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We spent that night at Lamsdorf. Ironically, we were sleeping in the building that formerly housed the German officers, a large, rectangular, plain white building, with an impressively large door. The turns that life takes are often too ridiculous to comprehend. After an introspective, yet restful night, we headed off to visit the site where my grandfather had spent the majority of his five years a PoW. It was a sort of satellite of Lamsdorf called Abecinian Lager. He, along with five other British RAMC officers, ran a hospital there, looking after injured and ill PoWs. While visiting the site of the old hospital we met a man named Franz, who had been just eleven at the beginning of the war. He remembered clearly the Lager that was situated on what was now an open field, beside a garbage dump. He and my grandmother stood where my grandfather would have stood sixty years ago and did their best to communicate in their mixture of languages. I was reminded, at that moment, of the idiocy of ethnic conflicts and of our ability to convince ourselves that someone who speaks, or looks, or lives somewhere different, is in some way less deserving of freedom or basic human rights. We continued on from Schloss-Heidersdorf, towards the German-Polish border. In Gorlitz, we located the PoW camp Stalag 8A, where my grandfather had spent a week, during the trek. It, unlike Lamsdorf, seemed empty and cold. As we entered the camp there was a memorial \"To those who were held captive and to those who had died\". Beyond this solitary monument, the roads that wound towards the site of the camp were crumbling and rocky. We stopped the cars and got out to walk around. It had been raining the night before and the cool, damp air smelled of earth and rocks. As I walked along the barbed-wire fences and into some of the old buildings, still showing the numbers the Germans had labelled them with, I felt a profound emptiness. Despite what the monument at the entrance claimed, it was as though this place and those who had suffered and died here had been forgotten. My only comfort was to look at the disintegrating walls of the buildings that once held so many young men captive, and think how appropriate it was to see the strength of the beautiful wild-flowers, pushing their way through, and slowly crumbling the walls that had been built in hatred. There was something uniquely moving in nature's sympathetic reclamation of this place. The sun was just starting to go down and, as we pulled into the small town of Dittfurt, it began pouring rain. Nevertheless, we were set on finding the exact building where my grandfather had spent his last night in captivity. The diary entry said, \"Moved off at 0630 hrs in direction of Quedlingburg - (Eastwards) to Dittfurt (village). Column marched across country. Severe sick approximately 30 traveled with packs on wagon (motor) + trailer. Arrived at about 1130 hrs owing to halts for air raids + dive bombers (fighter)? Advanced units already in Halberstadt. Billets in No 15 at top of village. Champagne. Distance 10 km. Bread - 1/10th 2 kilo loaf. Meal Marg. Meat. Proposed rest day tomorrow for bread baking.\" It was the night of Wednesday, April 11, 1945, and my grandfather, Captain Peter Euwert Romney Tattersall, sat in a room on the second floor of house number fifteen in Dittfurt Germany, and drank two bottles of champagne with one of his fellow prisoners Bill Chester, and his captors Hauptmann Baumgardt, and Lieutenant Mandel.

Generally, when diamond mines are first producing, you see a lot of really nice goods come out,\" explains [Cathy McMurray]. \"At the moment, Canada is a baby in the mining department, so the diamonds are beautiful.\" They're also conflict-free, which is another reason these precious stones are in such high demand.

Privately commissioned by Canadian artist [BRIAN JUNGEN] whose sculptures and paintings fittingly draw upon the tradition of \"found art,\" [JOEY GIAIMO] was iasked with creatinga no-nonsense raw sbed at the far end of the owner's property to be used initially for firewood and vehicular storage. But instead of combining the storage programs, Giaimo decided to develop two complementary sheds on the 47\" ? ? ig' lot. Situated side by side with enough room between the two to allow for an informal yet intimate courtyard that provides access to the laneway beyond, the sheds maximize the footprint and volume authorized by the City's bylaws, permitting a slightly larger overall footprint compared to a single parking garage. They also anchor the site at the laneway, creating a defined and secured yard between the sheds and the artist's two-storey home. Erected fairly quickly- approximately six months from designio construction completion- the addition of this project to the site seems simple enough. However, because Giaimo regarded it as an opportunity to apply ideas developed throughout his schooling to the built form, it was a much more complex initiative. Just three weeks shy of defending his design projeci for his Master's degree in Architecture, which considered residual or underutilized space in the city and how it could be redesigned in ways not typically considered to connect with adjacent spaces, Giaimo proposed that the sheds be constructed of customary, practical materials to blend in with the industrial context of the neighbourhood-but in an unconventional way to challenge current approaches to these stereotypical ancillary structures and create meaningful public engagement or activity. \"They [were built as] ambiguous things, sort of out of place, so [theyj are not perceived as 'parking garages' or even 'sheds',\" explains Giaimo.

