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Chi ha letto i libri ovviamente saprà che il rinfresco del matrimonio di Bella ed Edward non si svolgerà in assoluta pace ma che ci sarà un momento di tensione tra Edward e il branco.
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nate3823 chiede: MA SELENA GOMEZ E TAYLOR LAUTNER STANNO INSIEME?
La migliore risposta che ho trovato è stata:
Answer by Kira R
no, si sono conosciuti a vancouver mentre lui girava ‘new moon’ e lei ‘ramona and bezuus’ e sono diventati molti amici.
in un’intervista lei ha dichiarato che si sono incontrati per la prima volta nel suo albergo, poichè lui andava a trovare la compagna di cast kristen stewart, e incrociandosi spesso per i corridoi hanno cominciato a parlarsi e poi sono diventati grandi amici.
ti metto un link dove puoi saperne di più: http://anyblog.org/gossip/2009/08/21/ecco-come-selena-gomez-e-taylor-lautner-si-sono-conosciuti/
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Asset-Based Lenders: Serving a True Need in Today’s Marketplace
Most business owners will tell you that it’s still pretty rough-going out there when it comes to obtaining commercial financing. This is true despite improvements in the economy and efforts by the federal government to jump-start business lending among community banks.
In such a tight credit environment, the importance of the role played by asset-based lenders has increased exponentially. “They are a vital cog in the economy right now,” says Michael Miller, a director with CFO 911 in Playa Del Rey, Calif. “I can’t imagine what the economy would look like right now without them.”
“The credit crunch has taken a difficult situation and made it impossible,” adds Jennah Purk, president of Purk and Associates in St. Louis, Mo. “I regularly refer my clients to asset-based lenders.”
Alternative Financing Solutions
Asset-based lenders provide creative business financing solutions for companies that don’t qualify for traditional bank loans and credit lines, whether this is due to their start-up nature, rapid growth, or financial ratios that don’t measure up to a bank’s requirements. These solutions typically include asset-based loans, accounts receivable financing and factoring.
In 2009, factors provided 0 billion in financing, up slightly from the year before, reports the Commercial Finance Association. And total outstanding asset-based loans increased 1.25 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.
“Banks today have reverted back to a 1980s and ‘90s model with regard to financial ratios,” says Albert Christiansen, a partner with B2B CFO in Phoenix, Ariz. “That’s why asset-based lending is so important right now. There are many companies that can’t meet a bank’s lending criteria, but they need to keep their cash flowing.”
Larry Potashnick, the CEO of Capital Performance in St. Louis, Mo., concurs: “Bank underwriting guidelines are getting tighter and tighter. The good thing about asset-based lenders is that they’re able to plug a pretty big financing gap that exists right now: Businesses that aren’t quite creditworthy enough to borrow from a bank, but they still need critical working capital in this tough environment.”
Manufacturers and distributors with creditworthy customers are often good candidates for asset-based loans and factoring, says Purk, because the financing is based on receivables, not inventory. “Most of my clients who have done this kind of financing have been light manufacturers that were startups, or where the owner didn’t have sufficient personal assets to pledge as collateral.
“Banks don’t want to repossess a warehouse full of steel plates, car parts or frozen eggrolls,” she adds. “But an asset-based lender can convert accounts receivable to cash quickly, and cash is king.”
Christiansen tells of a distributor with a strong business model and a good understanding of its market that needed a cash flow boost to weather the economic downturn. “The company got financing from an asset-based lender that provided the working capital necessary to keep going. They grew from about .5 million in revenue in 2008 to million last year, and they should hit million in 2010. This growth would have been impossible without asset-based lending.”
A Working Capital Boost
Asset-based lenders can also help companies that have bank loans or lines of credit but need additional short-term working capital to take advantage of opportunities, like an unexpected large order. “It can be hard to get a credit line increase in this environment,” says Miller. “Too many companies aren’t aware of how asset-based lenders can help them in situations like these. I’ve referred many clients to asset-based lenders and will continue to do so.”
Asset-based lending is often temporary, providing much-needed working capital during a start-up or transition phase until the company has enough financial history or a strong enough balance sheet to become “bankable.” Purk says banks usually want to see three-to-five years of financial statements from potential borrowers.
