ONLY ON THE BLOG: We've invited back  James Fallon, Editor of Women’s Wear Daily, to answer more Royal Wedding OFF-SET questions. Fallon is overseeing WWD’s extensive coverage of the Royal Wedding.

He  was London Bureau Chief, Women’s Wear Daily, W Magazine and Fairchild publications between 1981 – 2001. Previously, served as news editor in Fairchild’s Washington, D.C., for two years prior to heading to the London bureau.

What moment from the Royal Wedding will you be talking about for years to come?

Obviously the first glimpse of the lace-covered dress by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen as Kate Middleton stepped out of the car in front of Westminster Abbey.

Of all the magnificently-dressed participants and attendees, who deserves special commendation?

Samantha Cameron in Burberry London looked simply chic, as did Carole Middleton in Anna Valentine, Victoria Beckham in her own creation, and the Duchess of Cornwall ­ not a fashion plate, but wearing the perfect Anna Valentine ensemble for the occasion.

Then, of course, there was the Queen in primrose yellow by Angela Kelly. Not fashionable ­ but you couldn't miss her in the crowd.

Millions, if not billions, of people watched this wedding ceremony—which, at the moment of its announcement—was a world news event. What statement did the UK make?

That there is no country on Earth better at pomp and circumstance than the Brits.

The Union Jacks, the military uniforms, the trumpets blaring the Queen's arrival at Westminster Abbey, you could feel the nation's spirits soaring despite the struggling economy, political divisions and questions over whether the royals are still relevant. At least today, it is. FULL POST

THE WEDDING – Prince William of Wales slipped a gold ring onto the finger of Catherine Middleton Friday, and the couple vowed to love, comfort, honor and to keep each other in London's biggest royal wedding in three decades.

The Queen conferred a Dukedom on Prince William of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus. Prince William thus became His Royal Highness The Duke of  Cambridge and Catherine Middleton became Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge.

PRESIDENT TO VIEW TORNADO DAMAGE – President Barack Obama plans to visit Alabama on Friday, the hardest-hit of six states ravaged by a series of storms and tornadoes that killed 300 people and left entire neighborhoods in ruins.  FULL POST

Video by Reed Timmer and his storm chasers in Mississippi shows what it's like when a tornado is coming right at you.

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Linda Jackson describes the tornado that destroyed her home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to CNN's Reynolds Wolf.

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Bennie Lacy describes the tornado that destroyed her home in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, saying "all the windows exploded."

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CNN's Martin Savidge reports on how a tornado in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, produced two outcomes in two nearby homes.

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Reed Timmer says a tornado in Mississippi was "more violent" than any tornado he's seen in 13 years of storm chasing.

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ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s six OFF-SET questions is Daniel Streitfeld, 26, from Dallas, Texas. A 2008 graduate of Middlebury College, he arrived in Syria on March 6 of this year, and was studying Arabic independently. He sent us the following answers right before he departed Syria on Thursday, April 28.

First of all, are you in danger when you leave your apartment?

I live in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Damascus. During the weekdays I have felt safe going out and walking around. To be honest, if you didn't know better, it looks positively tranquil–old men smoking water pipes, children out and about, even some older European tourists sight-seeing.

However on the weekends you must be much more careful. Last Friday I was sitting in my bedroom with the door open and at about 3:00 p.m., I heard sustained machine gun fire for about 30 minutes, in the very heart of Damascus.

On Saturday night, a bar owner warned us that he thought there was a gunfight in the street, but we saw nothing. Last week I was in the old Roman city of Bosra, about 15 miles east of Der'a. I didn't see anything abnormal, but the normally popular tourist stop had turned into a ghost town–people seemed to be staying inside their homes for the most part. FULL POST

ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s six OFF-SET questions Erich Pratt, director of communications for Gun Owners of America.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue. Over the last 30 years, GOA has built a nationwide network of attorneys to help fight court battles in almost every state in the nation to protect gun owner rights.

We’ve turned to Pratt because on Friday, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, recovering from a devastating bullet wound suffered nearly four months ago, will witness her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, command the space shuttle Endeavour on its last launch. Doctors cleared Giffords, who was shot in the brain at a  January 8 event in Tucson, to attend the scheduled launch in Florida.

On that January day near Tucson, a young man arrested at the Giffords meeting with her constituents allegedly shot nineteen people, killing six of them. Rep. Giffords was shot in the head at point-blank range. Is it the GOA position that the incident might have turned out differently if more people were carrying guns at the event?

There are far more examples every day of guns being used to save life than to take life.  Obviously, one can never predict the outcome of any particular incident.  But as a general rule, the potential victims are always the “first responders” who can deal with the perpetrator much more quickly than the police can.

Consider that in 2007, a gunman entered the New Life Church in Colorado Springs intending to perpetrate one of the greatest massacres in U.S. history.  He was armed with a thousand rounds of ammunition. 

Unfortunately for him, he was only able to kill two people.  The reason?  He was met by a woman with a gun.  Jeanne Assam is a concealed carry permit holder, and she used her firearm to fatally wound the gunman, thus saving hundreds of lives at this church. FULL POST

Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, sent us this response to Thursday's (4-28-11) OFF-SET blog interview with Erich Pratt of the Gun Owners of America.

CLICK HERE to read Pratt's interview.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is thrilled that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' recovery is progressing well enough for her to attend her husband's space shuttle launch. As Jim and Sarah Brady mentioned to me last month when we were remembering the 30th Anniversary of Jim's shooting during the assassination attempt on President Reagan, the road to recovery is a rough one. There will be good days and there will be bad days.

  CLICK HERE to read our OFF-SET interview with Jim and Sarah Brady

For most of the 70,000 Americans injured by guns (in addition to the 30,000 killed by guns) each year in this country, recovery is filled with constant reminders of the pain and the continual drains on their finances, families, and friends. As a country, we do too little to prevent gun violence – and we make it too easy for irresponsible and dangerous people, like the Tucson shooter, to get guns and ammunition capable of shooting a lot of people very quickly. FULL POST