Melinda Gates met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alongside her husband Bill in New York City and soon after said she was furious at the relationship between the two men, according to people familiar with the situation," The Daily Beast reported Thursday evening. "The previously unreported meeting occurred at Epstein's Upper East Side Mansion in September 2013, on the same day the couple accepted the Lasker Bloomberg Public Service Award at the Pierre Hotel and were photographed alongside then-mayor Mike Bloomberg."

"Gates' friendship with Epstein--who for years was accused of molesting scores of underage girls--still haunts Melinda, according to friends of the couple who spoke to The Daily Beast this week in light of the pair's divorce announcement, which had been weeks in the making," The Beast reported. "The ties between Gates and Epstein ran much deeper than the tech mogul first admitted. As The New York Times reported, starting in 2011, Gates met with Epstein on numerous occasions. This was three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl in Florida; by then, accusations that Epstein exploited girls and young women were widely reported in the press."

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Only 15 years after Cape Wind got it's first state approval, Offshore Wind is finally going to be a reality.  The one upside of the delay is that the technology has improved considerably.

"In addition to Vineyard Wind, a dozen other offshore wind projects along the East Coast are under federal review. The Interior Department has estimated that by the end of the decade developers of offshore wind projects could install at least 2,000 turbines from Massachusetts to North Carolina."

If you have a new couple around though and you love them together, buy them a book from the Gottman Institute titled 'The Science of Trust'. Wonderful book, even if you are a nerd like Bill Gates...especially if you are a nerd like Bill Gates. It is utterly a not emotional research book.

We have been together for 24 yrs. We made it past the 4 yr challenge and the 16 yr challenge that crazily the Gottman Institute has discovered through solid research exists for married couples, all of them. The 4 yr challenge is researched down to weeks and months. I read the book long after we survived it, but it was frightening accurate down to the weeks. The 16 yr challenge point isn't so easy to determine, mine was closer to 17.

But if they are unhappy at 27 (someone is obviously unhappy), something chitty is going on. Read the book. I thought maybe it was Bill's workaholism, but cheating probably isn't off the table.

Marriage is about intimacy and trust though, not years chalked or money or projects once basic needs are met. Intimacy and trust allows us to grow no matter what our challenges are. And you never know exactly what challenges will be thrown at both of you.

A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Monday.

The attorneys general in the letter said they are concerned about social media's effects on the physical and emotional well-being of children, the potential for increased cyberbullying, possible vulnerability to online predators, and what they called Facebook's "checkered record" in protecting children on its platforms.

"It appears that Facebook is not responding to a need, but instead creating one, as this platform appeals primarily to children who otherwise do not or would not have an Instagram account," said the letter, signed by the attorneys general of 40 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories.