Got the blues? Try these healthy good mood foods | Vegan

Does that bag of chips or pint of dairy-free ice cream really make you feel better once the taste has left your palate and the over-1,000 calories has taken residence in your body? Naturally, comfort food feels amazingly good when we eat it but the lift in spirits is only temporary and can even pack on the stress when you realize you?re packing on weight. When you?re feeling the blues or want to nosh your tension away, consider these healthy good mood foods.

Oranges

As soon as you pull off the peel of an orange, the zing of zesty citrus oils instantly perks you up. Oranges are a low-calorie, high-flavor fruit loaded with vitamins that can help lift your spirits.

Kale

Dark leafy greens are a superfood mood booster, rich in vitamins, minerals, and health-promoting phytonutrients. High in folic acid, eating an extra serving or two of kale or any dark leafy can lift you out of the doldrums.

Whole grain bread

If you crave carbs when your mood starts edging towards an all new low, satisfy your crave with whole grains, such as a slice of whole wheat bread, toasted, and slathered with nut butter. The whole wheat bread will give you complex? carbohydrates, which are high in fiber, and can stabilize your blood sugar and boost your energy. Whole grains are also high in B vitamins, which are helpful in boosting moods. (The nut butter is also a good mood food.)

Nuts

Nuts can help you crunch away tension while delivering a tasty bevy of vitamins and minerals, protein, and fiber. Have a handful of raw nuts or partner up nut butter with? whole grain toast. If your yen is for something savory, puree nuts or nut butter with soy sauce, coconut milk, and curry and toss with a modest serving of whole wheat pasta or heaping plate of low-calorie, nutrient-dense veggies.

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Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness

NEW YORK (AP) ? Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people.

The city had shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of the superstorm Sandy as it zeroed in on the nation's largest city.

Residents spent much of the day trying to salvage normal routines, jogging and snapping pictures of the water while officials warned the worst of the storm had not hit.

By evening, a record 13-foot storm surge was threatening Manhattan's southern tip, howling winds had left a crane hanging from a high-rise, and utilities deliberately darkened part of downtown Manhattan to avoid storm damage.

"It's really a complete ghost town now," said Stephen Weisbrot, from a powerless 10th-floor apartment in lower Manhattan.

Water lapped over the seawall in Battery Park City, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. Rescue workers floated bright orange rafts down flooded downtown streets, while police officers rolled slowly down the street with loudspeakers telling people to go home.

"Now it's really turning into something," said Brian Damianakes, taking shelter in an ATM vestibule and watching a trash can blow down the street in Battery Park before the storm surge.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday night that the surge was expected to recede by midnight, after exceeding an original expectation of 11 feet.

We knew that this was going to be a very dangerous storm and the storm has met our expectations," he said. "This is a once-in-a-long-time storm."

Shortly after the massive storm made landfall in southern New Jersey, Consolidated Edison cut power deliberately to about 6,500 customers in downtown Manhattan to avert further damage. Then, huge swaths of the city went dark, losing power to 250,000 customers in Manhattan, Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert said.

New York University's hospital lost backup power, Bloomberg said. Late Monday, a bright orange explosion lit up the night sky on the east side of lower Manhattan, near a Con Ed substation.

"It sounded like the Fourth of July," said Weisbrot.

Another 1 million customers lost power earlier Monday in New York City, the northern suburbs and coastal Long Island, where floodwaters swamped cars, downed trees and put neighborhoods under water.

The storm had only killed one New York City resident by Monday night, a man who died when a tree fell on his home in the Flushing section of Queens.

The rains and howling winds, some believed to reach more than 95 mph, left a crane hanging off a luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan, causing the evacuation of hundreds from a posh hotel and other buildings. Inspectors were climbing 74 flights of stairs to examine the crane hanging from the $1.5 billion.

The facade of a four-story Manhattan building in the Chelsea neighborhood crumbled and collapsed suddenly, leaving the lights, couches, cabinets and desks inside visible from the street. No one was hurt, although some of the falling debris hit a car.

On coastal Long Island, floodwaters swamped cars, downed trees and put neighborhoods under water as beachfronts and fishing villages bore the brunt of the storm. A police car was lost rescuing 14 people from the popular resort Fire Island.

The city shut all three of its airports, its subways, schools, stock exchanges, Broadway theaters and closed several bridges and tunnels throughout the day as the weather worsened.

Earlier, some New Yorkers defiantly soldiered on, trying to salvage normal routines and refusing to evacuate, as the mayor ordered 375,000 in low-lying areas to do.

Tanja Stewart and her 7-year-old son, Finn, came from their home in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood to admire the white caps on the Hudson, Finn wearing a pair of binoculars around his neck. "I really wanted to see some big waves," he said.

Keith Reilly posed in an Irish soccer jersey for a picture above the rising waters of New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty in the background.

"This is not so bad right now," said the 25-year-old Reilly.

On Long Island, floodwaters had begun to deluge some low-lying towns and nearly 150,000 customers had lost power. Cars floated along the streets of Long Beach and flooding consumed several blocks south of the bay, residents said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, holding a news conference on Long Island where the lights flickered and his mike went in and out, said most of the National Guards deployed to the New York City area would go to Long Island.

Anoush Vargas drove with her husband, Michael to the famed Jones Beach Monday morning, only to find it covered by water.

"We have no more beach. It's gone," she said, shaking her head as she watched the waves go under the boardwalk.

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Associated Press writers Karen Matthews, Colleen Long and Deepti Hajela in New York, Larry Neumeister, Frank Eltman and Meghan Barr on Long Island, and Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Md., contributed to this report.

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Oliver Stone: Sandy is punishment

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By Josh Grossberg, E! Online

If there's one thing Oliver Stone wishes would come out of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it's the hope that President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, pull a U-turn on climate change.?

But he's not counting on it.

In an interview with HuffPost Live on Tuesday, the 66-year-old filmmaker expressed dismay that neither presidential candidate has been willing to talk about the impact of global warming, especially after an unprecedented superstorm savaged the East Coast earlier this week with a catastrophic intensity some scientific experts have attributed to warming seas and melting of polar ice.

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"I was a little disappointed at the third debate when neither of them talked about climate control and the nature of the situation on earth," Stone said. "I think there's a kind of a weird statement coming right after it. This is a punishment. Mother Nature cannot be ignored."

The Born on the Fourth of July helmer predicted that the increasing climate crisis will continue to rear its ugly head well beyond the current election.

He added: "That's all I thought about. The storm will pass. The campaign will pass. But unfortunately the nature of this present world situation will not."

Check out our gallery of stars getting political?

Stone, by the way, also revealed that he voted early and cast his ballot for Obama, despite bashing the president for continuing some of the Bush administration's policies in a new book he co-authored called "The Untold History of the United States" that hit stores yesterday.

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Citigroup prepared for trading after power outages

(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said it was ready for markets to re-open on Wednesday despite power outages in the waterside neighborhood where it is located and flood damage in a building where its investment bankers work.

"We are prepared for the re-opening of the markets, and will utilize our back-up locations to ensure continuity of operations until our staff can return to our Lower Manhattan offices," the company said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier in the day, the company said that its building with trading floors at 390 Greenwich Street, which is a short distance north of the World Trade Center site, was running on power from a generator and was expected to be accessible in the next two days.

An adjacent skyscraper, where investment bankers work, sustained minor flooding from Hurricane Sandy and had no power, according to a Tuesday memo to employees that was seen by Reuters. That building is also expected to be accessible in the next two days, the memo said. It is also used by Citigroup's transaction services unit, which caters to corporations and governments around the world.

The memo said damage assessments were continuing.

A building at 111 Wall Street, which is the bank's third major facility in downtown Manhattan and is used by some of the company's back-office processing and human resources staff, had severe flooding and will be out of commission for several weeks, according to another staff memo sent later on Tuesday.

Citigroup has a back-up trading floor in New Jersey that it planned to use as of Sunday, two sources at the bank said on Sunday.

Global investment banks generally have large trading desks in Europe and Asia that can help carry workloads for one another.

Bank branches were still closed in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware, according to the memo. The bank said it was trying to open branches in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts on Tuesday afternoon.

(Reporting by David Henry in New York; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/citigroup-prepared-trading-power-outages-233846424--sector.html

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Giveway: $50 Gift Certificate for Kitchen Supplies!

My friend Barbara owns and runs a kitchen supply store called The Kitchen Outlet.

?Today we?re teaming up to give one lucky reader a $50 gift certificate to buy anything you like from her kitchen supplies store.?

How perfect for the holidays coming up!

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Based out of California, Barbara sells?anything and everything?you need and want in your kitchen.??We?re talking baking tools, kitchen gadgets, party supplies, adorable aprons, fun gifts, and much much more.

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?The Kitchen Outlet is a one-stop-kitchen supply-shop!

They sell Silpats! We all know I cannot bake a single cookie, a batch of granola, roast a veggie or broil fish without my beloved nonstick silicone mat.

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Silpats help my cookies spread less, allowing them to bake up thicker and more evenly. No need for buttering the pan or using parchment paper. They are also dishwasher friendly. LOVE.

Many have asked you where I bought mine.? Buy them here!

I couldn?t have baked my Death by Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies without my Silpat!

A?Silpat non-stick baking mat also made?my Cookie Dough Truffle Pops easier to handle!

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Also?catching my eye?at The Kitchen Outlet is the collection of Lolita glassware.

