Bell Aquaculture Exhibits Fish Rich™ 2-2-2 Organic & Fish Rich+ 6-3-3 Fertilizers at 2012 Natural Products Expo East Booth #8422

Bell Aquaculture, the nation's largest yellow perch (Perca flavescens) farm and pioneer in sustainable fish farming operations, is exhibiting its recently released OMRI-Listed 'Fish Rich Organic 2-2-2 Fertilizer' and 'Fish Rich+ 6-3-3 Fertilizer' products at the 2012 Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, September 20-22, Booth #8422. The announcement is made by Norman McCowan, president of Bell Aquaculture, who says, "Fish have been used as soil fertilizer since the Native Americans first began farming our nearby land centuries ago. Our natural plant fertilizers, marketed as the Fish Rich brand, are made from the remains of the Bell Perch processed at our aquaculture facility in Indiana."

Fish Rich 2-2-2 (Organic) - Fish Rich is OMRI Listed and is allowed for use in organic crop production under the USDA National Organic Program rules. It is completely garden and human safe.

Fish Rich+ 6-3-3 - Fish Rich+ is a natural based fertilizer, just “plussed up” with some nitrogen and potassium. This formula will offer your plants faster greening, swifter root establishment and more brilliant, longer lasting blooms.

Both products, launched in May at the National Hardware Show, are available for purchase online at the company website: http://www.bellaquaculture.com

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Please Vote for Cat Care Society: if you're on Facebook or bank at Chase!

Chase Community Giving, an entity of Chase Bank, is offering $5 million in grants to non-profit organizations. 30,000 charities are registered, but only the top 196 vote getters will receive a portion of the $5 million.

Please help CCS become one of the top charities! Vote by Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Here's how you vote:

1. Facebook: everyone gets two votes on Facebook to use for 2 different charities, plus an extra vote to use for any charity. Link to vote: http://www.facebook.com/ChaseCommunityGiving/app_162065369655?cv=2&app_data=ein|84-0869447|ref|745dfb6d86

2. Get an extra Facebook vote: Share a link from the Chase Community Giving application to your timeline. If one of your friends links back to the app and casts a vote, you earn another extra vote.

Are you a Chase customer? You get two extra votes.

To use your customer appreciation votes, login to www.Chase.com/ChaseGiving, search the charities, and cast your votes. Thank you for your help!

Link to the Cat Care Society website

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Check out the :30 PSA:


http://youtu.be/9Hcm0q_Z2sM

VetDC's winning Venture Showcase presentation at BioWest 2012: Check out the Video

VetDC (Fort Collins) won the 2012 Venture Showcase competition at the 2012 BioWest Conference and Expo at the Marriott City Center Denver, receiving the 7,500 cash prize.

View the YouTube of VetDC Pres/CEO Steven Roy's winning presentation:


http://youtu.be/GvZcy0renEA

VetDC is an emergent veterinary biotechnology company that licenses innovative human biomedical technologies to address serious medical needs in companion animals. By aligning with CSU's top-ranked veterinary school, VetDC has unique capabilities to develop animal therapies, resulting in speed to market, risk reduction, and capital preservation. VetDC has assembled a proven team with regulatory, CMC, and clinical expertise. VetDC's lead candidate, VDC-1101, is an anti-cancer drug with extensive animal data. VDC-1101 is expected to launch in 2014 with $50M peak revenue potential. In 2011, VetDC secured funding from the Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic Development (CID4). VetDC President/CEO Steven Roy made the presentation at the Venture Showcase. For more information, visit: http://www.vet-dc.com.

'The Venture showcase announcement is the capstone to the BioWest Conference,' Giles explains. 'It creates a huge buzz in the industry for the up-and-coming companies chosen to compete. We are very proud to announce VetDC as this year's winner.'"

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NCBR: 'VetDC wins big at BioWest'

Quoting from the Northern Colorado Business Report:

"VetDC, a CSU spinoff, has won first prize in the Colorado Bioscience Association's BioWest Venture Showcase.

The company works with pet owners and veterinarians at the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Animal Cancer Center to develop promising new veterinary therapies adopted from medicines that originally were developed for humans.

VetDC competed against four companies in Denver on Tuesday that pitched their echnologies and business plans to a panel of bioscience experts and venture capitalists in the BioWest Venture Showcase. Also competing Tuesday was KromaTID, another spinoff from CSU.

VetDC took home the first prize and $7,500 in cash from the competition."

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Coloradoan: 'Fort Collins biotechnology company awarded for work helping pets with cancer'

Quoting from the Fort Collins Coloradoan:

"Fort Collins-based VetDC, Inc. beat out five other companies Tuesday to win the BioWest Conference Venture Showcase in Denver.

VetDC, Inc. was among six start-up finalists that pitched their technologies and business plans in front of a live audience to a panel of bioscience experts and venture capitalists. The company received a $7,500 cash prize for winning the competition."

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9News: 'Fort Collins co. making strides in doggie cancer''

Colorado BioScience Association EVP April Giles interviewed on 9News with Gregg Moss September 12th about the 2012 Venture Showcase competition and the bioscience industry in Colorado. Quoting from the posting:

"Companies in Colorado are doing some amazing, life-changing things in the world of Biotechnology.

Biotechnology companies were in the spotlight this week. On Tuesday, the winner of the 2012 Venture Showcase was announced.

'The showcase is an opportunity for some of emerging companies in Colorado to create more awareness about what they're doing and get in front of a panel of investors and pitch their story,' April Giles with the Colorado BioScience Association said.

The top spot went to a Fort Collins company, VetDC Inc. VetDC Inc. is a veterinary biotechnology company that licenses innovative human biomedical technologies to address serious unmet medical needs in pets."



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Coloradoan: 'Fort Collins tech companies represented at BioWest'

Quoting from the September 11th posting by David Young:

"More than 500 leaders in the industries of government, executives, research, investors and entrepreneurs converged Tuesday in Denver for the ninth annual BioWest Conference.

The conference, at the Marriott City Center, includes more than 40 exhibitors showcasing new technologies and products at what is deemed the Rocky Mountain Region’s premier medical device and biotechnology conference organized by the Colorado Bioscience Association.

Highlighted in this year’s Venture Showcase competition are two Fort Collins companies: KromaTiD and VetDC Inc."

Link to the Coloradoan