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A exposição Maria Auxiliadora: vida cotidiana, pintura e resistência – parte do eixo temático dedicado às histórias afro-atlânticas – resgata 82 obras da artista autodidata que pintou cenas do cotidiano e da cultura afro-brasileira, todas reproduzidas no catálogo que também traz outros 60 trabalhos raros localizados durante o processo de pesquisa – compondo o mais completo livro sobre a artista já lançado. A exposição pretende renovar o interesse na original produção da artista, ampliando as leituras sobre sua vida e obra para além dos rótulos. O catálogo traz doze ensaios inéditos, três republicações de textos históricos e uma nota biográfica.

Sarah Slane, uma jovem adolescente de 14 anos, a qual vive uma vida normal como qualquer pessoa, mas por um acontecimento repentino, o destino de Sarah toma um rumo diferente. Sua irmã mais velha Erika Slane é sequestrada, acabando por descobrir que é pertence as tradições dos Bruxos, e Sarah regida pelos astros para trazer Deus de volta a Yule, um dos sabás sagrados das tradições celtas, porém um homem com mente de poder absoluto pelo mundo, deseja procurar trazer as trevas ao mundo. Sarah se vê encurralada e deve decidir se aceita seu destino, seus amigos da mesma tradição, entrarão em uma guerra mágica para impedir que as sombras dominem.

There really is... no clean way to say this, so here goes: for as long as I can remember I have always loved animals, sex and music, especially percussion. In fact, I have been told I jerk harder than Seinfeld's Elaine Benes when I'm shaking my booty to a decent beat. Anyway, it is therefore no surprise that I steered my career into working with sharks and other marine animals, while keeping a private side business selling seductive lingerie and a few other toys -- of the adult nature -- and also occasionally playing my drums with friends. It's not easy to explain how did this all come to be. There really was no master plan at the onset and I certainly did not imagine I would be doing half of the stuff I did over the years back in the days I was thinking about my future.

There really is no clean way to say this, so here goes: for as long as I can remember I have always loved animals, sex and music, especially percussion. In fact, I have been told I jerk harder than Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes when I’m shaking my booty to a decent beat. Anyway, it is therefore no surprise that I steered my career into working with sharks and other marine animals, while keeping a private side business selling seductive lingerie and a few other toys – of the adult nature - and also occasionally playing my drums with friends. It’s not easy to explain how all this came to be. There really was no master plan at the onset and I certainly didn’t imagine I’d be doing half of the stuff I did over the years back in the days I was thinking about my future. I certainly didn’t imagine my first marriage would open before it ended, nor did I imagine I’d be marrying Princess Leia in Vegas and I certainly didn’t imagine I’d be sitting down to tell a whole lot of stories... Some involving sharks, some planes, some stockings, some boats, some public aquaria, and some ball-gags and leather restraints, among many other things. But that is the way things happened and these pages kind of explain how all the pieces fit in the puzzle.

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Atmospheric pressure generation of singlet delta oxygen (SDO) by microplasmas has been experimentally studied. ln this work, we have used a specific type of microdischarges, called MCSD (microcathode sustained discharges), which have allowed the operation of DC glow discharges, free from the glow-to-arc transition. From electrical and optical diagnostics, the reduced electric field (E/N), the gas temperature (Tgas), the atomic oxygen density profiles, the ozone spatial distribution, as weIl as the SDO density have been obtained for several operating conditions. Our results show that MCSD are similar to high-pressure positive columns, with low values of E/N (5-10 Td) and of Tgas (300-700 K). Thus, MCSD fulfill aIl the required characteristics for an efficient production of SDO. It must be pointed out that, due to its remarkable stability, the MCSD is, to this date, the only discharge technique that has been proven capable of generating high fluxes of SDO at atmospheric pressure. By optimizing the operation of arrays of several MCSD, we have efficiently produced and transported at atmospheric pressure, over distances longer than 50 cm, SDO densities higher than 10 to the power of 17 cm-3. Additionally, O3 densities up to 10 to the power of 16 cm-3 have also been obtained. As the ratio density of SDO to O3 can be finely and easily tuned in the range [10 to the power of -2 - 10 to the power of +5], our plasma source is unique in the context of the new research field of Plasma Medicine. Indeed, we have shown that arrays of MCSD are very useful tools for examining in detail the reactivity of these reactive oxygen species towards DNA. ln collaboration with biologists, we have determined the damages induced in DNA by SDO and O3.