One of the highlights of the international biomass energy conference held in Mexico City on October 7th was a leafy green plant of which most people have never even heard of. The plant is called Giant King Grass (GKG), and its remarkable properties make it a potential solution to the search for clean renewable energy.

In a recently released summary of a presentation given by Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO of VIASPACE, Inc. (VSPC.OB), GKG was shown to be one of the best potential biomass energy resources on the planet, with a range of other applications as well.

If anyone should know about GKG, it’s Carl Kukkonen, and his enthusiasm carries a lot of weight. Holding his PhD in Physics from Cornell, Dr. Kukkonen spent a number of years at Caltech as Director of the Center for Space Microelectronics Technology and Manager

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NNAN is a materials science company focused on developing and commercializing advanced nanocomposites.

Series of Cornell’s feasibility studies using NNAN’s Halloysite Natural Tubes has been very successful.

The study has been initiated under the direction of Professor Michael King, Ph.D. of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and in co-operation with CellTraffix Inc. (wich employs its unique understanding of the mechanics of cellular flow and cell trafficking in the blood stream to develop a range of

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TODAY: Security shake-up in Ingushetia; blame put on local police; Russia does tit-for-tat on diplomats; Medvedev and Peres meet to discuss Middle East, Russia to reevaluate plan for weapons to Iran?; hope for power plant disaster survivors wanes.  CPJ fears for the death of journalism.According to the BBC, President Medvedev has appointed a new interior minister in Ingushetia, Viktor Zhirnov.  Russia's Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev's has slammed local police for failing to act on a tip-off they received about the bombing.  Medvedev has sent 'battle-hardened' Deputy Interior Minister Colonel-General Yedelev to Ingushetia to put the region 'in proper order'.  Reuters reports on the 'Afghan-isation' of the North Caucasus where the Kremlin's policy of '...

Der Spiegel has supposedly obtained confidential documents written by the EU team led by Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini that is investigating the war last summer. There are quite a few interesting little nuggets in Der Spiegel's write-up. Here are a few:

The confidential investigative commission documents, which SPIEGEL has obtained, show that the task of assigning blame for the conflict has been as much of a challenge for the commission members as it has for the international community. However, a majority of members tend to arrive at the assessment that Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili started the war by attacking South Ossetia on August 7, 2008. The facts assembled on Tagliavini's desk refute Saakashvili's claim that his country became the innocent victim of "Russian aggression" on that day.

The experts found no evidence to support claims by the Georgian president, which he also mentioned

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pSpin-Offs often make for interesting investments. There are not that common, but tend to perform well, especially in their first couple of years as a stand-alone stock. This has been written about in a few areas, and specifically by investor and author Joel span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Greenblatt/span, as this type of stock is one of his favorite investments. Let's look at what spin-offs are and why they outperform.br /br /a href="http://www.spinoffadvisors.com/"Spin-Off span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"Advisors/span/a, a company that specializes in research and span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"portfolio/span management of spin-offs, define them as this:br /br //pblockquoteIn a pure spin-off, a parent company distributes 100% of its ownership interests in a subsidiary operation as a dividend to its existing shareholders. After the spin-off, there are two separate, publicly held firms that have exactly the same shareholder base. This procedure stands in contrast to an initial public offering (span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"IPO/span), in which the parent company ...

During a trip to my birthplace of New York City some years ago, I had the pleasure of briefly meeting the impressive and talented Professor Jenik Radon of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).  Radon is one of the fellows who actively participates in the Harriman Institute's (annual?) conferences on Eurasian pipeline politics - a subject which attracts a small but highly dedicated, active, and wonky crowd to travel up the Washington Heights campus to debate the who, where, and how of oil and gas leaving Central Asia toward other markets.  These highly technical discussions sometimes come back to earth with remarks on Russia's conduct and goals in the region, which many, such as myself, have been warning for years are driven by ...

Below is a video compilation of some of the interviews I shot in Washington DC this month with various Russia and Caucasus experts, this time commenting on the current political crisis in Georgia, the August invasion by Russia, and the general trend of confrontation in the region.  Svante Cornell, of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Paul Goble, a former U.S. official and blogger at Window on Eurasia, and David Satter are featured in the video.

Cord Blood America, Inc., an umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company, announced today that it has eliminated $817,000 of long-term debt in addition to the recently announced long-term debt elimination of $1.75 million.

Matthew Schissler, Cord Blood America Founder and CEO, commented, “The remaining debt with YA Global Investments, formerly Cornell Capital Partners, has been assigned to an existing institutional investor. CBAI and YA Global Investments agreed on a one time common share settlement for liquidated damages in connection with assigning the outstanding principal and interest to the existing investor. With this assignment, CBAI has no further debt with YA Global Investments. Cord Blood America regards this as a key milestone on its path to being able to operate on its cash flow.”

“We said decreasing debt would be one of our significant items to focus on in 2009 and we are very pleased on how we are progressing,” added Mr.

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We recently conducted several separate interviews with several Russia experts, including David Satter, Anders Aslund, Svante Cornell, Ariel Cohen, and Paul Goble, to ask them about their impressions of President Dmitry Medvedev's independence and range of influence vis-à-vis the overshadowing power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.  This topic has recently come up again following Medvedev's choice of Novaya Gazeta as an interview platform, and the reiteration of his liberal credentials.  The video below includes some of the excerpts of these interviews. 

We recently conducted several separate interviews with several Russia experts, including David Satter, Anders Aslund, Svante Cornell, Ariel Cohen, and Paul Goble, to ask them about their impressions of President Dmitry Medvedev's independence and range of influence vis-à-vis the overshadowing power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.  This topic has recently come up again following Medvedev's choice of Novaya Gazeta as an interview platform, and the reiteration of his liberal credentials.  The video below includes some of the excerpts of these interviews.