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Written by Andrew Malekoff Friday, 28 January 2011 00:00
There will be many reflections about the 2001 terrorist attack on America in the months to come. Following is my reflection on the memorial service at the World Trade Center on October 28, 2001. I attended the service in a group of mental health professionals who offered support for the bereaved.
A chill occurred as the sun disappeared behind the ruins of the World Trade Center. Renee Fleming, accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, sang God Bless America. I headed for the emergency lane on my way to the boat that would be returning us to the pier on 57th Street, where we would be greeting thousands of mourners who planned to collect urns with ashes from ground zero.
Moments earlier I had said goodbye to the family I stood beside during the memorial service. They sat in the back row of our section, one of scores of sections filled with thousands of folding chairs, each chair occupied by a grieving family member. I stood with my back against an iron gate so I would not block anyone's view. The family had lost its father and husband, a decorated firefighter. The widow was a slight woman of Italian descent, probably in her late sixties.
Photos of her husband were pinned to her wool coat, and to the coats of her three children. He was handsome. He had a white mustache and a full head of silvery hair, combed straight back. When the memorial service had started, an hour earlier, one of her sons, an off-duty police officer, had asked me to please make sure that no one obstructed his mother's view. He said, "You can see how short she is."
The service began with a processional that included His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York. Then, police officer Daniel Rodriguez of the NYPD sang The Star Spangled Banner. He had become a national presence, by appearing in his dress blues and singing the national anthem at Yankee Stadium before the World Series.
Everyone was on his or her feet. A massive wall of mourners rose around the tiny figure to my right. When I saw her struggling to climb, I took her arm and helped her up onto the folding chair. I told her that she could grab on to me. "Hold on to my shoulders," I said. She hesitated. "Don't worry you won't knock me over," I told her.
I could feel her trembling as she removed her right hand from my shoulder and fumbled for a tissue inside her coat pocket. I reached into my pants pocket and handed her a handkerchief. When I was picking out my clothes earlier in the morning I had come across several unopened packets of white handkerchiefs. They belonged to my father who had died seven years earlier. As I got dressed, I thought that today my father would want somebody who needed it to have one of his handkerchiefs. At first she refused my offer, not wanting to impose. I urged her, "Please, take it. It's okay."
Ten years later, my father's handkerchiefs remain tucked into my dresser drawer - a daily reminder of when I marched in a parade of broken hearts. Sometimes I close my eyes, think back and try to recall what things felt like before that sunny fall morning at ground zero.


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While at Blizzcon 2011, I got first hand experience of the current alpha build of both the Pandaren starting area as well as the Monk class. For this particular post I will focus mainly on the monk (brewmaster) mechanics and theory crafting more so than I will the pandaren (but I will touch on them breifly in a few moments). -Drunkenidiot
Monk Class
The monk is a melee fighter that specializes in the use of Staves (healer- Mistreaver), Polearms (tank- Brewmaster), and Fist weapons (damage- Windwalker). The monk can also use one handed weapons such as swords, maces and axes. Although with the level 1-10 experience I got to play the class mechanics seem to focus more heavily on fist weapons.
Monks have several resources to manage in combat;
- Energy (main resource)- Functions like energy for a rogue or feral druid in the fact that it regenerates at a constant rate (*speculation* -will possibly be effected by haste to regenerate faster). This resource is used for most builder spells and has a cap of 100.
Monk tanking (gear, stats priority, professions, racial bonuses)
- Chi-Chi functions like Holy Power (Paladin). Chi is built up by spending Energy using the ability [Jab].
- Gear- The monk class uses Agility Leathergear for tanking and tank with a polearm. There is no ranged slotitem for a monk (because the ranged slot is being removed in 5.0)Monk tanks will share gear with Guardians (druid tanks).
- Stat Priority- This section is all theory at this points but as a general idea the stat priority would be similar to that of a Guardian Druid.
Stamina > Agility > Mastery > Dodge/Parry > Hit/Expertise > Haste > Crit
- Professions- Every profession has some kind of bonusto encourage people to take them.
