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CHAPEL HILL, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–POZEN Inc. (NASDAQ: POZN), announced today that it plans to release fourth quarter and year end 2010 results on March 9, 2011, before the market opens.

The announcement will be followed by a live webcast at 11:00 a.m. (EST) with a discussion by POZEN management of the earnings and business results. The webcast can be accessed on POZEN’s website at www.pozen.com and will be archived and available for replay. The fourth quarter and year end 2010 earnings release will be accessible in the News section of POZEN’s website.

About POZEN
POZEN Inc. is a progressive pharmaceutical company that is transforming how the healthcare industry addresses unmet medical needs. By utilizing a unique in-source model and a focus on integrated therapies, POZEN has successfully developed and obtained FDA approval of two self-invented products in two years – something almost no other small pharmaceutical company has done. Funded by these two milestone/royalty streams, POZEN is now creating a portfolio of cost-effective integrated aspirin therapies designed to enable the full power of aspirin by reducing its GI toxicity. The lead candidate, PA32540, is being investigated for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and has entered Phase 3 clinical trials. POZEN is retaining commercial control of the pipeline assets and will launch creatively using a new sales force model and digital communications. The Company’s common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol “POZN”. For more detailed company information, including copies of this and other press releases,
please visit: www.pozen.com.

Contacts
POZEN Inc.
Stephanie Bonestell, 919-913-1030
Manager, Investor Relations & Public Relations
Source:Business Wire

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This Community Business Directory, City Guide was created for local Triangle NC businesses and for Citizens of Wake County NC. We do however include some other area’s of North Carolina that are on, or border local Towns, Cities, Counties that are covered by City5nc.com.

In the next few months we will be promoting and adding new content to help your business & website be seen by 1000s in your local area, as well as around the world. With your business website optimized to be search-engine friendly, it will be found by the major search engines like, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Aol. This means more traffic to your business, targeted by your keywords

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You control your ad page, you can add your business logo, website link, plenty of space for your info, (html is aloud with some restrictions), graphics or pictures, with many categories to fit your business. We do all the management from our two main temporary offices or family room which ever you choose to call it. We call it home!

When our directory fills to over 240.000 businesses from, Raleigh, Garner, Apex, Cary and Holly Springs NC with some of the surrounding area’s Towns, it will be even more valuable as a resource for promoting websites and local businesses in Wake County NC. Adding your local NC website to City5nc is what makes it special, It’s your Community, and you belong here!

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Please consider bookmarking us, or make us your home page. Some businesses are paying $25.00 to $100.00 a week or more, for similar services with little, or no traffic from their efforts, traffic means growth, when we grow, your Business will grow also. It’s important for us to promote and grow City5nc. Thank you for your help!! Managers & Directors: Sadac & Judy Israel

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You too can break into the scrap metal business on a shoestring and turn someone else’s junk into gold. Start out by becoming a “local junk dealer.” All you actually need to get started is a couple of empty boxes and either a pickup truck or a station wagon with a trailer.

Tools should be on your list as an investment, you will need your basic tools to start-up….. Screwdrivers, hammers, drills, tin cutters and some small power tools

Any metal that you’d find is worth money these days. Check with local machine shops, plumbers, electricians, roofers, and building contractors. And be sure and check in the neighborhood trash containers and service stations.

It’s a good idea to contract with these sources to remove their metal on a regular basis – most of them will just give it to you, it saves them hauling it away. Sort out the metal according to type – copper $2.55 per pound, steel and iron is about $7.00 a hundred pounds, tin $5.00, brass about $1.90 a pound, aluminum about $.90 per pound, etc.

Separated, its worth more. The more you do to separate these metals, the more respect you will earn with your metal processor. Your next step is to search the yellow pages or online city guide for scrap metal processors – they are anxious to purchase all the scrap that you can provide at the going rates. Check your daily newspapers to keep in touch with metal prices, online search engines, Also subscribe to the “AMERICAN METAL MARKET”, “IRON AGE”, AND “FIBER MARKET NEWS”.

