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In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. the debate over gun control has been thrust onto center stage.

President Barack Obama unveiled his highly-anticipated plan to control gun violence on Wednesday. The proposed actions will cost an estimated $500 million.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed new legislation this week that calls for tougher gun restrictions.

Even as lawmakers look for new measures to curb gun violence, the firearms business is booming and has been in recent years. Anecdotally, gun sellers report demand from buyers is high. According to The New York Times article, "one gun owner said he ?sold an AR-15 rifle at a gun show for $1,700. Before the Newtown shooting the gun was worth $500."

Here?s a look at the numbers:

  • The U.S. firearms industry's economic impact is $32 billion. To put that in perspective, that?s about the same size as the U.S. organic industry and more than the budget of Nigeria. It?s grown from a $19 billion business in 2008 and appears to be accelerating at a quick clip.
  • Background checks for gun buyers increased nearly 60% from December 2011 to December 2012. The FBI has already recorded 16.5 million background checks from Jan. 1, 2012 to November 2012 ? the most on record.
  • There are 51,000 gun shops in America, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Explosives. That?s close to four times the number of Starbucks or McDonald?s stores in this country.
  • The largest gunmakers in the U.S. have been raking in the profits over the last several years. Sturm, Ruger & Company (RGR) stock has increased nearly 500% in five years. Shares of Smith & Wesson?s (SWHC) have soared more than 75% in one year.
  • Altogether, about 5.5 million firearms were made in America in 2010 and more than 26,000 new gun-related jobs have been created over the past two years.

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Rhapsody in Blue - December Songs | Triangle Arts and Entertainment

CAROLINA BALLET?S 15TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CONTINUES WITH DIVERSE LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT PROGRAM  Stage Premiere of Gershwin Ballet by Company Dancer Zalman Raffael

Carolina Ballet?S 15TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CONTINUES WITH DIVERSE LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT PROGRAM

Stage Premiere of Gershwin Ballet by Company Dancer Zalman Raffael

RALEIGH, NC ? Now that Carolina Ballet?s Nutcracker has been put to bed for another season, the Triangle area?s professional ballet company is ready to launch the first of the spring programs of its 15th anniversary season with a diverse selection of ballets by Lynne Taylor-Corbett and company member, Zalman Raffael. The program consists of Taylor-Corbett?s December Songs and Code of Silence; and Rhapsody in Blue to Gershwin?s romantic score choreographed by Raffael. The program opens February 7-24, 2013 at the AJ Fletcher Theater at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Raleigh, and runs for eleven performances over three weekends. The schedule of performances is as follows:

  • Thursday, February 7 at 8:00pm
  • Friday, February 8 at 8:00pm
  • Saturdays, February 9, 16 & 23 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
  • Sundays, February 10, 17 & 24 at 2:00pm

Lynne Taylor-Corbett choreographed December Songs on Carolina Ballet in 2000. It is set to the music of Maury Yeston, who composed the score and wrote the lyrics for the 100th anniversary celebration of New York City?s Carnegie Hall in 1991. The music is called a ?song cycle? and is made up of love songs from which Ms. Taylor-Corbett created vignettes that are gut-wrenching, joyous and speak to ?anyone who?s loved and lost and hopes to love again.? The lyrics will be sung by Raleigh?s own Broadway star Lauren Kennedy, with Glenn Mehrbach accompanying her on the piano, live on stage, as the dancers bring the stories to life. In 2002, when Carolina Ballet reprised the program, the News & Observer said of December Songs ?they are cries from the heart in which the dancers seem to embody the singer?s psyche.? Lauren Kennedy and her husband Alan Campbell are the directors of Raleigh?s Hot Summer Nights at The Kennedy. Lauren was seen in 2011 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in a dazzling performance in the title role of Evita.

Code of Silence, choreographed in summer 2008, during Carolina Ballet?s summer intensive at UNC Wilmington, takes a 180 degree turn from songs of lost love to issues of human rights (and is dedicated to Amnesty International) showing a much darker side of human nature. The ballet is set to the riveting music of Estonian composer Arvo Part and the reviewer in the News & Observer called it ?nothing short of a masterpiece.? Code of Silence opens with scenes of imprisonment, torture, death, disbelief and large-scale havoc that could be anywhere in the world, but as the News & Observer goes on to say it ?isn?t all dour. It?s also a moving tribute to the resilience of human bonds, to the enduring comfort of fond memories and to the power of compassion and community to overcome trauma and tyranny.?