Profession Bonus What is means Alchemy Flasks last longer and potions are stronger Stronger armor/ health potions Blacksmithing Extra socket on bracers and gloves Extra stats on bracers and gloves Enchanting Ability to enchant base stats on rings Enchanted rings Engineering Tinkers for armor buff/ damage reduction (can backfire) Medium risk for higher stats Herbalism Heal over time ability that increases haste Extra self heal Inscription Shoulder enchant Better stats on shoulders Jewelcrafting Three (3) jewelcrafting gems Equals about two (2) extra gems Leatherworking Bracer and leg enchants stats on bracers and legs Mining Stamina increase Extra health Skinning Critical Strike bonus *not good for tanking* Tailoring Leg and cloak enchants leg stats, cloak proc (tho most likely not a tank one)
As details for the upcoming expansion are released, I will be updating this post with information about the Brewmaster class and its abilities and the new talent tree and what the ability functionality for tanking is.
- Racial Bonuses- Every race in the World of Warcraft can be a monk, with the exception of Worgen, and Goblin.
- Alliance
- Draenei- Racial heal ability, and increased hit rating.
- Dwarf- Armor buff that removes DoTs.
- Gnome - Can remove snares.
- Human - PvP trinket.
- Night Elf- Chance to not be hit.
- Horde
- Blood Elf- AoE silence that regenerates Chi.
- Forsaken (undead)- Can remove sleeps and fears.
- Orc- Attack Power boost.
- Tauren- Increase to base health, AoE stun.
- Troll- Increased attack speed buff.
- Neutral
- Pandaren- Double effect from food buffs.

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True, Ive hit a low point with the gladiators, and Im looking forward to wearing my own clothes again. But I also dont want to fade comfortably back to black. If Ive learned anything from Michelle, its that fashion should be exuberant, life-affirming, and adventuresome. Im not a postmodern canvas, but Im also not a black-and-white movie still from the 1950s. I want to find the happy medium.
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For any question on data and metadata, please contact: EUROPEAN STATISTICAL DATA SUPPORT
|1.1. Contact organisation
|Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
|1.2. Contact organisation unit
|C4: Price statistics. Purchasing power parities. Housing statistics
|1.5. Contact mail address
|2920 Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG
|2.1. Metadata last certified
|2.2. Metadata last posted
|2.3. Metadata last update
|3.1. Data description
Harmonized indices of consumer prices (HICPs) give comparable measures of inflation for the countries and country groups they are produced. They are economic indicators that measure the change over time of the prices of consumer goods and services acquired by households. In other words they are a set of consumer price indices (CPIs) calculated according to a harmonised approach and a single set of definitions.
In particular, HICPs provide the official measure of consumer price inflation in the euro area for the purposes of monetary policy and the assessment of inflation convergence as required under the Maastricht criteria.
HICPs are available for all EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. In addition to the individual country series there are three key country-group aggregate indices: the Monetary Union index of consumer prices (MUICP) covering the euro area countries, the European index of consumer prices (EICP) including all Member States, and the European Economic Area index of consumer prices (EEAICP), which in addition to the EU also covers Iceland and Norway.
The official country-group aggregates reflect the evolution of Economic and monetary union, the EU and the EEA. New Member States are chained into the index at the time of accession. In addition to these official aggregates, Eurostat computes also country aggregates with stable composition over time. For example, the aggregate 'EU-28' shows price indices covering all current 28 Member States since 1997.
There are also interim HICPs for candidate countries; Croatia and Turkey. It is expected that once those countries accede to the EU their HICPs will be fully comparable with those of the existing Member States. For USA only all-items proxy-HICP is available.
The national HICPs are produced by National Statistical Institutes, while the country-group aggregates are produced by Eurostat.
The data that is released monthly on Eurostat's free dissemination database include price indices themselves as well as their rates of change as monthly, annual and 12-month moving average changes. In addition to the headline figure, the all-items HICP, around one hundred sub-indices for different goods and services and over thirty special aggregates are made available. The relative weights for the indices, including the special aggregates, are also published for the individual countries and for the country groups.
An early estimate of the inflation rate for the euro area is published in a news release monthly, usually on the last working day of the reference month. It is called a Flash estimate.
|3.2. Classification system
The HICPs are classified according to the four-digit categories and sub-categories of the COICOP/HICP (Classification of individual consumption by purpose adapted to the needs of HICPs). There are also a set of special aggregates, which combine indices in a different way than the standard COICOP.
