Health and Beauty benefits of oats

He looked down at the bowl she put in front of him. "Oatmeal?"

"It'll stick to you, coat your stomach."

"Mrs. Patch used to make me eat oatmeal," he said, thinking of the sharp stick of a woman who'd cooked for them when he was a boy.

"Every day before school, fall, winter, and spring."

"Mrs. Patch knew what was good for you."

"She used to put a little maple syrup in it."

Feeling her lips twitch, Annie reached into a cupboard.

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This whole-grain food known scientifically as Avena sativa has become very popular and is known for its high fiber and healthy cholesterol-lowering properties.

Having oats in your breakfast is one of the healthiest ways you can possibly start your day. While they are generally disliked by children, this shouldn’t be much of a problem if you are an adult.

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Too hot for oatmeal? Try overnight oats

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"Then I'll have the oatmeal."

"You eat oatmeal?" She wrinkled her sexily crooked nose. 

"Without somebody holding a knife to

your throat?"

"It sticks with you."

"Yeah, for weeks."

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Incredible Dog Houses for Your Best Friend

Nate realized one of the outbuildings was an elaborate doghouse, 

decorated with totem figures painted in a primitive-art folksy style.

High life, all right. 

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For millions of people across the globe, dogs aren't just pets, they're part of the family. And a beloved member of the family deserves the best possible living space. Here are a dozen amazing dog homes to help inspire your own canine creations. 

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"The Dark Night of the Soul"

Fascinated, he shut off the engine.

And heard the music.

It filled the world. A strong, sweet female voice, twined around strings and pipes 
lifted with sunrise over the endless white.

It soared over him when he stepped out of the truck and seemed to come 
from the air or the earth or the sky.

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"I was just. . . what's that music?"

"Loreena McKennit. Like it?"

"It's amazing. It's like . . . God."

She laughed. "You're the first man I've met who'll admit She's a woman."

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An Eyelash-Freezing ‘Icy Hell’

The cold struck him like a runaway train. "Jesus Christ. It freezes your eyeballs."

He jumped into the Ford Explorer she'd parked at the curb. "Your blood's thin yet."

"It could be thick as paste, and it'd still be fucking cold. Sorry."

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The moment you step out into the frozen air on the way up Mount Washington — one of the most frigid spots in the lower 48 — the icy wind steals your breath and freezes your eyelashes. You can’t blink. The cold stabs your face and numbs your earlobes to rubber.

“It’s an icy hell,” said Amy Loughlin

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Every breath was like inhaling splinters of ice. 

Those same splinters managed to spear around his goggles and into his eyes. 

Every inch of his body was double or triple wrapped, and he was still breathlessly cold. 

It didn't seem real, any of it. 

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What to Wear on New Year's Eve

He did, however, manage to focus on her. She was wearing a dress. 

He supposed the technical term was dress for the skin of hot red painted on her. 

It showed off that tight, athletic body he'd imagined in ways that might have been illegal in several jurisdictions. She'd left her hair down. Black rain to milk-white shoulders. 

Sky-high heels the same color as the dress showcased slim, muscular legs.

She smelled like cool, secret shadows.

"You look amazing."

"I clean up good if the occasion warrants it." 

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Your Christmas dress is already in the bag but the party’s not over yet because New Year’s Eve is right around the corner. 

And, while we tend to go on about how overrated it is, as one of the biggest party nights of the year what you wear really does matter.

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the stories behind 25 celeb tattoos

“By the way, I like the tat.”

“Good-luck charm,” she told him. “If I wear the dragon, the dragon doesn’t wear me. How

about yours?” She walked around to tap the letters scrolled over his left shoulder blade. “Teine,”

she said.

“It’s pronounced ‘teen,’ not ‘The-ine.’ Old Irish for fire. I guess if I wear the fire, it doesn’t

wear me.”

Chasing Fire 

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For some of these celebrities, the art on their bodies is more than just skin-deep.

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And he saw, with a surprised jolt of lust when she turned to switch off the light, to leave only the candles and fire burning, the little tattoo of spreading red wings at the small of her back.