Put up signs in Laundromats and bulletin boards all over town. Distribute flyers house-to-house. Place ads in your favorite print newspaper classifieds, online classifieds, Business Directories. Let people know that you are in business of “recycling” scrap metals – most folks will give you what they have free. You can even establish your own “recycling center,” providing separate bins for each metal.

People are super ecology-minded these days and will gladly bring it to you. Newspapers, cardboard and old telephone books bring you a lot of cash too. Contact businesses and pick up their paper on a regular basis. Hundred of fortunes have been build in exactly this way – simple, low-investment beginnings.

Perhaps 9 out of 10 giants of the industry started in exactly this way, and so can you. After you’ve gotten your feet wet, jump into the big time, the “junk automobile” business. This is the best source of scrap metals. It requires a pretty good investment for equipment, such as tow truck, mobile crusher, and a yard to store cars to do the crushing.

To begin, rent the yard, purchase a used tow truck and crusher, and contact your County Clerk for insurance and licensing requirements. Tow in wrecked and abandoned cars, buy old cars for say $45 each and strip them for usable parts – then crush them for scrap. Body shops, garages, and service stations are prime markets for used and reconditioned parts of all types. You still sell the scrap metal to processors or even brokers. Places to sell your scrape metals:

American Metal & Parts Co. 2212 E US 70 Hwy Garner NC 27529, (919)772-6527

TT&E IRON & METAL INC, 1529 W Garner Road. Garner NC 27529,(919)772-9190

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Free Appliance and Electronics pick-up for recycling, Stoves, Dryers, Heaters, Freezers, Refrigerators, Computers, Washers, Radios, TVs, Tools, Metal Furniture and other appliances that you are trashing or nedd recycling. We pick-up free and disasemble and properly recycle all parts.
We also have techs check for salvaging or repair, if repaired we give to persons free,or charge for repair cost and parts if needed only. We do not repair these appliances ourselves and not in the repair business, but we will try to salvage and donate appliances if repairs is not costly and is worth the effort and not just a delay to end up in landfills. Call 919-324-8905 OR 919-803-4425
If no answer please leave voice mail and someone will contact you and set-up a time at your convenience.

Brewing up a winning plan for your small business

(ARA) – Job creation continues to be a hot topic in today’s economic climate. While government actions and policies can play a powerful role in rebuilding and strengthening America’s job market, small businesses on Main Street can also be a part of the solution. Small businesses employ half of the nation’s workforce and account for 60 percent of gross job creation.  

If you are thinking about creating your own business, Samuel Adams Founder Jim Koch has a few tips for starting out. Koch began brewing Samuel Adams Boston Lager in his kitchen in 1984.

“When I started Samuel Adams, there was so much I didn’t know about starting a small business,” says Koch. “I couldn’t get a bank loan or find funding so I learned to be creative with my resources because I had to do more with less. This created a company culture of innovation and creativity that still defines our company today.”

Koch offers this advice for anyone thinking about starting their own business:

* Examine your passion. It’s important that your idea is something you are passionate about, whether it is through expertise, personal interest or family tradition. Your passion will allow you to outwork and outsmart your competition.

* Explore financing options. In addition to typical business loans, conduct a search to see if you are eligible for a low-interest loan through a government program – www.sba.gov is a good place to start. Organizations like ACCION USA also offer microloans with favorable rates for small business owners. More information can be found at www.accionusa.org. Koch’s experience starting Samuel Adams inspired him to team up with ACCION USA to create Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream, a program that provides microloans and business coaching to entrepreneurs in the food, beverage and hospitality industries, helping them get started.