Main COICOP headings:
Examples of special aggregates:
|3.3. Coverage - sector
HICPs cover the whole household sector, more precisely the goods and services that are acquired by households.
|3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The published data is as follows:
Monthly data:
- Indices (HICP 2005=100)
- 12 month average rate of change
|3.5. Statistical unit
Each published index or rate of change refers to the 'final monetary consumption expenditure' of the whole household sector of the corresponding geographical entity.
|3.6. Statistical population
The target statistical universe is the 'household final monetary consumption expenditure' (HFMCE) within the economic territories of the countries compiling the HICP. The household sector to which the definition refers includes all individuals or groups of individuals irrespective of, in particular, the type of area in which they live, their position in the income distribution and their nationality or residence status. These definitions follow the national account concepts in the European System of Accounts (ESA 1995).
HICPs comprise all products and services purchased in monetary transactions by households within the territory of a country; those by both resident and non-resident households (i.e. 'domestic concept').
|3.7. Reference area
European Union (EU), euro area (European Monetary Union), European Economic Area (EEA), EU Member States, Iceland, Norway Switzerland, Croatia, Turkey and the USA.
|3.8. Coverage - Time
HICPs with harmonised coverage and methodology have been published since March 1997 and go back to January 1996.
|3.9. Base period
HICPs are produced and published using a common index reference period (2005=100).
Following units are used:
Month (indices and rates).
|6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICPs) are harmonised inflation figures required under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 of 23 October 1995 (OJ L 257/1) sets the legal basis for establishing a harmonised methodology for the compilation of the HICPs, the MUICP and the EICP.
Under this Regulation, the Commission has brought forward detailed Regulations establishing the specific rules governing the production of harmonised indices. To date, 17 specific regulations governing issues as quality of weights, transmission and dissemination of sub-indices, coverage of goods and services, geographical and population coverage, minimum standards for the treatment of tariffs, insurance, health, education and social protection services, timing of entering prices, treatment of price reductions, treatment of service charges, revisions policy, new index reference period, temporal coverage of price collection and sampling, replacement and quality adjustment procedures, and seasonal items have been adopted. A recommendation on the treatment of health care has also been published.
All relevant regulations as well as further methodological details can be found in the HICP section on Eurostat's website under => Legislation.
|6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
|7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
|7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
According to policy rules (see point 7.1).
|8.1. Release calendar
The release calendar is publically available and published at the end of the year for the full following year.
|8.2. Release calendar access
The release calendar is published on the website: HICP Release calendar 2014.
The release dates are disseminated on Euro-Indicators Release Calendar.
|8.3. Release policy - user access
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see item 10 - 'Dissemination format') respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users.
In line with this protocol and on a strictly regulated basis, data on Harmonized Consumer Prices (HICPs) are sent for information to the European Central Bank (ECB) and to the European Commission Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) under embargo [the evening before] prior to the official release of data.
|10.1. Dissemination format - News release
|10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
HICP news release, available on-line.
Statistics explained article, available on-line.
Data in Focus, available on-line.
Eurostatistics - monthly
|10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Please consult free data on-line.
|10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
|10.5. Dissemination format - other
See also Eurostat's HICP section website.
|11.1. Documentation on methodology
The statistical encyclopedia by Eurostat, Statistics Explained has a full article on the HICP methodology, and for those in a need of more detailed information; Eurostat has a dedicated section on the HICPs at its web site. Additionally, Eurostat web site has a number of technical notes on HICP that have been published, e.g:
For specific questions on HICP methodology, you can send an e-mail to this mailbox on HICP methods.
|11.2. Quality management - documentation
Compliance Monitoring Information notes are available in Eurostat's website, under 'Methodology'.
|12.1. Quality assurance
Eurostat must ensure that the statistical practices used to compile national HICPs are in compliance with HICP methodological requirements and that good practices in the field of consumer price indices are being followed. In order to achieve this aim Eurostat undertakes compliance monitoring visits to Member States, during which it reviews HICP methodological issues.
Given the importance accorded to the accuracy, reliability and comparability of the HICPs in the EU, Eurostat operates a system of compliance monitoring to ensure that the legal framework is adhered to. This includes compliance assessments on the basis of questionnaires and visits by Eurostat officials to the EU national statistical institutes to study their work on their HICPs in more detail.
