Switzerland Guns

>> Friday, February 22, 2013

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, but little gun-related street crime - so some opponents of gun control hail it as a place where firearms play a positive role in society. However, Swiss gun culture is unique, and guns are more tightly regulated than many assume.
Throughout the attack, Anne Ithen kept her eyes shut.
"I didn't want to see it. I didn't want those images in my head for the rest of my life... but I remember everything, every detail," she tells me. "Ninety bullets were fired and of course there was the homemade bomb - there was a hell of a noise."
She drops her head slightly as she takes herself back to the Zug cantonal assembly chamber on the afternoon of 27 September 2001, where she was chairing the council meeting. She remembers hearing a loud bang and thinking briefly that someone had accidentally upturned the coffee table in the corridor.
Then the door burst open and she saw Freidrich Leibacher, a local man, dressed in a police vest and laden with guns.
Anne Ithen  
Anne refused to have a gun in the house, even before the attack
"I knew immediately what was going to happen," she tells me simply.
Leibacher, who had a grudge against the officials of the Zug parliament, shot dead 14 people and injured 18 others before turning the gun on himself.
"All that noise..." says Anne hesitantly with her eyes closed. "And yet so much quiet too, as people hid or pretended to be dead. I remember a silence, and his swearing…and just the noise of his boots pacing around the room."
Anne Ithen was shot three times, in the spine, the thigh and the abdomen.
"I knew I was paralysed," she says factually. "You see I didn't feel the other two shots, but the shot that hit my spinal cord splintered and entered my lungs. I couldn't breathe and really feared I was going to die from suffocation." She gives me a wry, ironic smile. "And then someone shouted, 'It's over!'... whatever that meant."
Anne is now a paraplegic. She lost two-thirds of her stomach, one kidney and much of her large intestine. She has nothing but admiration for the surgical team who managed to save her life.
"They had to be pretty creative," she laughs. "It was hard to put together a functioning body from the bits and pieces that were left."
Plan of the Zug council chamber  
Leibacher declared a "day of rage" against the Zug assembly
Anne admits that she has always hated guns and when, long before the Zug attack, her partner moved in with her, she told him firmly that his Swiss army gun - which all Swiss men of fighting age are issued with - would not be living with them.
In February 2011, she voted in favour of a referendum motion which called for all militia firearms to be stored in public arsenals and for a national gun registry to be established. But 56.3% of voters were opposed to the idea.
Gun ownership in selected countries
"I think we are too lax with gun laws in Switzerland," she tells me. "I was very disappointed the referendum didn't get a majority... especially as we have seen more shooting recently here."
Last month, in the French-speaking village of Daillon, 100km (62 miles) from Geneva, a psychologically disturbed man opened fire on locals, killing three people and wounding two others. Police had already confiscated weapons from the gunman in 2005, after he had been placed in psychiatric care.
Inevitably, his actions prompted a fresh wave of debate in Switzerland about its relatively liberal gun laws.
According to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, there are about 89 civilian-owned guns for every 100 people who live in the United States. Switzerland ranks third in terms of gun ownership, the Survey estimates, with 3.4 million guns among its population of nearly eight million.
Target shooting is a popular national sport but many of the firearms in Switzerland are military weapons.

Articles Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21379912

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Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem ‘tremendously happy and excited’ to be parents again

Actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz arrive at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California.
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Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz are parents to 2-year-old, Leonardo, and have confirmed they're expecting another baby.
It's baby numero dos for Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
Cruz confirmed to Spanish TV station TVE! that she’s “tremendously happy and excited” about expecting her second child with her actor husband.

 
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The couple are already parents to 2-year-old son Leonardo Encinas Bardem, and the 38-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” star has described motherhood as “a revolutionary experience.”
 
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Actress Penelope Cruz and her husband, actor Javier Bardem, are happily married and expecting their second child.

“That’s the best way I can describe it,” she said in a Vogue magazine interview. “Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment, when you see that face, you are transformed forever.”

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While the baby news means Cruz won’t be able to attend Sunday’s Goya Awards in her home country of Spain where she’s a best actress nominee for “Volver a Nacer,” the starlet is all smiles about becoming a mother again. In fact, she’ll also be an aunt as her sister, Monica, 35, announced in January that she is expecting her first child.

