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The next day at the bar, things seem to be alright between John and Gloria again.

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FINE. All of them for EVA. Jerk

NO U. aight i’m gonna answer these for the start of chapter 6, two weeks from the end of chapter 5. 

zinc white; how are you really feeling today? no one-word answers please! 

ready to kick ass, make the most of her work day, determined for upcoming regionals and exams. nothing is yet to trouble her.  

cadmium yellow; when you think of the word “happy” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? 

the faces of her family. they are what she loves most in the world. 

lemon; what’s your comfort food?

in winter, her mom makes rich and creamy soups with veggies from the garden. pair that with soft buns fresh from the oven, and it’s guaranteed to comfort eva on the coldest and dreariest days.  

hansa yellow; what’s your guilty pleasure song? 

classic justin timberlake songs, like cry me a river. 

yellow ochre; name an artist/band whom you just discovered & can’t get enough of! 

just yesterday i found a new one for eva, an electronic artist named kloud. there’s one song in particular, humans, the lyrics and intense beat of which she’s super vibing with.    

naples yellow; where do you feel most at home?

the family villa in malibu. cherry and gabriel made sure to raise their children in a happy, secure, peaceful home. no repeat of their own turbulent and traumatic childhoods. 

raw sienna; with whom do you feel most at home?

again, her family. 

golden ochre; describe the relationship you have with your closest friend. 

eva doesn’t have a best friend. all the people she’s really close to are members of her family. she’s always been far too ballet-focused to maintain deep relationships with anyone outside of her family. however, she’s now growing very comfortable with sasha, piper, misha, and mako. they’re all quite bantery with each other. 

golden deep; what’s your favorite season? 

summer. always. 

cadmium orange; what do you like to do on your days off? 

her day off is sunday. currently — she wakes up at 8:30, has a slow breakfast with piper in the cafe, checks in with the academy physiotherapist at 11:00, and the rest of the day is loosely scheduled for gym, procrastinating maths homework, kickboxing, visiting family, playing her guitar, or watching netflix.   

orange lake; do you have anyone you can turn to when you’re sad? 

she has a super strong support system in all her family members, but her mom in particular. cherry is always checking up by call whether her daughter is happy and healthy. 

titans; do you prefer slow mornings or relaxing evenings? 

slow mornings. eva can’t wake up before eight, and if she’s forced to, she’ll get cranky. she wakes up when the sun does. 

shakhnazaryan red; are you currently binge-watching anything? 

not binging, but she’s slowly working through sex education on netflix. 

red ochre; are you more right-brained (creative) or left-brained (analytical)? 

right-brained. she can’t analyse for shit, unless she’s working something out using empathy and emotional intelligence. like misha, in that sense. 

burnt sienna; is there a painting that brings you peace when you look at it? 

she’s not one to enjoy the silent purity of art galleries. she prefers to explore nature and breathe in the ever-changing beauty of the earth. the sight of the sea always brings her peace. 

english red; what animal do you relate to most? 

probably a dumb but very cute and energetic dog.

vermilion; what’s your favorite accent?

scottish? she finds limmy’s show hilarious.  

cadmium red; do you have a “type” when it comes to a significant other? 

for summer boyfriends: hot surfer boys, tall and athletic, that have a big smile and laugh, laidback yet adventurous, sunkissed with messy sea-salted hair. in other words, mako ain’t it. for a significant other: she hasn’t thought about it. a serious romantic relationship is not in her interest for now.  

scarlet; describe your current crush/es. 

no crushes. or at least, she hasn’t realised she has one yet. hehe.  

ruby; what does your ideal first date look like? 

eva doesn’t actually go on proper dates. she can’t be bothered with awkward conversations and formalities. she might grab an icecream with a guy, surf and play sports, or go to a bonfire beach party together.    

carmine; what does your ideal second date look like? 

hook up with him, i guess. 

madder lake red; would you ever kiss someone (or accept a kiss) on a first date? 

if it isn’t clear by now, eva gives absolutely zero fucks about traditions or ‘rules’ around dating. her relationships are in friend-with-benefits territory, and she goes straight for what she wants.

rose; what’s something really positive going on in your life right now?

the family puppy, senor papperino. her siblings send her a million pictures of him as he grows up. a bittersweet joy.  

quinacridone rose; what’s something you’re really looking forward to?

her cousin amaya is getting married to amir next year, a spring wedding in the sonoran desert. eva’s helping her with the planning and dress design, which lilith is to create.     

violet rose; what does your dream house look like? 