Compliance monitoring is crucial in promoting confidence in HICP data and Eurostat needs to be assured that Member States are complying with the Regulations in order to support the need for high quality HICP Statistics. Recommendations are published and followed up by Eurostat. The follow-up process ensures that the recommendations are taken up. If required, further follow-up visits by Eurostat can be made.
|12.2. Quality management - assessment
The quality of the HICP can be assessed to be very high. Its concepts and methodology have been developed according to international standards and using consumer price statistics experience from all EU Member States. HICPs are considered to be sufficiently accurate for all practical purposes they are put into. In particular it is the best measure of inflation for the euro area and European Union as whole as well as for the comparisons of inflation across countries for which it is compiled. The indices are disseminated around mid-month following a predetermined timetable.
Further work is ongoing to improve the quality and in particular comparability of the index. Key priorities are the treatment of owner-occupied housing (currently excluded) and greater harmonisation of methods for quality adjustment and sampling. Eurostat and the national statistical institutes are also working on additional indices, for example an HICP index at constant tax rates.
|13.1. Relevance - User Needs
Besides as a general measure of inflation, HICPs have a variety of potential other uses, for example:
Generally, HICPs are in particular suited for cross-country economic comparisons.
A key user of the HICPs is the European Central Bank (the ECB) who uses the euro area index (MUICP) as the main indicator for monetary policy management. The ECB and the European Commission, in particular its Economic and Financial Affairs Directorate-General use HICPs for assessing the price stability and price convergence required for entry into European Monetary Union.
The main users, apart from those above, include National Central Banks and other financial institutions; economic analysts, media and public at large.
|13.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
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|13.3. Completeness
No missing data. All EU Member States, Iceland, Norway Switzerland, Turkey deliver the full set of HICP indices.
|14.1. Accuracy - overall
The accuracy of HICP is generally considered to be high. The accuracy of source data is monitored by assessing the methodological soundness of price and weight sources and the adherence to the methodological recommendations. There is a variety of data sources both for weights (National Account data, Household Budget Survey data, etc.) and prices (visits to local retailers and service providers and central collection via mail, telephone, e-mail and the internet are used). The type of survey and the price collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness. The outlets, from which prices are collected, are chosen to represent the existing trade and services network and they are based usually on three main criteria: Popularity with consumers, significant turnover from consumer sales and availability of goods and services included in the HICP basket. All the private households in the economic territory of the country are covered, whether resident or not and irrespective of their income.
Furthermore, Eurostat and the Member States are actively following up an Action Plan concerning quality adjustment and sampling issues. Concrete best practices have been agreed for a range of specific goods and services (in particular cars, consumer durables, books and CDs, clothing and computers).
|14.2. Sampling error
The HICPs are statistical estimates that are subject to sampling errors because they are based on a sample of consumer prices and household expenditures, which are not the complete universe of all prices/expenditures.
The National Statistical Institutes who are responsible for the compilation of national results do not generally produce numerical estimates of HICP sampling errors because they are difficult to quantify due to the complexity of price index structures and due to the common use of non-probability sampling. Consequently, no estimate for a global HICP sampling error could be produced.
The NSIs try to reduce the sampling errors by using a sample of consumer prices that is as large as possible, given resource constraints. Often the NSIs use models that optimise the allocation of resources by indicating the number of prices that should be observed in each geographic area and each item category, in order to minimize the variance of the all items index.
|14.3. Non-sampling error
For the HICPs non-sampling errors are not quantified. Eurostat and the NSIs try to reduce non-sampling errors through continuous methodological improvements and survey process improvements such as computer assisted price collection, which can help avoiding coding and typing errors.
|15.1. Timeliness
The full set of HICPs is published each month according to a pre-announced schedule (about two days after the data delivery deadline) - in general between 14 and 16 days after the end of the month in question. This schedule has advanced significantly since the HICP was first published, as a result of a series of improvements to timeliness made both in the EU Member States and at Eurostat. The January News Release each year cannot be advanced and is published at the end of February due to the yearly reweighting exercise.
