This ART is called PURE "LITLE STONE" (PICS)

Stone Woman front the Sea

An anonymous artist is dedicated to creating works of art fascinates stones on the beaches.

The talent of this person is Truly Impressive at the sight of many.

Indeed, here we leave you a compilation of some of his designs that surely will leave you with your mouth open:

Stone Turtle

Stone Cat

The Screaming of Van Gogh made with Stones

Stone Tucan

Stone Owl

Stone Owl Open Wings

Stone Lovers with Dogs

Stone Dog

Stone Father with Kid under the Rain

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THE ART OF HEALTHY EATING - SAVORY: Grain Free Low Carb Reinvented

Choosing a healthy lifestyle doesn't have to mean a lifetime of deprivation. This book is filled with mouth-watering foods and nutrition facts that demonstrate how eating healthy can be an expression of art. Included are recipes for your favorite comfort foods like pasta, lasagna, risotto, calzones, sushi, clam chowder in a bread bowl, baked brie, chicken pot pie, chili cheese "fries", tomato basil sandwich wraps, pizza, tortillas, and many more. There are also lots of valuable tips and tricks to help one along the journey of learning how to eat as an art.

Why We Get Fat

I grew up with a passion for sports as well as food; my body shape revealed my two loves. I was athletic yet fat. How to lose weight was a complicated puzzle for me, but once I found the right pieces to fit the ‘hormone puzzle’, it became easy. I learned the secrets of the hormone insulin and the lesser known hormone leptin, that by adopting a very low-glycemic, high-fat (not just highprotein) diet, I had re-sensitized my biochemistry to these essential hormones, which turn off severe food cravings. Best of all, my diet makeover required a lot less self-deprivation than previous diets that didn’t stimulate weight loss. 

The nutrient-rich, relatively high-fat dietary approach I have developed for myself incorporates exotic, little-known replacements for high-glycemic, starchy foods.

This philosophy finally gave me total peace with food; something I never imagined possible. The weight came off, even more than my original goal. Included in this book are exotic, tasty, weight loss foods. The love-hate relationship with food typically starts with innocent dieting and calorie counting, followed by out of control bingeing that causes dangerous extremes, such as skipping meals, obsessive-compulsive exercise, and purging. No wonder food becomes the enemy and we become increasingly frustrated and unhappy as we fight the daily battle. I help clients discover that through proper nutrition education, including how to choose the right foods, they can live a life free from cravings and weight gain.

Before my revelation of the biochemistry of food and our weight, I was so proud of my “perfect” diet of whole grains, fruits, and fat-free desserts, but I was still puzzled why I had uncontrollable food cravings. By finding the correct supplements to change my biochemical imbalances, I started a high healthy-fat, grain-free, no-starch diet; I finally found peace in my body. I didn’t feel deprived or compelled to overeat.

The ‘secret’ is to control leptin and insulin hormones. Any diet that stops blood sugar and insulin spikes also allows the cells to regain sensitivity to the noteworthy anti-aging, weight and hunger regulating hormone called leptin. The hardest part is to remove my clients’ fear of fat, because it is almost impossible to obtain this effect without significant amounts of fat in the diet. High protein alone doesn’t work because excess protein will also turn to sugar. Low fat, high protein diets will fail to keep your blood sugar from spiking, and will not allow your leptin hormone to increase. Ron Rosedale, MD, author of The Rosedale Diet and a pioneering scientist on the hormone leptin, states, “If you don’t get enough fat, you will likely eat too much protein, which then turns to sugar.” Do you know what a normal blood sugar level is? 1 cup? 2 cups? NO, 1 TEASPOON of sugar is a normal blood sugar for adults, children, teens and babies. Blood sugar increases insulin and insulin is TOXIC to our bodies and cells.

Insulin and its counterbalancing hormone, glucagon, are in charge of controlling metabolism. The word insulin may immediately call up an association with diabetes, which is totally valid. Controlling blood sugar is insulin’s most important job. Many people with heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure in their families have inherited a tendency for their insulin sensors on the cells to malfunction because of years of high sugar and starch consumption.

As these sensors become tired, insulin resistance develops. Since it’s essential to get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells, the pancreas overcompensates by making more and more insulin to force the tired sensors to work. This starts a detrimental cycle of needing ever more insulin to keep the process going. Some people become so resistant to insulin that the amount necessary to make the sensors respond and clear the sugar from the blood is more than their pancreas can make; that person becomes diabetic.

