| Gun control is only realistic answer
There are 15 states that have a crime rate worse than Illinois, so concealed weapons aren't the answer. U.S. citizens own over 233 million guns and almost 35,000 people are killed each year in the U.S. with guns. I'm not interested in stopping people from owning guns, protecting themselves or hunting. All I know is that on Feb. 2 and 14, a bunch of people died and they were shot by guns. Banning guns outright may never completely eliminate the threat. However, it is far less likely that the "sick," "twisted" and "crazed" people will be outlawed, and until they are, I'm ready to explore every alternative. Eric Podlogar Hoffman Estates .
Matchmaking Cupid Loves Giving To Charity
"I was kind of bummed out about dating," Kong said.
Then she met Joe Noel. Now they're half-way down the aisle, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports.
"I like to keep it a secret," she said.
Kong and Noel give credit to a matchmaker.
"They are the cutest couple," said Pari Livermore.
Admittedly old-fashioned, Livermore is the matchmaker who brought them together. She's helped over 200 couples tie the knot.
"A lot of it is done on my intuition," she said.
From her home office in Northern California, she works by referral only, tirelessly nudging couples together.
On the phone in her office, she says: "he is so handsome, and I think you'll like him."
In a city known for romance, it's no surprise that lonely hearts looking for love might ask for a little help.
'TONY' Vid Proves Existence Of Happiest, Most Fulfilled Dog-Owning ...
I'm totally going to get serious here cuz I think about this a lot. I've been single most of my life. Except for a few two-month relationships and millions of one-night stands, I've been alone. And I feel less than. It sucks cuz since I've been three I've always had Disney Princess wedding fantasies and as I age I realize that's never going to come true. And I'm coming to grips with the idea that I'm going to spend my whole life alone: with my pugs and my girlfriends. What sucks is that I've internalized society's idea that being single and non reproducing is wrong. So when people are like, "I'm single and happy!!!" I take it with a grain of salt. I think the only women who really feel that way and say that are nuns of any stripe. Cuz the rest of us just have blasted 'hope' and that will destroy our soul.
British Methodist keeps Parliament in order
While attending a Methodist summer youth event at age 15, Beech says she "recognized God in Jesus for the first time." By the time she was 17, she was a local preacher in training, though she admits being grateful that she kept no sermon notes from those early days. The congregations where she preached were "very gracious," she adds with a laugh. "I grew up with a confidence to go out (into the world) that was nurtured by the church and at home," she remarks. "While other people feel the church is all about what you can't do, for me it was all about what you could do." Wanting to encourage that sense of possibility and confidence in succeeding generations, she and her husband, Pete, became volunteer church youth workers. When, at 36, Pete died from a brain tumor, it was the young people with whom the couple had worked who reached out to Beech.
Gordon Brown in ‘crisis of morale’
One joked: "There are times when we can learn things from others, even America." The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures deposits and also has the power to take early action to prevent banks going under, including forcing the kind of reorganisation that King would like to have imposed on Northern Rock. In addition to better insurance and greater powers to intervene earlier in a troubled bank’s affairs, the governor is said to be "begging the chancellor and the prime minister" to give the FSA or a new agency the power to regulate bank liquidity. The Treasury has made it clear that it will bring forward reforms to the tripartite framework for regulating banks and financial markets after the Commons treasury committee has made its recommendations.
Gloriously Cranky Cathy Seipp
Never needs changing. Like a fluorescent bulb! ... 5:48 P.M. Dissing the Disgruntled! Grazer-Gate Update: A summary of the L.A.Times' second-time-farce scandal is here. The most recent at-bats ... Resigned editorial page editor Andres Martinez says the paper's newly-arrived editor and publisher caved to a disgruntled newsroom that is annoyed at [the paper's owners in] Chicago, annoyed at them and annoyed at the autonomy of the opinion pages. The newsroom unrest, Martinez says, is partly "ideological" (the news pages presumably being more conventionally liberal than his editorial page), partly "a matter of bureaucratic culture," and some of it a personnel matter (there are some embittered former editorial board members that Kinsley and Carroll sent off to the newsroom).
Game, set and Paris match
World of Warcraft) with American video-gaming giant Activision (Guitar Hero), to create Activision Blizzard. That deal could make Vivendi, with a market value of €34 billion (£25.5 billion), a key player in future digital convergence. And Lévy pulled it off without a squeak of prenuptial speculation, testimony to his belief that relationships and discretion come first. "You are right, it was totally unexpected," nods Lévy, "and remember, the games industry is now bigger than the music industry." But he managed it, he says, because the boss of Activision in California could talk to the boss of Universal, and ask, "what’s it like working for these Frenchmen who are a bit of a mystery?" And the answer was positive. And that, say colleagues, is how Lévy operates, low-key and resolute, relying on trust, never ducking the questions.
A1GP Durban Street Fight Set To Go, Team-by-Team Preview
You couldn't set the stage any better for a race of huge championship implications than this A1GP battle on the streets of Durban. The annual highlight reel generating contest brings three teams separated by two points for the battle for the championship. To add a little extra drama to the pre-race build up, one of those teams - France - will attempt to fly their driver halfway around the world in order to get their champion into this race. There are two other teams still in the championship chase and another 15 teams looking to pick up the spoils should any of the front runners succumb to the siren sounds of an inside pass and wreck on the walls that define this 11-turn two-mile circuit. It makes for a tight race on a tight track where a throng of more than 100,000 people know that anything can - and usually does - happen on this twisty little track.
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Baxter last month announced the voluntary recall of nine lots of multi-dose vials after learning of adverse events in dialysis patients, but the details of the outbreak were not disclosed until the CDC released the information. Doctor Alex Kallen , part of the CDC team looking into the illness, said the heparin has been tested for bacteria and endotoxin, but neither was found. Kidney patients receive heparin to prevent clotting of blood during the dialysis process. CDC officials said allergic-type reactions occurred within minutes of starting dialysis. The symptoms included facial swelling, nausea, rapid heart beat and decreased blood pressure. Baxter officials said when announcing the recall that some of these reactions may be severe or life threatening.
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