a simple beach house, warm with natural light, that sits gently in nature. small, because her time spent inside is minimal. she really isn’t impressed with flashy luxuries.  

violet; is there any place in particular you’d like to settle down? 

a place right by the beach. she loves malibu and would want to stay close to her family. 

blue lake; what would you like to do/accomplish before you settle down? 

honestly, ‘settling down’ is something she’s barely thought about. she’s going to dance professionally as long as she can, maybe become a teacher like darcy, and explore her other passions, like surfing and environmental conservation. the traditional concept of marrying then having children is one that she feels may happen to her naturally, rather than she HAS to settle down at a specific point in her life. it’s just not on her priority list. 

cobalt blue spectral; what is the most beautiful place you have ever been to?

the most beautiful place in the world in eva’s mind is the garden at her family home, which blooms with dandelion clocks in summer, full of fruit trees, and is right by her favourite beach. her happiest childhood memories lie there. 

ultramarine; when was the last time you were in a good mood? do you know/remember what sparked it? 

at the moment, eva’s always in a good mood, because she’s in a place where she’s working at her greatest passion everyday. she’s friends with mako now, so the only person that could really put her in a bad mood is vicky. 

blue; what’s the most recent dream you remember? 

she can’t remember any of her dreams. 

bright blue; what does your dream family look like? any kids or pets? how many of each? 

since eva doesn’t really care about getting married, that hasn’t crossed her mind. she already has a broad, loving, ‘dream’ family, and her siblings are bound to have kids, so she doesn’t feel any pressure. she would be perfectly happy spending time with her nieces/nephews instead. a cute dog is a definite, though, probably another golden retriever.  

blue cobalt; do you like your name? would you give yourself a different name if you could? 

evangeline’s named after one of the strongest women in her life. she’s proud to have inherited the name, and hopes to live up to it.  

prussian azure; what’s your favorite scent? 

grapefruit, sea salt. 

azure blue; what’s your favorite type of tea, if any?

she’s a coffee person, but in summer, her mom likes to brew iced tea with fruits and herbs from the garden, which eva loves. 

turquoise blue; if you could start a garden, what would you plant?

lots of citrus trees. plants that can grow wild and thrive on their own. 

cerulean blue; if you were guaranteed to have a viewership, would you start a youtube vlog? 

i can picture eva vlogging, but in reality she’s too busy dancing for that shit. she prefers to live her life off screen, grounded in her reality.  

glauconite; describe your body without using any negative adjectives.

“jacked as fuck”

yellow green; picture yourself walking in a field. what do you see & hear in this scenario?

a field of tiny wildflowers on the dry coastal hills of malibu. the sun is burning bright, the sea is crashing against the beaches below, the wind is pulling wild at her hair. 

green light; are you in a comfortable place in life? if not, what do you think might make it better?

eva’s always striving to be more than just comfortable. her ambition means she’s already achieved an impressive amount in life, and she’s happy with how she’s moving along, but she’s forever shooting for the stars. 

green; name three countries you want to visit; do you have any actual plans in place to visit any of them?

she can’t afford to travel at the moment but hawaii, spain, greece.  

emerald green; do you speak any languages besides english? are there any additional languages you want to learn? 

a tiny bit of spanish, korean, and german from gabriel, but nowhere near fluently. she would like to improve her skills in those languages if she has the time.  

oxide of chromium; what’s your favorite book?

eva isn’t bookish. she just can’t sit still long enough. when she was a kid, she did love the magic slipper series, written by one of the prima ballerinas she idolises. 

olive green; are you currently reading anything? how do you like it so far?

her calculus textbook. she wants to set it on fire.  

mars brown; what’s a movie that always puts a smile on your face/makes you laugh? 

she likes cheesy 90s era movies. she’s the man always makes her laugh. 

burnt umber; what’s something you plan to do before the day is over to take care of yourself?

an ice bath and self massage for her legs, if pointe work is particularly intense, treat any new blisters or bleeding on her feet. typical ballet things. 

umber; have you drank enough water today? 

eva is always mindful to drink eight cups of water per day. 

voronezhskaya black; what or who is your go-to outlet for when you need to vent? 

amaya. she listens coolly, and provides helpful commentary. a few weeks ago, eva vented to her about mako and how much of an ‘arrogant ass’ her partner is. after she finished letting off steam, amaya asked her what the exact reasons for disliking him were, which helped eva realise her own stubbornness, haha. 

sepia; name five things that always make you happy.

perfect surf waves, a hug from her parents, adding a new piece of jewellery to her minimal gold collection, warm sunny weather, camping with her siblings.     

indigo; what’s the best/sweetest compliment you have ever received?

she’s received a lot of ‘you’re pretty’ type compliments from guys over the years, but what makes her happiest is compliments about her dancing, particularly from professionals. 

payne’s gray; describe your aesthetic? 

summer beach chick, relaxed shades of sea blue and white froth, minimalist, with a rough edge.   

black; post a selfie because you are so beautiful!

nah i’m too lazy to open the game at the moment. anyway, eva doesn’t really take selfies by herself, since she’s not that active on social media. 

