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Issue No. 22: Jan. 3, 2011
Issue No. 23: Jan. 10, 2011
Issue No. 24: Jan. 18, 2011
Issue No. 25: Jan. 24, 2011
Issue No. 26: Jan. 31, 2011
News from President Jessica Stumpf
Faculty Development Days
Call For Presidential Search Advisory Committee Nominations
D2L Help
Campus Now Offers Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA/HHA) Program
African Student Association Civil Rights Research Tour
Scholardazzle to be Held January 21
Mark Your Calenders for Candlelight Ski – Feb. 5, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Official Announcements
College of Choice for Faculty & Staff
Pause for Appreciation
The offices and bookstores are buzzing with students preparing for spring semester. Thank you everyone for serving our students with care.
Here are the details.
See Agenda HERE.
All college constituent groups are being asked to forward nominations to serve on the Presidential Search Advisory Committee to Director of Human Resources, Darren Hoff, by January 14. Read more details here .
I hope you are having an enjoyable break! I suspect many of you are also busy preparing for the upcoming semester and may need some support with D2L work. With that in mind, here is the guideline that summarizes the standard D2L support that is available to you.
Please review the attached document and keep in mind…
1.It is the responsibility of the faculty member to request creation of a D2L course and that the support person be granted rights to that course (see the end of this email for a copy of the message sent out by Rita Resendiz on how to make such a request).
2.Support staff are unable to provide any assistance until after faculty request the assignment of secretarial rights (I believe it takes 1 day to complete that task once the request is made).
3.Faculty roles/rights and secretarial roles/rights are different.
4.Do not share your ID or password with anyone. At no time is it acceptable for support staff to use faculty user IDs/passwords to perform tasks associated with the faculty role/rights.
5.If you need help learning a task specific to your faculty role/right, contact Rita Resendiz for assistance.
Spring 2011 D2L courses are ready for mapping. If you have special requests (like help importing previous course data into new courses) or need to combine courses, please indicate this in the comments box when filling in the "Request D2L Course Creation" form. [Note: Faculty should list who should have secretary rights in the "Comments" box.]
To request a Spring 2011 D2L course:
1.Go to the Anoka-Ramsey Community College web site
2.Click on Employee Home
3.Click on Desire2Learn (D2L)
4.Type in your D2L Username and Password
5.Click Login
6. Click on the "Faculty helpdesk" blue graphic on the right side of the screen
7.Type in your Tech ID
8.Type in your PIN
9.Select the appropriate semester (Spring 2011)
10.Make sure "Request D2L Course Creation" is selected
11.Click Submit
Any questions, please email the D2L Helpdesk.
The Cambridge Campus will begin offering a non-credit certified nursing assistant/home health aide (CNA/HHA) program this February. In only 72 hours, students can gain the training and skills necessary for an in-demand healthcare career that helps others and makes an impact on their quality of life.
Upon program completion, graduates will be eligible for a CNA/HHA certificate and, after passing the CNA state exam, be registered on the Minnesota CNA State Registry.
The combined CNA/HHA program is state-approved. Participants will:
The cost is $699 plus materials, and there are two options. Option 1 runs Saturdays, Feb. 5 – March 26, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and includes practice in a clinical setting, March 27 – 31, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Option 2 runs Mondays and Tuesdays, Feb. 7 – March 8, 4 to 9 p.m., and includes practice in a clinical setting, March 9 – 15, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Individuals may be eligible for tuition assistance for the CNA/HHA program through a U.S. Department of Labor grant awarded to the Healthcare Alliance.
For more information, contact Sharon DeGideo, Director of Training, Allied Healthcare at 763-422-6094.
The Anoka-Ramsey Community College African Student Association (ASA) is planning a Civil Rights Research Tour during Spring Break 2011. The goal is to document findings from this research tour by way of movie documentary. We would like to create this movie to be used in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, local community classrooms and at Anoka-Ramsey as a learning tool for teachers, and faculty. This movie will be featured in April during the 2nd Annual Cultural Awareness Day.
In order to create the most beneficial learning experience for our community members, it would behoove the ASA to create a planning team for the upcoming research tour. We are looking for three faculty members, an administrator, and a staff member (five persons total) that would help us design this experience similar to a common course outline or course experience. We need to determine learning objectives and learning outcomes for the students who participate and the community members who will view the movie. We will also need to develop qualitative questions for the interview portions of the documentary. If you are interested, please email ASA President, Anthony Jones. We thank you in advance.
As most of you know, each year employees and departments create gift baskets to be auctioned off at Scholardazzle. Basket themes have included (but are not limited to): Woods of Minnesota, Italian Dinner, Winter Wonderland, Health Supplie, a Dog basket, Night at the Theatre...the list grows each year with the imagination of the creator(s). In total, the baskets brought in over $1,000 last year. The baskets were so well received last year that we would like to continue the tradition!
If you create a basket, please contact Kelly Torok-Linder for a Donation form and be sure to have it filled out and back to her by Wednesday, Jan. 12. The baskets should be completed and received by Kelly by Jan. 18! If you have any questions or ideas, please notify Marc Johnson.
Thank you for your help – past, present and future!
We really need your help again this year! You all have been so helpful in previous years.
Below is a list of tasks that need to be done. We especially need help with door prize request and pick-ups.
1) Door prize request and pick-up (I would like to have all the door prizes by Friday, Jan. 28). I will give you a list of 5-10 area businesses (depending on how much you can do and how many volunteer for this task) to contact. I will also give you a script and thank you note for the business when you pick up the door prize.
*We need to start this process at the beginning of January, please consider helping out with this!*
2) filling bags with sand and candles(to be done Friday, Feb. 4, 11am),
3) setting luminaries out on the trail (approximately 3 pm on Sat. Feb. 5),
4) lighting luminaries once they are set out,
5) manning the goodies table,
6) picking up the luminaries after the event.
Please notify Mary Januschka what you would like to help out with. Thanks you in advance!
Items for November 2010 approved by AASC and College President, moved to action:
Faculty Development Fund Approvals
Staff Development Fund Approvals
Social Amenities
Sunshine Committee
Dear Reader,
My name is Steven Selin. I am a student attending Anoka Ramsey community College. Samantha Doluweera has been my math tutor all throughout my fall semester. The skills, kindness and understanding she has acquired throughout her life really astonish me. Personally, math has never been a very easy subject for me. But Samantha is always patient, optimistic and takes the time to help me understand in a way that really builds my confidence level. She has a very big heart and I can tell that she wants the very best for me. I can honestly say that she is the best math teacher I have ever had in my life. I look forward to working with her in the future! She is TRULY amazing and special!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Anything that will help people know how excellent Samantha is at what she does is greatly appreciated.
With utmost sincerity,
Anoka-Ramsey Student
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News from President Jessica Stumpf
2011-2012 Budgets
Music Faculty Gets Hometown Recognition
Healthy Food Delivered Right to Campus through Wellness Works
Grant Update
College of Choice for Faculty & Staff
Pause for Appreciation
Consider challenging your colleagues to a donation dual?
Please support higher education by donating items for the silent auction and purchasing tickets to Scholardazzle.
Students from Cambridge-Isanti and surrounding communities in East Central Minnesota are increasingly choosing Anoka-Ramsey Community College's Cambridge Campus for their higher education. More than ever before, these students need financial assistance in order to cover the costs of college. The Cambridge Campus foundation invites you to Scholardazzle: a dinner, silent and live auction event to raise funds for college student scholarships.
Scholardazzle 2011
Dinner, Music, Silent & Live Auction
WHEN: Friday, January 21, 2011; 6 p.m.
WHERE: Spectacular Events Banquet Center, Isanti MN
TICKETS: $55 per ticket; $100 for two
CALL: 763-433-1968 for tickets
Special thanks to the following Diamond Sponsors have already shown their support for students by donating $1,000 for Scholardazzle.
This spring, Anoka-Ramsey Community College has an opportunity to participate in a national survey focusing on teaching, learning, and retention in community colleges. The project is housed within The Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Research shows that the more actively engaged students are—with college faculty and staff, with other students, with the subject matter being learned—the more likely they are to persist in their college studies and to achieve at higher levels. Identifying what our students do in and out of the classroom, knowing their goals, and understanding their external responsibilities can help us create an environment that can enhance student learning, development, and retention.
The survey will be administered in classes randomly selected by CCSSE to ensure a representative sample and to preserve the integrity of the survey results. Instructors whose classes are selected for survey administration will receive specific information from the appropriate administrator.
Anoka-Ramsey is intent on being a leader in education, and this survey can assist us in identifying where we are and what further action may be helpful in our continuing work to support and strengthen teaching and learning. Your cooperation and participation in this exciting national survey are sure to enhance our educational programs and services to students.