Excess insulin causes a variety of other detrimental problems: it increases the production of cholesterol in the liver, thickens the walls of the arteries, “causing high blood pressure”; the kidneys retain salt and fluid, and it tells our fat cells to store excess starch and sugar.

Insulin’s actions are countered by glucagon. Glucagon alerts the liver to slow down triglyceride and cholesterol production, tells the kidneys to release excess salt and fluid, the artery wall to relax and lower blood pressure, and the fat cells to release stored fat to be burned for energy. Insulin, however, is a stronger hormone than glucagon and when it is high, it suppresses glucagon’s actions. After a childhood of sugar and starch consumption, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance happens.

What we eat controls the production of these hormones. This book will teach you how to stimulate glucagon by keeping insulin low, which will allow the metabolism to heal and the malfunctioning sensors to regain sensitivity. Once this healing occurs, the metabolic disturbances caused by elevated insulin will improve or disappear; cholesterol and triglycerides will return to normal, blood pressure returns to normal, blood sugar will stabilize and you will achieve a normal body weight. There’s no need to spend huge amounts of money on medications for band-aid “solutions.” The affirmative testimonies of my clients support the fact that nutrition is key to a healthy body. You can pay the doctor or you can pay the farmer.

In Gary Taubes book, Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It, a very interesting study conducted by the National Institute of Health, had 20,000 women who were very overweight go on a low calorie diet. On average, the women consumed 360 calories a day less on their diets than they did when they first agreed to participate. If obesity is caused by overeating, then these women were “under-eating” by 360 calories/day. They ate 20% less calories than what the public-health agencies tell us women should eat. The result? After 8 years, the women lost an average of 2 pounds each!

AND their waist circumference increased! Which demonstrates that the women didn’t lose fat, they lost muscle. This is why a calorie isn’t a calorie! A pound of fat contains 3500 calories. Eating 360 calories less everyday should have had the women lose 2 pounds of fat in the first 2 weeks and more than 36 pounds in the first year!

It is all about WHAT we eat rather than how much. Our bodies create biological responses to everything we consume! Choosing the right foods at the right time is an art.

This book is for everyone who has been frustrated with how they look and feel. Maybe you look great, but your health is suffering because you don’t have a sense of well-being. Nutrition is fundamental to our health and ability to function at the optimum level daily. I love feeling energetic and confident and desire the same for you! Constant deprivation and guilt regarding food made me miserable. Proper nutrition freed me from that vicious cycle and it will do the same for you, with healthy eating habits and enjoy real food with miraculous benefits.

Check out the delicate Sushi. You won’t believe how simple it is to make and how wonderful it tastes!

Why Weight Loss Gets Harder

Losing weight gets harder each time! Why, you ask? Well, a healthy liver is the main organ that governs fat loss. It processes hormones, cleanses the cells of toxins, makes cholesterol, breaks down fats, metabolizes carbohydrates and proteins, as well as many other bodily functions. When a liver is constantly stressed by dieting, it gets tired and toxic, which makes it unable to assist you in your weight loss journey. Not only that, but in Chinese medicine, they consider the liver function to govern our emotions. When the liver is stressed by poor food, alcohol, fructose and sugar, lack of sleep, or pollution, you are most likely to be depressed, anxious or angry. Low liver function causes food cravings, binge eating and excretion of too much cortisol.... causing more liver stress... It is a vicious cycle! Not to mention, if you go on anti depressants because your liver is causing low moods, the anti depressant causes more toxicity to your liver, which causes more depression and inability to lose weight.

The term “leaky gut” refers to when waste and partially digested foods are allowed into the blood stream due to perforations in the intestinal wall. People who are very sensitive to food poisoning have weak intestinal walls which allow bacteria to enter the blood easily. People who take antacids allow food particles to sit in their digestive system too long causing stress on the intestinal wall and are subject to leaky gut. This all causes water retention and stress on the liver. Some clients gain about 10-15 pounds of extra fluids. A healthy body is about 2/3rds water (hydrated cells are happy

cells!) but when you have a leaky gut, water gets trapped and is unable to filter out toxins and waste; this also inhibits cell functions including the movement of fat. This is where cellulite comes into play. Your lymphatic system gets overwhelmed which causes the undesired effect of cellulite.

