Articles written by Thomas Kelly
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Why Bethlehem was the Birthplace of Jesus
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the City of David, to fulfill prophecy. Benjamin, son of Jacob, was also born there, whose birth and name were signs of the coming of Jesus.
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Renewable Alternative Energy From Tidal Power
A sustainable source of clean electrical power is the energy in the tides. Several companies are pioneering green generation of electricity with various types of turbine.
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Alternative Green Energy Source From Tidal Power
Environmentally sustainable electricity is being generated by turbines driven by tides. 'Green' tidal power could provide all the world's energy needs.
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Carpet Tiles For The Home
Carpet squares are environmentally sustainable and less costly and easier to install and repair than broadloom, especially for homeowners to repair carpet themselves.
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Hearing Loss Hazards for Industrial Workers
Loss of hearing, ringing in the ears and problems with balance can result from exposure to solvents and other chemicals. Advice is given on chemicals and prevention.
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Cost-Saving Sustainable Carpet Tiles
Carpet tiles are more economical and sustainable than broadloom because waste is less. New products having more recycled and recyclable content are made with less energy.
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Carpet Maker Pioneers Sustainable Manufacturing
U.S. carpet manufacturer InterfaceFLOR, is leading industry towards environmental sustainability. It recycles materials and uses solar and other forms of green energy.
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Environmentally Sustainable Office Chairs
The IIDEX interior design show in Toronto displayed executive chairs and task chairs manufactured with reduced energy, high recycled content and are highly recyclable
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Urban Planning for Sustainable Environment
Urban developments can be environmentally sustainable and pleasant to live in. Bogata proved this by improving bus transportation and encouraging bicycling.
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New Ergonomic Office Chairs Shown at IIDEX
Ergonomic office furniture exhibited recently exemplify the latest in executive chairs and workstation chairs designed for comfort and to minimize arm and back strain.
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Green Interior Design of Buildings at IIDEX
Sustainable buildings, green architecture, and conservation of energy and water were highlights of a conference and show for interior designers and facility managers.
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Telephone Sales Tips — Reaching the Right Person
When a sales rep makes cold calls by phone to a company but does not know who to ask for, it's vital to know how to work with receptionists and telephone auto-attendants.
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Telephone Sales Tips — Finding The Right Person
Business cold-call selling by telephone is easier if the telemarketers know the names of people to speak to. Tips are given here for researching contacts on the Internet.
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How Web Sites Can Support B2B Sales
A B2B web site is the most powerful means of marketing communications. The site should address the questions and forestall the objections sales reps will meet.
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B2B Web Site Promotion
Business buyers make heavy use of vendors' web sites to research short-lists of suppliers but marketers still need media such as business magazines to draw buyers in.
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A Modern Icon of the Virgin Mary
A work of art painted to represent the re-birth of an ancient English shrine to Our Lady contains images of the Virgin Mary, the rosary and the flowering of Christianity.
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Energy Conservation in a Commercial Building
A medical office building conserves energy by directing natural light deep inside and using low-energy fluorescent lights, high-efficiency underfloor HVAC and well water,
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How To Avoid Losing Money Over the Internet
Terms and Conditions of on-line marketing and work-from home offers can leave buyers out of pocket. Money-back guarantees can be invalid and buyers can incur hidden costs
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Solar Power Helps Cut Diesel and Gas Consumption
A solar-powered trash compactor cuts the number of trips for garbage trucks. Solar-powered public bike-rental stations encourage people to leave their cars at home.
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Solar Cell Power Generation Boosted by Hologram
Holographic film refracts light on to solar cells in arrays that generate more electricity than conventional arrays at less cost and are 'greener' in manufacture.
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Web-based Marketing of Technical Products
The Internet is powerful for promoting technical products. Brief on-line articles can grab the attention of prospective buyers and link to white papers to explain details
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How To Write a Marketing Article for the Web
Research on how people access information from web sites shows how business and technical articles should be structured and written to draw and keep readers' attention.
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How to Plan a Business or Technical Article
By planning a business-to-business promotional article according to a structure, a writer can attract readers in a target market to achieve an objective.