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Deshpande Center and J-WAFS announce fall 2017 research grants

The MIT Deshpande Centre for Technological Innovation announced currently the award of $768,000 in grants to 17 MIT research groups at the moment performing on early-phase technologies. The Deshpande Centre also manages the J-WAFS Remedies program for the Abdul Latif Jameel Environment Water and Food Safety Lab, which awarded $675,000 in project funding to 5 groups. This year’s tasks span a wide array of regions, including drug shipping and delivery, electricity, 3-D printing, health-related gadget, shows, and info communications.

The Deshpande Centre was recognized in 2002 via a present from Desh and Jaishree Deshpande. Given that its inception, the middle has supplied around $17,000,000 in grants to much more than 143 MIT research tasks. It serves as a catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting primary-edge research and bridging the gap concerning the laboratory and market. Thirty-four tasks have spun out of the middle as impartial startups, possessing collectively elevated around $700 million in exterior financing.

Funded via a research partnership with Community Jameel (the social business arm of Abdul Latif Jameel Enterprises) and administered in partnership with the MIT Deshpande Centre, the J-WAFS Remedies application aims to enable MIT faculty and college students commercialize breakthrough technologies and inventions by transforming suggestions into items and spinoff corporations that have a transformational effect on water and food items systems around the globe. The application supports tasks that bring tangible economic and societal positive aspects to the communities the place they are deployed.

“Projects funded by the Deshpande Centre and J-WAFS have massive potential to make an impression on our high quality of life,” suggests Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the University of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science. “The assist these packages give to move essential research to commercially viable technologies is critically crucial to the impression these suggestions will have in the world.”

2017 Deshpande Centre grant recipients:

“Structured Nucleic Acid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Supply System” — Mark Bathe, Darrell Irvine, and Feng Zhang with Remi Veneziano and Matthew Stone

Specific, successful shipping and delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics is just one of the most significant present bottlenecks to the therapy of human ailments. This project will translate structured nucleic acid nanoparticles to the clinic by presenting entire artificial control around the chemical composition of the shipping and delivery motor vehicle, homogeneous and reproducible composition, and variable vector conjugation for targeting therapeutic nucleic acid and little molecule payloads to diverse cells and tissues. 

“Sound-State Color Pixel for E-Paper Shows” — Geoff Seashore with Mantao Huang

E-paper consumes small power and is much more at ease to examine than light-emitting shows. Nonetheless, present technologies use fluid-based cells with reasonably slow update pace and large cell dimension, which boundaries the pixel density and display screen resolution. This project will create a engineering for a very simple colour pixel composition that will ease fabrication and decreased power consumption and expense, although offering substantial resolution and compatibility with adaptable substrates.  

“Energetic Structural Batteries” (renewal from 2016) — Angela Belcher with Alan Ransil

Presently 60-90% of the weight of the battery package deal in an electric powered motor vehicle or an unmanned aerial motor vehicle is inactive and  does not add to electricity storage. This project is building a structural technique to construct motor vehicle components from supplies that do contribute to electricity storage, which will enable electrical cars with extended battery lifetimes.

“Productive Drug Discovery Screening” (renewal from 2016) — Paul Blainey with Anthony Kulesa and Jared Kehe

In the United States, antibiotic-resistant infections cause more than 23,000 fatalities and $20-35 billion in direct wellness care charges. Modern-day biology implies that combinations of medications are much more successful than a solitary antibiotic, even so, screening all combinations is an intractable problem. This project plans to bring combinatorial discovery in just achieve by reducing charges and increasing throughput much more than sixfold around the present condition-of-the-art. 

“Convection Increased Electrochemical Energy Storage” (renewal from 2016) — Fikile Brushett with Thomas Carney

Modern-day enclosed rechargeable batteries are commonly constrained in general performance mainly because inactive components occupy a the greater part of the battery weight and volume, primary to decreased electricity densities and better charges. This project aims to create a new electricity storage thought — a convection-enhanced rechargeable battery that overcomes the diffusive transport losses, primary to better electricity density, decreased expense, and safer operation.  