“Asset-based lenders serve a clear need in the marketplace right now,” says Christiansen. “Some of my clients have improved their cash flow greatly by taking advantage of these types of financing.”
Tracy Eden is the National Marketing Director for Commercial Finance Group (CFG), which has offices throughout the U.S. CFG provides creative financing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses that may not qualify for traditional financing. Further information on the company and their services offered can be found at the Commercial Finance Group and at First Vancouver Financial Services. Tracy’s direct email is [email protected].
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There is a growing audience in India for new cinema – ONIR
I AM is not your usual “Bollywood Film” – for the first time in Indian cimema history, the film has been almost completely crowd sourced -started from a mere to over .6million – it is a great testimony to producers Sanjay Suri and Onir pioneering work in creating truly path breaking cinema – giving a new meaning to independent films out of modern India. Supported by amazing performances in thought provoking four stories which form this one feature film.
Onir, Director of I AM, was in Sydney recently to promote the film and spoke to Rohit Revo.
‘I Am’ is one of the biggest crowd sourced films in India – co produced by over 400 people from 35 cities across the world. How did you get the idea of doing this.
This is opening up to another cinema which is entirely funded by individual contributors. We decided to use Internet as a platform to raise money to make films. I believed there is an audience who can put in the money and can make a truly independent film happen. I AM is a purely independent film. For me, the most important thing in my life is to make my films the way I want them to make. I AM would probably be the first crowd sourced mainstream feature film in India thru social network. [pullquote]I AM would probably be the first crowd sourced mainstream feature film in India thru social network.[/pullquote] For me this was not just fund raising where people could contribute Rs 1000 and become a CO-OWNER. This takes the process of making to the end user – the audience.
We have not only raised finance but also volunteers for crew and cast thru social network. Moreover I feel this is a way to build an active audience while making the film.
Bollywood today seemed to dominated by family owned production houses or corporates. Do you think with initiatives like yours the independent film industry in Bollywood now has something to look forward to.
This model of working could become an important tool for filmmakers of independent cinema. It shows independent cinema is really on the rise. Certain films cannot take a burden of worldwide release or even a pan India release. We do not have alternative platforms for such films but in the West, they have emerged. In India, we need to move fast on that.
Where do you see India cinema go over the next decade. We have seen a lot of movies targeting NRI audiences abroad. Do you think to grow we need to get we more Non NRI audiences for Bollywood films?
Absolutely. One has to accept Indian cinema has a huge audience in the country itself and thus people are very complacent about reaching out more. But we have to accept we need to reach out to the non Diaspora audience as well, to widen the reach of the Indian cinema. There is however a new emerging group of filmmakers who are making films which can be considered both as part of Indian cinema and also global cinema and that will widen the reach of Indian cinema.
You are making 4 films as part of this I AM initiative. Can you talk a little bit about the structure of the film?
It is actually 4 stories which are interconnected and the actual characters move from one story to other. These are stories about modern people living in modern contemporary India. The first story shot in Kolkata is about a women’s desire to be a single mother without the burden of the marriage. The second story is about a Kashmiri Pandit lady returning to Kashmir after 20 years and meeting her Kashmiri Muslim friend. Juhi Chawla stars in the film alongside Manisha Koirala playing the role of a Kashmiri Pandit, who returns to the valley after 20 years. If you look at the current situation in Kashmir one has lost her identity at home and other is stagnating in a situation related to militancy and military. The third issue is about a child abuse survivor and the fourth issue is how police uses the article 377 to harass and blackmail gay men.
All these stories for me are inspirations from a poem of Rabindra Nath Tagore in Gitanjali …Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high ….and reminds me about my father who had to flee his home. Each of these characters in this film are thriving for that space where they can live in dignity and live without fear and trying to be free in spite of gender, sexuality or personal or political history.
Onir you have been born in Bhutan and lost a home…like most of we Kashmiri Pandits too…Did these influences of loosing a home influence the making of this film’?