The Flash estimate for the Euro Area is published usually on the last working day of the reference month.
|15.2. Punctuality
Since the launch, in March 1997, the HICPs for the country groups averages have always been published on the pre-announced release dates.
|16.1. Comparability - geographical
The comparability of HICP across countries is regarded to be high. Definitions and classifications have been harmonized in a series of legal acts that have resolved conceptual disparities. HICPs may be produced based on minimum standards that include a series of regulations that address one or more methodological issues. These methodological standards may be applied with some flexibility as long as the effect on the value of the indicator remains below 0.1%. Member States differ in the frequency of updating weights. Some countries apply a 'fixed base index formula', updating the weights in three to five-year intervals, others compute a chain-index with annual weight updating. The new Commission Regulation on weights, adopted in December 2010 and to take effect with the January 2012 index, sets new minimum standards for the quality of HICP weightings by establishing rules for the choice of the data source for weights and the frequency of updating to be applied at the European level.
The work carried out for the harmonisation of quality adjustment and sampling methods across EU countries is expected to further improve the comparability of the HICP.
|16.2. Comparability - over time
HICP data are considered to be comparable over time. However, because there have been several improvements in methodology since the start of HICP some breaks in time series are prevalent. In such cases, if basic data allowed, back calculations were performed and historical series were revised.
The implementation of the seasonal products regulation from January 2011 is the most recent methodological improvement with an impact on the series. Switzerland will only implement the seasonal products regulation in July 2011. More information can be found in the 'Information note' on the subject and the Information note and impacts on the HICP for 2011.
|17.1. Coherence - cross domain
There is only one set of HICPs available. Identical data is shown in several data collections. Compared to national CPIs the methods and results may differ, for further details please consult Short paper on HICP-CPI differences.
Consumer price index data are disseminated through Eurostat's website:
|17.2. Coherence - internal
HICPs are internal coherent. Higher level aggregations are derived from detailed indices according to well-defined procedures.
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|19.1. Data revision - policy
HICP series, including back data, are revisable under the terms set in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1921/2001 of 28 September 2001. The published HICP data may be revised for mistakes, new or improved information, and changes in the system of harmonised rules.
|19.2. Data revision - practice
The HICP data is released monthly, and they may include some provisional data for the latest month. These are usually confirmed or revised to the final figures the following month. Other, major revisions are normally released with explanatory notes in the press release. Also substantial changes in methodology are commented with the first release of data affected by such changes.
In the monthly HICP update, new data is added and the existing data is overwritten with any revised data. Changes compared to the previous update will only be flagged for a short period; generally until the next update. Unrevised data is only available in the monthly HICP publication series 'Data in Focus'.
|20.1. Source data
Product selection, sampling and data collection are carried out by National Statistical Institutes. There is a variety of data sources both for weights (National Account data, Household Budget Survey data etc.) and prices (visits to local retailers and service providers and central collection via mail, telephone, email and the internet are used).
The type of survey used is chosen by National Statistical Institutes. However, all CPIs are based on the continuous measurement of a sample of prices of specified goods and services. The HICPs must be based on samples sufficient to yield reliable and comparable results, taking into account the national diversity of products and prices. Furthermore, as products or retail outlets disappear from the market, they need to be replaced with new ones. HICPs are required to be based on up-to-date samples, in particular by banning the practice whereby 'missing' prices are simply assumed to be equal to the last observed prices. The HICP will incorporate a new product when it achieves a sales volume of over one part per thousand of total consumers' expenditure covered by the HICP in a Member State.
|20.2. Frequency of data collection
Since January 2008, price collection takes place across at least a one working week period at, or near, the middle of the calendar month to which the index pertains. Where products are known to typically show sharp and irregular price changes within the same month, prices are collected over a period of more than one working week. This rule applies in particular for energy products and fresh food, such as fruit and vegetables (see Regulation (EC) No 701/2006 on temporal coverage of price collection).
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The price collection methods are chosen by National Statistical Institutes as far as they ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.
The Member States' HICPs are supplied by the National Statistical Institutes; the aggregate indices for the euro area, the EU and the EEA are compiled by Eurostat.
|20.4. Data validation
Data validation is done by National Statistical Institutes; additional quality checks are carried out also by Eurostat.
|20.5. Data compilation
The HICP country group aggregates for the euro area, the EU and the EEA are calculated by Eurostat using the HICPs provided by the Member States.
The computation consists of three main steps. For all countries, price changes since December of the previous year are derived from the HICPs. Then the weighted average of these national price changes is computed, using the weights of the countries and sub-indices concerned. The weight of a country is its share of HFMCE in the total of the country group. The annual price change of the country group is then chain-linked to December of the previous year in order to provide a series with a common reference period.
