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I was shocked today, Sept 10th, when you told Regis & Kelly that when your children have their visitation times with Jon "I basically wait for the phone call, for how many of them want to come home." Dig!Kelly and Anderson Cooper -- who was filling in for Regis -- looked aghast when you continued, saying that your children "want to be home playing with their toys and sleeping in their beds and spending time with ME!" Double digg!  Kate, you then admitted that when they call you from Jon's place,  "I bring them home." Punch!More...

Kate Gosselin's New Public Attack on Jon's Parenting Was Selfish & Hurtful To Her Kids!

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Check out the action behind the scenes at the new Fashion week venue at Lincoln Center--a huge departure from the traditional Bryant Park venue.The grandeur of Lincoln Center might not have been the most obvious new venue for Fashion Week, and many have turned up their noses at the new stomping grounds.More...

New Fashion Week Venue At Lincoln Center: 'It's Genius -- More Relaxed And Open'

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On the anniversary of September 11, thousands of people came within blocks of Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan to rally against and in support of the proposed Islamic cultural center.The Huffington Post was on location to speak with both sides.
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9/11 Protests Over Proposed Islamic Center (VIDEO REPORT)

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One of the first things I learned after beginning to practice psychotherapy was that everyone is at least a little neurotic, and everyone, at one time or another, could do with a little therapy. I'm understating my case.I'm tempted, and yet I'm not going to broaden the notion of therapy to mean any kind of guidance and help from friends and family. When I say that everyone needs it, I'm referring to structured, formal psychotherapy. Everyone could benefit from it once in a while.More...

Everyone Should Be in Therapy

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The Washington Post has published a very silly op-ed by Chrystia Freeland accusing President Barack Obama of unfairly "demonizing" Wall Street. Freeland wants to see Obama tone down his rhetoric and play nice with executives in pursuit of a harmonious economic recovery. The trouble is, Obama hasn't actually deployed harsh words against Wall Street. What's more, in order to avoid being characterized as "anti-business," the Obama administration has refused to mete out serious punishment for outright financial fraud. Complaining about nouns and adjectives is a little ridiculous when handcuffs and prison sentences are in order.Freeland is a long-time business editor at Reuters and the Financial Times, and the story she spins about the financial crisis comes across as very reasonable. It's also completely inaccurate. Here's the key line:More...

Handcuffs for Wall Street, Not Happy-Talk

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"S**t!"The BBC allowed freelance journalist/author Rose George http://rosegeorge.com to use the word on the air to ring alarm bells that 2.6 billion people - four in ten - worldwide don't have toilets, and have to resort to the outdoors for their basic human needs.More...

Stockholm Water Confab Rings Alarms, Offers Hope

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Roses may no longer be a prelude to a romantic dinner date, but the main course itself.In this video, Reuters reports from Quito, Ecuador, where organic rose petals are becoming a novelty dish in popular restaurants.More...

Edible Roses On The Rise (VIDEO)

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Millions of traditional American jobs have moved to China, and now China is thwarting our efforts to create new, renewable energy jobs to replace them.China has a million people working in its clean energy industry. It makes half the world's wind turbines, supplies half the world's hydropower projects and fabricates three-quarters of the world's compact fluorescent light bulbs.More...

China needs to stop playing dirty on clean energy

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The recent IPO of SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution (MFI), was a watershed event whose ripples are affecting the public perception of microfinance.  When an organization originally founded as a nonprofit first attracts some $75 million in successive waves of private equity capital and then raises $358 million in a public offering of stock, it seems natural to ask: is there any remaining role for donor funding -- or for nonprofit engagement -- in this industry?Despite the fanfare associated with public listings that attract commercial money into microfinance, only a handful of the largest MFIs are traded on stock exchanges. Moreover, outside the MFIs' home exchanges (Mexico for Compartamos, Kenya for Equity Bank, or India for SKS) these shares are generally only available to institutional investors.  The vast bulk of the microfinance industry relies on socially motivated funding in a mix that includes grants, loans and equity investments.  Anyone who wants to support microfinance can select from a multi-hued array of funding opportunities to find one that matches his or her wishes.More...

Funding the Risk Frontier in Microfinance

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This item was first reported in HuffPost Hill.The White House is considering tapping Harvard professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren to be the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a source familiar with the White House deliberations told HuffPost.More...

Elizabeth Warren Under Consideration For Interim CFPB Chief