#interaction: g. bianchi

[gathersroses]

@whatsbehindthefacade / velma sent: i thought i knew what to do, but i don't.

most of the girls and jets don't come from good families. she can't name one of them that doesn't seem to have some problem in their home life. it's things like that keeping grazie awake at night. she can't always keep her girls safe. some nights she has tessie or baby john or one of the younger girls or jets sleeping in her bed while she took the floor. if she could keep them save even for one night, that was one night they were safe. velma feels responsible to take care of her younger brothers, but some days where she showed up more bruised than fair, she was tempted to beg her to stay the night at her place.

❝ hey you know my offer's always open to come to my place, right? bring your brothers with you. i've fit at least five kids in my apartment at once and we all slept comfortably. i can fit them. all of you. ❞ her apartment is cramped as it is, but graziella can't care about being comfortable when she knows her girls are getting hurt. they're in lot worse situations than she is. ❝ gonna keep you safe, that's what we gonna do. ❞ she reaches over to squeeze velma's hand. ❝ get the kids and come over. ❞

[neomemery]

KHR Questions for OCs and Muses

Send in letters to ask questions. Get to know your fellow muses and OCs better! All questions relate to the world of Katekyo Hitman Reborn! I have permission from @byakuwan to repost this meme, original can be found here: [x]

A: what happens if they get shot in the forehead with the dying will bullet?

B: what team would they be on in the rainbow representative arc...

C: would they be able to protect enma from bullies in a high school AU.

D: would they like or dislike interacting with cervello.

E: what flame type would they have in an AU where they have a different one?

F: what happens when you apply the 10-Year Bazooka directly to their forehead...

G: would they do well in school if you put their memories of their future arc self into their current/present self. (if they already are, what % are they on tests?)

H: how well/decently/poorly would their life go if they were genuinely lambo and i-pin's age.

I: what would they hate the most to have as a box animal. or a different one.

J: black spell or white spell in millefiore?

K: disciplinary committee or liquidation committee?

L: what if YOUR character had the sky mare ring instead of byakuran. what would they do with it.

M: make them a leader regardless of their actual role and give them 6 guardians of any type, any characters. (you can do this monotype or 2 types or whatever you want... think of this like making a pokemon team if you want a metaphor.)

N: would they willingly be part of vindice?

O: would they notice if someone is subtly using flames with objects just doing something they normally do?

P: what are the ranks they'd be #1 in if you had fuuta ask the ranking planet?

Q: would they ever try bianchi's cooking.

R: if they got Skullitis... what deep, dark secrets come out... ?

S: what if they fail miserably doing something they usually can do just fine with their flames... what would it be. what would happen.

T: would they be helpful if they went to help kyoko and/or haru with chores...

U: would they also keep non-mafia people they care for/are close to aware of anything major or dangerous happening?

V: what IS their dying will? do they have anything they'd regret to the point of not dying?

W: if spanner custom-made them their dream moska, what would it do? (does it help them out? does it look cool?)

X: if they had a rough equivalent of the Vongola Gear, what would it do too?

Y: would they have any way to defeat Ghost?

Z: ... would you trust them with any piece of the trinisette.

[queenharumiura]

my url for the house rules for our muses, pick any muse of mine you've interacted with for it.

SEND ME A URL AND I’LL POST 10 HOUSE RULES THEIR MUSE AND MINE WOULD HAVE IF THEY LIVED TOGETHER ||Accepting|| @whiskeysmulti

Haru and Gokudera

As a safety precaution, anyone who is coming over for the first time, they have to be vetted first, as to make sure that they aren't going to be a danger. It came about because Haru has a trusting nature and she may very well make a friend with an enemy and be like, 'would you like to come over for some tea?' New people must be vetted first.

Absolutely do not stain the bedsheets or the rugs with blood. There is a tarp tucked away in the side closet to discard bloodied items onto before anyone can walk inside. Blood stains are a pain to get out, after all.

No smoking allowed inside, take that outside.

No indoor shoes inside. Wear inside slippers. The day she finds mud on the floors, she's making someone clean with a toothbrush.

No Lambo bullying allowed. Be nice!

Bianchi's cooking isn't allowed past the front door. Nothing can be done if it's food that Bianchi herself brought over or cooked while over. (It's a losing battle to tell Bianchi to leave her cooked food behind. She'll shove it down your throat)

Assuming Gokudera does a lot of dynamite maintenance, all of that dangerous mafia business has to be conducted in one room only. It should be locked if he's not in there. This is to ensure no one else can go in to tamper with anything and on the off chance her parents visit, she doesn't want to explain 'oh yeah Gokudera carries them around with him all the time'.

