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Good one Col317. I agree. However people to need tickets in the form of KBLB stock. Get them while they are cheep as Red would say! Another good quote is by Hunter Thompson: "Buy the ticket. Take the ride."
This a nice little aside in the Popular Mechanics article:
Dragon Silk has a number of applications, particularly in surgery. Many sutures are done with biodegradable silkworm silk, but the increased strength of Dragon Silk allows for much thinner threads. This is useful when performing surgery in sensitive areas, such as the eyes and brain. http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a21793/army-body-armor-spider-silk/
Thanks Clay. As a long term investor your stair steep analysis puts a "bone in her teeth" for me. Just a little sailor talk. Look it up if you like. Thanks for the chart.
Thanks Clay. As a long term investor your stair steep analysis puts a "bone in her teeth" for me. Just a little sailor talk. Look it up if you like. Thanks for the chart.
I agree with you Big Red.
"Dallas has demonstrated the need for real ballistic protection. We have the goods."
This is a valued and particularly urgent segment of KBLB's extremely broad varied market. Bullet proof vest and clothing for the general public will be highly valued as well for law enforcement and military. Gun violence in the country is off the carts compared to all other western countries. America has the guns. "We have the goods." Go KBLB!
I am also amused Mike. Let them pay to promote spider silk. KBLB is the only one of all the competitors that you mentioned that almost anyone reading the recent add blitz ,if I can call it that, who wants to invest in the future miracle fiber can only do so by buying in to KBLB stock.
Roger That!!!
Cheap!!!!
I'm grab'n a lot of cheep ones today!!
Take care saint. Come back and visit sometime.
Then "TEAM KBLB" has two copies. ;)
This is not directly related to us but could have positive implications for the future should we move into India.
New post on Transgenic News
Indian Govt Approves Field Trials of Transgenic Silkworms
by Albert C. Barnes
indian silk
In a first, the Indian government has initiated field trials of transgenic silkworms that are not only resistant to diseases but will also help boost overall production of silk.
Multi-locational field trails of transgenic silkworm have been initiated in "contained facilities" after the approval of Review Committee of Genetic Manipulation (RCGM) at four locations.
The trials are being conducted at Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSR&TI), Mysore, CSR&TI, Berhampore, CSR&TI, Pampore and Andhra Pradesh State Sericulture Research and Development Institute (APSSRDI), Hindupur.
The loss of life of silkworms due to disease prompted the research group of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh State Sericultural Research and Development Institute (APSSRDI), Hindupur to develop transgenic silkworms resistant to BmNPV virus. This type of silkworms can be reared by the farming community through the year.
A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome.
"This is for the first time that the RCGM has given permission to conduct field trials on any animal or insect," Mohammed Aslam, a senior scientist and adviser to the Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology (S&T) told PTI.
He said the Indian silkworms have resistance to fight diseases. Silkworms from China and Japan have the capacity to produce good quality silk but, if introduced in the tropical climate of India, they succumb to diseases as their resistance level is low.
Of late, Indian Agriculture has seen significant improvement in the production of bivoltine silk. However, the rearing of bivoltine silkworm hybrids is not possible through the year, leading to dependence on inferior cross-bred hybrids especially during adverse climatic conditions (March-August). During this period, there is a crop loss to the extent of 30-40 per cent due to BmNPV infection.
In the past, scientists tried to cross-breed Indian and Chinese worms, but the success rate was just around 50-60 per cent, Aslam added.
"This crucial factor prompted the research group of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh State Sericultural Research and Development Institute (APSSRDI), Hindupur to develop transgenic silkworms resistant to BmNPV which can be reared by the farming community throughout the year.
"With the introduction of transgenic silkworm hybrids, apart from the resistance in the hybrid, the quality parameters with reference to silk grade will improve as compared to the present commercial hybrids.
"Based on the series of trials conducted at lab level, it was observed that the transgenic silkworm hybrids once introduced at commercial level will be a boon to the sericulturists," Aslam told PTI.
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), the funding agency of this project under CRS scheme, ---a PSU of Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology ---has already released the grant to all the implementing institutions.
Asia is the main producer of silk in the world and contributing over 95 per cent of the global output. Though there are over 40 countries on the world map of silk, bulk of it is produced in China and India, followed by Japan, Brazil and Korea. China is the leading supplier of silk to the world.
