other client is in the progress of building a target file that will end up in the cache when finished.
- Measure the efficiency and scalability of caching and address any issues so that it can handle thousands of source files in a tree and tens of thousands of targets.
Mentor(s): probably StevenKnight
Dynamically Determine Documentation Toolchains
A problem with many open source projects is that in the documentation area, developers don't know how to produce documentation that will be of use to many different users, so they end up producing plaintext documentation or documentation that only really flies on one platform (as in the case of SCons manpage), or they produce a PDF and hope that that will be OK with everyone. If SCons were able to provide a convenient path from some of the popular documentation 'source' formats (LaTeX, TextInfo, DocBook, HTML) all the way through to platform-specific help files, this would help to improve access to what documentation developers create.
The challenge is to integrate a decent suite of documentation tools so that platform-specific help files can be built and installed. On Windows there is the HtmlHelp compiler that can produce .CHM files from HTML files plus some index files. On GNOME and KDE there is the freedesktop.org ScrollKeeper system, which allows HTML and DocBook XML to be served up via a centralised help browser. There are probably similar things on Mac, Solaris, and so on.
The idea here is to create the mechanism that will determine the correct "native" documentation format based upon the deployment platform and then find a toolchain from the starting format to the deployment format. The toolchain could be as short as zero commands if the deployment format is the same as the source format, or it could be one command that converts directly from the source format to the destination format, or it could be a series of conversions. It's possible that the toolchain could vary based upon the commands available on the build machine. Moreover, there could be more than one documentation format required if the same package could be deployed on different platforms.
Mentor(s): possibly JohnPye
Batched Builders
Some builders are significantly faster if they compile more than one program at a time. Other builders can optimize better if they can see more than one file at a time. What these builders have in common is that they want to be passed all the out-of-date source files in the same step.
Bug#1086 has added batch builders for some limited cases; the need now is to automate the finding of other members of a batch for languages like FORTRAN and Java. There are several issues to implement extensions to make batch building work with FORTRAN (Bug#1888), Java (Bug#1766), D (Bug#1923), and Vala (Bug#2147).
The effort is two-fold: implement scanners (or something similar) to identify all the sources that must be compiled and implement an algorithm to break up these sources into individual compile units. These units would then be combined into batches that don't exceed any system or compiler limits (e.g., length of command line or maximum number of files the compiler can handle).
This task needs someone who is good with both data structures and algorithms. Integrating the logic into the existing data structures without breaking anything will be difficult and implementing the algorithm efficiently will stretch anyone's design ability.
Mentor(s): GregNoel
Better Windows Installation
The current SCons self-extracting Windows installer is generated by the Python distutils package. It has some limitations:
Because distutils is geared towards installing Python modules, it installs SCons as a script within the current Python installation, not as a standalone utility that happens to use Python
- Related: it doesn't support multiple side-by-side installations of SCons (different versions)
- It does not add SCons to the Windows Menu
- It provides no "uninstall" action for SCons
It provides no Windows-style help (.chm)
A project to re-write SCons' Windows installation so it behaves more like a "real application" would help spread SCons more widely and benefit a lot of users.
One likely approach would involve writing a full WiX installer and by trying to crib best practices from other projects that already use it. (WiX itself is open source and available from SourceForge.)
Also see the next item for a possible related project.
Mentor(s): possibly StevenKnight
Standalone Executable
There are still sites that don't have Python installed. And sometimes an application can only be run with a particular version of Python. Adding packaging logic so SCons can be shipped as a self-contained unit would help lower the barrier to entry for those sites.
For Windows, the most likely approach would involve using py2exe. A more generic approach might involve using PyInstaller, which reportedly covers Windows, Linux and Irix. Coming up with a .dmg for Mac OS X would be good, too—perhaps this could involve helping a project like PyInstaller add that support...?
A possible project to mine for ideas (and code?) is the Chandler project at the Open Source Applications Foundation, who apparently package Python in their distributions for systems that don't have it.
Also see the previous item for a possible related project.
Mentor(s): possibly StevenKnight
Python Software Foundation
SCons will accept proposals for non-SCons projects, as long as we believe that the work will directly benefit us as well a wider community.
One source of ideas is the Python Software Foundation (PSF), an umbrella organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers. It holds the intellectual property rights to recent versions of Python and ensures that Python distributions are made available to the public free of charge.
PSF is also a participant in the Summer of Code and has their own ideas page. Feel free to pick a topic from their site that has direct applicability to SCons and float a proposal with us.