No loud fighting allowed after 8pm. Be considerate of neighbors. Whispered fighting is fine.

Unspoken rule: After a fight, there will always be a cuddling session, because it's nice to have a sense of validation that things are okay even after a fight no matter how big or small.

Unspoken rule: Can't leave without a goodbye hug/kiss from Haru. It's illegal. Wake her up, she doesn't care.

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Trying my hand at Fiore and G [stopping at 5 bc this is harder than it seems!]

Any firearms should be properly stored away once inside to prevent anyone else from taking it and firing it. It's mostly a safety thing, especially for if kids are ever involved. Fiore won't risk the safety of children.

If you leave the home, leave a note stating where you'll be and with who if you're meeting someone. This is mostly to ensure that G can find Fiore if she's late. She's probably in trouble (again), or she got lost (again).

Unspoken rule: If working late into the night, the moment you hear crickets, off to bed with you.

At the dinning table, there is no place for work. Fiore really appreciates spending time with someone, like quality time. Eating together is a good time for that, so she disallows any work/business to be done while at the dinning table.

Home is not Daemon friendly, as i'm sure if they started living together it's post-betrayal. I feel like she wouldn't have been told the history behind what happened, so she's just told don't let this guy in for anything. Don't trust him.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Reviews for Week 24, 2022

Surface-based hippocampal subfield segmentation. DeKraker, J., Köhler, S., & Khan, A. R. (2021). Trends in Neurosciences, 44(11), 856–863.

Cancer as a homeostatic challenge: the role of the hypothalamus. Francis, N., & Borniger, J. C. (2021). Trends in Neurosciences, 44(11), 903–914.

Deep entorhinal cortex: from circuit organization to spatial cognition and memory. Gerlei, K. Z., Brown, C. M., Sürmeli, G., & Nolan, M. F. (2021). Trends in Neurosciences, 44(11), 876–887.

The interaction between motion and texture in the sense of touch. Ryan, C. P., Bettelani, G. C., Ciotti, S., Parise, C., Moscatelli, A., & Bianchi, M. (2021). Journal of Neurophysiology, 126(4), 1375–1390.

[oberlinsciencelibrary]

Celebrate International Women’s Day by reading a book by a woman scientist!

Our recommendation:  Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder’s “curious journal through our cosmic family tree,” Astroquizzical; a “quirky guide to how things work in the universe.”

Scientists are more likely to publish research articles than monographs, of course.  As indexed in the Web of Science, there are nearly 35 articles published in the past three years by Oberlin College scientists who identify as female.  This is not an exhaustive list by any means, and it’s impressive to see the breadth of research.�� 

Articles are listed after the break, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the first author; faculty names are show in bold font.

                                                            ------ Publications by Oberlin College Women in Science 2018-2020: limited to current faculty/recent emerita in the departments of biology, chemistry and biochemistry, geology, neuroscience, physics and astronomy.

Bailey, H.D., A.B. Mullaney, K.D. Gibney, and Leslie D. Kwakye. 2018. Audiovisual integration varies with target and environment richness in immersive virtual reality. Multisensory Research 31:689-713.

Barald, K.F., Y.C. Shen, Lynne M. Bianchi.  2018.  Chemokines and cytokines on the neuroimmunoaxis: Inner ear neurotrophic cytokines in development and disease. Prospects for repair? Experimental Neurology 301:92-99.

Bell, E.W., E.J. Zheng, Lisa M. Ryno. 2018. Identification of inhibitors of the E. coli chaperone SurA using in silico and in vitro techniques.  Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 28: 3540-3548.

Bianchi, Lynne. 2018.  Developmental Neurobiology.  Garland Science, Taylor and Francis Group. 345p.

Bohm-Levine, N., A. R. Goldberg, Monica Mariani, M. Frankfurt, and Janice Thornton. 2020. Reducing luteinizing hormone levels after ovariectomy improves spatial memory: Possible role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Hormones and Behavior 118:104590.

Ceperley, Elizabeth G., et al. 2020. Widespread early Holocene deglaciation, Washington Land, northwest Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 231:106181.

Drabeck, D. H., A. Rucavado, E. Hingst-Zaher, Yolanda P. Cruz, A. M. Dean, and S. A. Jansa. 2020. Resistance of South American opossums to vWF-binding venom C-type lectins. Toxicon 178:92-99.