I personally have a few of these glasses already ? they make perfect gifts- birthday, holiday, valentine?s day, bridal shower, etc. They are glasses (wine, margarita, martini, mugs) with a bit more flair ? dressed up with a fun painted pattern and a drink recipe card attached. I?m buying some as Christmas presents for my friends.

The Kitchen Outlet has the best prices that I?ve seen for Lolita glassware!

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Pineapple is one of my favorite fruits, so I?m excited to save time and a lot of work!

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?Oh, and how adorable is this?heart-shaped bamboo cheese board?

Probably the cutest cutting board you?ll ever find. Only $7.99!

Perfectly sized?heart shaped cookie cutters,?anyone?

It would be hard to make Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondie Hearts without them!

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Tough decisions: vote makes my head hurt ? Sports Journalists ...

Home > #SJA2012 > Tough decisions: voting?s making my head hurt

In this greatest year in the history of British sport, the choice of who should win our coveted SJA Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year titles ? the Daddy and the Mummy of sporting awards ? has never been more challenging.

It?s given NORMAN GILLER quite a headache

Bradley Wiggins: the Tour de France winner pays keen attention to what the papers say, even French ones

When Bradley Wiggins became the first Brit to win the Tour de France ? followed almost immediately by an Olympic gold medal ? the men?s award at this year?s SJA British Sports Awards seemed nailed on for him.

But, innocent as I am sure he is, how saddled is he with the fall-out from the shaming of dope pedaller Lance Armstrong? The strain is bound to tell on Wiggins: yesterday?s launch announcement in Paris for the 2013 centenary Tour was dominated by questions about Armstrong, who earlier this week was stripped of his seven Tour de France victories.

Cycling is in crisis to the point where double decathlon Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson is calling for the sport to be thrown out of the Games.

It is as bonkers as Boris Johnson dangling on a zip wire over the Olympic Park. Track and field has been heaving with athletes taking the steroid to paradise for years.

Discussing this with another Express expat, Randall Northam ? publisher, SJA Treasurer and athletics writer ? he summed it up perfectly. ?It is an entirely ridiculous, stones-and-glasshouses suggestion coming from someone from a sport that has given the world Ben Johnson, Marion Jones and Linford Christie,? he said. ?If you are going to ban cycling from the Olympics because of drug cheats, then athletics, weightlifting and swimming would be next in line. Where would you stop??

Kicking cycling out of the Olympics is not the answer. No, cleaning up the sport is the only way, with zero tolerance and instant life-long disqualification for anybody caught cheating.

Thanks to the cycling charlatan Armstrong, it seems to me that Bradley Wiggins has as much chance of becoming Sportsman of the Year as Victoria Pendleton of winning Strictly Come Dancing. That means it is not out of the question, but he is certainly not, as seemed likely, going to waltz to the title.

In any other year Andy Murray?s triple whammy of Wimbledon final, Olympic gold medal and then US Grand Slam would have assured him the award. But there?s the Olympic double of Mo-Mo Farah to consider, the plain sailing of Ben Ainslie, the velodrome victories of Sir Chris Hoy and the whizzing wheelchair deeds of David Weir.

Olympic boxing gold medal-winner Nicola Adams is one of a number of outstanding candidates for the SJA?s Sportswoman of the Year title

The women?s race is nearly as tight, with heptathlete Jessica Ennis a hot favourite but under pressure from smiling assassin Nicola Adams, clean cyclists Victorian Pendleton. Laura Trott and Sarah Storey, and coming up on the outside incredible Paralympian swimming sensation Ellie Simmonds.

And why do I refer to the SJA?s British Sports Awards as the Mummy and Daddy of sporting awards? A quick history lesson to show why the BBC?s Sports Personality of the Year award will always be playing catch-up?

The first Sportsman of the Year award was introduced by my old paper the Daily Express, and it was a cyclist who was the inaugural winner back in the London Olympic year of 1948. Reg Harris, silver medallist in the sprint, pedalled to first place.

The Sports Writers? Association (now the SJA) followed with their award in 1949, but lacked the publicity, muscle and money of an Express then selling 4.2 million copies a day.

BBC sports boss Paul Fox decided the Beeb should get in on the act in 1954, and to avoid being seen as a complete rip-off from the Express or the SWA, they called their award the ?Sports Personality of the Year?. It was first featured in their midweek flagship Sportsview programme.

In a postcard poll, Chris Chataway pulled in 14,517 votes to beat Roger Bannister into second place. This was a complete nonsense in the year that Roger not only became the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier but also won the Empire mile title ? in the ?Race of the Century? against Aussie John Landy ? and the European 1,500m gold medal.

It demonstrated, even then, the power of television: Chataway benefited from beating Vladimir Kuts in an electrifying 5,000m race, shown live on TV from London?s White City just two months before the award was announced. With all the new technology and progress in presentations, nobody has been able to beat the way Chataway and Kuts were picked out in a spotlight as they raced neck and neck on the final lap in their floodlit thriller.

