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Yeah I owned a few shares of KATX prior to the annoucement in my 401k.....I sold the KATX shares just under .09.....and bought SGCP....I have more SGCP shares in my trading account.....
KATX doesn't have the property that SGCP has in SL....we have the tribes in our court.....we are advancing their way of life.....which is GREAT....it also is really what CC's are all about(imho).....make us all feel better....make HUGE corps pay....and give that money to the poor.....cha ching.....
Just Google Sierra Leone Carbon Credits......
I know we are getting close as well...GLTA
This is from a KATX press release.....it went from 2 cents to 9 cents in about a week in recent days....they are getting into the CC biz....
Along with the new listing, our Consultants will assist in increasing shareholder value by diversifying and adding "Carbon Credit" projects into KAT's portfolio of assets. It is expected that these projects will generate significant amounts of revenue to KAT's bottom line financials. A choice of Carbon Credit projects in Brazil and Sierra Leone are being considered at this time. KAT believes that adding a piece of carbon credit assets to its portfolio will greatly enhance shareholder value.
The World Bank manages over $2 billion dollars to purchase credits of greenhouse gas emission reductions from projects that are expected to be registered for the purposes of the Kyoto Protocol's Article 12 (Clean Development Mechanism) or Article 6 (Joint Implementation). As governed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the UNFCCC. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Didn't John say in the CC the other day that the World Bank is a little slow....
OK....the Japanese Bank comes through in FEB.....we'll take the World Bank in the spring.....then the AU numbers start coming in May/June.......GLTA....yeah...I'm pumping
Check out the World Bank VP babe's last name.....
"We are very happy to see how innovative financial instruments, such as the BioCarbon Fund, can facilitate the generation of a revenue stream for a poor community, in the form of carbon credits,” said Katherine Sierra, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development. “This illustrates how carbon finance can alleviate poverty, create jobs through sustainable agro-forestry, and improve health and education services in addition to combating climate change."
GLTA......OAMOT
FROM A.C.C.E.S.S.........Agency For Climate Control & Environmental Sequestration Solutions....(ECO-RADS)
KEEP IT UP......AND WE GO UP.....Viva Viagra.....
Rebuilding forest and building pride in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone needs to earn every penny possible from looking after its forests, as the more valuable each tree is standing, the more likely it is to be left as part of the forest. Income from looking after existing forest can be used to provide the funds to manage damaged woodland so it can recover, and to plant more trees. In this way, the forests will get more valuable over time.
Where possible, produce such as fruit and leaves used for thatch will be gathered in a careful way so that the forest is not damaged. This will allow locals to make a regular part of their living from standing forest. In reforested areas once the trees mature, a few will be cut down each year to provide timber, while the rest carry on growing and earning Carbon Credits. We will ensure that for each tree cut, that there are others which will take its place.
Rebuilding the rainforest canopy for carbon capture and bio-diversity
Many forestry projects use only a single type of tree. Access believes that this does not make a forest, and so in areas which we plant, we will use a wide variety of local trees, so giving the right conditions for many types of plants and animals to thrive in the forest. We will also encourage the planting of some cash crops into the forest such as fruit and nut trees, and other edible crops that grow under the forest canopy.
Access will use Satellite photography and on the ground investigation to check regularly on the health of the forest, and will do everything possible to ensure that the forest as a whole remains healthy. So that local people will support our efforts, we will do our best to help them with things like efficient stoves that burn less fuel. In this way, there will be less pressure to take wood from the forest. If people see a steady improvement in their lives, and have their basic needs met, they are less likely to damage the forest or to tolerate anyone else doing so.
GLTA
Great post...thx....OAMOT....glta....
Hay KJ....my bad.....ok I buy at .011....maybe.....yes VSPC....I don't see VGREF trading until they have a deal....maybe summer....good luck guru.....
You can say I'm wrong about an opinion....that's fine....
But you have lied about 2 things in reguards to the NEW building....
You have never posted a pictiure of the completed structure that I ask for....you posted an under construction pic....
You said that I never sent Jan an email asking for a picture....now how can you confirm this?....and I did post the email to IR....
grow up George.....you're an old man....
oh yeah....you lied about something else...you said Jan would have told me that it was just a building and a pr was coming....I have yet to receive an email from Jan
Nice read....poor countries encouraged to sell CC's
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Saturday, 12 December 2009
Tanzania: Sell 'Carbon Credits', Poor Nations Told
Posted by NGO News Africa on: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Developing countries can effectively cut global emissions of heat-trapping gases while raising their incomes. That can be done through preventing deforestation.
