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Uber’s Strategy to Make Itself Too Big to Ban

Marcus Wohlsen writes at WIRED:

But keeping drivers behind the wheel is ultimately an operational issue that Uber so far has handled adeptly. Much more dangerous to its future prospects are ongoing threats from regulators and lawmakers to shut Uber down, or at least severely curtail its freedom to operate. Ever since receiving (and ignoring) a cease-and-desist demand from transit regulators in…

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#ban #lower #prices #san francisco #too big #uber

Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of Trust and Safety, deals with the worst of Twitter Kashmir Hill writes at Forbes: Harvey was the 25th employee at Twitter, where her official title is vice president of trust and safety, but she’s more like Silicon Valley’s chief sanitation officer, dealing with the dirtiest stuff on Twitter: spam, harassment, child exploitation, threats of rape and murder.

#safety #speech #trust #twitter

#BiVo is a conference for bivocational church leaders

July 10 in Los Angeles:

Being paid to work full-time in ministry will not be the norm for most people in a post-Christian culture.

Is this bad news? Is it good news? What are the challenges? How do we leverage our gifts into our calling?

via BiVo – Splash.

The folks at plantLB are hosting this.

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#bivo #bivocational #church #hugh halter #leader #pastor #planter #plantLB

Gigantic Ocean Vortices Seen From Space Could Change Climate Models

Joshua Batson writes at Wired:

Enormous vortices of water, measuring 60 miles across, spin their way across the sea at deliberate pace – 3 miles per day…. Each one is like an upside down mountain of water, held together by its own rotation and extending about 3,000 feet beneath the surface… just how much water gets carried around by all these eddies? The total is staggering: more than 30 times…

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#carbon #climate change #climate models #ocean #vortices

Have some Coffee-flavored wine, in a can

Staff at Daily Coffee News write:

“We are proud to be the first-to-market with our Fun Wine In A Can, and look forward to introducing the new coffee varieties to our Fun-Loving Fans,” Friends Fun Wine CEO Joe Peleg said in a product announcement….

The cabernet espresso is described as having a “rich flavor of fresh cabernet grapes, espresso coffee and a hint of chocolate,” while the chardonnay…

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#can #coffee #first to market #flavored #wine

Keynoters for Sep. 23 CCDA Business Pre-Conference in Raleigh, NC

The Christian Community Development Association will host a Business Pre-Conference on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 ahead of the Annual CCDA National Conference. The title for the pre-conference is “Market Solutions for Community Transformation” and the location is Raleigh, North Carolina.

Keynote speakers include (clockwise from upper left) Al Lopez, Nicole Valentine, Wendy Clark and Henry…

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Christianity Today names Zakiya Jackson as 1 of 33 leaders under 33 shaping the next gen of our faith

Kate Shellnutt writes at Christianity Today:

Meet the millennials. They are 33 and younger. They are all on Twitter. And they are bringing innovation to the wide-ranging work of the kingdom. Behold, they are doing a new thing.

Ever since Paul began training Timothy in the faith, every generation has had to look to the next to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth. Today, as American…

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#33 under 33 #ccda #christian community development #christianity today #devos #faith #initiative #millenials #urban leadership #zakiya jackson

Millennials, some of the biggest victims of the financial crisis, skip the Ring and the Mortgage

Megan McArdle writes at Bloomberg View:

They’re living at home in growing numbers. They’re not buying homes, which creates ripple effects throughout the housing market. They’re having more babies out of wedlock than in it. Why can’t millennials get it together?

The first and most obvious answer is “jobs.” If you can’t find a stable job, it’s hard to move out of Mom’s basement. It’s hard to…

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#debt #financial crisis #home ownership #marriage #millenials #mortgage #wedlock

Top 5 Cities With The Most Native Americans

Sara Schwartzkopf writes Indian Country:

With 78 percent of Natives living off the reservation, you might wonder which cities have the greatest number of Natives living in them.

Utilizing data from the 2010 census, here are the five cities with the greatest number of indigenous people:

5. Anchorage, Alaska – 36,062

4. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 36,572

3. Phoenix, Arizona – 43,724

2. Los Angeles,…

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#cities #diaspora #native americans #population #reservation

How Michigan spends $1 billion but fails to hold charter schools accountable

A major series by the Detroit Free Press reports:

A yearlong Free Press investigation of Michigan’s charter schools found wasteful spending, conflicts of interest, poor performing schools and a failure to close the worst of the worst. Among the findings:

Charter schools spend $1billion per year in state taxpayer money, often with little transparency.

Some charter schools are innovative and have…

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#accountability #charter schools #detroit #free press #michigan

Musicians realizing that Streaming Services are actually a Really Good Thing

Mike Masnick writes:

Furthermore, as we’ve seen over and over again, as these services get bigger and start to catch on, artist are realizing all sorts of ways they can profit from them. Two recent examples are quite handy. First up, we have independent musician Ron Pope (music here), who has written a fantastic piece for the Huffington Post about just how wonderful Spotify has been for his…

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#musicians #spotify

What do people need to rise out of poverty?

This is worth four minutes of your life:

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This is a short trailer for the PovertyCure DVD series.

Here are some notable quotes:

Eva Muraya, Kenyan entrepreneur, says, “I was convinced that the way to add value to my family and have positive impact in my community was if i started to build a business.”

Juan Jose Daboub, former…

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#damian von stauffenberg #eva muraya #herman chinery-hesse #human dignity #poverty alleviation #povertycure #wealth creation

Capitalism for the Masses

David Brooks writes in the New York Times:

To his great credit, [Arthur] Brooks is responding aggressively to this moral challenge, in a way that is providing a needed jolt to Republican circles. Over the last two days, for example, he had the Dalai Lama, a self-described Marxist, over at the American Enterprise Institute to discuss the morality of capitalism. Jonathan Haidt, of the Stern School…

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#american enterprise institute #arthur brooks #capitalism #middle class #moral

Square Cuts More Custom Pricing Deals For Merchants And Ramps Up Sales Hiring

Leena Rao writes:

Square’s pricing is 2.75 percent for swiped transactions, Square Wallet…

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#fees #mobile payments

Hey! Here are some Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics... for Scholarship & Teaching

The team at Acton Institute writes:

The purpose of this mini-grant program is to enhance the…

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#acton #christian #economics #free market #grant #scholarship #teaching

Thin Is a Poverty of Spirit

Daniel Weiss writes in the e-Pistle:

During nighttime prayers recently, my eldest daughter asked God to always keep her looking young. In the past my girls have heard me say “Never grow up,” but this sounded different. After her prayer, I asked why she…

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#e-pistle #evangelicals #social action

Study: Copycatting, Diverse Teams, And Transparency Are Keys To Innovation

Gregory Ferenstein writes at TechCrunch:

A fascinating new study explores, in exquisite detail, the hidden secrets of innovation. Rampant copycats, the authors find, are a surprising key to discovering creative solutions. Imitators must, however, be…

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#imitation #innovation #techcrunch

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