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Volvo’s XC40 is a deceptive car, writes Brian Byrne. The styling suggests it is smaller than it actually is, but its dimensions are similar to Nissan’s Qashqai and it is larger in most measurements than the Range Rover Evoque, which appears bigger. My neighbour has an Evoque and that visual comparison was easy when I had the electric version of the XC40, the Recharge, outside my house last week. I have liked the styling of the XC40 since it first arrived here in early 2018. There’s something about the angular details, almost boxy, that sets it away from the usually curvier competition in the compact SUV space. It kind of radiates ‘no nonsense’. As you’d expect from the Swedish brand. With a bit of swish added in the form of the diamond cut and black alloys. The vehicle was good enough to win Car of the Year accolades in both Europe and Japan as well as the Women’s World COTY in 2018, and the Continental Irish Car of the Year for 2019. The no nonsense ethos is also largely true for the

Readers, please join me welcoming Pamela Samuels Young , author of Buying Time , who’s guest blogging here today! Evoking John Grisham with a dash of Terry McMillan, Buying Time is a scandalous tale of blackmail, murder and betrayal. Waverly Sloan is a down-on-his-luck lawyer.  But just when he’s about to hit rock bottom, he stumbles upon a business with the potential to solve all of his problems. The stakes get higher when Waverly brokers the policy of the cancer-stricken wife of Lawrence Erickson, a high-powered lawyer who’s bucking to become the next U.S. Attorney General.  When Waverly’s clients start dying sooner than they should, both Waverly and Erickson—who has some skeletons of his own to hide—are unwittingly drawn into a perilous web of greed, blackmail and murder. You can hardly believe it! The new year is already here and last year’s resolutions are still undone. Don’t fret. Today is a new day, which means you have a fresh opportunity to pursue your passion. Have you be

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 get f