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2012 salary report: 20 University of Michigan deans collect $7.28M in base pay
AnnArbor.com photo | Joseph Tobianski
Two University of Michigan dean reappointments in 2012 came with 13 percent salary increases.
Overall, U-M's 20 deans earn a combined $7.28 million in base salaries, according to compensation figures released Friday by the school. Last year U-M's deans earned $6.92 million.
File photo | AnnArbor.com
The increase makes Woolliscroft the highest paid dean at U-M— with a base salary comparable to university president Mary Sue Coleman, who earns $603,357.
Woolliscroft became dean in 2007, making $480,000.
How does Woolliscroft's salary compare to his peers? Eugene Washington, dean of the University of California at Los Angeles medical school, earned a base pay of $515,000 in 2011, according to a UC database. His overall compensation neared $739,000. Sam Hawgood, dean of the UC at San Francisco medical school, earned a base salary of $387,425 and total compensation of roughly $645,500. Charles J. Lockwood, dean of Ohio State University's medical school, earns a base salary of $710,000, according to Columbus Business First database.
Public policy dean Susan Collins was also reappointed and received a 13.2 percent raise, bringing her salary to $285,027, an increase of more than $33,300. Collins was first appointed in 2007 at a rate of $230,000.
Both Woolliscroft and Collins' pay increases include a 10 percent reappointment raise and a nearly 3 percent merit raise. It's standard practice at the university to increase a dean's salary by at least 10 percent if they are reappointed.
Social work dean Laura Lein received the third-largest increase among her peers. At 7.5 percent, Lein's increase included a 3.25 percent merit raise and a $10,000 "equity adjustment," according to documents.
During a Dec. 13 Board of Regents meeting, Lein was appointed to another five-year term, which would become effective in January 2014. That appointment will likely come with a 10 percent raise.
Meanwhile Gunalan Nadarajan, the new dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design who was appointed to his position in July, earns $250,000, a decrease from the $287,332 his predecessor Bryan Rogers earned. Rogers retired in May.
The university is in the midst of searches to fill three dean positions. Within a year, the College of Literature, Science and Arts, the law school and the library system will have new leaders.
When the university replaced business school dean Robert Dolan in 2011, they hired Alison Blake at $550,000— or $102,000 more than her predecessor. Blake now earns $566,775.
Deans averaged merit raises of 2.75 percent this year. The average merit increase was 2.9 percent for faculty and 2.2 percent for staff, according to university figures. Merit increases are based on performance and do not include salary adjustments made for other reasons.
The full list of U-M deans and their earnings is below.
Kellie Woodhouse covers higher education for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-4602 and follow her on twitter.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 7:03 p.m.
Not sure about the rest of you, but how does the Dean of Libraries (whatever that is) make more in base comp than the Dean of Nursing and Pharmacy? Wow. Am I missing something here? No wonder our planet is so screwed up. :)
Rick Stevens
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 6:07 p.m.
What Kellie and annarbor.com never wants to mention here is that there is transparency into salaries in the public sector. In the private ('secret') sector there is very little transparency so it's dead silence there. What are the salaries at annarbor.com? That would be interesting (it might have been nice to see Tony's $s before he was 'promoted' to NJ for all his success) and we could talk about that. Not going to happen... But, we'll never know and annarbor.com would like us to focus elsewhere. 'Move on, nothing to see here'... Before you throw rocks you might want to consider your glass house.
Fri, Dec 21, 2012 : 1:49 p.m.
Kellie I'm fairly sure that Rick understands public salaries being transparent because they are taxpayer supported. There's still an open question of why annarbor.com so regularly reports on them, or at least the salaries at the top. As I noted elsewhere, I've never seen another paper do this and I've lived in several college towns. Another question is why just the salaries at the top are reported. By only reporting those people get a distorted view of what those at universities (and in the public sector) earn. How about reporting what an adjunct at a community college makes per class? (The answer is probably around $2,000, if that.) Colleges and universities are filled with low-wage labor but we never read about that in annarbor.com.
Kellie Woodhouse
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 : 3:01 p.m.
Public salaries are public information because they are supported by an institution that has a public mission and is funded in part by public money- namely tax dollars.
Basic Bob
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 5:47 a.m.
Very strange, people wonder how we could convince young educated people to stay and work here. As long as all the "opportunities" are held by rich people taking wheelbarrows full of money to the bank every week, the young educated people will pack up and go someplace else where they have a better chance of finding lucrative and rewarding employment.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 4:27 a.m.
The problem is um is not private. As a public it has to show that it is providing a valuable service to the State and its people at a time of economic stress for many and not just perpetuating another "elite" group talking to and educating other elites living within a bubble in Ann Arbor. Sorry but as civil servants you don't always get the best salary, at least that is what these folks tell subordinates. Plus as Egon says in ghostbusters " I have been in the private sector..they expect results."
The Black Stallion3
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:28 p.m.
Of coarse the liberals wouldn't consider these as the 1% because they are of the left wing class.
Matt Tuck
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:53 p.m.
they are not even close to the "1%" !. Maybe if they were making $30+ million/year
Matt Tuck
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:49 p.m.
It looks like our tax dollars are no longer needed at this university. When will they become a private university? Great university, but I don't like our state funding a school that is educating out of state students....
Basic Bob
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 4:53 a.m.
International students don't question the cost. They come here because they were rejected in Europe and the U.S. private schools.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1:04 a.m.
UM may love Internationale students much more than out of state students.
Kellie Woodhouse
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:47 p.m.
In Nov. 2011 the average full professor salary at U-M was about $148,800, according to IPEDS human Resource Survey data. Salaries of associate professors averaged $98,200 and of assistant professors averaged 85,900. Also, I've added a comparison of merit raises in the article. Staff averaged 2.9 percent merit raises, where as the deans averaged 2.75 percent merit raises.
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 : 10:22 p.m.
I have lived in several university towns and have never seen a paper regularly report salaries like annarbor.com does. That, combined with the top salaries being the main ones annarbor.com reports, makes it hard to believe that annarbor.com doesn't have a perspective on them. If the paper thinks they're too high that's fine. That case wouldn't be hard to make and I'm not sure how I feel about them myself. Just like in the corporate sector, salaries at the top keep going up even as those in the middle/bottom are stagnant or go down. It would be a very fair subject for an op-ed. My main disagreement with your coverage is that it creates a false impression of what people in higher ed - and the public sector, in general - make. If you reported salaries/wages at all levels, not just the top, a more balanced view would be given.
Kellie Woodhouse
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 : 3:03 p.m.
AnnArbor.com does not "feel" one way or the other about these salaries. We are simply reporting them. No need for an op-ed here.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 4:30 a.m.
This is helpful but w2 wages are the real numbers.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:29 a.m.
Kellie why does annarbor.com never report what adjunct faculty or lecturers make? Or clerical staff and other regular workers? The regular stream of 'top salary' articles gives people a misleading impression about what those at universities (and in the public sector) earn. Also, while these articles provide some comparisons to other institutions, rarely do they acknowledge that UM is one of the top educational institutions in the nation. Or that faculty don't earn anything for about 10 years of their adult life because they're in school getting the degrees required for these positions. That means 20% of the typical adult life (age 20 to 70) without getting paid. Given that annarbor.com routinely presents the top salaries and does so without much context, it's hard to avoid the feeling that there's an agenda here. As I wrote earlier, if the site feels these employees are paid too much that's fine. But let's see an open acknowledgement of that in an op-ed and also have annarbor.com state what it thinks these positions should be paid.
