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This "theology of sanctification" also applies to how couples interrelate with each other. Behaviors like their laugh-ability, tender care, and one-flesh body language are clues to the state of their marriage.
Laugh-ability – There is a "contented joy" between two people who are reconciled, with no unresolved sin dividing them. They can laugh in conjugal joy because there is no masked tension in their relationship. They enjoy unguarded connectivity.
Tender care – The way they look at each other and touch each other reveals a "physical fondness" within the marriage covenant. There is a natural attraction to be physical in simple ways like hand-holding and touching. Willing vulnerability releases them to be free with each other.
One-flesh body language – They honor each other by "active eye contact" that reveals respect and affection for the other person. There is a physical comfortableness, as opposed to having to be tight, or withdrawn and tense when around each other.
These are just some of the things you can perceive from couples in love. There is an authentic "like" for the other person that they cannot disguise. It is a beautiful thing to see this type of symbiotic interaction between a husband and his wife.
When these kinds of relational benefits are not present, there will be a distance in their union. Relational laughter, tender affection, and a divided one-flesh will be discernible.
The mind map depicts one of the ways this can happen within a broken marriage. Though the story is fictional, the process is similar to many couples who have allowed the "divisiveness of sin" to interrupt what the Lord freely offers to two people who want it.
Separation in a marriage always begins with an unmet desire. It does not have to be a sinful desire; it is merely an unfulfilled desire. A spouse wants something. Typically it is a desire that runs along the lines of respect, honor, love, appreciation, time, proactivity, or acceptance.
None of these things are necessarily wrong. In a perfect world, you will find all of them in our "relational benefit package." There is nothing from this list that will not be in heaven. The problem for us is that we are not in heaven.
This reality of our fallenness means we must hold these good desires loosely. It does not imply that we should let go of them, but we must give careful attention to how they can become contorted and controlling.
In a world where sin abounds, any good thing is a hair's breadth from becoming a bad thing. The enemy is always on the prowl, seeking how to devour all the good the Lord intends (1 Peter 5:8; 2 Corinthians 11:14).
Our desires will become controlling if we don't steward them correctly. Typically, we only steward our hopes in a one-sided fashion. Meaning, we give thought to the possibility of getting our desires met. We tend to resist the potential of the Lord withholding what we want.
Not fully factoring in the Lord interrupting our desires is a mistake. It is a myopic understanding of His plans for us. We are not going to get all we want. If we do not press this inevitableness into the possible equation for the betterment of our relationships, we can be set up for disappointment.
This problem is usually more in-depth and more sinister than a "surface problem" of unmet desires. Typically, we do not factor the Lord's permission for adverse outcomes, because we want what we want more than what He may be writing into our stories (Romans 8:28). This kind of wrong thinking minimizes the Lord while elevating self-expected entitlements.
Without the careful stewardship of unmet desires, we are not far from being disappointed with the people we expected to give us what we hoped for in the relationship.
Let me reiterate that these things do not have to be bad things. They only become bad when our hearts turn angry as a response to not getting what we wanted. Too many people get lost at this point.
What they want becomes so controlling and expected that they cannot conceive of a scenario where not getting these things could be right. Without a sound gospel-orientation of the mind, they will never see the lifting of their relational fog.
There are scores of situations in the Bible where the Lord was actively causing bad things to happen because He could see the bigger picture. He was working His plan of redemption in the lives of many people, which is always the rub. The selfish person can only think of themselves.
For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. – Hebrews 11:32-34
When anger over not getting what you want enters into the relationship, there will be division. Sinful anger, regardless of how it manifests, will disrupt relational shalom.
The Anger Spectrum
The oddity about anger is how it can become a fixture in a person's heart years before the other spouse is aware of the problem. When I ask a struggling couple about the beginning of their problems, they typically give two radically different starting times.
For example, the wife will talk about the onset of disappointment early in the marriage, if not before they were married. The husband will say he noticed things going "south" at about the ten-year mark of a twenty-year marriage.
The early stages of anger look more like disappointment, discouragement, frustration, impatience, negativity, and dismissiveness. These marriage killers can be missed or marginalized if the couple is not intentional about their sanctification.
Regardless of the type of anger (James 2:10), if they do not deal with it biblically, the couple will mishandle this pivotal point in their union. "Forgiveness and unforgiveness" is a watershed moment that will send their marriage in one of two radically different directions.
Because sin typically slithers into the union unbeknownst to one of the partners, the chance of reconciliation is slim. The hurt spouse will begin harboring resentment because of the unmet desire while accumulating many more grievances.
There is a self-defeating interplay here. One spouse is hurt, and the other spouse is oblivious. Maybe the hurt spouse tried to speak up, but it fell on deaf ears. There are several ineffective ways this can play out, but the result is always the same.
Unforgiveness is a cancer that will overcome any marriage. At that point nothing can be done until the accumulative effect of the ongoing hurt brings both spouses to the place of taking action.
If the sad storyline continues, it will turn to bitterness, which is unrepented, undealt with anger that has gone from bad to worse. The bad part is anger; the worse part is bitterness.
The spouse is now bitter, which is self-justified anger that is rooted deep in the heart. There is nothing the other spouse can do that will be met with acceptance. It is like a person sitting in the bush with a rifle, cocked and loaded, waiting for its prey.
She is angry, bitter, and cynical while holding the ultimate trump card, which is her self-righteous unforgiveness. This juncture is the point where the guy gets a clue. Of course, the way he typically responds is with the disrespect card.
To play the disrespect card in this scenario creates a standoff. Two selfish and angry people are "playing chicken" in the middle of the road, waiting for the other person to make the first move.
They both own the rights to an "entitled desire," and they will not let go of their rightness. The thing is that they both are right. And both of them are wrong.
Guess where they both land on this "I am right and you are wrong tension?" When selfish people can find leverage in the marriage, they will take it and not let up on it no matter how much you talk about the other-centered call the Lord places on their lives.
Until the Lord and His fame matter more than their perceived entitlements, they will never relinquish the stranglehold they have on each other. They will die fighting for their rights before they will die to themselves.
At this point, there is discernible, objective distance in the union. They both know it and anyone who spends any amount of time with them knows it. Creating separation is the eighth step in the process of a marriage breaking down.