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How to Write a Technical or Business Article
Marketing promotional articles for print media work best if they are short and structured to attract a desired group of readers and achieve a precisely-defined objective
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Marketing Materials for Technical Products
Guidelines help writers develop articles, e-mail newsletters, brochures and other material to serve marketing strategies, promote corporate branding and generate sales.
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Where Wind Turbine Generators Work Best
Wind turbines for electricity generation can be mounted on houses, commercial buildings and industrial plants if the wind conditions are correct.
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Small Wind Turbines For Business And Industry
Wind turbines on towers and rooftops can save energy costs by generating electricity for buildings from houses and farms to industrial plants and commercial facilities.
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Ontario Fixed-Price Electricity Deals Are Costly
Electricity prices rise marginally in 2009 for Ontario residential users, but retailers still claim their higher rates will protect consumers against large increases.
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New Wind Power Technology For Stable Power
Electricity from wind turbines is erratic, making power grids unstable. New batteries with voltage control are being tested to make wind energy more available.
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Online Media Versus Print For Marketing
Internet-based market communications is growing fast and seems to eclipse conventional means, but business buyers prefer to read magazines and telemarketing still works.
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Fixed-Price Contracts for Electricity in Ontario
Electricity retailers in Ontario claim their fixed-price contracts protect consumers from price hikes, but the government price is controlled and has fallen in the past.
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Small Business Promotion: Advertising and PR
An effective marketing campaign through business to business and technical magazines balances and combines the complementary strengths of advertising and editorial.
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New Instruments Improve Control Of Air Pollution
Instruments that use light to make precise measurements of gases and vapors in flues, where probes can't be used because of corrosion, can help control air pollution.
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Small Business Media Relations - Product Launch
You can gain the most from a media-relations campaign, on your own or with a public relations firm, by getting coverage before, at the time of and after a product launch.
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Small Business Marketing-Getting Media Coverage
A small business can obtain valuable coverage in magazines by using websites and the types of press kits, news releases and articles that public relations firms issue.
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Adult Stem Cell Research and Therapies
Stem cells from a person's skin, bone marrow and nose are being used to develop treatments without the ethical and health-risk complications of embryonic cells.
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How To Stay Motivated To Make Sales Calls
To boost enthusiasm for making calls by phone, log calls in a CRM to measure results, keep expectations realistic, anticipate success and heed sales trainers' advice.
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Sales Tip - Beat The 'Competitor' Objection
Top sales trainers say don't to try to displace a competitor supplying a company. A better marketing tactic is to open a door with a niche or add-on product or service.
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Sales Tip -- Beat the In-House Objection
Top sales trainers suggest a business strategy of selling a service that adds to functions a company does in-house, with the aim of selling more once you're in.
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Virgin Mary Shrine - Ladye Park Vision of Unity
An ancient shrine to the Virgin Mary in Cornwall, England, was revitalized following a mystical experience. It is attracting pilgrims from various Christian communities.
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Shrine to the Virgin Mary - Ladye Park
A shrine to Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, in Cornwall, U.K., is becoming a center of church unity, bringing together Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox and other Christians.
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Sales Tip: Best Times for Cold Calls
Two of the best times to phone prospective business customers are when prospects are likely to be most open to calls. Two others help the sales person stay motivated.
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Obama vs R.C. Bishops on Abortion
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops would close hospitals rather than be forced by law to provide abortion services, and say FOCA is against the wishes of most U.S. adults.
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Five Keys to Cold Call Selling
Selling over the phone requires repeated calls to uncover each prospect's needs. A series of statements, a different one for each call, will advance the caller to a sale.
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How to Sell over the Phone
The objective of making sales calls by telephone is to gain information and set appointments for visits. It's challenging but vital. More calls equal more visits.
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Harsh Suppression of On-Line Activists
Harsh regimes are imprisoning bloggers and website owners for protesting loss of civil rights. One owner lost his life. This oppression gains international condemnation.
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St. Francis of Assisi's Tau Cross
St. Francis of Assisi chose the tau cross as his standard. It is the shape of the real cross, draws from Ezekiel, reminds friars of commitment and is a symbol of Jesus.
