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Keep track of your customers’ problems

Your customer support team might deal with a range of customer queries - from feature requests to bugs, complaints or product feedback. You can keep track of the different kinds of requests and messages by labelling conversations. Over time, you will be able to identify a pattern of what your customers are actually trying to tell you. Based on this information, you can work on making your product/service better.

Your engineers will be interested in knowing the impact of their bugs and your design team will want to know if your customers are able to interact with the product smoothly. By labelling conversations and sharing your findings, you can make sure the right feedback is delivered to the right people in your company.

NoteConversation Labels are available from Sprout plan. But  Label Reports are only available on Blossom and above plans.

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Go to Settings > Conversation Labels > Add Conversation Labels

You can create a Conversation label and also add multiple sub-categories under this Conversation label.

You can only edit/disable conversation labels and sub categories. You cannot delete it once created. To edit a converation label, click on the drop-down against the conversation label.

Only Freshchat agents with their role as Account Owner/Admin will be able to create Conversation labels.

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When you resolve(close) a conversation you will be able to add a converation label to the conversation.

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Feature Request

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Churn Feedback

You can label conversations of customers who are churning and overtime gather valuable feedback which will help you understand why they’re leaving. You can prevent it from happening later in the future by taking necessary actions.

Happy Customer

When you get positive feedback on your product/service you can tag those conversations with ‘happy customer’ label. It’ll be easier to convey the positive comments to relevant teams or agents. For example, it’s useful for a designer to know that the feature they designed is doing well and that customers are getting value from it. You can also create a repository of positive customer quotes that can be used in marketing materials. Most importantly, remember to thank the customer for taking the time to share their comments.

Identify trends in your customers’ queries

When you and your team consistently keep tagging conversations, overtime you’ll be able to gather valuable data on your how your product performs.

You can track conversation labels and over a period of time using Label reports in Freshchat.

Click on the Reports icon in the left menu bar and click on Conversation Labels.

Labeling conversations with generic labels such as ‘Bug’ or ‘Feature request’ is good. But if you go one step further and add more specific labels related to a bug or feature you can track better. You can do this by adding sub-categories within a conversation label. Over time you can see which bugs impact your customers more or which feature requests are more common. This can help your team prioritize bug fixes and decide what features to build next.

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To set up Dzinga account follow steps described below, you can always contact our friendly support in a case of any questions please visit: https://pp.dzinga.com/

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In your YCLIENTS account, go to the Telephony - Routes section.  Routes determine which of the users and in which branches to display information about incoming customer calls. Routes are used in routing rules and are triggered if the call meets the criteria of the rule.

Click the Add Route button and configure:

  • Indicate the name of the route.
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  • Indicate where to save the call history for this route.
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2.     Routing setup

Go to the Telephony - Routing section. Routing determines which route should work with an incoming call to an employee number.

YCLIENTS together with Dzinga supports the ability to distribute calls according to the two most convenient schemes:

Scheme 1- each branch in the network has its own separate phone number

  • Click the Add Rule button and configure.
  • Type - select the value- Phone.
  • Identifier - phone numbers in the format 4XXXXXXXXXXX without the + signs, spaces or other characters.
  • Route - select one of the previously created routes.
  • Click the Save button.

Scheme 2- the entire network has one common number, and the client selects the branch he needs in the voice menu using extension numbers

Click the Add Rule button and configure.

  • Type - Select a SIP value.
  • Identifier - specify the internal number of the employee from the settings of the Virtual PBX.
  • Route - select one of the previously created routes.
  • Click the Save button.

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Michele Wipplinger on the Resurgence of plant-base dyes

Artisans worldwide are using plant-based dyes, as are commercial dye industries. Natural dye extracts are now readily available, the technology is commercially viable and the application methods can be used for all fiber types.  Gone are the obstacles to using plant-based dyes to create beautiful, color fast dyes. And perhaps most importantly, the consumer is taking an interest in how their clothing is being colored.

Michele will discuss the history, current commercial use and the art application of natural dyes in her talk, Color: Trends in the Culture of Cloth at the Surface Matters Symposium.  You certainly won’t want to miss the opportunity to benefit from Michele’s thirty-some years of experience and expertise in the field.

Michele Wippingler is the owner of Earthues, a fair trade, women-owned business. The aim of Earthues is to teach and learn about natural dyes and sustainability using eco-methods and exquisite colors for creating beautiful surface designs.

Want to know the latest about the Surface Matters Symposium?  Consider signing up for email notification.  (We won’t share or sell your email address.) And don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook.

Trisha Hassler – Life-Long Fascination with Paradox

Trisha says that she has always been fascinated with paradox and that she has been stitching, cutting and reassembling everything that would hold still since childhood. Both impulses are clearly visible in her continuing series where she combines torch cut steel with quilted fabrics.  If you haven’t seen her work, take a moment to visit her website.  It will inspire you.

Trisha will be talking about how personal style evolved, her inspiration and her plans for the future at the Surface Matters Symposium in a talk entitled, Surface Connections.

We hope you will join us for what is surely to be an amazing conference.  Registration opens January 7th.

website: trishahassler.com

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Jane Dunnewold to speak at Surface Matters Symposium

We are thrilled to announce that Jane Dunnewold will be speaking on March 3rd at the upcoming symposium, Surface Matters.  She will join Marci McDade and Lou Cabeen for a discussion about surface design followed by a break out session tentatively titled, “Finding Your Own Visual Language.”

Jane Dunnewold is the author of Complex Cloth (1996) Improvisational Screen Printing (2003), and co-authored Finding Your Own Visual Language (2007). Interweave Press published Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric in 2010. Dunnewold is the former chair of the Surface Design Studio at the Southwest School of Art. She teaches and lectures on art cloth internationally, including recent tours to Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Dunnewold’s work was featured in the one-person exhibitions Sacred Planet (2009/2011) and Etudes: A Daily Practice (2011). She was awarded the Quilt Japan Prize in the 2002 Visions exhibition, and the Gold Prize, at the Taegue International Textile Exhibition. The vice-president of the Surface Design Association, she maintains Art Cloth Studios, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Additional information on commissions and exhibition experience can be found at complexcloth.com. Essays on the creative process and acts of making are offered regularly at existentialneighborhood.blogspot.com.

Website name and URL: complexcloth.com

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Mandy Greer Showcased in the Seattle Times

Mandy Greer by Benjamin Benschneider/ The Seattle Times

We were excited to come across a great article about Mandy Greer in the Pacific Northwest Section of the Seattle Times.  Click here to read the article and see some images of her work.

Mandy will be speaking at our March conference, Surface Matters.  For more information about the conference, click on the link in sidebar.  We will be updating this information as the conference takes shape so do sign up to receive our email updates.

Registration for the conference will open on January 7, 2012.

Ann Johnston Offers Classes in Dyeing and Quilt Design in 2012

Ann Johnston will hold a series of fabric dyeing and quilt design workshops in her Lake Oswego studio in 2012.
To ensure maximum individualized attention, class size will be limited to four participants. Registration opens January 10, 2012. Registration closes for all workshops February 10, 2012.

For more information: www.annjohnston.net or annjohnstonquilts@gmail.com

1. Begin with Color by Accident: Low-Water Immersion Dyeing

3 days – May 12-14, 2012
A fast-paced run-through of the possibilities with new variations offered by the low-water immersion dyeing approaches introduced by Ann in her book Color by Accident.

2. Add Dye Painting and Printing to Your Options

4 days – May 17-20, 2012
An introduction to all the basic surface design techniques with thick and thin dye, using brushes & rollers, stamps & blocks, stencils & screens.

3. Silk Only—Understanding the Alternatives

5 days – May 23-27, 2012
An exploration of dyeing a wide variety of silks using methods such as painting, printing and immersion with soda ash, citric aid and vinegar, including the selective removal of sericin. Some experience with Procion MX dyes required.

4. Focused Dyeing

5 days – July 20-24, 2012
Is there a particular texture or pattern or theme or color that you want to use for a quilt or series of quilts? Consider it a puzzle to solve in this workshop. Some experience with Procion MX dyes required.

5. Untangle Your Design Decisions

5 days – November 1-5, 2012
A personalized exploration of the elements of design—line, shape, color, value, pattern, texture—to answer that constant question: “Now what do I do?”

6. Using Your Own Hand-dyed Fabric

5 days – November 8-12, 2012
Bring a pile of your own hand-dyed fabrics to build on the ideas that prompted dyeing it or on ideas that are suggested to you by the fabric.


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Published: October 10, 2018

Story by Andrew P.M. Wright                                                                                Swanage Railway official photographer and press officer

A mighty 1940s Southern Railway Bulleid Pacific class express steam locomotive that first ran on the Swanage Railway 28 years ago – and which has been out of service since 2003 – will be returning to service during the heritage line’s annual Autumn Steam Gala.

The 90-ton No. 34072 ‘257 Squadron’ was withdrawn from service on the Swanage Railway in January, 2003 – after hauling trains on the relaid Purbeck Line for 13 years – because the leviathan of steam required a heavy engineering overhaul.

Built in 1948, the Battle of Britain class Bulleid Pacific will be returning to service on the Swanage Railway after being given an extensive engineering overhaul by its owners – Southern Locomotives Limited – at the Swanage Railway’s heavy engineering facility on the outskirts of Swanage.

On the theme of the historic locomotive exchange trials in 1948 – which included the Bulleid Pacific class and took place on the newly nationalised British Railways network to evaluate different classes of steam locomotives from the previous ‘Big Four’ railway companies – the Autumn Steam Gala runs from Friday to Sunday, 12 to 14 October, 2018, inclusive.

At least seven steam locomotives will be in action through the Isle of Purbeck during the three-day event, including three visiting locomotives – 1938 London Midland and Scottish Railway No. 6233 ‘Duchess of Sutherland’, 1945 London Midland and Scottish Railway Stanier ‘Black 5’ No. 44871 and 1954 British Railways Class 4 Tank No. 80078.

Featuring a varied and intensive service, the Autumn Steam Gala will see steam trains running the five and a half miles between Swanage, Harman’s Cross, Corfe Castle and Norden – with some steam trains running four miles further on to the River Frome bridge, within sight of Wareham.