The Daily Express and the Sports Writers? Association got it right that year, and awarded their trophies to Roger Bannister, who should have been a mile ahead in the BBC poll. The judgement of our fellow members, the sports journalists, have been as reliable ever since.

The awards project used to be the biggest thing on the Express budget when I was in the sports team in the 1960s and ?70s. Sir Max Aitken, son of Lord Beaverbrook, was sports mad, and encouraged a glittering ceremony at which he used to make the main presentation. First man to hand over the BBC?s trophy to Chris Chataway was their own presenter, Peter Dimmock.

Roger Bannister en route to the first sub-four-minute mile: not good enough for the BBC award in 1954, he was the sportswriters? Sportsman of the Year

Now the BBC awards show has grown so big they use our TV licence money to hire a major indoor arena for an evening of back-slapping (and some back-stabbing), while the Express does not even manage a whisper. This year?s SPOTY is coming live from the Excel Arena on December 16 ? 10 days after our awards ? in front of an audience of 15,000, and a spectacular show will be anchored by Gary Lineker, Sue Barker and the unstoppable Clare Balding.

The SJA ceremony, into its 63rd year, has settled down into a much-acclaimed lunch event, with the Sportsman, Sportswoman and Team of the Year winners chosen by members? votes. Our distinguished President Sir Michael Parkinson will make the main presentations this year at the Tower of London in front of an audience of around 500 media colleagues, as well as many leading sports figures and other celebrities.

We have been recognising the exploits of our sportswomen with an individual award since back in 1959, when long jumper Mary Bignal was the winner. She won it again five years later as Olympic champion Mary Rand.

To their everlasting embarrassment, the BBC last year managed to have a shortlist without a single (or married) woman on it. They blamed it on ?Fleet Street?, because it was the all-male sports editors who proposed the runners and riders.

No chance of a repeat this year. The shortlist for viewers to choose from has been increased from 10 to 12, and this time it will be decided by a mix of a dozen experts under the supervision of director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater, daughter of ex-Wolves and England footballer Bill Slater.

Joining Slater on the panel are Paralympic luminary Baroness Grey-Thompson, Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis, broadcaster Eleanor Oldroyd, sports journalist Sue Mott and UK Sport chair Baroness Campbell.

They will be joined in their deliberations by Sir Steve Redgrave, BBC?s head of sport Philip Bernie, programme editor Carl Doran (between them, the two men responsible for delivering SPOTY), and trio of newspaper sports editors Mike Dunn (The Sun), Matthew Hancock (The Observer) and Lee Clayton (Daily Mail). You will notice no female sports editor. That, chaps, should be an appointment waiting to happen anytime soon.

Now excuse me, I have a voting form to fill out. Pass the aspirin.

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Are You Even Listening to Me? ? AARP

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Q: Why is it that when a couple is trying to communicate, the conversation can get lost when one spouse gets upset before the problem is resolved? The conversation then becomes about arguing and isn?t productive. How does one fix this?

Dr. Pepper Schwartz: It?s a great question. Not everyone says what they mean or means what they say ?and it costs a lot of extra heartache.? There is a style of communicating that you may want to look to for help. Perfected by the psychologist Harville Hendrix, it requires that, essentially, you slow down communication. One person holds a scarf or something that indicates he or she has ?the floor? and it is his or her time to talk. While that person is holding the object, the other person cannot voice an opinion.

Here?s what a typical conversation might sound like:

The person with ?the floor:? ?I am unhappy about the way the house looks when I can?t keep up with the mess, and it upsets me that you don?t help me clean.?

The other person then interprets what the first person said and repeats it back to the person in his or her own words: ?So, I heard you say the house is dirty and you want me to help pick up after you.?

That might not be what Person 1 wanted to get across. So he or she might say:

?No, what I said is that the house is messy, and I can?t keep it clean all by myself, so I need your help.?

Then, Person 1 passes ?the floor? over to the other person.

Person 2 says: ? OK, now I get it. The house is getting away from you and you want me to help you clean it.?

Then, if Person 1 agrees with the response, he or she gets back ?the floor? and says:

?Yes, that?s right. And I?d particularly like it if you made the beds in the morning while I make breakfast.?

You can see how it goes. You go back and forth ?making sure you are understood until that point is handled. However, the other person may want to chime in occasionally. Repeat your point, but try to come to a compromise, such as designating a day where you both clean.

In any case, it?s a beginning. Slow down, make sure you understand each other, and offer concrete suggestions about how to move forward. It should help!

Dr. Schwartz?answers questions?every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.?Submit your question here.?Read more of Pepper?s?columns here.?And be sure to follow Pepper on Twitter?@pepperschwartz.

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