The third ballet on the program, Rhapsody in Blue, was choreographed by dancer Zalman Raffael to the ever popular score of George Gershwin. Raffael choreographed his ballet in January 2012 on thirteen Carolina Ballet dancers as a studio workshop during the dancers? winter break. It was then presented to a small audience at Carolina Ballet?s studio with an enthusiastic response. Artistic Director Robert Weiss explains ?I like to encourage young choreographers. Ballet is an art form that cannot be created at home alone, unlike writers who only need a pen and paper. Ballets rely totally on a collaborative process between choreographers and dancers and for that reason is an expensive proposition.? Weiss says that his mentor, George Balanchine, was fond of saying ?my muse comes to me on union time.? Raffael raised the money from friends, mostly outside the Triangle region, so he would be able to pay the dancers for two weeks of their time as he choreographed on them. This production will be the stage premiere of Rhapsody in Blue.

It is still possible to purchase a subscription for the remaining four productions of the 2012-2013 season, and may be accomplished by calling the Carolina Ballet box office at

919 719-0900. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office as well, and through Ticketmaster at 919 982-2787, or on the Carolina Ballet website at www.carolinaballet.com. Individual tickets range from $28-66 and there is a $10 student rush ticket that may be purchased with a student ID on half hour before the show.

Now into the fifteenth season, Carolina Ballet, Inc. has taken its place among America?s premier arts organizations. Under the innovative direction of artistic director Robert Weiss, a talented company, fiscally responsible management and community support, Carolina Ballet continues to expose audiences to traditional ballet by legendary masters and new works of contemporary choreographers. The company reflects the vibrant entrepreneurial spirit and ever-increasing quality of life experienced in North Carolina.

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Europe court: Christian airline worker can wear cross

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British Airways employee Nadia Eweida celebrates winning her religious rights case outside her lawyer's office in London Tuesday.

By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News

A Christian airline worker in England who was sent home for wearing a small silver cross at work has won a lawsuit in which she alleged her right to freedom of religion had been violated.

In a judgment Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights ordered that the United Kingdom should pay Nadia Eweida, who works for British Airways, about $2,675 in damages and $40,000 in costs.

However another Christian worker, Shirley Chaplin, lost her case that she should be allowed to wear a crucifix while working as a nurse in a hospital geriatric ward in Devon, England.

The court accepted hospital managers? arguments that the cross ?could cause injury if a patient pulled on it or if, for example, it came into contact with an open wound,? the court said in a statement.

Patients? health and safety was ?inherently of much greater importance? than Chaplin?s right to wear a cross, the court said.

The judgment also dealt with two other separate claims in which practicing Christians from the U.K. complained they had been fired for refusing to carry out duties that they considered would condone homosexuality.

Lillian Ladele, a registrar of births, deaths and marriages, and Gary McFarlane, who worked for the marriage guidance charity Relate, both lost their claims with the court noting that in both cases ?the employer was pursuing a policy of non-discrimination? and that discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation was against the European Convention on Human Rights.

The decisions are not final as they can be appealed to the court?s ?Grand Chamber.?

British premier 'delighted'
Eweida?s victory was welcomed by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who said on Twitter that he was ?delighted that principle of wearing religious symbols at work has been upheld ? ppl shouldn't suffer discrimination due to religious beliefs.?

Eweida said when she heard the verdict she was ?very selfish initially? because ?I was jumping for joy and saying ?thank you Jesus,?? according to the U.K.?s ITV News.

?It's a vindication that Christians have a right to express their faith on par with other colleagues at work visibly and not be ashamed of their faith,? she said.

?I'm disappointed on behalf of the other three applicants but I fully support them in their asking for a referral for their cases to be heard in the Grand Chamber, and I wish them every success in the future to win,? she added.

In its statement, the court said Eweida was sent home without pay in 2006 after she decided to start wearing a cross on a chain on top of her uniform in defiance of British Airway's then policy to allow no visible jewelry. She returned to work in 2007 after BA changed its rules to allow religious and charity symbols.

The court said freedom of religion was ?an essential part of the identity of believers and one of the foundations of pluralistic, democratic societies.?

However it added that ?where an individual?s religious observance impinges on the rights of others, some restrictions can be made.?