Eclipse Plugin
There have been recurring questions as to whether SCons has an Eclipse plugin. We don't, so this idea is to design and implement such a plugin.
Mentor(s): unknown
Other ideas
Feel free to suggest other topics for ideas. If you have sufficient permission, go ahead and add them to the page yourself, using this section as a template; if not, contact GregNoel (preferably with a suggested writeup) and he will add it.
Idea subhead one
Most ideas fit under a single third-level heading, but sometimes there are a number of related ideas. In that case, the third-level heading establishes the context and each related idea is under a forth-level header like this one.
Idea subhead two
A second related idea would go here.


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Interpretive Handbook
82340 :
HIV-1 Genotypic Drug Resistance Mutation Analysis, Plasma
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Antiviral resistance may compromise highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in HIV-infected patients receiving HAART. When combination therapy fails, detection and analysis of HIV genotypic mutations can guide necessary changes to antiretroviral therapy and decrease HIV viral load, thereby improving patient outcome.
HIV-1 is an RNA virus that infects cells and is then converted to complementary DNA (cDNA) by the action of the viral reverse transcriptase (RT) gene product. RT has little proofreading capacity and therefore incorporates errors in the proviral DNA. These errors are transcribed into infectious viral particles when the proviral DNA is transcribed into RNA. Similarly, the enzyme protease catalyzes a polyprotein to produce peptides necessary for active viral replication. Although HAART (combination of nucleoside analog, nonnucleoside agent and/or protease inhibitor) may be effective in reducing the viral load, genotypic mutations arising in the drug-targeted HIV gene loci due to selective pressure from antiviral therapy result in antiviral resistance that may compromise such therapy.
Amplification and analysis of drug-targeted HIV-gene sequence allows identification of changes in nucleotide bases and associated amino acid codons that may cause antiviral drug resistance. Such genotypic changes are deemed as mutations by comparing the sequence data of the patient's HIV strain to those of a wild-type HIV strain. The significance of these genotypic mutations in relation to antiviral resistance is then determined by a set of interpretive rules developed by a consensus panel of leading experts in the field of HIV resistance. Relevant data presented at a recognized scientific conference or published in peer-reviewed journals are considered by the consensus panel in developing these rules. When necessary, reliable unpublished drug resistance data known to consensus panel members may be considered in the process. The interpretive rules are updated by the consensus panel annually after reviewing newly published data on HIV genotypic drug resistance mutations.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Identification of key HIV genotypic mutations associated with resistance to nucleotide reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, nonnucleotide reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, and protease inhibitors
Guiding initiation or change of anti-HIV-1 treatment regimens
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Detectable HIV-1 genotypic mutations conferring resistance to an antiviral drug are reported as amino acid codon changes (eg, M184V) resulting from the mutations.
Genotypic drug resistance:
-Susceptible indicates that the genotypic mutations present in patient's HIV-1 strain have not been associated with resistance to the specific drug in question.
-Resistant indicates that genotypic mutations (see specific list in corresponding result comment) detected have been associated with maximum reduction in susceptibility to the specific drug.
-Possibly resistant indicates that genotypic mutations detected have been associated with 1 or both of the following outcomes:
- Diminished virologic response in some, but not all, patients having virus with these mutations
- Intermediate decrease in susceptibility of the virus to the specific drug
-Insufficient evidence indicates that there is inadequate direct or indirect evidence to determine susceptibility of the virus to the specific drug on the basis of the genotypic mutations present, according to the opinion of the consensus panel of leading experts in the field of HIV resistance.
-Unable to genotype indicates that the sequence data obtained are of poor quality to determine the presence or absence of genotypic resistant mutations in the patient's HIV strain. Possible causes of such poor sequence data include low HIV viral load (ie, <1,000 copies/mL) and polymorphism in the region of the sequencing primers interfering with primer binding and subsequent sequencing reaction.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Due to the complexity of the results generated, the International AIDS Society-USA Panel recommends expert interpretation of genotyping and phenotype test results for patient care management. A patient's response to antiviral therapy depends on multiple factors, including the percentage of patient's viral populations that is drug resistant, patient compliance with the prescribed drug therapy, patient access to adequate care, drug pharmacokinetics, and drug interactions. Drug resistance test results should be interpreted only in conjunction with clinical presentation and other laboratory markers when making therapeutic decisions.
Absence of resistance to a drug does not rule out the presence of reservoirs of drug-resistant virus in the infected patient.
The HIV-1 genotypic test is not a direct measure of drug resistance. Although genotypic testing can detect mutations in the relevant HIV-1 genome, the significance of these mutations requires careful interpretation to predict drug susceptibility. This assay's ability to amplify the target and detect genotypic mutations is poor and unreliable when the plasma HIV-1 viral load is <1,000 copies/mL. Specimens submitted for this test should contain > or =1,000 copies/mL of HIV-1 RNA.
This assay has been optimized for genotypic analysis and interpretation of HIV-1 group M subtype B, which are the majority of HIV-1 isolates infecting patients in the United States and Europe. The protease and reverse transcriptase gene regions examined in this assay are not well correlated with the envelope gene, which is the defining gene sequence used for subtyping. Other subtypes of group M HIV-1 have been tested and validated to a limited extent by this assay. Therefore, genotypic mutations in groups N and O, and some group M non-B subtype HIV-1 isolates may or may not be detected using this assay, and it is not known whether drug resistance mutation interpretation for group M subtype B isolates apply to these other groups and subtypes of HIV-1.
The genotypic mutation database and interpretive rules used by this commercial assay are updated periodically by the assay manufacturer. Therefore, the test results do not necessarily include all of the drug-related mutations described in the current medical literature.
Possible causes of treatment failure other than the development of drug resistance are poor adherence to medication regimen, drug potency, and individual variation in pharmacokinetics (eg, inadequate phosphorylation of nucleosides).
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
Not applicable
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Cavert W, Balfour HH: Detection of antiretroviral resistance in HIV-1. Clin Lab Med 2003;23:915-928
2. Hirsch MS, Gunthard HF, Schapiro JM, et al: Antiretroviral drug resistance testing in adult HIV-1 infection: 2008 Recommendations of an International AIDS Society-USA Panel. Clin Infect Dis 2008;47:266-285
3. Thompson MA, Aberg JA, Cahn P, et al: Antiretroviral treatment of adult HIV infection: 2010 Recommendations of the International AIDS Society-USA Panel. JAMA 2010;304:321-333


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Monday - 11/25/2013, 3:26pm EST
During the 16-day government shutdown last month, more than 14,000 Thrift Savings Plan participants withdrew money from their accounts, the highest number of hardship withdrawals in a single month ever. This may have helped participants weather the financial uncertainty of the shutdown. But, under TSP rules, it also means they'll be unable to contribute to their 401(k)-style retirement accounts for the next six months.
Now, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which oversees the TSP, is concerned that not all those participants will take the initiative to restart their contributions when the penalty period expires next spring.
All told, 14,361 TSP participants withdrew money from their accounts during the month of October, according to statistics presented at the board's monthly meeting in Washington on Monday.
The average withdrawal amount was $9,361 — about $400 higher than the average withdrawal amount, year-to-date.
In addition to tax penalties — including a 10 percent early-withdrawal tax for those younger than 59 1/2 — TSP participants are moved to an "inactive status," barred from contributing to their accounts for six months and ineligible for matching contributions from their agencies during that time. And even once that period expires, participants' contributions don't resume automatically.
'We don't always get them back'
In a normal month, getting participants who take hardship withdrawals to restart contributions is a concern for the board.
"We don't always get them back to the active status after that happens," said Renee Wilder, director of enterprise planning at Monday's meeting.
So, with a record number of withdrawals last month, TSP officials are considering a few different options.
"In the short-term, there's the communication aspect," TSP Executive Director Greg Long said.
For example, the board is able track participants who withdrew money from their accounts during the shutdown and can contact them after the six-month period expires next spring to prompt them to begin contributing again.
Longer-term, the board is also considering rewriting TSP regulations to automatically re-enroll participants after the waiting period ends.
Another consequence of last month's shutdown and budgetary uncertainty was the high volume of money that shifted into the G Fund, TSP officials said.
TSP participants moved nearly $4 billion into the G Fund during the shutdown, according to Tracey Ray, the board's chief investment officer. However, much of that money is now starting to trickle back out to the other funds now that the shutdown is over.
"It was totally clear cut that this was a result of the budget crisis," Ray said. In fact, on the last day of the shutdown alone, as negotiations to reopen federal agencies began gaining steam, participants moved some $2.2 billion out of the G Fund and back into other stock funds.
L Fund could be new default option
The board is also moving ahead with a broad plan that could make the target-date Lifecycle Funds a more prominent feature of the TSP.
Last week, the Employee Thrift Advisory Council (ETAC) gave its OK to move forward with a plan that would make an age-appropriate L Fund the default investment option when automatically enrolling new plan participants. Currently, new federal hires are automatically enrolled in the low-risk, low-reward G Fund.
