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"A Loner's Manifesto"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 20:46

"He was a loner all his life ...

As a boy he fled the swarming tenement for “nature walks,” as he called them, at Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island. He had one friend – a cousin actually – but they parted ways at fifteen. None followed. He was a loner in the war, happy alone working night shifts in tropical outposts with the Signal Corps, the South Pacific sky like sequined velvet hung over a satin sea.

He was a loner learning electronics, suffering in office towers after the war and in company cafeterias; happy left at his desk with the door closed. Happy at home in the backyard, tending the bougainvillea with its papery pink bracts, the spider mums, the succulents that thrived in salty soil and asked for nothing."

"Call Girls Are Among the Amenities at Nursing Homes"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 20:20

"In Sweden, Catharina König would be guilty of prostitution, but in Germany she receives calls from health professionals and desperate parents. “When people ask what I do, I usually say that I work with people with disabilities, and add that it’s sensual and erotic work. And then they look at me with big eyes,” she laughs. Five years ago (at the age of 47) she became unemployed, then stumbled across an article on “sex assistants”, people who help the disabled or elderly people to experience sex. “I felt that it could be something for me, but I didn’t know if I could pull it off. In my head, I had images of drooling and disfigured people,” she says.

Catharina König went to the Institute for Autonomy for the Disabled, a college which trains sex assistants. Her clients are mostly elderly men in retirement homes or younger disabled men. Sometimes, she says, they just want to see a female body, or caress it; sometimes they need help getting an orgasm. And often they just want to lie in bed holding someone."

"Groupon’s murky future"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 06:27

"Daily deal sites like Groupon can expect to find it more difficult, more expensive, and less profitable to stand out from the ever-increasing crowd.

In his third and most exhaustive study on the daily deal industry, Utpal Dholakia, associate professor of management at Rice University examined performance of daily deals run through five major sites in 23 U.S. markets, including a survey-based study of 324 businesses that conducted a daily deal promotion between August 2009 and March 2011.

“The major take-away from the study is that not enough businesses are coming back to daily deals to make the industry sustainable in the long run,” Dholakia says. “And our results from three studies and close to 500 businesses surveyed show that the deals are nowhere close to the rates of financial success for participating businesses that some companies claim to be having.”

Some key findings of the study include:

"Pandora shares plunge below IPO price"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 06:18

"Wall Street may have had its fill of new Internet-related stocks for the moment.

Shares of online radio firm Pandora Media Inc. plummeted on their second day of trading Thursday as some investors suddenly fled for the exits.

The Oakland company’s stock dived $4.16, or 24%, to close at $13.26 -- 17% below the initial public offering price of $16 on Tuesday.

The stock had soared as high as $26 on Wednesday, its first trading day, mirroring the debuts of other new Internet issues this spring, including LinkedIn Corp., Chinese social-networking site Renren Inc. and Russian search engine Yandex."

"Scientists propose growing fake meat in labs to cut emissions"

By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 18:14

"(NaturalNews) Instead of focusing on ending the horrendous factory farming practices that inhumanely confine cattle to tight living spaces, and subject them to an unnatural diet of genetically-modified (GM) corn and soybeans, scientists from Oxford University have decided instead to concentrate their efforts on culturing and growing artificial meat in petri dishes."

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