When I went to Kashmir I had gone there for another film and I had already heard stories of my co producer Sanjay Suri who had lost his house. I remember I went to his house even before he went back there. I could immediately connect Even I have never gone to my home for the last 17-18 years and nothing can replace it and I have heard how Kashmiri Pandits have come to Delhi and Mumbai but have lost their home. I could immediately connect to the situation and nothing can replace your home. Same thing for Kashmiri Pandits they are happy in Delhi but nothing can compensate a loss of home and no one should be forced to leave their home that should be the choice of that person. A home is a part of your identity. No one should be forced to leave a home, home that should be the choice of that person.
You have been to International Film Festival of Kerala, Vancouver International Film Festival, Engendered IView Film Festival New York and Hamburg. How confident are you of the commercial success of this film.
I think we have made it in a certain logical budget for the kind of subject we are portraying in these films. There is a growing audience in India for new cinema. Look at last year a Lot of non commercial films made money be it Phas Gaye Re Obama, Bin tere Laden and all these films are project films and there is growing appetite for new stories in India and at the same time the Diaspora audiences at the same time are opening up to the other cinema. So we are hoping for good reviews and expect good audiences.
I AM RATINGS BY INDIAN FILM REVIEWERS:
4 STARS – Nikhat Kazmi (TIMES OF INDIA)
4 STARS – Subhash K Jha (SantaBanta.Com)
4 STARS – Khalid Mohamed (PFC)
4 STARS – Pratim Dasgupta (The Telegraph)
4 STARS – Mihir Fadnavis (DNA)
4 STARS – Suparna Sharma (Deccan Chronicle/Asian Age)
4 STARS – Jeeturaj (Radio Mirchi)
4 STARS – Anna M.M.Vetticad
4 STARS – Reema Moudgil (Unboxed Writers)
8/10 STARS – Devansh Patel (Harrow Observer, London)
3.5 STARS – Rajeev Masand (CNN IBN)
3.5 STARS – Taran Adarsh (Bollywood Hungama)
3.5 STARS- Shubhra Gupta (Indian Express)
3.5 Stars – Pankaj Sabnani (Glamsham )
3.5 STARS – Joginder Tuteja (IndiaGlitz)
3.5 STARS – Bhavikk Sangghvi (Red FM)
3 STARS – Mayank Shekhar (HINDUSTAN TIMES)
3 STARS – Namrata Joshi (OUTLOOK)
3 STARS – Nandini Ramanand (Timeout Mumbai)
3 STARS – Anirudha Guha (DNA)
3 STARS -Vijay Dinesh (NDTV INDIA)
3 STARS- Sukanya Verma (REDIFF)
“Stories No One Told You Before” – Sidhish Kamath, The Hindu
“I AM is surely one of the best films of the year so far…” – Indranil Roy, Anand Bazaar Patrika
“I AM In Touch With Reality” – Aseem Chhabra, Mumbai Mirror
The film has received the following global acclaims –
NETPAC Award for the Best in Asian Cinema at the International Film Festival of Kerala ’2010
Special Mention by the International Jury at the IFFK ’2010
Triangle Media Group’s David Flint Honorary Award for Promoting Human Rights
Official Selection: Opening Film Engendered IView Film Festival New York, Sept.18th ’2010
Official Selection: Vancouver International Film Festival (Canadian Premier) Oct.’2010
Official Selection: International Film Festival Of Kerala’2010 (In Competition)
Official Selection: Hamburg QIFF 2010
Official Selection: River To River Film Festival, Florence 2010 (Audience Choice Award, Best Film)
Biennial Global Awards felicitated Sanjay Suri and Onir for ‘I Am’, the award was for Media For Social Justice. Onir was in Nottingham to receive the award from the Lord Mayor of Nottingham Jeannie Packer and the Rt Hon. Vernon Coaker MP Minister for Schools and Learners.
Rohit Revo has a flair for sniffing news and has done some outstanding stories related to the growing and vibrant Australian Indian community. His articles can be found at www.rohitrevo.com.au
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Come sapete nei giorni precedenti Kristen è stata sul set per girare le scene degli stunt e oggi vi mostriamo la foto che la ritrae all’aeroporto di Vancouver di ritorno a casa!
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