Jay Thomas
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:28 p.m.
I don't really care what a corporate CEO makes unless I am invested in that company (because it is the shareholders getting ripped off). The problem is I am invested in U of M through taxation whether I like it or not and they are getting salary increases that the average Michigander can only dream about (all while sticking us with the bill). The bigwigs also change the normal age related retirement rules so they can stick around collecting these high salaries until old age forces them into retirement (while the average U of M employee is kicked to the curb before that). The real problem is with the "gone native" regents who identify more with the administrators they are supposed to be overseeing and love to go along to get along.
Rick Stevens
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 6:01 p.m.
Jay: Doesn't your 'real problem' exist with corporate CEOs and their 'reimbursement committees' (that they appointed!)? Why is it that US CEOs are so overpaid (and increasing at a high level) in our country and not in other industrialized counties? No problem you say -- but it's the same situation? Right?
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 5:13 a.m.
Right. Except these people aren't average. Try not to hate them for their success and look closely in the mirror.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:55 p.m.
The fact that Deans are worth the money is not the only question to be asked. I would like to see the disparity between professor and dean pay. Is it growing, or is it roughly the same as it has been? What about staff? My sense is that staff never receives more than a 2% pay but that administrators are regularly rewarded with large pay increases. Have we created a system in which a few make a tremendous amount of money and the rest do not? That's the current business model in banking and finance; are we so sure that we want to emulate that with the University? And while yes, the deans could get jobs elsewhere, would they really want to? There are huge advantages to being a dean at UM, and pay is not all that you get here. The same arguments applies to plenty of the staff as well, and no one suggests paying the staff what they would be worth in the private sector. Seems to me that the decision-makers at the U. regularly reward themselves while laying off folks, cutting positions, asking staff to do more and more, and telling them that they are not worth even the cost of living increase. Doesn't sound much like leadership to me.
Left is Right
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:53 a.m.
It's not leadership. And the university will eventually be rewarded for the lack thereof.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:40 p.m.
Every time the ann arbor news publishes an article about people's salaries there's tons of commenters here complaining and acting bitter about it. Maybe someone should run an article on the kind of education, success, and dedication it takes to become a faculty member at a large institution like Michigan. These deans are likely all PhD's, meaning they spent a very long time (probably 5 to 6 years after undergrad) doing research for very little (or no) pay, followed by years of trying to get grants and living in a very stressful publish or perish environment. Not everyone can do that, and it's even harder to do it well. People who can are paid accordingly. If you are bitter that you don't make that much, go ahead, go start working on your academic career. Keep in mind most PhD's don't make anywhere near that--you need to be talented and lucky to get to the top.
Jay Thomas
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:33 p.m.
@Rick Stevens: You are talking about the capital gains tax rate (which is 15% for EVERYONE as long as you hold the investment for some time). Hedge Fund managers are paid large salaries for which they do pay the regular income tax rate (and frequently living in NY with all the state and city taxes that can go over 50%).
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:01 p.m.
@ lisa: I agree with what you're saying but think it reinforces the point aggatt is making. annarbor.com's agenda seems to be to demonize public sector salaries. I've yet to see them run an article on the salaries of the average workers you speak of. The site specializes in "Top Ten Salaries Of ..." types of articles, which gives people a wildly exaggerated sense of what most people at UM earn. A year or so ago they ran an article on faculty salaries but with a seriously misleading headline: it ran the average salary for full professors but stated that was the average for all faculty. Only after several readers pointed it out and complained did the site change it.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:53 p.m.
There are many of us commenting who have worked at the U-M, currently work for the U-M, have family members working for the U-M, who are personally affected, not just commenting for the sake of commenting. Yes, I understand all of those years, the education, and the compensation. But....there are your every day employees who have put in their YEARS, their dedication. It takes more than the high-paying administration and the physicians to make that institution run.
Rick Stevens
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:45 p.m.
You could nave become a hedge fund manager and only paid $5-10 million a year (exclusive of the annual bonus, of course) and then had to suffer with a 15% income tax rate. Now that's suffering.
Rick Stevens
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:17 p.m.
L a u r e l C h a m p i o n makes a lot of money for doing very little but she's OK with attacking others in the same boat?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:04 p.m.
I doubt that most annarbor.com employees make much money. Many of them seem to be very young and fresh out of local journalism programs. As for what Laurel Champion makes I have no idea but can say with full confidence that we'll never see that figure in print.
Rick Stevens
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:21 p.m.
Ann Arbor News loved attacking everyone who got the same or more money than their own 'senior staff'. Kellie: tell us about your benefits - lavish, right? Health, retirement, etc? Like Laurel's?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:07 p.m.
And everybody gets the 2 to 1 match for their 403(b), which isn't included in their total, correct?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 7:21 p.m.
So the emplyee gives 5% and can receive double that from the U, 10%? How is that not 2 to 1 matching?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:11 p.m.
Not correct. The U of M offers a basic retirement savings plan: faculty and staff contribute 5% of salary and receive a 10% U-M contribution after one year of service.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:03 p.m.
The school can spend their money any way they want but a couple questions: 1) What is a "Dean" 2) What do they do? 3) How many hours a week do they provide their service to the schools?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:13 p.m.
For most of these Deans, a 70 hour week is a short one. They oversee massive budgets and hordes of employee. They are responsible for alumni relations that lead to private gifts that support much of what the University does. And if you look at their resumes they've spent their lives working extremely hard (in both the work place and in their educational pursuits).
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:43 p.m.
If we actually lived in a world were our survival depended on it - 1. Intelligence, Physics, & Chemistry (moved out of LS&A) 2. Engineering 3. Banking (Environment & Natural Resources) 4. Genetics (restructured Medical School) 5. Nursing (front line responders) ... 16. Public Health merged with Nursing 17. Pharmacy obsolete put into Genetics. 18. Public Policy obsolete put into Intelligence 19. Next to worthless (Law - obsolete put into Physics) 20. Worthless (Ross Business obsolete put into Banking)
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 2:56 p.m.
As always, these responses are meaningful to me. I also have family lawyers. I would offer that even with the laws of science nobody knows the facts. It is a consensus of experts. The Soviet Union had a people's constitution, too. And yes, the judges are the experts in our freedom governance. That said, in the real physical world judges also have political bias, politicians are steeped in legality, their law works for some (just us) and ad infinitum fine-print bureaucracy is mostly self-serving job security adding little to human economic value.. When the Law School integrates natural (reality) law into practice and upholds UN treaties (US laws about invading countries, torture, imprisonment, Geneva rules, enforcement of nuclear, biological, space, ocean resources, etc) and trains kids to successfully put away white collar criminals let us know. The compensation list should measure some real world return of human value not just lofty rhetoric from "the educated people" running the theatre.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 5:09 a.m.
Those tiny fine printers wrote and continue to enforce the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the laws protecting the freedoms you so feverishly cling to elsewhere on this board. Please don't castigate others successes to ameliorate the hurt of your shortcomings.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:35 p.m.
