WoodProfits.com Jim Morgan Owner of WoodProfits 12925 King Circle Cypress, TX 77429 800-878-0681 moc.stiforpdoownull@nimda
http://www.woodprofits.com/
Easy, Affordable Do-It-Yourself Start-Up Business Anyone Can Do
CITY, ST, FEBRUARY 15, 2012 ? Starting a home business should be fun and easy. It should encourage one to spend quality time with their family while sharing a passion. In these tough economic times, everyone is looking for ways to help earn extra money and nothing could be easier for sharing a passion, earning extra income and spending quality time with the family than starting a home-based woodworking business like Woodworking Entrepreneur, Jim Morgan.
In 1995, Jim Morgan was unemployed and struggling with his finances while trying to support himself, his wife and 2 children. A non-professional woodworker without much of a garage and no capital, he used a few shop tools and created a one-person business in about a year. Working just 20 hours a week part-time, Jim managed to earn over $108,000 in sales that first year, from a 10 X 20 space in a tiny room.
Now Jim is helping others to achieve their goal of a home business, saving them the hard lessons he had to learn with no help and no one to guide him by offering his? Earn $9,567 Turning Your Woodworking Skills Into Profit!? guide online. The guide is instantly downloadable with full instructions and an accompanying MP3 audio transcription and CD are available for following along by reading or listening to it somewhere such as in a car on the way to work.
?This is a must have for anyone selling (or thinking of selling) their own woodworking products,? says Seth Jordan. ?The book is very easy to understand and includes information on everything from pricing small craft products to high-end antique reproduction furniture and is full of woodworking wood business ideas.?
For those ordering the woodworking guide from Jim?s site, he is including a special bonus, a book of 500+ woodworking plans that insures buyers will never run out of possible projects and money-earning possibilities.
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Christian Frey christian.frey@iosb.fraunhofer.de 49-721-609-1332 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Industrial robots have been a familiar sight in the workplace for many years. In automotive and household appliance manufacture, for example, they have proved highly reliable on production and assembly lines. But now a new generation of high-tech helpers is at hand: Mobile robots are being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments such as buildings in danger of collapsing, caves, or ground that has been polluted by an industrial accident. Equipped with sensors and optical cameras, these robots can help rescue services search for victims in the wake of natural disasters, explosions or fires, and can measure concentrations of hazardous substances. There's just one problem: Often there is no map to show them the location of obstacles and steer them along navigable routes. Yet such maps are critical to ensuring that the high-tech machines are able to make progress, either independently or guided by remote control. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB in Karlsruhe have now developed a roaming land robot that autonomously reconnoiters and maps uncharted terrain. The robot uses special algorithms and multi-sensor data to carve a path through unknown territory.
"To be able to navigate independently, our mobile robot has to fulfill a number of requirements. It must be able to localize itself within its immediate surroundings, continuously recalculate its position as it makes its way through the danger area, and simultaneously refine the map it is generating," says graduate engineer Christian Frey of the IOSB. To make this possible, he and his team have developed an algorithm toolbox for the robot that runs on a built-in computer. The robot is additionally equipped with a variety of sensors. Odometry sensors measure wheel revolutions, inertial sensors compute accelerations, and distance-measuring sensors register clearance from walls, steps, trees and bushes, to name but a few potential obstacles. Cameras and laser scanners record the environment and assist in the mapping process. The algorithms read the various data supplied by the sensors and use them to determine the robot's precise location. The interplay of all these different elements concurrently produces a map, which is updated continuously. Experts call the process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, or SLAM.
Mobile robots face an additional challenge: to find the optimal path that will enable them to complete each individual task. Depending on the situation, this may be the shortest and quickest route, or perhaps the most energy-efficient, i.e. the one that uses the least amount of gasoline. When planning a course, the high-tech helpers must take into account restrictions on mobility such as a limited turning circle, and must navigate around obstacles. And should the environment change, for example as a result of falling objects or earthquake aftershocks, a robot must register this and use its toolbox to recalculate its route.
