The BBC's £2m London-to-Salford travel bill

The BBC's £2m London-to-Salford travel bill
The train travel bill totalled more than £1.84 million while air mileage cost licence fee-payers nearly £77000. The corporation's bill for rail journeys increased by nearly 30 per cent in 12 months, the figures released under Freedom of Information …
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Pirates Travel To LA For Dodgers Home Opener
LOS ANGELES — Opening Day at Dodger Stadium is uncommonly important to Southern California sports fans, but this year's home opener against Pittsburgh is doubly special. The Los Angeles Dodgers' venerable ballpark is celebrating its 50th anniversary, …
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Hit Günter Grass with poetry, not a travel ban
On Sunday, the controversy surrounding Günter Grass's poem Was Gesagt Werden Muss (What Must Be Said) escalated, with Israeli interior minister Eli Yishai confirming Grass was now considered a persona non grata in Israel, which amounts to a travel ban.
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Spirituality column: Song brings comfort in near-death experience

Spirituality column: Song brings comfort in near-death experience He was old enough to die, but the question his family was asking when I walked into his room was whether he was ready to die. "Hi, I'm Chaplain Norris," I said to the octogenarian. "A chaplain?" he asked with the lilt of delighted surprise. Read more … Continue reading

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ITB Asia 2012 enhanced buyers programme registration opens Messe Berlin (Singapore), organiser of ITB Asia, 'The Trade Show for the Asian Travel Market', has announced that registration for this year's buyer programme is now open. Buyers who are keen to attend ITB Asia 2012 may submit their application online … Read more on eTurboNews 'Titanic' … Continue reading

Meg Wheatley to speak at Transformations Spirituality Center about leadership …

Meg Wheatley to speak at Transformations Spirituality Center about leadership … By Kalamazoo Gazette staff KALAMAZOO, MI — Transformations Spirituality Center will host author and organizational leadership consultant Margaret J. Wheatley on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 9 am to 3 pm Wheatley will present a full day program titled, … Read more on Kalamazoo … Continue reading

SPIRITUALITY: Ministry on both sides of the trigger

SPIRITUALITY: Ministry on both sides of the trigger Last year while deployed to the 548th Intelligence Group at Beale AFB in northern California, the commander asked an airman to show me a sample video of insurgents killed by our aerial drone. The combat video was "scrubbed" of classified data and … Read more on Muncie … Continue reading

Southland asks council to fix Queen's Park woes

Southland asks council to fix Queen's Park woes Under NZ Cricket "warrant of fitness" regulations, Queens Park falls well short of drainage standards. NZ Cricket require grounds to drain at at least 25mm per hour but a report done by the New Zealand Sports Turf Institute says Queens Park drains at … Read more on … Continue reading

Arabs and cultural emancipation

Arabs and cultural emancipation If there is no culture without religion, and no religion without culture, and if, finally, culture is not religion, the issue must be explored; the complex questions of values, meaning, spirituality, tradition and the arts — the factors that give form … Read more on gulfnews.com Solo exhibition: Miniatures of rustic … Continue reading

Volunteers do good works in prison

Volunteers do good works in prison Anyone doubting the strength of faith and spirituality inside prison walls might do well to talk with Brian Stone or the Rev. Jim Badamo. "They are two reasons why the idea works," said the Rev. James Mimidis of Pricedale Union Church, which plays an … Read more on Pittsburgh … Continue reading

PORTER COUNTY SPORTS BRIEFS: Ringing in Spring April 7

PORTER COUNTY SPORTS BRIEFS: Ringing in Spring April 7 VALPARAISO | A Zumbathon benefit for Opportunity Enterprises will take place from 7 to 9 pm May 9 at Southlake Fitness, 3522 N. Calumet Ave. Cost is $ 25 by April 30, $ 30 from May 1 to 18 and $ 35 at the door. Southlake … Continue reading

Latest Spirituality News

Religious vs. Spiritual They then continue and explain, that while they are not religious they do consider themselves spiritual. Such a dichotomy begs the question of course, what is the difference between the two, between being religious and being spiritual? Read more on The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. A spiritual road trip It involved … Continue reading