LOL. I should whip myself and pray for absolution for rating physical reality, problem solving, gene therapy, resource wealth, and emergency health over football, wall street, big pharma, big government, and tiny fine-printers.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:05 p.m.
@ ordmad: LOL, LOL, and a little more LOL.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:10 p.m.
Thanks for exhibit A in proving why we let educated people run the University.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:33 p.m.
The next set of studies I'd like to see is professor salaries at this university *per hour spent in the classroom.*
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:52 p.m.
@ Ghost of Tom [deleted] - It's simply one metric. ONE METRIC. Wouldn't you be interested in knowing? After all, it's knowable. @ Northside: Having graduated college, and as an individual who regularly performs "data analysis", trust me - this is a knowable number. The concept of "credit hours," before it was applied to class credits, was originally developed by Andrew Carnegie as a way to measure appropriate retirement amounts for professors based on... How many hours they taught in a classroom. The retirement institution he founded in doing so, by the way, is now TIAA-CREF. And to answer your question, again as an individual who graduated from college (this one, in fact), I'm well aware that much (if not most?) of the classroom "instruction" given to students is performed by everybody *but* professors. Perhaps your time here at the University of Michigan was different than mine.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:46 p.m.
I don't think it's a bad question. Professors have lighter teaching loads than they have had in the past, and it is worthwhile to question whether students should pay $30+k a year so that professors can spend the majority of their time researching and publishing. It is a legitimate question. The costs at UM are making it hard for anyone but the wealthy to send their kids here. We need to ask some tough questions, and there is nothing wrong in doing so.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:06 p.m.
I'll second Ghost and ask how many people who post on this board have never been anywhere near a university? The lack of knowledge as to what professors (or other positions, like Deans) do is staggering.
Ghost of Tom Joad
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:51 p.m.
that's about the most overly simplistic understanding of what it is to be a faculty member at a major university.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:32 p.m.
And tuition just keeps going up and up.
Ghost of Tom Joad
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:32 p.m.
All this righteous indignation about their salaries being "too high" and the "reason for the high cost of tuition." I wonder where all the cries for justice are when we hear about Wall Street CEO's making millions of dollars hand over fist.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 2:12 a.m.
@G.T.J: Equating a Dean to CEO is a strawman. This is not President of the U, who should be searched for and compensated as you would a CEO. The Dean position is significantly less exposed. Frankly, I don't begrudge their level of salary, just the rate of increase in a tough economy. The increases might even be justified, given some competitive comparisons, but certainly ill timed. Perhaps AA-News should investigate this line more deeply and include that relativity in the article.
Ghost of Tom Joad
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 6:23 p.m.
@lisaone, I understand the problem with the top-heavy payscale that exists within the UM hierarchy. My point wasn't about that (I agree with you, there should be more resources going to the staff and not just the "leadership" of the university). My point was more about the hypocrisy that I often see in these comment threads regarding CEO and university employee pay. The very same people who will sit here and disparage these folks for making $500,000 at UM will say that corporate CEO's making millions each is "market value" and required to keep the top talent in the company. I just find it hypocritical that the same "logic" doesn't apply to university employees.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:04 p.m.
People who have anything to say about anything I'm sure are just as angry. But, this is personal for me, as I have family who work at the U-M, are PROUD to work there, proud of being part of the U-M system, proud of being part of patient care and making that U-M difference from the time they clock in until the time they clock out, often times covering for those who called in, pushing themselves to the limit....knowing in the months to come, it could soon be over. That hurts.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:41 p.m.
Had a hunch this type of story would be brought to light in the aftermath of the earlier story regarding the e-mail sent to U-M staff, from Ora Pescovitz. How can the U-M justify pay increases when at the time of that "announcement" they were 27 million over budget, but the projected amount at the end of the fiscal year is $70 million? And yet, they give the meager $15-16 dollar/40 hour week employee a choice of cutting their hours to 20 or take unemployment (and their decisions have at this time already been forced to be made) so they are at the end of their 40 hours and some will be in the unemployment line soon. This is sickening.
Left is Right
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:43 a.m.
Absolutely. And with the looming fiscal cliff, I expect, in aggregate, 10% cuts in salary. Significantly more at the top (is 100% too much?) for those who should have made better contingency plans.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:37 p.m.
Agree, lisaone. The issue isn't so much how much deans are paid--the issue is fairness across the board. There is no conceivable reason for giving a dean--ANY dean--a 13% raise when you are cutting salaries and benefits for other employees because of "financial considerations." Just as they are plenty of people who will fulfill the cynical "They can be replaced" lower-level positions, there are plenty of creative people who could fill vacant dean positions. The issue is fairness. And these salary increases are unfair.
Huron 74
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:38 p.m.
These people must be worth their salt or they wouldn't be at the UoM. Likewise, if the UoM didn't pay them, they'd be somewhere else. Michigan deserves the best. And people should stop whining and "mind their own knittin".
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:06 p.m.
Aw come on.....there have been more than one through the years. I could see justifying that money if everyone else in the U-M system was treated as fairly, getting increases, not forced to make a job decision at this very point in time of taking an hour reduction or to go in the unemployment line. As your comment goes? If the U-M didn't pay them, they'd be elsewhere. Tell that to the employees who are scrambling to find out where that "somewhere else" is.
Basic Bob
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:36 p.m.
Sometimes the best aren't the most expensive. For some of these people, they will use that 13% increase to negotiate a 25% at their next job, which we will then use as a baseline for setting the next dean's salary.
Huron 74
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:34 p.m.
Good for you, lisaone, you found a bad apple. I think somebody already did that.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:07 p.m.
Sure....Dr. Gilman was worth that too.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:29 p.m.
Wow being a Republican I didn't understand what the president was talking about the greedy 2% - now I do. I also understand why it cost so much to send our kids to college as well. As I struggle to live right now - just lost my job due to the fear of my employers "what's going to happen next" because they are small business owners and I wonder if we will be able to keep our home of over 20 years. My kid has to take out loans to just go to a four year college in the amounts of what is cost us to buy our home. I got it UM - you don't pay any local taxes to Ann Arbor, I think you receive money from the State and you pay salaries of hundreds of thousands of dollars for your "deans"... What is this country coming too...
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1:57 a.m.
@Heady99: Bless you and your family. I hope & pray you find work soon. Pay no mind to JG's attack on your character; it was completely out of line.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:44 a.m.
Heady99 - you are not a Republican. The salaries of UM's deans persuaded you to recognize the greedy 2%? Look at politicians and hollywood. Politicians do nothing but deceive and hollywood - immoral, empty, uneducated idiots. So tell me - the president who gives millions to Solindra, etc., convinced you? You are as transparent as he is. Wow.
Homeland Conspiracy
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4 p.m.
"What is this country coming too..." Revolution!!! It has happened before when the rich told the poor "Let Them Eat Cake"
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:28 p.m.
Between the U of M and the UMHS, there are 46,000 employees, endowments of nearly $9 billion, an annual budget well in excess of $1 billion, and billions of dollars of infrastructure--not to mention 45,000 students--for which they are responsible. Yes, indeed. Let's go out get the lowest possible bidder to take those jobs. After all, that's worked well for the state's roads, right?
Gene Alloway
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:26 p.m.