This juncture is when they come to counseling if they come at all. Many marriage partners muddle along, assuming the roles of roommates or business partners, staying together for any number of self-serving reasons.
Three-Step Action Plan
What they need is an action plan to work through the eight steps presented here while identifying and owning what is real in their marriage. Being open to talking about what is wrong will be crucial in the restoration process.
I would recommend the couple sitting down with a third-party and talking about the content of this article. The hope and process would be to work through the mind map reversely. Let me explain.
Step One – They have to own what is wrong with them and what is wrong with the marriage. This action is the "ownership line" in the mind map, and it means they will be actively confessing their sins to each other and God.
No reconciliation can happen until they neutralize all the sin. The only way they can counteract their sinfulness is to own what's wrong, which includes confession and mutual forgiveness. If this happens, they can be reconciled and can move to step two.
Step Two – Reconciliation does not remove the sin in the sense of making it not matter anymore. To say, "I forgive you?" or ask, "Will you forgive me?" will not cause the bitterness to vaporize or the respect the individual desires to magically appear.
The owning of sin and the neutralizing of sin positions you to do what you could never do before, which is to talk about what was wrong. They could not talk about their problems because there was no authentic, genuine, Christ-exalting, grace-empowered, devil-robbing, confession and forgiveness.
If the forgiveness is real, they can get to work with what has gone wrong in their marriage, which means dealing with the bitterness and the other issues. Their sin, if handled correctly, is kind of like "road kill." It is dead, never to be revived again.
You will quickly know if their sin is road kill or if it has been resurrected by how they interact with each other post-forgiveness. If there is still a residual effect of the issue, they need to pause and work through this question: why is the death of Christ not enough to take care of the sin in your relationship?
This process will probably take some time, but there is grace for this if they are willing to humble themselves before the Lord and each other. This critical time is where ongoing third-party care can serve them well.
Step Three – The Christian life is repentance and ongoing repenting. Sin and repentance are never one and done. There will always be more of the former, which necessitates the latter.
As they continue to walk out repentance with the Lord and with each other, they will be positioned to begin to take the sting out of their anger, disappointment, and expectations.
This process will help them to become better stewards of their desires. They will still desire what they desire, but their hopes will no longer control them. This place in their relationship with God and each other is freedom, which makes for a good marriage.
It Takes Two
In most marriage counseling situations, both partners do not get to the place of asking for help at the same time. Usually, one person is more in favor of making a God-centered change than the other person. If that is the case, here are four "pre-steps" before you can activate the previously mentioned steps.
- Judge yourself first. What you've done to Jesus is worse than what your spouse has done to you (Matthew 7:3-5). If you cannot practically apply this point, there is little hope for you. Self-righteousness will decimate your marriage.
- Pray for Your Spouse, asking the Lord to bring change. The more you pray for your spouse, the more the Lord will draw your heart to your spouse.
- Ask the Lord to give you pity for your spouse in a similar way the Father pities you (Psalm 103:14). He knows your frame: you are from the dust. The more you biblically understand your spouse and how you both are susceptible to sin, the more pity you can have for others.
- Pray for contexts so you can intervene in your spouse's life. Look with expectation for the Lord to prepare opportunities for you to be redemptive to your spouse. Here are a few examples.
- Consider third-party intervention. Ask for help (Matthew 18:15-17).
- Motivate your spouse by grace. Become an encourager (Romans 2:4).
- Ask the Lord for spiritual discernment to speak into your spouse's life (1 Corinthians 2:14).
- Model the person you want your spouse to become (1 Corinthians 11:1).
- Diffuse the arguments by not sinfully responding to your spouse (1 Peter 2:21-25).
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New Forest survey set to launch
A survey to further understand the impact of new housing developments on important protected nature conservation sites in the New Forest is set to launch this month.
Residents and visitors will be asked about how they spend their time in the New Forest. This information will help local planning authorities in the surrounding area to identify measures to help understand and address the impact of an increase in population as a result of planned new housing development in and around the New Forest.
Dorset-based consultancy, Footprint Ecology, has been commissioned to undertake the survey on behalf of New Forest District Council, New Forest National Park Authority, Eastleigh Borough Council, Southampton City Council, Test Valley Borough Council, and Wiltshire Council. In spring 2018, these organisations received £250,000 of government funding to help update evidence and to work together to establish a consistent approach to ensure new development does not have an adverse effect on the unique wildlife and traditional management approach that characterises the New Forest.
Representatives from Footprint Ecology will be conducting face-to-face surveys in the New Forest over the coming months and in spring and summer next year. They will also undertake telephone surveys later this year to speak with those who live in and around the New Forest.
A representative of Footprint Ecology said: "We are working with various local authorities and organisations to gain a better understanding of what draws people to the protected habitats of the New Forest and how frequently they visit the area. The results of the survey will enable us to establish what further measures can be put in place in and around the New Forest to relieve some of the pressure and impact on the area."
The surveys will complement the wider work to update the New Forest Recreation Management Strategy. A detailed public consultation on the Recreation Management Strategy took place over the summer asking for people's views on how best to achieve this. The Recreation Management Strategy work and the Footprint Ecology research together will provide a sound basis for ensuring future enjoyment of the New Forest continues without causing damage to sensitive wildlife and habitats.

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The all-new Pajero would look much different than the current model. The new set of grille known as the 'Dynamic Shield' would protect the windscreen when the vehicle is driven through deep puddles. The vehicle would also boast brand new LED projector headlamps. While the car would be 90mm longer than the model, the rear overhang would be redesigned for creating more room for commuters. However, there won't be any modifications with the wheelbase. The vehicle would look magnificent owing to the alloy wheels, the chrome license plate garnish and impeccably designed rear-view mirrors.
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The new Pajero would boast a new look for redefining style. The chrome finish near the steering wheel and the door pads would add-on to the visual appeal. Besides, the touch-screen infotainment system would be large in size and be situated in the middle of the dashboard. The sporty leather seats would be ergonomically designed to offer comfort hours on end. An individual can always adjust the angle owing to seat recline on the 2nd as well as 3rd row. As usual, the SRS airbags would offer protection to the driver and the passenger whenever the car collides. On the whole, contemporary Pajero Sports interiors would make heads turn as you drive along streets.
