Running a railway is a complex business beset with drama. The operation of heavy equipment at speed, twenty-four hours a day, across the full length of the country and using extremely technical signaling, track and mechanical engineering is no mean feat and throws up a constant stream of challenges. Fortunately, the highly professional railway staff are ready to deal with these daily obstacles using their expertise, dedication and, as is so often required, a sense of humour. Here Geoff Body and his son Ian have collated a selection of entertaining and revealing anecdotes that illustrate just how unexpected working on the railways can be.
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Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. Like Abraham, he moved from place to place and remained a stranger everywhere. But he never ceased doing what he did best: stepping into avalanches and reviving our hearts. From Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra, Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer's cosmopolitan life and examines his perpetual dialogues with God, with himself, and with hotel rooms. After twenty years of research, Christophe Lebold, who spent time with the poet in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen's life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission the singer had set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light. 'The first edition of my book was published in French in late 2013 to good reviews and few readers. Then came 2014. Leonard tells me that if we must meet, it should be soon. He tells me why. A few months later, I am on a plane to Los Angeles. From the first minute, we spoke like old friends, sometimes until late at night. Although he was not well, he let me watch him live for a little. We said things to each other that I can't repeat. It is not that they are secret; they are just very delicate. Like butterflies or hummingbirds. To repeat them would destroy them. We met again in Los Angeles two months later (he seemed in much better shape). We spent a last afternoon together; we hung out; we had a laugh; smoked a cigarette. And it was time to go. We stayed in touch. We were now friends. In his emails, he always talked about his health as an amusing detail, a little whim of the body. Two weeks before his death, I got a last, humorous, loving email warning me that the "body ferociously insists on gravitational rights." A little nod at my theme of the fall of men and angels. And then, he left. It broke my heart, of course, but that's what hearts are for.'
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In Zeiten der Krise wenden sich Industrienationen wieder zunehmend Fragen der Finanzierung und Effizienz von Gesundheitssystemen zu. Gesundheitspolitik in Industrieländern 12 betrachtet, wie die Politik nach neuen Wegen sucht, um die Frage nach Kosten und Nutzen im Gesundheitswesen zu beantworten. Doch vor der Frage nach der Kosteneffizienz stellt sich eine andere Frage: Woher kommt das Geld? Jemand muss für die steigenden Gesundheitsausgaben aufkommen doch wer? Sollen private Versicherer oder die Pharmaindustrie stärker belastet werden, wie in Frankreich und Australien? Sollen alle Bürger mehr zahlen, wie in Finnland oder Kanada? Oder sollen Menschen ab einem bestimmten Body-Mass-Index höhere Versicherungsbeiträge entrichten, wie im US-Bundesstaat Alabama? Weitere Themen dieser Ausgabe sind: Steuerung in Sozialversicherungssystemen, Zugang und Gerechtigkeit, sowie Patientenorientierung, Sicherheit und Qualität. Mit dem Internationalen Netzwerk Gesundheitspolitik will die Bertelsmann Stiftung die Suche nach nachhaltigen, langfristig konsensfähigen und finanzierbaren Lösungen für die Reform des deutschen Gesundheitssystems beleben.
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The FLEXI-BAR, a dynamic bar of about 1,50 metres length with a handle in the middle, is a multi-functional exercising device that can activate all parts of the body. Small, rhythmic movements set the bar into swinging modes and transfer these on very different groups of muscles, tendons and joints, but particularly the core muscles. In this book the modes of action, specially developed exercises and broad ways of use of the FLEXI-BAR are illustrated. It supports strength, endurance and coordination, stabilises the spine, improves the posture and prevents back pain. With over 200 pictures.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nina Reilly Series comes KEEPER OF THE KEYS, a superb standalone thriller that will keep you turning pages into the dark of night… For single-mindedly ambitious, but troubled architect Ray Jackson, a nightmare begins one muggy California night when his wife, Leigh, disappears. There's no ransom note, no messages, no body—nobody knows if Leigh is dead or alive. Suddenly, when a strange woman—Kathleen, an old friend of his wife—shows up, demanding answers from Ray, he starts feeling defensive. Ray wants the truth too, but his questions seem off to Kat. Suspected by both his wife's friend and the police, Ray knows he must unravel the mystery before he's all but tried and convicted. Using a collection of keys that he's had since he was a boy—keys to all the homes that he and his mother used to live in, Ray searches each house, hoping to unlock the secrets of his childhood. When past and present crash up against each other, a terrifying mystery begins to unravel… Ray faces the most excruciating choice of his life—face up to his own violent history in order to prevent another heinous murder, or stay quiet and live with what will come… "O'Shaugnessy is masterful!" –#1 New York Times bestseller, Brad Thor
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In Regency London, an elopement is always fodder for gossip. But this time it may be cover for murder…Harriet Roth, a bookish spinster, lives a quiet, unassuming life; Tristram Gresham, a noted composer and even more noted roué, flaunts his disreputable reputation. When the two of them disappear, the scandalous implications are obvious to London's beau monde. But former spies Mélanie and Malcolm Rannoch, who are friends of both Harriet and Gresham, are sure something more complicated than an elopement is afoot. Especially because Harriet and Gresham left behind the dead body of an infamous international assassin in Gresham's fashionable bachelor rooms. How the missing couple were connected to the assassin is as puzzling as who killed him — and what brought him to London in the first place. But neither the quiet Harriet nor the rakish Gresham is what they seemed. Both are harboring secrets that people will kill to uncover. Trying to help their missing friends, the Rannochs enter a deadly game that runs from London's glamorous diplomatic community to the corridors of power in Westminster and Whitehall. Even Almack's exclusive assembly rooms hold deadly dangers—and avoiding scandal suddenly seems less important than simply staying alive...
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A Thoroughly Southern Mystery #6 Strike one is waking up to find a buffalo munching on her rose bushes. Strike two is walking outside to confront the beast, only to find out that it is owned is a past lover, Burlin Bullock, a man she never thought she'd see again. Strike three is the dead body that turns up shortly thereafter... When MacLaren's old college boyfriend comes to town on the heels of his son's political campaign, Mac is ready to scram out of Hopemore faster than the family's gubernatorial buffalo mascot. But when a homeless Bullock campaign supporter winds up dead in this small southern town, MacLaren and her ex-boyfriend are suddenly thrust onto center stage together, and for all the wrong reasons. With the campaign trail gaining heat and Burlin Bullock's presence kicking up long-settled memories from her past, Mac must solve her way out of a scandal that threatens not only her marriage, but also her life… "Patricia Sprinkle takes the reader on a trip to the 'real' South, the South of family traditions, community customs, church-going, and craft, down-home politics. Reading it is like spending an afternoon in the porch swing on Aunt Dixie's veranda. Fun and family values triumph in a delightful book." – JoAnna Carl, author of The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up "Sprinkle has a gift for developing a full, rich world." —Publisher's Weekly "Sprinkle entertains and enchants her readers. Her characters are so real you'll find yourself believing you grew up with them." —Christian Retailing "Sprinkle has a real eye for regional culture and traditions. . . . She tackles weighty subject matter with a steady hand and a reassuring touch."—Atlanta Journal Constitution
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<div> <p><i>Queerness in Play </i>examines the many ways queerness of all kinds—from queer as ‘LGBT’ to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum—intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways games—as a culture, an industry, and a medium—help reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, <i>Queerness in Play</i> contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of identity, sexuality, and games.</p> </div>
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