While some might disagree, jewellery can be made completely through technology today,\" professes Bellisha. \"At least that's one of the main reasons we're having so much success.\" Others include the company's design expertise, unwavering devotion to excellence and the unsurpassed mastery invested into every one of its collections.

You wouldn't let anyone but a surgeon operate on your body, so don't ask just anybody to help you redesign your store.

We have one of the most highly reputed individuals in loss prevention in (North America),\" says [Darwin Copeman] of David Sexton, vice-president of loss prevention, who is one of 191 staff members. \"He works with all security companies, is constantly asked to consult with individual commercial store owners that are looking to develop new security systems, and was recently inducted to the board of the Jewelers' Security Alliance.\" Copeman, who joined Jewelers Mutual in 2009, has more than...

My analysis and treatment of this text is divided into a foreword, three chapters and, of course, the edited diary. Chapter One engages in a literary theoretical discussion of the significance and validity of such a scholarly project within a literary tradition. I argue that through a close reading of the text, understanding of its context, and knowledge of its writer, and the conditions under which it was produced, it is possible to extract from the fragmented diaries, a comprehensive and relatively complete narrative. From there I move to a less theoretical and more factual chapter. In Chapter Two I provide the reader with historical background and context. Drawing on numerous sources, this chapter illustrates what daily life was like on the ‘death marches’ at the end of the Second World War. It discusses sleeping conditions, food, illness, politics, and use of power. Although not analytical, this chapter is essential for a complete and informed reading of the diary. Chapter Three lays out my methodological approach to editing the diary, and provides the reader with the necessary information for deciphering and understanding the text and its annotations. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Macrophysiological analyses are useful to predict current and future range limits and improve our understanding of endotherm macroecology, but such analyses too often rely on oversimplifications of endothermic thermoregulatory and energetic physiology, which lessens their applicability. We detail some of the major issues with macrophysiological analyses based on the classic Scholander–Irving model of endotherm energetics in the hope that it will encourage other research teams to more appropriately integrate physiology into macroecological analyses.

Heavy menstrual bleeding affects 25% of women in the UK, many of whom require surgery to treat it. Hysterectomy is effective but has more complications than endometrial ablation, which is less invasive but ultimately leads to hysterectomy in 20% of women. We compared laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy with endometrial ablation in women seeking surgical treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding. In this parallel-group, multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial in 31 hospitals in the UK, women younger than 50 years who were referred to a gynaecologist for surgical treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding and who were eligible for endometrial ablation were randomly allocated (1:1) to either laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy or second generation endometrial ablation. Women were randomly assigned by either an interactive voice response telephone system or an internet-based application with a minimisation algorithm based on centre and age group (<40 years vs ≥40 years). Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy involves laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery to remove the upper part of the uterus (the body) containing the endometrium. Endometrial ablation aims to treat heavy menstrual bleeding by destroying the endometrium, which is responsible for heavy periods. The co-primary clinical outcomes were patient satisfaction and condition-specific quality of life, measured with the menorrhagia multi-attribute quality of life scale (MMAS), assessed at 15 months after randomisation. Our analysis was based on the intention-to-treat principle. The trial was registered with the ISRCTN registry, number ISRCTN49013893. Between May 21, 2014, and March 28, 2017, we enrolled and randomly assigned 660 women (330 in each group). 616 (93%) of 660 women were operated on within the study period, 588 (95%) of whom received the allocated procedure and 28 (5%) of whom had an alternative surgery. At 15 months after randomisation, more women allocated to laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy were satisfied with their operation compared with those in the endometrial ablation group (270 [97%] of 278 women vs 244 [87%] of 280 women; adjusted percentage difference 9·8, 95% CI 5·1–14·5; adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2·53, 95% CI 1·83–3·48; p<0·0001). Women randomly assigned to laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy were also more likely to have the best possible MMAS score of 100 than women assigned to endometrial ablation (180 [69%] of 262 women vs 146 [54%] of 268 women; adjusted percentage difference 13·3, 95% CI 3·8–22·8; adjusted OR 1·87, 95% CI 1·31–2·67; p=0·00058). 14 (5%) of 309 women in the laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy group and 11 (4%) of 307 women in the endometrial ablation group had at least one serious adverse event (adjusted OR 1·30, 95% CI 0·56–3·02; p=0·54). Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy is superior to endometrial ablation in terms of clinical effectiveness and has a similar proportion of complications, but takes longer to perform and is associated with a longer recovery. UK National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme.