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You mean I shouldn't be all-in Ray?????????
Ha ha that is a great find
Hang on a minute Bob, I think we arranged the official meet a few years back. I believe the location was Bora Bora, French Polynesia. It was an amicable agreement due to it being halfway between me in Vietnam and all you lot in the US :)
Sound fair?
Need a dictionary definition of the word "proposed"?
He puts a 144 form in every month. Most months he has not exercised them at all.
Next.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place KB. More material means more KBLB profits, less material means..........
I would like to give mine a MS tie to wear in lieu of the MS underwear.
You called?
Hi JB,
Would appreciate the meat behind the bones you threw into that post, particularly:
"Ambiguity in filings, walking the legal edge"
Kim being a legal eagle and all plus has always given me the impression he is pretty cautious. Would love to know what is behind your assertions......
TIA
Ha ha I feel ridiculously stupid!!
I'm connecting the dots here but....... I've always wondered about the name "Spiderpillar". The name itself doesn't really resonate with me, it's not catchy and I've never really understood the significance of the word "pillar". Ok it may help to indicate strength but I can think of better words to use. However Kim is adamant that he's holding onto it, probably for good reason.
This leads me to think that the word itself could have more significance than I realised. These days, with natural stone being used less and less, if we build a pillar we generally build it from concrete, typically reinforced. Reinforcing with steel provides a very inexpensive means of massively increasing the tensile strength of the pillar.
Now we have all read the quotes regarding the addition of metallic ions to our silk (plus I believe these quotes are as old as Kim's insistence on keeping hold of the name Spiderpillar). You heard it here first, my prediction is that Spiderpillar is a totally new fibre that has had metallic ions added. I also believe we will hear about this new fibre soon :) happy days!
I believe the additional species used in Big Red was 'unrelated'.
I read that to mean not from a worm. I think we had a discussion on that topic some time back. I think I remember some strange marine creature being touted as possibly the other 'species'
GLTY
es1, knowing Kim the way you do, do you truly believe Kim would spend the money to produce a ton of silk without being almost certain he has a buyer for it?
I think that ton is near enough sold......
She certainly is King but not as fast as she thinks. She thinks she's about 18!!
No problem T4O!
I certainly do hope something happens soon with regards Vietnam as it looks like I'll be leaving here around the middle of the year....
Take care & GLTA
T4O and all……………
I have not taken my eye off the ball regarding happenings here in Vietnam. One of my colleagues has been sending regular emails to her contact in The Bureau of Foreign Affairs with no response at all :(
However just last Saturday she received an SMS from him apologizing, all her emails have been going straight into his spam folder. He has assured her he will search for some information and get back to us :)
As soon as I know anything I will post it up here.
Things are looking good, I’m ‘cautiously’ getting………..butterflies in my stomach! I know we’ve been saying ‘this is the year’ for a few years now but I think we're actually getting it this time folks :) :) :)
Yo Es1,
I'll check on the translation tomorrow (my time) and probably let you know before you hit the hay tonight!
lamdongtv.vn/thoi-su/201303/uBNd-Tinh-Lam-dong-tiep-tap-doan-Kraig-Biocraft-Laboratories-Hoa-Ky-274625/
The translation of the article as promised:
According to the program of working and surveying the mulberry (Morus alba) environment in Da Lat- Lam Dong, Mr. Pham S – Vice President of People’s Committee of Lam Dong Province had a warm welcome to Mr. Kim Thompson – General Manager of Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Group from San Francisco – the USA along with his task force.
At the meeting, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories expressed their high appreciation towards the results collected after surveying the actual situation and potential of mulberry production in Lam Dong on 25 March. On behalf of Lam Dong People’s Committee, Mr. Pham S – Vice President gave an introduction about those advantages owned by Lam Dong in mulberry production section and he also promised to create the greatest advantageous circumstance in order to develop the mutual corporation relationship in terms of agriculture in both places. On behalf of Kraig Biocraft Laboratory, Mr. Kim Thompson sent his best gratefulness to Provincial Leaders for their dedicated greeting. From this meeting, a mutual corporation relationship is opened for both parties regarding mulberry production section. It is hope that this corporation will develop more and more dramatically because the Group has already had the new seedling source while Lam Dong possesses suitable type of soil, climate and human resource for the mulberry development in scale as well as quality.
All, translation of the youtube video as promised
Today morning, the Prime Minister has welcomed Mr. Kim from KBL coming to VN
The PM was very happy with the Group’s intention of developing new technology in silk in Lam Dong, Province, Vietnam.
The PM has let them be acknowledged that planting mulberry to take leaves and raising silkworms is Vietnamese traditional work and Vietnam has many projects to make this turn out to be a key economic factor which helps to upgrade the laborers’ income.