* Attend business seminars. Seminars provide an opportunity for you to get free advice from people who have been successful in operating a small business and get answers to the questions you’ve been dying to ask. Through Brewing the American Dream, Samuel Adams hosts speed coaching events where those interested in starting a business can consult with experienced staff from within Boston Beer and other partners from various business disciplines, like marketing, packaging and publicity for quick tips and ideas for success.

* Know your competition. You should have a clear picture of your competition, as well as an idea of how companies in your industry are doing. What do they do well and what do they need to do better? Learn from their successes and failures.

* Push boundaries. One of the only ways to attract and retain customers is by giving them quality and character they can’t get from someone else. Don’t be afraid to push the envelope with your product. It’s a good thing if your customers see something different in what you offer.

Running a successful small business comes down to hard work and passion for what you do. “And, realizing your dreams by doing what you love is the most fun you can have while working,” says Koch.

For more tips and information on Brewing the American Dream, visit www.samueladams.com.

Wooden Birdhouses Made In Raleigh NC

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This Business Directory, City Guide was created for local NC businesses and for Citizens of Wake County and the Triangle area of North Carolina. City5nc.com, in the next few months will be promoting and adding new content to help your business & website to seen by 1000s in your local area, and with your business and website optimized to be search-engine friendly it will be fopund by the mojor search engines like, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Aol.

We do not use automated imported data-base files software, your listing has no Google ads or pop-up, and you can add your business logo, website link, plenty of space for your info, (html is aloud with some restrictions), graphics or pictures, with many categories to fit your business. We do all the management our selves with accasional freelance contractors.

When our directory fills to over 240.000 businesses from, Raleigh, Garner, Apex, Cary and Holly Springs NC with some of the surrounding area’s Towns, it will be even more valuable as a resource for websites and local busineses in Wake County NC.

As we put the spotlight on local Cities and Towns, we hope that your business contribution will get an immense return from this domain. A Small Donation will help us to add more useful content, upgrades, promotions, full-time, part-time managers and freelance contractors, most businesses donate from $3.00 to $7.00.

Donate what ever you think it’s worth to you, its quick and easy with Paypal or using your credit card, all tranactions are handled by PAY PAL and very secure.

If you can’t donate at this time, please consider adding our directory to your favorites or bookmark us. Some businesses are paying $25.00 to $100.00 a week or more for these services, with little results, few unique visitors, and overall traffic is minium, when your business grow, Cit5nc grows and can provide more resources for small businesses in our area. It’s important for us to promote and grow City5nc, to help fight the high cost of premium advertising online. We where frustrated with trying to promote our businesses and websites online and paying what seemed to fair pricing, but no return on investments. Since we started City5nc.com Business Directory we’ve seen an estimated an increase of 200% and improving each day.

If you are looking for a place you can trust to use all of it’s resources to promote and enhance your business and website profile, then try City5nc local area business directory, it’s really free! and are never asked to commit to any contracts or demand any fees. We do however ask for you help in keeping City5nc free, by a small donation of your choice. You do not have to donate to add your business and your business will be promoted equal to all other businesses. Thank you for all your help. Managers:Sadac and Judy Israel

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Garner North Carolina is growing, “as they say” like a weed, well in the mist of all this growth a number of area businesses has found a little hidden treasure that most businesses have over looked, Local online advertising and marketing, meaning locally owned and operated.

Garner NC City Guide has been competing, not only with the online and off-line local newspapers, but other local online business directories and the Internet giants, “Most of the major search engines” for Garner NC business customers for the past few years and Garner NC and the surrounding area’s answered by a 600% increase in free and paid listings since 11/15/2007.

Garner City Guide is nothing fancy with pop-up all over the pages, other ads all around your listings, promotional music and graphics screeming on your screen, but what Garner City Guide is, is bring traffic to your business and website at an affordable yearly fee.

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Our goal is to provide community businesses and residents with a low cost way to advertise and be seen by many people in and around our growing area. Now with our City Guide Site businesses can finally get the exposure they deserve.