Edwards, J., Marta Laskowski, T. I. Baskin, N. Mitchell, and B. DeMeo. 2019. The role of water in fast plant movements. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:1525-1534.

Ellison, S. L., M. D. Thorp, L. Lin, H. Pan, A. F. L. Bluck, Jillian M. Scudder, H. Teimoorinia, S. F. Sanchez, and M. Sargent. 2020. The ALMaQUEST survey - III. Scatter in the resolved star-forming main sequence is primarily due to variations in star formation efficiency. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493:L39-L43.

Ellison, S. L., M. D. Thorp, H. Pan, L. Lin, Jillian M. Scudder, A. F. L. Bluck, S. F. Sanchez, and M. Sargent. 2020. The ALMaQUEST Survey II. What drives central starbursts at z ti 0? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492:6027-6041.

Garvin, Mary C., et al. 2020. A survey of trace metal burdens in increment cores from eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) across a childhood cancer cluster, Sandusky County, OH, USA. Chemosphere 238:124528.

Garvin, Mary C., et al. 2018. Attraction of Culex pipiens to house sparrows Is influenced by host age but not uropygial gland secretions.  Insects 9: article 127.

Garvin, Mary C., et al. 2018. Attraction of Culex pipiens to uropygial gland secretions does not explain feeding preference for American robins. Journal of Vector Ecology 43:110-116.

Hammer, A. C., X. Jia, M. Zeller, E. J. Coughlin, W. Zhang, and Catherine M. Oertel. 2020. Ligand geometry directs the packing and symmetry of one-dimensional helical motifs in lead oxide naphthoates and biphenylcarboxylates. Crystengcomm 22:6465-6477.

Hillis, D.M., M.V. Price, R.W. Hill, D.W. Hall, Marta J. Laskowski. 2019. Principles of Life, 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates; Macmillan. 1050p.

Ijiri, Yumi, et al. 2019. Correlated spin canting in ordered core-shell Fe3O4/MnxFe3-xO4 nanoparticle assemblies. Physical Review B 99:094421.

Kamhi, J. Frances, A.B. Barron, A. Narendra. 2020. Vertical lobes of the mushroom bodies are essential for view-based navigation in Australian Myrmecia ants. Current Biology 30:3432+

Krycka, K.L. ...Yumi Ijiri, et al. 2018. Spin waves across three-dimensional, close-packed nanoparticles.  New Journal of Physics 20: article 123020.

Mariani, Monica M., K. Mojziszek, E. Curley, and Janice E. Thornton. 2020. Lowering luteinizing hormone (LH) reverses spatial memory deficits associated with neurotoxin infusion into the hippocampus of ovx rats. Hormones and behavior 119:article 104631.

McCormick, Catherine A. 2019. Immunocytochemical evidence for electrical synapses in the dorsal descending and dorsal snterior octaval nuclei in the Goldfish, Carassius auratus. Brain Behavior and Evolution 93:34-39

Oberdick, S.D., ...Yumi Ijiri, et al. 2018. Spin canting across core/shell Fe3O4/MnxFe3-xO4 nanoparticles. Scientific Reports 8:3425

Paine, Tracie A., S. Chang, and R. Poyle. 2020. Contribution of GABA(A) receptor subunits to attention and social behavior. Behavioural brain research 378:112261.

Pan, H., L. Lin, B. Hsieh, T. Xiao, Y. Gao, S. L. Ellison, Jillian M. Scudder, et al. 2018. The effect of galaxy interactions on molecular gas properties. Astrophysical Journal 868:132.

Riordan, A.J. ... Tracie A. Paine, Janice E. Thornton. 2018. Estradiol and luteinizing hormone regulate recognition memory following subchronic phencyclidine: Evidence for hippocampal GABA action. Psychoneuroendocrinology 91:86-94.

Rutter, M.T., Angela J. Roles, C.B. Fenster. 2018. Quantifying natural seasonal variation in mutation parameters with mutation accumulation lines. Ecology and Evolution 8:5575-5585.

Ryno, Lisa M. and C. Cottine. 2018. Biological impact and ethical implications of pesticide use: A short module for upper-division-undergraduate biochemistry courses. Journal of Chemical Education 95:1771-1777

Saintonge, A., … Jillian M. Scudder, et al. 2018. JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies - I. Survey overview and first results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481:3497-3519.

Schijf, J., Mary C. Garvin. 2018. Validation and application of a new microwave-digestion/ICP-MS method for the analysis of trace metals in tree increment cores. Geochemical Journal 52:347-358

Schmidt, Amanda H., S. Ludtke, C. Andermann. 2020. Multiple measures of monsoon-controlled water storage in Asia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 546: article 116415

Schmidt, Amanda H., A.R. Denn, A.J. Hidy, P.R. Bierman, Y. Tang. 2019. Human and natural controls on erosion in the Lower Jinsha River, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 170:351-359.

Schmidt, Amanda H., et al. 2018. Agricultural land use doubled sediment loads in western China's rivers. Anthropocene 21:95-106.

Scudder, Jillian M., et al. 2018. Cosmic happenstance: 24-mu m selected, multicomponent Herschel sources are line-of-sight projections. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 480:4124-4137

Smith, Christina L., et al. 2020. The line-of-sight extinction record at Gale Crater as observed by MSL's Mastcam and Navcam through similar to 2,500 Sols. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets 125:e2020JE006465.

Violino, G., S. L. Ellison, M. Sargent, K. E. K. Coppin, Jillian M. Scudder, T. J. Mender, and A. Saintonge. 2018. Galaxy pairs in the SDSS - XIII. The connection between enhanced star formation and molecular gas properties in galaxy mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 476:2591-2604.

Yang, B. ...Rachel Eveleth, et al. 2020. Phytoplankton phenology in the North Atlantic: insights from profiling float measurements. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:article 139.

[skybournerp]

“Using the gifts I have doesn’t make me a cheater, it just makes me resourceful.”

A B O U T

Name: Charlotte Thompson Nickname: Lottie Hero Name: Paper Crane Age: Twenty Two Date & Place of Birth: October 1st, 1995 & Montreal, Canada Sexuality: Panromantic Asexual Pronouns: She/Her Faceclaim: Jodelle Ferland Alternate FCs: Isabelle Fuhrman, Samantha Boscarino Status: OPEN

M O R E

Major: Studio Art + Criminal Justice Minor Classification: Junior Occupation: Student & Office of Disabilities Coordinator Rank: Hero Support Power: Papyrokinesis Limitations: User cannot generate paper, only manipulate from current sources. As well, the paper still has the same limitations of normal paper (i.e. can be burned, water softens it, sharp objects can pass through it).

P E R S O N A L I T Y

+  patient, focused, creative -  mischievous, insecure, perfectionist 

B I O G R A P H Y

Unlike most other children, when Charlotte was born there wasn’t any loud crying. Instead, she was breathing very heavily and the lightest of cries could be heard. It turned out that Charlotte had a defect in her larynx that would render her mute. Thankfully, the Thompson’s loved to take on every challenge they could find so as soon as Scarlett had recovered from child birth, she and William began learning sign language and researching all of the best schools they could put Charlotte in that would be accommodating.

Making friends as a young child was difficult. Although her whole family and her teachers knew sign language, not many other kids did, aside from the handful that were also mute or were deaf. So, much of Charlotte’s time as a kid was spent creating her own ‘masterpieces’. It was during all of these creative sessions that her powers of papyrokinesis showed. As she’d been attempting to learn origami and having immense troubles, she thought of what she wanted the paper to look like and it began folding in that way. Her father was the only other member in her immediate family with the ability, though he only used it for party tricks at home.

When her older sister got married, Charlotte had used her powers to make a stunning ‘stop-motion’ video in honor of the couple. But seeing the video projected on the big screen made her realize that she could make more movies like this. As soon she was in high school, Charlotte began taking more writing and animation classes so she could perfect her art while making sure that she was subtle enough that no one outed her for her power. But this became very tedious and played on her nerves for some time. It felt like someone would discover the truth at any second, especially since she had submitted her videos to contests and won, gaining some very jealous and suspicious peers. So when the time came for college applications, she only sent one to Skybourne University. A family friend had told her all about it.

There, she could practice the full extent of her powers without worrying about someone discovering the truth. While she was at it, she also decided to minor in criminal justice to help keep her in shape. She doesn’t actually want to join the field of crime stopping but all of the training is fun, even if her teams usually come near last place in competition. Now in her junior year of college, she’s started working for the office of disabilities to make sure the school provides the services it needs to. In that sense, she sees herself as doing good for the school.