India is the second largest producer of silk and accounts for nearly 18 per cent of global raw silk production.
Article Credit: The Economic Times
Albert C. Barnes | June 16, 2016 at 9:51 am | Tags: Biotechnology, Genetically modified organism, GMO, Science, Transgenics | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p7sOcS-sF
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HANOI, Vietnam — When Bill Clinton landed in this lake-studded capital 16 years ago, the first American president to visit since the end of the Vietnam War, his mission was to put that conflict behind him, and the trip was among the most remarkable of his presidency.
When President Obama arrives here early Monday, his task may be a bit less dramatic, but is in many ways far more ambitious. These two countries, bedeviled by decades of misunderstandings, violence and wariness, now have the chance to create a partnership that seemed unlikely even three years ago.
Since then, China’s expansion in the South China Sea has deeply shaken a new Vietnamese government. While the leadership here has not let up on its repression of its people — the police have beaten protesters in demonstrations over an environmental disaster — it now appears more interested in playing one superpower off against the other, perhaps even giving the Pentagon some rotating access to key Vietnamese ports.
It would not be an alliance; neither side seems ready for that. But it could throw Beijing off balance in the daily shadowboxing over who will dominate one of the world’s most strategically vital waterways.
“It does show how history can work in unpredictable ways,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser who spent time over the past two years luring Myanmar out of its shell. “Even the worst conflicts can be relatively quickly left behind.”
In many parts of Asia, Mr. Obama’s strategy of focusing on the region is still more of a slogan than an operational plan. He has been drawn back into Middle East conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. But in this part of Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, he seems on the verge of the kind of progress Mr. Clinton could only imagine during that first visit, only 10 months before the Sept. 11 attacks changed America’s priorities.
Slurping noodles in a shop in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of that trip, Mr. Clinton wondered aloud to a reporter whether the Communist leaders in Vietnam were really willing to turn away from their traditional link to China. It turned out they were not.
But now the Chinese, who hindered American efforts during the Vietnam War, are making things easier for the United States. For years, the Communist Party leadership in Vietnam, headed by Nguyen Phu Trong, ignored Chinese activity off the country’s coast even as its deeply nationalistic population became increasingly alarmed. But in 2014, China placed a deep-sea drilling rig to explore for oil and gas right off Vietnam, and Mr. Trong, the party’s general secretary, could not even get his phone calls to Beijing returned.
He registered his protest by visiting Mr. Obama in the Oval Office last year, an unsubtle signal to the Chinese that Vietnam had other options. But with a military leadership still full of veterans of the American War, as it is known here, the warming of ties has proceeded at a deliberate pace.
Ahead of Mr. Obama’s visit, a parade of American officials, including Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Daniel Russel, the State Department’s most senior Asia hand, have been showing up in Hanoi. Their goal has been to get enough human rights guarantees from the Vietnamese to allow for the lifting of sanctions on arms sales to Vietnam and perhaps the return of American military units to its shores for the first time since the chaotic helicopter evacuation from Saigon that is seared in the American memory.
For most Vietnamese, half of whom are under 30, Internet-armed and increasingly savvy about the world around them, those memories have little meaning to their lives or ambitions. Poll after poll shows that improved ties with the United States are highly sought.
And they demonstrated their power when they took to the streets in recent weeks over a huge fish kill, believed to have resulted from a spill by a Taiwanese-owned steel plant. The government crackdown that followed was not exactly part of the game plan before Mr. Obama’s arrival.
Mr. Obama is making his first visit late in his presidency; he has already been to Myanmar twice. But unlike Mr. Clinton and President George W. Bush, he arrives without the burden of having to explain what he was doing during the war; by the time he turned 18, Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, had fallen.
For Mr. Obama, the trip has its political sensitivities. On the campaign trail, Republicans will almost certainly cast it as another stop on an eight-year-long “apology tour.” During his visit in November 2006, Mr. Bush avoided any notion of an apology in part by avoiding most Vietnamese. His attention was focused on the Iraq war, then in its worst phase, and the trip was overshadowed by questions of whether the United States was entering another quagmire. (“We’ll succeed unless we quit,” Mr. Bush said when pressed on the comparisons.)