You may learn more about CCSSE from the project Web site. If you have any questions about the CCSSE project, please contact the CCSSE office at 512-471-6807. If you have questions about the CCSSE survey administration, please contact Katie Vaccari at x1257. Finally, if you are interested in data from previous administrations of the CCSSE survey at Anoka-Ramsey, please click HERE.
Thank you,
Jessie Stumpf, Interim President
Welcome back from winter break and Happy New Year! It is now time to begin working on budgets for the 2012 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011. Each dean or supervisor now has access to their budget packets located HERE. Included in each packet are forms for supplemental equipment, supplemental furniture, Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) requests and the spending plan for each cost center.
Completed budget packets should be returned to your dean or supervisor by March 1, 2011. Deans and supervisors must finalize budget packets by April 1, 2011.
Remember in each folder is also a copy of the Strategic Initiative Proposal (SIP) documents that can be completed and returned to your dean/supervisor by Feb. 11, 2011. Please email Kelsey Schwarzrock (x1507) with any questions about the SIP process.
Anoka-Ramsey's own Music Faculty member, Rich Manik, received some much deserved recognition in his hometown newspaper, the SouthHills Tribune, recently.
A music teacher for more than a decade, Rich has played around the Twin Cities with such local legends as Mick Sterling and the Stud Brothers, which was inducted into the Mid-America Music Hall of Fame last summer, and most recently with the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra.
Check out the complete article about Rich's beginning as a musician and a summary of his long professional career HERE.
As part of its mission to increase employee health and well-being, the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Wellness Works program brought the opportunity to buy fresh, organic-certificate seasonal produce delivered to the campus last summer, and MaryAnn Larios was a ready participant.
"My husband and I had been researching Community Sustained Agriculture or CSAs for years," says MaryAnn. "Simply, we wanted to support local organic farmers and increase our own health. When Anoka-Ramsey became a drop off site for the Women's Environmental Institute (WEI) CSA, we knew we wanted to try it out."
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, community supported agriculture (CSA), or subscription farming, is a new idea in farming that has been gaining momentum since its introduction from Europe in the mid-1980s. The CSA concept originated in the 1960s in Switzerland and Japan, where consumers interested in safe food and farmers seeking stable markets joined together. Today, there are more than 400 CSA farms in the U.S.
Wellness Works partnered with WEI to provide college employees the opportunity to buy a share in the farm. Twenty-one employees bought a full or partial share. Buying a share is like a pledge to support the farm operation, sharing the risks and benefits of food production. Typically, members or shareholders pledge in advance to cover the anticipated costs of the farm operation and farmer's salary. In return, they receive shares in the farm's bounty throughout the growing season.
"My share, which I split with two of my sisters, was a great opportunity to prepare and eat vegetables that I had not eaten before," says MaryAnn. "Our weekly box included both common and uncommon (at least to me) vegetables such as rutabaga, soup greens, soup kale, basil, turnips, red cabbage, broccoli, tatsoi, a variety of potatoes, onions, garlic, fresh herbs, summer and winter squash and a variety of apples."
MaryAnn found the cost of her weekly share to be comparable to purchasing the produce in a grocery store but noted that all CSA food was organic so it actually turned out to be a good value. Better still, she says, was the weekly reminder to eat healthy.
"I can guarantee you will be inspired to eat healthier," says MaryAnn. "I think it is great that Anoka-Ramsey helps us [college employees] live a healthier lifestyle with this programming. The introduction of new, healthy lifestyle options in this program can give us all an incentive to try new ways to increase our physical and mental well being."
The Wellness Works program plans to bring the CSA option back in the spring of 2011 with a brown bag information session in early April. For more information about the CSA program or other Wellness Works benefits, visit the Wellness Works Web page.
Recipes Too!
Each week, along with fresh, organic produce, the share contains recipes using whatever is in the box.
Here is one of Mary Ann's favorite recipes from last summer.
Zucchini Yeast Bread
1 pound (3 ½ cups grated zucchini
2 Tablespoons salt (I use less)
2 teaspoons dry yeast
1 ¼ cups lukewarm water
3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
Olive oil, for brushing
1. In a colander, alternate layers of grated zucchini & salt. Let sit for 30 minutes, then squeeze out moisture with your hands.
2. Combine the yeast with ¼ cup of lukewarm water, stir & let sit for 15 minutes to dissolve yeast.
3. Place the zucchini, yeast & flour in a bowl. Stir together & add just enough of the remaining water to obtain a rough dough.
4. Transfer to a floured surface & knead until smooth & elastic. Return the dough to the bowl, cover with a plastic bag, and set aside to rise in a warm place until doubled in volume; about 1 ½ hours.
5. Grease a baking sheet. Punch down the risen dough with your fist and knead into a tapered cylinder. Place on a baking sheet & let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 425. Brush the bread with olive oil and bake for 40 minutes or until loaf is a golden color. Cool on rack before serving.
From: Low-fat Baking (2003); Linda Fraser
The Office of Institutional Advancement and the grant development staff has recently been working with some of our tremendous fellow faculty and staff on the following grant efforts:
Funding Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service and Serve Minnesota (AmeriCorps)
With this proposal we will be seeking funding to continue the Minnesota College Success Corps, which recruits, trains and directs the efforts of AmeriCorps members in providing tutoring, supplemental instruction and mentoring to students enrolled in developmental mathematics, reading, and English writing courses. We want these students to succeed! Our request is for funds to support 20 members who will give 1,700 hours of service over a 12-month period. This request will be for three years of funding at $275,000 per year.
Funding Agency: US Department of Education, TRiO Talent Search Program
With this proposal we requested funding to begin a new precollege preparation and access program to assist 500 low-income and first-generation junior and senior high school students to be prepared for and enroll in a postsecondary program of study after high school graduation. Partnering organizations include Brooklyn Junior High School, Park Center Senior High School, Champlin Park High School and Coon Rapids High School. This request is for five years of funding at $230,000 per year.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
With this proposal we will be seeking funding to support the research/course development efforts of one of our faculty members with a background that is under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This program is intended to help build diversity within faculty and student ranks in these disciplines. This request will be for two years of funding for approximately $175,000 per year.
Funding Agency: Minnesota State Arts Board
With this proposal we will be seeking funding to support the creation of media and educational presentations of some of Minnesota's preeminent ceramic artists. This program is intended to raise awareness and appreciation for Minnesota's truly outstanding ceramic artists and their work. Partners include the Northern Clay Center and many independent artists. This request will be for one year of funding at approximately $65,000.
We are truly excited to be engaged in these efforts to do good work that is supportive of the mission and goals of our community college.
Wellness Fund Approvals
Thank You
The clothing, the money, the gift cards, the food and the many prayers have helped me begin to pull my life together. Sarah works with wonderful people who have showed me pure goodness. Pictures for the wall, a cheesecake, or a pair of boy's tennis shoes all spell kindness that felt lifesaving. I will spend a lifetime paying it forward. This comes to let you know just how much your kindness and special thoughtfulness was appreciated!
-Claudia and Dylan Treichel (parents of Sarah Deering)
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News from President Jessica Stumpf - Scholardazzle & Science Night
Student Clinic for Employee's Physical Therapy Services
Lions Club Extravaganza Event on Campus
Research Ramblings
Yoga at Work
Pause for Appreciation
Academic Affairs & Standards Council Agenda
Faculty Shared Governance Agenda
I've heard wonderful stories about the big event coming up this Friday – Scholardazzle! There is a cake auction, a silent auction, a wonderful dinner and game to win a diamond necklace! I hope to see you there! Get your tickets today at 763-433-1820.
The PTA program on the Coon Rapids campus is excited to expand their student run clinic beginning this spring!
This fall they implemented their first on-campus clinic experience with the Anoka-Ramsey Community College student athletes with a huge success! They are now ready to expand and offer their services to faculty and staff.
Beginning the week of Jan. 18 appointments will be available during the following days and times:
•Mondays from 9 to 11 a.m., and Noon to 2 p.m.
•Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
•Fridays from Noon to 2 p.m.
Clients who qualify for services will be employees of Anoka-Ramsey Community College (including student workers) suffering from minor pain or injury such as back pain, neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome or post surgical injuries. You must also be uninsured or have been denied Physical Therapy services through your current insurance.
If you are interested in an appointment please contact Tabitha Elstad at 763-433-1663.
11650 Round Lake Blvd, Ste 101
Coon Rapids, MN 55433
Advance tickets are $25 and are now available for the Coon Rapids Lions Club 2nd annual mid-winter "Wine & Epicurean Delights Extravaganza." Proceeds will help support the Presidential Scholarship funds at Anoka-Ramsey Community College Coon Rapids Campus.
