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CONGRATS TO LUCKY WINNERS – DARCY & DAVID!   Readers, please join me in once again welcoming Donna VanLiere, author of The Christmas Secret who’s guest blogging here today! You can read a previous Q&A with Donna here. The Christmas Secret (304p, St.Martins Press) , introduces readers to Christine Eisley, a hard-working single mother of two young children. With a difficult ex-husband, a stressful waitressing job and an ever growing mound of bills to pay, Christine is at her wit’s end. After saving the life of an elderly employee of Wilson’s department store, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength, loyalty and determination — all the while setting her on the path to finding true love…. I have three children (8, 6 and 3) but I am not a single mother. I have a husband who helps me juggle the busyness. During that week here or there when he goes out of town and I’m left to make breakfast, pack lunches, drive the kid...

It is a very challenging job to find financing in any economic climate. It doesn’t matter whether it is a start-up fund or capital to expand your money to hold on through the tough times, securing funds is not easy, given our current state of affairs. To help you with all these financing problems, here are few financing techniques and useful pieces of information you should remember to be able to fund your startup. Few ways in which one can fund their start-up business: 1. Factoring should be considered: This is the most important thing that should be considered. A company sells its receivables to get cash up-front and that too at a discount rate. It is very frequently used by companies with poor credit or by businesses such as apparel manufacturers that have to fill orders, but it is a too expensive method to raise funds as the company selling the receivables generally pays the fees which eventually is a percentage of a total amount. Here is an example that if one pays 2% fee to ...

Want to revisit this amazing movie from 2012, or just heard of Life of Pi and want to see what made it so great? You’re definitely in for a treat – that is, if you can get it on Netflix. While you might love the movie or be very interested in it, you’re probably not willing to create extra accounts on other sites and pay more fees just to watch it. So it’s available on Netflix, right? Well, most Google results will tell you that no, it isn’t. But that’s not true. You can watch Life of Pi on Netflix, but only in specific countries. The movie isn’t available worldwide due to geo-blocks and licensing agreements . We’ll show you how to find out which locations the movie is available in, and how to unblock it right now in this guide. How to Unblock Life of Pi on Netflix The first thing you need to do is head to StreamCatcher . It’s an online tool that belongs to ProPrivacy. They made it to help people find out where Netflix titles are available. With that in mind, just look up the name of t...