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Another bottle brawl has broken out — this time between nightlife operators and building owners.
After the Chris Brown
-Drake bottle-throwing melee at SoHo hot spot W.i.P., bottle sales at clubs are getting hammered by rising lawsuits and insurance costs as building owners try to distance themselves from the…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/the_party_over_ry8RfVBr6XyPzUl76mevAN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Commercial
The vultures are still feeding on the carcass of the financial collapse, but there’s not much meat left on the bone.
Distressed hedge funds have been top performers since the crash of 2008, delivering their biggest gains in 2009. That’s when top players gained between 30 percent and…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/vulture_funds_seeking_fresh_meat_XKNHmTPL7NMKuCNY171yrJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Business
Sunday’s rebroadcast of 60 MINUTES, following NFL Football, delivered 12.4 million viewers, more than all 12 of last week’s primetime premieres, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Sept. 16.
@BuzzFeedBen: .@nowthisnews has the Letterman clip http://t.co/z87mBcpa
@nytjim: >@MotherJones to release full Romney video later today. Via @POLITICO http://t.co/4r6wpJ2s
@hollybdc: Romney says his argument wasn’t “elegantly stated” but suggests he stands by the jist of his message in the video
@carr2n: Stewart, O’Reilly to face off next month at GW The GW Hatchet http://t.co/oA1FUUJX via @mediagazer
@EllnMllr: A Prominent Mexican Anti-Corruption Blogger Has Gone Missing http://t.co/h1mmsAMj
@mediaite: Fox’s Eric Bolling Clarifies After Saying Obama Admin Answers To ‘Quran First’ And ‘Constitution Second’ (VIDEO) http://t.co/ZJFkOX9J
Graphed (click to enlarge):
Amber Williams applauds the work of Emil Johannson, the proprietor of lotrproject.com, perhaps the most neurotically wonderful resource for Tolkien fans imaginable:
Johansson is on a quest to track every character from Tolkien’s
fictional world. He started by creating a massive family tree, and from
there he crafted an interactive map of Middle-earth and a timeline of
events in Tolkien’s stories. He has even performed statistical analyses
on the characters’ race, lifespan, and gender. Johansson points out that
the lopsided gender split (81 percent male, 19 percent female) reflects
the world Tolkien included in his tales of the ultimate war, but
probably not Middle-earth in its entirety.
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/09/life-expectancy-on-middle-earth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29