When: Saturday, February 19 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: ARCC Riverview Café
What: Wine tasting; a wall of wine by Foxwood Wine Cellars; appetizers served by Potbelly's, Dairy Queen, Baker's Square, Costco, and Pizza Hut; auction of jewelry, art, and sporting goods
Enjoy a fun evening, rub elbows with local business people, taste delightful food, and help support campus scholarships! Buy tickets at M.G.M. Liquor Warehouse or online HERE.
Submitted by Nora Morris
Did you know:
332 students completed a total of 337 Associates Degrees this fall term (five students earned multiple degrees)? The college awarded 178 AA degrees, 137 AS degrees (including 92 in Nursing), 14 AAS degrees, and 8 AFA degrees. Fall Certificates are still being processed.
Want to know more?
This is part of a weekly series of updates from the Institutional Research Office. Those of us in the research office have the privilege of reviewing reams of data about our students, our programs, our faculty and staff, and our institution over all. This is our attempt to share the wealth of information that passes through our office and could be useful to you in helping to know and understand who we are and the community we serve. Each week we will provide some interesting facts on a different topic. Please feel free to comment on what we present and most importantly 'talk amongst your selves'.
Tuesdays, 4:45 to 5:45 p.m., Coon Rapids Campus, Gym 108
Yoga at work is a low-cost and innovative solution for companies wanting to reduce health care expenses, relieve workplace stress, and promote employee well-being. The performance of a business depends on the performance of its key assets – employees. Healthy employees are more productive.
Workplace Benefits:
Note from a Student
"I took Tom McCarthy's Public Speaking class and as scary as the class was, I got so much out of it. I have a love/hate relationship with any communication class, whether it being a writing or speech class. They can be intimidating to walk into but rewarding to walk away from. Improving your speech, vocabulary and communications skills are so important for living a well-rounded life. I don't think you can ever stop learning more effective ways to communicate, and that's what I'm taking away from this class and from all of you. I hope we can all learn together, and from each other, and I hope to walk away a better person."
Note from Crystal Nelson
I would like to thank the IT team for their fast work in getting the Portal Programs set up. They have been AWESOME and I appreciate their hard work.
Thank you!
January 21, 2011
Mississippi Room and ITV to E202
1:00–3:00 p.m.
I. Minutes of November 18, 2010 were approved electronically.
II. Proposals for approval:
III. Discussion Items:
IV. Information items:
Next meeting is February 18, 2011.
AASC Changes – Effective Dates–Catalog
Deleting/suspending courses:
Deadline for submission to AASC: April 1
Modifying existing courses or creating new courses:
Course is available for registration no earlier than following spring)
Program revisions (New/Deleting/Modifications):
Deadline for submission to AASC: March 1
*No new programs or changes to existing programs will be included in the catalog without MnSCU approval (if required).
Committee members: Angie Anderson, Jim Biederman, Bonnie Boese (alternate), Bruce Bordwell, Gary Cook (alternate), Bruce Homann, Dana Irgens, Sandy Kohler, Kim Lynch (alternate), Shawn Magner, Nora Morris, Patty Pieper, Deidra Peaslee, Joe Schoen, Penny Rivard-Sherman (alternate), Mike Seymour (alternate), Deb Shepherd, Jenni Swenson, Michael Werner (alternate), Tim Wrenn
Guests: Rhonda Kern, Jill Snippen
Monday, January 24, 2011
Cambridge-117/ Coon Rapids-Mississippi Room
I. Old bus
A. Applied engineering home
B. Complaint form—sub-committee report
C. Cost cutting/revenue sharing—sub-committee report
D. IT master plan—Kim lynch
E. Ban on smoking—enforcement plan without penalties at this point, emphasis on education
F. Possible hire in Anthropology for fall 2011
II. New business
A. Replacement for Cindy Nutter position
B. Other
A Wonderful Evening at Scholardazzle
English Faculty Publishes First Book of Poetry
Candlelight Ski
Research RAMblings
I am pleased to announce Anoka-Ramsey Community College's nominees for the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching:
Claudia Kittock , Psychology (Cambridge)
Jennifer Liberty-Clark , Psychology (Cambridge)
Melissa Bergstrom , Music (Coon Rapids)
More than 170 students, faculty, and staff submitted nominations for more than 100 different instructors, which clearly speaks to the impact that outstanding teachers can have on their students and their peers.
After an initial screening for eligibility (full-time faculty member with three years of service) and number of nominations, the nominating committee used a rubric-based process to evaluate the narrative evidence in the nomination, based on the four selection criteria: teaching strategies and materials; content expertise and professional growth; service to students, profession, institution, and system; and standards for assessment of student learning and performance. For the final selection, the committee reviewed professional development and service that had been institutionally documented.
Please join me in congratulating all three of our nominees and offering particular encouragement to them as they prepare their teaching portfolios for system review.
I would also like to thank the nominating committee for its work: Josh Anderson, Student Representative (Coon Rapids Campus); Cori Bolan, Student Representative (Cambridge Campus); Dana Irgens, Dean of Arts & Letters; Joan McKearnan, Faculty Development Chair (Coon Rapids Campus); Kim Lynch, Dean of Innovative Teaching & Learning; Mary Januschka, Faculty Development Chair (Cambridge Campus).
The MnSCU Board of Trustees approved the funding for construction of a Health and Wellness Center at the Coon Rapids Campus. Request for construction bids will be going out this spring.
Parallel Press recently published a poetry collection by English instructor, Tracy Youngblom, titled, "Driving to Heaven." This is Youngblom's first collection.
Students, faculty members and staff are invited to join the free celebration of this accomplishment, Thursday, Feb. 3 at The Corner Bar (1501 S. Washington Ave., Minneapolis) at 7:30 p.m. The book will be on sale, and Youngblom will be available for signing.
A review by Midwest Book Review calls the book, "a quiet intensity pervades this emotional and memorable collection."
Tracy holds a master of arts in English and a master of fine arts in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including "Shenandoah," "Loonfeather," "Briar Cliff Review," "North Stone Review," "Poetry East," "Potomac Review," "Cortland Review" and others, along with the anthologies "33 Minnesota Poets" and "In a Fine Frenzy." She is the poetry editor for the online journal "Emprise Review."
Congratulations, Tracy!
Saturday, Feb. 5, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Candlelight Ski is a free annual event that encourages participants to get out and enjoy a beautiful evening in the Spirit River Nature Area - Cross country ski trails. Approximately two miles of the ski trials are lined with luminaries that create a unique experience. A blue grass band will perform in the food court from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and door prizes will be given out at 7:30 p.m. Hot chocolate and goodies are available for participants. Everyone is welcome.
Ski rental is available through Outdoor Edge. Reserve your ski equipment at 763-552-3343. Pick up your ski equipment at Outdoor Edge, 115 South Adam Street, Cambridge, Minn.
Submitted by Nora Morris
Jan. 19, 2011
Did you know?
Faculty Development Fund Approvals
Yesterday the business office spent a lot of money, $16,152,911.
I want to commend Diane DenBeste and the Business Office, they worked together as a team to get this all done without any overtime. In addition, we could not have got this project done without the Call Center. Central Services prepared the 4,500 envelopes that had to be folded and run through the postage machine. I want to thank each and every one of them. I know our students have been anxiously awaiting these funds.
-Marilyn Smith
News from President Jessica Stumpf
Science Night a Great Success!
Anoka-Ramsey Community College Presents a Discussion with Penumbra Theatre
Anoka-Ramsey Player Claims Third Player of the Week Nod
Student Leadership Stipends Awarded
Business Professionals of America (BPA) Annual Conference
Wellness Works Weight Watchers Program
February 1, 2011
Cambridge Campus F105
Coon Rapids SC 272
9:15-10:15 a.m. - Dr. Steven Rosenstone
10:30-11:30 a.m. - Dr. William Sederburg
News releases are available HERE.
You and your students are invited to join in a celebration – a creative writing articulation agreement signing and information session!
Anoka-Ramsey Community College President Jessie Stumpf and Hamline University's Dean of the Graduate School of Liberal Studies Mary Rockcastle will sign an articulation agreement allowing Anoka-Ramsey students who earn the Associate in Arts Degree with an emphasis in Creative Writing to transfer directly into Hamline's Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing. The event includes light refreshments and an opportunity to talk with Mary Rockcastle about Hamline's BFA and MFA in Creative Writing.
Creative Writing Articulation Agreement Signing & Information Session
Wednesday, Feb. 9
Noon to 1 p.m.
Coon Rapids Campus, Riverview Room
Hope to see you there!