Tickets for a return trip in the brake van of a freight train between Swanage and Corfe Castle during the Autumn Steam Gala are £10.

Available from the Swanage Railway website, brake van ride tickets are only available to holders of Autumn Steam Gala rover tickets.

As places are limited, brake van ride tickets should be purchased as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Any unsold tickets will be available for purchase on the day.

Swanage Railway Company executive chairman Trevor Parsons said: “Our Autumn Steam Gala will feature an exciting and varied timetable, four nostalgic freight trains running each day between Swanage and Corfe Castle, some passenger trains running on our four-mile extension from Norden to the River Frome, within sight of Wareham, as well as evening dining trains on the Friday and Saturday.

“The appearance of ‘257 Squadron’ hauling passenger trains through the Isle of Purbeck for the first time since 2003 will be a special occasion because No. 34072 was the first main line express steam locomotive to run on the Swanage Railway in November, 1990.

“Back in November, 1990, the locomotive had just been restored to working order from a scrapyard condition – by Southern Locomotives Limited and the Swanage Railway only ran passenger trains along three miles of line from Swanage to Harman’s Cross.

“When ‘257 Squadron’ arrived in Swanage on a road transporter in late October, 1990, the Swanage Railway’s tracks had only been relaid the two miles from Harman’s Cross to Corfe Castle a few months before – with the line yet to be relaid further on to Norden,” added Mr Parsons who is also a volunteer train guard and signalman on the Swanage Railway.

Built at Brighton Works in Sussex and completed in April, 1948, ‘257 Squadron’ was allocated to Dover shed to work continental boat trains to London and the Night Ferry.

No. 34072 also hauled local train services between the Kent coast and Charing Cross station in London, once hauling trains on the Tonbridge to Redhill line which is believed to have been a first for a Bulleid Pacific.

The electrification of the Kent coast lines in 1958 saw ‘257 Squadron’ moved to Exmouth Junction in Devon during February, 1958, from where the locomotive worked trains to Salisbury and Plymouth as well as destinations in north Devon and Cornwall.

British Railways moved No. 34072 to its final shed – Eastleigh in Hampshire – during June, 1964, for working trains on the main line to London Waterloo and at the end of October that year the steam locomotive was withdrawn from service. During its 16-year working career, No. 34072 ran a total of almost 700,000 miles.

‘257 Squadron’ was sold for scrapping to Dai Woodham at Barry in South Wales with the rusting locomotive arriving there in February, 1965 – bound for the cutter’s torch. Nineteen years later, the rusting hulk was rescued by Southern Locomotives Limited.

The Swanage Railway welcomes new volunteers to help run the heritage line so call 01929 475212 for a chat or email [email protected]


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by John Millington, Campaigns Reporter, Morning Star

Council housing campaigners in Wycombe called on the government today to halt the sell-off of over 6,000 homes, citing breaches in the consultation of tenants by the local council.

Wycombe Defend Council Housing has written to Housing Minister Grant Shapps asking the government to intervene to prevent the sell-off, which was agreed earlier this year.

Back in April council tenants voted in favour of the proposals.

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Wycombe Defend Council Housing co-ordinator Paul Burnham told the Star that statutory guidance was unambiguous and the government had no choice but to stop the transfer “if they follow statute.”

Mr Burnham said Mr Shapps “had to stop the transfer if the guidance means anything.

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The houses are due to be sold off to private company Red Kite in December if the government refuses to intervene.

Mr Burnham said the campaign was being supported by Labour MP Austin Mitchell.

“We will pursue judicial review if the government refuses to act,” he added.

Wycombe Labour group leader Councillor Victoria Groulef has written to cabinet member for homes Councillor David Carroll to raise concerns about the transfer.


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Houston Man Becomes Fugitive Following Fraud Conviction

June 8th, 2017 by Tad Nelson in White Collar Crime

Fraud is perhaps the most common type of white collar crime prosecuted in Texas. Fraud takes many forms. But the essential nature of fraud is that it involves acquiring the property of another through false pretenses.

Fraud is also not just a matter of Texas law. Anyone who defrauds a financial institution–i.e., a bank–or uses any means of interstate communication to commit fraud may face federal criminal charges. And federal penalties are notably harsh. For instance, bank fraud is punishable by up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

Defendant Receives 22 Years After Failing to Appear at Sentencing

While it is important to assert your constitutional rights when accused of criminal fraud, you must also respect the judicial system. Running away will not solve your problem. Unfortunately, a defendant in a recent Houston case did not heed this lesson and is now a fugitive from the law.

This particular defendant was indicted with another person for operating a mortgage fraud scheme. According to the United States Attorney’s Office in Houston, the two defendants “recruited straw borrowers to purchase residential properties” in the area. They obtained mortgage loans using the names and good credit of these straw borrowers. The indictment alleged the defendants sent “false and fraudulent statements” to the lenders as part of their scheme.

Ultimately, the U.S. Attorney said the defendants obtained more than $13 million in fraudulent loans, which were never repaid and fell into default.