Then, by that argument, the lower level rank and file should also be among the best paid in he country, and get good raises in rough years right? We agree yes? Those people make the whole thing work, implement the deans' directives, run the research, teach etc. We want the best at all levels don't we?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:18 p.m.
This is no different than bringing in the new school superintendant and giving out a huge salary increase. We are conditioned to accept that along with bailing out banks and auto companies. The big money goes to them and we are subsidzing the losers. Exenses for the average person are far outstipping income and the "elite" expect to be handsomely rewarded for being far more intelligent than most of us. As a country we accept that. When I grew up we had sports stars living on our block. They were revered because they were sports stars but they didn't live and act like they were far above the rest of us.........not like today
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:37 p.m.
I agree, for the top person at an institution, like a CEO, you need to attract the talent with a market driven top salary. But for underlings, like a dean position, the salary should be an entry level value, less than the vacating person who earned raises while in tenure there.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2:03 p.m.
What are the duties of a Dean? Why does UM need 20 of them? How does the university justify the 10% or more increase for a "renewal"? UM needs to be careful here. Like the health care industry elevating its costs, it is raising tuition faster than the standard of living, pricing many out of the market, making its industry a ripe target for government intervention.
Left is Right
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:35 a.m.
"...a ripe target for government intervention." It's an overdue target for disruption.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1:47 a.m.
@northside: The duties of a dean question was in part rhetorical. I know the job entails managing a business unit of the university. But admittedly, I don't know what all that means; I've not ever worked in academia, and if you read more carefully, I did not criticize their salaries. I questioned the necessity for exhorbitant increases, double digits in a much slower growth economy, and the net effect I've experienced firsthand in the rapid increase of tuition for my UM student. I believe the university needs to carefully control this inflationary practice, the thinking that an outgoing dean must be replaced with an equal or greater paid person can only be afforded by increased tuition. These positions are not president or CEO; there should be an entry level salary, then reasonable standard of living increases thereafter.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 5:08 p.m.
If you're totally clueless as to what a Dean does - wow, by the way - then maybe you shouldn't be criticizing their salaries.
Basic Bob
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:28 p.m.
Not to mention extending their careers well past normal retirement age, keeping jobs away from people who are well qualified and have families to support. And would work for far less pay due to their lesser experience.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:57 p.m.
While I am not generally for over taxing the rich, I would support higher taxes on those making over $200,000 on public funds!
Ghost of Tom Joad
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:35 p.m.
and if that's the case, we could also include just about every single millionaire CEO who gets government subsidies like the oil industry, wall street, etc.
Ghost of Tom Joad
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:34 p.m.
what, only on public funds? that's not hypocritical at all...
Dog Guy
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:42 p.m.
Intelligent hard work, reliability, and looking out for others are sometimes rewarded lavishly.
Left is Right
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:33 a.m.
And more often, they are not.
Homeland Conspiracy
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:36 p.m.
I would have a big smile on my face too just like to ppl in the pictures if I was making this kind of $$$$. Wealth is the new addiction
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:03 p.m.
If you don't pay them they'll just leave and make bewku money in the private sector. These people are practically giving their services away and there is NOBODY to replace them- NOBODY- who would even consider taking on the tremendous pressure these folks feel every waking minute. Whew! it gives me willies just thinking about it.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:29 p.m.
dancing, I think it was just a failed attempt at irony, for which you should need a license to practice.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:58 p.m.
I am sure that was tongue in cheek. If not it was foot in mouth!
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:53 p.m.
Nobody to replace them? Are you kidding me?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:46 p.m.
Next comes the announcement of the increase in tuition
Joe Kidd
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:40 p.m.
It's out of control yet at budget time the U will complain state funding is not enough. It would not bother me if the legislature put limits on salary at a reasonable level. They can go someplace else. The 3% raise is a significant amount, widens the gap between them and their assistants usually.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:39 p.m.
As a very long time employee of UM, it irks me to no end when I see admins getting double- digit percent raises, when we are getting less than 2% in LSA. That does not even cover the cost of living, so In effect, we have been getting pay reductions for the past 10 years. UM has embraced the corporate world business model, and the various news stories about the University have certainly shown that.
Joe Kidd
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:43 p.m.
That's their excuse Mark, "what the private sector pays." I say fine go work there.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:31 p.m.
Honestly I don't find any of this shocking or anger producing. It's predictable and disappointing. And it's happening everywhere.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 7:06 p.m.
I don't see how anyone can justify a 13% wage increase in this economic environment. It's not as if their previous salary was inadequate.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:57 p.m.
I should clarify: the article doesn't make me angry. The unfair distribution of wages seriously pisses me off. Bob, if these people are "deserving" of such high salaries, does that mean those employees not earning those wages (and aren't even receiving fair cost of living increases) somehow aren't deserving of high salaries?
Basic Bob
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:53 p.m.
Because all this information is public, it is easy to compare with other schools who suffer from the same degree of self-importance. I can assume these people are deserving of a high salary, but the huge raises and additional compensation are troublesome.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:22 p.m.
Journalism, annarbor.com style: publish the salaries of public sector employees, provide minimal context, and let the commenting trolls have at it.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:53 a.m.
Same old story every year.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:31 p.m.
At least they didn't add up the salaries of all 40-something thousand employees and make the headline: UM Employee's Salaries 400 Million Dollars.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 1:45 p.m.
University of Michigan Salary Search - look it up for yourself
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:36 p.m.
@ dancing: Intentional and far from the first time they've run an article like this. If annarbor.com considers these (and other) public salaries to be too high, the site should just run an op-ed directly saying so.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:27 p.m.
This does seem a little intentional doesn't it.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:09 p.m.
Why is no one upset we pay Hoke ~$3M a year? Does an academic institution value football six times more than, you know, academics?
Joe Kidd
Mon, Dec 31, 2012 : 4:12 p.m.
Wrong Tdw, the stadium fills because the team wins. Winning big generates more money. Championships generate millions by just the sale of championship clothing and hats. The U gets a % of sales just for the logos regardless of who makes them or sells them.
Steve Hendel
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 : 1:12 a.m.
So what if athletics pay for themselves? Does that give the AD free reign to throw millions of dollars around with minimal, if any, oversight?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 7:22 p.m.
Athletics fund themselves, they don't take tuition money. Specifically, football (and to a lesser extent basketball and maybe hockey) allow all the other sports to exist by providing funding for them.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:26 p.m.
Thank you. And Amen!
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 2 p.m.
Joe....I thumbs downed you so I'll reply to your comment.As far as I know the stadium fills itself regardless of who is in charge.
Joe Kidd
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 12:45 p.m.
If he didn't fill the stadium by winning he wouldn't get it. At least he generates his funding through sales.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 11:45 a.m.
No wonder tuition is so high at the school. No one is worth that high of a base salary.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 7:31 p.m.
got that right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:25 p.m.
easy123, you really believe that? After all the reports about CEOs who run companies into the ground, get a golden parachute, and then go to work for another company at an outrageous salary, which they proceed to run into the ground, etc., etc.? American Airlines, Bank of America, most recently Hostess, and the list is much longer. Corporate CEOs may be the only employees who are able to destroy companies in full view of everyone--shareholders, the media, employees--and walk away with insane severance packages. Even the Wall Street Journal has published articles criticizing this. Delete
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 4:03 p.m.