Our City Guide, business directory, event calendar and free classifieds allows local residents, as well as anyone around the world, to find information about businesses ranging from a wide variety of categories in Garner, North Carolina. garnernc-online.Best of all, gold member businesses are evenly rotated and featured on our home page below, as well as on the top of their respective category page. Therefore, receiving the highest level of exposure for their business, plus even more exposure with a new personal webpage on our server. You can also use our MARKETPLACE for buying and selling your products and services in the CLASSIFIEDS ADS Section.Local Basic Classifieds are FREE, however we offer a more advanced level for more exposure for your advertising. Garnernc-online is more than just a place to advertise your business or promote your products and services, we offer information, useful information about Garner NC and surrounding area’s that you and your business are looking for.

We invite you to use Garner’s Event Calendar, it’s also free, “list your events” -Crafts, Government, Charity, Sports, Holiday, Business, Church, Theater, Party, Networking. Lots of things happening in Garner NC- List Your Business Today!

Local Crafts Birdhouses Made In Raleigh NC

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4 Hole compartments With White Wooden Roof birdhouse handcrafted in Raleigh NC.

These products are distinct & requested for all over the USA and Canada

Wooden Birdhouses and Bird-Feeders from Tools-and-Things
BIRDHOUSES & FEEDERS

All our birdhouses, bird-feeders and butterfly houses come with a 30 days return policy.

We are always adding new products so feel free to check back often. We want to make you a lifetime customer by giving you the best in products and services. We ship most orders 24-48 hrs if in stock items and after customer’s payment has processed.

Do to high gas prices, higher shipping rate and increases in shipping supplies, we try to ship the most economical way. Please call if you need to order or get more information on a product or service:919-324-8905

Please Note: That these handcrafted items are not massed produced they are handmade, one at a time, in our small shop here in Raleigh NC. Our wooden birdhouses and bird feeders are made from the very best woods and plywoods with waterproof glues to stay together in wet and harsh weather. Our metal top bird houses and birdfeeders have extra thick and insulated tops to help from over heating. We only make our blue bird houses in the Fall Season at this time, do to early nesting of bluebirds in North Carolina in Spring.

At peak times (April-July, we may get orders that leave us temporary out of stock or I may have discontinued an item before taking it off our website. In this case call me. Please allow 2-3 weeks for your order to be filled and shipped if the products you order is out-of-stock..Look For Our New Bluebird Design Comming This Fall!

Made of the best imported exterior laminated 9 ply- plywood, laminate ply layer sections are glued with water proof glue and sealed with polyacrylic,then sanded, then repeated three times, then cut to size for our woodcrafts. Our birdhouses and woodcrafts, “after finished” they are made to last for years, all four seasons.

Even as well as we try to make our products, there some preventive maintenance measures you can take, like cleaning, touch-up painting, and sealing. You will get these instruction in your order. Mount these feeders and birdhouses on a 4×4 inch post. Note: This means that you must have post that measures four inches by four inches, not the wooden post that measures three and one half inches by three and one half inches. You can purchase this post at your local Home-center. These products are asked for from all over the USA and Canada. Instock items are shipped as soon as payment has been cleared Buyer must keep in mind that these birdhouses and feeders are not mass-produced and are made one at a time by one craftsman, and if not in-stock please allow 2 to 3 weeks for your order to be shipped. Call 919-324-8905 You can pick-up your order at shop, if you live in the area.
2500 Springhill Ave.
Raleigh, NC 27603

We invite you to shop our online store and our retail business with confidence. We adhere to a strict privacy that means your information will not be shared, sold. or otherwise distributed.

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BBB Seeks 2010 Torch Award Nominations

RALEIGH, N.C. – Better Business Bureau serving Eastern North Carolina is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Torch Award. The award recognizes companies and charities that are committed to exceptional standards for ethical business practices and service to their customers, employees, suppliers, and communities.