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We all know the lady, that one who loves cats. She's the one who shows you cat photos on her phone. She's the one who tells you the cutest cat stories. She's the one who wears beautiful dresses with cat prints on them. She's the one who bakes cookies that cat faces on it. She's the one who can be found in a empty bedroom on the ground during a party trying to lure a cat out from under the bed. Ok, that cat lady is me. Is it you too?
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Set of 6 Cat Cookie Cutters / Cat Print Rolling Pin / Ceramic Cat Measuring Bowls / Super Cute Cat Apron / Wooden Cat Measuring Spoons
The cat lady who's proud and wants to the world to know she loves cats.
Cat Lady Coloring Book / Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure / Best Cat Mom Ever Tea Mug / Post-It Note Dispenser / Sassy Cat Socks
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From me, Goblin and Xanadu, hope your Christmas is filled with plenty of cat lady smiles… and lots of Fancy Feast and springs for your cats!
*This gift guide is sponsored by Fancy Feast. All opinions and gift suggestions are 100% my own*


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How to Make Education Worse: Lesson Fifty-Seven
What the students had accomplished was nothing short of miraculous, but unfortunately, such accomplishments did not register on the metrics mandated for low performing schools by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top and mechanically applied by the State Education Department in Albany. As a result, Futures Academy, whose school population was drawn from students who could not get into or were pushed out of charter schools and magnet schools, went through three different principals in the ten years the Center had worked in it, each one forced out solely because of poor student performance on standardized tests.
What Naison describes is just one more example of how the rich get richer and the poor get squat. They don't even get the chance to better themselves, for the "system" is rigged against them.
Read Naison's piece. Especially if you still believe that testing and mandates can make for better schools.


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We rounded up the cutest celebrity mom tweets and Instagram photos of the week, including Victoria and David Beckham, who just celebrated their 16th anniversary. David even posted a photo of his new tattoo for Victoria. Emily Maynard shared a new snapshot of her baby boy, while Reggie Bush and Lilit Avagyan posted a hospital photo as they recently welcomed their second child. Kate Hudson, model Anne V. and Reese Witherspoon round out our list of the most buzz-worthy celebrity moms on social media.
Victoria Beckham posted this sweet family snapshot as she and her husband, David Beckham, celebrated their 16th anniversary. "Happy anniversary, I love u so much x I'm so proud of our beautiful family," she captioned the photo.
David celebrated this special date by getting a "99" tattooed on his pinky finger, as the couple got married on July 4, 1999.
"99 was a good year for me …," he captioned the photo.
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He also shared another sweet snapshot of the couple on his Instagram page.
"16 years ago today was our special day… 16 years on we have our beautiful children… Thank you for giving me our amazing little ones …. Happy anniversary," he wrote.
Not to be outdone, their 16-year-old son Brooklyn shared his own snapshot of his parents on their wedding day, which shows him as baby sleeping in his father's arms.
"Happy Anniversary," he captioned the photo. "Love u."
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Former Bachelorette Emily Maynard shared a photo of her newborn baby snuggling with her daughter Ricki. The baby boy is the first child with her husband, Tyler Johnson. She has yet to share the baby name, but told Us Weekly that they were "still compromising" over finding the perfect name.
Reggie Bush and Lilit Avagyan
No, that is not Kim Kardashian with NFL star Reggie Bush — but his wife (and total Kim K. look-alike) Lilit Avagyan. The couple just welcomed their second child, a baby boy, together and Avagyan posted this photo of the kissing couple in the hospital. They are already parents to a 2-year-old daughter named Briseis. No word yet on the baby name of their newest little one.
Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson shared this fabulous photo as she and an entire slew of celebrities, including Nina Dobrev, attended Leonardo DiCaprio's gala in St. Tropez.
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Model Anne V., who recently welcomed a baby boy named Alaska, shared this cool Flipagram showing off her growing baby bump and ending with a sweet breastfeeding snapshot.
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"What's more beautiful than a baby bump? A bump filled with a healthy baby!" she captioned the photo. "Today i'm celebrating healthy pregnancies around the world by sharing my incredible 9months journey to sweet baby Alaska. Lets raise awareness for maternal mortality this #BumpDay."
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Reese Witherspoon shared this colorful and cute photo as she and her son, Tennessee James, wear coordinating blue and white outfits.
"Sweet lil walks with this sweet lil guy," she captioned the photo.
The actress just happens to be wearing a shirtdress from her new line, Draper James, which you can pick up for $385.
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PropVariantChangeType, aka Mr. Coercion, is the function responsible for all the coercion that goes on in the property system. It takes a value and attempts to output the same value, but as a different type. Thus it will convert L"10" to the number 10 and back.
In general, PropVariantChangeType will perform a locale-INsensitive conversion. This function was intended to operate as part of data layers. If you need a string you can show the user, use PSFormatForDisplay instead.
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Paris, February 27, 2010
Q. – During your forthcoming visit to Belgrade, what will your main messages be?
THE MINISTER – I'm coming to tell the Serbian people that we are, and will remain, at their side on their country's path to the European Union. We have been and will be actively working within the European Union to speed up closer cooperation with Serbia. After the visa liberalization and entry into force of the Interim Agreement between the European Union and Serbia, we now need to move towards candidate status and opening accession negotiations.
Q. – What do you think about Serbia's current efforts to move closer to the European Union?
THE MINISTER – Serbia is making huge efforts and I salute them. I know the commitment of President Tadic and the whole government to Serbia continuing her progress towards the European Union. I am delighted that all the 27 recognized these efforts when they decided last December to unfreeze the Interim Agreement in recognition of the progress of your cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. But headway still has to be made in this direction to achieve full and wholehearted cooperation with the Tribunal. The European Commission is optimistic on Serbia's ability rapidly to find solutions to the various technical problems.
Q. – When can one envisage the Western Balkans and, particularly, Serbia joining the European Union?
THE MINISTER – Over the past few months, very substantial progress has been achieved in Serbia as well as the region's other countries. I'm thinking in particular of the liberalization of visas. The integration of the region's countries could of course be faster, but let's be clear about this: the time required depends on the progress of the candidate States. For this, work, more work and still more work is needed. The technical work expected from each of the States of course, but also the joint work of reconciliation still to be completed between the region's countries.
