The government's restrictive policies towards civil society does not detract from Chinese NGOs' roles in opening up the political field and expanding civil society over the years in a dynamitic interaction with the state, as well as constituting an effective force in tackling specific issues in their campaigns.

She sits on a bench carved with names—“Jenna + Christo 4eva”—by the entrance to the sanctuary and pulls her shoes back on.

The project is called Exactitudes, and so far it includes 154 different portraits series of men and women, from skaters and Gabbers, to hipsters in Amsterdam rocking the farmcore look and baristas in Milan.

Despite its common application, using a microscope for these procedures is typically accompanied with limited visibility of various middle ear components including the hypotympanum, sinus tympani, and epitympanum, as well as the posterior part of the mesotympanum [2 ,3 ].