The full board next month will be tasked with approving a resolution and draft legislative language that would set the stage for the move.
"This is a big step for us," Board Chairman Michael Kennedy said at Monday's meeting, "and a good first step for us."
The proposal requires congressional approval.
The ETAC also gave its blessing to a proposal to restructure the mix of investments that make up the Lifecycle Funds.
The L Funds — also known as target-date funds — are a professionally administered mix of investments from the five regular funds that automatically shift toward lower-risk funds, such as the G Fund, as participants get closer to withdrawing money from their accounts during retirement.
Last month, the consulting firm Mercer recommended the board increase the allocation of the G Fund in the Lifecycle options and increase higher-reward stock options by 5 percent over the lifespan of the funds.
Board skeptical of socially responsible fund
The TSP board also reacted Monday to recent legislation introduced by Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that would require the board to add a "Corporate Responsibility Index" to the existing five investment options available to federal employees.
In order to qualify for the index, companies would be measured in a number of areas, including corporate governance, environmental practices, workplace relations, their involvement with "repressive regimes" and their position on human rights.
The board has traditionally been reluctant to add a socially responsible investment option, however.
"There's a low participant demand for SRI funds. ... It would likely duplicate funds in the other stock funds," said Kim Weaver, the board's director of external affairs. "And most, fundamentally, The TSP does not exist to further social goals."
Last year, the Government Accountability Office studied the matter, concluding that adding a hypothetical socially responsible index fund likely wouldn't increase returns and lower volatility in the overall TSP.
Weaver said the board will be reaching out to the lawmakers who introduced the bill and their staff to share their concerns.
On the other hand, Weaver said the board is still exploring the option of adding a mutual-fund window, which would allow participants to move investments out of the TSP funds they've invested in and into a private- sector suite of mutual funds. The mutual fund option was authorized by Congress in the 2009 TSP Enhancement Act. But the decision of whether to actually create a TSP mutual-fund window was left up to the board.
Long said his staff is preparing a report on the option that will be presented to the board in the spring.
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We were thrilled to take part in 129 happy reunions last Saturday as families displaced by Hurricane Sandy came to pick up their pets from our Emergency Boarding Facility (EBF) in Brooklyn. The boarding facility has been open since November, and the effort is now coming to a close. We put out calls for pet parents to come and take their pets home.
The Goldstein family of South Freeport, Long Island, traveled to Brooklyn on Saturday to pick up their 3-year-old beagle, Captain Morgan, who had been under our care at the Emergency Boarding Facility for seven weeks. Captain Morgan's furry friend, Skylar, the Goldstein's cat, waited for Captain Morgan in the car so they could all go home together.
Jordyn Clarke of Rockaway Beach was reunited with her cat, Kary, a tortoiseshell mix, and Midnight, a pit bull mix, on Saturday. Jordyn's bungalow on the beach was destroyed, and she has found new housing in Brooklyn. Midnight is being fostered for a few days by a friend until Jordyn is settled in. Midnight's third birthday is next week, and it will be especially nice for her to be at home.
Thomas Young of Far Rockaway and his son picked up their remaining two dogs at the EBF on Saturday. They had already brought home their Shih Tzu, Prince, who, upon returning home, "went right into his kennel!" Brindle, a pit bull mix, and Venom, a mastiff, were thrilled to see each other and tumbled into the car with Young's son. "These are our kids," says Young, whose family is staying in a hotel and working to rebuild their home.
Cuddles, a young female tabby, was reunited with Shondelle Dodson, who was displaced from her home in Canarsie after Hurricane Sandy. She adopted Cuddles from the ASPCA Adoption Center in Manhattan in 2012.
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If you or someone you know is missing a pet post-Sandy, please urge them to visit the ASPCA emergency boarding facility at 1508 Herkimer St. in Brooklyn as soon as possible. Pet parents who wish to reclaim their pets from the boarding facility should call the Hurricane Sandy Pet Hotline at (347) 573-1561.
Photos: [top] Midnight and Jordyn Clarke reunited at the EBF on January 5. [bottom] Shondelle Dodson and Cuddles together again in Brooklyn, NY.
Please remember that there are people willing to foster these pets (myself included) until the families can take them home. I have left my phone number with you folks. Keep up the good work.
You guys are awesome,thank you for being these animals guardian angels and keeping them safe to get them back home,kudos to you all and God bless you.