"We made our toolbox modular, so it's not difficult to adapt the algorithms to suit different types of mobile robot or specific in- or outdoor application scenarios. For example, it doesn't matter what sensor set-up is used, or whether the robot has two- or four-wheel drive," says Frey. The software can be customized to meet the needs of individual users, with development work taking just a few months. Frey adds: "The toolbox is suitable for all sorts of situations, not only accident response scenarios. It can be installed in cleaning robots or lawnmowers, for example, and a further possible application would be in roaming robots used to patrol buildings or inspect gas pipelines for weak points." From March 6-10, the IOSB researchers will be demonstrating their mobile robot technology at the CeBIT trade fair visit them at the joint Fraunhofer booth in Hall 9 (Booth E08).
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Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Christian Frey christian.frey@iosb.fraunhofer.de 49-721-609-1332 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Industrial robots have been a familiar sight in the workplace for many years. In automotive and household appliance manufacture, for example, they have proved highly reliable on production and assembly lines. But now a new generation of high-tech helpers is at hand: Mobile robots are being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments such as buildings in danger of collapsing, caves, or ground that has been polluted by an industrial accident. Equipped with sensors and optical cameras, these robots can help rescue services search for victims in the wake of natural disasters, explosions or fires, and can measure concentrations of hazardous substances. There's just one problem: Often there is no map to show them the location of obstacles and steer them along navigable routes. Yet such maps are critical to ensuring that the high-tech machines are able to make progress, either independently or guided by remote control. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB in Karlsruhe have now developed a roaming land robot that autonomously reconnoiters and maps uncharted terrain. The robot uses special algorithms and multi-sensor data to carve a path through unknown territory.
"To be able to navigate independently, our mobile robot has to fulfill a number of requirements. It must be able to localize itself within its immediate surroundings, continuously recalculate its position as it makes its way through the danger area, and simultaneously refine the map it is generating," says graduate engineer Christian Frey of the IOSB. To make this possible, he and his team have developed an algorithm toolbox for the robot that runs on a built-in computer. The robot is additionally equipped with a variety of sensors. Odometry sensors measure wheel revolutions, inertial sensors compute accelerations, and distance-measuring sensors register clearance from walls, steps, trees and bushes, to name but a few potential obstacles. Cameras and laser scanners record the environment and assist in the mapping process. The algorithms read the various data supplied by the sensors and use them to determine the robot's precise location. The interplay of all these different elements concurrently produces a map, which is updated continuously. Experts call the process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, or SLAM.
Mobile robots face an additional challenge: to find the optimal path that will enable them to complete each individual task. Depending on the situation, this may be the shortest and quickest route, or perhaps the most energy-efficient, i.e. the one that uses the least amount of gasoline. When planning a course, the high-tech helpers must take into account restrictions on mobility such as a limited turning circle, and must navigate around obstacles. And should the environment change, for example as a result of falling objects or earthquake aftershocks, a robot must register this and use its toolbox to recalculate its route.
"We made our toolbox modular, so it's not difficult to adapt the algorithms to suit different types of mobile robot or specific in- or outdoor application scenarios. For example, it doesn't matter what sensor set-up is used, or whether the robot has two- or four-wheel drive," says Frey. The software can be customized to meet the needs of individual users, with development work taking just a few months. Frey adds: "The toolbox is suitable for all sorts of situations, not only accident response scenarios. It can be installed in cleaning robots or lawnmowers, for example, and a further possible application would be in roaming robots used to patrol buildings or inspect gas pipelines for weak points." From March 6-10, the IOSB researchers will be demonstrating their mobile robot technology at the CeBIT trade fair visit them at the joint Fraunhofer booth in Hall 9 (Booth E08).