The English Division at Anoka-Ramsey Community College is pleased to announce its first event in the spring 2011 Two River Reading Series on the Coon Rapids Campus.
Associate Director Dominic Taylor, Education Director Sarah Bellamy, and cast members from St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre Company will lead a reading and discussion of August Wilson's play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" on Wednesday, Feb. 16 from 12 to 12:50 and again at 1 to 1:50 p.m. in the Legacy Room. Set in 1927 in a run-down recording studio in Chicago, legendary blues singer Ma Rainey arrives to record some of her old favorites. This famous play propels us forward into a riveting portrayal of racism, self-hate due to racism, and exploitation. The public is invited to attend this free event.
"The English and Reading departments recognize the importance of a 'common-book' experience on our college campus, and we think it's important that our students have the opportunity of reading a book and then meeting the person who wrote that book, or in this case, meeting a respected scholar who has in-depth knowledge of both the playwright and the work itself. We also recognize the opportunities for growth, awareness, understanding, and change that students might experience though reading literature, especially in a program like this," says Scott Stankey, English Division Faculty member. Anoka-Ramsey Community College's Two Rivers Reading Series presents visiting award-winning authors, poets, and playwrites each semester.
As a follow-up, students/alumni, faculty, and staff are invited to Anoka-Ramsey Day at the Guthrie for a performance of Wilson's play and a post-play discussion, Sunday, Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. For more information about purchasing tickets for this event, contact Michael Wall at x1597. These events are part of an ongoing partnership between ARCC and Penumbra Theater.
For the third time in four weeks, an Anoka-Ramsey Community College Women's Basketball player has been named MCAC Southern Division Player of the Week.
The week ending Jan. 1, Tamarra Shorter, a freshman from Osseo High School, was named player of the week. The week ending Jan. 15, Mallory Cramer, a sophomore from Minneapolis South High School was MCAC player of the week AND NATIONAL Player of the week.
Now Stephanie Pilgrim, a sophomore from Osseo High School, has been named MCAC Southern Division Player of the week for the week ending Jan. 22. In two games last week, Pilgrim averaged 18.5 points and five rebounds per game while shooting 54% from the field and 54% from behind the arc.
Anoka-Ramsey, 19-1 on the season and ranked #1 in the country won both games. Anoka-Ramsey beat Central Lakes 78-38 and #9 ranked MN West 68-66. In the MN West game Anoka-Ramsey came back from a 20-point deficit with 15 minutes to go to eek out the win.
Pilgrim is the daughter of Jim and Marsha Pilgrim, of Maple Grove Minn.
Anoka-Ramsey Community College is a Division III Junior College located in Coon Rapids, Minn. and competes in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference. They have won six National Championships, the most recent in 2007 and been to the National tournament 10 times. In 2010, the Golden Rams finished 3rd at the National Tournament.
Congratulations to the following Coon Rapids Campus student leaders. These students were granted Student Leadership Stipends for their contributions to Anoka-Ramsey Community College during Fall Semester 2010. Awards ranging from $100 to $700 are made possible through Student Life. Award recipients are selected based on the breadth and depth of their voluntary leadership and involvement at ARCC to improve services, activities, procedures, and other aspects of student life.
Anoka-Ramsey Community College will welcome the region's high school Business Professionals of America (BPA). The annual BPA competition will be held at Anoka-Ramsey Community College on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Over 200 area high school students will be competing in a variety of business events. Also on campus will be area high school teachers and representatives from many local businesses.
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January 26, 2011
Weight Watchers new PointsPlus™ program is finally here and it's Weight Watchers most exciting advancement ever! The new program is based on the latest nutritional science with added flexibility that makes the plan more livable than ever.
This is truly exciting news for all of our employees who want to establish healthier eating habits and reach their weight loss goals. And, having Weight Watchers meetings right where you work can make getting started even more convenient!
Please notify Joyce Traczyk if you are interested in the Weight Watchers at work program. If there is enough response, a date, time and location of the information and registration meeting will be sent to those who are interested.
Scholardazzle was a lovely evening… Thanks to all those who worked to make it successful! A special thanks to Eric and his colleagues from the Coon Rapids Campus for the terrific music … and to the students who came to share why Anoka-Ramsey Community College Foundation scholarships are so important!
-Bonnie Boese
On behalf of the music department, I want to publicly thank Nora Morris, Bryan Vickstrom, Dana Irgens, and especially Gail Peterson in Human Resources for all their help in compiling data for accreditation-related studies, surveys, and supporting materials. I also want to thank the entire administration in advance for their support and energy during these last few weeks of self-study work in advance of the evaluation team from the National Association of Schools of Music who will be on our campus April 11 through 12 to observe and discuss our degree program, faculty, facilities and curriculum. Thanks to all faculty, staff, students and administrators here at Anoka-Ramsey who support the arts as an integral part of academia and our community.
-Melissa Bergstrom
I would like to commend my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office for all of their hard work processing paperwork, answering phone calls, returning student emails and assisting students at the window. I know our
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Yessir. Bobby Womack and Willis Earl Beal will be headlining our SummerStage show this year! Lock June 7 in your calendars, folks!
Above, watch the mini-documentary on Bobby's process with recording The Bravest Man in the Universe, his first album of original material since 1994. Sit down with Bobby in the studio and hear what's really good from the man himself. Look out for the album to drop just about a week after the show on June 12!
The once homeless Chicago native Willis Earl Beal taught himself how to make music during an overnight motel job in New Mexico. His debut album, Acousmatic Sorcery, is a result of this period of bare-essentials creativity, which consisted of "a cassette-based karaoke machine and a $20 microphone." We are so excited to help introduce him to New York City! Definitely do take a looksee at his new video for "Monotony" after the jump.
Event Details
SummerStage & Giant Step Present:
Bobby Womack and Willis Earl Beal Live
June 7, 2012
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Central Park
New York, NY
Pre-Order The Bravest Man in the Universe on Amazon
Purchase Acousmatic Sorcery on iTunes | Amazon
Bobby Womack on Facebook | Twitter | Official Site
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Watch the video for "Monotony" by Willis Earl Beal after the jump

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'Kate has willy bum sex five times a day.'
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Allen Toussaint was born in New Orleans, LA.
17-year-old Allen Toussaint replaces Huey "Piano" Smith in Earl King's band for a gig in Alabama.
Allen Toussaint's first solo album, credited to "A. Tousan," is released.
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"Mother-in-Law," written and produced by Allen Toussaint and recorded by Ernie K-Doe, hits #1 on the national chart.


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NAVIGON questions and answers
If you drive using NAVIGON, you'll want the exact details. How to download updates, for example, or install additional maps or services, or how NAVIGON FreshMaps works. You'll find manuals, downloads and answers to your questions here.
Select a topic, or enter a keyword to restrict your selection.
- What am I able to do in my MyNAVIGON account?
Under your MyNAVIGON account you will find many functions to arrange, organize or administrate your products, data and other services or acquisitions. Here you find a short overview of these functions:
The Main page
On the home page of the account, there is a list of all functions. These are described individually below:
My details
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My orders
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My registered products
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I'm going to Tromsø, Norway and am concerned about the snow depth and how it will affect my ability to get around - how can I find out where to get the current depth online?
Senorge.no has complete snowdepth information for the entire territory of Norway. They have both present and historical information.
Currently, 8 August 2013, there is not much snow:
However, it's also possible to obtain historical data, for example, from 1 June 2012:
Or, indeed, from 24 January 2012:
If you want to go skiing to mountain summits, June may be a better time than January.
The Norwegian website yr.no is a good resource for weather information in Scandinavia. Looking at the information about Tromsø, among other things, there are live webcams on the bottom of the page, which, sadly, show that there is currently no snow at all there.
Direct link to the webcams: here and here. See also detailed weather information, together with rain/snowfall in mm (middle graphs, named Nedbør).


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Economic Data freely available online
Compiled by John Sloman, Economics Network
Last updated 18th March 2016
Here are some links that you may find useful for accessing statistics and other information. Datasets that require you to pay or register are on a separate page along with pointers. (Note that some free datasets that require registration are also listed below.)
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If you print out this page, the URLs will appear alongside each individual link.