According to an agribusiness and climate change consultant based in Kenya, Mr Peter Kagode, developing countries can sell "carbon credits" to industrialised countries which fail to meet emission limits imposed under international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol.
An avoided deforestation initiative could be worth more than $100 million a year to Tanzania, depending on how much deforestation it could "avoid" and the market price for carbon offsets.
This is based on a market rate of $4 per a tonne of carbon dioxide -the current trading price of Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). CCX is the first US voluntary pilot programme for trading of greenhouse gases but prices are much higher than the CCX level in Europe.
Between 2000 and 2005, Tanzania lost an average of 352,570 hectares of forest a year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. But, even as the policymakers, business people and environmental activists see the potential of the initiative, some fear how the deal could be made possible in the country without setbacks.
Envirocare Tanzania environmental officer Abdallah Mkindi supports the initiative in principle, but calls for the launch of a campaign to raise awareness on how indigenous communities can take part in the conservation efforts without negatively impacting on their daily lives.
"It also depends on what species to be planted, because we must preserve our indigenous species even as we rush into unlocking the potential of carbon trade," he said.
The initiative, put forth in 2003 by a coalition that now includes 15 developing countries, calls for compensation from industrialised nations in exchange for tropical forest conservation.
Source: The Citizen
GLTA
OK VSPC peeps.....2 more trading weeks.....until what?
Don't take it personally....it's all my opinion.....pls give yours.....
VSPC has NO deals before 2/15....they are buying time....
VSPC best case......the 8% loan from Chang or something like it that Rodman posted about and the second closing occurs.......this is the best case because you could say the Chang is showing some confidence in Dr.K....pls don't respond by saying Dr.J said Chang has confidence in Dr.K.....that's IR kool-aid that you are drinking....ACTIONS tell the story....not IR....also VGREF doesn't begin trading, but has all approvals....pps stays around a penny or above....lower than the current pps....Horse buys around .11....maybe
VSPC worst case.....because they have NO deals(imho)....Dr.K resigns graciously.....might even say because of health reasons....no he won't be lying....he could just say he hasn't been feeling well...and all these trips to ASIA and EUROPE have taken there toll....no second closing....Chang takes over....pps hits 00's.....VGREF trading indefinite....Horse buys around .005.....and probably holds for a while
GKG deal late summer....maybe the biggie you pumpers have been hoping for.....but a deal none the less....
OK...there's my prediction....no bashing....just opinion....what's yours?....glta
Post #5788....you ask me if I had proof the building doesn't exist....
You longs appear to be agitated by management...not me...
You even posted that it would makes sense to ask for a pic....
As far as ethics go....one poster talks to Jan.....about my email....lol....then said I didn't send an email....
He said that Jan told him it was just a building....the pr called it a NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant....those two statements don't go together ....IMHO....how is it just a building on the phone....and a NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant in the pr....not saying it's illegal...
I am not even saying that Jan said it.....the poster only claims so....he has his own track record....but he implied that I was lying about my email to Jan....so I consider the source...
Now for the last time....VSPC has released pr's that have been questionable at best....not saying illegal....
the live trial...no follow thru.....how many extensions?....no closing to date.....now they are re-negotiating(?)....we never did get a count on how much the harvest was....a pr last spring said they we going to shoot for 300 acres by years end....only 250....
Last week some longs were getting pretty jittery by the dropping pps....y'all were going to demand a CC with IR.....then the pr came out TUE....nothing new....except the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant....now what...the time frame just keeps getting kicked down the road.....again
Fool me once......fool me twice....that's what I mean by drinking the kool-aid....it's just an expression...it means that you are giving management another shot....fine....then you are drinking the kool-aid....don't take it personal....we all make choices....
I've been wrong here and said so....and you have too....some poster never admit that they are wrong....I'll be the first...I think it's probably just a BARN....until I see picture other than the guy squatting on the concrete....it's still just a BARN....no plumbing....no power....no offices....it's a barn
If anyone implies that I'm lying.....I'll defend....if I'm mistaken....I'll admit it....and yes I've been here looking for an entry point....the more I see...the more uncertain I am about management....but my AGENDA is to make money....the same as everyone else.....ie....you guys are pure capitalist....just like me....and that's about as nice a thing as you can say about anyone....