Serbia's candidature, like that of her neighbours, will be judged on its merits. The faster you accomplish the difficult reforms needed to move closer to Europe, the faster you will join the European Union. I know your government's determination. I am confident that it will redouble its efforts and thereby achieve integration into the European family. We will be there to help it, at every step, until the negotiations are concluded. (…)
Q. – Will Serbia join the European Union with or without Kosovo?
THE MINISTER – Kosovo's independence is irreversible, there can be no doubt on this score. Of course, the conditions to be fulfilled for the accession, which Belgrade already knows about, don't include recognition of this independence. But, and we have never hidden this – because among friends we talk frankly –, before joining the European Union, Serbia, like any other candidate State, will have to have settled her problems with her neighbours, all her neighbours, who are also destined to become European Union members. (…)./.


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The headline of an article in The Edge screamed "Boustead Proposes a Break-up"! Sounded disastrous. Actually it is not. Essentially, Boustead is mooting to separate its property business into a REIT and to distribute the shares of this new company to its existing shareholders via a distribution in specie. It's like receiving dividends in the form of additional shares, except that these are for a separate company that is also listed on the stock exchange.
Sounds interesting rather than disastrous. However, some shareholders are not in favour as Boustead could lose some of its inherent diversity to withstand ups and downs with its respective business sectors if it hives off the property business.
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Gary Brinkman – Production Manager, Prescott Newspapers, Inc.
Gary is the production manager for the Prescott Newspapers, Inc., Printing Facility in Prescott Valley.
Gary was born on the island of Guam where his parents were stationed in the military. Gary and his family lived in Yuma, Ariz., for more than 20 years where he worked for the Freedom newspaper group. There, he managed the packaging and distribution department. Before that he worked in the grocery business as a store manager for five years. Gary moved to Prescott in 2000 to join PNI.
Gary and his wife, Patricia, have two children, Patrice and Tyler. In Gary's spare time, he enjoys spending time with his children, working in the garage, and exploring Arizona.


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Ford Motor Company is pushing the development of their self-driving automobiles forward by putting money in a California startup company that uses data from Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) systems and cameras and converts it into 3D maps.
3D mapping company Civil Maps will receive US$ 6.6 million in seed funding from Ford and its partners Motus Ventures, Wicklow Capital, StartX Stanford and AME Cloud Ventures.
With 16 people in its employ, Civil Maps has developed artificial intelligence software that can take large chunks of data from LIDAR and cameras, and converts it into files with extremely small data footprint.
File size is of paramount importance because real-time and updated crowdsourced data from other autonomous vehicles must be easily downloaded over cellular networks in order for self-driving vehicles to operate safely.
"Autonomous vehicles require a totally new kind of map. Civil Maps' scalable map generation process enables fully autonomous vehicles to drive like humans do -- identifying on-road and off-road features even when they might be missing, deteriorated or hidden from view and letting a car know what it can expect along its route," said Civil Maps CEO Sravan Puttagunta in a statement.
It will be recalled that Ford recently invested US$ 182.2 million on cloud-based software company Pivotal in order to further its efforts as both an automotive and mobility company.


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Okanagan Mission, also known as "the Mission" is a neighbourhood of the City of Kelowna in the Okanagan region of Southern Interior of British Columbia, located on the south side of the city at the foot of Okanagan Mountain. It derives its name from the Father Pandosy Mission, historically known as the Okanagan Mission, which was located here and was the first non-native settlement in the Okanagan Valley.
Local attractions include the H2O Centre ( a waterpark and fitness facility run by the YMCA) and the Capital News Centre (multiple ice rinks and indoor socer facility) as well as many sandy beaches and parks.


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Custom Metal Fireplace Screens - Photos
Torchcraft custom fireplace screens are built to last. The frame is normally two pieces of 1/8" steel that sandwiches woven wire. The woven wire serves as the actual screen. The two piece frame is joined tightly together by steel rivets. These rivets are heavy duty and give the entire piece an old time blacksmith style construction. If the fireplace opening has an arched top, the screen and frame will have the same arch. The entire screen will overlap the opening by generally 1 to 1.5 inches. The handles are made from round rod or strap steel. In some cases horseshoes are used as handles. The woven wire screen is also heavy duty.
It is shipped from a California supplier that has some of the best wire quality available. Each screen will have two "feet" placed in front and one single "foot" in the back. Many times the "feet" are constructed from strap steel (flat iron), horseshoes or round rod. This allows the screen to be placed flush with the face of the fireplace opening. The foot on the back side is not needed until the screen is removed from the face of the opening and set aside for adding wood and cleaning. Although the screen rarely becomes too hot for conventional paint, all fireplace screens at Torchcraft are treated with high temperature rated paint.
The only fireplace screens built by Torchcraft are custom orders. You will need to have a rough concept of the design you are looking for and you will need to supply the measurements of your fireplace opening. If the fireplace is already built, provide a picture along with the dimensions you have taken.
The Torchcraft Difference....
Torchcraft cuts most outdoor signs from 3/16-inch (7 gauge) new plate steel. Indoor signs may be cut from 1/8-inch steel. It's easy to see from the photo the difference in thickness of Torchcraft steel vs the "other guys". Most other artist cut from a flimsy 14 gauge steel such as the one pictured above that I picked up from a local art show. When you think about your metal sign, do you want one as thick as a paper clip or as thick as 4 dimes? Thats an 82% difference.


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Welcome to Paradigm
We're a creative consumer public relations, social media and engagement agency in Toronto, Canada. Our goal is simple: give our clients outstanding service and solid results. We won't settle for less.
We create breakthrough digital campaigns that tell your brand story and drive engagement with your audience…
We create direct-to-consumer engagements and experiences that people are compelled to share…
Public Relations
Our clients are our partners, and we function as an extension of their teams. Day to day, we make their business our priority….
We create breakthrough digital campaigns that tell your brand story and drive engagement with your audience. We continuously analyze industry trends and data to develop insights to build impactful and compelling digital content strategies. From social media marketing, community management and content development, to influencer outreach and digital video production we ensure your message is delivered to the right audience at the right time.
