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Data last Friday showed retail sales in Asia's top export market rose solidly in September, while inflation pressures were largely muted, easing recession fears for the world's biggest economy.

The upbeat report also underpinned base metals prices, while mounting tensions between Turkey and northern Iraq further drove U.S. crude (CLc1: Quote, Profile, Research) above $84 a barrel to a record high on Friday. Oil was at $83.64 in early Asian session.

"It looks likely that we'll see gains thanks to gains in U.S. markets and recent stronger-than-expected U.S. economic reports. But the markets have risen quite a bit already and valuations are beginning to look high," said Kim Hak-kyun, an analyst at Korea investment and Securities.

At 0030 GMT, Tokyo's Nikkei average had climbed 0.5 percent, recovering from Friday's 0.7 percent fall, while MSCI's measure of Asia Pacific stocks excluding Japan added 0.4 percent to be within easy reach of a life high set last Thursday.

Last week, the MSCI index advanced 2.7 percent, posting its eighth straight weekly gain. It had set four record-closing highs in the last five sessions.

Major Japanese exporters were further lifted by a stronger dollar, which rose on the back of the retail sales figures. Canon Inc (7751.T: Quote, Profile, Research) climbed 0.5 percent, Sony (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) added 0.7 percent and chip-tester maker Advantest Corp (6857.T: Quote, Profile, Research) put on 5.3 percent.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index (.AXJO: Quote, Profile, Research) advanced 0.7 percent to a fresh peak, led by gains in resource shares such as BHP Billiton (BHP.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) and oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum (WPL.AX: Quote, Profile, Research).

Also in favour, South Korea's KOSPI (.KS11: Quote, Profile, Research) climbed 0.8 percent, thanks to gains of 0.8 percent for top lender Kookmin Bank (060000.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) and 4.6 percent for Doosan Heavy Industries (034020.KS: Quote, Profile, Research). Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) was up 0.4 percent.

But companies exposed to China such as steel maker POSCO (005490.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) slipped 2.1 percent after Beijing took further steps over the weekend to cool its booming economy.

On Saturday, China's central bank raised the proportion of deposits that banks must hold in reserve for the eighth time this year.

Last Friday, U.S. stocks advanced following the strong retail sales report, a brighter outlook from McDonald's Corp (MCD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and a takeover bid in the software sector.

The Dow gained 0.6 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 1.2 percent.
]]> http://www.bokee.net/blogmodule/weblogcomment_viewEntry/1761899.html 业余生活 igoto 业余生活 Fri, 09 May 2008 23:14:25 CST http://www.bokee.net/blogmodule/weblogcomment_viewEntry/1752313.html
The physical tiredness “is visible” when the body has to respond to stimulus. Reactions are slowed, body movements suppose a bigger effort for their execution and also body weakness and sleepiness are felt. The brain mobilizes itself harder to reproduce the same reactions than it usually does, attention is lowering with every second that passes. Some memory problems, apathy, nervousness and irritability also can be present .

Everyone had experienced such episodes, especially when you were to resolve some various jobs or issues at the same time, or you got very tired because of excess of physical effort. Often a good movie, some music and good sleep, especially when the person next to you understands what you are passing through, may turnout as “miracles”.

What happens when this fatigue becomes a regular lifestyle, and the symptoms don’t seem to go away just by resting?

When fatigue becomes a permanent state of being?

The chronic fatigue syndrome settles in after 6 months of systematic fatigue and exhaustion that interferes significantly with the person’s life quality. The manifestation cause of the chronic fatigue syndrome is not very clear(precise). The symptoms are influenced by environmental causes (stressing, solicitant environment) with physical problems (from flu, cold, to immunity and endocrine systems’ diseases) and psychological causes (vulnerability, depression). Depression can be a cause, but also an effect of chronic fatigue.

If you noticed that lately you have felt tiredness too often, you should take the following facts into consideration:

The fatigue is real. Even after periods of low activity, fatigue is persistent and silent. This thing is hard to understand, especially when the exhaustion feeling is noticed after a long period of apparent rest. Therefore, for those who have these symptoms, it is sometimes hard to communicate with family or friends and to decide together that something more then just rest is needed.]]> http://www.bokee.net/blogmodule/weblogcomment_viewEntry/1752313.html igoto Thu, 08 May 2008 09:54:03 CST http://www.bokee.net/blogmodule/weblogcomment_viewEntry/1752292.html
Mosquitoes and other insects have long been harbingers of disease, but global warming is allowing them to venture into the newly warmer areas and spread once uncommon ailments to unfamiliar locations. The following are five diseases that, much like Al Gore’s career, have had a comeback thanks to global warming.

