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GD's Night Club

- Refreshment for Naughty Goodsouls -

We serve filthy booze in the midnight hour It's a bit Gorgeous  

Come inside, be wild and free, drink yourself silly!

-Feel the spirit of the lost one inside your head?-

Through the locked door behold the secret cavern that holds the stored booze - anyone seen the damn key?

- The Booze Bar Wine & Beer list -

The Beer selection:- (hic)We are always fully stocked with the finest boozePoochies BoddingtonsHoltsMarston Pedigree - Better Brewed in WoodBank's dark mildStormC Guinness Visit Realbeer.comThe Wine selection:-Lilac wine (from the Cafe lilac tree)Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte 2000DP VIN '96 Mighty Micro specialityMumm Napa Blanc de Noirs Vintage 1996 Sterling Vinyards Three Palms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (purple velvet!!) Ridge Vineyard's Cabernet, from their ramshackle winery high in the hills above Palo Alto.Niebaum-Coppola's Diamond Zinfandel, goes well with the bread and cheese

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The Bunny food menu- we love Bun buns    | | GD's Club Photo Gallery   Ye Ol'Fish and Chips - cod, haddock and plaice available Mushy peas for those so inclined Ditto baked beans Followed by: Ye Ol'Apple pie and cream For those anti-fish either baked beans or mushy peas on toast can be whipped up for you ;>) Lastly NO requests for chip butties, let's try and be a bit healthy! (Service not included - so serve yourself!!)

lw
Just for future reference. If you click on your name on any page, the screen will show your profile.

If you look on the RH side of that profile page, you will see "User Settings". If you click on that you can enter your e-mail address and people can send you a private message. The e-mail address is only visible to you and the e-mail is forwarded by MoneyAM, so you remain private if you wish.

If you want to try it, click on "Socrates" and send me a message. It's quite useful.

Socs...after all these years have discovered it also works on the old channel altho not sure if you can send mail as well.

Wheres Socs?

We should be told.....

Come back Socs!

Me use stocktrade - they pay interest

Socs is here, you just weren't shouting loud enough. I was pre-occupied looking at charts but I'm better now.

Any nice ones?

In short, no, although that is not strictly accurate, yes. I'm pondering IQE.

And now, a political philospher joke:

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Tony Blair, "That is not the real question"!

And finally:

What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vender?

"Make me one with everything."

And it's goodnight from me.

Its raining - no grass cutting or tub watering, but no tennis or bbq

It's got to be bubbly tonight, Vasey knows why. Good old DYS, some say!

T-I-M
No sign of rain here, you must be in Manchester.

Make hay while the sun shines. Doom and gloom on the way

Jeff
Are you talking literally or in metaphor?

I am here and i hold IQE old socs have done since 4p (-: get in this will be be s very soon things are sounding good there and all their competors have gone to the wall.

HT.

s take a look at CRX that could really fly any time now and (within 4 weeks) (-:

IQE could be coming out the other side
Published: 13:30 Wed 20 Aug 2003
By Joanne Wallen, Associate Editor
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Semiconductor wafer maker IQE has had a torrid time of late but there are early signs that activity is picking up and the fourth quarter onwards should show much needed signs of improvement.

Shares (IQE) are up 1.875p or 17% to 12.875p. Citywire highlighted the shares as a risky bet in March at 2.75p since when they are up more than three and a half times. We also pointed out that shrewd investor Paul Curtis had emerged with a small stake in the company at 3p, which he later told Citywire he had bought in a moment of madness.

Well that moment may not have been quite that mad after all.

Drew Nelson, IQE's chief executive told Citywire that if the company was not exactly seeing green shoots, it was certainly seeing a lot more interest and having prospective customers qualify its products with a view to future use.

He said: 'I don't expect this to show in the third quarter to September, but revenues should start to flow through in the fourth quarter and beyond.'

Today the company reported a 3% increase in sales for the second quarter to June to 5 million, although for the half-year sales were still down 16% on last year at 10 million. Operating losses before goodwill were 2.9 million for the quarter, 6.2 million for the half, down from 10.4 million last time.

Nelson said that revenues had been pretty much flat for two or three quarters but this hid an underlying increase in volumes, which had been offset by pricing pressures, and dollar exchange rates.

The company has four main businesses. Its US business makes wafers for chips for mobile phones. Nelson said this was picking up nicely. It was impacted by the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus, but is now making good progress with the suppliers to the major handset manufacturers. He said the new colour screen phones and those with cameras built in were prompting people to upgrade their phones, thus driving demand. Nelson expects this business to reach cash breakeven in the first quarter of next year.

In Europe, the optical communications business was the hardest hit in the past couple of years. The company therefore developed a strategy to switch away from reliance on this market, and has developed new products for high power laser applications such as welding in the automotive sector, cutting DVD's and LED displays. Nelson said revenues have not yet picked up in this business, but again he expects some of the customer qualifications to translate into real revenues by the fourth quarter.

The wafer technology business provides the base materials to the other three businesses, and is very near to break even on a cash basis.

The strained silicon business could be the division with the greatest growth potential in the future. Strained silicon is a next generation product for making smaller, faster computer chips, and it could potentially be adopted by all of the major chip makers, including AMD, IBM, Infineon and Intel, although Intel tends to manufacture everything itself. Nelson said the company demonstrated strained silicon at a major industry show recently, and it was very well received.(continued...)

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Semiconductor wafer maker IQE has had a torrid time of late but there are early signs that activity is picking up and the fourth quarter onwards should show much needed signs of improvement.

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IQE's business is as an outsourced supplier of wafers, and Nelson believes there is an increasing move towards outsourcing in the semiconductor industry.

The company had 10.7 million of cash at the end of June, down from 13.5 million a year ago.

Nelson said he was pretty confident that the company would reach profitability within its existing resources.

Citywire Verdict:

IQE has its cash and some tough cost-cutting to thank for having weathered one of the worst downturns in semiconductor history. In particular, anyone that bet the bank on the optical telecoms sector (think Marconi), is lucky to be around at all.

IQE is still likely to have a tough year or so ahead, but the signs do seem to be more positive, and the strained silicon business could turn out to be a future goldmine.

If you caught the lows and were in for a very quick profit, there should be some to take now but if you want a share of IQE's better times and are prepared for a risky ride for the next twelve months, hold.

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Need i say any more old socs ??.

HT.

Hope you've kept a bottle at the back of the chiller, Socs!

he did but Hic i found it (-:

ALL of it????!!!

Yes all of it and they will more to follow old socs i hope you bought some IQE they are flying now (-:

HT.