Ghost - You are responsible for the profitability of the company otherwise you will be gone. I guess you may never have worked in the private industry
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:55 p.m.
Ghost....CEO's and this list are apples to oranges...
Ghost of Tom Joad
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 3:31 p.m.
If only people felt the same way about corporate CEO's.
Turd Ferguson
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 11:22 a.m.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:50 a.m.
You also can find out how little people make working as a TA, RA...


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Newcastle United undone by old boys Sam Allardyce and Kevin Nolan
Sam Allardyce returned to haunt former club Newcastle United on Sunday by guiding West Ham United to a 1-0 win that took the London club into sixth place in the Premier League table.
Sam Allardyce returned to haunt former club Newcastle United on Sunday by guiding West Ham United to a 1-0 win that took the London club into sixth place in the Premier League table.
On an afternoon of reunions in the north-east, former Newcastle captain Kevin Nolan claimed the only goal of the game eight minutes before half-time to give Allardyce's side only their second away win of the campaign.
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew, who was sacked by West Ham in 2006, saw Demba Ba go close with a header that was clawed off the line by visiting goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen. The result left Newcastle in 10th place.
A dull first half at St James' Park sprung to life in the 37th minute when Nolan popped up to put the visitors in front.
Joey O'Brien's shot from outside the box was heading wide until Nolan poked out his foot to steer the ball into the net from six yards and break the deadlock.
Newcastle were quick to threaten at the other end, with Shane Ferguson drawing an impressive block from O'Brien and Hatem Ben Arfa seeing a shot hit the side netting after accumulating a couple of deflections en route.
Yohan Cabaye also had a sight of goal prior to the interval, after former Newcastle striker Andy Carroll fluffed his attempted clearance, but the France international could not find a way past Jaaskelainen.
Ba, who started despite concerns over a shin injury, thought he had equalised early in the second half but the officials ruled that Jaaskelainen had done enough to prevent his header from crossing the line.
The Finnish goalkeeper then had to turn a shot from Ba around the post, while Newcastle substitute Shola Ameobi headed just wide from a corner.
Carroll spurned a great opportunity to score against his old employers when he saw a side-footed effort saved by former team-mate Tim Krul after robbing Mike Williamson in the 72nd minute.
Krul went up for an injury-time corner but he could not get his head to Ben Arfa's delivery and Cabaye put a subsequent shot over the crossbar.

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I no longer work for a company that readily supplies me with MSDN software so I have to get Visual Studio for myself this time around. To that end I figured I would investigate the Express Edition.
The first thing I noticed is the separation of project types. You can only do Windows or Web applications. You can't do both. I was wondering if the "search online templates" in the Create Project dialog might give some more options, but this lead to nowhere.
The next step I am looking at is if you can install multiple express editions at one time. I wouldn't blame Microsoft if they blocked doing this. Considering Express is free and having two versions would give you more of the functionality of standard they would want to get paid for their work. I'll post again once I am done downloading the DVD ISO and attempt the installation.
I have mentioned before that one of my favorite podcasts is the Polymorphic Podcast hosted by Craig Shoemaker. Things were a little slow there for a while. I am guessing because Craig has done this because he wants to, not because he gets paid to and life just gets in the way some times.
This week he is fired back up to full steam. He has a great interview with Scott Hanselman. The only unfortunate part of the show is that it is making me feel old. I am five years older than Scott and haven't done anywhere near as much with my career. Very depressing.
I did enjoy hearing about all the cool people Scott has meet and worked with in his short time at Microsoft. It is great to hear how they pretty much work on things the same way the rest of us do.
It was also nice to hear them talk about the revalations that come with experience in development. The fact that KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and Your Not Gonna Need It are things that new developers don't realize when they are trying to conqure the world was a great statement.
Give this program a listen and check out the old episodes.
I must be allergic to Apples since every time I watch a commercial or listen to someone hype them I get irritated. Lately there have been a couple of posts and podcasts that have given me a little relief. Scoble has been having problems lately with his Macs and Hanselman was relating some issues with his on the latest Polymorphic Podcast. The observation here is not that Windows machines are any better than Apples. It is that Apples really aren't special or immune to problems. It more you load onto them the more unstable they are going to get.
There are other things that kill me. They advertise lack of flexibility as a selling point. Of course they don't call it that. They tell you that you don't have to add anything to the machine because it is already there (or at least that is how I hear the commercials). My reaction is that I want to be able to add the latest and greatest to my machine any time I want. Of course this means I am risking an unstable machine because no one can code for every possibility.
So, I'm not saying that Apple doesn't have a good product. They just need to quit lying to people that some how they make perfect machines and perfect software. As a developer I know that just isn't possible. They have just as many faults as anyone else, they just chose not deal with as many variables.
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IT IS FINALLY HERE! Keenan just posted that the The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library will be shipping November 26th. It has been a long time coming. While I played my small part in the initial writing, Keenan spent a lot of time trying to keep up with the face pace of Enterprise Library releases and still keep his day job. I encourage that you go out and pick up a copy. I know for my part I tried to make sure that it contained as much information as possible to extend the EL as well as how to use it out of the box.
This is a continuation of a couple of previous posts. The good news is that I seem to have identified the source of my display aggravations. Luckily it seems that it is just the screen saver that doesn't know how to render an image properly.
Since my earlier posts I have worked with several image editing tools and installed Webshots and a third party photo screen saver. None of them are showing the display issue that the Vista native screen saver does.
So, although the title of this post is negative it is actually a positive that Vista itself and the Toshiba hardware that I am using are not at fault. If this is the limit of my problems than I guess I can live with it.
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Victoria Pennington, a fourth-year pharmacy student from Groveport, Ohio, was awarded the Gloria Francke Scholarship as part of the 2013 American Pharmacists Association Foundation Student Scholarship Program.
The student scholarships are awarded to recognize exceptional demonstration of leadership skills and academics through active involvement in the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP).
The recipients will be recognized on March 3 at the APhA Foundation Contributor's Breakfast and at the APhA Foundation Student Scholarship reunion during the 2013 APhA annual meeting and exposition in Los Angeles.
Currently serving as president of the ONU chapter of the APhA-ASP, Pennington has held the position of legislative chair of APhA-ASP and was a student member of the Ohio Pharmacists Association Board of Trustees in 2011-12.
During 2012-13, she served as president-elect and headed up several initiatives, such as fundraising for APhA's national PAC (Political Action Committee), raising awareness for American Pharmacists Month last October, and promoting the Medication Adherence Challenge.
The scholarships recognize those students who invested their time through active involvement in their school's APhA-ASP chapter. These exceptional students help shape the future of the pharmacy profession while managing the demands of a full-time curriculum.
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|Federated Commonwealth
|Faction Profile
|Time period:
|3055 - 3057
|Successor State
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|Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth (AFFC)
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| Lyran Intelligence Corps (LIC)
Ministry of Information, Intelligence, and Operations (MIIO)
The Federated Commonwealth was the union of the Lyran Commonwealth and Federated Suns. The accession of Archon-Prince Victor Steiner-Davion in 3055 formally brought the nation into being, though in practice it had existed since before the Clan Invasion. Katherine Steiner-Davion seceded the Lyran half of the nation in 3057, creating the Lyran Alliance, which would lead to the FedCom Civil War in 3062. Victor abdicated the throne in 3067 and his successor, Prince-Regent Yvonne Steiner-Davion, renamed the rump Commonwealth "Federated Suns".