Meanwhile, the results have not met their effectiveness as expected. Therefore, that the Group made the decision to apply the new technology in silk to VN would foster this branch prospectively.
The PM affirmed that VN Government would study this project seriously and, at the same time, create the best condition for the project to demonstrate its practical effectiveness once being implemented.
the results came from Government’s effort to make the silk industry turn out to be a key economic factor......This has not been successful yet
Might have something to do with the fact I'm on holiday which I thought I'd mentioned in my message tbh.
Once I'm back in the office (next week, again) I'll get a colleague to translate it (possibly straight away). Inbox me if you still don't understand....
Hello all,
I'll send over a translation next week when I get back to work.......
I'll get it translated properly when everybody returns from the New Year (lunar) break, likely the week after next.
GLTA
Yes that's correct Jetow, at least that's what I was led to believe from both a report in the local media and the digging I managed to get a colleague to perform (last year). Obviously this year's visit was confirmed by the news reports and picture of Kim with the deputy PM
Hello again all, thanks for the nice welcome back, good to be back :)
The Lunar New Year holiday is just starting here and the country more or less shuts down during this time. When everything gets going again I'll get one of my colleagues to do some digging and see what she can find out from Lam Dong Province. She was previously (last year) told that nothing came of Kim's visit but armed with the more recent information we will see what she can find.......
I'm puzzled by the 9% upward move in the absence of news. Especially with the size of some of the buys, no messing about there!
The only thing I can think is SSM or Warwick employees with a bit of inside information. Nice to see especially on a day when the rest of the markets were hurting.
Oh Happy New Year, Christmas; Thanksgiving, 4th of July and whatever else I've missed :)
Been here all along, still not sold a share & have no intention. I think 2014 is OUR year, or at least the 1st of our years to remember. I know I know it wouldn't be the 1st time I've said it but each year it gets closer and the chance of me being right gets greater.
GLTA
Hi Edward,
Can you tell me what I need to do in order to get myself out of here?
TIA
"Superducktex" is next Champ, mark my words.
Quack
Hmmmmm I wonder if.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15699346
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/11/21/shrimp-like-animals-spin-underwater-silk-that-could-help-humans/#.UPSwXOS85QA
"The resulting "gossamer threads" are sticky and salt-water resistant."
"But the thread has evolved to be spun underwater and to stay underwater throughout its life, so it will have a few tricks to be able to perform in marine environment."
Resistance to salt and water could definitely have it's benefits. Could it provide some benefits we aren't aware of? Pure speculation but maybe salt could (in the long term) have a detrimental effect on the performance of the fiber. This would be a negative in the sports apparel industry due to the salts in our sweat. I've no idea tbh but it is just a thought. I know salt solutions can dissolve the sericin (the gumlike protein that holds the cocoon together) so that the silk can be spun. I have no idea what the effect would be on fibroin (the main remaining protein that gives the silk it's strength).
Where the bejeezus is ZF when you need him!!!
Wowzer, anybody see the 674k trade just executed? Wonder if that was Kim's CSC cashcall?
Good luck everybody, hopefully our time has come :)
Merry Christmas to all on the board!
I don't think we'll have to wait long in 2013 for some amazing news!
Many many thanks Transporter.
That article gave the doomsday preppers plent of ammunitio and in my eyes Kim's response has shoved a pencil right up their nose.
These guys hate it when they are proved absolutely wrong with their suppositions & assumptions.
My only concern was that the level of detail in the article had me convinced that Kim was involved. Which made me a little disappointed at the inaccuracies and the quote regarding the merger. I am happy as a pig in shot with Kim's explanation and happier still that Kim has shot down the merger idea.
Your message has made my day, sincere thanks.
Just woke up & seen.......
Danger danger, high volume!!
I believe so too Romans.
I imagine Kim will give them a call to get their blessing before he makes the announcement. They'll probably say "JUST DO IT"
Ha ha
I say good move.
I'm in a position to buy some more, have been for a little while but still Zecco have them on limited trading (on the buy side at least) due to the lack of volume. This won't change until we start to see higher volume so I'm stuck at the moment holding cash but unable to buy :(
West of Java Romans, west of Java!
Get your $100 ready KC. Were you in on the deal I can't remember? Anyways give JB a nudge, let him know there'll be a charity coming to collect his debt soon enough!
Think about buying again King!! Think about nothing else!!!!
I wonder would they feel more silky smooth than regular ones?
"It reminds me of the invention of plastic in the thirties."
You remember that happening midnight? You must almost be a centenarian ha ha!
Well they mustn't have been holding much based on the volume we've seen lately
Mwahahaha..........lame