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Response to Coordinator, Committee for the formation of Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam
Posted on August 14th, 2009
by Hela Puwath
PTGTE requests Malaysian Govt to announce details surrounding the abduction of KP.
"In the case of Mr Pathmanathan's abduction, the rule of law has once again been violated by international actors with respect to Tamils. The proper procedure would have been to secure the extradition of Mr. Pathmanathan if he had broken any law, rather than taking action outside the law and seizing a person in a manner that could be compared to those performed by bounty hunters, posses or even criminal gangs.
Those who have seized Mr. Pathmanathan in such a gangsterâ€ÂÂÂlike fashion are interested in hindering the political transformation process that has just commenced, the media release by the committee for the formation of Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam on the 'illegal abduction of Mr Pathmanathanâ€ÂÂÂ
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran,
Committee for the formation of Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam
 We all know KP had just given up violence and reformed his evil ways, and was just getting ready to spread his angelic wings to fly on to the heavens with the rest of your Transnational what-ever. But you must know crime cannot go unpunished. That goes for the rest of you with blood on your hands stretching back 30 or more years.
 You seem to know your international law and gang-land law well, but you are not remorseful of your unspeakable, diabolic crimes. A bunch of criminals now going round the world crying foul – after all that blood letting – now trying to reorganize your criminal gang for another round of mayhem.ÂÂÂÂ
 These recent incidents are only the beginning, just wait till the truth comes out and the world learns of your lies – "genocideâ€ÂÂÂ; "concentration campsâ€ÂÂÂ; "ethnic cleansingâ€ÂÂÂ; who provoked the 1983 backlash riots, that you say started everything – you wouldn't want to call yourselves Tamils.
 TAMIL NADU in south India is your "Traditional HomeLand" (not Malasia, not Sri Lanka, not Fiji; Guyana is already yours).ÂÂÂÂ
 No other ethnic group in the world has more than one "homelandâ€ÂÂÂ, what gives you the special right to claim a homeland everywhere you squat?
 I must make a correction though:
 The only other race who claims to have a right to more than one "homeland" are your "master race" — the colonial-white-man (English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Belgian, the Vikings etc.) who have wiped out so many peoples all around the world and occupied their land, enslaved the rightful owners of those lands (if you want "GENOCIDE", "ETHNIC CLEANSING") — whom Tamils followed all over the world.ÂÂÂÂ
 You have learned from the white masters, that you too are entitled to more than one homeland, in addition to TAMIL NADU.
 Good luck with your Transnational whatever!


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- After falling in the first two sets, the Tennessee volleyball team battled back and almost forced a fifth set on Saturday, but ETSU came away with a 3-1 (31-29, 25-21, 21-25, 27-25) victory in the final day of the Comcast Lady Vol Classic.
Jamie Lea led the team with 24 kills, a career-best for the freshman, while freshman Ashley Mariani added 10 as Tennessee fell to 7-3 on the season. Sophomore Lexi Dempsey dished 51 assists with 16 digs for her fifth double-double this season.
The first set was a thriller with ETSU taking a 31-29 win on a kill by Ivey Rice. Lea put down 10 kills on 14 swings with no errors, hitting at a staggering .714 during the first game. Senior Whitney Heeres added four kills, while Dempsey handed out 18 helpers.
In the second set, the Bucs used a 7-0 run early on to build a 17-7 advantage en route to a 25-21 victory and a 2-0 lead in the match.
Tennessee stormed back in the third set, leading for the majority of the set for a 25-21 win. Junior Shealyn Kolosky recorded four kills, hitting 1.000, to lead the Lady Vols offensively. Mariani and Lea added four of their own, while junior Carly Wishlow put down three kills on three swings with no errors. Dempsey, Mariani and sophomore Megan Hatcher all served up an ace apiece.
After ETSU jumped to a 7-0 lead in the fourth, Tennessee battled back to tie it at 22-22. The Bucs would go on to take the set, 27-25, and match, 3-1. Lea registered five more kills during the final set.
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I talked to a guy recently who told me he'd tried eating Paleo and failed. At first I thought, "He just can't resist the temptation of donuts for breakfast and bread for lunch." And then I let him plead his case, and it went something like this: when he gave Paleo a shot, he found he didn't have the energy he needed throughout the day. He was super tired, lethargic and couldn't get through his workouts. I'm sometimes too quick to judge.
I think a lot of athlete-type people try the Paleo diet, hoping it will improve their performance and help them tone up a bit. They start out the diet having read Cordain's book, The Paleo Diet, so they're eating nothing but lean meat, a few of their favorite vegetables, some fruit, and a little dab of olive oil here and there. After a week or so into the diet, they go to the gym after a breakfast of grilled chicken and steamed broccoli and feel a bit light-headed during their second set of dead lifts (or whatever torture their Crossfit gym has planned for them that day). Throughout the workout, their blood sugar plummets, as well as their performance and their motivation to keep eating Paleo. They crawl out of the gym close to passing out and stop at McDonald's for second breakfast, vowing to give up Paleo forever.
It doesn't have to be like that. If you're an active person (and that could include anyone from a city dweller who walks 5 miles a day to someone who's training for a marathon) you may just need more carbohydrates if you're failing on the Paleo diet. For myself, I've figured out that I MUST have a dense source of carbs in the morning. I can't just have eggs and meat and some leafy vegetables or 45 minutes later I'm hungry and low blood sugar. And if you start your day out with a blood sugar crash, you're not doing anything good for your energy for the rest of the day, your sleep patterns or your weight loss goals. So let me explain some things about carbohydrates to see if we can keep you on the Paleo diet AND keep you feeling energetic all day.
First, what is a carb?
Even people who seem really well-versed in nutrition don't know the answer to this question, so don't think you're an idiot if you don't know exactly what that ubiquitously marketed little structure is. A carbohydrate is a chemical structure that contains carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, which together create simple sugars like glucose and fructose. Those simple sugars, if they're so inclined, can then come together to form more complex carbohydrates like disaccharides (lactose), starch or fiber. Sugars, starches and fiber are found in abundance in things like table sugar, honey, fruit, vegetables (all of them), grains and beans.
We're used to eating a LOT of carbs in the U.S. – bread, cereal, beans, pasta, chips, tortillas, sugar, crackers, cookies, "sports drinks," fruit, sodas, beer, etc. Our bodies use the carbohydrates for immediate energy, and if they're not used up, they get stored as fat. When we start eating fewer carbohydrates and more fat like we do on the Paleo diet, our bodies become better at using dietary fat (fat from meat, avocados, coconut milk and oil, olive oil, nuts, etc.) more immediately for energy instead of the carbs.
While we can become very good at using dietary fat (especially medium chain fatty acids like coconut milk) as fuel, some people are going to be better at it than others, no matter how hard they work at it. It has to do with genetics and how much you've wrecked your metabolism over the years of eating a Standard American Diet. What you need to do is figure out what kind of person you are. Are you someone who needs an abundance of carbs? Or can you perform well with low carbs and tons of dietary fat?
To figure this out, start the diet out pretty strictly, taking out all grains, legumes and refined sugars. After your detox is over (could be a few days or up to a month – you'll know when it's over), assess how you feel throughout the day. If you're bonking or needing naps, feeling grumpy, lightheaded, getting headaches or your athletic performance is waning, THEN start adding more carbohydrates to see how you do. If you're using Paleo Plan for meal planning, this might mean adding things to your grocery list every week, but it shouldn't be too hard. Below there are some suggestions on what to eat.
Which Carbs Are Paleo?
You obviously are limited in your options for carbs, since the Paleo diet frowns upon grains, refined sugar and beans. You can only eat so much kale, broccoli and other veggies in a day, and they only provide minimal carbs, anyway. You want to go for the starchy veggies like sweet potatoes, squash, and if you're like me, tapioca. (Note: Potatoes are not Paleo, but sweet potatoes are. They're different, in that sweet potatoes have no anti-nutrients in them, but potatoes do. Sweet potatoes also have a LOT of nutrients in them, while potatoes have very few.)
Most fruit provides more carbohydrates than leafy and crunchy veggies, so eat more of it, too. If you're super active, especially if you're an endurance athlete, add more honey if you just can't get enough quick energy from sweet potatoes and fruit. Or if your stomach can't deal with digesting it during long workouts or races.
As for juice, I recommend freshly juiced juice – not commercial, pasteurized, devoid-of-nutrients juice.
Smoothies are a good way to get more carbohydrates in, since you can pack them full of frozen or fresh fruit.
If you're a normal American, you will have little idea about how to add some of these things to your daily menu. The only time people normally eat sweet potatoes is on Thanksgiving when they're smothered in maple syrup and marshmallows, right? Here are some suggestions:
Sweet potatoes
1. Cut them up into square inch cubes and boil them for 20 minutes. Keep them in the fridge and add them to egg scrambles, chicken salad, or just pour some coconut milk and cinnamon on them.
2. Or bake them. I bake sweet potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil in a pan (to catch drippings) for about an hour at 450. The longer you bake them, the softer and sweeter they are. Let them cool and you can keep them in the fridge for up to 5 days in the aluminum foil in the pan. Then I just scoop some out for snacks and add coconut milk and cinnamon. You could sprinkle some roasted nuts or dried fruit into the mix, too.