In 3020, Archon Katrina Steiner of the Lyran Commonwealth issued a "Peace Proposal" to all of the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere; only First Prince Hanse Davion of the Federated Suns responded, and the two states began a long-running dialogue. In 3020 the two Successor States signed the FedCom Accords, a treaty which formalized military, scientific and economic exchange between the two states. However, included in the document was a secret provision, promising the marriage of Prince Hanse and Archon-Designate Melissa Steiner, which would unite the two in a vast political entity, the Federated Commonwealth. This provision would become known to the other States in 3027 during the Silver Eagle Incident.
However, the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth did not share a common border, complicating their eventual union. At the behest of Prince Hanse, to rectify this problem the two realms began increasing their military readiness and began training together for an eventual campaign of conquest, launching Operation Galahad. On 20 August, 3028, at the marriage ceremony of First Prince Hanse and Archon-Designate Melissa, with all the leaders of the Great Houses in attendance, Hanse made his fateful announcement: "Wife, in honor of our marriage, in addition to this morsel... I give you the Capellan Confederation!"
With the launch of the Fourth Succession War, the combined forces of the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth began a massive campaign aimed largely at the Capellan Confederation and the Draconis Combine. The war would end two years later on 10 January 3030 with roughly a third of the Capellan Confederation conquered, along with some 53 Combine and 13 Free Worlds League planets. The conquered worlds would be incorporated into the Federated Commonwealth as the Sarna March and form a corridor between the two halves of the new super-state.
On 12 April 3030, Melissia gave birth to Victor Steiner-Davion, the future ruler of the Federated Commonwealth. While practically born in the aftermath of the Fourth Succession War, the Federated Commonwealth would only technically come into existence once Hanse and Melissa stepped down and allowed their son to assume his rightful position. Efforts were increased to further unify the two States politically and militarily in expectation of his ascension. Both the AFFS and LCAF increased work on combining their command structure, ranking system and battle doctrines into a single unified organization.
Rasalhague and Skye[edit]
On 13 March 3034, Haakon Magnusson declared himself Prince of the Free Rasalhague Republic which, in a surprise move, was agreed to by Gunji-no-Kanrei Theodore Kurita. The Combine's willingness to give up worlds to the nascent state would force the FedCom, and in particular the Lyrans, to do the same. Katrina Steiner had agreed at the onset of the Fourth Succession War to recognize the Tyr movement as the legitimate government of the Rasalhague worlds, yet most of their gains during the war had been in the Rasalhague Military District. To avoid appearing as hypocrites, the Lyrans agreed to relinquish control of these worlds to the FRR, effectively creating a buffer between the two States.
This created discord within the Lyran half of the FedCom. While objections to the alliance was mostly confined to small extremist groups within the Federated Suns, it was much larger and more organized within the Commonwealth. The loss of men and material for what became almost no gain sparked anger and protests, especially within the Tamar and Skye regions. The First Skye Rebellion, started by separatists seeking independence similar to Rasalhague, would end after successful negotiations by Duke Ryan Steiner; these negotiations has the simultaneous effect of shaming Prince Hanse for seemingly overreacting to the crisis with the use of AFFS troops. This crisis would tie up FedCom forces and delay their expected attack against the Draconis Combine, originally planned for 3035, by several more years.
Conflict with ComStar[edit]
Although it had been instrumental in facilitating the alliance, ComStar had no wish to see any one nation dominate the Inner Sphere, especially one dedicated to scientific progress. During the Fourth Succession War, much of the FedCom had been placed under a communications blackout, ostensibly in response to the Suns's attack on the HPG station on Sarna. Later investigations would exonerate the AFFS of any wrongdoing and suggest an underhanded plot by a third party; the same would be discovered regarding an apparent attack by the Death Commandos on the New Avalon Institute of Science. Only later would it be discovered that ComStar had been the one behind these false-flag attacks. In any event, FedCom was forced to accept the stationing of the Com Guards at all HPG stations, and a hidden war would commence between ROM and the combined forces of the LIC and MIIO with Operation Flush.
War of 3039[edit]
Renewed conflict with the Combine was seen as inevitable, especially with both the Suns and Commonwealth facing political pressure not only to renew the conquest but also against the alliance in the first place. When Katrina Steiner stepped down as Archon on 15 March 3039 and her daughter Melissa took her place, the die was cast and preparations for the conflict began. The War of 3039 would start the following month, and end in December. What should have been a massive victory ended in a practical draw, with FedCom capturing seven planets to the Combine's three, far short of the projected forty to fifty worlds prior to the conflict.
The delay in the start of the conflict had given Theodore Kurita time to revamp the DCMS into a more effective fighting force, while the AFFS and LCAF continued to fight as two separate organizations. FedCom communications were intercepted by the ISF, due to their recovery of a black box during the Fourth Succession War, which were lax in following encryption protocols. ComStar also assisted the Combine, secretly giving them BattleMechs incorporating advanced lostech from the Star League and preferential HPG rates, and indirectly through their hidden war with the FedCom intelligence communities. Finally, FedCom was unwilling to call the Combine's bluff with their final counter-attack, and signed the Exeter Accords in 19 January 3040. The war would highlight problems with the FedCom, which despite efforts still remained two distinct political, economic and military entities.
Decade of Peace[edit]
Following the disastrous War of 3039, the FedCom would go through a period of rebuilding and integration. Learning their lesson from the war, in early 3041 the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth was officially established. In order to eliminate confusion, the two militaries were reorganized into State Commands, one for each realm, with full authority over all troops within their area of operation regardless of origin. The LIC and MIIO was similarly grouped into the Intelligence Secretariat, which was charged with coordinating the disparate agencies under its command. The industrial and economic might of the two realms also helped them to recover swiftly from the aftermath of the war. The Skye March in particular was seen as an opportunity for corporations in both realms, such that in 3036 Archon Melissa was forced to intervene to prevent the exploitation of entire planets by greedy industrialists.
However, FedCom's enemies also took the time to regroup: the Draconis Combine had proved itself more than a paper tiger, while the Capellans were eager to avenge their losses, and the Free Worlds League emerged from the Andurien Crisis with its house in order. A Fifth Succession War was seen as inevitable.
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In truth, for most of its existence FedCom was a joint venture between Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner-Davion. With their deaths, the head of the Federated Commonwealth would formally be conferred onto the Archon-Prince, though this position was only ever filled by Victor Steiner-Davion for a couple of years from 3055 to 3057. Below him in the hierarchy would be the First Prince and Archon of the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth, respectively, who would take over governing duties during his absence.[1]
The lowering of trade restrictions between the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth would do much to strengthen their respective economies, especially after the Fourth Succession War and War of 3039. The conquest of fresh territory would also help strengthen the business sector as corporations began to expand and grow into these new markets. This led to massive exploitation, such that in 3036 Melissa Steiner-Davion had to step in and put an end to their unfair practices. In the years afterward, most effort went towards strengthening local firms, such as the revival of Asuncion Industries.[2]
Trade with the other Successor States however dropped dramatically in the years following FedCom's formation. Only with the St. Ives Compact and Free Rasalhague Republic was FedCom an active trader, and even the latter felt constrained to keep economic activity with the new superstate at much lower levels for fear of offending the Draconis Combine.[2]
The Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth was the combined military of the AFFS and LCAF. By early 3041 AFFC High Command formally accepted control of the two organizations, and by 3042 the last vestiges of both militaries was discarded. By 3050 the AFFC was the largest military organization in the Inner Sphere, with a BattleMech strength of 256 regiments and 1 battalion.[3]


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The issue consists of 25 complete stories, each 25 words long, told in 5 sentences, with each sentence comprised of 5 words. One of the stories, The Stake, is mine.
