This week, Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series. As we discussed on the show, Kleiner Perkins has been making a solid bet on mobile for the past few years. In fact, we've confirmed with the firm that the VC firm has put over $450 million in mobile companies across nearly 40 companies.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qPdD9oXG8PA/
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Kendall wants the world to know that Black women also suffer and it?s often from a very different eating disorder?binge eating. ?The binary that we create when we discuss eating disorders, coupled with the myth that eating disorders are ?White girl problems,? harms us more than it helps us. It erases the existence of Black people who binge, and it dismisses the problem before any real attention can be drawn towards it so that people can get help,? Kendall says.
Help. What an interesting thought to include in this discussion. I remember chatting with my mentor years ago and she talked about the pain that many Black people carry around in their lives and how we always want to make it seem as if we?re not hurting by ignoring it, or better yet, praying it away. Some people, like Kendall (used to), deal with their pain by diving face first into their favorite snacks and that, isn?t how problems are solved. It took Kendall getting therapy to realize that she indeed needed mental help to overcome her demons.
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Kendall makes a point of the mental health issue attached to eating disorders, claiming that Black folks just refuse to or just don?t know how to get real help. Kendall says:
?What?s most damaging about the rhetoric surrounding eating disorders, specifically among the Black community, is the inherent denial of the existence of a problem that might require actual psychiatric care in our community. We cannot continue to perpetuate the ideal that psychiatric care cannot and will not help us uncover the tools we need to overcome our battles. This mentality cannot persist.?
White women are not the only victims of food and the odd relationships they can create. I find it interesting that statistics backs up this claim. According to a study uncovered by The Root, Black girls are 50 percent more likely than their White counterparts to be bulimic and girls from background with a lower income are 153 percent more likely to fall victim to bulimia. Kendall asks, ?What would the numbers look like if we included binge eating??
What do you beauties think?are Black women ignoring the psychiatric care we need in regards to eating disorders?
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American Electric Power's natural gas-burning plant in Dresden, Ohio, is one of the energy company's new investments in alternatives to coal-burning plants.
Michael Williamson/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesThe way Americans get their electricity is changing. Coal is in decline. Natural gas is bursting out of the ground in record amounts. And the use of wind and solar energy is growing fast. All this is happening as power companies are trying to choose which kind of energy to bet on for the next several decades.
Until recently, half of these plants burned coal to make electricity. Now, that's down to about one-third. Since 2010, about 150 coal plants either have been retired or it's been announced they will be retired soon.
What knocked King Coal off its throne? Mostly natural gas. "We added almost twice as much natural gas capacity as we retired coal capacity last year," says Trevor Houser, an energy analyst with the Rhodium Group in New York. Why gas? "That is primarily because of the price."
The price of natural gas is well below what it was a few years ago. That's mostly because hydraulic fracturing technology is reaching more gas reserves, and also because a weak economy has lowered the demand for electricity. And there's plenty more gas to come. On Thursday, a study from the University of Texas confirmed government estimates of huge reserves in Texas alone.
That would suggest that coal is doomed.
But not so fast. The gas market is quirky. As people started burning more natural gas, gas prices crept up. It's classic economics: "As natural gas prices have started to increase over the past few months," Houser points out, "coal's share of U.S. power generation has increased right alongside it."
So this is the brave new energy world of the 21st century ? two evenly matched opponents. Natural gas is providing 30 percent of our electricity, with coal a half-dozen percentage points above that, trying to halt its downward spiral. Add in electricity powered by water, wind and solar ? which, collectively, have surged to now provide about 12 percent of our power ? and you've got heated competition for access to your wall socket.
The future of electric power is at stake. Coal plants are closing. Nuclear power is not growing. The economy is picking up. That means more demand for electricity.
"In the last five years or so, there's been an increasing degree of concern in the industry that we need to start building new capacity," says Revis James, who analyzes the market for the utility industry's Electric Power Research Institute.
New capacity ? new power plants ? will determine the kind of energy Americans use for the next 50 years or so. Natural gas would seem the economical choice. But here's the rub: The actual cost of the gas ? rather than the cost of building the equipment to burn it ? accounts for about half a utility's operating cost. That's way more than coal or uranium fuel. So when gas prices fluctuate (and they're famous for doing that) it can wreck a utility's bottom line. "The real $64,000 question," James says, is, 'What will happen to gas prices as the power sector's consumption of gas starts to significantly increase?' "
And once you build those gas-fired plants, you're stuck with them for decades. You have to pay back the cost of building the plant. James says that's why power companies are nervous about jumping on the gas bandwagon when gas prices are so volatile.
Bruce Nilles is hoping they don't jump on that wagon. Nilles is a lawyer with the Sierra Club, which has spent the past decade fighting permits for new coal plants.
Nilles agrees that using more natural gas has reduced the country's climate-warming carbon emissions. But, he says, don't build any more. That could divert the country away from the cleanest energy ? wind, solar and geothermal power. "What we're trying to avoid," Nilles says, "is building hundreds of new gas plants, locking us in for the next 20, 30 years, and thereby making it impossible to make a swift transition to clean energy."
Nilles says it's a race ? coal is slowing down, renewable forms of energy are closing the gap, and natural gas is a dark horse coming up on the outside.
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday announced a long-anticipated US$5 million grant from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) Trust Fund to finance a small business project.
According to a release from the IDB, the project will target micro and small enterprises and the Amerindian community, which include individuals and groups without access to credit as well as those lacking appropriate business and technical training who have been affected by the restructuring of sectors such as mining and forestry.? During the three-year life of the programme, ??..To continue reading, login or subscribe now.
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In what has ended up being a weird couple weeks for Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX founder should have a better day today after the launch of the Dragon capsule on its second resupply mission to the International Space Station. NASA announced that it had approved the mission back on Valentine's Day, mentioning that the spacecraft will be packed with over one ton of experiments and supplies on board. The Dragon Capsule will launch just after 10am Eastern this morning, and the launch is being broadcast live via UStream on NASA's media channel.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/W94X21yYrbs/
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