“Regional Drug Supply for Facilitating Expedited Urinary Stone Passage” — Michael Cima with Christopher Lee and Brian Eisner

Around 12 % of adult men and 5 % of women will experience at the very least just one symptomatic urinary stone by age 70. Stones when lodged in the ureter outcome in serious ache, nausea, vomiting, unexpected emergency room visits, skipped perform, and, for some, surgical procedure to clear away stones that are unsuccessful to pass. Around 3.1 million workdays are misplaced and $5.3 billion in expense is incurred treating stones in the U.S., per year. This project will create a regionally delivered, outpatient-based treatment presenting expedited stone passage. 

“Non-Invasive Hydration Sensor for Elderly Treatment” — Luca Daniel and Martha Gray with Ian Butterworth 

Specially in more mature individuals, dehydration is the spark that can initiate dire scientific outcomes, including falls, kidney failure, and elevated infections. These could be prevented by oral rehydration, but presently, folks and caregivers generally really don’t know they are dehydrated until eventually it is too late. This project is building a new sensor that can offer actionable info about hydration status.

“Bedside Screening of Coagulation Perform and Biomarkers” (renewal from 2016) — James Fox with Galit Frydman

Quite a few ailments disrupt the equilibrium in our blood coagulation system and outcome in life-threatening bleeding and clotting functions. While there have been quite a few new anticoagulant medications, the absence of well timed testing for these new medications is a essential limiting factor. This project is building speedy, bedside blood diagnostics and drug checking capabilities to be examine in under 10 minutes. 

“Non-invasive White Mobile Count Prototype” (renewal from 2016) — Martha Gray with Carlos Castro-Gonzalez

Numerous chemotherapy regimens yield much better survival when administered with better frequency and dose. Nonetheless, mainly because chemotherapy administration can only be provided when there is an enough white blood cell rely (to confer the skill to struggle infection) the normal therapy is conservatively established at a decreased frequency and dose. This project is to create a noninvasive white blood cell exam that permits much much more regular measurement, thus enabling physicians to personalize chemotherapy organizing and increase the efficacy and security of the all round therapy.

“Micro fabricated Polymer Biomaterials for Maximizing 3-D Tissue Society Platforms” — Linda Griffith and Paula Hammond with Marianna Sofman

There is increasing curiosity to create much more physiologically relevant 3-D tissue society systems for enhanced disorder modeling as properly as extended-term drug toxicity screening. This project will create polymer microparticles with customizable biophysical and biochemical houses that can be developed to accommodate cells’ society demands.  

“Digital 3-D Printing of Microparticles” — John Hart with Justin Beroz and Ulrich Muecke 

On-demand from customers generation, specially for elaborate and substantial benefit elements, would be useful to quite a few industries. Additive production processes broadly aim to enable this even so, condition-of-the-art procedures can not achieve the dimensional resolution and floor finish expected for quite a few precision applications. This project will create a new direct-write printing engineering, to enable substantial resolution multi-product deposition, at speeds comparable to inkjet printing. 

“Engineered Protein Treatment plans for Hair Maintenance and Lengthy-Long lasting Color Retention” — Bradley Olsen with Sieun Kim and Lavinia Popescou 

Recurring washing, drying, straightening, and dyeing of hair breaks the protective cuticle and damages the hair. Treatment method with lipids guards the hair floor and helps make it less complicated to comb, but is conveniently eliminated by shampooing. Olsen’s lab is poised to develop novel polymer-based engineering that binds to the hair, offering persistent bioactives that shield the cuticle and fix damage on a wide array of hair types.

“Very low-expense Spectroscopy Remedies for Raman Sensing and Outside of” — Rajeev Ram with Atabaki Amir

The expense and dimension of substantial-general performance spectroscopy instruments generally boundaries their application. This project leverages recent developments in photonic integration and in picture sensors to reconstruct optical spectra. Together, these technologies will construct systems that have 100 times greater sensitivity at comparable spectral resolution, and one-tenth the cost of supplies. 

“Mucin-inspired Brokers to Control Infections” (renewal from 2016) — Katharina Ribbeck with Kelsey Wheeler and Bradley Turner

The global increase of antibiotic resistance provides a obvious threat and urges the development of revolutionary methods to address and prevent infections. This mucin-inspired project will enable nutritious microbe variety by building a artificial microbe-taming barrier to microbial infections. 

