After Super Bowl, many fans will suffer football withdrawal symptoms

Jan. 30, 2013 ? On Sunday night, after the final play of the Super Bowl, many fans will start experiencing withdrawal symptoms from not being able to watch football.

Loyola University Medical Center Dr. Angelos Halaris describes the effects this has on the brain, and offers tips on how fans can cope.

Halaris explains that when a person engages in a pleasurable activity, such as watching a football game, a neurotransmitter (brain chemical) called dopamine is released in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

When the pleasurable activity ends, the person is left with a feeling of depravation. It's similar to what a smoker feels when deprived of a cigarette -- except there's no quick fix like a cigarette for the football fan.

"When the football season is over and there's no other game on the schedule for months, you're stuck, so you go through withdrawal," Halaris said.

For hardcore fans, the feeling can be similar to post-holiday blues, Halaris said.

Halaris offers these tips for fans who suddenly have to face months without football:

-- Don't go cold turkey. Watch football on YouTube, or on recordings, in gradually diminishing amounts.

-- Share your feelings of withdrawal and letdown with a friend or spouse.

-- While it can be unpleasant, football withdrawal is not serious enough to require antidepressants or other medications. And do not self medicate with drugs or alcohol.

-- Most important, buck up. "You're just going to have to basically tough it out until football starts up again," Halaris said.

Halaris is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and medical director of Adult Psychiatry at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

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Industries of Past and Present: The Offices of Ubiqiutous

UK creative agency Ubiquitous stripped their offices bare and rebuilt them from the ground up. The result? A combination the industries of the past with the technology of today in a merging of wood and metal that's incredibly beautiful.

To see more photos of the small but wonderful office, check out their blog for a series of photos and a time-lapse video showing the construction.

If you have a workspace of your own to show off, add it to the Lifehacker Workspace Showcase. Be sure to include some details about your setup and why it works for you, and you just might see it featured on the front page of Lifehacker.

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Senate approves $50.5 billion in long-delayed Superstorm Sandy aid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long-delayed $50.5 billion aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy cleared the Senate on Monday, three months after the storm destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in coastal New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The package, approved 62-36 in the Democratic-controlled Senate, now goes to President Barack Obama to be signed into law. Added to flood insurance legislation passed by Congress earlier this month, it brings Sandy aid appropriations to $60.2 billion.

All the opposing lawmakers were Republicans. But nine Republicans joined Democrats in voting yes to narrowly cross the 60-vote threshold required for passage.

The Senate also defeated a Republican amendment that sought to offset the Sandy aid with cuts to discretionary spending spread over the next nine years.

The vote was delayed last week as Senate leaders wrangled over new rules aimed at limiting procedural roadblocks known as filibusters.

Sandy's victims "have been waiting for three months for their federal government to step up and help them rebuild their lives and rebuild their livelihoods," said Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. "They have been waiting and waiting."

The package will provide $10 billion to repair public transport infrastructure, $5.3 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief fund and $16 billion in Community Development Block Grant funding - money to be used by municipalities largely to rebuild homes and businesses.

"This bill meets the current needs of the recovery efforts," Mikulski said.

CAUGHT IN BUDGET DEBATE

The Sandy aid package became ensnared in a bitter partisan battle over deficit reduction. Many Republicans saw it as an opportunity to take a stand against a big spending increase after being forced to swallow tax hikes on the wealthy as part of the New Year's deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."

Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah tried to rein in the Sandy package by seeking to offset the costs with a 0.5-percentage-point reduction in annual discretionary spending.

He said senators owed it to Americans to consider how the disaster spending might impair U.S. ability to fund other programs such as defense or healthcare.

"We have to stop and consider the fact that we are more than $16 trillion in debt and we're adding to that debt at a rate of more than $1 trillion every single year," Lee said.

His amendment was defeated 62-35 in another party-line split.

Conservative groups, including the Club for Growth and the Heritage Foundation, had urged senators to vote against the package without any offsets, saying it was filled with "pork."

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the $50.5 billion package on January 15 - largely with Democratic votes - after shaving off about $160 million and preventing any funds from being diverted to disasters in other states.

House Speaker John Boehner enraged East Coast politicians on January 1 by canceling a previously scheduled vote on Sandy emergency funds. The storm wiped out many New Jersey and New York shore communities and flooded lower Manhattan transit tunnels on October 29.

Since then, Congress has approved $9.7 billion to shore up the National Flood Insurance program to allow it to continue paying the Sandy-related claims of homeowners who bought flood insurance.

The $60.2 billion in aid is short of the $82 billion initially requested by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The legislative delays marked a stark contrast with the congressional response to Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Gulf Coast communities and flooded New Orleans in 2005.

Within 10 days of that storm, Congress had approved $62.3 billion in aid. Subsequent measures brought total taxpayer funds to rebuild the region to more than $100 billion.

(Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Xavier Briand)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-approves-50-5-billion-long-delayed-superstorm-012023860--business.html

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New production of Rossini's Cinderella a delight

VIENNA (AP) ? There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the 1950s. But Gioachino Rossini's take on Cinderella remains utterly magical in the new version being put on by the Vienna State Opera.

While all operas stand or fall on the quality of their singers, La Cenerentola presents a particular challenge, with solos replete with florid vocalization, full-out crescendos and sustained, flowing melodic lines.

But all soloists passed the test with full honors ? and then some ? in the production that premiered Saturday.

As Angelina ? Rossini's Cenerentola, or Cinderella ? mezzo Tara Erraught unleashed an array of coloratura fireworks in a role that affords opportunities for vocal pyrotechnics like few others.