A warning if your dog is a "food hound": I lost my 8 year old beagle, Betsy, last Saturday to pancreatitis. I controlled her feeding, so she was a good weight. But she found a tin of butter cookies that I had not put away, ate the whole container. Within a week, she lost appetite and was in the praying position when I got home Friday night. I scooped her up and took her to the vet. After 24 hours on IVs, antibiotics, she passed away at the vet's office. The doctor said her body temp had been brought back up, but by then the excess enzymes released by the pancreas was causing internal bleeding. It hurt for her to breathe. The amount of fat in the entire container of cookies caused the acute damage to the pancreas. "Food indiscretion" is the most common cause of acute pancreatitis. Survival for either animals or humans is 50% at best. I will surely miss my cuddly little beagle. My Pekingese missed her for about a day, but we are getting on better.
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Thank God for people like these who devote their time and lives to helping and saving these poor animals! It hurts me to see the fear and despair in the animals' eyes! I can't handle it! It hurts my heart!
Thank you for all you do for animals , I wish all SPCA were no kill shelter I feel there are ways of helping them without killing them. I feel the same about the commercials for the SPCA it breaks my heart so bad I leave the room I can't watch it , several years ago I was up late and the commercial was on I cried so hard I went on line and put 40 a month on my credit card it lasted up until 2 years ago things became to tight financially but I belong to other human society's no kill shelters and try helPing in other ways , rescue is a hard thing to do and see so I say thank you to all who give there time for the animals we are there voice and we will be heard.
I volunteered last week and know there are still pets that need fostering, so if you need me please let me know. Did the puppy Sandy get a caregiver?
Yes, I just wanted to say what a great and outstanding job you all have accomplished for all these families in need. I am so proud that you make it your high priority to look and provide for all these animals in need. Thanks again and keep up the great work. I wish I could do more other than donate every month, but I know that it atleast helps alittle. Tami Farley Sugarhill, GA
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Evolutionary Phonology seeks to explain why certain sound patterns have the typological distributions they do. Why are certain sound patterns extremely common, while others are rare? What factors play a role in determining similar sound patterns across languages? And what is the ultimate explanation for the striking identity between recurrent context-dependent instances of sound change and recurrent alternation types across the world's languages?
Within Evolutionary Phonology, the attempt to explain recurrent sound patterns gives equal consideration to all potential sources of similarity. As with similar biological characteristics, two languages may have similar sound patterns due to: (i) inheritance from a mother tongue; (ii) parallel evolution in the form of parallel phonetically motivated sound change; (iii) physical constraints on form & function, including innate aspects of speech perception & production, potential phonological universals, and general cognitive mechanisms; (iv) 'non-natural' or external factors (e.g. language contact, prescriptive norms, literacy, second-language learning); (v) or mere chance. This general approach to explanation in Evolutionary Phonology is rooted in the view of language as a complex adaptive system whose evolution can be usefully compared to the evolution of biological organisms.
Current research explores the form and distribution of recurrent sound patterns, and the multiple ways sound patterns can be modeled as emergent probabilistic properties, resulting from the repeated interaction of innate perceptual and articulatory biases, self- organizing properties of sound systems, and aspects of language use within a population. While new discoveries continue, the successful application of the evolutionary approach requires a comprehensive summation of qualitative and quantitative aspects of sound change.
To provide a sound empirical basis for the study of sound change, a Sound Change Database is being compiled. Its purpose is to provide a searchable database for phonologists, historical linguists, and phoneticians, as well as for general linguists interested in the nature and origins of sound patterns. In this database, regular sound changes established by experts in the historical phonology of relevant languages and language families will be compiled, and organized by phonetic origin, genealogical affiliation, general type, and other more specific attributes. For each regular sound change, there will be a summary of relevant phonetic work, as well as a summary of parallel synchronic sound patterns in the world's languages. Printed indices as well as search functions in the electronic database will allow researchers to investigate a sound change or sound pattern by general type, phonetic basis, target segment or structure, output segment or structure, as well as by language or language family. As a compendium of regular sound changes, related sound patterns, and phonetic explanations for sound patterns, the database will be valuable to those working in the traditional fields of historical linguistics, phonology, and phonetics. At the same time, the database is meant to provide an empirical basis for innovative research in phonology. Phonologists can more easily deconstruct synchronic sound patterns into natural and unnatural components, once a compendium of natural patterns exists. The database is currently under construction, and can be viewed at http://brugmann.eva.mpg.de/HPC/network
Some recent publications:
Blevins, J. 2007. Endangered sound patterns: Three perspectives on theory and description. Language Documentation and Conservation 1: 1-16.
