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Birmingham News reporter Marie Leech reported Sunday that the Alabama Board of Education will discuss two-year college Chancellor Freida Hill's future at an upcoming meeting after an evaluation showed the board is sharply divided over her performance.

Of the nine board members, four -- Ella Bell, Stephanie Bell, Betty Peters and Dr. Charles Elliott -- gave Hill many low marks on an evaluation that rates her in dozens of categories grouped into four sections: goals, personal qualities, performance and key job responsibilities, and relations with the public.

Hill began the job in December 2009, and her three-year contract expires Nov. 30. According to her contract, Hill receives an annual salary of $289,900, as well as the use of a car and a housing allowance of $24,000 a year. She also can earn up to $15,000 a year in performance bonuses, but has not received any bonuses since joining the system.

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Here are some reader comments on the story:

doddfrank:

Those giving her low grades are probably just parroting what some of the two-year college presidents have been saying. The presidents want it to go back to the way it was before when they had more control and had some money to spread around at their discretion.

testerman:
Surely there are more qualified individuals who would be willing to work for half she is paid. What on earth has she done to deserve that much public money ? If she is getting exceptional results by all means give her big bucks, but it looks like she is mediocre at best.

sixpetdad:
Look at who ranked her lower and you get a good picture of what is going on. Stephanie Bell and Ella Peters consistently oppose efforts to move education forward in this state. Hill should highlight their disapproval as a bullet point on her resume. The fact they don't like her raises her several notches in my estimation.

5000Names:
I disagree with you 100%. If Ella Bell and Stephanie Bell both gave her a low performance, that should tell us VOLUMES about her work performance.
And personally I believe that if she can't afford a house payment out of $289,000 a year why is she in charge of ANYTHING? Cut the housing allowance. Now.

RIALgal:
I don't know anything about Chancellor Hill, her qualifications, or her job performance so I have no opinion about the evaluation. What I do know, however, is that (according to this article) she is the sixth person to hold this position in as many years. Something's wrong somewhere for that kind of turnover. Whatever that problem is needs to be fixed before anyone will have success.

John:
I know Dr. Hill to be an outstanding person who has only the best interests of the Alabama System at heart. I have known her for many years and those of you that are commenting negatively absolutely do not know what you are talking about. Alabama's system can never go back to the days of old. No one should want that. This person is a professional and I am sure that some of the decisions that she makes do not satisfy people who are used to the old corrupt system. These folks should check their ego and if they cannot be loyal they should do the honorable thing and resign. Local politicians should reach out and try to not take every little thing as a slight. After all you are the representative of the people and not the king or queen of the area you represent. Alabama is fortunate to have this person.

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Personal Assets Trust plc

Interim Management Statement

For the Three Month Period from 1 November (Stuttgart: A0Z24E - news) 2011 to 31 January 2012

Investment Objective

Personal Assets is an investment trust run expressly for private investors. Its capital (Berlin: 3IF.BE - news) structure is the simplest possible for an investment trust, consisting only of ordinary shares. Its (Euronext: ALITS.NX - news) investment objective is to protect and increase (in that order) the value of shareholders' funds over the long term and to earn as high a total return as is compatible with a risk equivalent to that of the FTSE All-Share Index. Since Personal Assets invests for the long term, the Board assesses performance not annually at the end of each accounting year but over rolling three-year periods.

We aim to pay as high, secure and sustainable a dividend as is compatible with maintaining our investment flexibility. Our policy is for the present dividend rate to grow over the long term in real terms relative to both the Retail Price Index and the Consumer Price Index and never to cut the dividend rate, so shareholders know that each payment will at least equal the previous one.

The Board's policy is to ensure that the shares of Personal Assets always trade at close to NAV.

Performance Summary

As at

31 January

2012

As at

31 October

2011

Movement

Market capitalisation

£434.7m

£393.4m

10.5%

Shareholders' funds

£425.9m

£383.9m

10.9%

Effective liquidity (1)

51.0%

50.4%

-

Share price

£342.10

£336.80

1.6%

Net (Frankfurt: A0Z22E - news) asset value per share

£335.20

£328.67

2.0%

Premium to NAV

2.1%

2.5%

-

FTSE All-Share (FTSE: ^FTAS - news) index

2,932.91

2,860.86

2.5%

(1)Includes holding in physical gold bullion of 14.7% at 31 January 2012 (31 October 2011: 12.9%).