We create direct-to-consumer engagements and experiences that people are compelled to share. We help build brand stories by connecting with target consumers through custom events, product sampling and unique one-of-a-kind experiences. Our creative ideas are brought to life with our team's unrelenting focus on detail and process for a flawless execution.
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This is how we work: our clients are our partners, and we function as an extension of their teams. Day to day, we make their business our priority, and we don't let them down. We also live by the motto "if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well." We approach each project with the same set of standards — understand what matters to our clients, develop a smart strategy to meet defined objectives, dream up inspiring ideas, execute flawlessly, and realize measurable results, on time and on budget. It's a tall order, and we need top-notch Paradigmers to get it done. We're lucky to have a great group of PR, digital and experiential marketing professionals who are smart, creative, dedicated, and, really, just awesome people. We like to think we have the best agency around.
Outstanding client service is in our DNA.
Paradigm opened its doors with the mandate to offer senior level counsel and superior client service. From that day forward, Paradigmers have all had the same priority: keep our clients happy. We work hard every day to earn our clients' trust, and to keep it.
We're Well-Rounded.
Brand Marketing
Brand marketing communications is our bread and butter. We thrive on developing creative ideas that are on strategy and complement the integrated marketing mix. .
Social Media
From content development to influencer relations to community management, we help brands connect with their audiences in a meaningful way.
Reputation management, employee communications, community relations, corporate social responsibility – we've done it all.
We help build brand stories by connecting with target consumers through custom events, product sampling and unique one-of-a-kind experiences.
We take one step at a time.
Whether we're planning for a year-long program or a small project, the process is the same.
The first step is always to hear from our client: what are their business goals and objectives? Our job is to ask questions to clarify and help us define and refine how PR/digital/experiential fits into the mix. For consumer marketing mandates with a larger scope, an integrated marketing approach always works best.
Based on our client's business objectives, agreed upon PR/digital/experiential goals – and budget – our team will set out to develop a strategy to realize the PR/digital/experiential goals. We'll ask ourselves: Who do we need to reach? What's our story? What are our key messages? How can we tell our story most effectively?
Once our strategic roadmap is in place, we tap our team's creative power. We think big and we have fun with our divergent ideas. But, our facilitator is skilled at keeping the brainstorm on strategy so that we don't veer off course. (Only sometimes, for our own amusement.)
With the brainstorm behind us, the core account team takes a critical look at the creative ideas within the context of strategy, budget, time and resources. This part of the process is about making the ideas workable. It involves refining, altering, or even creating new ideas. At the end of this creative refinement we are left with the tactics – the nuts and bolts of how our strategy comes to life and how our PR/digital/experiential goals will be met.
At this stage, we set specific, measurable PR/digital/experiential objectives. How will we define success specific to this program? What are our quantitative and qualitative measures? It's different in every situation, and we work with our client to determine what the best benchmark for success will be.
What our clients are saying.
What sets a great agency apart in my mind is the ability to listen, anticipate and deliver unique, compelling ideas. Paradigm does all these exceptionally well. Combine these attributes with great management, strong collaboration with other partners, and friendly, helpful staff and you have a recipe for a great business partner. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone.
I've worked with the team at Paradigm for more than six years on the Schick brands and now on Playtex and I trust them to deliver creative, innovative ideas that are on strategy, are cost-effective and are designed to deliver the results we need for our brands. I love working with them.
Creativity and client service is what sets Paradigm apart. Over the past five years the Paradigm team has continued to develop ideas and concepts that break through and help move the needle on our business. Most importantly their creativity is on strategy. I am always excited to see what they will come up with next.
We cast a wide net.
We deliver smart, creative thinking for every industry and audience we serve.
Consumers show a growing interest in health and wellness. According to Google Trends, "best foods for…" searches have grown 10 times since 2005.
Source: Canadian Grocer
83% of sports fans admit to checking their social networks while watching live games.
Source: inc.com
There is a new type of retail moment outside of the traditional categories: deal frenzies.
Home & Design
Cooking at home has been elevated to its own form of entertainment. The personal tastes of home chefs are driving demand for features that both simplify and personalize the cooking experience.
Source: kitchenandbathdesign.com
Tech trailblazers are already familiar with virtual reality. 2016 is the year it is expected to reach mainstream consumers.
Source: digitaltrends.com
Bright eyeshadow is making a major comeback. And one of the biggest color trends? Blue.
Source: refinery29.com
Financial Services
Still decades from retirement, Generation X is scooping up cottage property with an eye towards their golden years.
Source: financialpost.com
Beverage / Alcohol
Coffee lovers rejoice! Studies show four cups of coffee a day is "the sweet spot" in terms of enjoying the health benefits of your caffeine fix.
Source: cbc.ca
Brands can no longer sell clothes; they need to sell a lifestyle. People are willing to invest in their wellness, as evidenced by the growth in "athleisure."
Source: businessinsider.com
Life at Paradigm.
Kudos All Around.
Paradigm has received more than 70 industry awards since it opened its doors in 2007. We've been recognized for our creative solutions, cutting edge communications and outstanding results.
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Australian farmers, landholders and environmental campaigners have staged what they're calling "the world's longest protest" in opposition to fracking and coal mining. In rural communities across the country, farm-workers vehicles lined the roads to raise awareness of the plight of the industry.
Protestors angry at their right-wing government's pro-fossil fuel, anti-environmentalist stance have created massed columns of farm vehicles, including trucks and tractors right across the continent in a bid to protect their drought-hit farms.
The protest was organised by the Lock The Gate Alliance, a pressure group set up in 2010 to try and protect rural industries and communities from the encroachment of Australia's increasingly powerful fossil fuel mining lobby. In a statement, the group said: "Australia's water is under threat from risky gas and coal mining. Mining expansion creates a small profit for a few, yet permanently damages and contaminates water sources for many."
"People are concerned that not enough is being done to protect water resources from unconventional coal and gas mining," Georgina Woods, a spokesperson for Lock The Gate, told the Daily Mail Australia. "The protest is about getting the word out to candidates and politicians."