Both defendants pleaded guilty in federal court. One defendant received a 14-year prison sentence and was ordered to pay nearly $5.3 million in restitution. The other defendant, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud, failed to appear at his sentencing hearing. In his absence, the judge sentenced him to nearly 22 years in prison and ordered restitution of over $5.4 million. Separately, a grand jury indicted the defendant for his failure to appear. Under federal law, a “flight to avoid prosecution” is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, in addition to any sentence from the original crime.

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Machine Shop 101: Top 7 Secrets To Choose Right

Selecting a CNC Machine Shop can be a daunting task with many options available. Innovative strategies are imperative to guarantee selection of a competent shop providing cutting edge technology. Usually, an Original Equipment Manufacturer has experienced evaluators that determine whether a supplier has the minimum requirements.

The team features Quality, Sourcing, and Machining personnel. Each team member represents particular facets of the business. Some Precision Manufacturing set rigorous requirements when conducting supplier evaluation.

Why choose the best machine shop Denver suppliers?

Choosing a machine shop supplier determines the success of your company in so many ways. Some of the benefits of choosing the ideal one include:

•    Lower costs
•    Reduced scrap levels
•    Great agility
•    Smoother workflow
•    Improved forecasting
•    Reduced setting times
•    Shortened manufacturing lead times

What is the secret?

1.    Samples of Previous Work

Any shop or manufacturer can claim to make the best equipment for every industry. However, custom machine shops that are proud of their products go a notch higher and allows you to inspect their prototypes. Also, they let customers and business owners see all parts and equipment manufactured in their shop.

When customers see examples of previous work, they get a visual representation of their attention to details and craftsmanship delivered to every piece. They get to verify the quality of the end product even when the supplier is working with huge runs of 2-dimensional parts under pressure of tight deadlines.

The ideal CNC machine shop should offer samples on demand and have a command in discussions about their industries of specialization. A knowledgeable and experienced machine shop gives customers great confidence in the quality of their machines. Previous samples confirm that a supplier has honed their skills working with a plethora of materials commonly used in a particular industry.

Don’t you think high end machine shops should be able to deliver precise cuts needed to fit into customer’s specifications?

2.    Enables Project Flexibility

As you choose a custom machine shop that is conversant with crafting ideal parts for your industry, also focus on how flexible they are with particular jobs. The search for a perfect choice should not make you jump from one shop to another. Sometimes, in-house limitations relating to the types of equipment their CNC machinist can work with on their availability and your project.

The best Denver Manufacturing machine shop has in-house skilled machinists, equipment, and necessary experience to get most projects completed as quickly as possible without undermining quality. Ideal manufacturers should also be flexible in offering different size runs ranging from small prototype machining to big scale productions using assortment of materials.

3.    Incessant Improvement

Leading Custom Machine Shops always pay great attention to continuous improvement. Progressive improvements of materials, parts, and equipment produced increases value offered to customers. Some strategies used to measure improvement process include Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and other techniques. Evidence of such quality improvement measuring processes ought to be readily available to customers with proven results.

4.    Offers Excellent Communication Methods

Communicating specifications for prototypes, materials, and parts in any precision machine shop should always be continuous. Alterations can arise at any time. Whenever communication between machine shops and manufactures goes limbo, doubts kick in. Dissatisfaction extends to potential clients through reviews and recommendations.

A quality machine shop focuses on these four customer communication aspects:

•    Allows customers to use their preferred communication channel that suits their operation.
•    Takes time to explain technical capabilities of various machine parts to clients.
•    Offers a contact person who is readily available to answer questions and implement alterations quickly to minimize material waste and time loss.
•    Asks relevant questions concerning customer’s project and how to enhance their job to get value for money and improve their experience.

5.    Implements Quality Control Measures

Quality is paramount for every customer irrespective of parts or equipment ordered. Therefore, every Precision Manufacturing company should create control measures that eliminate production errors in all steps of a manufacturing process. If a shop lacks documented quality control measures, it’s advisable to seek services elsewhere.

A professional Denver Manufacturing shop will be ready to talk about quality certifications such as IS0 9001 and AS9100 standards. They have extensive documentation about the equipment used to determine specification accuracy, for example, coordinate measuring machines. They elaborate what control standards are set for every part, machine, and equipment whenever rejection rate starts to rise.

The best Custom Machine Shop informs their customers about their failure rates and measures taken to reduce this rate to manageable levels.

6.    Equipment and Technology Advances Investment

A CNC shop is just as good as their machinists, staff and equipment produced. It is advisable to research on the types of software and equipment currently used to make the required prototypes and parts. Moreover, ask the shop management about other materials and equipment available in their shop.

Research on all equipment used in the production run phase, for instance, CNC Machining, Wire EDM, and Manual Machining. That information is essential since some stages in the manufacturing process may require hands-on approach for tooling prototypes. The shop should be well equipped with various software capabilities and can modify model designs upon request.

Additionally, CNC Machinists should be well qualified to handle onsite equipment and software efficiently. Their extensive knowledge of all equipment necessary for the production process and how well they use quality measuring equipment should be certified at proficient levels. Therefore, technicians should never hamper any of your bottom lines.

7.    Interact with Previous Customers

After reviewing an Original Equipment Manufacturer capabilities, communicate with previous customers. It is advisable to check reviews given by previous customers online about the shop. Questions that you may ask previous customers include:

•    What customer service got provided?
•    Did the machine shop meet expectations and how did they enhance customer experiences?
•    How long did the customers work with the machine shop?
•    Were there any defects or problems with deadlines and how did the machine shop resolved these issues?
•    Did the machine shop offer extensive information about their capabilities?
•    How were communication and modification requests handled in cases where changes were necessary?

Speaking to previous customers enables you to learn about all the procedures that the Manufacturing Shop implements to satisfy customers. Why choose blindly when you got so much time and reviews online?

The future of machining is brighter now than ever. There are many things to produce. Pressure is mounted on machine shops to play their part in increasing machine and machinist’s abilities and management to maximize flexibility and speed. Are you looking for such machine shop? Get in touch with Tag Team in Denver.


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Craig & John’s Awesome Adventure - Awesome Con 2019 Specialty Episode

Craig & John had themselves an excellent adventure at Awesome Con this year in Washington DC.  And the boys decided to share the fun with you in this special episode.  While hosts Tony & Roy may have been professional and recorded Episode 133 while they were at Awesome Con, John & Craig walked around and acted like idiots most of the time.  But don't worry, we recorded most of it.

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Oh My Kadavule Movie Review

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Oh My Kadavule is a romantic comedy film from Tamil Tamil 2020, first written and directed by Ashwath Marimuthu. Oh My Kadavule Tamilrockers movie star of the film is Ashok Selvan, Ritika Singh and Vani Bhojan.

Sha Ra and M. S. Bhaskar played supporting roles. The film was released on February 14, 2020 on Valentine’s Day. Music director Leon James composed songs and scores for this film. Vidhu Ayyanna manages the cameras and is directed by Selvaraj Boopathi for this film.

Actor Vijay Sethupathi

Vijay Sethupathi will soon be shown in a camera cell in Oh My Kadavule (OMK) with Ashok Selvan and Ritika Singh. Director Ashwath Marimuthu said he would play a “funny” role. “His role is to look for star actors such as Vijay Sethupathi (VSP). Ashok has a good relationship with him, we approach him.

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According to Shivalinga (2017), Ritika Singh has not been used for the past two years. Her award winning performance at Irudhi Suttru sent many fans south, but the actress seemed demanding with the signing of a new film. He part of Arvind Swami’s Vanvamamudi, but his film delayed due to production problems.

Ashwath Marimuthu’s film Oh My Kadavule appears on the big screen on Valentine’s Day. In support of the film, the Axess film factory tweeted that the southern film will released on 14 February.

The actors Ashok Selvan and Ritika Singh appear in the film Oh My Kadavule. The film should see an interesting cameo from Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi.

In February 2020, it announced that Gautham Menon would interpret the camera cell as itself. The same month, PVP Cinema claimed the rights to the new version of Telugu.

Previous producers have made films such as Indi İduppazhagi and Irandaan Ulagam. The main character of the film shares the news on the microblog page.

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The soundtrack composed by Leon James. Three Oh My Kadavule posters have appeared that are cute and cute. Ritika and Ashok dress up as friends on a poster, and you can see the players getting harder for Ashok.

Oh My Kadavule directed by the arrogant Ashwath Marimuthu and appears as a nice romantic comedy. Television actress Vani Bhojan is also part of the next film.

Ashok Selvan and Ritika Singh

The next trailer of the film, Ashok Selvan and Ritika Singh, will appear in Oh My Kadavule. In the film Ashok and Ritika like their childhood friends who one day decided to get married.

But that is not what they expect after the wedding. They are not only romantic, but they cannot be friends like them.

The film Oh My Kadavule also supported under the flag of Happy High Pictures by Abinaya Selvam and the main actor Ashok Selvan. The supporters aroused great interest in films with fans and viewers.

According to reports, the chemistry between the main stars Ashok Selvan and Ritika Singh should be noted. The progress of the film published by the filmmakers last October.

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Latin America’s Oil Producers Sweat to Cover Costs as Price War Takes Toll
03.25.2020 - NEWS

March 25, 2020 [Thomson Reuters – Published on March 24, 2020] – A price war between the world’s oil powerhouses is leaving many producers in Latin American struggling to cover production costs, boosting the chances of output cuts and investment delays in the coming months.

Global oil price benchmarks are suffering their steepest declines in decades in a perfect storm of falling demand in the face of the coronavirus epidemic, and surging supplies after Russia and Saudi Arabia failed to strike an agreement to cut output.

WTI crude last week tumbled 29%, its biggest fall since the 1991 Gulf War. In the last two weeks, the U.S. benchmark lost around half its value, while Brent crude dropped about 40%.

Latin America’s heavy crudes, mostly indexed to these benchmarks and to Mexico’s Maya crude, accumulated a 42% fall in the same period, leaving some grades priced in the single digits, according to independent calculations.

Experts and analysts are expecting a global demand contraction of at least 10% this year.

There will not be a fast recovery from these low prices,” said one trader of Latin American oil, who asked not to be identified. “We are now seeing demand destruction, and we all know what comes after that: layoffs, production cuts and investment postponed.

Latin America’s average cost for lifting an oil barrel is close to $13 since 2019 excluding indirect costs and taxes, according to a Reuters calculation based on data provided by state-controlled Ecopetrol from Colombia, Petroecuador from Ecuador, Pemex from Mexico and Petrobras from Brazil, as well as experts watching Venezuela’s PDVSA.

Until last month, those essential costs were covered by sale prices.

But the price war is drying up spot sales of Latin American heavy grades, knocking down regional benchmarks like Mexico’s Maya while dragging down Venezuela’s flagship crude Merey to as little as $8 per barrel last week.

With fuel demand in the United States – the main market for Latin American crude – declining as the nation enters shutdown, appetite for heavy oil from U.S. Gulf refiners has tumbled.

On March 18, Mexico’s Maya declined to its lowest level in 18 years, with sales to the U.S. Gulf Coast closing at below $13 per barrel according to S&P Global Platts, creating panic among neighbors.

Sending Latin America’s crudes to more distant markets such as Asia had provided some outlet for oil, but if freight tariffs increase amid a growing demand for floating storage, that avenue could also close in the coming months, traders said.

The Ones at Risk

With few options on the table, the most expensive production operations could be forced to cut back output or shut.

Those typically include offshore ventures like some deep and shallow water fields in Brazil, where production costs last year were between two and five times higher than the $5.6 per barrel registered for pre-salt, according to Petrobras’ data.

Also at risk are extra heavy crude that needs upgrading such as Venezuela’s output from its Orinoco Belt joint ventures and shale projects like many in Argentina.

The price slump could also have a heavy impact on countries struggling due to output inefficiencies and heavy government takes such as Mexico and Ecuador, as well as firms facing high transportation costs like those operating in Colombia.

Petrobras should have a slower development in its investment case, while Ecopetrol and (Argentina’s state-run) YPF would struggle as they have a breakeven of $30 per barrel and $40 per barrel, respectively,” said investment firm UBS in a note to clients.

Ecuador’s Energy Minister Rene Ortiz told Reuters that Petroecuador’s production costs are between $15 and $19 per barrel. “Our production continues uninterruptedly. Exports of Oriente and Napo crudes are normal, according to schedule made before the sanitary crisis,” he said in an email.

PDVSA, Pemex and YPF did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Petrobras declined to comment.

While production cost typically refers to the cost of lifting an oil barrel to the surface, breakeven price is the sale price needed to cover all the operational and financial costs of that barrel, including lifting, workforce and taxes.

An Ecopetrol spokesman said output costs were not yet above sale prices, so no fields have been shut. The Colombian firm has a target of producing at least 745,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2020.

Colombia-focused oil producer Frontera Energy on Monday announced a 60% reduction in capital expenditures for 2020 and said it would prioritize essential well workovers and critical maintenance until market conditions improve.

In Venezuela, oil sale prices and export volumes have been the most punished by the market due to the additional weight of U.S. sanctions.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this month confirmed that PDVSA, whose lifting costs are around $11 per barrel, is selling its oil below production costs. However, he did not outline any plans to curb production.

On the Verge

Even though it is partially protected by a hedging program and has credit lines available, Mexico’s Pemex seems the most vulnerable among its peers in Latin America to low crude prices.

The company’s financial debt surpassed $100 billion in 2019, even after receiving capital injections from the government.

At the current Mexican crude basket price of below $20 per barrel, Pemex upstream business (exploration and production) does not generate enough cash flow to cover operational and financial costs,” Fitch Ratings said last week.

Pemex revised its Maya price formulas down last Friday, which could bring even lower prices. So far this year, Pemex exploration and production costs – which do not include financial costs or taxes – average about $16 per barrel, according to company data.

But the firm, which is on the verge of losing its coveted investment grade rating, has full-cycle costs of more than $80 per barrel after taxes, according to Fitch.

Under pressure by legislators, Mexico’s Energy minister Rocio Nahle on Sunday said the country, which has offered to mediate between Russia and Saudi Arabia, is in talks with other producers while Pemex is applying a tax easing program.

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Oil Prices at 17-Year Lows as Virus Ravages World
03.30.2020 - NEWS

March 30, 2020 [Outlook India – Published on March 30, 2020] – Oil prices extended losses in Asian trade Monday and languished at 17-year lows, with the coronavirus crisis escalating around the world and no end in sight to a vicious price war.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell 5.3 percent to trade at $20 a barrel, while international benchmark Brent crude was off 6.5 percent at $23.
The falls came after the death toll from the pandemic surged past 30,000 at the weekend as cases in hard-hit Europe and the United States showed no sign of letting up. Senior US scientist Anthony Fauci estimated the virus could possibly result in 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the United States, while President Donald Trump extended “social distancing” guidelines until April 30.

The president also said he expected the country to “be well on our way to recovery” by June 1 — dropping his previous target of mid-April. The virus has infected more than 140,000 in the world”s top economy and left more than 2,400 dead.

Oil markets have been plunging for weeks as lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by governments worldwide to fight the virus strangle demand.

Even as demand falls, supply has increased dramatically after top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia engage in a price war following a row about whether to cut output to support prices.

At the end of last week, Riyadh said it had not been in touch with Moscow about potential output cuts while Russia”s deputy energy minister said oil at $25 a barrel was not a catastrophe for the country”s producers — signalling the two sides are still far apart.