As far as TOU violations.....as long as we post about VSPC....there should be NO violations.....
GLTA
Yeah...we read your inaccurate posting yesterday about the building....claiming that I never emailed IR....
to date I have not received a response.....yet you posted
Posted by: joshgets46 Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:18:10 PM
In reply to: horse_shoe who wrote msg# 5820 Post # of 5849
Horse if you had actually sent an email to Dr Jan, which you did not, he would have told you there are no pictures of the finished building. His words to me were "it is only a buildng." Thre will be a PR regarding what is happening in that building soon and he will try to get pictures.
I posted my email yesterday....which I sent Thu night....
What did you do...ask Jan...hey did Horse send an email wanting a picture?....surely I'm not the only one to ask....that would be way too funny....imho
Am I to be satified with you answer....as coming from Jan?....do you work for VSPC?....are you an unpaid pumper?...whatever they spew....you repeat....well...I guess you have a right to be here too.....glta
Talk about IRONY.....Usama bin Laden has a new tape....blaming the west for global warming.......
I will never forget 9/11....the Towers falling.....the Pentagon....Pennsylvania......I also lost a TON of $$$$$ in the market.....
NOW UBL is joining in the global warming hype.....the World Bank will probably see CC's as a way to appease the terrorist....for world peace.....
Is that twisted or what?....glta
You would think that you and I are pen pals the way we are posting to each other.....I hope we don't get any rumors started.....wouldn't want people thinking that we are buddies....
OK...you like the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft......."seedling" processing plant.....good for you....
You're right....I shouldn't beleive posters on this board....we agree about that....and their "hidden agenda" is to be taken into account....
Tell your wife and kids....HORSE says hay.....hay....get it?
So do you think VGREF will ever trade?....since they have a NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft "seedling" processing plant.....glta
KJ....maybe we can go out sometime...and have a nice tall glass of......KOOL-AID....lol
Sorry that you don't have any buddies here.....you are right I was wrong.....I ASSumed you had at least one buddy....
As for the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant....I stand by my earlier post....OVER-HYPED....another poster(not your buddy) said the Dr. Jan claimed it was just a building.....that's my OVER-HYPED conclusion....it's just an opinion.....
As for VGREF board being NUMBER 1....I was wrong.....based on the HYPE from this board.....VGREF should have been trading by NOW.....I ASSumed that would have taken VGREF to number 1.....so much for listening to this board.....I'm not sure it will ever trade....
Hope you find a buddy soon.....glta
I NEVER said the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant does not exist.....I've seen the presentattion....on pages 33-35 they have a drawing and the pic of the guy squating on concrete.....
VSPC claims they just completed this new facilty.....to someone who doesn't know the history of VSPC hype...I gave you longs a chance to back up the pr.....you can't produce a pic of the NEW COMPLETED facility.....WHY?
To a newbie they might think....wow....they have a new processing plant....they must be processing pellets or something.....
My best guess.....it's a nursery....they probably put plastic up over some of that light gauge metal framing....I bet they have no power in the building.....no plumbing....no offices.....that's why they have released no pix....the pr was hype....designed to give you longs a bone to chew on....some kool-aid to drink....because the pps was going down
Some longs were posting that y'all were going to demand a CC with IR...Jan got testy according to some and said NO....then the pr comes out...
They've not delivered before...the live trial....the second closing....how many extensions have they had?....and I've only been here since Sept.....
Again...I beleive the building exist....I wouldn't call it a processing plant...I beleive it is being used in the process of growing grass....probably some storage as well.....they over hyped......again....NOT saying that's illegal.....unethical?....well you guys decide....OK
from the VSPC board.....VSPC owns 59% of VGREF
Posted by: horse_shoe Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:03:32 PM
In reply to: None Post # of 5833
from yahoo....
VSPC longs are getting a little testy 2 minutes ago I ask for a pic of the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft facility....and you say that I'm denying the building exist.......don't you big MONEY investors with the MILLIONS of shares you own(or so you say).....want to see a pic?....aren't you a little curious?.....or are you afraid of what it might look like?.....kool-aid drinkers....what's your hidden agenda?.....
Sentiment : Strong Sell
Rating :
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well said.....
from yahoo....
