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Today, Sentient Science announced they have reached a computational milestone in predicting the remaining use life of wind turbine gearboxes and other rotating mechanical components throughout North America. In the past six months Sentient has run 1,500,000 gearbox component and system computational tests on the University at Buffalo’s Center for Computational Research High Performance Computing Cluster. This infrastructure has allowed Sentient to scale their life extension solutions for wind turbine owners and other industrial systems. This is a significant number of computational tests, compared to traditional methods for O&M planning, including conditional-based maintenance and physical testing of critical components.

Metro Detroit - A popular free workshop reveals truths to local families on getting thousands of dollars for their child’s college education.

As an entrepreneurial market leader celebrating this month’s national Small Business Week, StartupNation -- the world’s largest online community of startups -- announces its brand new Web site and three top tips for creating a successful online resource. Now, entrepreneurs can easily read up, meet up, start up and rev up their business success with the new functionality and features at www.startupnation.com.

Relocate-America.com, a website that provides relocating consumers access to resources for their upcoming relocation has released its annual list of “America's Top 100 Places to Live for 2007.”

StartupNation Marketplace, already a popular online destination for small businesses since launching in January 2007, announces enhanced features and functionality that make this free resource even more valuable. Now, entrepreneurs can make their free Marketplace listings come alive with photo uploads, full-feature formatting and unlimited hyperlink capability.

If you want to grow a successful eBay business quickly and cost-effectively, check out StartupNation’s new blog, “E-mail Marketing Tips and Advice,” by Ryan Allis, CEO and co-founder of Broadwick Corp.

Marci Alboher Author of One Person, Multiple Careers, to offer expertise on “The Slash Effect”

Advantage Management Group (AMG) (www.amgltc.com) hosted the first of two job fairs on March 14, 2007 for their brand new skilled nursing facility, The Samaritan Manor. The Samaritan Manor is the first new skilled nursing center to open in the City of Detroit in more than twenty years. Over 700 applicants filed into the Samaritan Manor to apply for approximately 150 new jobs on Detroit’s east side. Scheduled to open in May, the Samaritan Manor will house 120 residents in four distinct neighborhoods on the 4th floor of the Samaritan Center. Each neighborhood has its own resident lounge and dining area, and features spacious private and semi-private rooms.

If you want to grow a successful eBay business quickly and cost-effectively, check out StartupNation’s blog, “Starting an eBay Business,” at http://www.startupnation.com/blog/, by Corey Kossack, StartupNation’s new eBay profitability coach.

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, authors of “The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness,” to offer marketing expertise

If you want to grow a successful small business quickly and cost-effectively, check out StartupNation’s new blog, “Running a Fast Growing Business,” at http://www.startupnation.com/blog/.

Future Hosting (http://www.futurehosting.biz), an Internet Solutions provider serving small to medium sized businesses internationally, introduced today Business Continuance Protection (BCP), a new service providing businesses with cost overage protection in the event of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their Virtual Private Server.

Americans want a clever vehicle, specifically the new Smart Fortwo. Our readers and clients interest in this small, cost-effective vehicle continues to grow, and rumors about the car and its progress to the U.S. run rampant. Many of these rumors can be attributed to the process of taking this car from prototype to a polished, market-ready vehicle in the glare of media publicity. The process of perfecting the design has made each step in its refinement seem to be a setback, but each step has inched the car toward the American marketplace.

StartupNation announces its new, free online Marketplace at www.startupnation.com. There, visitors can quickly and easily list, buy and sell business products and services, look for work projects, network, and provide customer ratings and reviews. In its first weeks, more than 1,500 listings have been added to the growing resource.

Finding news about your favorite cars just got easier. PCN's exclusive CarSpider™ now searches every major auto site for exactly the news you want, in milliseconds.

Keith L. Mohn, CLU, ChFC, LIC a full-service financial planner who works with business owners, physicians, and professionals throughout Michigan has joined The Wealth Protection Alliance (WPA), a national network of CPA’s, attorneys and financial planners whose goal is to help clients build and preserve their wealth. Keith states: “this is a great opportunity for our company and for clients all over Michigan-- the WPA brings nationally recognized financial solutions from some of the top authors and strategists in the country to our locale, we could not be more excited to be a charter member of the WPA”.

If you have friends who are physicians, you are no doubt familiar with this lament: “business issues take up way too much of my time.” Financial planners David B. Mandell, JD, MBA and Keith L. Mohn, CLU, CHFC (www.benefitsolutionsgroup.biz) report that this is the most frequent complaint from their professional clients. “Most physicians go into the profession to help people who are sick, “ says Mohn, ”only to find themselves deep into a business that they are not trained to run and with more paperwork that patients.” Mohn sees his role as helping physicians get smarter about taxes, money management and business strategies so they can focus on patients, yet live well and retire with dignity.

In the twenty-five years that Keith L. Mohn, CLU, CHFC has been creating asset management plans and compensation strategies for physicians and other business owners, he has seen financial planning techniques come and go. “From the massive changes in the tax code enacted under ERISA in the mid-seventies through today’s Pension Protection Act, one thing has become certain,” says Mohn. “Death and taxes aren’t the only things we can count on. Here to stay is also a constantly changing business, regulatory and economic environment, one through which planners must constantly navigate in order to provide advantageous money management to clients.”

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been a muse for artists of all flavors from around the world. In honor of her 500th birthday, the painting is now being celebrated in the first ever anthology of Mona Lisa inspired poetry; Mona Poetica.

David B. Mandell, JD, MBA and Keith L. Mohn, CLU, CHFC (www.benefitsolutionsgroup.biz) are nationally known financial planners who focus on the special asset management needs of physicians. For over a decade, they have worked with thousands of doctors to help them reduce taxes and have more money available for retirement. The two advisors like to ask their clients if they plan on leaving any dollars in their pension, 401(k) or IRA to children or grandchildren? “Most of my clients,” says Keith Mohn, “are surprised to learn that in spite of sophisticated money management tools, the vast majority in such funds end up with state and federal tax agencies -- not with the physician’s family.” Imagine! Would you believe that after paying taxes for a lifetime of work – your “tax qualified” plan could be taxed at rates between 70-90%? On hearing this, Keith Mohn’s clients are shocked, appalled and want to know what they can do about it. Before a solution is recommended, Mohn believes it is important for everyone to understand how these taxes are levied. “The first step in better asset management,” says Mohn, “is to learn what an “IRD” is.”

If you want to start a business fast without wasting time, money or valuable resources, register for StartupNation’s “10 Steps to Open for Business” Coaching Program at http://www.startupnation.com/pages/coaching/index.asp. Entrepreneurial experts Pam Slim, of Escape from Cubicle Nation, Philippa Kennealy, of The Entrepreneurial MD, John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing, and other StartupNation experts are offering the 12-week, group-coaching program starting in February.

This year staffing experts expect one workplace trend to continue: Gen Y employees seeking balance between their work and lifestyle.

StartupNation, the multimedia content company for entrepreneurs, announces its “Capture the Flag Contest.” By finding the flag icons at http://www.startupnation.com, participants have the chance to win daily prizes and a grand prize of $1,000.

Smart Cars of America believes that an educational phase and an informative course of action, along with dealer input and manufactures data can reassure the American driving public that when the Smart Fortwo goes on sale here it will be one of the safer small cars available.

Future Hosting (http://www.futurehosting.biz), an Internet Solutions provider serving small to medium sized businesses internationally, introduced today its revolutionary managed Hybrid Virtual Private Server services, combining the flexibility of Virtual Hosting with the power and scalability of Dedicated Hosting.