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Tuesday September 8, 2009

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Heathrow Natural Food & Beverage, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HRNF) is pleased to provide an update for shareholders on several fronts. The initial sample shipment of ACAI Plus has arrived and is waiting clearance at U.S. Customs in Port Elizabeth, NJ. The gum will be tested at an independent consumer laboratory for content and antioxidant levels and made available to multiple distributors who will bring it to the retail market. Heathrow Natural Food & Beverage, Inc. has ordered an initial production run of 250,000 units and expects to ship over four million units of ACAI Plus over the next

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DrStockPick.com Stock Report!

Tuesday August 18, 2009

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Option trading was heavy on Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) yesterday, as more than 144,500 contracts crossed the tape. This surge in volume was more than 36 times the equity’s average daily trading volume of 3,959 contracts, according to data from WhatsTrading.com. Furthermore, roughly 99% of the volume changed hands on the call side.

Today, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), TransFair USA, SEBRAE-Minas Gerais and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that a new Fair Trade Certified coffee from Brazil will be sold to Sam’s Club members across the country. The two new Fair Trade Certified(TM) Member’s Mark coffee options will be available

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A very modest «Alenka» (on the profanation of the idea of energy conservation)

Grigory Pasko, journalist

I recently attended a seminar for radio journalists in Irkutsk, which had an interesting article published in the official programme about the implementation of "energy conservation projects in the Shelekhov municipal district."

Will you look at that, I thought to myself, there are actually ahead-of-the-curve people in off-the-beaten-track Shelekhov district, thinking progressively and implementing energy-conservation technologies! The only thing that perplexed me was why there weren't any such examples of energy conservation in the oblast center itself - in Irkutsk. Well, be that as it may, I together with a group of radio journalists set off for Shelekhov to check it out.

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Tetra Tech, Inc. (TTEK) had predicted that Q2-09 EPS would be in the range of 24¢ to 26¢; the precise, actual number was 31.6¢, which included 5.5¢ from the impact of an IRS tax settlement, which, if excluded from the results, brings the remainder down to 26.1¢.Such accuracy is indeed commendable -- and especially noteworthy -- for a hi-tech company the ilk of TTEK. However, on a slightly less-accurate basis, 26¢ is but 13.0% higher than the 23¢ reported in Q2-08. In Q1-09, EPS were up 22.7%. Consequently, a bit of slowing can be detected in these numbers, part of which can be attributed to the recent Wardrop acquisition. However, if we drill down further into the results, we find that there are other similar indicators.Specifically, Q2-09 Revenues of $522.3 million were up by 13.2%, while Revenues in Q1-09 rose by 35.8%. If we ...