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Angie Friesen didn’t think much of it when her sixth-grade daughter, Annelise, told her she’d hit her elbow on a desk at school. It wasn’t until about a week later, when Annelise complained of pain from her elbow down to her hand, that the mother of four took her daughter to the family doctor for an X-ray. Nothing was broken. The pain continued . Within a few months, it had spread to Annelise’s shoulder blade. Another X-ray and a nerve study revealed no damage. Finally, a pediatrician gave a diagnosis. “I hate to even say the word,” Friesen remembers the doctor saying. He suspected her daughter had a condition called CRPS , or complex regional pain syndrome . In adults, the condition can be devastating, with burning pain that spreads, discoloration of a limb and the loss of function. Friesen’s pediatrician apparently didn ’t know it at the time, but children with CRPS often respond well to...

DEVELOPERS WITH UAE-BASED PROJECTS TO SELL ON-SITE AT CITYSCAPE GLOBAL FOR FIRST TIME UAE-based projects will be available for purchase at 16 th edition of Dubai’s flagship real estate event   Cityscape Global is paving the way for developers with UAE-based projects to sell on-site to homebuyers and investors for the first time, in what is expected to be a turning point for potential buyers looking to make purchases at the three-day exhibition. Taking place from Monday 11 September to Wednesday 13 September at Dubai World Trade Centre , Cityscape Global will feature some of the foremost developers from the region and internationally, who will showcase a range of groundbreaking real estate projects . The 16 th edition of the event will, for the first time, see visitors interested in investing in the UAE able to make purchases at the show. Developers with projects based in the UAE will be permitted to make sales on the show floor, in accordance with the rules and regulations adminis...

One moment you’re sitting on a couch somewhere in Jakarta, listening to the soft hum of the air conditioner. The next, you’re in Saigon, making your way through a street in war- torn 1960s Vietnam . Or perhaps, watching the sun rise and fall through a small window from a prison somewhere in the French-colonized Algeria. Stories have the ability to take us to places that we have never been, to see sights that we have never seen; an access to the foreign and strange and familiar, however brief and fleeting. Ultimately, literature tells us about how people lived. It tells us about what people have cried about, what they have lost. How people wake up in the morning and make their coffee, and how the moon looks before they fall asleep. It tells us about how things fall apart, and how people fall in love. It may even remind us of emotions that we too have felt; whether it be something that we vaguely remember feeling at some time and some place, or something that comes to us with such an i...