She added: "Being on the highway, everyone who is on the move can see it. There are people in remote communities that feel they are not being addressed by mainstream politics."
The protest looped right around the county's south coast along major highways, starting at Alice Springs near the centre of the continent, looping north and then west through all the major cities, and ending in the north-east, near Cairns. Protestors all along the way held up signs and banners.
Lock the Gate Alliance is a cross-party coalition of campaigners, including the former Green leader Bob Brown, as well as various conservative personalities. Its mission is "to protect Australia's natural, environmental, cultural and agricultural resources from inappropriate mining and to educate and empower all Australians to demand sustainable solutions to food and energy production".


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Thursday, February 4, 2010
It's time... we need your help.
How about putting your facebook page link on your local Internet sites section. Are you looking for ANYTHING? Post a wanted ad or two looking for tickets to a game or a cool old book you've always hoped you could find. Don't you have anything you would like to just get rid of? Help us out by putting your FREE item on your local page and tell us how the ad posting process went. Do you have a favorite bar or restaurant? Why not throw and ad on there for them. If it helps someone find them, they will LOVE you for it. Just do us a favor, test the procedure, help us populate your local site with some honest ads and let's get this thing taken to the next level.
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With your kind donations and prayers Children of Adam have for the last few years been able to assist the poor and needy, locally, nationally and internationally. Like all other institutions there will always be running costs for wages, printing, fundraising and so on. Since our inception these are some of the the things that we have been able to achieve with your kind and generous support,
By you donating , you will be helping Children of Adam to maintain its unique 100% donations policy, remember when somebody donates to a specific project 100% of that money goes on that project without children of Adam deducting anything from the donation. The money you donate will be used to pay wages, bills, fundraising costs and everything else needed to run an local, national and international charity.
With your kind donation you will insha'Allah have a part in all the good that children of Adam are able to do for you will be the ones that are planting the seeds and watering the plants which without that we would not be able to reach out to the poor, the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him has said
"When a man passes away, his good deeds will also come to an end except for three: Sadaqah Jariyah (ceaseless charity); a knowledge which is beneficial, or a virtuous descendant who prays for him (for the deceased)" Narrated by Abu Hurairah, Sahih Muslim
When you donate towards children of Adam running costs, this is insha'Allah known as Sadaqah Jariyah. This type of charity is continuous and its benefits are reaped by both the donor and receiver, even after the person giving it has left this earth.
Please do continue to assist us in assisting others,
Please do note that Zakah can not be used for this purpose.
"On the authority of Abu Huraira who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him said), "Every small bone of everyone has upon it a charitable act for everyday upon which the sun rises. Bringing about justice between two is an act of charity. Helping a man get on his mount, lifting him onto it or helping him put his belongings onto it, is a charitable act. A good word is a charitable act. Every step you take toward the prayer is a charitable act. And removing a harmful thing from the path is a charitable act."


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Recruitment is a defining activity for both, companies as well as, candidates. For companies, it sets the pace and creates the operational horsepower for growth. For individuals, it defines growth in career.
Adecco India, a specialist in recruitment services, provides tailor-made recruitment solutions across verticals, with a branch network across 55 cities, providing extensive geographic coverage across India. Thorough research and accurate mapping of interests of both our clients as well as our candidates, is what sets us apart.
As a corporate partner to clients, we source professionals with high intellectual capabilities to help enhance the client's human capital on one hand, and on the other, we help individuals optimize their career choices.
Before you even see a candidate, they go through a very thorough sourcing and evaluation process.
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35 Professional Business and Corporate PSD Website Templates
Creating websites for companies using business and corporate PSD website templates has been the choice of designers and developers. It saves them a great deal time as PSD files are easier to design, modify and revise to reflect the look and feel that clients want for their site. Because PSD website templates are such a great resource for designers, it is worthwhile to collect some as a starting point for your web projects.
Luckily, there are many of them in the web and we are sharing with your both free and premium options. Basically, you will find packages of business PSD website templates here consisting of different pages and organized layers. Please see the key features, check their appearance and see if they are up for your needs. These are very helpful for all your company, retail, and business website designs. Enjoy!
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Premium Corporate PSD Website Templates
Invision – COMPLETE INFO
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Invia is a Corporate Template with a minimalistic flat approach.
Avada PSD – COMPLETE INFO
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Avada is a clean, multi-purpose PSD theme suitable for any type of business. 22 total PSD files! Its loaded with options, 3 home pages with a boxed and wide version, 1-4 column portfolio layout, multiple blog options and a PSD loaded with short codes.
Black + White Simple Theme – COMPLETE INFO
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This PSD website template is simple and suited to a site that is going to have beautiful photography. Available in black and white.
imbus – COMPLETE INFO
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With its clean and minimalist design, imbus PSD template is suitable for any purpose (business, corporate, web design and development agencies, and more). The 14 PSD files in this template are fully layered, well named and organized within folders to make them easy to use.
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Stand out from the crowd with this clean and unigue PSD template for business and corporate websites. It's a great fit for personal portfolios as well.
BlackBird – COMPLETE INFO
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OptimApp – COMPLETE INFO
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OptimApp is pixel perfect, clean and multipurpose psd template. It can be used like corporate site and site to present different sort of application. OptimApp has responsive layout and unique modern design.This template is fully editible and easily can be customize due to your needs.
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ARGO is a unique and creative PDS template with clean and modern design. It is perfect choice for your corporate agency, creative studio or for portfolio. It can be customized easily to suit your wishes.
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SkyDream is a perfect Premium PSD Template for your business, a creative agency or a portfolio! The template is created in the minimalist "clean" style. SkyDream is designed to suit almost all projects.
Frezzo – COMPLETE INFO
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Frezzo is a clean, professional, multi-purpose PSD theme. All files are well organized, perfect-pixel and named accordingly so its very easy to change any detail. Best used for creative, business and corporate websites or even for a personal portfolio as well.
Circles PSD Template – COMPLETE INFO
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Circles is a PSD website template that combines minimal and perfect grid design with functionality and usability.
Plano – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 13 PSDs in this template, Google Webfonts
Plano is a great flat design for almost any business or personal use.