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What is eCommerce, and how can it alter the way a single does business? For starters, the word eCommerce, or from time to time e-Commerce, is an abbreviation of the term digital commerce. sklepu internetowego Commerce is just an additional word for business ? the getting and promoting of stuff. Consequently, digital commerce is about accomplishing business electronically.Having said that, there is a ton far more to the story. So, to flesh out my solution, I will rely on the subsequent comparison of the way I did business twenty five many years in the past to the way I do business these days.My arcade online video sport business commenced like lots of other little organizations, in my garage. The 12 months was 1984. Particular personal computers have been around (remember the IBM Computer system Jr.), but there was no Internet, no Environment Large Online, and no eCommerce. When I required business materials, I drove twenty miles to a distributors retail outlet in an additional city, wrote a check, and carried my merchandise an additional twenty miles back again dwelling.To promote my business, I bought yearly Yellow Webpage telephone directory advertisements, and neighborhood day-to-day and weekly newspaper classified advertisements. Frequently, I also waged direct snail mail campaigns. As my business grew, there have been also some nice word-of-mouth referrals. Almost nothing fancy, I was just an additional little businessman serving a little, solely neighborhood promote.Currently, every little thing about how I do business has altered, other than for two points. I am still a little businessman, and I still get nice word-of-mouth referrals.But now, when I will need materials I sit down at my sklepu internetowego pc and conduct a product research. Even though, there are times when I continue being standing up, or walk around, or continue to be seated when consuming lunch, and just use my intelligent telephone. Following a handful of clicks, I have identified, purchased, and paid out for the best quality merchandise, at the most effective price tag, with the least expensive delivery value, and the fastest delivery time. That is a single example of a single part of eCommerce conducted more than the sklepy internetowe Environment Large Online. Oh yeah, maybe most effective of all, my buy arrives at my doorstep in a couple of times without me possessing to push anyplace.When it will come to marketing my business, points have really altered. Now, I can explain to folks about my business, sklepu internetowego myself, and my items, literally, in countless numbers of tactics. And, just by working with my pc ? no driving needed. My promote space has grown, way too. No longer are the bodily boundaries of my business promote defined by how far I am keen to push. Instead, my marketplace is the complete globe, thanks to eCommerce and the Environment Large Online.And, no longer am I restricted by a little price range to a handful of measly way too little to examine phrases in a couple of little highly-priced Yellow Webpage directory advertisements on a couple of pages in not very appropriate groups surrounded by larger advertisements from my competitors in a book extensive of hundreds of groups, competitors, and pages. Now, with a handful of sites, storefronts, content articles, and some other approaches, I can have what properly amounts to the full book ? limitless groups, limitless variety of extensive pages, and limitless variety of sklepu internetowego phrases. Plus, all the phrases are of the size, colour, and font that are most efficient for my business.My marketing fees have altered, way too. Yellow Webpage and newspaper classified advertisements have been highly-priced (and still are), amounting to a number of $a hundred a 30 days. Now, my month to month marketing price is about a single-3rd what it was formerly. That is, if you rely my Internet connections as a marketing price. Plus, I access the globe, not just the folks inside a confined driving length.So these days, I am still a little businessman, but a single who can electronically obtain pieces and materials regionally, nationally, and internationally. And, who can electronically sell his items regionally, nationally, and internationally. Irrespective of whether I am getting or promoting, and no matter whether you are the a single getting from me or promoting to me, all that is needed to finish our transaction are a handful of mouse clicks by both a single of us. There are no printed advertisements to solution, no printed newspaper advertisements to examine, no snail mail to open up, no telephone phone calls to check inventory ahead of producing a lengthy journey, no driving by you or me at all, and no paper standard bank account checks to create, mail or tackle.Further more, if we will need to talk, that way too, has altered. Telephone phone calls and snail mail have, at the very least in most normal day-to-day business transactions, been changed by email (digital mail), mobile text messaging, and on the web chat. If you do have to make or receive telephone phone calls, there sklep internetowy have also been lots of massive alterations. Of program, there are now mobile phones. But, there have also been massive alterations for land line end users. Now, we have VoIP (Voice more than Internet Protocol). So, for about a single-3rd the value of standard telephone support, you can have a neighborhood business line, a fax line, and an 800 variety. Thank you to the Internet.Really, if we so choose, all of our business marketing, communication, buying and paying out can be sklep internetowy handled electronically more than the Internet. And, that essentially is what eCommerce is all about.
Pay a visit to R. Steve McCollum at http://www.SellingOnTheNet.information for far more eCommerce information, guidelines, and tactics.
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Public release date: 16-Feb-2012
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