"Half the thoughts in my head just evaporated."

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Your Couch Personality

The room might be clean, but it did reflect his style.

The sofa was the dominant piece of furniture. Low and far from new, it was plumped with throw pillows. A Dagwood couch, Tess thought. One that simply begged you to relax and take a nap. 

There were posters rather than paintings. Toulouse-Lautrec’s cancan dancers, a single woman’s leg standing in a four inch heel, skimmed at the thigh with white lace. 

There was a Dieffenbachia thriving away in a plastic margarine bowl. 

And books. One wall was nearly filled with them. Delighted, she pulled out a worn hard backed copy of East of Eden.

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What Your Couch Says About You

It's like a crystal ball in the middle of your living room.

Everyone has a couch (hello, you have to sit on something while you watch your favorite TV show). 

But whether you choose a design based on comfort, style, or even price is quite telling. 

Find out what your sofa says about your personality:

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He'd expected rustic and saw even in the half-light he'd been well off the mark.

In the spacious living area, the walls were a pale yellow. To mimic the sun, he supposed, and keep the dark at bay. 

The fireplace was built of polished stone in golden hues so that simmering logs glowed inside its frame. She had squat candles on the mantel in deeper yellows and dark blues. 

The long sofa picked up the blues and was decked with the toss pillows women insisted on having everywhere. A thick throw, with her key colors bleeding into each other, was draped over the back.

There were lamps with painted shades, gleaming tables, a patterned rug and two big chairs.

Watercolors, oil paintings, pastels, all of Alaskan scenes, decorated the walls.

To his left, stairs led up, and he found himself grinning at the newel post carved into a totem.

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Besides, you can't really see this from inside."

"See what?"

"Look up, Lower 48."

He looked where she pointed and lost his breath. "Holy God."

"Yeah, I always thought it was holy. A natural phenom caused by latitude, sunspots and so on. Scientific explanations don't make it less beautiful, or magical."

The lights in the sky were green with shimmers of gold, hints of red. The long, eerie streaks seemed to pulse and breathe, bathing the dark with life.

"The northern lights show best in the winter, but it's usually too damn cold to appreciate them. Figured this was a good night for the exception."

"I've heard of them. Seen pictures. It's not like the pictures."

"The best things never are.

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3 great places to watch the northern lights

 in America

 

 

 

 Right now, you may see the aurora borealis – also known as the northern lights – from northern California to the Texas Panhandle to the Virginia coast. About every 11 years, the sun's magnetic-field activity peaks, causing the lights to blaze farther south. 

 

Here are top three spots to see the light shows, starting near the fall equinox on Sept. 22. 

 

"It's as good as you think," NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center scientist Joseph Kunches says. "It's worth staying up late to see."

 

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"So you came here."

"To bury myself. But things happened. I saw the mountains. I saw the lights. Northern lights."

He looked at her and realized by the faint smile on her face she understood. 

He didn't have to say more. So he could say more.

"And I saw you. Similar reaction to all. Something inside me wanted to come back to life."

 

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strange sounds

"Look up, Lower 48."

He looked where she pointed and lost his breath. "Holy God."

"Yeah, I always thought it was holy. A natural phenom caused by latitude, sunspots and so on.

Scientific explanations don't make it less beautiful, or magical."

The lights in the sky were green with shimmers of gold, hints of red. The long, eerie streaks seemed

to pulse and breathe, bathing the dark with life.

"I've heard of them. Seen pictures. It's not like the pictures."

"The best things never are."

The otherworldly green continued to shift, glow, expand, shimmer. It was raining liquid jewels of color.

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Northern Lights Oddity: Strange Sounds of Auroras Explained

 

 

The northern lights of Earth are more than just dazzling light shows — they also generate their own strange applause too, a new study reveals.

The same energetic particles that create the dancing, dazzling northern lights high up in Earth's atmosphere also produce strange "clapping" noises just 230 feet (70 meters) from the ground, researchers said.

The results vindicate folktales and reports by wilderness travelers, which have long described sounds associated with the northern lights

 

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