bReason for comment/bbrbr The company has announced the confirmation of two important orders. First, the sale of a Percotherm(TM) to a leading US food processor to improve boiler efficiency at the Hershey's facility in Robinson, Illinois. Secondly, through its manufacturing representative, Tozour Energy Systems, a turn-key solution to bring the boiler plant at the hospital campus in Trenton, New Jersey to higher energy efficiency levels. pBObjective's view:/BBRBR pThe confirmation of new orders was already in our current valuation and points the way to the pending 2Q09 results. We have noted before about reading too much into a single quarter; the lead cycle from enquiry to firm order in this business is indeed, a tortuous one. BRBR For all our previous comments on this company visit: A href=http://www.objectivecapital.co.uk/SDW.V.asphttp://www.objectivecapital.co.uk/SDW.V.asp/a

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are to America’s great empire what the East India Company was to the British Empire in the 19th century…and the Louisiana Company was to France in the 18th. Huge, stupid, and probably fatal.

Freddie and Fannie are huge government-chartered mortgage lenders. In 18th century France, speculators bet on the riches of Louisiana, through the government-chartered Louisiana Company. In the 19th century, they wagered their money on the riches of India, through the government-chartered Eastn India Company. And in the 20th century, they gambled on rising housing prices through Fannie and Freddie.

The immediate problem is that the mortgage lenders are running out of money. They need to raise $75 billion. A few years ago, that would have been no problem.

Everybody was ready to put money into America’s go-go, securitized housing market. But then, housing went.

Yesterday’s news tells us that housing prices are falling in 23 out of

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We had a chance to sit down with Performance Health Technologies (PFMH.OB) CEO Robert Prunetti, the leader of the New Jersey-based company and a leader in his field. Prunetti is also a leader in the game of life.

Appointed as President and CEO of Performance on March 15th, 2006, Prunetti reengineered the company, launching new marketing and product development strategies and eventually taking the company public.

While a leader in the boardroom, Prunetti is also a standout citizen. In 2003, Prunetti was named citizen of the year by the Greater Mercer County, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. One of the main reasons for this recognition was Prunetti’s hard work and dedication with the Mercer County Open Space Trust Fund, which protected literally thousands of acres of the state’s natural resources in the area’s pristine natural spaces.

Though confronted with a busy schedule, Prunetti

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