- A. UK sites for data
- B. International sites for data
- 6. European Central Bank Statistics
- 7. European Economy
- 8. OECD Statistics Portal (including OECD Economic Outlook)
- 9. World Bank data sets
- 10. IMF data sets
- 11. WTO international trade statistics
- 12. UNCTAD statistics
- 13. Bank for International Settlements
- 14. Principal Global Indicators
- 15. NationMaster
- 16. Gapminder
- 17. CIA World Factbook
- 18. Index Mundi
- 19. FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
- 20. EconStats from EconomyWatch
- 21. Graphiq
- 22. DataMarket
- 23. Knoema
- 24. Quandl
- 25. Vizala
- C. Market data
- 26. Yahoo Finance
- 27. Telegraph shares and markets
- 28. Index Mundi commodities
- 29. Energy Information Administration
- 30. The London Metal Exchange
- 31. The UK government's Debt Management Office
- 32. BBC Market Data
- 33. UK house prices
- 34. International property prices
- 35. worldwide-tax.com
- 36. Mergers and Acquisitions Statistics from the IMAA
- D. Portal sites with links to other sites
A. UK sites for data
The following three sites are the main ones for accessing free data (mainly macroeconomic) on the UK economy. The sites also contain some international data.
1. National Statistics
For those familiar with the old National Statistics site, the new site, launched on 27 August 2011, may seem hard to navigate. ONS has recognised these difficulties and has now improved the site navigation and the format of the datasets and introduced redirects from old links.
There have been some significant improvements to the site. For example, most of the content can now be downloaded as Excel files. The following provides some guidance on where you can find data from the huge range of resources available.
In addition to the Home Page, there are three main sections to the site: Browse by theme, Publications and Data.
On the Home Page, you can find the latest statistical releases, a range of headline statistics and links to related sites.
In the Browse by Theme section, you can select topics at three levels. At the top level there are 11 topics from which to choose, including Economy and Labour Market. At the next level there are several sub-headings within each broad topic. Thus in "Economy" you can find topics such as Price indices and inflation and National Income, Expenditure and Output. Then within each topic you can choose between Summaries (normally viewable online, with tables and graphs downloadable in Excel and/or the whole summary downloadable as a PDF), Publications (either viewable online or downloadable as a PDF), Data (normally downloadable in Excel and often available in separate datasets), and Guidance and Methodology. In all cases the publications are sorted chronologically, with latest first.
In the Publications section, all publications are listed in chronological order, latest first. Most are downloadable as PDFs. Given that there are some 8000 publications, you will probably want to filter them first. You can do this by theme (the 11 top-level themes referred to above), by release date, by geographical coverage: national, regional or local. You can also sort by publication type: book, journal, article, report, statistical publication or release. You may still end up with a lot of choices, and so if you know the name of the publication you want, you would probably be better to use the search box at the top of the screen – but even this can still produce a great number of hits. For example, if you search 'Blue Book' you get over 400 hits. At this point you may well want to use some of the filters, such as 'by release date', and/or sort by type of publication.
In the Data section there are three ways of finding data. The first is to use the search box, where you can use publication title, dataset name or date.
You can also search by the unique four digit code for a dataset, but unfortunately this only brings up the publications where you can find the dataset. A better alternative, if you know the four-digit code, is to use Google. Thus if you wanted to find the 'Gross domestic product: expenditure at current market prices' dataset, which has the code YBHA, then search in Google for YBHA ONS, and it will take you straight to the dataset.
You can also find data by listing reference tables or datasets and sorting them by date or alphabetically and filtering them theme, date, coverage or geographical breakdown. Reference tables are from publications and can be downloaded as Excel files. Datasets can also be downloaded in Excel, CSV or other formats. You can also select individual series from large datasets by choosing 'Select series from this dataset' from the green panel at the top right of the screen. You can also download series into Navidata 3.1, the ONS's own software that can be downloaded free of charge.
Data (datasets and reference tables)
Finally there is a very easy-to-use clickable list of all the main ONS series, such as the United Kingdom Economic Accounts, Labour Market Statistics and Balance of Payments provided by UK Data Explorer.
2. Bank of England Statistical Interactive Database
The statistics area of the Bank's site contains a range of monetary and financial data:
This includes the monthly publication, Bankstats, available as a PDF document or as separate tables in Excel files:
There is also a large range of banking, monetary and financial statistics in the Statistical Interactive Database. There are two easy ways of accessing the statistics in the database. The first is by category of table using the following link:
Statistical Interactive Database: by Table
First you click on a category (e.g. Money and lending); then select a series (e.g. Monthly growth rates of M4 and M4 Lending) by clicking on the "+" sign to open up the options and then again with the selected option; then check the relevant series and click on 'show data' at the bottom of the screen; then select the date range and then the format in which to view the table (HTML, Excel, XML or CSV).
The second method is to use the A to Z listing using the following link:
Statistical Interactive Database: A to Z listing
First you choose which of four alphabetical lists to use. Then select a country or subject (e.g. M4); then a particular series (e.g. LPMAUYM); then, after clicking on 'show data' at the bottom of the screen, select the date range and the format to view the table. Again the available format are HTML, Excel, XML and CSV.
Search facility. As with the ONS site, each of the datasets has a unique identifying code, normally seven digits. Thus, the code for seasonally adjusted M4 (quarterly figures) is LPQAUYN. You can put this into the following search box to access the dataset.
Statistical Interactive Database - navigate by search
You can use the same search box for key words, such as 'money'.
3. The Treasury
The Treasury site (now on GOV.UK) is also a very useful source of UK data. The main site can be accessed via the following link. The Statistics and Budget sections are particularly useful.
In the Statistics section you will find Latest Economic Indicators.
Apart from giving you recent data releases, it also contains the Pocket Data Bank. This is a very useful weekly publication (see Weekly Economic Indicators) that downloads as an Excel Workbook file, with 27 tables in separate spreadsheets. It is also available as a PDF file. It contains time-series data for a range of national and international indicators, going back, in most cases, a number of years. Other data sets include forecasts for the UK economy and statistics on public finance and spending.
This part of the site also contains a section which gives forecasts for the UK economy by between 20 and 40 independent organisations. It also gives averages of these forecasts. This section is updated monthly to take account of new forecasts.
There is also a separate section on the site for the Budget Report and the Spending Round (use the links in the site's top right-hand navigation panel). The full reports, tables and charts can be downloaded.
4. Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)
The OBR was set up by the Coalition government in 2010 to provide forecasts and analysis of the UK's public finances.
It produces a number of publications.
These include the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which is published twice per year in the Spring and Autumn and sets out forecasts for the economy and the public finances over a five-year horizon.
They also include the Fiscal Sustainability Report, which is published annually in the Summer and presents long-term projections for public spending and tax revenue.
5. British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey
The BCC is the national body for a network of 52 Chambers of Commerce across the UK. It runs one of the UK's largest and oldest business surveys. The Quarterly Economic Survey regularly attracts over 7000 responses. It is used by the Bank of England, the Treasury, the EU Commission and others as a guide to how businesses are performing.
The survey results can be viewed directly or downloaded as PDFs.
B. International sites for data
The following sites give access to international data. Some of the data are for individual countries; some are for groups of countries.
6. European Central Bank Statistics
On the ECB site you will find a statistical section containing a number of series. The index can be accessed via the following link:
The Monthly Bulletin and Annual Report are particularly useful.
7. European Economy
The European Economy supplements, also available in hard-copy form, can be downloaded from the Europa portal site. They are contained in the Economic and Financial Affairs Directorate site (ECFIN DG). The home page of the directorate is:
Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN)
Annual Macroeconomic Database (AMECO)
AMECO contains a large range of annual time-series data for the 28 EU countries, the EU candidates, the EEA countries and the other OECD countries. There are approximately 700 indicators in the dataset. Many of the indicators go back to 1960 and forecast ahead for two years. The data can be viewed online (using Java) and is accessed from:
6-monthly forecasts
By clicking on the following link, you will arrive at the 6-monthly forecasts for each of the 28 EU countries, the euro area, the 28 EU countries as a whole and also the USA and Japan. Apart from containing a comprehensive verbal economic report (plus tables) of each country and the EU as a whole, there is a comprehensive statistical annex with 62 tables of time series data, plus forecasts for the next two years.
European Economy Statistical Annex
The Statistical Annex to European Economy is updated six-monthly. It contains 112 tables with macroeconomic data for each of the EU28 countries, the applicant countries (Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia), the euro area (the current 16 and the previous 12), the 15 EU countries that were members prior to 2004 and also the USA and Japan. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following:
Statistical Annex of the European Economy
First click on the year and then on the relevant Statistical Annex. Then either left click on the link to download the PDF file, or right click to save it.
It may be useful to know how to import a table from PDF into Excel. Also, with an Excel file containing many rows or columns, it may be useful to keep the header rows (or columns) of the spreadsheet static while the rest of the figures can be moved with the scroll bar or mouse wheel.
Business and Consumer Surveys
The European Economy site also contains monthly business and consumer surveys. These come in two separate sets: Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) and Business Climate Indicator (BCI).