I like the idea a lot. 5×5 format is quite strict and it is a real challenge to make the final piece work as a complete story. Great idea, Angel!
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You can't keep Silvio Berlusconi down. A lesser man might be chastened by being turfed out of the Prime Minister's office, an ongoing trial involving a sex scandal, or a conviction for fraud.
Yet Italy's longest-serving leader since the Second World War confirmed what had been long-rumored on Saturday –he is planning a comeback just a year after an ignoble exit from office.
His People of Liberty party has withdrawn its support from the comparatively reserved technocrat who replaced him, Mario Monti.
After being "besieged" by calls to return to the front line of Italian politics (according to a statement from him), Berlusconi declared at the weekend: "The situation today is much worse than it was a year ago when I left the government out of a sense of responsibility and a love for my country."
(Read More: Monti's Resignation)
"I cannot let my country fall into a recessive spiral without end. It's not possible to go on like this."
The consequences in the markets of his return and the potential speeding-up of Monti's departure became evident on Monday morning when Italian stocks fell 2.5 percent and the 10-year Italian government bond yield jumped by a quarter percentage point to 4.75 percent. Trading in several Italian banks was also halted in Milan after they fell around 5 percent.
Prime Minister Monti said that he would resign once the budget law has been passed, which is expected by the end of December. Elections are expected in late February or early March,with Italian media predicting either the weekend of March 3 or 10. Monti could still help to govern Italy after the election, but he has not confirmed any plans.
"The really big question is whether the next election is going to give us a strong majority in parliament, that can reform the way markets and Italians want," Guiseppe Ragusa, economist at Luiss University, told CNBC.
Monti has lived up to hopes that he would be a safe pair of hands, and Italy has avoided some of the negative attention given to Spain in recent months. While both countries often seemed close to the abyss, Spain is now routinely spoken of as the next euro zone country which will need a bailout by international lenders, with Italy usually viewed as stronger.
"The damage to the Italian government's credibility and the rising uncertainty is likely to lead to pressure on Italian assets today, and volatility over the coming months,"analysts at RBC warned.
(Read More: Turmoil in Italy)
At the moment,polls suggest that a center-left coalition would win an election. The campaignis expected to be "fierce," analysts at Barclays warned.
"In the eyes of financial markets, Italy needs to complete the reform agenda in order to raise long-term growth prospects," they said.
"In the very near term, all eyes will be on the upcoming auctions."
In coming weeks, Italy is expected to launch a new three-year bond and hold auctions for some medium-long term paper.
While Monti's regime has been viewed with approval, Italy's economic issues are far from being solved,the country has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 120 percent and it's still in the grip of recession.
"The public finances are in order – the real problem is growth," Ragusa said.
"You have to go from the macroeconomic to micro economic perspective. You have to wonder why Italian labor productivity is so low. That will be a medium to long term commitment and many reforms are going to be necessary."


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Canadians in Australia
Canadians including Eric Wohlberg and Dominique Perras will be racing the Herald Sun Tour in Australia (October 14th to 24th). The major sponsor is the newspaper The Herald Sun and a story with photos of Wohlberg and Perras appears HERE
On October 2nd Ron Hayman and Nada Jos were married in or near Penticton BC. On hand were many friends and family.
Report courtesy Pat Buchanan
Under sunny Okanagan skies and fall colors next to the shimmering Skaha lake, Ron Hayman and Nada Jos pledged their love to one another. Being of Scottish decent Ron wore a family kilt and Nada a blue chiffon dress that she made herself. Piper Patrick J. Buchanan piped the party to the 90 in attendance of the wedding. Dinner followed with the traditional speeches to the party and a blessing in Gaelic from Brian Green.
Many of B.C's top cyclists were in attendance, Bruce Spicer, Jessie Keffer, and Roland Green. The party continued well into the wee hours of the morning with the band of Chris and Lisa Prowse (Bike Barn fame) rock'n all.
Angel Fire Resort to Host 2005 Mountain Bike UCI World Cup
Angel Fire Resort (Angel Fire, New Mexico) will be the only U.S. location for the 2005 World Cup competition. The international race has not been held in the United States in the last two years.
"We chose Angel Fire Resort for its challenging mountain trails," says Christopher Burri, UCI events coordinator. "The terrain on the Sangre de Cristo mountain range provides the ultimate challenge for the world's best mountain bikers, and the resort itself has the perfect accommodations to meet the needs of our organization."
The US stop for the World Cup will be #7 for XC and #6 for DH/4X and will take place on July 9th and 10th 2005.
Click HERE to view the 2005 schedule for MTB.
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5 Lessons From My First Conference Shoot
Posted by Stuart Herbert on October 18th, 2010 in Technique.
In early October 2010, I was fortunate enough to be able to go up to Manchester and try my hand at conference photography as part of the PHP North West 2010 conference. What started as some throw-away comments on Twitter with my friends turned into a fun and rewarding part of the weekend, and certainly proved to be an interesting bit of learning. In this blog post, I'm sharing what I learned and what I would do differently next time.
The Kit
I took along my Nikon D300s, and used just the two lenses: the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G DX for the Friday social in the pub, and the Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 in the conference hall for the talks on Saturday. I shot hand-held on the Friday, and mostly on a tripod on the Saturday. I didn't use the camera's built-in flash, nor an external flash of any kind. I shot auto-focus using the 35mm lens, and manual focus with the 80-200mm lens.
I picked the 35mm lens because a pub isn't the place for a tripod, and at f/1.8 the lens allowed me to shoot in very dark conditions. I did consider the 24mm f/2.8, but I'm really not a fan of portraits taken with wider lenses, and the 50mm f/1.4D has a waifer-thin depth of field when shot wide open. The 35mm seemed a good compromise, and I'd definitely choose it again for a similar situation.
The 80-200mm lens is a personal favourite of mine, and has become my main lens since I picked up a second-hand copy on eBay. It costs a fraction of the 70-200mm f/2.8 VR and VR II lenses, but optically it's close enough to those lenses to be worth it for a hobbyist like me. VR doesn't interest me, as it's no help when shooting something (or someone) that is moving. It is a heavy lens, but by god you sure look the part toting the damn thing around all day 🙂
And I have to say that it probably helped a lot. I'm sure quite a few people thought I was an official photographer, and therefore didn't mind my presence so much throughout the day.
Lesson 1: Shoot Auto-focus Every Time
Conference halls are ridiculously dark. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that they're so dark, it's no wonder attendees come out at the end of the day feeling tired from the eye strain involved. I knew this from previous years at the conference, but it still surprised me just how much of a problem light was to be throughout the day. I'd hoped that taking some moderately fast glass and a camera that was happy at ISO1600 would do the trick. It turned out that wasn't the entire battle.