As the family continues to grow, so does Cruz’s blossoming career. The Latina beauty recently showed off her singing chops and sexy curves in the new music video “Decirnos Adiós,” a duet with Grammy-winning singer Miguel Bosé.
Article Source : http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/baby-number-penelope-cruz-article-1.1262123#ixzz2LeEg6hz2

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THE INCREDIBLY MAD HULK


Hulk smash! On last week's Spike TV show “Impact Wrestling,” bad-boy wrestler Bully Ray and Brooke Hogan apparently angered Brooke’s father, Hulk Hogan, when the couple announced they’d marry on this Thursday’s show. It remains to be seen if the wedding is a gimmick, but Confidenti@l has learned Bully Ray’s hosting a real bachelor party Wednesday night at Rick’s Cabaret New York. Our jiggle-joint sources confirm 75 dancers will entertain party guests as they dine on, among other things, “steaks, red meat and more steaks.”
 
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AnnaSophia Robb may have fashion in the bag on ‘The Carrie Diaries.’

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Winner Global Golden Award 2013

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and others party after the best show in town

 The best part of the Golden Globes isn’t the awards show — it’s what goes down at the after-parties where the stars are good and sauced. And this year the winner and losers alike brought their couch-dancing, Champagne-swigging best.

PHOTOS: CHECK OUT ALL THE GOLDEN GLOBES AFTER PARTIES

After Hollywood’s finest left the Tina Fey- and Amy Poehler-hosted show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, most braved the Los Angeles cold front and headed to the Weinstein Co.’s bash at the old Trader Vic’s, including Richard Gere, Heidi Klum, Jennifer Lopez and Leonardo DiCaprio and his new man crush, Jonah Hill.

“Richard [Gere] was the first guest to arrive, without his publicist, and he seemed to be very confused and lost. He left shortly after and couldn’t find his car, panicking and calling his agent for help,” an eyewitness tells Confidenti@l.

Heidi Klum fared a bit better. She quickly got into the swing of things as she downed a fatburger and fries — still in her skintight white dress — then climbed on a couch in the middle of the room to dance in front of everyone. “Julianne Hough was also breaking it down,” says our party insider.

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J.Lo ran into exes around every corner last night — first sitting near ex-fiancé and big winner Ben Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Garner, during the awards show earlier in the night, then slamming smack into ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs at the Weinstein bash as she worked the room with boy-toy Casper Smart. “She and Diddy caught up,” says our spy.

While Robert Pattinson remained isolated in an outdoor cabana area with “tons of security” at the bash, the “Django Unchained” crew, including DiCaprio, Hill, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington and director Quentin Tarantino, held down the “power table” and couldn’t be more social.

“They were all sipping Moet & Chandon,” says our guest, adding that DiCaprio and Hill left the bash together to head to the CAA after-party, which DiCaprio was inviting people to.

InStyle’s party in the Oasis Courtyard drew Affleck, Jodie Foster, George Clooney, Jessica Lange, Julianna Margulies, Jessica Alba, Orlando Bloom, Sofia Vergara and Don Cheadle. Newly single Selena Gomez, clearly cured from her case of Bieber fever, danced on a table with Vanessa Hudgens and Bill Murray.

Tom Ford Designs created a fantasy world, using a huge tent constructed over the Beverly Hilton Hotel fountain with an antique gold ceiling and a 20-foot-wide shimmering gold metal chandelier. Godiva created chocolate sculptures spelling “love” on rose petal walls.

Source Article : http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/celebs-global-swarming-article-1.1240112#ixzz2Le7OWKWi

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Legend Lady gaga

>> Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The singer confirmed on the Little Monsters website that the album, called ARTPOP, will be a "multimedia experience".

She says she wants fans to "fully immerse" themselves in the project, which will be released in spring 2013.

"I'm excited to tell you all that ARTPOP is going to be a multimedia experience that comes in different forms," she said.

"The most major way to fully immerse yourself in ARTPOP is through the app."

ARTPOP will be available on a variety of platforms including mobile applications.

Content will include extra music, videos, chat options and games.

Lady Gaga is renowned for interacting with fans via her own social networking site, Little Monsters, as well as on Twitter.

She says she plans to continue that through her app.

She said: "You [the fans] inspired me to create something that communicated with images, because YOU do, YOU communicate with me and each other.

"I'm hoping you will all continue to grow together and stay connected through your creativity."

There will also be physical and digital albums available.

Lady Gaga is on her Born This Way Ball tour, including 110 dates around the world, and is due to play in the UK this weekend.

Articel :http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19498959

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