Blevins, J. 2006. A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology (target article). Theoretical Linguistics 32:117-65.
Blevins, J. 2006. New perspectives on English sound patterns: 'Natural' and 'Unnatural' in Evolutionary Phonology. Journal of English Linguistics 34:6-25.
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- Juliette Blevins
- Sven Grawunder
- Dave Kamholz (University of California at Berkeley)
- Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona)
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|Congratulations to Our ACH Health Care Heroes Finalists
Two of our physicians have been selected as finalists for the 2012 Health Care Heroes Awards presented by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The winners will be announced by TBBJ on October 9.
Allen Root, M.D., Finalist - Lifetime Achievement Category
A pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Root has helped thousands of young patients at All Children's Hospital over the years. He has made many contributions to clinical care, endocrine research, pediatric medical education and child health policy. Dr. Root was a teacher and mentor for pediatric residents and endocrinology fellows who now practice in Florida and beyond; some now lead pediatric endocrinology programs, including in Seoul and Tel Aviv.
In 1979, Dr. Root was appointed to the State of Florida's Infant Screening Advisory Committee; at that time Florida screened only for PKU (now infants are screened for more than 40 congenital disorders). He immediately began to advocate for screening for congenital hypothyroidism, which was added in 1980 and has prevented mental retardation in thousands of Florida children since that time. He advocated for and helped establish the neonatal screening program for congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Dr. Root chaired the Infant Screening Advisory Committee for 12 years.
Dr. Root joined the USF College of Medicine in 1973, serving as professor of pediatrics, associate and vice-chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and director of the pediatric residency program. Over the years he has been honored by USF with the Distinguished Service Award, the Professorial Excellence Award and the Joanne & Charles Fishel Distinguished Scientist Award, and honored by All Children's Hospital with the Councill C. Rudolph Medical Staff Award for dedication to children's healthcare and with the establishment of the ACH Resident of the Year award and the Kuehnle Visiting Professorship in Pediatric Endocrinology - both being named in his honor.
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HOUSTON --- The Texas A&M men's and women's swimming and diving teams will compete in the Phill Hansel Invitational Thursday through Saturday in the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center of the University of Houston.
The Aggies will compete with the 19 other invited teams in both swimming and diving. Among the ranked opponents on the men's side are No. 4 Texas and No. 20 LSU. The No. 4 Aggie women will face No. 7 Texas, No. 15 UCLA, No. 17 LSU, and No. 21 Arkansas.
The A&M women are coming off an impressive win over No. 11 Florida Gators in Gainesville two weeks ago when the Aggies won 12 of 16 possible events on the way to a 196-104 win as they improved to 4-0 in dual meets this fall. Junior swimmer Breeja Larson and senior diver Rebecca St. Germain earned Southeastern Conference Swimmer and Diver of the Week for their efforts against the Gators.
The Aggie men are coming off a loss to top ranked Florida two weeks ago. The Aggies were led by the dive crew against the Gators with junior Hayden Jones posting the fifth win of the season with a victory in the 1-meter dive, and sophomre Ford McLiney, who dove for Florida State last year, grabbingg the win in the 3-meter. Junior swimmer Omar Enriquez shined for the Aggies with four top four finishes.
Teams Competing:
Houston - women
Tulane - women
Rice - women
Wyoming - both
Air Force - women
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LSU - both
Colorado State - women
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Arkansas - women
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verb \ˈrī(-ə)l\
: to make (someone) angry : to irritate or annoy (someone)
: to make (someone) very excited
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Dell's Pay it Forward initiative is conceived as a movement that harnesses the power of Dell's women's networks to positively impact the future of women's entrepreneurship. The campaign works on the premise that if each of us helps a woman business owner advance - and that woman, in turn, supports another - then we can create a global community of women supporting women and our initial efforts can be greatly amplified. By leveraging our network of around 10,000 women today, we hope to track support for 1m women entrepreneurs by the end of 2015.
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A gesture is any act that will create a positive impact for female entrepreneurship. Gestures can be large or small. Examples range from simply spending an hour with a fledgling entrepreneur to impart your wisdom, through to making a large investment in a woman's business. Gesture types include mentoring, training, volunteering, making helpful connections and introductions, donating to charities or funding a business.
How do I log a gesture?