On the Saturday, I was shooting using manual focus, because my particular copy of the 80-200mm has a broken selector switch (which is how I could afford it in the first place). In the darkness of the conference hall, even using LiveView on the back of the D300s, it was simply too dark to focus accurately by hand. Bad focus cost me more shots than any other single technical fault throughout the day. (If you want to see how I fare with manual focus in reasonable light, see this shot of an RAF helicopter in flight as an example of what I can normally achieve).
Next time I ever try my hand at this, I'm going auto-focus all the way. That's what I did in the pub for the Friday night social, and a much higher percentage of shots turned out okay.
Lesson 2: Eliminate Motion Blur By Careful Positioning
Even shooting at ISO1600 (I can't afford a D3s, which would be the ultimate solution to this problem … anyone want to buy me one?) and with a cracking f/2.8 lens, it was so dark that there were real problems with motion blur throughout the day. Despite shooting hundreds of photos, I only managed about 10 or so acceptable shots of the speakers – at several of those were taken at the end of the day when the house lights were up.
The problem wasn't just the darkness; in the morning, the place I'd picked for my tripod was part of the problem. Speakers in general like the wander around, and I'd managed to pick the spot where the speakers were moving left to right and forwards and backwards all at once. The only time they stood still, they were hidden by the lecturn.
In the afternoon, I moved over to the other side of the hall, which helped enormously. Now, whenever a speaker stood at the lecturn, I had a clear line of sight. But a D3s would still have been a better solution 😉
Lesson 3: Sight Lines Require You To Move
My regular style of photography is urban and landscapes. It was interesting how the Manchester Conference Centre threw up very similar challenges with sight lines throughout the day.
The thing with urban and landscape photography is that (in general) you can't move things out of the way to make a shot seem less cluttered. You're much better off either moving yourself to find a different angle, photoshopping things out (not for me, but I can understand people who do), or learning how to incorporate the clutter into the shot.
In the morning, feeling very nervous (I seldom shoot people, especially people trying to put on a performance less than 20 feet away), I tried to find a different angle … but I didn't move much. I ended up with the motion blur problems mentioned earlier, and sight line problems with the lectern when each speaker stopped moving. Part of the problem was definitely being tied to the tripod; moving it around mid-talk would surely have been extremely distracting to speaker and audience alike. And part of it was confidence: I wasn't an official photographer for the event, just an attendee who perhaps was pushing his luck as far as possible!
By the end of the day, I was feeling more comfortable, and happily moving around to pick out my shots. Because I was feeling more confident in myself, I feel that the afternoon's shots were the better portraits.
Lesson 4: You're Shooting With Fast Glass, So Use It
Like a lot of photographers, my collection of f/2.8 lenses wasn't bought so that I could take photos in darkened lecture halls; I use them for shallow depth of field shots. I like the fact that I'm free to pick out a subject from a scene, to place the emphasis where I artistically think it's strongest or most interesting. Within the laws of physics, fast glass gives me room to be creative. If only it automatically came with talent too!
Anyway, one of the benefits of fast glass is that you can shoot in darkened lecture halls, and the nice thing about depth of field is that the depth available doesn't depend on the amount of light available, if you can shoot at all at f/2.8. You get the same depth of field in bright sunlight as you do in gloomy semi-darkness. So take full advantage of it.
Lesson 5: Don't Forget The Audience
Whenever you see conferences covered online, the photos tend to be of two types: everyone drinking at the bar, and of the speakers doing their thing in front of an audience. It isn't often I see the audience photographed, and that's a shame, because my favourite shots from this conference were those I took of the audience. I just wish more of those shots had turned out well enough to publish.
The thing with the audience is that there's simply more to capture in your photos. A speaker up on stage is largely a solo portrait; if you're lucky, you might get a good slide behind the speaker, but most of the time you're picking your moment to hide the fire exit sign and other such things. But with the audience, there's real depth to the shot. You've got people to pick out of a crowd, and because they're normally arranged in rows, your fast glass will allow you to drop other people out of the shot with ease.
Bonus Lesson: Photography Helps You Focus
Whenever I go to a technical conference, I'm one of those delegates who breaks out the laptop and uses the time to work away on something that needs several hours of effort in a block … because it's rare for me to get a block of time on any one thing these days with the nature of my job. I'm not saying that I don't listen to the conference speakers, but my attention is certainly divided at best.
Not this time, and not just because the laptop stayed in the hotel room all day. Trying to find the right photos for each speaker meant being in the moment with them; it meant listening to them properly. It also meant not scrambling around for power half-way through the day (I used an iPad all day to be part of the conference conversation on Twitter, which didn't get charged until I got home late the following day. Marvellous thing, the iPad is).
The end result was a great day for me, some faltering first steps at conference photography, and I actually learned quite a bit too by following the speakers more closely than in previous years.
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Hopefully, you're not still under the illusion that if you're talented and hardworking, somehow people will notice and you'll get your just rewards.
A lot of career Cinderellas are still out there waiting around for that prince of a promotion or raise to come, getting more disillusioned, and depressed with every passing day. Getting promoted means getting noticed, which is not something that happens on its own. But you can make it happen by using the following four strategies as often as possible.
Volunteer for Assignments
Stay alert for opportunities that will allow you to do any or all of the following:
- Showcase your best skills
- Stretch in some way
- Align your efforts with your boss's key interests
You must stay vigilant and watch for situations to arise. Make sure your hand goes up before others in the class realize there's an opportunity.
Speak Up at Least Three Times in Every Meeting
If you're an introvert, this might be a stretch for you, but there are ways to train yourself and prepare. This is an extrovert-dominated world, where people who take longer to formulate their thoughts often find that the conversation has galloped off in another direction before they have a chance to respond.
Here's a simple solution: Get the agenda ahead of time, read it over, and script (write out for yourself so you can check your notes during the meeting) some of the ideas you've developed. Then, a simple glance at your notes during the fast-moving debate will help you drop some dynamite ideas into the fray. When you're quiet, some may assume there is nothing going on inside your head. Don't let people, especially your boss, think this about you.
Stay Informed and Let It Show
Read, surf the Web, or talk with colleagues in your field, and keep in touch with what's going on in your profession. Then be sure to drop nuggets of what you've learned and your conclusions about the information you've gathered into conversations, memos or any relevant work material. Take the time to have some interesting and useful thoughts, and then make sure other people know about them.
In organizations today, being informed about what's happening this week is only part of the battle; the people who will be rewarded with raises and promotions are those who prove that they're thinking ahead in order to be strategic rather than reactive.
Document Your Successes
Let people know what's going on as a matter of course. When you have a brief meeting with someone and a plan is set, send an email confirming who is doing what and copy relevant people. When you get a positive comment or a thank-you from someone, forward it to your boss, assuming she'll want to see any good news that comes in about the work unit she's managing. After all, your success is ultimately her success.
So many people, especially women, complain that they're just not being appreciated and their coworkers and bosses take them for granted. Don't forget that you have to act to ensure your efforts are rewarded and your work is noticed. And if the rewards aren't forthcoming, start looking for a better opportunity.


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