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Dear Followers of this column,

In 2004 retail investors at last were rewarded towards the last part of the year. For 2005 I think that it will be tricky investing.  By investing in Recoletos Grupo de Comunicacion SA it meant that I am almost fully invested.  However having bought at on 29 October at €5.98 and accepting the takeover in mid Decemberof  €7.20 means that shortly I will have funds to reinvest

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Yours Goldbug (31 December 2004)

Received from Safeland plc 28,622 shares in
Secure Ventures plc 1 2 3 4 5 6 & 7 (Libra Retail plc - Taurus Storage plc - Sagittarius Professional Services plc - Pisces 
Property Services plc - Aries Insurance plc) instead of dividend.  First 3 companies quoted on the AIM market.

March 9 - Purchased 6,824 Lonrho Africa plc shares at 0.17p  (add to existing holding)
The Group's principal activities are the operation of hotels and lodges. The Group operates eight hotels and lodges in 
Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. The Group also imports, sells and provides services for motor vehicles, motorcycles 
and generator sets. It also engages in cotton ginning, timber and food processing, located mainly in East and Central 
Africa. Hotels accounted for 55% of 2002 revenues; motors, 43%; and agribusiness, 2%.   The motors and agribusiness
are being disposed of

Received 6 shares in Castle Acquisitions PLC for holding in Lonrho Africa plc
To acquire either a publicly traded or a private company with attractive growth prospects and a sizable UK workforce, as 
a means of introducing new members to the John Holt Pension Scheme and attempting to unlock the inherent value of 
the surplus of such pension scheme for the benefit of shareholders

April 9 - Take up rights issue 2501 New World Cyberbase Limited shares at HKD 0.020  (add to existing holding)
April 9 - Take up rights issue (excess shares) 1,897 New World Cyberbase Limited shares at HKD 0.020  (add to existing holding)
New World CyberBase Limited (“NWCB”) was established in August 1999 as an IT service company that provides outsourcing and wireless value-added services to customers in China.

Our outsourcing services provide the best-in class software development and call center services to the business market.Our wireless value-added services provide the most forefront services to the fast growing mobile internet market. Technology excellence, quality service and people expertise form the core values of the Company’s commitment to product development and dedication to deliver products and services.

NWCB has its corporate headquarters in Hong Kong and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.The shares of the Company are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. (stock code: 276). 

April 12 - Purchased 90,599 New World Cyberbase Limited shares at HKD 0.030  (add to existing holding)

April 21 - Convert 10,109 warrants into shares of Regal Hotels International Limited  (add to existing holding)
Regal Hotels International (RHI), a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly listed Regal Hotels International Holdings Limited, is the largest hotel group in Hong Kong. Committed to exceeding the needs of each and every guest, RHI currently manages five hotels in the local region, namely, Regal Airport Hotel at the Hong Kong International Airport, Regal Hongkong Hotel in Causeway Bay, Regal Kowloon Hotel in Tsimshatsui East, Regal Oriental Hotel in Kowloon City, and Regal Riverside Hotel in Shatin. In addition, the Group operates two hotels in Shanghai, Regal International East Asia Hotel and Regal Shanghai East Asia Hotel.

Strategically located, the seven Regal Hotels offer a diverse range of accommodations and facilities catering to travellers from all over the world. There are some 4,700 fine rooms and 48 restaurants and bars in total.

April 26 - Purchased 60,266 Libra Retail plc shares at 0.021p  (add to existing holding)
Libra Retail plc aims to identify and acquire one or more related businesses based in the UK or in Europe in the retail sector, 
and more specifically , nationwide outlets that sell directly to the consumer

funds received from Recoletos Grupo de Comunicacion SA takeover by management

April 28 - Purchased 1,000 Ciena Corporation shares at USD 2.14  (new holding) 
The company makes multiplexing systems that increase the capacity of long-distance fiber-optic telecommunications networks by transmitting multiple light signals simultaneously over the same circuit. Ciena sells platforms for long-distance optical transport and switching (the LightWorks and CoreDirector lines) and equipment for shorter distance and metropolitan network transmission (CoreStream, Metro, Sentry). The company also offers the Sentry line of multiplexers and ON-Center network management software. Ciena primarily serves leading communications service providers and technology companies in the US.