The euro area aggregate is compiled as a weighted average of the countries comprising the euro area. The country weights are derived from national accounts data for HFMCE, naturally expressed in euro. The index is computed as an annual chain index allowing for country weights to change each year and, consequently, for adding new Member States as they join the euro area.
For the EU and EEA HICP aggregates, the euro area is treated as a single entity to which data for the other countries is then added (the weights again use national accounts data, converted into purchasing power standards). Note that for EU enlargement in May 2004 chain-linking was also added in May to maintain the correct country coverage for both the EU and EEA aggregates.
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No seasonal adjustments are made.
Adjustments for quality change: As HICP aims at measuring 'pure' price changes, it should be unaffected by changes in quality of products. Prices therefore need to be adjusted for changes in quality of the goods and services. Differences between Member States' quality adjustment procedures could give rise to major differences in the results. The HICP is constructed according to rules which forbid certain extreme practices, such as 'automatic linking', i.e. the assumption that the difference in price between two successive models is wholly attributable to a difference in quality (this would lead to underestimate the inflation).
For example, it is not possible to simply compare the price of a particular car with a 'similar' one sold five years ago. In the meantime the quality of that car will have changed - the comparison of prices must take account of the quality change. The price statistician must therefore make a quality adjustment - that is, he or she must estimate what part of the total price change between the two cars was really due to a change in the quality of the car and what part is a genuine price change.
Euro area inflation is measured by the MUICP ('Monetary Union Index of Consumer Prices' as defined in Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 of 23 October 1995) which is the official euro area aggregate. The euro area initially included Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland. Greece was included from 1 January 2001, Slovenia from 1 January 2007, Cyprus and Malta from 1 January 2008 and Slovakia from January 2009. New Member States are integrated into the MUICP using a chain index formula. In other words, the euro area is treated as an entity regardless of its composition.
E.g. Greece was linked into the MUICP starting with the January 2001 index. The annual rate of change for the MUICP of each current month in 2001 is the change from the corresponding month in 2000 to December 2000 for the then eleven euro area countries combined with the change from December 2000 to the current month of 2001 for the twelve euro area countries. For analytical purposes Eurostat publishes historical series covering the old compositions up to a year after the change.
EU inflation is measured by the EICP ('European Index of Consumer Prices' as defined in Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 of 23 October 1995) which is the official EU aggregate. The EU included 15 Member States until 30 April 2004 and 25 Member States from 1 May 2004 until 31 December 2006, while it was enlarged to 27 Member States on 1 January 2007. New Member States have been integrated into the EICP without any computational problems, as HICPs are aggregated using a chain index formula.
Starting from May 2004, the weighted changes in the Member State's index levels are linked to the corresponding EICP index in April 2004. This means that the annual rate of change for the all-items index in, for example, May 2004 is the change from May 2003 to April 2004 (covering the 15 old Member States) combined with the change from April 2004 to May 2004 (of the 25 Member States).
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Did you ever feel trapped in the paperwork created by your doctor, medical laboratory, hospital or other health care provider and your insurance company? Have you been overwhelmed by insurance claim forms for the simple medical expenses of an annual physical checkup? Think of the blizzard of forms that must be handled by family members of those who have serious and ongoing illnesses or major surgeries. That's a group that includes 58 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 64.
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For those with celiac disease or gluten-sensitivity, ingesting even the smallest amount of gluten can trigger a reaction, and it's no different when it comes to medication. Both over-the-counter and prescription drugs can be a hidden source of gluten. If you're following a gluten-free diet, that can spell trouble. "Obviously, you're taking medication because you're sick, you don't want to get sicker due to the medication being given to you," says Rachel Begun, MS, RDN, CDN, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Spokesperson. Follow these tips to make sure your meds are gluten-free.
The first step is identifying whether or not a medication contains gluten. This can be tricky. Labeling gluten-containing ingredients in medication isn't legally required, and it's often the inactive ingredients (binders or fillers) that can be potential sources of gluten. Cross-contamination can also be an issue. "It's basically the same challenges as with food," says Begun.
Just like with food, learning the ingredients and how to read the label is a must. Pay attention to the inactive ingredients—particularly anything with starch. Manufacturers don't have to identify the source of the starch, such as potato starch or tapioca starch. "If wheat starch is identified, obviously then that medication is off limits," explains Begun. But also watch for the plain word starch.
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Check the back of the box on over-the-counter medications for ingredients. Prescription ingredients can be found in the package insert or on the manufacturer's website. If in doubt, ask your pharmacist to call the manufacturer or call yourself to confirm if a medication is safe.
A great shortcut, suggests Begun, is checking Gluten-Free Drugs (www.glutenfreedrugs.com), which lists many prescription and over-the-counter drugs that are gluten-free.
Another major step is to consult your doctors—all of them. "I think a lot of times people just rely on having that gluten-free conversation just with their celiac doctor or just with their GI doctors, but really you should let all the doctors that you see on a regular basis … know off the bat that you have celiac disease and that if medications are prescribed they have to be gluten-free," says Begun. This includes your dentist (think about what they might use to clean your teeth) and any specialists.
Begun also suggests sharing the Gluten-Free Drugs website with your health care providers as well.
In addition to developing a relationship with your doctors, it's also important to work with your pharmacy to address your gluten-free needs. They are, after all, the ones filling your prescriptions, and the prescribing doctor might not necessarily know which medications have gluten in them or not. Let your pharmacist know that your medication cannot contain gluten—and have him put it in your file. And always fill your prescriptions at the same pharmacy, advises Begun. This is important not just from a gluten-free perspective, but from a drug interaction perspective as well, she explains.
The difference between a brand-name product and generic can often lie in the inactive ingredients that are used, which is where gluten might show up. "You can't assume that just because a brand name medication is gluten-free that the generic will be too," says Begun. "Your investigation between a brand-name product and a generic have to be completely separate." Simply put: check everything.
Informing your insurance from the get-go that you are gluten-free could help when it comes to approving brand-name medication over generic, if the generic medication contains gluten. It's not a guarantee, but it's good to get it noted in advance, says Begun. "I can't say whether an insurance company is going to be willing to do this, but if they know ahead of time—instead of you asking after the fact—they may make an exception and approve a brand name because it is gluten-free."
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I understand that backlinks can be challenging at first, and keeping up with Google can add to the frustration, however it doesn't need to be too complicated, and I'll also add in that none of my sites got negatively affected by the Google Panda/Farmer update, but that update was more about content than backlinks.
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As you all have probably heard by now, the latest Google farmer update has put a pretty big damper on article marketing, as it has dropped the keyword rankings for sites such as EzineArticles, Associated Content, HubPages, and other go to article networks now considered content farms.
So the question is – is article marketing still effective?
The answer is – it depends.
Your Goals for Article Marketing
Why do you place articles on article networks? The following are common reasons why people post articles, and whether or not these have been affected by the latest algorithmic change.
1. You post articles to gain backlinks.
If you're sole motivation is building backlinks, then the real problem wouldn't be a drop in keyword rankings for your favorite article network. The problem would be if those articles have been de-indexed by Google. For the most part, it looks like it's just a rankings issue, not an indexing issue, but if the articles you have placed your link on have been de-indexed, then those links are meaningless.
The other thing you have to consider is whether Google values those articles as much since they have marked the overall site as a content farm. One can assume that links on those sites, even if they are indexed, are worth even less than before.
2. You post articles to get traffic.
If you're posting articles to build traffic to your website, then you might be in trouble. Because if your articles have migrated from page one to page ten, then your search engine visitors are going to drop off pretty dramatically. And if no one is visiting your articles, then they're not going to be clicking on your links either.
3. You post articles to build authority in your niche.
This one is a bit iffy, but again, if search engines are putting your articles in the results, it's going to be hard to reach a wider audience with your content. Of course, if you are targeting people who regularly visit the article sites themselves, then you're probably ok so long as you are a featured member on the site's homepage and do well in that site's own search results for a particular topic.
So What Can You Do to Combat the Loss of Search Traffic?
If the results you want from article sites require you to receive a steady flow of traffic, then you have two options. The first is that you can lean away from article marketing and start focusing your efforts on writing articles as blog posts for your own website or as guest posts for other blog sites.
The second is you can working toward gaining traffic from other sources beyond search engines, such as blog commenting, social networks, social bookmarking, and answers sites.
Promoting Your Articles Like a Blog Post
The key is to have a mindset of promoting your articles like a blogger would promote their blog posts.
It doesn't work so well if you are spinning out crap which is the reason why article networks have been dinged in the first place. But if you are writing quality content, then you should be able to promote that content with people interested in your niche or industry.
