Positive News Update for 1-10-06
The Positive News Update provides short
summaries of Positive News from around
the world.
Positive News sees this news as proof of
growth and progress toward a better
world for all.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Japan's Prime Minister meets in Turkey
to discuss Middle East peace
9 January 2006 - Japan's Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi arrived in Turkey today
to discuss Middle East peace.
The Japanese leader had also planned on
visiting Israel and Palestine but cancelled
as a result of the ill health of Israeli
leader Ariel Sharon.
Turkey offers to help economy and
peace in Middle East
8 January 2006 - To encourage the progress
of peace and nourish economic growth in the
Gaza Strip, Turkey and Palestine have agreed
that a coalition of Turkish businessmen will
administer an industrial region in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is expected to sign the agreement shortly.
The project is expected to provide 6,000 jobs.
Nelson Mandela's New Year Resolution
is 'to better serve people'
Mandela, the 87-year-old anti-apartheid hero,
disclosed in a recent article that his New Year's
resolution is 'to better serve people' as he
would like to them to see their desires fulfilled,
or 'realize their wishes' as he put it.
Cheap laptops planned for world's
poorest kids
A cheap laptop boasting wireless network access
and a hand-crank to provide electricity is expected
to start shipping in February or March to help
extend technology to school-aged children worldwide.
The machines are to sell for $100, slightly less
than its cost. The aim is to have governments
or donors buy them and give full ownership to
the children.
Honda to mass-produce solar batteries
19 December 2005 - The Japanese business
paper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) has
reported Honda Motor Company plans to
build a facility in Kumamoto, Japan, to
mass-produce solar batteries starting
in 2007.
Sudan villagers engineer their
own comeback
Two years ago, farms in Lattit, Sudan, were arid
wasteland and the villagers refugees. Now there
is reason for hope as green fields stretch into the
distance, producing food for sale and to feed
hundreds of families who have returned and are
proud that they, not aid agencies, have engineered
their own comeback.
US NEWS
Hybrid car buyers to receive tax breaks
The US Internal Revenue Service is offering tax
breaks on hybrid cars in 2006 ranging from
$3,150 to $250.
The new year will bring more savings for buyers
of at least 13 gas-electric vehicles, with those
showing the most improvement in fuel efficiency
securing bigger tax breaks for their new owners.
US venture capitalists embrace
solar energy
In the first three quarters of this year, US
venture-capital firms funnelled $67.7 million
into the solar-energy sector, up from $31.4
million for all of 2004.
Just two years ago solar-power companies,
which now lead the renewable energy sector,
struggled to turn any profit. Consumer demand
and higher oil prices have played a critical role
behind the boom.
One small step means giant leap for
spinal cord research
TerraDaily reported: Researchers at the University
of Toronto have developed a new device that is
helping people with spinal injuries, that are not
expected to improve, to walk.
All patients improved over the course of 18 weeks
with the device. Some patients had injuries as old
as 24 years.
The device is designed for people whose conditions
cannot improve through conventional therapy. By
sending 'functional electrical stimulation (FES),' i.e.,
controlled bursts of electricity, step frequency,
stride length and walking speed progress.
'This is a group of patients in which recovery is not
expected,' Professor Milos Popovic of the Institute
of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering in
Toronto told TerraDaily, 'We got them on a treadmill
and worked with them and 18 weeks later we saw
quite a considerable improvement.'
Some patients had injuries as old as 24 years.
All improved over the course of 18 weeks.
WOW! That's great news for all who are
injured this way...
summaries of Positive News from around
the world.
Positive News sees this news as proof of
growth and progress toward a better
world for all.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Japan's Prime Minister meets in Turkey
to discuss Middle East peace
9 January 2006 - Japan's Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi arrived in Turkey today
to discuss Middle East peace.
The Japanese leader had also planned on
visiting Israel and Palestine but cancelled
as a result of the ill health of Israeli
leader Ariel Sharon.
Turkey offers to help economy and
peace in Middle East
8 January 2006 - To encourage the progress
of peace and nourish economic growth in the
Gaza Strip, Turkey and Palestine have agreed
that a coalition of Turkish businessmen will
administer an industrial region in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is expected to sign the agreement shortly.
The project is expected to provide 6,000 jobs.
Nelson Mandela's New Year Resolution
is 'to better serve people'
Mandela, the 87-year-old anti-apartheid hero,
disclosed in a recent article that his New Year's
resolution is 'to better serve people' as he
would like to them to see their desires fulfilled,
or 'realize their wishes' as he put it.
Cheap laptops planned for world's
poorest kids
A cheap laptop boasting wireless network access
and a hand-crank to provide electricity is expected
to start shipping in February or March to help
extend technology to school-aged children worldwide.
The machines are to sell for $100, slightly less
than its cost. The aim is to have governments
or donors buy them and give full ownership to
the children.
Honda to mass-produce solar batteries
19 December 2005 - The Japanese business
paper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) has
reported Honda Motor Company plans to
build a facility in Kumamoto, Japan, to
mass-produce solar batteries starting
in 2007.
Sudan villagers engineer their
own comeback
Two years ago, farms in Lattit, Sudan, were arid
wasteland and the villagers refugees. Now there
is reason for hope as green fields stretch into the
distance, producing food for sale and to feed
hundreds of families who have returned and are
proud that they, not aid agencies, have engineered
their own comeback.
US NEWS
Hybrid car buyers to receive tax breaks
The US Internal Revenue Service is offering tax
breaks on hybrid cars in 2006 ranging from
$3,150 to $250.
The new year will bring more savings for buyers
of at least 13 gas-electric vehicles, with those
showing the most improvement in fuel efficiency
securing bigger tax breaks for their new owners.
US venture capitalists embrace
solar energy
In the first three quarters of this year, US
venture-capital firms funnelled $67.7 million
into the solar-energy sector, up from $31.4
million for all of 2004.
Just two years ago solar-power companies,
which now lead the renewable energy sector,
struggled to turn any profit. Consumer demand
and higher oil prices have played a critical role
behind the boom.
One small step means giant leap for
spinal cord research
TerraDaily reported: Researchers at the University
of Toronto have developed a new device that is
helping people with spinal injuries, that are not
expected to improve, to walk.
All patients improved over the course of 18 weeks
with the device. Some patients had injuries as old
as 24 years.
The device is designed for people whose conditions
cannot improve through conventional therapy. By
sending 'functional electrical stimulation (FES),' i.e.,
controlled bursts of electricity, step frequency,
stride length and walking speed progress.
'This is a group of patients in which recovery is not
expected,' Professor Milos Popovic of the Institute
of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering in
Toronto told TerraDaily, 'We got them on a treadmill
and worked with them and 18 weeks later we saw
quite a considerable improvement.'
Some patients had injuries as old as 24 years.
All improved over the course of 18 weeks.
WOW! That's great news for all who are
injured this way...
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