Business and Consumer Surveys: Recent
You can also access longer time series. You can download these as eight sets of zipped Excel files, one for each type of indicator (economic sentiment, industry, services, consumers, retail trade, construction, financial services and investment) or as two complete sets (seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted). The series give monthly data from 1985 and, for some series, quarterly data too. See the Index in the first worksheet of each file for the meaning of the codes used in the tables. The tables give indicators for each of the 28 EU countries, for the eurozone and for the EU as a whole. You will find all these at:
Business and Consumer Surveys: Time Series
8. OECD Statistics Portal (including OECD Economic Outlook)
On this site you will find a whole range of statistics for each of the 30 OECD countries, the euro area and the OECD as a whole. The statistics are arranged by topic group, including national Accounts, Finance, Agriculture, Development, International Trade, Labour, Prices, Public Management and Short-term Economic Statistics.
OECD Economic Outlook
From the above page you can also link to the OECD Economic Outlook. This six-monthly publication contains a Statistical Annex with annual macroeconomic data for each of the OECD countries. The data typically cover 20 years with forecasts ahead for the next two years. There are 62 tables in Excel spreadsheets. They are normally available a few weeks after the publication of the paper version.
OECD Economic Outlook: Statistical Annex Tables
A useful publication with a range of statistics for the latest year and for certain previous years can be found in OECD Factbook. The tables can be accessed individually as PDFs, Excel files or as interactive graphs.
Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Shorter-term macroeconomic data on each of the OECD countries can be found in the OECD's Main Economic Indicators (MEI). Although the complete publication is available only by subscription, some of the key data can be found at:
Also publicly available data can be downloaded from:
Main Economic Indicators: Public Data
This section of the site contains various datasets classified under a number of headings, such as Development, Economic Projections, Labour and National Accounts. You can customise the datasets by series, countries and years.
9. World Bank data sets
The World Bank site contains a vast database of economic, social and other development statistics for all countries of the world. Although much of the data on the site is available only by subscription, the following link takes you to quite a large selection of open-access data, which you can search by country, topic and indicator:
The World Bank also publishes its annual World Development Report. The reports contain a 'selected indicators' appendix with a range of development data for all countries of the world. You can download the reports for each year from the following:
The complete set of World Bank World Development Indicators and World Bank Global Development Finance data are available free via the UK Data Service (incorporating the former Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)), which requires you to login through the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research. You will first need to register. This is free. (Details are given on the site). Then to login, you specify your university or college and then use your university/college username and password.
UK Data Service (International Macrodata section)
A useful set of publications by the World Bank are the Little Data Books. These give key indicators of the economy, environment, external debt, etc. for each of over 200 countries and for groups of countries organised by region and by income. There is a separate page for each country or group.
The Little Data Book 2015
The Little Data Book on External Debt 2012
The Little Data Book on Gender 2016
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2015
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2015
The Little Green Data Book 2015
The Little Data Book on Climate Change 2011
The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2015/16
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015
Another valuable set of international statistics that can be accessed from the World Bank site is Principal Global Indicators (see site 14). This gives country-by-country economic and financial data for the Group of 20 (G20) countries. The data can be downloaded as PDF, CSV or Excel files.
The World Bank has also developed a 'Visualizer' that can be used to compare two indicators over time in a scatter diagram of up to 210 countries and 18 groups of countries. The indicators are taken from the World Development Indicators database. Each country plot is represented by a 'bubble', the size of which depends on population size. Each axis can be set to a linear or log scale. You can choose the year (from 1960 to the latest available) or set the chart to 'play' which then automatically progresses from the first to the final year. This gives an excellent visual representation of the comparative progress of countries over time.
10. IMF data sets
Country reports for all countries of the world can be found via the following link:
Four particularly useful publications are the World Economic Outlook (see also WEO databases), Global Financial Stability Report, Fiscal Monitor and Annual Report. Each of these has a large statistical annex and can be accessed via the following link.
The complete set of IMF Direction of Trade Statistics, IMF International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics and Government Finance Statistics are available free via the Economic and Social Data Service, which requires using you university/college username and password (you will have to register first: details are given on the site).
UK Data Service (International Macrodata section)
A number of additional IMF datasets are available for free access on the IMF eLibrary Data site, including data on international reserves, investment, financial soundness and financial access. These can be searched by country, topic and data source.
11. WTO international trade statistics
The statistics section of the WTO site contains a number of databases and publications providing extensive access to trade and tariff data.
International trade and market access data
There are several parts to the site. These include: data on Mechandise trade and commercial services; Tariffs; and a new section, Made in the world, which measures and analyses trade in value added.
These is also a searchable database for various time series data. These include data on merchandise and commercial services trade.
From this part of the site you can also access trade profiles of individual countries at:
and tariff profiles at:
An excellent annual publication, which you can download as PDF or Excel files, is International Trade Statistics. This "offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in world trade, covering the details of merchandise trade by product and trade in commercial service". For the latest volume see:
International Trade Statistics 2015
12. UNCTAD statistics
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) site has an online statistical database, UNCTADstat. This contains data on international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), commodity prices, economic trends, population and labour, external financial resources and maritime transport.
You can also download the World Investment Report in PDF files at:
The above report contains many tables on global and regional FDI, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and transnational corporations (TNCs).
The Annexes to the World Investment Report contain a range of additional FDI, M&A and TNC statistics that can be downloaded as 23 Excel files.
13. Bank for International Settlements
The Bank for International Settlements is "an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks". From the hub part of the site you can access the websites of each of the world's central banks.
... and working and research papers published by central banks.
There is also a substantial statistical section. It is the best source for data on nominal and real exchange rate indices. It uses narrow indices (comprising 26 and 27 economies for the nominal and real indices, respectively) with data going back to 1964, and broad indices (comprising 61 economies) with data going back to 1994. In each case data are available in Excel format. Alternatively you can download all the files as single CSV file. Recent exchange rate index data can be browsed with BIS Statistics Explorer or queried with BIS Statistics Warehouse.
BIS effective exchange rate indices
The statistical section also has data on cross-border lending and borrowing of banks:
It also has data on securities and derivatives. Also, every three years BIS conducts a global central bank survey of activity in the foreign exchange market. The results of the 2010 survey were released in December 2010.
Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in 2013
The statistical section also has a link to the joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt, see:
Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)
You can also find details of the payments systems in each country, including data on money supply, total bank notes and coin issued, data on banks and other financial institutions including branches and value of accounts, cards issued, ATMs, transactions per type of payment instrument, number and value of securities and derivatives trades and many other indicators:
Statistics on payment and settlement systems
14. Principal Global Indicators
This site gives data for the G-20 countries and twelve others plus the eurozone and Hong Kong. The site is hosted by the IMF and is a joint undertaking of the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics (IAG).
It provides macroeconomic and financial data in tabular form for the 34 economies. You can access data by indicator or by country.
There are also links to additional data sources for each of the 34 countries/economies. Use the pull-down menu to select an economy:
15. NationMaster
This is a compilation of more than five thousand data series, from sources including the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. As well as profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, you can browse the data by topic including education, economy, crime, mortality or health. The site offers a facility to create correlation reports and scatter-plots on the fly.
From the left-hand column on the home page you can select profiles for individual countries and country groups or data under more than 5000 categories.
From the central column on the home page, under 'Tables, graphs, maps and pie charts', you can choose a category. Under 'Country facts and stats' you can choose both a country and a category. Under Compare any two, you can choose any two countries and compare them in terms of any selected indicator.
From the right-hand column on the home page you can select broad categories of statistics, such as Cost of Living, Health and Agriculture.
You can also access data from the pull-down catagories in the top bar.
16. Gapminder
Gapminder allows you to chart three indicators (from a very large selection) over time for most countries simultaneously, with data going back decades, or even centuries for some indicators. The charts allow you to see very easily the differences between countries: hence the title of the site! The following link takes you to Gapminder World.
If you click on Chart view from the tab at the top, you can choose which indicator to put on each axis by clicking on each axis in turn and selecting from the drop-down list. Each axis can be shown in linear or log mode. Each country is represented by a bubble, whose colour varies by continent. The size of the bubble gives the third indicator, whose default is the population size, but again you can use a drop-down menu (bottom right) to select this third indicator. The default is all countries, but you can select just one or more countries from a list on the right. The non-selected countries appear in faded colour. You can use a slider to fade them out completely if you prefer. You can also track the path of your selected countries over time if you choose. A guide to this view is given at:
The alternative view is the Map view. Each country bubble is positioned on a world map. The size of the bubble gives one indicator. A second indicator can be shown by colour gradation of the bubbles. Again you can select individual countries.
You can also look at gaps within the 'big four' countries/regions: China, India, USA and the EU.