F A M I L Y

William Thompson (father - alive) Scarlett Thompson (mother - alive) Sophia Kendrick (older sister - alive) Andrew Kendrick (brother-in-law - alive) Rose Thompson (younger sister - alive)

C O N N E C T I O N S

Luca Bianchi: Charlotte really enjoys interacting with him because he’s one of the few people around Skybourne that can keep up with her signing so she doesn’t have to worry about typing out her words. 

Timothy Hughes: They were paired together as hero and hero-support for a semester and it turned out horridly. Neither of them took it seriously so they just ended up goofing off.

[dglee90]

Arxiv[quant-ph]

Overcoming the Sign Problem at Finite Temperature: Quantum Tensor Network for the Orbital eg Model on an Infinite Square Lattice - Piotr Czarnik, Jacek Dziarmaga, Andrzej M. Oleś

Matrix product states for topological phases with parafermions - Wen-Tao Xu, Guang-Ming Zhang

Charged String Tensor Networks - Jacob Biamonte

Rigorous renormalization group method for ground space and low-energy states of local Hamiltonians - Brenden Roberts, Thomas Vidick, Olexei I. Motrunich

Ubiquitous non-local entanglement with Majorana bound states - Alessandro Romito, Yuval Gefen

Entanglement and fluctuations in the XXZ model with power-law interactions - Irénée Frérot, Piero Naldesi, Tommaso Roscilde

Universality in volume law entanglement of pure quantum states - Hiroyuki Fujita, Yuya O. Nakagawa, Sho Sugiura, Masataka Watanabe

Preparing GHZ and W states on a long-range Ising spin model by global controls - Jiahui Chen, Hui Zhou, Changkui Duan, Xinhua Peng

Entanglement Entropy of Typical Eigenstates of Translationally Invariant Quadratic Hamiltonians - L. Vidmar, L. Hackl, E. Bianchi, M. Rigol

Topological Protection of Coherence in a Dissipative Environment - Lorenzo Campos Venuti, Zhengzhi Ma, Hubert Saleur, Stephan Haas

On Defects Between Gapped Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Topological Phases of Matter - Iris Cong, Meng Cheng, Zhenghan Wang

Observation of topological Bloch-state defects and their merging transition - Matthias Tarnowski, Marlon Nuske, Nick Fläschner, Benno Rem, Dominik Vogel, Lukas Freystatzky, Klaus Sengstock, Ludwig Mathey, Christof Weitenberg

Topological properties of a dense atomic lattice gas - Robert J. Bettles, Jiří Minář, Igor Lesanovsky, Charles S. Adams, Beatriz Olmos

Many body localization transition in quantum spin glasses on the Bethe lattice - Gianni Mossi, Antonello Scardicchio

Entanglement Complexity in Quantum Many-Body Dynamics, Thermalization and Localization - Zhi-Cheng Yang, Alioscia Hamma, Salvatore M. Giampaolo, Eduardo R. Mucciolo, Claudio Chamon

Nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in strongly coupled spin chains - Eduardo Mascarenhas, Giacomo Giudice, Vincenzo Savona

Markovian evolution of quantum coherence under symmetric dynamics - Matteo Lostaglio, Kamil Korzekwa, Antony Milne

Two-qubit entangling gates between distant atomic qubits in a lattice - A. Cesa, J. Martin

A robust boson dispenser: Quantum state preparation in interacting many-particle systems - Irina Reshodko, Albert Benseny, Thomas Busch

Long-range interactions between ultracold atoms and molecules - Maxence Lepers, Olivier Dulieu

Analytical and numerical studies of Bose-Fermi mixtures in a one-dimensional harmonic trap - A. S. Dehkharghani, F. F. Bellotti, N. T. Zinner

Converting quasiclassical states into arbitrary Fock state superpositions in a superconducting cavity - W. Wang, L. Hu, Y. Xu, K. Liu, Y. Ma, Shi-Biao Zheng, R. Vijay, Y. P. Song, L.-M. Duan, L. Sun

Implementing supersymmetric dynamics in ultracold atom systems - M. Lahrz, C. Weitenberg, L. Mathey

Circuit configurations which can/cannot show super-radiant phase transitions - Motoaki Bamba, Nobuyuki Imoto

On the correlation measure of two-electron systems - Aparna Saha, B. Talukdar, Supriya Chatterjee

Crossing Over from Attractive to Repulsive Interactions in a Tunneling Bosonic Josephson Junction - G. Spagnolli, G. Semeghini, L. Masi, G. Ferioli, A. Trenkwalder, S. Coop, M. Landini, L. Pezze', G. Modugno, M. Inguscio, A. Smerzi, M. Fattori

Superfluidity and relaxation dynamics of a laser-stirred 2D Bose gas - Vijay Pal Singh, Christof Weitenberg, Jean Dalibard, Ludwig Mathey

Remote entanglement stabilization for modular quantum computing - Nicolas Didier, S. Shankar, Mazyar Mirrahimi

Topological classification of time-asymmetry in unitary quantum processes - Jacob Biamonte, Jacob Turner

A Discrete Fourier Transform on Lattices with Quantum Applications - Lior Eldar, Peter Shor

Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling with correlated qubit-environment interactions - Nayeli A. Rodriguez-Briones, Jun Li, Xinhua Peng, Tal Mor, Yossi Weinstein, Raymond Laflamme

Quantum Variational Principle and quantum multiform structure: the case of quadratic Lagrangians - Steven D. King, Frank W. Nijhoff

Phonon-mediated repulsion, sharp transitions and (quasi)self-trapping in the extended Peierls-Hubbard model - John Sous, Monodeep Chakraborty, Clemens P.J. Adolphs, Roman V. Krems, Mona Berciu

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations - Ming-Liang Hu, Xueyuan Hu, Yi Peng, Yu-Ran Zhang, Heng Fan

Generation of maximally correlated states in the absence of entanglement - C. E. López, F. Albarrán-Arriagada, S. Allende, J. C. Retamal

No-signaling principle and Bell inequality in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics - George Japaridze, Dipendra Pokhrel, Xiao-Qian Wang

Emergent deterministic systems - Ian T. Durham

The Quantum Cheshire Cat effect: Theoretical basis and observational implications - Q. Duprey, S. Kanjilal, U. Sinha, D. Home, A. Matzkin

Polygamy relation for the entanglement of Rényi-α entropy in multi-qubit systems - Wei Song, Jun-Long Zhao, Li-Hua Zhang, Da-Chuang Li, Ming Yang, Zhuo-Liang Cao

Symmetric Laplacians, Quantum Density Matrices and their Von-Neumann Entropy - David E. Simmons, Justin P. Coon, Animesh Datta

SLOCC classification of n qubits invoking the proportional relationships for spectrums and for standard Jordan normal forms - Dafa Li

[neurogenpapers]

Citron Kinase Deficiency Leads to Chromosomal Instability and TP53-Sensitive Microcephaly.

PubMed: Citron Kinase Deficiency Leads to Chromosomal Instability and TP53-Sensitive Microcephaly. Cell Rep. 2017 Feb 14;18(7):1674-1686 Authors: Bianchi FT, Tocco C, Pallavicini G, Liu Y, Vernì F, Merigliano C, Bonaccorsi S, El-Assawy N, Priano L, Gai M, Berto GE, Chiotto AM, Sgrò F, Caramello A, Tasca L, Ala U, Neri F, Oliviero S, Mauro A, Geley S, Gatti M, Di Cunto F Abstract Mutations in citron (CIT), leading to loss or inactivation of the citron kinase protein (CITK), cause primary microcephaly in humans and rodents, associated with cytokinesis failure and apoptosis in neural progenitors. We show that CITK loss induces DNA damage accumulation and chromosomal instability in both mammals and Drosophila. CITK-deficient cells display "spontaneous" DNA damage, increased sensitivity to ionizing radiation, and defective recovery from radiation-induced DNA lesions. In CITK-deficient cells, DNA double-strand breaks increase independently of cytokinesis failure. Recruitment of RAD51 to DNA damage foci is compromised by CITK loss, and CITK physically interacts with RAD51, suggesting an involvement of CITK in homologous recombination. Consistent with this scenario, in doubly CitK and Trp53 mutant mice, neural progenitor cell death is dramatically reduced; moreover, clinical and neuroanatomical phenotypes are remarkably improved. Our results underscore a crucial role of CIT in the maintenance of genomic integrity during brain development. PMID: 28199840 [PubMed - in process] http://dlvr.it/NP2SjH

[gathersroses]

@whatsbehindthefacade / riff sent: [ pepper ]

her wedding day isn't what she imagined. the shot gun, there's-a-baby-in-the-equation-we-should-get-married part of it seems about right for her. not that it's the only reason they've getting married. grazie's in love with riff and she's pretty sure he's the only person she wants to spend the rest of her life with. the fact that she spent the morning of her wedding day crouched over the toilet and mumbling curses to herself about being so stupid for getting knocked up like this, wasn't the image she had in mind when she was a little girl. the girls are under the assumption graziella's nerves were getting to her. she wasn't making today into a pregnancy announcement. nor was getting rushed to the courthouse because of a stupid idea to uphold an equally stupid tradition.