CreoBIZ – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 10 Color Presets, 15 PSD Pages
CreoBIZ (Creative / Business) is a PSD theme developed especially for creative agencies, studios, small and enterprise level companies, local business You can use this template for creating website based on any framework and any language.
Aviet PSD – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 18 Psds, Beautiful Fonts
Aviet is a website PSD template ideal for business and corporate websites.
W Balls – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 11 Layered PSD files, Boxed & Wide version, 960 Pixel grid system, Clean & Modern style, Designed for responsive
W Balls template with its modern and clean design is suitable for any purpose (business, corporate, webdesign/development agencies, and more). The 11 PSD files are fully layered and layers are well named and organized within folders to make them easily accessible and use.
Rework – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 2 Homepage, Blog and Portfolio Layouts, Services, Pricing Tables, Contact
REWORK is a layered PSD template for business, software or blog site. This is a flexible and multipurpose, modern and sleek site template, suited for any situations. REWORK template makes it easy to create a world class website with a unique style and clear focused message. This template has been designed with the help of the 960 grid system for responsive website, able to adapt its layout to the screen size of your visitors.
Breeze – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 20 PSDs, Guideline and action files
Breeze is a clean and impressive PSD website template that you can use to impress the visitors of your website.
Pixel Studio – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 50 PSD Files Available, Dark and Light Version, Maximum wide resolution 1920px, Minimum resolution 1024px
Pixel Studio it`s the perfect theme for any creative agency or freelancer who wants to start his own business in the field of web design. With this package it is easier to build your website. Pixel Studio comes with 50 PSD Files, Light and Dark theme, all major pages needed when building a website, and lots and lots of super-awesome features.
Target – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 52 PSD Files, 2 Color Variants, 960gs Ready, Blog, Pricing Table, Info Boxes, tabs, toggles, lists, Login, Register Boxes
This is beautifully designed web 2.0 website and blog psd template that covers basicly everything you need to create a complex site for your business.
Multiplex – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 23 full layered PSD files, 4 Homepage Layouts with Sliders, 4 Portfolio Layouts, 2 Portfolio Detail Pages, 3 Blog Layouts
Multiplex is a clean-cut multi purpose PSD template with a fresh look and feel. It is best used for business and corporate websites or even for a personal portfolio as well. Multiplex comes with 23 full layered PSD files for creating stunning and eye catching pages.
Trace PSD Template – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 11 Fully Layered .PSD files, Well Organized layers 960+ Grid System, Portfolio page has 2, 3 or 4 column layout
Trace is a uniquely designed website template. Designed in Photoshop with a modern look, its perfect for personal portfolios or creative agencies but can be used in any form. PSD files are well organized and named accordingly so its very easy to change any and all of the design.
Aquatica – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 6 pages within the psd file, nice textures
Aquatica is a unique and creative template with nice textures and lots of whitespace, it is a perfect starting point for personal or corporate websites where this kind of uniqueness is required. There are 6 pages within the PSD files.
Granight – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 6 PSD files, subtle textures, 2 Alternate Homepages
Granight is a PSD Web Template, where subtle textures and high contrast really lend their power to make your website stand out. It is clean and simple and will work for a great range of projects and applications from a corporate business site through to a designer or photography portfolio, or even a technology company such as a development agency.
Unistar Design – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Built on 960gs, 7 Layered PSD Files, 12 column 960px grid system
Unistar Design is clean corporate and business PSD template based on 12 column 960px grid system. Template is universal and can be used for business, corporate or personal websites, personal portfolio or blog.
Free Corporate PSD Website Templates
BisLite – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Comes in three pages — home, portfolio and contact us, four column template
Named as BisLite, this PSD website template comes in three pages — home, portfolio and contact us. This means there are three PSD files in the zip file. This is a four column template, and you can code it into a WordPress or HTML5 fully responsive website for your business, personal or portfolio need.
Corporatrix – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 1600px, Photoshop & JPG Format
Corporatrix is a powerful modern corporate / business website PSD template. This is a light purple color website design with a completely slick and creative edge. The PSD template is designed for corporate and business websites.
Creative Studio – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 1600 pixels wide, fully editable layers,
Creative Studio looks professional and sleek in orange, grey and black colors. The free PSD template comes with the homepage PSD with full editable layers for any necessary modifications and arrangement of the content and sections as you may feel fit for your design need.
BlueTech – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Software / IT Company Web Template, 1024 x 768 resolution
BlueTech is a PSD template which is perfect for any tyeps of IT or software company. It contains layout with search, jquery banner, company intro, news, company project etc. section that suited every type of IT business.
OpenMint – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Clean Layout, Free for personal and commercial use
This template, which has been designed by Viv Singh from VivRocks, has a very clean and professional feel about it and would be perfect for any corporate or business company.
The template is free to use in any personal or commercial projects and can be modified until your hearts content.
Pasmoso – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: 4 color variations and fully customizable
Pasmoso is a free psd website template exclusive on Decent Pixel. It comes with 4 color variations and is fully customizable.
WhiteSquare – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: PSD file in well organized in folders and layers, All layers and texts are editable
Beautiful free theme with modern and minimalistic look suitable for any kind of corporate/business website. Two inner pages are included.
Radial – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Notification bar with social Icons, A full width slider, Featured boxes, Recent posts with a nice shadow effect
Radial is a professionally designed website template in PSD format. It is a front page of the template and you can use it to code a HTML/CSS web page.
Clean Business – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Clean, Minimalist Design
Clean Business is a PSD website template ideal for corporate and business websites.
App Civilization – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Clean PSD Template, 3 Column Layout
App Civilization is a free to download PSD website templates for software and IT websites.
Travler – COMPLETE INFO
Key Features: Beautiful and unique PSD design, Web App focused
Travler is a free Web design PSD based loosely around a mock online web app that helps with all your travel needs.


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This setting instructs RockSolid to monitor all key instance, database and server level performance indicators. This includes data feeds gathered by WMI, TSQL and Performance Monitor sources.
The inclusion of performance data in the monitoring set should be enabled when RockSolid is monitoring and alerting key production systems. Due to the volume of data monitored it may be desirable to disable this setting in certain limited scenarios including:
- When monitoring DEV systems where performance detail is not required (recommended to enable for pre-production test).