With the launch of our new Pay it Forward site, we are introducing a more convenient way for you to share your story and track gestures. Through social media, we want to hear how you've made a positive impact on female entrepreneurship. Describe what you did and who you impacted in a simple tweet or post and include the hashtag combination #DWEN #PayitForward. By integrating a more social component into the Pay it Forward campaign, we hope the successful women of DWEN will discover more young women to support in their entrepreneurial journey.
How do I know if my gesture is relevant to Pay it Forward?
Organizations and individuals helped should be connected to women entrepreneurship. At the end of the day, it's up to you – if you think that your gesture, however small, supports women entrepreneurship, either directly or indirectly, include it!
Can you only pay it forward to the partners featured on the site?
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Why is this a good idea for me?
Many people have told us that they'd like a way to measure their own impact as it relates to female entrepreneurship. This model allows the user to set their own goals and track achievements, allowing them to each decide how and when they want to pay it forward.
Can companies log gestures?
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Can men participate?
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US stocks had a disppointing week as worries about the euro zone and the jobs front made investors hesitant to jump in.
The last session of the week on Thursday was lackluster as the major indexes ended largely unchanged after suffering some major volatility earleir in the week. Volatility may return on Monday as markets digest the latest employment numbers.
Those figures, released on Good Friday when equity markets were closed, showed a 120,000 gain in nonfarm payrolls, well below the 203,000 expected. It was the first big disappointment on the jobs front in months.
The unemployment rate, however, declined to 8.2 percent. ( CNBC Explains: Payroll vs. Unemployment Rate )
Stock futures , open on Good Friday, immediately fell, and bond yields also fell, as investors moved to the safety of bonds.
Already for the shortened week all three major averages logged their worst decline this year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 14.61, or 0.11 percent, to close at 13,060.14, declining for a third-straight session, led by Alcoa and GE .
The S&P 500 erased 0.88 points, or 0.06 percent, to finish at 1,398.08. The Nasdaq added 12.41, or 0.40 percent, to end at 3,080.50.
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Colt installed natural louvred ventilators for day to day ventilation and smoke control for Puerto Venecia Shopping Centre and Retail Park in Zaragoza.
Colt installed a series of SmokeMaster smoke curtains to prevent the movement of smoke and heat from one area to another.
Colt provided natural casement ventilators, natural glazed ventilators and natural louvred ventilators for smoke control. A solar shading system using Solar C and Solarin was also installed.
Colt supplied a ventilation system that provides shoppers with clean fresh air and a sense of openness, a reduction in the carbon footprint of the building and a cost saving of thousands of dollars per annum in mechanical air conditioning costs.
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Hey, folks. Man...it sure has been a while, hasn't it? More than six months?
My last blog on this site was back in October; afterward, I took an unofficial hiatus from the site. With most of my friends leaving the site and my own gaming writing moving on to bigger and better things, I did feel like Gamespot had become a shell of its former self. But I know there are still folks on this site, so I thought I'd check in with everyone still hanging around.
Since October, I've joined up as a staff editor for HardcoreGamer.com. After Default Prime's implosion, I took a break from the professional gaming writing for a while, but around December, I rather haphazardly applied for contribution to the site. The editor-in-chief had apparently read my work on Default Prime and wanted me on board. Since then, I contribute three articles a week and I'm also eligible for reviews. My work is getting much more exposure now; let me just say that seeing a review you wrote on Metacritic is a very special feeling.
As an editor, I've written editorial articles about breaking news and gotten to write official reviews for a number of big titles including Cel Damage HD, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z, and even Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Hardcore Gamer really fills that void left behind after leaving Default Prime, but now, I feel even more fulfilled. I have an outlet when I can offer professionally published content and people will actually read it.
Aside from that, I've done the unthinkable and rebooted my Youtube channel, PostMesmeric. After getting into a rut during the production of one episode of Vidjagames, I left that thing in a state of disarray. But since then, I've met some folks that have inspired me to fix up the old Mustang and get it working again.