The site also has a range of videos which examine specific data.
17. CIA World Factbook
If you don't mind that this information comes courtesy of the CIA, this is a very useful site, giving a host of economic and other data, country-by-country. Simply select a country from the drop-down menu near the top of the page: 'Select a country or location'.
Alternatively you can compare countries by indicator. There are 76 indicators from which to choose, including more than 30 economic indicators. When you select an indicator, countries are arranged in descending order (except for inflation and unemployment rates, where countries are arranged in ascending order).
18. Index Mundi
World Factbook country data can also be found on Index Mundi (see also site 27 below). Note that the Index Mundi site is not affiliated, in any way, with the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The Index Mundi site has a powerful graphing feature which you can use for the following:
World and continent maps showing colour-coded information and data tables by country for 44 separate indicators (use the drop-down menus):
Bar charts with figures for ranking countries for a range of indicators:
Times series charts and tables that allow you to compare up to four countries using up to ten indicators:
Correlation scatter charts (plus table) that allow you to compare two indicators for all countries for a selected year:
19. FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
Economic data for the whole of the USA, updated daily from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
20. EconStats from EconomyWatch
The site consists of core macroeconomic indicators taken from a range of sources, including the IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook, Internet World Statistics, The Heritage Foundation and Transparency International. You can search data in four ways: by country, by indicator, by year (including forecasts) and by price index indicators. There are plans for the future to include World Bank, national government and other data sources.
The EconomyWatch site also includes news and country briefings at:
World Economy, Global Economy, International Economics
and economic news at:
Another part of the site contains data on world industries. It covers all the major industries and classification systems, together with key industry data.
21. Graphiq
The FindTheData section of the Graphiq site allows you to access various databases and compare the statistics in them. For example, it allows you to compare various countries by indicator.
Particular databases you may find useful are:
World Economic Outlook (IMF)
Country Facts
Ease of Doing Business Index (World Bank)
Nobel prize winners in Economics and other subjects
22. DataMarket
The site provides a consistent means of searching, comparing, visualising and downloading quantitative data from a wide variety of international sources. You can explore data by:
Data providers (such as the IMF, the UN, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Eurostat and the World Bank).
Any data that is open and free from the source site is still available free on the DataMarket site – some 125 million time series from about 16 thousand data sets.
Previously you could upload your own data and use the site's visualisation features. You can download data into various formats, including Excel, PDF, SVG, etc., providing you first register (at no charge). The site has now been taken over by Qlik and this feature is not currently available for new users, but is likely to be restored (see blog).
23. Knoema
This site captures international data from a number of sources and presents them in a common space, visualizing figures, applying analytical functions, creating a set of dashboards and presenting the outcome.
For example, under Economics, you can access a range of economic indicators by country.
You can use the data atlas to search for data by date, name, topic or source.
24. Quandl
Quandl has indexed over 5 million time-series datasets from over 400 sources. All of Quandl's datasets are open and free. You can download any Quandl dataset in any format that you want. You can also visualize, save, share, authenticate, validate, upload, index, merge and transform data.
You can use the search box to find data or you can scroll through datasets from the home page.
Or you can browse under particular headings, such as:
25. Vizala
Vizala contains country-level data for 63 countries.
The data are organised into three broad categories: Economy, Market Research and Society, each of which is then divided into seven sub-categories. For example, Economy is divided into Banks & Lending, Consumers, Debt/Fiscal Policy, GDP/GNI, Labour/Workforce, Monthly Overview and Monetary/Inflation.
In each of the sub-categories you can select from a number of groups of indicators. For example, in the GDP/GNI sub-category you can choose indicators in the following groups: Overview, Key Growth Rates, GDP by Expenditure, GDP by Expenditure Growth Rates, Expenditures as a % of GDP, Value Added by Industry, Value Added by Industry Growth Rates and Industry as a % of GDP.
You can filter by year, country group, population size and GDP per capita.
You can also get time series data for individual countries. Do this by selecting a country from the pull-down menu at the top left of the page. For example:
Then select indicator category from the left-hand panel and then start and end dates to retrieve data.
C. Market data
The following sites provide data on UK and international markets for individual commodities, shares or products.
26. Yahoo Finance
The following link is to the home page, from which you can access the various sections of the site, including equity (share) markets, currency markets and commodity markets.
On the investing part of the site you can access equity and other financial markets.
For example you can see charts and tables for the FTSE 100. You can also look up individual shares. Enter the company or symbol in the little box at the top left and press 'Look Up'.
27. Telegraph shares and markets
This is a well presented and clearly navigable site for finding share and commodity prices and tailoring the data.
For example, you can see what is happening to each of the major stock market indices and all the individual shares in that particular index at:
You can draw time-series charts of any share for periods of 1 day to 10 years. These can be in different formats, such as line charts, candle charts or high-low charts. You can add overlays of moving averages and add charts at the bottom of the screen for a range of other indicators on that share, such as volume and moving average (VOLMA), moving average convergence/divergence (MACD), fast stochastic (Fast Stoch) and rate of change (ROC).
You can show 'heatmaps' which rank shares in indices by percentage change.
You can use the Stock Screener to display particular types of stock, filtered by size, sector and various types of share data.
Also you can build your own portfolio.
28. Index Mundi commodities
The Index Mundi site has an extensive set of commodity price data drawn from the IMF.
These can be charted for a 6 month, 1, 5, 10, 15, or 25 year range. The figures also appear in a table which can be downloaded to Excel. There are also links to recent news articles relevant to the selected commidty.
The site also contains country data, which can be found from the site's home page.
Details of the charting features of the country data can be found above at site 18.
29. Energy Information Administration
This is a US government site, but it gives international as well as US data on electricity, coal, gas, nuclear power and oil.
US Energy Information Administration
For individual country analyses, see:
You can download Excel files of daily, weekly, monthly and annual spot prices for various fuels.
For example, monthly historical prices for Brent crude are at:
Use the 'View history' panel at the top to toggle between annual, monthly, weekly and daily prices.
30. The London Metal Exchange
You can download Excel spreadsheets of prices, stocks and traded volumes for each month of the current year for each metal.
31. The UK government's Debt Management Office
This UK government site has, amongst other things, market data on Gilt markets, Treasury Bill markets and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) market.
UK Debt Management Office (DMO)
32. BBC Market Data
The BBC news site has a section with market data.
You can find current prices and charts of price movements over the past one, three or twelve months of stock markets, shares, currencies and commodities.
33. UK house prices
There are six excellent sites for house price data.
Lloyds Banking Group
The Halifax House Price Index site shows the movements in house prices since 1983 both nationally, by region, by county, by town, by property type and by type of buyer. Data are given monthly, quarterly and annually. Data can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets from the 'House Price Calculator and Market Statistics' section of the site. For example, try clicking on 'Historical House Price Data'.
Nationwide house prices site
This gives quarterly movements in national house prices since 1952. More detailed series distinguishing type of property, type of buyer and region are given from more recent years (1973, 1983 or 1991).
The site gives real-time house price valuations by postcode, as well as house price trends by region.
ONS House Price Indices
The following link takes you to a range of Excel tables on the UK housing market and house prices. They were previously published by the Department of Communities and Local Government. They are all downloadable as Excel files. See in particular Tables 33 (annual data) and 10 (quarterly data).
The OBR published house price forecasts in May 2012. It used the median of independent forecasts by external organisations that forecast Communities and Local Government house prices over the next two calendar years.
Quarterly house prices - March 2012
It also includes a forecast for house prices in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook. See, for example, Chart 3.23 and Tables 3.6 and 3.7 in the July 2015 edition.
See also the following paper on the house price forecasting methodology used by the OBR.
Forecasting house prices (Toby Auterson, July 2014)
34. International property prices
The Bank for International Settlements site (see site 13 above) has a section on property prices in a range of countries that can be downloaded as an Excel file.
Property price statistics from BIS
You may also find the following site useful, which is designed for residential property investors who are considering buying houses or apartments in other countries. It tracks official and semi-official house price indices in 57 countries. It also has data on gross rental yields, market structures, conveyancing costs, landlord and tenant law and effective tax rates for residential property in over 100 countries.
35. worldwide-tax.com
This site has key data on world taxes, including income tax rates, a tax rates comparison table, a section on business & finance worldwide, a directory of world embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions, a link to general and economic news sites, links to tax news, links to world tax and revenue administrations, a directory of world stock exchanges and links to business oppportunity sites arranged by country.
A useful section is:
This is presented as a table, with the rates for each country with many of the countries clickable to give you more information.
36. Mergers and Acquisitions Statistics from the IMAA
The resources section of the Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) site provides extensive and regularly updated statistics on Mergers and Acquisitions worldwide. Much of the data is open access and is organised by the following: Region, Transaction type, Industry and Country.
By signing up as a free user you can also download M&A data and statistics with the actual numbers in spreadsheets (google sheets and excel format).
D. Portal sites with links to other sites
These sites provide links to other sites with a range of economic data.
37. UK Data Service (incorporating the former ESDS)
This is a new data service funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It incorporates the former Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) which gives access to a range of datasets from national and international organisations. In addition to these datasets, the UK Data Service includes data from Census.ac.uk, Secure Data Service (SDS) and Survey Question Bank (SQB).
To gain free access to the datasets linked from the site you will need to enter your UK university/college username and password in the login box on the Home Page. You will first need to register from the same page.
Of particular interest to many economists are the following two sections:
International macrodata
This gives access to a huge range of international macroeconomic data from the World Bank, Eurostat, the IMF, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the ILO, the OECD and UNIDO.
To access the data, click on the databank (e.g. IMF International Finance Statistics (IFS)). If you haven't already accepted the conditions from that organisation you will first be redirected to a screen where you can do that.
Business microdata
This gives access to a large collection of business microdata, provided by the Office for National Statistics. The data are collected through a wide range of surveys (and some administrative sources), and cover: productivity, innovation, workforce skills, earnings, international trade, foreign direct investment, research and development, business demography and industrial relations.
Other cataegories
Other categories of data include:
UK surveys
Cross-national surveys
Longitudinal studies
Census data
Qualitative/mixed methods data
This is a New Zealand site with links to a host of statistical sources from around the world.
You can browse by country, by region of the world and by subject. The subjects include both economic and non-economic ones.
39. RFE Data Links
RFE is part of AEAWeb - information for economists provided by the American Economic Association. From the Data page on the Resources for Economists (RFE) part of the site, there are links to very many online data sources, categorised by region. Categories include US Macro and Regional Data, World and Non-USA Data, Finance and Financial Markets, Journal Data and Program Archives.
RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet
40. Development Gateway Foundation
This is an online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide. Development Gateway is "an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology".
The following part of the site allows you to access data on international aid by type of aid, donor, recipient, purpose or activity.
41. Economic Database
This is a South African site with a large selection of South African economic data. It also includes a range of international data, both micro and macro, from a number of sources. When you have selected a dataset, you then select the start date for your data. This then automatically displays a chart and a spreadsheet. If you then click on 'click here to save the Spreadsheet', the data are then presented in a form that allows you simply to block, copy and paste into Excel, Open Office's Spreadsheet or some other spreadsheet package.
42. Zanran
Zanran is a search site for data. As the site says:
"Zanran helps you to find 'semi-structured' data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a PDF report, or a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a barchart shown as an image in an HTML page. This huge amount of information can be difficult to find using conventional search engines, which are focused primarily on finding text rather than graphs, tables and bar charts.
Put more simply: Zanran is Google for data."
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ZF-11265: Zend_Mime_Decode::decodeQuotedPrintable() doesn't work at all
The method decodeQuotedPrintable() of Zend_Mime_Decode does not decode "quoted-printable" content.
It internally calls iconv_mime_decode(). However, this PHP function performs an entirely different action.
Instead, quoted_printable_decode() would have to be used.
However, decodeQuotedPrintable() is not used at any other place in the Zend framework. Also, it is unlikely that any other application uses this method, as it doesn't work. Since quoted_printable_decode() already performs this job very well, it is unclear to me why this method exists at all.
So I propose to simply remove this method, in order to not confuse programmers anymore.
New patch: remove_useless_method_Zend_Mime_Decode_decodeQuotedPrintable.patch
remove the useless and non-functioning method Zend_Mime_Decode::decodeQuotedPrintable()
Instead, programmers should use the simple (and working) quoted_printable_decode() function.
Fixed along side linked issue ZF-10236


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I know fans will want to hear my news, but I want you to give someone else a hand, it's way more important, so please read on.
Yesterday I finished the principal draft of On the Historicity of Jesus Christ. Today I'm taking a trip to the library to double check some essentials, and that will continue for some weeks. But this book is twice as long as Proving History, so to jump start it in the pipeline, I'll begin the peer review, submission, and production process next week. The book could go to press even in its current state (it's a polished and complete manuscript). I just want to make sure every i is dotted and every t is crossed, so now I begin clearing through my "check this to be sure" pile of books and articles.
I was so close to getting to that point that I have been doing nothing but writing, nosing the grindstone, for the last three weeks and neglecting the outside world, including my blog and email. When I swam back to the surface I found that (as many of you may already know; I'm way behind) Ed Brayton, one of the founders of the Freethought Blogs network and a great blogger on American law and politics from an atheist perspective that I read regularly here (Dispatches from the Culture Wars), had a severe emergency leading to open heart surgery.
Ed's in good condition, but as we all know, medical insurance doesn't really pay your medical bills (much less your lost wages), it just "softens the blow" so to speak. If you have anything to spare and want to help out someone who does good work informing the community and who was instrumental in creating and running this blog network, head on over and put something in his tip jar, or even just subscribe to his blog (the plan is to let you view it from then on without any annoying ads, but I don't know if that's been implemented yet or if it can be done; for now it's just to show continuing support for a blogger you like).
See How You Can Help on how to help, and to read more about what happened see Ed's Not So Excellent Adventure and Merry Christmas.
And welcome all to the new year! We all survived the collision with Nibiru, I think partly due to the galactic realignment canceling it out. Or it hit Jesus on his way to kill us. Two birds, you know. Anyway, whew. That was a close one.


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Some of yall that know me have read about my project 2+ yrs ago. I promised one individual that more info would be posted. For lack of a better excuse (I'm not hunting, working or doing "honey dos" cuz it raining here) took some pics and will do a little more esplaning....
Pic1. Shows barrel (same config as the 410 barrel) and new mag locking block for 223 Norinco magazine. Follower is dished like a 450 Bush or 50 Beowulf.
Pic2. new mag locking block from bottom
Pic3. Mag w/round inserted in receiver
Pic4. Round in chamber
Pic5. Metered gasblock my own design
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Sure, Sunday night was the season premiere of "Breaking Bad" and maybe you were bummed because the U.S. women had just lost the World Cup title to Japan, but if you missed Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings' scintillating show Sunday night, you should be kicking yourself.
Up at Red Butte Garden, Sharon Jones and her tighter-than-tight band absolutely fried a disappointingly light crowd of about 1,700 people during an honest-to-goodness dance party of the highest order. Jones is a dynamo of energy, true soul and musicianship and her eight-piece backing band, the Dap Kings, is simply on fire.
But other than that the fast-paced blast of retro soul had little to offer.
Seriously, it's one thing to enter a show with high expectations, but quite another to have those expectations flattened inside of about 30 minutes. Which is all it took for Jones and Co. to completely enthrall the audience and have virtually everyone on their feet and dancing.
Whether it was the blazing soul of "Mama Don't Like My Man," or the bittersweet groove of "She Ain't A Child No More," Jones and the band stayed unshakably on top of the groove. And Jones herself danced like a woman possessed and brought various crowd members onstage - including a clearly overwhelmed guy named Omar during Ray Charles' "If I Give You My Love."
Jones' 100-minute set was virtually one long song - breaks were infrequent - and virtually one long highlight. But some of the hottest moments of the 17-tune soul avalanche included "This Land Is Your Land," "Without A Heart," and the pure insanity of "When I Come Home," which was marked by Jones' leading the crowd through a parade of dance moves ranging from "The Swim" to the "Monkey Butt." And the audience responded with many crowd members actually acting out the old shopworn hippie cliche of "dancing like no one's watching."
Yeah, it was kinda fun. So, if you did blow it off, keep kicking yourself and plan on joining the rest of us next time. Here's betting that everyone who did see Sunday night's show is highly unlikely to ever miss a local appearance again.
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|Just one week before the initial release date of this product (May 1, 2012) that was the very first time Upper Deck made mention or solicited orders for this product. Typically products are previewed up to 6 months prior to release. Upper Deck provided no pictures of the cards besides an image of the box. Very unusual to say the least. There could be several reasons why Upper Deck waited so long to release minimal details about this set. For starters, they had some legal battles with the MLB and the MLBPA over the ending of their baseball license in 2010. UD released 2010 Upper Deck Series 1, and was subsequently sued by the MLBP arm of the league. The MLBP claimed in court that UD owed $2,400,000 tied to various licensing agreements. Upper Deck no longer has an MLBP (think Topps) or MLBPA (think Panini) license to create baseball cards. This set will undoubtedly have no logos or team images as that could create more legal problems for UD.
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