12-03 :: March/April 2012

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ioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) announced that data from studies of the Pill-Plus

“triple component” oral contraceptive were presen- ted on March 10, 2012 by Pantarhei Bioscience at the World Congress of Gynecological Endocrinology in Florence, Italy. The title of the Pantarhei presenta- tion was, “Clinical effects of normalizing testosterone levels during oral contraception.” The United States patents for oral use of the Pill-Plus are licensed by BioSante to Pantarhei Bioscience, a Netherlands- based pharmaceutical company, for development and marketing in the United States. BioSante retains rights to the Pill-Plus for transdermal development and marketing.

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abot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) has been added to the Calvert Social Index®

, a broad-based,

rigorously constructed benchmark for measuring the performance of US-based socially responsible com- panies.

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ummins Filtration (NYSE:CMI), a division of Cummins Inc., has released its revolutionary FF5782 fuel filter with nanotechno-

logy-based filtration media. The first of its kind for fuel filtration, the FF5782 was developed specifically to meet the high-performance demands of Cummins QSK high-horsepower engines. With extensive field- testing over a three-year development cycle, this latest in the Fleetguard fuel product lineup is deve- loped to deliver unmatched protection and superior

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igital Core Design, Poland, developed the world’s first processor made of graphene.

The so called BYT-ON contains an unique archi- tecture, which allows to process all operations with speeds reaching up to 1/300 the speed of light. Fur- thermore, it features minimal power consumption, as little as 1 fA/MHz, so that the processor can work even for 3 months on a single battery charge. http://www.dcd.pl

uptime for customers. Trapping 98.7% of all particles as small as 4µm, the FF5782 exhibits 13 times greater retention of particles during fuel surge and engine vi- bration than its closest competitor. Fuel surge results from the fluctuation of fuel flow due to the increase and decrease in the engine output.

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VD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV) announced record revenue and earnings for

the year ending December 31, 2011. Their record revenue for fiscal year 2011 reached approximately $30,994,000 exceeding our annual 2010 revenue of $16,258,000 by 91%. Net earnings reached $3,779,000 or $0.69 per basic share and $0.67 per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2011 which exceeded our net earnings of $532,000 or $0.11 per basic and diluted share for year ended December 31, 2010 by 610%. Backlog on De- cember 31, 2011 was $16,198,000 an increase of $6,264,000 or 63% compared to $9,944,000 as of December 31, 2010.

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