but the rest, the standing next to riff in her best dress, the gently intertwining their fingers together as they stood there, even the way she sloppily signed her name on the certificate, that was how she imagined it. despite stuffing her feet into her dancing shoes earlier that morning, graziella still had to get on the tips of her toes to reach riff's mouth to kiss him. there was applause around them, but she couldn't think of anything else except for riff.

she didn't expect the kisses peppering across each inch of her face as they step out of the courthouse. she smirks back up at her husband, squeezing his hand in return. he knows she can't reach him like that. he did that all on purpose.

❝ how does it feel to be married, mr. bianchi? ❞ smirk widens. as if she hadn't just signed herself away to be mrs. graziella hoffman for the rest of her life. ❝ you're the prettiest groom i've ever seen. ❞

[gathersroses]

@heygutlcss cont.

despite trying to be serious, she can only go so long without cracking some kind of joke. the fact that she's sober through all this doesn't help either. any form of alcohol is the last thing she can afford right now. that doctor's appointment already scabbed her dry and that was only the beginning. grazie shrugs. ❝ maybe, but i’ve succeeded in getting it, didn’t i? i’m a lunatic, but a rewarded one. ❞

that gets a small laugh from her. ❝ you get slapped with a metal stick if you asked questions? if i was in that class and you asked what was in those paper bags, i would’a hit you before sister joanne morton had the chance. poor girls. ❞ tucking her hands into her pockets, grazie lets out a low whistle. ❝ wouldn’t’ve minded some jerk guy getting hit for being a prick and asking anyway. ’ she can think of a few former classmates she wouldn’t have minded having a stick knocked against their knuckles. ❝ yeah? why not? i wanna know what was in those bags. tampons or pads? or did your catholic school have that whole thing about tampons taking your virginity or whatever? ❞

grazie gives him hell every time he shows up with a new bruise or scar. this jet business has been getting more and more tiring as time goes on. when she was younger, it made her feel like it was protecting her from something. now, it's just stupid. ❝ everyone needs band aids, riff. you never know when your girlfriend’ll go up to you and tell you that you knocked her up and you burn your hand on the stove. ❞

there's already a cat in mind. the little tabby she found in the dumpster and she secretly nursed back to health for as long as he needed her. that cat was a lot easier than taking care of a human baby. when that tabby didn't need her anymore, grazie could open up the door and let him wander around as much as he wanted to. can't just do that with her own kid, despite what her mother did to her and her brother. ❝ nah. that's a stupid name. ❞ she wouldn't name that poor cat after the enemy creature. it would be as if they named this kid shark or emerald.

❝ i don't know what i'm gonna do. told you that. i just - ❞ she runs a hand through her hair ❝ - it seems wrong to just give them up like that. ❞ her parents didn't want her. who is graziella to continue the bianchi line like that? parents giving birth to kids they don't want and giving up on them. ❝ it's you and me? we're figuring this out together, right? ❞

[gathersroses]

@heygutlcss / riff sent: [ bed ] - for receiver to push or pull sender back on the bed when they try to get up

springs creak and she squeezes her eyes closed. to her utter disappointment, she can feel sunshine shining in through the window. there's no reason morning has to come so early. especially since morning is the worst time of day. sleeping is a luxury graziella is so rarely awarded these days. it feels like everything's getting bad again. there's another kid who can't go home sleeping in her bed and she's waking up on the ground after an unrestful sleep. there's another kid banging on her door with news of another emergency ( karen did something stupid the night before, someone got sick and is need of ginger ale, etc. ). last night was just the two of them. no interruptions. nothing but the brief opportunity to catch a few more minutes of rest. why is he up?

barely keeping her eyelids open, she wraps her arms around riff's waist in a child-like attempt to keep him in bed. ❝ don't, ❞ she whines. ❝ come on, buddy boy, this is the one time . . . ❞ sleep nearly takes over again before graziella shoots her eyelids open again, just to make sure she doesn't fall back asleep. ❝ come on. too early for anythin'. go back to sleep. it's good for you. just lay down next to me, 'kay? ❞

[gathersroses]

GRAZIELLA BIANCHI.

GENERAL.

