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Actress Anita Shontel Woodley portrays her mother, Mabel-Ree, who died at 47 from breast cancer. She is bringing her one-woman show to Wytheville on March 10 to honor a local woman.

By WAYNE QUESENBERRY/Staff

Lindaleigh Portner and Vickie Mack Coble have been friends as long as they can remember. To honor Coble, who has breast cancer and liver disease, Portner is planning a fitting tribute.

She has arranged for actress/playwright Anita Shontel Woodley to bring her one-woman play, Mama Juggs, to the Hedgefield Community Room in Wytheville on Saturday, March 10, for a 7:30 p.m. show. Portner is using her rainy day money to back the performance and pay for Woodleys overnight stay.

Woodley uses inspiration from true stories in her life for the performance. She confronts issues of womens breast health and body image from puberty to maturity to old age.

So many times people do things in memory of a loved one, Portner said earlier this week. I wanted to do something for Vickie while shes still living. This is going to be a celebration and done in her honor.

According to Portner, she first met Woodley on Facebook several years ago and did a radio interview with her at the University of North Carolina on another issue. Portner also saw a posting of Woodleys Mama Juggs performances and ordered a CD.

Oh, I loved it, Portner said. Its a show youll never forget. Were going to have a ball.

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US Outlook You have to admire the chutzpah of Jeffrey Sachs, campaigning to be the next president of the World Bank through the op-ed pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The famed economist says it is time to stop appointing superannuated American bankers and politicians to the post, and put in an expert on tackling poverty and promoting sustainable development the ultimate goals of the World Bank's lending mission.

His pitch under the not-too-subtle title, How I Would Lead The World Bank, in the Post yesterday is perfectly timed. The Obama administration is loath to give up the tradition of having an American in the top job at the bank (part of the founding compact at Bretton Woods, which reserved the leadership of the International Monetary Fund to a European). Yet it is sensitive to the charge that the tradition is anachronistic in the modern, multi-polar world, and that to be sensitive to the needs of developing nations, developing nation candidates should be considered for the presidency.

Through his Earth Institute at Columbia University, and as an adviser to the United Nations on its Millennium Development Goals, Professor Sachs is indeed one of the foremost experts on tackling poverty in a globalised world and he has calculated that he is sufficiently different from candidates past to mollify emerging countries despite being American.

Which isn't the same thing as saying he would be the best candidate. He remains an experimentalist and a controversial figure. His proscriptions for meeting the UN's development goals through village-by-village aid, by going in and helping improve crop yields and offering micro-finance and a host of other teachings, may prove no more effective than less costly interventions. People also shouldn't forget his recommendation of "shock therapy" for the Russian economy after the fall of Communism, which resulted in iniquitous privatisations and untold human suffering. Such are the debates over the best way to intervene to promote economic development.

But I'll sign on to a campaign in favour of Jeffrey Sachs. The World Bank is more than a taxpayer-funded aid agency; it is a political creature and it is a bank and there should be no shame in appointing a politician or a banker, from the US or elsewhere. But Jeffrey Sachs for chief economist of the World Bank that might fly.

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09-09-2011 19:08 http://www.heartscenter.org Dogs can transform into humans! My notes on this discourse by David Lewis- Elementals have conscious awareness to a degree. When they are trained and faithful this increases their awareness into higher awareness. Their obedience and adoration of their owners enables them to leap into a higher consciousness and earn their 3-fold flame. The same dynamic occurs between man and the saints in heaven (the Ascended Masters). Think how dogs desire to serve and cherish. This is the same type of energy we can have towards God and the Ascended Masters. This love helps us to leap into the ascension. Dogs make the leap so do we! The Ascension process happens throughout all life. Those who have pets take care of them and love and feed them. The Ascended Masters support and love us and feed us their Light. When we mindfully take care of our pets and communicate with them lovingly, discerning their needs we become more evolved and sensitive. See your pets as living entities of Light, of God, created by God and giving us an opportunity to grow. See this same dynamic in our relationships with angels and Masters as we work on ourselves and evolve.

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24-02-2012 13:10 Ten years ago, MIT helped launch a revolution in access to education when it announced it would place the core teaching materials from its entire curriculum online for anyone to use at no charge. Today, MIT OpenCourseWare shares materials from more than 2000 MIT courses and more than 250 universities around the world have joined MIT in publishing their own course materials openly. Sites like YouTube.edu, Khan Academy, OpenStudy.com have emerged to explore this new territory of informal online learning. In December, MIT announced a new online learning initiative, MITx, which will offer a portfolio of free courses through an online learning platform that features interactivity and assessment. In this presentation by Cecilia d'Oliveira, MIT OpenCourseWare's Executive Director and Shigeru Miyagawa, Chair of MIT OpenCourseWare's Faculty Advisory Committee and Head of MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, we'll examine the how open educational resources are changing the educational landscape and meeting the global demands for open knowledge.

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02-03-2012 18:12 http://www.greenemath.com In this video, we continue to develop the skills needed to find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) also known as the (Greatest Common Divisor) (GCD).

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01-03-2012 18:39 If you have a passion to help others, Dr. Bush explains how you can get trained and certified to do so with professional skills as a Christian Life Coach or Christian Counselor. Learn a new profession, use in ministry or in your personal life and community.

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Wally Buono of the Grey Cup-champion B.C. Lions is the Canadian Football League's coach of the year for 2011.

Buono was handed the Annis Stukus Trophy for the fourth time in his 22-year coaching career at a luncheon Friday in Toronto after receiving 45 first-place votes in balloting conducted among 56 voting members of the Football Reporters of Canada.

Paul LaPolice of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Kavis Reed of the Edmonton Eskimos were finalists for the award.

Buono's team opened the season 0-5 and dropped six of its first seven games before rallying to finish tied with Edmonton and Calgary for the league's best record at 11-7.

"It's fitting that as we prepare to celebrate the 100th Grey Cup, we bestow this honour on a true leader who has long epitomized what is best about our league," CFL commissioner Mark Cohon said after presenting Buono with the prestigious award.

"Wally Buono's resume as a head coach ensures he will be remembered alongside the legendary names in CFL history and 2011 may have been the pinnacle of his storied career.

"Wally often tells his players that life is seldom easy, and the greatest rewards are those you have to overcome adversity to achieve," Cohon added. "The Lions' success is 2011 is a testament to his philosophy, character and leadership."

B.C. finished first in the West Division after winning the head-to-head series with both Edmonton and Calgary, then dispatched the Eskimos in the conference final 40-23.

The Lions then capped an improbable championship run by downing Winnipeg 34-23 in the Grey Cup game at B.C. Place.

A week later, Buono stepped down as Lions coach to concentrate full-time on being the club's general manager and vice-president of football operations.

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