Dengue Fever

The Aedes mosquito, which transmits the dengue fever virus, lives primarily in tropical and subtropical climates. Frost kills mosquito larvae and adults, effectively limiting the temperature range in which it can survive. However, with warming temperatures, the mosquitoes and the disease have expanded their range.

Aedes has been detected as far north as the Netherlands. In 1995, a town in Texas experienced a small outbreak of dengue. Chikungunya, a disease with symptoms similar to dengue and carried by Aedes mosquitoes, recently caused a 300-person outbreak in a small town in Italy. According to the World health Organization (WHO), this is the first time a disease only seen in the tropics was found in modern Europe.

As higher altitudes become warmer, the dengue-carrying mosquito is also moving to higher ground. Normally limited to elevations of 3,300 feet, in the past three decades, the mosquito has been found at 5,600 feet in Mexico and at 7,260 feet in the Andes.

Since mosquitoes thrive in stagnant water, rainstorms and flooding, induced by climate change, have caused epidemics of mosquito and water-borne diseases. When three feet of rain fell on Mumbai in one day in 2005, the flooding caused epidemics of dengue fever and malaria, as well as cholera.

Malaria

As is the case for dengue and chikungunya, rising temperatures have expanded the range of the Anopheles mosquito that carries malaria. Malaria is now found in highland regions in Africa, where it had previously not been detected; a WHO report found that warming caused malaria outbreaks in Rwanda and Tanzania and caused the disease to expand its range in Kenya. According to a report issued by the Harvard Medical School, malaria is not only circulating at higher altitudes; it is also maturing at a faster rate. At 68° F, the malarial protozoa take twenty-six days to incubate; at 77° F, they take half that time. Since Anopheles live only several weeks, warmer temperatures mean greater replication and transmission of the parasite.

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Up until recently, the United States had completely eradicated malaria, but the Anopheles mosquitoes are present in the U.S. Small outbreaks of locally transmitted malaria have occurred in the past decade in Texas, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York.

West Nile

West Nile Virus had never been documented in the Western Hemisphere until 1999, when it was determined by the Centers for Disease Control to be the cause of an encephalitis outbreak in New York. How WNV appeared in the U.S. is unknown, but extreme weather conditions can amplify virus replication in animals and birds. Drought followed by warm temperatures is a particularly favorable and common condition for outbreaks.

In 1999, a severe drought followed by a mild winter may have set the stage for WNV outbreaks. In the summer of 2002, drought and hot weather caused WNV to spread across the U.S. and into Canada, killing 304 people in North America.

Rift Valley Fever

While the mosquito that transmits West Nile can thrive in small pools of water left after drought, uncharacteristically wet weather can lead to outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever, an emerging pathogen whose rise has been attributed to changing global weather patterns. Recently, both Kenya and Madagascar have experienced outbreaks following severe rainstorms and flooding. The mosquito population, whose eggs can survive for years in dry weather and hatch to produce infected larvae in wet weather, spreads the virus to livestock, which then spreads it to humans.

If global warming continues unabated, weather patterns will become more erratic, bringing stronger storms and floods, creating ideal breeding grounds for the Rift Valley fever virus.

Lyme Disease

Warmer weather is contributing to a rise in Lyme disease in two ways: higher temperatures allow both ticks to thrive and people to stay outdoors more. A study conducted by the Center for health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School found that rising temperatures during winters in North America are causing a growth in tick populations, which has led to more Lyme disease cases. Like mosquitoes, ticks are attracted to warmer conditions, so as climate change gradually increases the temperature in northern geographic areas, ticks will find new Homes (and new targets).

These diseases aren’t just due to climate change—globalization, loss of predators, ecological factors, and lack of prevention play a role. But their increasing incidence and range, due in large part to warmer weather and extreme rainfall, make them seem like the canaries in our global coalmine.
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