My biggest progression is the debut of my Mez Play series. It's a Let's Play series, but not in the same form as something like Two Best Friends Play. It's not a full Let's Play per se; instead, each video is essentially a highlight reel of different parts of my playthrough, ones that I pick, choose and edit myself. If you've ever seen Rooster Teeth's Rage Quit or Dexter Manning's DexPlay, it's essentially in the same format as those. Since getting the channel back running, I've made five episodes of the series. I've played games like Kingdom Hearts II, Mirror's Edge, and even a browser game where you play as Kanye West on Twitter. The most recent episode of Mez Play has me playing Ecco the Dolphin. It's embedded below:
In between these smaller projects, I'm looking to start streaming on Twitch again on my channel PostMesmericGaming (tentatively planned for Monday nights) and Vidjagames is set to make a comeback as well. I also am actively involved with the channel PowehButton, which is run by a wonderful lady named Almirmiel. I contribute to a weekly podcast on her channel, and once she is able to break her addiction to Elder Scrolls Online (fat chance), we hope to return to our co-op playthrough of Borderlands 2. She sure is super, and she's a big factor in what drove me to get the channel going again. She apparently thinks my Mez Play videos are very funny. That's definitely encouraging. :)
So that's really where I am right now. My sporadic visits to Gamespot revealed to me that there are still quite a few cool folks who've stuck around through the storm of changes, and that's pretty encouraging. I can't say that I'll be contributing or updating here as often as I used to, but I wanted to just keep tabs with the Gamespot survivors and let everyone know where you can find me. I actively use Twitter, so if you want to hear me be stupid through social media, you can find me at @PostMesmeric.
Take care, everyone. :)


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Nenad Sestan MD, PhD
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Office of Student ResearchInterdepartmental Neuroscience ProgramStem Cell Center, Yale: iPSC and neural inductionCenter for RNA Science and Medicine, YaleNeurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience; Sestan LabGenetics | Psychiatry
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- Shim S, Kwan KY, Li M, Lefebvre V, Sestan N (2012) Cis-regulatory control of corticospinal system development and evolution. Nature 86, 74-79.
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GREENVILLE - Two minor children were hospitalized after striking a semi Wednesday evening near Greenville.
According to an officer on the scene, just before 7 p.m. a Honda Civic struck a semi at the intersection of US 36 East and State Route 571 just outside the Greenville city limits. Both vehicles were westbound on US 36 as the Honda reportedly struck the rear of the semi as it slowed to turn onto the ramp to US 127 northbound.
Two minor children from the Honda were transported to Wayne HealthCare before being taken to Childrens Medical Center where their condition is unreported, the male driver refused transport after he was treated at the scene. The driver of the semi was not injured.
The crash remains under investigation with the Greenville Police Department and the Darke County Sheriff's Office.


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TOLEDO, Ohio – The Miami University women's basketball team suffered through a tough shooting night as Toledo took a 68-52 victory on Sunday. The RedHawks fall to 4-10 overall and 0-3 in the Mid-American Conference. The Rockets improve to 7-7 overall and 2-1 in the MAC.
After scoring 248 points in its previous three games, a strong defensive effort by Toledo held Miami to 14-for-46 (30.4 percent) shooting for the contest. The Red and White had a strong performance from the free throw line, finishing 19-for-22 (86.4 percent). Sophomore forward Jessica Rupright led the 'Hawks with nine points.
Freshman forward Nicole Anderson drained a jumper, while senior guard Haley Robertson followed with a three-pointer, but Toledo opened an early 6-5 lead at the 16:40 mark. Miami's shot went cold as it was only able to hit jumper by sophomore forward Hannah McCue over the next 10 minutes. During that stretch the Rockets were able to expand their lead to 21-7.
Buckets from senior center Kelsey Simon and freshman guard Jillian Spurlock got the RedHawk offense going again. A basket from senior guard Hannah Robertson cut the lead to 30-15 with 2:29 to go. Toledo pushed the advantage to 20 at 35-15, but the RedHawks closed the half with a pair of free throws from senior forward Erica Almady and four more from the charity stripe by junior guard Courtney Larson to cut the deficit to 16 going into the break at 37-21.
Miami shot 6-for-23 (26.1 percent) during the first half, while the Rockets shot 13-for-27 (48.1 percent). Almady led the RedHawks with six points after going a perfect 6-for-6 from the line.
A three-pointer by junior guard Kindsay Brandt made it 45-27 with 16:18 remaining in the game. The Rockets responded with a 10-5 run to push the lead to 55-32 before Rupright answered with a jumper and a three-pointer. Hannah Robertson followed with five straight points of her own to make it 62-42 with 3:54 remaining. Three-pointers by Spurlock and sophomore guard Maddie McCallie helped the RedHawks close on a 10-6 run as the Rockets took a 68-52 win.
In addition to Rupright's nine points, Hannah Robertson and Brandt each had seven. Almady finished with six points. Toledo had a slight, 37-35, advantage in rebounds.
Miami returns home on Wednesday when it welcomes Akron for a 7 p.m. game. Tim Bray has the call and it can be seen live on Miami All-Access for those who have a subscription.


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