- For large deployments of SQL Server supporting POS systems. In this scenario, typically performance profiles can be gathered from a single instance and does not require monitoring performance of all nodes.
- When RockSolid is providing limited functionality, such as database recovery and maintenance job deployment.


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1-Talk is the newest SIP softphone application from 1-Talk, it's built base on PortSIP VoIP SDK, allowing users to enjoy multimedia communications in a dynamic way.
Featuring an intuitive interface, 1-Talk is expanding the softphone experience by making it even easier to make VoIP calls, see when your contacts are available and send Instant Messages.
1-Talk features an IM interface which focuses on your contacts and friends. This allows you to manage your communications more conveniently and according to your personal preferences.
1-Talk works seamlessly with your internet connection – you can chat away with free calls and never worry about cost, time or distance. You can to call to Romania as well to Pakistan or to any other place in the world. All you need is to download the 1-Talk application and log in with SIP ID and SIP password, no additional settings are needed.It including great features to help you stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers, share your thoughts and views and find the information you need. You can use it on your computer.
The 1-Talk has all standard telephone features, including:
The 1-Talk also supports the following features and functions:
After registering at our wemsite (1-talk.com), you will need the following information from your profile:
Processor: Minimum: Intel Pentium III 1.5 GHz or equivalent
Optimal: Pentium 4® 2.0 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 1G MB
Hard Disk Space:100 MB
OS: Windows2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Connection: IP network connection (broadband, LAN, wireless, dialup)
Sound Card: Full-duplex, 16-bit
1-Talk requires both speakers and a microphone to make calls. Any of the following configurations are acceptable:
If 1-Talk is not already running, start it as you would any other program: Use the Windows Start menu or double-click the desktop icon
After obtaining SIP account information from your profile at our website, you can set up 1-Talk accounts.
If 1-Talk is not already running, start it as you would any other program: Use the Windows Start menu or double-click the desktop icon
1-Talk appears.
To shut down 1-Talk, right click and choose "Exit" of popup menu.
The main menu includes:
You can contact someone using:
You can place a call when another call is already in progress. There is maximum 5 calls you can make, although eventually the quality of audio and will degrade because of limitations on the computer.
To place a new call (without hanging up on the current call), click a Line button(Line 1 – Line 5).
Click the red End call button on the Call panel. Details of the call remain on the call display for a few seconds.
1-Talk must be running to answer incoming calls.
1-Talk rings and information about the incoming call appears in the Call entry field. if 1-Talk is minimized, it will be popup on desktop when the call is incoming.
The softphone address of the person calling you is displayed.
When the call is incoming, then:
Answer call: Click the green button
to answer the call; If you are on a call on Line 1, now the second call is incoming on Line 2, you have to click the "Line 2" button first and then click the green button to answer incoming call. The first Line 1 will be HOLD automatically.
Decline call: Click the red button
to decline a incoming call. If you are on a call on Line 1, now the second call is incoming on Line 2, you have to click the "Line 2" button first and then click the red button to decline incoming call. The first Line 1 will be HOLD automatically.
While the call is in progress you can:
When the call is established, then you can transfer it to another contact.
You can enable or disable forwarding so that calls will be forwarded to another number. You can set up forwarding so that calls are always forwarded or so that calls are forwarded only when you are on another call.
To enable forwarding, click main menu->Options and edit the call forwarding setting.
You can create a conference call starting from one existing call:
The Friends panel, which is divided into tabs, provides access to the following:
The Friends panel displays your contacts and lets you specify multiple contact methods for them, including:
Contacts are typically organized into groups. 1-Talk includes built-in groups: "Friends". You can add more groups, as desired.
Click , or right-click friend panel and choose "Add contact", The Contact Profile dialog box appears.
After entered contact details, then click the "Save & Close" button to save details.The first name and sip number are not allows empty.
You can add a contact by capturing existing information:
You can populate the 1-Talk contact list by importing from an external file or files. The new contacts will be added to the existing contacts.
You can import a contact list from:
You can export a contact list to a DB file.
To change the information for a contact, right-click the contact and choose Edit Contact Info…. The Contact Profile dialog box appears. Some of the changes you can make are:
You can delete an exist contact as below:
You can delete an exist group as below:
You can right-click on an entry in a list to:
Availability refers to the ability to see whether a person is available or not: online, on phone, busy, and so on.
Your availability information is displayed below on the main menu. The availability of others is displayed in the Friends tab.
You can publish your availability to contacts who have softphone address, and you can set up 1-Talk to view the availability of other contacts.
When you add a contact by entering details in the Contact details winow, the contact is automatically set up so that you share availability. If you created a contact by importing a contact list, it is automatically set up to Shared also.
As soon as the person is set up in this way in your Contacts, 1-Talk sends them a notification request. The request asks that you be able to see that person's availability.
Continuing from above, when the other person allows the notification request, your name is added to their contact list. As soon as you are added to their list, a request is sent back to you requesting that they be able to see you. 1-Talk accepts this request automatically and the other person can now see your availability.
Click the down arrow beside the availability indicator on 1-Talk.
Click the main menu arrow and choose "Option" menu item, the "Options" window is appears.
You can change the directory which using to store the audio and video record file. Select a directory after Click the "Change…" button.
This window shows all the codecs that are supported by 1-Talk. You can enable or disable codecs as desired.With only one codec enabled, all calls made will use that codec.
You cannot change the properties of any codecs.
Audio codecs describe the format by which audio streams are compressed for transmission over networks.
Codecs can be categorized as either narrowband or wideband:
There are two options for call forwarding:
The Quality of Service panel lets you request a specific transport service for audio. This service is through DSCP (also known as ToS). In a network that has the default configuration, the recommended value for audio is 56.
If you set up for QoS, 1-Talk will include the specified information in the packets that it sends to the network provider. Whether the packet is delivered with the specified service depends on whether your broadband router and the network provider between you and the other party supports multiple transport services. In other words, whether each network provider reads the QoS information and prioritizes packet delivery based on the requested service.
You can check/uncheck the checkbox to enable/disable the AEC, VAD, CGN, AGC for audio.
You can choose audio and video device for the call, and adjust the volume, settings.
A lots of fun with 1-talk!