"Non piu mesta" ? where Angelina, the prince by her side, announces that she forgives her cruel step-sisters and step-father ? is considered one of opera's most difficult arias. No problem for Erraught. Her rendition perfectly mirrored Angelina's transition from a servant singing a simple ditty at the fireside to a princess in full embellished voice.

While he was describing the opera in general terms two centuries ago, feared Vienna critic Eduard Hanslick could have been referring to Erraught's performance when he wrote: "This ... Cinderella is in fact a Cinderella in clothing only; her singing brims over with pearls, velvet and silk."

A hard act to match ? and as Don Ramiro, Angelina's prince, Dmitry Korchak was almost equal to the task.

"Almost," only because his light tenor initially threatened to get lost in the orchestra. But Korchak gained in confidence ? and his voice in power ? effortlessly pinpointing his high C's in "Si ritrovarla io giuro," as he declared that he will find the girl who so enchanted him at the ball, no matter what it takes.

But to do so, he must get past Angelina's step-father, who keeps her in ashes while he plots the prince's marriage to one of his two daughters. As the bumbling Don Magnifico, Alessandro Corbelli was indeed Mr. Magnificent Saturday, bringing the mean and scheming persona to life in a humorously endearing way.

Apropos of mean and scheming: Valentina Nafornita and Margarita Gritskova are beauties visually and vocally but convincingly rotten to the core in their roles as Clorinda and Tisbe, Don Magnificio's preening daughters

Also good ? Vito Priante as Dandini, the prince's servant, and Ildebrando D'Arcengelo as Alidoro, the prince's philosopher. As this Cinderella's de-facto fairy godfather, he pulls the strings behind the scenes to bring the story to a happy ending.

But there is no happy ending in any opera unless the orchestra is up to scratch. With Rossini specialist Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting, musicians of the Vienna State Opera delivered a sparking rendition of a vibrant and complex score. Good singing by members of the Vienna State Orchestra Choir rounded out the evening, in a production as pleasing visually as it was musically.

After the first performance flopped in 1817, Rossini was optimistic proclaiming: "People will love this opera."

They did Saturday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/production-rossinis-cinderella-delight-171333845.html

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Lose your job to technology? Share your story

According to an Associated Press series published last week, the United States lost 7.5 million jobs during the recession, but in the three and a half years since it ended, the country has recovered just 47 percent of those jobs.

What?s worse: Half the jobs lost from December 2007 to June 2009 were middle-class employment, and of the 47 percent of work reclaimed, just 2 percent of those gigs pay middle-class wages, says the AP.

Among the causes, the often-fingered culprit is technology.

Even in a healthy economy, computers have increasingly assumed once-human-held work. In a wrecked economy, they?re capitalizing on it: Employers who weathered tough times over 18 months of the Great Recession learned to do more (or at least as much) with fewer humans and more automation. Now that the recovery is underway, they?re not looking back.

To put a human face to technology-caused unemployment, Yahoo! News is inviting readers who have recently lost a job (whether it?s to computer software, a factory robot or something similar) to share their stories. If technological innovation in the workplace has replaced your position, we?re interested in publishing your first-person account and possibly using it in a project.

There are two ways you can participate. Please choose one and submit your story by Friday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. ET.

1) Write your story at Yahoo! Contributor Network.

Stories that meet our criteria may be published on Yahoo! News under your byline. Learn more about what we?re looking for.

Or:

2) Email your story to contributor-news@yahoo-inc.com.

In 300 to 400 words, share your first-person story of losing your job to advancements in technology and workplace innovation. Please be very detailed and include: Where you worked (company and city), for how long, what you did (be brief but detailed) and when you lost your job. What technological advancement caused you to lose your job? Please be specific. Was it new computer software? A robot? Machines? How did your company use it? Did other people lose their jobs, too? What, specifically, did the new technology do that replaced your duties?

While sharing that information, please also touch on these questions: Are you employed now? If so, what are you doing? Are you making the same wage? How long did it take you to find a job? How do you feel about technological advancements in the workplace? Do you blame your former employer? Did losing your job prompt you to get different or increased training? If so, what, specifically? Also, please include your age and where you live.

Thank you for considering participating. We look forward to receiving your first-person account.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/jobs-lost-technology-share-story-205555859--finance.html

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Brazil to carry out Amazon survey

25 January 2013 Last updated at 19:29 ET

The Brazilian government has announced that it plans to undertake the huge task of recording an inventory of the trees in the Amazon rainforest.

The Forestry Ministry said the census would take four years to complete, and would provide detailed data on tree species, soils and biodiversity in the world's largest rainforest.

The last exhaustive survey was carried out more than 30 years ago.

In that time the rainforest has become increasingly threatened by logging.

The Brazilian government made a commitment in 2009 to reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 80% by the year 2020.

'Inside knowledge'

According to the government, in 2012 the destruction of the Amazon rainforest reached its lowest level since monitoring began more than two decades ago.

But ministers said they would be able to act more effectively if they had more accurate data.

"We are going to come to know the rainforest from within," Forestry Minister Antonio Carlos Hummel said announcing the inventory.

Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said it would help the government to formulate environmental policies.

"In international debates about climate change, for example, we will know how much forest we have and what state it is in (...), we'll discover species, and gain knowledge about species becoming extinct, as well as information about the distribution of the forest and its potential economic use", Ms Teixeira said.

Brazil's national development bank said it would contribute $33m to the project.

The last detailed survey of the Brazilian Amazon was carried out in the 1970s, and its results published in 1983.

Forestry Minister Hummel said partial results would be published yearly, as it progressed.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21208541#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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