funds received from Aggregate Industries plc takeover by Holcim

May 03 - Purchased 1,000 Lloyds TSB Group plc shares at 451.90p  (new holding) 
Lloyds TSB Group, a dynamic banking groupListening to its customers: therein lies the main quality and key to the success of Lloyds TSB, the British banking group, which is one of the national leaders in banking and insurance, its two main areas of activity. On the one hand, it operates in the field of retail and commercial banking, providing account management for businesses and private individuals, debit cards, asset management, and even mortgage loans through Cheltenham & Gloucester. On the other hand, it has proved outstandingly efficient in the field of insurance through Scottish Widows: life insurance, pensions, investment funds and Lloyds TSB Insurance: general insurance (house, car, travel).With over 2,200 branches in Great Britain, Lloyds TSB also has locations throughout Europe and Asia. 

June 06 - Purchased 2500 Jazztel plc shares at € 1.06 (add to existing holding)
Jazztel is in Spain -- the facilities-based telecommunications provider hopes to put the downbeat on former monopoly Telefónica as that country's first CLEC (competitive local-exchange carrier). The company operates a fiber-optic local access and backbone network and offers alternative local and long-distance voice services, including international connections, as well as data and Internet services. Jazztel holds licenses for fixed-wireless operations. Among them is a wireless local loop license in Spain through its 91% stake in wireless consortium Banda 26. 

June 29 - Purchased 1,491 Vodafone Group plc shares at 1.3649 (add to existing holding)
Vodafone Group the world specialist in mobile phones It's true - Vodafone Group (British) is one of the rare groups that have a significant world coverage in the telecommunications field. It principally specializes in the mobile telephony and telephonic transmission network sectors (which it builds after developing their architecture). It has subsidiaries in numerous countries ? in North and South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa.Better known by its former name, Vodafone Air Touch, it has become the leading mobile phone operator in Germany, Britain and the USA (Verizon Wireless). And there are a whole series of holdings: SFR, Swiss Mobile, Vodafone K.K. (Japan), 100% of Vodafone Irland, 100% of Vodafone Spain and 99 of Vodafone Netherlands etc.The group offers services from mobile phones to customized communication services (call management, message services) and supplies data management equipment ? Internet, Modems, fax, directories and telematics servers. 

August 03 - Purchased 2,000 Telepizza SA shares at  € 1.68 (add to existing holding)
All of TelePizza's sales are derived from the consumer foodservice business, including the company's manufacturing and distribution activities. In Spain, home delivery accounted for the largest portion of sales, at 52.2% in 2001. Takeaway sales represented a further 34.8%. It is likely that eat in restaurant sales will increase their share from the current 13% in future years, as the company expands its new La Piazza concept. Discover how the industry leaders are reacting to current threats in this challenging market. Use Euromonitor's Consumer Foodservice Company Profiles to assess corporate strategies and measure market share.  Telepizza is international has 530 outlets in Spain - 67 in Portugal - 93 in Poland - 33 in Chile and 51 in the rest of South America.

August 12 - Purchase 4,000 Fubon Bank Limited shares at HKD 2.800  (add to existing holding)
Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited (“Fubon Bank”) is a subsidiary of Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd., a Taiwan based financial institution engaged in banking, insurance and securities. Fubon Financial acquired a 75% stake from the bank’s former shareholders, Arab Banking Corporation and China Everbright in April 2004. The Bank formally adopted the name Fubon Bank on April 6, 2005. The Bank is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock code: 636), and holds an A-2 short-term, BBB+ long-term rating from Standard & Poor’s. The rating reflects Fubon Bank’s strong capitalization, good liquidity, and sound asset quality.

Fubon Bank is a full service-banking corporation in Hong Kong providing a wide range of financial services including consumer finance, retail and commercial banking, leasing and investment services. Fubon Bank services its customers through its 29 retail outlets including Superbranches, Ambassador Banking Centers and Securities Services Centers. The Bank also offers other electronic distribution channels including ATMs, PhoneBanking, and an e-banking service at www.fubonbank.com.hk. The Bank houses its head office in its Fubon Bank Building in Central District, Hong Kong; Fubon Credit’s Headquarters in China Insurance Building in Central; and a Credit Card Center and the Operations Center in North Point.