3. Bake some fries. Cut some sweet potatoes up into thin slices and lay them out on a baking sheet. Drizzle with a little olive oil (or not), and sprinkle some rosemary, pepper and salt on top. Bake on 400 for about 40 minutes. You'll want to flip them halfway through to let them bake more evenly. They shrink down quite a bit, so if you're serving these to a large group of people, make a lot!
4. Sometimes I grate up a part of a sweet potato (in my case, it's usually about half a cup) and stick it in with my egg and veggie scramble in the morning. Because it's grated, it cooks up in the same amount of time as the other vegetables. The sweetness of the sweet potatoes adds another layer of flavor to my breakfast.
1. You can use it how you'd use pasta. Cut a squash in half, put each side face down in a half inch of water on a baking pan and bake for 30 minutes to an hour (depending on the size of the squash) at 400 degrees. Scoop out the goodness and serve it with hearty, meaty marinara sauces, or add it to stir fried meals.
2. You can always make a sweet treat out of it by adding cinnamon and a bit of honey, some nuts, and dried fruit if you want.
3. You can cut it into small squares and saute them in a pan with some coconut oil or olive oil and eat them as a side to salmon or chicken. Cooked like that, they're also amazing in Thai curries because they soak up so much of the flavor.
Tapioca is something that I have incorporated into my Paleo diet, even though I know it contains almost no vitamins or minerals. Cordain doesn't love tapioca, as far as I can tell, but my digestion can only handle so much squash and sweet potatoes and fruit for some reason doesn't fill me up like tapioca does. It's a dense source of carbohydrates, and for my active lifestyle, it's become pretty crucial. You decide for yourself whether you want it in your diet.
1. You can make tapioca crepes to serve with your morning omelet, your afternoon chicken stir fry or your evening salmon fillet, but you can also use the flour to make any bready thing your heart desires. See my post on tapioca and its uses here.
2. Sometimes I will even cook some fruit and coconut milk in a little pot and add a bit of tapioca flour to make it taste more like pie filling – gooey.
These are just things that I do, so please, please add to the list in the comments below. If you're an active person and you need more carbs, let us know what you've figured out.
Know that it is a fine line to walk with carbohydrates if you're an active person who is trying to lose weight. Too many carbs will put weight on you, but not enough carbs can put your body into starvation mode, keeping weight on you. You need to find the balance that will keep you losing weight, maintaining weight, or whatever your weight goals are. If you're interested in how many grams of carbs per day you need, I can't give you an answer to that here because it's so very dependent on your size, your activity level and your weight loss goals. If you want help with that, I'm available for individual consults. And if you want more detailed information on this topic, Loren Cordain's book, The Paleo Diet for Athletes is a fantastic resource, especially for endurance athletes.
Keep tweaking this diet to make it your own, and good luck!
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I'm not a Crossfitter or an athlete by any standard, but I am a livestock farmer who sells pasture-raised meats to a lot of paleo people. After a friend (and customer) left Robb Wolf's book at my farm last October, I decided to give it a try considering the quality (and quantity) of excellent foods to which I have access. Last winter when I found myself needing to work outside in the freezing cold for several hours at a clip, I found that eating a BIG breakfast with steak and eggs cooked in either butter or coconut oil and a hash of cubed root veggies and winter squash got me through the day and helped keep me warm. When I emerged in the spring from a sequestered winter on the farm, I found that I'd lost a significant amount of fat and there were serious muscles under all those layers of flannel, fleece and wool. Paleo is not just about what you eat, but how you eat it.
Awesome post, great stuff!
The same thing happened to me but worse. I started the Paleo plan about 5 days ago. I do an intense interval training workout every morning that lasts an hour.
Today my body totally broke down in the middle of the workout and after I got in the car to go home I ended up throwing up while I was driving down the highway. Like 5 times. I had to stop my car.
My body was reacting to doing an intense workout with barely any carbs in my system. The carbs were burnt in the first 10 minutes of the workout.
The other day I also threw up but it was during the workout.
I found out the hard way today that a strictly Paleo diet DOES NOT WORK for someone who works out. It just doesn't.
I don't care what our ancestors ate.
That was a long time ago and I would bet anything in the world that our bodies were different and acclimated to that diet. I don't care what scientists say. I have real world proof with my own experience.
You have to eat heavy carbs before a heavy workout. PERIOD.
And that means potatoes, bread or whatever you can get your hands on. I don't care how empty the carbs are.
Dean Karnazes eats garbage during his races because he knows he's going to burn it. If he didn't eat that stuff he would fail.
It's as simple as that.