Also, our body and fat cells want to stay at “homeostasis”... when you lose weight, your fat cells shrink. When this happens, one of the 25 messengers in the fat cells sends powerful messages to the brain to eat. This message often sends people into an over-feeding binge, making the fat cells even larger and makes your set point even higher. Yo-yo dieting is very detrimental to fat cell growth.

CLINTON CASH - THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW AND WHY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESS HELPED MAKE BILL AND HILLARY RICH

In 2000 Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then they've earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six-figure fees for speaking gigs. Now Peter Schweizer shows who is really behind those enormous payments.

In his New York Times best-selling books Extortion and Throw Them All Out, Schweizer detailed patterns of official corruption in Washington that led to congressional resignations and new ethics laws. In Clinton Cash he follows the Clinton money trail, revealing the connection between their personal fortune, their close personal friends, the Clinton Foundation, foreign nations, and some of the highest ranks of government.

Schweizer reveals the Clintons' troubling dealings in Kazakhstan, Colombia, Haiti, and other places at the Wild West fringe of the global economy, where business is often conducted on the basis of bribes and personal connections. In this blockbuster exposé, Schweizer does not allege illegal or unethical behavior; he merely presents the troubling facts he's uncovered. Meticulously researched and scrupulously sourced, filled with headline-making revelations, Clinton Cash raises serious questions of judgment, of possible indebtedness to an array of foreign interests, and ultimately of fitness for high public office.

CLINTON CASH OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY MOVIE ( FULL )

CHAPTER 1

Ask Team Clinton about the flow of tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation (the formal name is the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation) from foreign governments, corporations, and financiers and you typically get an interesting explanation: it’s a sign of love. “As president, he was beloved around the world, so it should come as no surprise that there has been an outpouring of financial support from around the world to sustain his post-presidential work.” 

1 Ask Bill about the tens of millions of dollars he has made in speaking fees around the world, paid for by the same cast of characters, and you will get an equally charitable explanation: it’s evidence of his desire to help people. By giving these highly paid speeches, Clinton says, “I try to help people think about what’s going on and organize their lives accordingly.” 

2 Millions of dollars as a sign of pure affection; millions more for helping people think about their lives. By this logic, politicians who raise millions of dollars a year must be the most beloved people in America—and the most charitable.

The reality is that most of what happens in American politics is transactional. People look for ways to influence those in power by throwing money in their direction. Politicians are all too happy to vacuum up contributions from supporters and people who want access or something in return. After politicians leave office, they often trade on their relationships and previous positions to enrich themselves and their families.

The law dictates how much politicians can collect in campaign contributions, limits their ability to make money on the side, and requires the disclosure of those contributors. Hopefully, politicians are also limited to some extent by their conscience. A sense of decency and good judgment ought to

prevent politicians on both sides of the aisle from engaging in certain transactions—even if they think they can get away with it.

But while there is ample debate about which transactions should be limited and how, there is nearuniversal agreement that the game, however muddy, should be exclusively played by Americans. For this reason, it has long been illegal for foreigners to contribute to US political campaigns. In 2012 two foreign nationals challenged the constitutionality of that law. The US Supreme Court decided 9–0 declaring the law not only constitutional, but eminently reasonable. 

3 The Clintons, however, often take money from foreign entities. And that money, donated to the Clinton Foundation or paid in speaking fees, comes in amounts much larger than any campaign contribution. Indeed, the scope and extent of these payments are without precedent in American politics.

As a result, the Clintons have become exceedingly wealthy.

The big question is whether taking such money constitutes a transaction. The Clintons would undoubtedly argue that it does not. The evidence presented in this book suggests otherwise.

Any serious journalist or investigator will tell you that proving corruption by a political figure is extremely difficult. Short of someone involved coming forward to give sworn testimony, we don’t know what might or might not have been said in private conversations, the exact nature of a transaction, or why people in power make the decisions they do. This is why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sets up sting operations: to catch suspected malefactors in the act.

That is also why investigators look primarily at patterns of behavior. Imagine, for example, that you are exploring whether a politician is doing favors for a major campaign contributor in a manner that might be illegal. If investigators were to find that the timing of major campaign contributions occurred immediately before the politician made a highly favorable decision for the donor, and that this pattern could be well established, such timing would certainly warrant further investigation.

This was precisely the approach I took in my 2011 book, Throw Them All Out, concerning stock trades and members of Congress. Were members of Congress engaged in insider trading in the stock market? I looked at both their stock trades and their official activities, such as voting on certain bills.