Fubon Bank focuses on consumers and small to medium sized companies. Its services include multi-currency deposits, consumer loans, trade finance, residential mortgages, working capital loans, credit card finance and merchant services, hire-purchase and leasing, stock brokerage, unit trust investment and insurance products.

August 15 - Purchased 2,500 Europistas SA at  € 5.55 shares at (add to existing holding)
Europistas takes its toll on Spanish highways. The company was formed by the Spanish government in 1968 to build a 106-km toll road connecting Bilbao to the French border. Since then Europistas has maintained and operated the A-8 Bilbao-Behobia Motorway, which has traffic of about 40 million vehicles yearly. It also operates the A-1 Burgos-Armiñon Motorway. In addition, the company has stakes in other Spanish motorways, including the Málaga-Estepona and Madrid-Ocaña toll roads. It operates from offices in Madrid and Bilbao. Ferrovial's Cintra unit owns 32% of Europistas.

15 September - Europistas SA 1 for 7 bonus issue of shares

16 September - Purchased 1,000 Gemplus International shares at € 1.25 (new holding) 
Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ
Gemplus International: cards for all purposes Gemplus designs and manufactures various types of cards: with magnetic 
strips, with memory, with microprocessors, with no-contact chips. Tiny but very effective!The cards are used in 
mobile phones, financial transactions, pay-per-view televisions, health, and leisure (via its subsidiary Ski Data) where 
its cards are used for crowd flow management in tourist areas, ski resorts, museums, etc.Gemplus is the uncontested 
specialist in solutions based on cards with chips and plastic cards. It also produces software and card readers and has 
a consultancy and training sector.The group, through 10 production units and 4 research and development centers 
and is world No.1 in its sector. 

Gemplus and Groupe Caisse d'Epargne Roll out France's First Translucent Payment Cards in Volume

16 September - Purchased 2,000 Hays plc shares at 126.5p (new holding) 
Hays PLC: specialised recruitmentHays PLC is an English company that over the last few years has radically changed 
the face of its non-strategic activities. The separation, in October 2004, with its subsidiary DX Services, specialists in 
postal consignments for companies marks the end of the changes and now allows the company to focus on their core 
activity: recruitment, whether it be the temporary or permanent recruitment of qualified personnel for the sectors of
accounting, finance, construction, real estate, and information technology. One of the global leaders in its sector of 
activity, the group is present in 16 countries with 300 agencies.

16 September - Purchased 587 Telefonica shares at € 13.73 (add to existing holding)
Telefonica, the Spanish telecommunications giant.  For a long time now Telefonica has had a monopoly on 
telecommunications in Spain. It is also the main supplier of telephone services in Portugal. With this long-established 
position of strength, the group is participating in a European project aimed at creating the third generation of mobile 
phone licenses. Telefonica also operates at international level in 40 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America 
and the United States.Not content with the scale of its operations in the telephone business, the group is active in 
other areas through its subsidiaries: mobile telephony via Telefonica Moviles, subscriber television, telephone boxes 
and the Internet amongst others. Its subsidiary, Terra Lycos has so become the leading world Internet access provider, 
with more than 120 web sites in 40 countries, and with the contents translated into 19 languages.Always looking towards 
the future, Telefonica is currently developing several projects: for example, the installation of e-commerce sites in B2B, 
setting up in Brazil what will be the largest mobile phone services operator in South America with an expected 11 million customers, in 14 countries, or the construction of an underwater fiber optic network connecting South and Central 
America and the United States via a line linking the Pacific and the Atlantic.
DataSynapse Works with Spanish Telecommunications Giant Telefonica; Strategic Collaboration to Create ''Services on Demand'' and Drive Grid Adoption

16 September - Purchased - 62,566  Envesta Telecom plc @ £0.0165 
Headquartered in London, Envesta Telecom Plc owns state of the art infrastructure interconnected with worldwide Tier 
One carriers such as BT and T-Systems. Significant capital investment in Voice over Internet Protocol, ('VoIP') technology, 
has expanded Envesta's technical capabilities, opening up new routes to Africa and Asia at greater margins to the Company. This, along with some of the most sophisticated monitoring capability in the industry, means that Seven Telecom is able to closely monitor and control the business to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

In an acceleration of the strategy originally set out in March 2005, driven by the recent market sector moves such as 
ebay's purchase of Skype (the VoIP retailer) and recent trading in our core managed wholesale business; the Company 
will be moving away from its concentration on the wholesale voice business into retail, focusing on the new era of 
Voice over Internet Protocol and IP.