Customers may nominate potential winners. Companies and charities also may nominate themselves. The award will be presented at a ceremony in January, 2011. Nominees must be in good standing with the BBB; however, BBB Accreditation is not a requirement.

A panel of volunteer community leaders will select the new recipient.

BBB is looking for businesses and nonprofits that others will want to emulate. Nominees must show creativity in their ability to manage customer expectations, provide excellent customer service and resolve disputes. They must demonstrate the ways they inspire their workforce to adopt and communicate their ethics and further their mission. They must embody truth in advertising and help foster ethics within their industry and community.

Benefits for winners include:
•Winners’ names will be used in promotions for the Torch Award event in 2011.
•Winners will be recognized at a ceremony in January, 2011. They will receive a personalized award that can be displayed in their offices.
•After the event, winners will receive a Torch Award logo and details on how they can promote their status as a winner in advertising, marketing and on websites.
•Being named a BBB Torch Award winner may add to an organization’s reputation and prestige, confirming the confidence placed in it by its stakeholders.
To be considered, an organization must be nominated for BBB’s Torch Award, and submit an application along with all supporting documents before 5pm on Tuesday, November 30, 2010. If you have any questions about the form or need assistance in applying for the Torch Award, please contact BBB at: csmith@raleigh.bbb.org, or 919-277-4220
Read More:CarolinaNewsWire

Lots of people all over the USA just love a great pork steak, center cut pork-chops.
For last 15 years I would shop at my local grocery store, and be very disappointed in the
qualty and value of what you get.

A good pork chops that not too thin, not too thick, not too much fat and not a lot of bone.
That’s not asking too much, but after shopping at the grocery stores and seeing the nicely
packaged packs of pork on display at the meat counter, and buying and serving to the family
for so long and just dealing with the fact that in each package of 5 to 10 pounds 1/3 to 1/2 of the pork is fat, bone and mixed lean, fat, that looks like throw away scraps.

We went to 4 of the major grocery supermarkets in Raleigh and surrounding area’s and purchased 2 packages of pork chops about 7 to 10 pounds per package, from each store,
we found that all four stores was doing the same thing. Each package had the top of the package displayed very nice, the meat looked great through the plastic wrap but under the top layer was, what my sister calls, “scraps for dogs food” not what you want to eat.

Each package had only 1/2 to 2/3 of eatible meat in them, this is a practice that’s been happening for years, and it could be an industry practice accross the board.

Well what can you do? Write you grocery store, call your consumer BBB, your local government, complain to the USDA or don’t shop that store.

I found a place in Raleigh NC, at the North Carolina State Farmers Market.

PORK KING, Nahunta Pork Center (919) 242-4735

The State Farmers Market is conveniently located on I-40 and Lake Wheeler Road, exit 297. Covering 75 acres, the modern facility provides up to 225,000 square feet of covered, climate controlled, all season retail and wholesale spaces

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ConAgra incentives delayed a week

GARNER — Local and state officials have asked ConAgra Foods for more time to put together a financial incentives proposal that they hope will persuade the company to keep its damaged Slim Jim plant open in Garner.

Officials plan to present ConAgra with an incentives plan by Friday, said Ken Atkins, director of Wake County Economic Development. The company had originally wanted to see a proposal by Jan. 15, he said.

“We’re working on trying to get the details nailed down,” Atkins said

He said an incentives package, which could include state and local grants and tax breaks, could climb into the millions of dollars.

The Garner Town Council held a closed-door meeting Thursday to talk about wooing ConAgra. About half of the company’s plant off Jones Sausage Road was destroyed in an explosion June 9 that killed four and injured dozens 

Mayor Ronnie Williams said a preliminary proposal discussed Thursday includes $450,000 from the One North Carolina Fund through the state Department of Commerce. Garner could match that amount in the form of tax breaks, Williams said.

Atkins declined to comment about the fund and what the state might be willing to offer

Read More:News & Observer