“Engineered Binding Proteins as Replacements for Antibodies in Immunoassays: — Hadley Sikes with Eric Miller and Ki Joo Sung

Protein biomarkers can be made use of to indicate disease and personal injury in human beings and in organisms that are consumed as food items. Assay enhancement is constrained by the availability of substantial-high quality binding molecules, typically antibodies, with correct specificity for their focus on. This project plans to change antibodies in diagnostic exams with engineered binders for speedier enhancement timelines and enhanced general performance. 

“Optically Clear Thermally Insulating Retrofits for Solitary-pane Home windows: — Evelyn Wang, Gang Chen, and Xuanhe Zhao with Elise Strobach and Bikram Bhatia

Solitary-pane windows are the most electricity inefficient ingredient of our buildings, accounting for about $12 billion per year thanks to substantial warmth losses. While more recent installations generally consist of electricity successful multi-pane windows, solitary-panes are becoming phased out at a level of only 2 percent per calendar year mainly because of substantial substitute expense. This project will create retrofits with the thermal general performance of air-filled double-pane glazing and transparency as superior as glass, with small weight addition and, nominal put in expense. 

“Digital Equipment for In-Subject Information Selection” (renewal from 2016) — Chris Zegras with Daniel Heriberto Palencia Arreola

New digital tools will offer an straightforward-to-deploy, straightforward-to-handle, low-expense, cloud-based, subject info collecting system, leveraging smartphone engineering. The system usually takes the complexity out of the design of digitally based info collection, enabling buyers to immediately established up tasks that enable an unlimited variety of mobile gadgets to upload info to the cloud. 

Drop 2017 J-WAFS Remedies grant recipients:

“Creating Clever Selective Electrodialysis for 21st Century Agriculture” — John Lienhard with Kishor Nayar and Amit Kumar

This project seeks  to increase agricultural tactics and crop yield, specially for hydroponic growers. The crew is building a system named Clever Selective Electrodialysis (ISED) to minimize water salinity. ISED selectively removes  ions  harmful to crops and retains those that are useful, an improvement around present reverse osmosis desalination processes. 

“Reducing Runoff and Environmental Impact of Agricultural Sprays” — Kripa Varanasi with Maher Damak

This project is building novel spray formulations to increase the application of agricultural pesticides. These new formulations enable the pesticide  drops to adhere much better to leaf and fruit surfaces without having bouncing or rolling off, thus decreasing the volume of pesticide application and limiting  pollution of soils, floor water, and groundwater.  

“Subject-scale Good quality Assurance in India’s Dairy Field” — Sanjay Sarma with Pranay Jain

Milk procurement in India’s dairy sector is complicated, uncontrolled, and susceptible to tampering. The security and high quality of milk items are difficult to handle. To ensure genuine-time control throughout the dairy sector source chain — from farmers  to collection facilities  to processing plants, this project will create a handheld gadget that can inexpensively exam the high quality of milk by measuring milk fat and protein.   

“Enhancement of Very low-Charge Water Filter Applying Sapwood Xylem” (renewal from 2016) — Rohit Karnik with Megha Hedge, Kendra Leith, Luda Wang, Malavika Chauhan and Krithika Ramchander 

This project explores a novel technique to handle the largely unmet will need for offering secure and cost-effective ingesting water to low-profits teams by building low-expense water filters that use the pure filtration capabilities of xylem tissue in wood. The project will validate filtration general performance in the lab and in the subject, although also examining the usability, desirability, and affordability of low-expense filters and devising a technique for nearby manufacture and commercialization. Filtration gadgets created from this product could be low-expense household water filters in building countries or could be distributed by reduction businesses anywhere in the world in emergencies. 

“Fast Detection of Pathogenic Microorganisms” (renewal from 2016) — Tim Swager and Alex Klibanov with Myles Herbert, Kent Harvey and Qifan Zhang

Foodborne ailments can lead to human struggling, pricey health-related treatment options, lawsuits, federal government sanctions, products recollects, tarnished corporate reputations, and from time to time even death. This project will create an inexpensive biosensor ready to rapidly detect numerous types of pathogenic germs in food items and water to prevent prevalent infection. 

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Zelda heads out to meet some new Sims.

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Disaster strikes as the store proves so popular that the queue to the cash register after closing actually blocks the cashier from reaching said register...

Oh well.

Still a good day for Gloria. She's finally earned that elusive Bronze Stocking Badge!

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Another successful day at the Grocery Store.

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Used some familiar faces to fill up that townie pool. Changed some names.

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