21 September - Purchased -  196,722 Intelligent Sports, Inc. shares @ $ 0.009 (Stock Quote IGTS.PK - MacReport)
Intelligent Sports, Inc. is a publicly held company trading on the OTC markets under the ticker symbol “IGTS”. Intelligent Sports will be the holding company for several sports related businesses. Intelligent Sports provides business units with strategic guidance and support in the areas of marketing, sales, sponsorships, partnerships, policy & procedures,
finance and expansion. Their initial business launch is to develop youth and amateur sports centers throughout the country that offers a year-round sports calendar with emphasis on youth and amateur sportsvprograms and skill development. 
Their plan is to expand this concept into membership-based, multi-purpose sports facilities that will promote a diverse 
range of sports programs, leagues, tournaments, clinics, individual sports skill development and nutritional training.

Organized youth sports is a growing industry. Over 20 million boys and girls participate in organized youth sports in the 
United States. Gone are the days of backyard, pick-up sports. These days, kids from five to eighteen are being organized 
into school and parent-sponsored sports programs requiring intense preparation and better competition.

These demands have caused an incredible increase in cost and shortage of training, equipment andvfacilities for 
organized youth sports. Additionally,vparents today are investing in their children and looking for youth sports 
organizations that are supportive, motivational and provide a constructive environment for participating and learning.
These concerns and values create a competitive advantage for Intelligent Sports, Inc. Our youth and amateur programs 
will provide an ongoing and long-term relationship with our parents and youth supported with years of professional 
experience and personal integrity. Intelligent Sports will provide recreational, developmental and competitive programs
for youth sports that will be fun, bring families together and teach children life lessons about teamwork, setting goals 
and the value of hard work.

Intelligent Sports’ will continue to evaluate, develop and/or pursue other sports related businesses with synergy to the 
youth and amateur sports business model. These business opportunities will represent additional revenue growth.

14 October - Purchased -  1,725,200 HEE CORPORATION shares @ $0,001 (Stock Quote HCCF) Article
Aggressive investors and traders should take a look at Hee Corporation (OTC: HCCF) this morning! Yesterday after the markets closed, the company issued a press release announcing that it would like to provide an update on Ron Brooks and Stan Casad's treatments! 

This could be good news for investors! According to the press release, they have now completed 4 days of treatments out of the eight weeks and both Ron Brooks's and Stan Casad's sugar levels have dropped substantially over the first four days. Please refer to the June 28th, 2004 press release for the readings at 8:00 am each day. 

Keep your eyes on this company! Mr. Brooks had stopped taking his medication, for the control of his Type II Diabetes, upon his arrival. Prior to his arrival Mr. Brooks had been taking 45 Mg of Actos once a day and 12 Mg of Glyburide four times a day with food 30 minutes before eating to try and control the blood sugar in his body. Stan Casad had been managing his Diabetes through diet and other means and was never on any medication. 

This is incredibly significant as anyone with Type II Diabetes knows that up until now, the only effective way of controlling it was through medication usually using insulin. 

The stock closed yesterday at Twenty cents a share. 

In case you are not familiar with the company! The HEE Corporation was founded for the purpose of marketing a new and extremely promising treatment for Type II Diabetes. HEE has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for this diabetic treatment. Just in the United States type II Diabetes has reached epidemic levels with 18.2 million confirmed cases and an estimated 5 million cases that are undiagnosed. Hundreds of billions of dollars world wide is spent each year on the treatment of this disease. 
 
 

Intelligent Sports Stretches Out Nationally - (Business Wire Wed, Sep 21) 

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