Period Review and Material Events

Economic growth has surprised on the downside in Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD - news) , the UK and in a number of emerging economies. The US's performance has been marginally better, although not as good as the consensus had hoped. 2011 was a year of realisation. Investors entered the year full of optimism of a sustained economic recovery which had begun in mid-2009. We have been very sceptical of the recovery as it was based on unsustainable monetary and fiscal stimuli. As fiscal policy reversed, the underlying weakness of the economy was revealed. Gradually there was recognition that 'balance sheet' recessions take far longer to recover from as the drag of deleveraging takes effect.

The New Year's optimism reminds us of that old phrase of the famous baseball coach, Yogi Berra; "Its déjà vu all over again". The start of 2012 feels alarmingly familiar and that's because it is ― 2010 and 2011 began in similar ways with over optimism and renewed faith that policymakers would address the threats of excessive sovereign credit. As we enter 2012, there is renewed expectation of economic recovery. This may be yet another triumph of hope over experience.

Valuations look less than compelling to us with the UK stock market yielding less than 3.3%. Added to this, historic earnings on which these valuations are based may be highly misleading, as they have been flattered by unsustainable credit growth at the government, corporate and consumer levels. The pain of deleveraging, felt first by banks and highly geared companies a few years ago, is now emerging in unfamiliar and supposedly safe places.

The profits warning from Tesco (LSE: TSCO.L - news) in January provided evidence that even the strong were beginning to suffer from lower demand. It may come as a surprise to some that in this case we were guilty of over optimism, when we are well known for our caution. Tesco's challenges are a microcosm of the new economic reality we face in a post 2008 world. Consumer and business demand is re-adjusting, which will be a prolonged and painful process, and as result we will need to tread with even greater care. As noted earlier, our fear at the start of 2012 is that history will repeat itself. We are positioned accordingly.

Our reluctance to be seen doing something for the sake of being seen to do something meant that the portfolio underwent very few changes over the course of the three months under review.

During the period we acquired one new holding. Agnico-Eagle (SES: E2:E04.SI - news) is a gold miner operating in Canada, Finland and Mexico. Until recently it was the darling of the sector, with strong production growth forecast for the next five years. The initial appeal to us was the location of its assets in territories that traditionally respect the rights of private property ownership. However, a high valuation had always put us off. 2011 was an annus horribilis for Agnico. It has suffered material interruptions to production at two of its six operating mines, which has led to the shares more than halving from their 2011 peak. The share price is back to where it was in 2007, when Agnico was producing just 20 per cent of the gold it is mining today.

Over the three months ended 31 January 2012 the Company issued 102,362 Ordinary shares for a total consideration of £34.4 million, representing 8.8% of the Ordinary shares in issue at the beginning of the period.

On 24 November 2011 the Company announced a third interim dividend of £1.40 per share. This was paid to shareholders on 20 January 2012. On 26 January 2012 the Company announced a fourth interim dividend of £1.40 per share. This will be paid to shareholders on 20 April 2012.

Top Ten Equity Holdings as at 31 January 2012

Company

Percentage of shareholders' funds

Percentage of equity exposure

British American Tobacco

4.3

8.8

Microsoft (NasdaqGS: MSFT - news)

4.0

8.2

Coca Cola (NYSE: KO - news)

3.2

6.5

Nestle (BSE: NESTLE.BO - news)

3.2

6.5

Philip Morris International

2.7

5.5

Diageo (Other OTC: DGEAF.PK - news)

2.6

5.3

GlaxoSmithKline (Other OTC: GLAXF.PK - news)

2.5

5.1

Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX - news)

2.4

4.9

Centrica (LSE: CNA.L - news)

2.3

4.7

Imperial Oil (Toronto: IMO.TO - news)

2.3

4.7

Other equities (11)

19.5

39.8

Total (Other OTC: TTFNF.PK - news)

49.0

100.0

Geographical Analysis as at 31 January 2012

Country

Percentage of shareholders' funds

UK equity exposure

20.3

US equities

20.3

Canadian equities

3.3

European equities

3.2

Australian equities

1.9

Liquidity

51.0

Total

100.0

Sector Distribution as at 31 January 2012

Sector

Percentage of shareholders' funds

Oil ∓ Gas

2.3

Basic Materials (Madrid: ESI500200000.MA - news)

5.0

Consumer Goods

19.8

Health Care

7.1

Consumer Services

3.2

Telecom (Stuttgart: 882336 - news)

2.0

Utilities (Santiago: UTILITIES.SN - news)

2.3

Financials (Euronext: IXEFI.NX - news)

1.7

Technology

5.6

Liquidity

51.0

Total

100.0

Additional Information

Further information regarding the Company, including Quarterly Reports and Investment Plan documents can be obtained from the Company's website http://www.patplc.co.uk or from Steven Budge, Personal Assets Trust plc, 10 St. Colme Street, Edinburgh EH3 6AA. Telephone: 0131 538 6605.