I discovered that politicians from both parties had curious patterns in their stock picks, often buying and selling at opportune times. During the 2008 financial crisis, for example, some politicians sold stocks or shorted the market (bet that it would go lower) shortly after receiving secret economic briefings from senior government officials.

Was this proof that insider trading had taken place? No. As I pointed out in the book, we could not know precisely why the politicians were making these particular trades at those particular times. But the patterns were highly suspicious. Shortly after the release of the book and a 60 Minutes segment on my findings, politicians from both parties cooperated in passing the STOCK Act, which was designed

to outlaw congressional insider trading. President Barack Obama condemned the practice during his 2012 State of the Union Address and later signed the STOCK Act into law. (The law was subsequently gutted by Congress and the White House, but that’s another story.) I can proudly say that

my findings were attacked by both Republicans and Democrats.

In a legal sense I could not prove that insider trading had taken place. I didn’t know precisely the motivations at work when stocks were being traded. But the pattern and timing of those trades raised questions so troubling that even members of Congress could not ignore it.

In 2013 I published a follow-up called Extortion, which argued that members of Congress from both parties were in the habit of “extorting” campaign contributions and other favors from businesses and outside groups. Money flowing into politics was not just about outside interests trying to “bribe” politicians; politicians were knowingly putting outside interests in a position where they had to buy “protection” from them. I also released to the public for the first time the “party dues” lists whereby politicians were required to pay a certain amount of money to their party in order to obtain seats on certain congressional committees. The more important the committee, the more you were expected to pay. I further explained how politicians from both parties were using leadership PACs to feather their own nests, tapping those funds to pay for things that enhanced their own lifestyles.

Was I able to prove intent or know why politicians were doing what they were doing? Of course not. But as before, the timing of these transactions was highly suspicious. Once again, 60 Minutes ran a segment about my findings which led to legislation being introduced that would restrict how leadership PAC funds were used. And once again, my findings were attacked by both Republicans and Democrats.

Given my previous focus on bipartisan self-dealing and corruption, why am I now focused on one couple? Do I simply have it in for Bill and Hillary? Am I somehow trying to derail her prospects of being elected president in 2016?

The answer is pretty straightforward: the global dealings of this political couple deserve bipartisan citizen attention as much as congressional insider trading or campaign contribution extortion did. No one has even come close in recent years to enriching themselves on the scale of the Clintons while they or a spouse continued to serve in public office. The ability of any other ex-politician, whether a former president, senator, or congressman, Republican or Democrat, to accumulate such large amounts of money in such a short period of time is unmatched. It’s not even close.

To put an even finer point on it: I am focusing specifically on financial transactions involving foreign businesses, investors, and governments. Foreign interests can’t donate to political campaigns.

But they can pay money for speeches. And they can donate to the Clinton Foundation. Are they doing so to buy influence? Does the timing of the payments coincide with key decisions made by US government officials? Are they successful in obtaining favorable outcomes? Using publicly available sources, including financial records, tax records, government documents, and more, my research team and I have uncovered a repeated pattern of financial transactions coinciding with official actions favorable to Clinton contributors that is troubling enough to warrant (in my opinion) further investigation by law enforcement officers. Just as I couldn’t prove that members of Congress were guilty of trading on inside information, I cannot say exactly why these financial transactions are taking place. But as we will see, their unprecedented scale, the often shady nature of the characters involved, their timing, and their frequently favorable outcomes are all, or ought to be, extremely troubling... more DOWNLOAD HERE

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Google Home brings Google’s smarts to your House

Google Home is an interesting product to review. In a way, it’s just an internet-connected microphone and speaker array that draws all of its smarts from the cloud. On the other hand, it’s maybe the purest reflection of Google’s ambitions in both the artificial intelligence and home automation space.

Once you get your home, setup is easy. I barely remember doing it. The Google Home app finds the device, creates a temporary WiFi connection between your phone and your Home, connects the Home to your regular WiFi, and a few chimes later, you are done. If you plan on using multiple homes, then you can also name your unit in the app. From there, you can choose your preferred news sources and music services, but as far as the actual setup procedure goes, it couldn’t have been easier.

As far as the AI experience goes, Home delivers — but that’s no surprise, given that Google already has long had a lead over competitors like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana. Because its intelligence is in the cloud, it will also only get smarter over time (which makes these devices rather future-proof if you’re thinking about them as an investment). When you’re reviewing Google Home then, you’re really looking at three things: the microphone, the speaker and the Google Assistant.