VSPC longs are getting a little testy 2 minutes ago I ask for a pic of the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft facility....and you say that I'm denying the building exist.......don't you big MONEY investors with the MILLIONS of shares you own(or so you say).....want to see a pic?....aren't you a little curious?.....or are you afraid of what it might look like?.....kool-aid drinkers....what's your hidden agenda?.....
Sentiment : Strong Sell
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well said.....
Hey KJ .....you do drink the Kool-aid....from your last post
Posted by: KJCguru1 Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:51:30 PM
In reply to: horse_shoe who wrote msg# 5769 Post # of 5830
They are "potential" until a deal is done. BTW the art business was a "potential" acquisition at one time! Then VSPC purchased it. Now we talk about them as more than "potential".They now produce revenue for VSPC. Also building a warehouse on grounds was a "potential". Now:VIASPACE Provides Business Update January 26, 2010 (PR NewsWire)--- VIASPACE has recently completed construction of a 20,000 square ft. production processing facility adjacent to the Giant King Grass fields in China. So......WRONG AGAIN!
Now your buddy post this......
Posted by: joshgets46 Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:18:10 PM
In reply to: horse_shoe who wrote msg# 5820 Post # of 5830
Horse if you had actually sent an email to Dr Jan, which you did not, he would have told you there are no pictures of the finished building. His words to me were "it is only a buildng." Thre will be a PR regarding what is happening in that building soon and he will try to get pictures.
OK....are you going to demand from IR a PIC of the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant?....or are you going to drink the kool-aid....and just take their word for it...like your buddy did.....again?.....glta
If a company announces that it just completed a new 20,000 sq ft facility....wouldn't that be something to celebrate?.....
The word games you guys play is funny....I never said that I didn't beleive them...the fast and loose guy is the one saying Jan said it was only a building....the pr said a NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft processing plant.....seems like you big time investors would be asking for a pic...but I guess if you drink the IR kool-aid like you guys do....who needs a picture?....who needs a live trial?....who needs a second closing?....Jan told me they were REAL CLOSE.....Dr. K is all over Asia....with many potential partners.....
I'm hitting the showers boys and girls....need to wash off what you've been shoveling....glta
Why would you not beleive me?.....you are the one that tried to pass under construction pix off as NEW COMPLETED PIX....
The new 20,000 sq ft facility
From: Bxnxx Fxxmxx <xxxxxxxtrader@yahoo.com> Add to Contacts
To: ir@viaspace.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I noticed in the last pr that VSPC has just completed a new 20,000 sq ft facility in China. Does VSPC have any pictures to share of the new completed facility.
Thx
Bxnxx
I sent it last night at 9:05.....I still have not gotten a response.....you said he told you, "it is only a building"...from the last pr.....
 VIASPACE has recently completed construction of a 20,000 square ft. production processing facility adjacent to the Giant King Grass fields in China.
Now who's playing fast and loose here?.....glta
No....I'm trying to do DD....all I asked for was if anyone had pictures of the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft FACILITY that VSPC mentioned in the last pr......someone posted some under construction pic links....it appears no one has pix....someone posted that maybe a pr with pix was coming.....ok great.....can't wait to see them........sorry if I didn't make myself clear about if anyone had pix of the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft FACILITY that VSPC mentioned in the last pr.....I thought of all places to find a pic....would have been here.....glta
Monday is FEB 1....looking for buying opps next month....glta
Who said it doesn't exist?.....I can't wait to see it.....glta
I haven't heard from Jan about the NEW 20,000 sq ft processing plant.....can't wait to see those pix.....I bet VSPC can't wait to share those with the Shareholders as well....must have slipped their mind....what with all those contracts and all....they are very transparent you know......glta
Yes it's the most recent.....with NO pix(?)....hmmmmm....glta
How bout this for a scenario......the Japanese bank comes in first......the World bank comes in later on....with CC's contracts......then we start getting AU numbers.....okay...call me a pumper....glta
I've never said a birdcage.....but since you mention it.....wonder how many volts it takes to power this plant?.....wait....can the plant run on GKG?.....glta
I ask for pictures of the NEW COMPLETED 20,000 sq ft facility that VSPC announced in the most recent pr.....thx but I also sent Jan an email.....can wait to see that processing taking place....by the way, when you go to the Viaspace website.....why does that GKG presentation stop at page 32?......glta....OAMOT
Just sent Jan an email....wanted to see a pic of the NEW COMPLETED 20.000 sq ft facilty in China.....exciting....glta
Anyone have a picture of the NEW 20,000 sq ft plant?.....glta
I mean the completed NEW 20,000 sq ft plant.....