'Common sense'
Shami Chakrabarti, director of U.K. human rights group Liberty, said in an emailed statement that the judgment was ?an excellent result for equal treatment, religious freedom and common sense.?

"Nadia Eweida wasn't hurting anyone and was perfectly capable of doing her job whilst wearing a small cross,? she said. "She had just as much a right to express her faith as a Sikh man in a turban or a Muslim woman with a headscarf.?

"However the Court was also right to uphold judgments in other cases that employers can expect staff not to discriminate in the discharge of duties at work,? she added.

On the issue of wearing crosses at work, Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the U.K.?s National Secular Society, said in a statement that Eweida had won ?a very limited victory which simply means that if employers want to prevent an employee wearing religious symbol for corporate image purposes, they must prove that their image is negatively affected by such manifestations of belief.?

?In the case of Chaplin we are pleased that the court has acknowledged that employers are better placed than the court to decide if jewellery is a health and safety risk and did not support the idea of blanket permission to wear religious symbols in the workplace,? he added.

Porteous Wood said if Ladele and McFarlane had won this would have ?driven a coach and horses through the equality laws.??

?The rights of gay people to fair and equal treatment would have been kicked back by decades,? he added.

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Serie A won't punish Milan for walking off field

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updated 1:20 p.m. ET Jan. 15, 2013

MILAN (AP) - Italy's top soccer league has decided not to punish AC Milan for walking off the field after being subjected to racist chants during an exhibition game with fourth-division club Pro Patria.

While noting that no rule allows a squad to interrupt a match without the referee's or the public security officer's consent, Serie A judge Gianpaolo Tosel wrote that "the essential values of sport and civil coexistence" rule out the possibility that "a gesture of solidarity toward someone insulted exclusively for the color of his skin" can result in disciplinary action.

Pro Patria was already ordered to play one home match without fans for the Jan. 3 incident, and a preliminary judge barred six of the club's supporters accused of inciting racism from all sports events in Italy for five years.

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Mark Millar Talks Fantastic Four Reboot

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As we look forward to a number of superhero films hitting theaters this year, there?s also plenty by way of costumed characters heading our way in 2014 and 2015 as well.? One such anticipated property is 20th Century Fox?s reboot of Fantastic Four.? The studio tapped Chronicle director Josh Trank to take the helm, and the project was recently given a March 2015 release date.? As comics guru Mark Millar was just hired on at Fox as their creative consultant on all things Marvel, the talkative creative has been privy to all the in-the-works projects, including Fantastic Four.? Now Millar has spoken up a bit about the reboot, teasing what fans can expect from Trank?s iteration of the characters.? Hit the jump to see what he had to say.

fantastic-fourDuring an interview with SciFiNow, Millar revealed that Trank is working on contemporizing the story:

?From what I?ve seen and from talking to him ? he and I have had dinner a couple of times and we talk quite regularly as well ? he?s contemporizing it. I think he?s just making it work for the screen ? he?s a great storyteller.?

He went on to talk about the pic?s tone, teasing that it will include elements that have yet to grace the silver screen:

?What I wasn?t expecting actually was just how funny and likeable he could make this as well as getting the more awesome moments on screen ? I use awesome in the traditional British sense and not the California sense awesome, you know? The Ridley Scott moments, and the?Fantastic Four?really are jaw-dropping in the same way you feel when you saw Alien for the first time. There?s some moments in this ? not to be specific ? that are actually gonna be phenomenal on screen and stuff you haven?t seen in a superhero movie before.?

Hopefully we hear more about the project as it moves closer to production.? The Fantastic Four will open on March 6, 2015.

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At large trade shows like CES, we're accustomed to seeing tried and true products receive refreshes -- sometimes major, sometimes minor -- year after year. But here on the Showstoppers floor, we came across the type of gadget that gets us positively giddy: the Puzzlebox Orbit. Originally a Kickstarter-funded project that's just now hitting retail shelves (available for $189), the copter-in-a-cage works with Neurosky's EEG Bluetooth-enabled headset and companion app (compatible with iOS or Android) to help users achieve specific meditative or focused mental states. Hack-happy geeks take note, Puzzlebox encourages your creative tinkering, so it's made the software open source, opening the door to any number of applications. But the primary focus for this is education, as combos of this kind can be used to explain neuroscience to children -- brainwaves and the like.

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