We’ve already written quite a bit about the Google Assistant, which is at the core of the Home experience. Needless to say, it’s probably the smartest of the personal assistants right now. You can still stump it with questions it can’t answer, but it usually handles those with grace and at least tries to read you an excerpt from a web page. Often, I’m surprised it does have an answer (“How many days till election day?” “Can you give me a recipe for beef bourguignon?”); sometimes I’m surprised it doesn’t.

The issue with devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home is that they do still occasionally misunderstand you. For the most part, that’s not a big deal. Google Home, though, seemed to understand me better than my Echo Dot.

As far as Home’s other core features go (microphone and speaker), there’s a lot of good news here, too. A lot of people were concerned about the fact that Google Home only features two microphones (compared to the Amazon Echo’s eight). Whatever black magic Google worked with them, those two seem to work just as well as Amazon’s eight — maybe even a tiny bit better. Placing the Home next to my Echo Dot, both easily work from across my living room. When calling them from the next room over, “OK, Google” generally worked a bit better than “Alexa.”

One other positive thing I noticed with Home is that it does a nice job of recognizing my “OK, Google” command when it’s playing music or the news. It immediately turns down the music to a whisper and listens to your questions.

I’m no audiophile by any means, but Google’s bottom-mounted speakers sounded as good as one can expect from this size. I didn’t notice any major distortion at the highest volumes (but there was definitely some), and, while you won’t get earth-shaking bass from Home, it still delivers a nice enough punch. If you need more, then hooking up an Echo Dot to your existing audio system is probably the way to go if music is the most important feature for you in one of these devices.

At least right now, Home doesn’t have as many partners in its ecosystem as Alexa. Personally, that hasn’t been a problem for me. If you have Philips Hue lights, then those should work right out of the box. Same with Samsung SmartThings devices and your Nest thermostat. My home is pretty dumb, so except for the Chromecast integration, I haven’t been able to try this yet. Thanks to its IFTTT integration, you’ll likely still be able to control devices that aren’t currently on Google’s partner list.

Currently, Home only supports Google Keep for shopping lists and notes, though I would love to see it integrate with some of the tools I use already instead of having to switch to something else. The good news here, though, is that the existing integrations work perfectly fine.

As for music, it works with Google Play Music, YouTube Music, Spotify and Pandora. You can set the default to any of those four and if you need to play a specific song, radio station or playlist from another service, you can always ask for it by name. It works as advertised. Home also integrates with TuneIn, so you can still listen to good-old radio, too.

The other form of audio content you’ll likely listen to on the Home is news. There, Google lets you pick and choose from a variety of sources that range from NPR to Newsy, Fox News, ABC News, Bloomberg Tech, ESPN and others.

One statistic you’ll hear quite a bit is that Alexa currently lets developers write “skills” for its platform. There are thousands of them. Google Home isn’t yet open for developers, but in daily use, that didn’t strike me as a major issue. Currently, the only real third-party “skill” featured on the Home is an Uber integration.

By default, the Google Assistant is already more capable than Alexa when it comes to day-to-day tasks like asking for translations or random information. With Home, you don’t need to install a new skill to get translations or restaurant recommendations (and let’s face it, most of the Alexa skills aren’t very good right now — which may be because of the simple fact that developers can’t charge for them).

The hardware itself has been compared to many things (air fresheners come to mind). I actually like the design, and if you don’t like the plain white base, you can always switch it out for something more colorful. The unit itself only has a power port. That’s it. There’s no Ethernet port and no way to get audio out of it, either.

The design is meant to let the Home blend into virtually any room and still look modern. In that, it succeeds. The ring of LEDs at the top allows you to see when the device is listening to you (there’s a mute button on the back if you want to completely shut down the microphone) and working on your answers. The top is touch-sensitive, and allows you to set your volume.

At the end of the day, you currently have two choices when you are looking for a voice-activated, AI-driven speaker in your living room: Google Home or one of Amazon’s Echo devices. If I had to choose today, I’d pick a Google Home. At $129, it’s cheaper than the Echo (though admittedly more expensive than the Echo Dot), it’s smarter out of the box and, while it may have fewer partners in its ecosystem, it works together with your Chromecast device, which extends its functionality to your TV.

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