NAME.   graziella bianchi

ALIASES.   grazie

AGE.   18+

BIRTHDATE.   december 2

GENDER.   female 

SEXUALITY.   hetreoflexible

STATUS.   in a relationship with riff / verse dependent

ETHNICITY.   italian

NATIONALITY.   american

BIRTHPLACE.   new york city, new york

RESIDENCE.   new york city, new york

OCCUPATION.   helps with finances at a family friend's bakery

PHYSICAL.

HEIGHT.   5’5”

WEIGHT.   120 lbs

BODY TYPE.   mesomorph

SKIN TONE.   pale

HAIRSTYLE.   curly

HAIR COLOR.   blonde

EYE COLOR.   green

SCARS.   several

FACECLAIM.   michelle williams

PERSONALITY.

TRAITS.   practical, strong sense of duty, loyal, sensitive, warm, friendly, proud, spiteful, stubborn, inflexible, too needy, guarded

HABITS.   chewing on her toothbrush, etc.

HOBBIES.   dancing

FEARS   abandoment

FAMILY.

FATHER.   roberto bianchi (whereabouts unknown)

MOTHER.   angela bianchi (alive; estranged)

SISTER.   none

BROTHER.   riccardo "ricky" bianchi (older brother by five years; presumed dead)

SIGNIFICANT OTHER.   anton "tony" wysek (ex boyfriend; deceased), riff (boyfriend; deceased)

SON.   theodore richard bianchi-lautmann (verse depdenent)

DAUGHTER.   none

EXTRA.

MBTI.   esfj

ENNEAGRAM.   8w7

ALIGNMENT.   chaotic neutral

HISTORY.

was obviously not a wanted child. money was already tight between her parents and her older brother, ricky. it was common for her parents to get into shouting matches at night, making them less than popular with their neighbors. to get away from this, ricky took her around town. her father eventually left when she was about six years old.

because of their financial problems, her mother sunk further into her alcoholism to the point she usually passed out on the floor. the responsibility of locking the door was placed on ricky's shoulders. he fell asleep early one night, leading to a juvenile gang to break in. grazie's screaming alerted a neighbor to call the police. she doesn't want to think about what would've happened if she hadn't.

what happened made ricky more paranoid. he allied himself with a juvenile gang to protect themselves. they became the first friends grazie really had. one of the members was her first kiss. one was her first time. one was her first relationship.

didn't care much for school. reading and writing was difficult for her, due to her undiagnosed dyslexia.

ricky was caught with a group of friends partaking in illegal substances. he wasn't doing any of it, but since he was caught around them, he was arrested. his choice was to either get shipped out to vietnam or go to prison. he chose the army. grazie still doesn't know that he was arrested and thinks he left according to his own will. letters were few and far between until they disappeared entirely. she doesn’t like to think about him.

without ricky around, their financial situation got worse. her mother had to move them to san juan hill. grazie cut everything off with ricky's gang. upon moving in, she find a new group of girls to hang out with, which lead her to meeting the jets.

she knew ricky had friends, mostly other italian immigrants that their daddy was friendly with, too. graziella didn't know that he'd asked one of the families -- the oscuro's -- to look after her once he was gone. they owned a bakery. they offered her a job which could only be described as an informal accountant. she managed the finances of the place.

after high school, grazie slowly and quietly started to move the few things she owned into an apartment she rented for herself. occasionally, she goes back to her mother's place to take some cash. she'll only use it to get drunk anyway. if her mother knew she moved out, she didn't say anything.

the jets are her safety net. they keep her safe and they won't abandon her.

on tony

on riff

VERSES.

PRE CANON. set anything from when she lived in italian harlem to right up to the events of canon.

CANON. set during the events of w.est side sto.ry.

POST CANON. after the events of canon, graziella breaks everything off with the jets (aside from the girls and baby john). she finds out she's pregnant a few weeks later. knowing the baby is riff's, she is both happy to know that she still has some part of him and deep in mourning for the first person she ever really loved.

MODERN. for any threads or muses set in the modern era.

HOLLYWOOD. one. after escaping from her home, graziella is spotted by a talent agent and leaves home for hollywood. one a visit back home to nyc, she meets the jets for the first time. two. grazie is discovered by a talent agent and seeing a better opportunity for herself while san juan hill is getting knocked down, she leaves for california. she visits riff and the jets as often as possible.

HAWKINS. grazie lives in forest hills trailer park. she had a job at the gap, but after the fire at starcourt, she is desperately looking for a new job. any way out of town, she'll take.