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Bluefin Tuna Fish Endangered
Bluefin tuna fishing has ravaged stocks of the fish in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean and a sharper decline in the western Atlantic could drive it to extinction.
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Human Rights Bloggers Persecuted
Bloggers in some nations are being imprisoned for publicizing human rights abuses over the Internet. Organizations in the free world have been coming to their defense.
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PC Supplies That Protect Home Computers
Uninterruptible power supplies maintain power during blackouts and remove spikes, sags, and surges in electric power that can damage computers and wipe out data.
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Pilate's Plight: Jesus or Barabbas
Barabbas was a leader of an insurrection aimed specifically at Pilate. Pilate wished him dead, but was manipulated into setting him free and condemning the innocent Jesus
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How Jesus Foresaw His Crucifixion
Jesus needed no divine knowledge to realize his end would be the cross. He was threatened from the start, and he knew his disturbance in the temple would seal his fate.
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How To Buy Home/Small-Office Desks
A home or small-office desk bought on a budget can hold a computer keyboard low to guard wrists from pain, and the computer screen high to protect the neck from strain.
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Home Office Chairs Protect Backs
Cheap home/small-office chairs can cause back pain, pinched nerves and muscle strain. Chairs designed to ergonomic principles are worth any extra cost by aiding health.
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St. Francis of Assisi's Icon
As well as the major figures of Jesus, his mother Mary and others, the Cross of San Damiano contains many symbols in the forms of people, their dress and colors.
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Processes Drive Small Business Success
A process is a planned set of steps that an organization follows to achieve stated goals. A workable, successful process is developed on a basis of 'ready, fire, aim'.
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Motivating Small Business Staff
To attract and retain employees, it is vital that the small business owner treats them as the owner likes to be treated: with integrity, trust, and credit where it's due.
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Small Business Profit Management
The small business owner needs to administer profits to survive down periods, fund development, retain employees, win long-term clients and help with getting bank loans.
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Small Business Success Factors
The essential recipe for small business success is enthusiastic people whose work is organized in a flexible process to produce a profitable product or service.
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Ergonomic Desk Chairs Pay Off
Ergonomic task and computer chairs supplied to tax collection workers at a cost paid for themselves in two weeks through a measurable increase in output from employees.
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Cost-Benefit of Ergonomic Chairs
There is a hard dollar advantage to buying ergonomic computer chairs and task chairs. People who sit in them tend to spend less time away from their workstations.
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Computer Mice, Trackballs, Aids
Mice must be correctly positioned to avoid strain on the computer user's shoulder and arm muscles. For many people, especially the disabled, other devices are preferable.
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Pain-Free Notebook PC Accessories
With a notebook computer on a desk, the user lowers the head to see the screen, putting stress on the neck, and bends the wrists to use the keyboard, aggravating nerves.
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Computer Screen Glare Prevention
Glare interferes with a person's view of a computer screen. Anti-glare filters and screens help, but it's better to modify lights and shades to prevent it.
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Lightshelves Save Lighting Energy
Daylight is the best light for people to work in. Reflectors, or lightshelves, at windows can direct daylight deep into a building, allowing lights to be switched off.
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St. Francis of Assisi's Cross
Each person in the cross depicts a character from the Gospel. They 'speak' through their gestures. The cross is an example of how to 'read' an icon.
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File Shelves Free Up Office Space
Transfer of paper files from traditional cabinets to more modern shelving save office space, increase room for workstations and make it easier to handle documents.
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Desks for Comfortable Computer Use
Eyestrain and stress on wrists, arms, shoulders and neck caused by prolonged computer use can be reduced by correct design and adjustment of the desk.
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How to Cut Office Filing Space
The space that filing cabinets take up in commercial real estate costs rent. It can be reduced to make room for revenue-generating staff by use of a retention schedule.
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Chairs for Pain-Free Computer Work
A chair can be a firm, gentle support to protect health and help productivity, or it can damage the sitter's disks, strain muscles and obstruct blood flow.
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Office Chairs that Ease Back Pain
A chair that a person can adjust for height, weight and leg length can prevent the back pain and restricted blood flow that many people suffer while operating computers.
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