Decrease in Revenue Experienced in the Third Quarter of 2009 and Year to Date 2009
Sales of framed artwork were down 46% for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and down 42% for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 versus the comparable period s of 2008. We expect 2009 framed artwork revenue to be lower than 2008 due to the global economic conditions which have resulted in lower consumer spending.
Change from Private to Public Company
Management understands that changing from a private to a public company will require additional legal, accounting and other public company costs not required for a private company including the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley 404 requirements. We estimate these additional public company costs will be approximately $400,000 per year.
GLTA
A great post from VGREF.....
Posted by: horse_shoe Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:24:05 PM
In reply to: None Post # of 18
Is this a scam?....
Viaspace buys rights for biofuel grass in China
October 28, 2008 - by Emma Ritch, Cleantech Group
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.$16 million acquisition of Inter-Pacific lets Viaspace produce and sell fast-growing hybrid grass for biofuel feedstocks.
Pasadena, Calif.-based Viaspace (OTC: VSPC) said today it’s paying $16 million to acquire Inter-Pacific Arts, a developer of hybrid grass for biofuels in China.
The transaction, a combination of stock and $4.8 million in cash, is expected to go through within 240 days of the agreement dated Oct. 21, the company reported in its 8-K filing this week.
Viaspace commercializes technologies such as methanol fuel cells developed by government researchers and agencies, including NASA and the Department of Defense (see Viaspace, Antig to collaborate on fuel cells).
The acquisition includes Inter-Pacific Arts, based in the British Virgin Islands, and Guangzhou Inter-Pacific Arts, based in China's Guangdong province.
The company has a license for its commercial farming operations of a high-yield grass for biofuels and livestock feed in China. The specialty China Giant King Grass is expected to be used for cellulosic ethanol, methanol, biocrude and green gasoline.
Inter-Pacific says it had net income of $1.2 million and revenue of $5 million in 2007.
Viaspace said it expects the high-yield grass business to generate $20 million in revenue in the next two years.
Inter-Pacific's main operations are manufacturing and distributing commercial products, but Viaspace said it plans to use profits from that venture to grow the hybrid-grass sector of Inter-Pacific.
In 2006, Viaspace raised private financing of up to $23.8 million from Cornell Capital.
Since then, it's made several moves in cleantech through subsidiaries and distribution agreements.
Viaspace subsidiary Ionfinity has signed $1.5 million in two-year contracts for various sensory technologies with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy.
In October, Taiwan's Antig and Viaspace subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell agreed to work together to develop fuel cells.
In July, Viaspace agreed to globally distribute the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries of China’s HYB Battery for portable electronic applications, a $6 billion market sector.
They are EXPECTING to generate $20 million in the next 2 years....dated in OCTOBER.....
GLTA
Is this a scam?....
Viaspace buys rights for biofuel grass in China
October 28, 2008 - by Emma Ritch, Cleantech Group
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Similar stories
Viaspace, Antig to collaborate on fuel cells
Scientists make bioethanol from olive waste
More money for your biofuel co.? Sure!
Fuel Frontiers, Shaw to build coal to liquid plant
Protonex acquires Mesoscopic Devices of Colorado
.$16 million acquisition of Inter-Pacific lets Viaspace produce and sell fast-growing hybrid grass for biofuel feedstocks.
Pasadena, Calif.-based Viaspace (OTC: VSPC) said today it’s paying $16 million to acquire Inter-Pacific Arts, a developer of hybrid grass for biofuels in China.
The transaction, a combination of stock and $4.8 million in cash, is expected to go through within 240 days of the agreement dated Oct. 21, the company reported in its 8-K filing this week.
Viaspace commercializes technologies such as methanol fuel cells developed by government researchers and agencies, including NASA and the Department of Defense (see Viaspace, Antig to collaborate on fuel cells).
The acquisition includes Inter-Pacific Arts, based in the British Virgin Islands, and Guangzhou Inter-Pacific Arts, based in China's Guangdong province.
The company has a license for its commercial farming operations of a high-yield grass for biofuels and livestock feed in China. The specialty China Giant King Grass is expected to be used for cellulosic ethanol, methanol, biocrude and green gasoline.
Inter-Pacific says it had net income of $1.2 million and revenue of $5 million in 2007.
Viaspace said it expects the high-yield grass business to generate $20 million in revenue in the next two years.