Demand concerns are critical but well known, what really took the market down were the signals we got from Saudi Arabia and Russia that they intend to continue their current path,” Vivek Dhar, a commodities analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, told Bloomberg News.

Market hopes of a deal have come undone.” There are fears the commodity could fall further as storage tanks around the globe approach full capacity.

When the storage capacity is filled, we should probably expect a response from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other essential oil producers,” AxiCorp”s Stephen Innes said, though he warned “the longer their response takes, the higher the risk of another steep decline in oil prices“.

The retreat on oil markets comes after a bounce with equities last week that came after policymakers worldwide unleashed massive stimulus measures to prop up the virus-hit global economy.

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Finding debt arrangements when you have bad credit is extreme. Acquiring cash, even to merge debt, for the most part, necessitates that you have a decent credit score. Debt consolidation loan alternatives for bad credit do exist, yet the estimating and terms may not be as alluring. Invest some energy looking to locate the best terms you can meet all requirements for. Abstain from picking a bad loan out of franticness – it could wind up costing you more over the long haul.

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Utilize an administration like to look for moneylenders who offer loans to shoppers with your credit scores. A loan correlation administration will demonstrate your alternatives from different moneylenders and enable you to analyze the terms.

Beset up for choices with higher loan fees. APRs on debt consolidation loans for bad credit can be as high as 36 percent now and again, which makes combining your debt costly. You can anticipate that loan terms should go from 24 to 60 months. The more drawn out your reimbursement period, the lower your installments will be, yet the more intrigue you’ll pay.

For instance, a $10,000 loan at 35.99 percent APR reimbursed more than 5 years would have a regularly scheduled installment of $361.27. You’d pay more than twofold that sum in intrigue – $11,676 to be accurate. In the event that your credit score just enables you to fit the bill for high loan cost loans, it’s ideal to think about different alternatives.

Use Peer-To-Peer Lending

Shared loaning utilizes crowdfunding to enable you to obtain cash from individual financial specialists. These speculators actually audit your profile and application and choose whether to loan to you. Your loan solicitation might be satisfied by numerous speculators, however, you’ll still just need to make a solitary installment every month.,, and Upstart are a couple of shared loaning stages you can consider to get to a debt consolidation loan with bad credit. Like other loan examination destinations, shared loaning systems present you with various alternatives to analyze and look over.

Some even give you a chance to check your rates without completing a hard draw on your credit.
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Move Balances To A New Credit Card

It’s hard to qualify or a zero percent equalization move credit cards when you have bad credit. You may be that as it may, almost certainly move adjusts to a current credit card on the off chance that you have enough accessible credit. Regardless of whether you don’t get the advantage of a lower loan cost, uniting credit cards adjusts makes it simpler to satisfy your bills. The more you can join your parities, the fewer installments you have and you can concentrate on satisfying fewer debts.

Tap Into Your Home Equity

One of the advantages of possession is the capacity to take advantage of the value you’ve increased throughout the years. Contingent upon the strategy and the bank, you might almost certainly take advantage of 80 to 90 percent of your home’s value to unite your debt.

Home Equity Line Of Credit

A home value line of credit is a line of credit that is verified by your home. During the underlying long periods of your HELOC, you’re just required to make month to month intrigue installments on the credit line. When this “draw” period is finished, you’ll have a set measure of time to pony up all required funds. The loan specialist will consider your debt, salary, and credit when you apply for the HELOC.

Second Mortgage

A subsequent home loan is another loan, separate from your essential home loan, in view of the value, you have in your home. Second-home loans are more hazardous and will, in general, have higher default rates, so they convey higher financing costs than essential home loans. This is an interesting point when you’re gauging your choices.

Money Out Refinance

With money out renegotiate, you renegotiate your home loan into another one, taking out the value you’ve earned as money. You would then be able to utilize the money to satisfy your debts. The advantage of money out renegotiate is that you keep paying on only one loan instead of taking on an extra kind of debt. The moneylender will think about your credit scores, your debt, and your salary when you’re applying for the money out renegotiate.

Look at the loan costs, loan terms, and regularly scheduled installment adds up to choose which alternative might be the best for you. You need to keep your loan cost and installments as low as could be expected under the circumstances so you don’t put extra strain on your accounts.

When you solidify your debt with your home value, you’re putting your home on hold. In case you can’t make installments on any of your locally established loan items, you chance abandonment.

Be Careful With Debt Consolidation Scams

As you shop your choices, ensure you remain mindful of debt consolidation tricks. Any loan that ensures endorsement or asks you pay cash before you’ve connected is likely a trick. Do the correct due persistence to abstain from being exploited.

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Allan Kelly advises teams from many different companies and domains on adopting and deepening Agile practices and development in general. He specializes in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy. When he is not with clients he writes far too much.

He holds BSc and MBA degrees, is the author of three books: “Xanpan – team centric Agile Software Development” (, “Business Patterns for Software Developers” and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”. In addition he is the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets ( and a regular conference speaker. He can be found on Twitter as @allankellynet ( and blogs (

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How do you care for an ailing parent?