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This article it self is a back link post, don't bs the b-ster. At the end of the day what else are most small sites going to do other than trying the time effective and cheap black hat tricks. I think people will still use this method for their seo efforts.
What if someone copy my content and update it on his blog or website, as my content is already cached, will it give me negative effect...how will google considered it???
That is a great question. At least what I have seen from my experience, if Google caches your content first and there are other sources linking to that original article, you shouldn't have a problem at all. However with that being said, I have seen times when the duplicate article is ranking higher in the results. If that site has more authority to you and they drive links into it...it could outrank yours. Personally its not something I would worry about. There are always going to be people and scrapers grabbing your content and publishing it elsewhere. If you just worry about creating great content....Google will reward you.
Both article marketing and forum posting are the two link building methods that I've been using. From my experience it seems like that forum back-links have much more power than article marketing back-links. I've bought a domain name March 3rd this year, and I get this site in the 4th, 5th, and 13th position for three highly competitive keywords in a matter of three months. I used to use a spin article distribution service that distribute my article to more than 500 article directories, and I don't see much result coming out of it. Instead when I spend my time doing forum posting on reputable forums that are out there, I see much bigger result than having my article submitted to hundreds of article directories. Well, I'll try to focus much more on other link building methods. My recent post A Beautiful Oil Painting Picture Can Make A Huge Difference
I agree mathew , That content is king. But don't forgot content is king when its unique and informative
Agreed. If your content sucks or is just rehashed from another article, its not even worth it in my opinion.
Hi Kristi, Thanks for your post. I have been SEOing my site mainly through article writing especially through Ezine. I have been forced to look for alternatives and your blog gave me hope:) Meanwhile, do you know of any value guest blogging networks? I am seeking to try Post Runner. Every tried them? Have written about guest blogging in your Ebook?
I use article sites to get backlinks, and for one keyword, where the main backlink was from an Ezine, I dropped to the second page. So even if the ezine article was still indexed, it didn't have the same backlinking power as before. Obviously will need to test more to check this, but my initial thoughts are that article sites now provide the weakest backlinks and you should only bother if you can't get backlinks any other way. My recent post Algo changes plus hubpages changes
That's what I have been hearing from a number of people. Good to hear that another person is seeing the same trend. Looking like article marketing is going to be a thing of the past soon!
article marketing will always get love because content is king. you can't just write articles, you must distribute them.
Great shift of mindset! More content will benefit internet community as a whole. My main question is what are the best web2.0 venues to share our high quality content on? My recent post Productivity Report For January and February 2011
I'm a strong believer in putting the content on your own site and benefiting from organic search and promotion. Hopefully a few people will put quality content on their blogs or sites although I'm sure most people will look for the next easy way to get back-links. I think article marketing won't die but will become a method that requires much more skill. I also think that the next evolution of article sites will see them trying to be more subject specific to try to become more of a resource rather than a one stop for all site. My recent post Instow A Dusk View
You have added a good point here. My honest opinion is that a more closer look should go to guest posting because it may have more benefits. In most cases the article directories does not provide quality articles. Everyone can post a article and spin it and here is the real problem. Why should article directories be treated good by Google if they have crappy content? My recent post Hostgator Maximum Discount Coupon – 25 Off on March 2011
The farmer update seriously effects our efforts to market for our clients. Have you noticed any negative effect on Squidoo lenses? I guess Google signaled to marketers their opinion of answer sites when it announced that Quora answers will be included in its social search results. Unfortunately though this is also signals spammers to use that site as another backlink building tool. Does the the internet world need more comments like, "Great question. I am going to bookmark this to read later"? My recent post Week Digest for March 2nd
Hi Kristi, I agree that article management is now in big trouble. By the way it's depend of your objectives and goals. If you look closely, there are a lot of blog sites who clones the same approaches and generate a thousand of low quality pages on different topics. How about that?
Very true! I'm sure those got hit as well. I'd especially hope the ones churning out ripped off content got hit the hardest as they're just stealing other people's work in order to try to make money off of it. I'd say that if you're looking into replacing article marketing with guest blogging, you do so with blogs that produce unique content and have a strong amount of followers so your content there doesn't get brushed off search engines too! My recent post Get Blog Post Promotion- The Ultimate Guide Today!


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