Inter-Pacific's main operations are manufacturing and distributing commercial products, but Viaspace said it plans to use profits from that venture to grow the hybrid-grass sector of Inter-Pacific.
In 2006, Viaspace raised private financing of up to $23.8 million from Cornell Capital.
Since then, it's made several moves in cleantech through subsidiaries and distribution agreements.
Viaspace subsidiary Ionfinity has signed $1.5 million in two-year contracts for various sensory technologies with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy.
In October, Taiwan's Antig and Viaspace subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell agreed to work together to develop fuel cells.
In July, Viaspace agreed to globally distribute the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries of China’s HYB Battery for portable electronic applications, a $6 billion market sector.
They are EXPECTING to generate $20 million in the next 2 years....dated in OCTOBER.....
Ok...you said you had all kinds of time....I just ask.....how do you know you have all kinds of time?....if that's not what you were saying....oh well...never mind....glta
can wait to see the NEW 20,000 sq ft plant
Please provide a picture of the 20,000 sq ft production processing facilty.....and I know that the art business was a potential....and now it is a reality....oh wait...they haven't had the second closing...oh I know the fuzzy math scam....from the filing.....
IPA China owes $19,000 to an employee of IPA China at September 30, 2009 which is shown as a Related Party Payable in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. In addition, the Company owes $25,000 to its Parent Company at September 30, 2009 related to expenses paid by Parent Company on behalf of the Company.
Framed Artwork Segment
Of the total amounts, the framed artwork segment had decreased income from operations of $427,000 from 2008 to 2009.
Risks related to our framed art business
We are heavily dependent on one major customer for our revenues
For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, sales to one customer, Hobby Lobby Stores, comprised 75% of our total revenues. We believe this concentration of sales to a small number of customers will continue in the near future. We do not have a long-term contract with Hobby Lobby Stores. A loss of Hobby Lobby Stores as a customer or even a dramatic reduction in sales to Hobby Lobby Stores could significantly reduce our future revenues.
We may not be able to compete with existing or potential competitors in our framed art business
The visual content and art framing businesses are highly competitive. We believe competitive factors include quality of images, branding, reputation, service, breadth of content, depth of content, technology, pricing, and sales and marketing. Overall, many of our competitors are significantly larger, have far greater resources, a notably larger customer base, a far greater content provider base, significantly more technology infrastructure, and more well-recognized names in the marketplace than we do, all of which may make it difficult for us to compete effectively.
The value paid by VIASPACE and VGE for the acquisition of IPA BVI and IPA China was $15,832,000. The IPA BVI and IPA China net assets acquired totaled $3,003,000. The excess of value paid for the acquisition in excess of net assets acquired is recorded on the balance sheet of VIASPACE and was assigned to: grass license - $507,000 and goodwill - $12,322,000.
GLTA
How do you know you have all kinds of time?.....glta
Potential is all they ever mean....and that's all that is ever discussed when it comes to VSPC....except for the art of course....glta
I didn't predict a nickel....I said running towards a nickel...then by it....balance sheet figures(?)....what do you do...look at balance sheets.....on pinks....lol.....I'm a trader....I'm holding this longer than I normally hold a stock.....CC's are for real....if you can't see that....I can't show you.......Bloomberg just had a an article about CC's....google CC's....SL comes up frequently.....I ain't here for AU or diamonds....CC's baby.....if you can't see it....well....you can't see it.....traders don't look at balance sheets....investors do.....glta
Any guesses how low this continues to drop?....I was busy when the fluff pr come out...would liked to have had some of that 30% rise or so....oh well...should be done with the gig in FL soon....I'll hit this thing when VGREF begins trading....or doesn't begin........glta
Thx.....I read that article in Bloomberg Markets Jan 2010 edition...and JP Morgan is pushing heavy on trading CC's here...so is Goldman Sachs all for Cap and Trade....not sure it will happen here...frankly I hope it doesn't....but it's all about feel good.....and make the "EVIL" corporations feel bad....for once I am just trying to get ahead of the money.... so to speak....and hey....SGCP goes to a dime.....I think it goes much higher...I'm fine with that...also...I heard the same guy that has the $1.77 target on yahoo for SGCP....had a $1.50 target on another stock that was about a dime or so....it hit $1.55...I know I posted about that a few weeks back....I can't remember the stock right....and besides....it's Michelob time....but I'll repost that HYPE later....glta