Email: steven.budge@patplc.co.uk

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Nary was a dry eye left in the house inside Staples Center on Sunday night, when Jennifer Hudson took the stage to perform "I Will Always Love You" as a tribute to Whitney Houston.

But the performance was increasingly personal for one fellow music icon, who has a special connection to that song - Dolly Parton.

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"I was brought to tears again last night, as I'm sure many were, when Jennifer Hudson sang 'I Will Always Love You' on the Grammys in memory of Whitney," Dolly - who originally the song in 1974 - said in a statement to Access Hollywood on Monday.

Although Whitney brought the song to new heights when she recorded it for "The Bodyguard" soundtrack in 1992, with the track spending an astounding 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, it was Dolly who originally wrote the song in June 1973 for her longtime partner & mentor Porter Wagoner - achieving her own chart success, hitting #1 twice with the song on the Billboard country charts.

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"Like everybody else, I am still in shock. But I know that Whitney will live forever in all the great music that she left behind. I will always have a very special piece of her in the song we shared together and had the good fortune to share with the world," Dolly's statement continued. "Rest in peace, Whitney. Again, we will always love you."

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12-02-2012 08:02 Remembering Whitney Houston who died yesterday at the age of 48. This is Whitney's Grammy Awards live performance, singing one of my favorite songs. Beautiful voice, so sad her personal life so much in turmoil. RIP LYRICS: Each day I live I want to be, a day to give... The best of me. I'm only one, but not alone. My finest day, Is yet unknown. I broke my heart, for every gain. To taste the sweet, ohh I face the pain. I rise and fall, yet through it all... This much remains. I want one moment in time, when I'm more than I thought I could be. When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, and the answers are all up to me. Give me one moment in time, when I'm racing with destiny. Then in that one moment of time, I will feel, I will feel eternity. I've lived to be, the very best. I want it all, no time for less. I've laid the plans, now lay the chance... Here in my hands. Give me one moment in time, when I'm more than I thought I could be. When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, and the answers are all up to me. Give me one moment in time, when I'm racing with destiny. Then in that one moment of time, I will feel, I will feel eternity. You're a winner for a lifetime, If you seize that one moment in time... Make it shine Give me one moment in time, when I'm more than I thought I could be When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, And the answers are all up to me... Give me one moment in time When I'm racing with destiny. Then in that one moment of time I will be, I will be ...

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12-02-2012 15:07 Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" performed, in the style of Johnny Cash, by Monica R. Ottesen, Tor Erik Simensen, Paal André Sandnesmo and Lars P. Løkken at Bodega'n February 11, 2012. Didn't get to record the complete performance of this song, though. 🙁

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12-02-2012 17:18 Advanced SystemCare 5.1 Pro serial key Advanced SystemCare provides an always-on, automated, all-in-one PC Healthcare Service with anti-spyware, privacy protection, performance tune-ups, and system cleaning capabilities. This powerful and award-winning precision tool fixes stubborn errors, cleans out clutter, optimizes internet and download speeds, ensures personal security and maintains maximum computer performance automatically. Designed for the latest Windows system environment and to speed up your PC and provide more reliability. Safely cleans registry junk, compacts registry bloats and defragments the whole registry for maximum performance. Find and fix the registry errors others miss with our "Deep Scan" technology. Attention make sure you disconnect the internet before inserting the key. Activate the license key again after Advanced System Care updated.... Download Setup :- adf.ly Get Serials:- adf.ly

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12-02-2012 18:42 Access the full length version at bit.ly or see a full list of our programs at seminarsondemand.com High performance in the sales arena is a matter of strategy and discipline. Top sales people are those who have disciplined themselves to do what others aren't willing to do, or don't know how to do. In this high-powered, fast-paced program you'll get a blueprint for success that is certain to take your sales results to the next level. You'll discover practical strategies that will help you to be more effective at prospecting, networking, developing a game plan, understanding your best customer's profile, expanding the range of products and services you offer, and much more. In addition, you'll discover an easy to use system for getting the most important things done first. This seminar will engage you from beginning to end, and is the perfect solution for any sales team performing below their full potential. Jeff Magee is one of the top sales and marketing strategists in America today. He started his first business at age 15, and sold it before going to college. By age 24 he was recognized by a Fortune 500 company as their top salesman in the nation, while at the same time becoming the youngest certified sales instructor in the world for the Dale Carnegie sales course. Jeff holds many credentials, including certified speaking professional, certified management consultant, and certified professional direct marketer. Jeff is the publisher of Performance Magazine, and is the ...

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