Mr. Obama has made clear that pragmatism outweighs other factors when it comes to maneuvering around Beijing. From a practical viewpoint, a decision to lift the arms embargo against Vietnam would have minimal effects — the Vietnamese military still likes Russia’s rock-bottom prices for arms — but it would be symbolically important.
“The delicate balance is that we need to have both a constructive relationship with China and the ability to be firm on some issues,” Mr. Rhodes said in an interview.
Then there is the question of the reception Mr. Obama will receive. He is more popular here and in Europe than he is at home. His aides are clearly hoping for a welcome more like the one Mr. Clinton received in November 2000. Mr. Clinton spoke to students, took in the sights, went shopping and spent hours in a rice field outside Hanoi, sifting the dirt for the remains of a downed American pilot alongside the pilot’s sons, who had accompanied the president.
Mr. Obama’s schedule is very light on the war, and very focused on the future. After meetings on Monday with the country’s leadership, he will spend Tuesday with dissidents and then deliver a speech. Then he will head to Ho Chi Minh City, landing at the airport that was once the hub of the American military effort, and will meet with entrepreneurs.
On Wednesday, Mr. Obama will hold a forum with members of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative, a signature effort of his to strengthen ties with a remarkably young population throughout the region.
Gardiner Harris reported from Hanoi, and David E. Sanger from Washington.
A version of this article appears in print on May 22, 2016, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: As Obama Heads to Vietnam, Current Needs Nudge Aside Old Antagonism. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/world/asia/as-obama-heads-to-vietnam-current-events-overshadow-history.html?_r=0
True dat
Good to see you back BioDoc
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What adjustments are you making?
I don't know that it would "get us" anything at all. Maybe this is a good question of dadofduck, but is there not a segment of the population in Vietnam with money who would like to invest in the future of the silk industry in there own country? That is where most of the press interest is at this point. The sub could be a private company that KBLB owns but if it's public on an exchange in Vietnam and takes off that helps the pps at home. No? So wouldn't they be buying a Vietnamese stock that is our sub? Is the structure just not there yet for that to happen?
Does anyone think one of our "shepherds" could be planning to help move our subsidiary to a Vietnam stock exchange?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City_Stock_Exchange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Stock_Exchange
"Usually when spill says something the exact opposite happens". Yes I agree completely. There is a history of extreme statements regarding Kim, often of a vicious personal nature, that do not produce the intended result of moving the stock price lower to buy. IMO. At first I was offended but now just amused at the enthusiasm. I think KBLB is looking up and that the market will soon reflect that.
Nice find yank!
This will help get the news out internationally to big players.
It is a true pleasure to see the latest news that we longs have been anticipating. Another milestone and a key one at that. We are in a new stage that is not without hurdles going forward but the milestones announced in the future I hope will be more recognizable by the larger market. I'm feeling more than a bit gratified in regard to my very long standing investment plan of buying on the dips and holding, holding, holding. IMO. After the quality and production process is proven in Vietnam there will be competition though biding wars among massive corporations like DD and some of the others previously mentioned on this board. Recognition will come and I think it will snowball when it does. IMO. One day we will wake up and do our usual stumbling to our computers without coffee yet to see what news may and popped up and see that trading as stopped. Then we will see that there are no shares of KBLB in our account. Oh my WTF reaction will follow before we see pop up in our accounts truck loads of DD or the like. :)
Another thing that is interesting to me is the photo (looks black and white, probably for a reason) in the latest articles that is " Courtesy of Kraig Labs" of a woven material. Could this be Dragon Silk. This article states below the photo, "According to the company, demonstrating superior strength and elasticity, in some cases higher strength and elasticity than native spider silks, Kraig Labs' Dragon Silk has the potential to reshape the textile industry." We have fantastic photos of the beautiful green Monster Silk and vibrant red Big Red. What is the color of Dragon Silk. Just a curiosity on my part.
Congrats to Kim and Jon and Dr. F. and the rest of the people who we may not even be aware of for getting us to where we finally are. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
I agree es1. KBLB will fly like an eagle as time slips into the future.
First Mike, it is always a pleasure to read your informed opinions of other informed opinions. And very gratifying to realize that I have come to the same conclusion independently. Thanks again.
Thanks mike