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I’ve never had to care for an ailing parent. Never had to check them into a nursing home, never had to arrange for hospice care and never had to act as a guardian for the two people that raised me. I hope I never have to, but I know someday it will come down to me, my brother or sister having to make decisions for the very people we thought were going to live forever.

Nick, my mom, Logan, Sarah, Bryan, Me and my dad at my brother's wedding last year.

I watched my dad deal with this when his father passed away suddenly almost 20 years ago. All of a sudden he had a mom, my grandma, who was so used to living with someone else that she really couldn’t handle the pressure of being by herself after so many years of being half of a whole. I can’t imagine the responsibility he faced, can’t imagine the issues he had to deal with when his sister argued with him about proper care and can’t fathom what it was like for my grandma to be by herself.

My parents are still in good health (hell, they’re only 61) so I don’t plan on having to deal with this for a while, but I have plenty of friends that are being thrust into this. I want to help, but I just don’t know how besides offering my time and shoulder.

I’d like to do more and I’d like to be able to point them in a direction for them to obtain more help, whether for themselves, their spouse or the surviving parent. Where do you show them to? Who do you ask for help when having to deal with this? Do hospitals have people? What about the emotional toll?

You’d think there’d be books and clubs and groups and forums and places for people to go to talk about these kind of things. Help me out here. Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you ask?

Tyler HurstHow do you care for an ailing parent?

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  1. hardaway

    I will be the aging parent here soon, and I have done the following: 1)I have long term care insurance (got it at age 50 when it was cheap to get) to help with my care 2) I have shared with my daughters where all my important papers are and what my wishes are 3)I have a living will and a medical power of attorney, and a full will 4) My daughters and I have had conversations on which one might be the caregiver.

    Other than that, I hope none of this is necessary, but I’ve at least planned. There are now services like Home Instead that help seniors, there are gerontologsits who specialize in the agting, there’s Hospice for the dying, and there is a new field called geriatric consultants. Retirement homes have them, and the advertise in hospital periodicals.

    TMI? It is for me, too. I still think I will live forever. But I owe it to my kids to prepare them and be prepared

  2. Erica

    I always enjoy your posts, and this one really hit home. My mother spent two months in the hospital and a health rehabilitation center over the summer, and her sudden decline was a frightening wake up call. I, along with my siblings, were definitely unprepared. We had to scramble to take care of power of attorney, long-term care insurance, and health care proxy issues while my mom was hospitalized. She is now in an assisted living facility and doing better. I live in Vermont and found support and guidance through a local Council on Aging. I would recommend anyone with an aging parent to contact this type of organization.

  3. Derek Neighbors

    Sometimes I wonder if as a society we are failing at taking care of our elderly. There used to be a time where children and parents lived in the same house. I often wonder what it would be like to have an extra set of hands to raise the kids or have the kids help with aging parents. This is a subject I think I will be studying more. My grand parents lived with us six months out of the year (as snowbirds) and I think it shaped who I am today. I feel that not giving my kids the same experience could be robbing them of who they could be. Silly?

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Is the time finally right for platform-agnostic cloud gaming?

We’ve heard it all before. Gaming in the cloud, the ability to play the most demanding titles, regardless of the limitations of our own hardware. That was the dream of OnLive, way back in 2010. It was a dream that didn’t end particularly well for the company, which unceremoniously dissolved in 2015 and eventually had its assets snapped up by Sony.

It’s easy to Monday-morning-quarterback the end of a company. Maybe it wasn’t fully formed, or maybe it was ahead of its time. Whatever the case, a number of new startups believe they can succeed where predecessors failed. Parsec co-founder and CEO Benjy Boxer, for one, believes the service’s ultimate failure was a matter of bad timing.

“OnLive was ahead of its time,” he said in a conversation with TechCrunch. “AWS didn’t exist. They had to build their own servers. They had to use an old codex for encoding video. And everyone has more bandwidth today. All of those things add up. And we have patent-pending technology that makes our software really low latency. That’s what we focus on.”

At its heart, the service fills the same void as OnLive and newer services like LiquidSky, which started making the rounds earlier this year. The dream is the ability to make gameplay platform- and location-agnostic. That means playing on set-top boxes, gaming with friends who don’t own their own devoted rigs and even, potentially, gaming on mobile. (Though even with the heavy lifting happening on the backend, smartphones just aren’t built to handle really expansive PC gaming titles.)

Parsec’s stated goal is making those sorts of titles as accessible as more ubiquitous streaming services like Spotify or Netflix, or whatever, and the company has received a $2.25 million seed round  from the likes of Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Nextview Ventures and Notation Capital. The service has been available in beta since late last year, and launched versions of its software for Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and Raspberry Pi late last week.

The latter will ultimately prove an interesting test for its ability to run on low-end hardware — with the right software and a good connection, you can accomplish a lot with less than optimal specs. Though, unlike other streaming services of its ilk, Parsec’s goal isn’t the elimination of gaming PCs entirely.

“We believe that eliminating consoles and gaming PCs is really good for some casual gamers, who play for less than 10 hours a week,” says Boxer. But for people who play more and own a gaming PC already, Parsec is valuable to them, too, because they can use it for free and stream from their PC or invite friends to play with them.”

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