The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City Sparked the Tabloid Wars is available as a digital audiobook from Audible.com. The title, provided by AudioGO and authored by Paul Collins, has also become an American Consumer News favorite..
The digital audiobook The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City Sparked the Tabloid Wars, narrated by William Dufris, has received an average rating of 0 stars on Audible.com. The title has a running length of 9 hours and 43 min. The audiobook was first released in June 2011 and a sample is available for download.
Audible.coms description of the audiobook is In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch.
Brooklyn, NY, July 20, 2011 OrionGadgets.com, a retailer and manufacturer of cell phone accessories with an inventory of over 10,000 accessories for smart-phones, tablets, media players and portable gadgets is now offering the latest styles of cell phone cases and more from well known brands like OtterBox, BodyGlove, Case-Mate HTC, Samsung and Plantronics in addition to OrionGadgets own line of private label cases and chargers.
OrionGadgets has recently started selling the Apple iPhone 4 Otter Box Reflex Series case in a variety of colors such as Glassier Blue, Black, Hot Pink and Envy Green. OtterBox&39;s newest design, the Reflex Series case for iPhone 4 is compact and lightweight yet incorporates revolutionary, rule-defying technology inside which according to the manufacturer website was created to act like the crumple zone of a car on impact.
The BuildFax Residential Remodeling Index was at 124.3 in May, up from 109.7 in April. This is based on the number of properties pulling residential construction permits in a given month.
From BuildFax:
The Residential BuildFax Remodeling Index rose 22% year-over-year–and for the nineteenth straight month–in May to 124.3, the highest number in the index to date. Residential remodels in May were up month-over-month 14.6 points (13%) from the April value of 109.7, and up year-over-year 22.1 points from the May 2010 value of 102.2.
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All regions were up month-over-month, with the Northeast up 9.8 points (12%), the South up 7.3 points (7%), the Midwest up 16.3 points (18%), and the West up 8.7 points (7%).
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“Through the first five months of 2011 we have seen impressive gains within the remodeling index and May has continued that trend with a record setting month,” said Joe Emison, Vice President of Research and Development at BuildFax.
Members of Congress are urging the Federal Reserve to do more about regulating business credit card marketing, especially regarding small businesses. Currently, small business credit cards are not subject to the same regulations in the CARD Act that apply to their private counterparts.
A group of Congressmen are lobbying the Federal Reserve to implement regulations regarding credit cards extended to businesses, especially those marketed to small businesses, according to the . A group of Senate Democrats, including Senator Charles Schumer of New York and Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, are urging Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to do something about enhancing disclosure requirements on credit card accounts offered to small businesses. Areas of concern include interest rate hikes, fees for going over spending limits and other types of fees that are prohibited for regular consumer credit cards.
Many of us in this tight economy are living from paycheck to paycheck. Payday loans can be a resource for people living close to their means when unforeseen expenses occur. Scammers, however, are preying on these already financially stressed people with threatening phone calls, trying to bully them into paying non-existent debts.
Legitimate payday loan companies offer small, short-term loans for people who wish to borrow against their next paycheck. However, when collection becomes an issue, these lenders are bound by laws. They are not allowed to harass their debtors, nor can they threaten arrest or jail.
In February, Maria Brown of Houston, Texas, contacted authorities reporting scammers. “They contacted me and really had me believe I was going to jail for check fraud,” Brown said. She had taken out payday loans before the calls, and the scammers seemed to have access to those applications. They sounded legitimate because of the information they possessed about her. Bro