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Future Places - Porto - 2010 - Local Culture

Talks held at the "Future Places - Porto - 2010" event on October the 16th 2010, on the "Maus Hábitos" Cultural Space.
The linking topic was the local cultures active spaces, projects that promise to change the city.Beware the BATUS Cactus--cactus dermatitis in exercising soldiers on the Albertan prairie.
Species of the Opuntia or prickly pear genus of cacti are endemic to the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) training area in Alberta, Canada. They are known to provoke a dermatitis reaction in harvesters of the cacti fruit. It's spines are frequently an uncomfortable nuisance to unwary soldiers exercising in BATUS. We report two cases of particularly debilitating adverse skin reactions to the cacti spines that occurred during the 2010 Exercise Prairie Thunder season.