I'm gonna start this by saying simply – I'm Fat – and have been fat for years. I hit an all time worse ever weight 2 weeks ago by hitting 300 pounds. So, the wake up call came when I just felt like hammered dog poop all day, breathing heavy, and finally my drivers seat broke on my truck. It's weird we all have different low's. Well I started a semi-paleo diet this week – going into a full blown paleo next week. Let me tell you this has not been an easy start for me. I feel like Dave most of the day. I have to pack all this body around, started a work out routine of 40 minutes a day, and I'm dog tired around 4PM. I want to preface this by saying I'M NOT GIVING UP, but this article made me think of my diet before starting this. I think the ideas mentioned above will help me out a lot!! If I put a few more carbs in the diet to power my way through the day, I can cut back on them later when I start shedding a few more pounds. It's like Sandra said – it's how you eat. By the way I lost 7 pounds this week – it's hard feeling good about eating right when your feeling turned inside out … lol. Ohh – on another side note my doctor recommended this form of diet after he checked me out, it's becoming a popular alternative for more and more people.
I'm stuck. I haven't lost weight (belly fat) in two months. I strictly eat Paleo via the plan everyday… week after week and now month after month. I walk and was even going to the gym… until the low energy got the better of me. I have hypothyroidism… and according to my blood tests, my meds are right. I feel like I can't function without a nap by mid afternoon. The nap helps make it though the day (if I can squeeze one in)… but then I can't sleep through the night. Do you think that more carbs will help me? Would sweet potatoes and squash everyday resolve these issues?
I am on my fourth week of my paleo way of eating and it is a definitely a life style for me. I also I'm experiencing weakness and some light head experience but I'm know it is because of the detox going on in me. I have lost belly fat greatly and now I have a sick pack that is more visible. I can fast and work out with out problem and still have my work out done with improvement. I am in love with this life style ! I'm still going strict with just the vegestables and fats and meats only until I achieve my full sick pack look and then I will introduce some healthy carbs up to 30 grams per day only later on but for now the strict way is what is working for me. Neely is right when he says that it is an individual thing and that you have to tweak here and there; but also know that it takes time for the body to detox and making you feel like that due to the damage done by many years of abuse so we need to understand this also. Great site and blog indeed !
Thank you.
Thanks for this post. I recently started Paleo and Corossfitting same time. I too noticed by 3pm, I was crashing, running on lean meats and greens. I started mixing Paleo smoothies, even figuring out how to add sweet pototoes into the mix. I blasted thru 3pm! Now I just have to learn how to stabilize my blood sugar levels to push thru my afternoons to get ready for my PM Xfit class! Small tweak seem to have made a great difference.
Thanks for this and your other posts, Neely. I'm finishing up week one of paleo, and my energy levels are down, I'm weak and fatigued, and I'm light-headed most of the time. This is with approx 3500 calories a day. I'm already very active and fit, so it's frustrating not being able to perform. I haven't been riding my bike to work because I'm scared I'll faint. My crossfit coaches are pretty purist and just say "eat more fat, eat more sweet potatoes, eat more this, that, etc." I know I'm still in detox, but I look at this post, and your other post on starting out paleo, almost every day, just for the encouragement and to remind myself that you've been in my shoes.
One thing my coaches told me was that the detox, carb withdrawal, etc is worse for people who don't have much fat to lose. Have you found this to be the case?
Your site is really helpful! I am currently on day 3 of a 30 day challenge and it is nice to know that I am not going crazy when I feel like I am a little dizzy especially after a run!
What are the basics of this detox you keep mentioning? Is it that the body is trying to adapt to lower carb intakes or does it really involve toxins?
I'm an ultramarathoner, I'm pretty strictly Paleo. When I started, I felt like crap the first 2 weeks. I had to cut my usual 6-mile runs short weeknights, and had to walk frequently during weekend long runs. But after 3 weeks, it was as if a light switch was turned on. I felt great, had more energy than ever, and my running has improved markedly. I dropped 25 pounds without trying, and I wasn't fat by any means.
Two years later, I continue to feel fabulous. At age 48, I'm still setting personal best times in 5ks, 10ks, marathons, and ultramarathons (50 miles and up). Even during endurance races, I stick to real, whole foods (none of those gels, chemical drinks, or chews).
So while I'm not a nutritionist, I suggest that anyone trying Paleo take it easy until you feel the "switch," which seems to be 2-4 weeks for most people. If after a month you still aren't happy, then drop it. But give it a little time.
Could you please elaborate a bit more on potatoes? I once read a comparison of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and seem to remember the good ole spud coming out pretty well, for example by containing more vitamin C. What are anti-nutrients and which ones do potatoes contain?
I was also curious why beans are supposed to be a bad thing, as they contain a mix of carbs and protein that I would have thought beneficial for maintaining steady blood sugar levels.
Thanks for all the info, by the way, the website is great!
I m pre diabetic and only Glucose Tolerence test showed impaired status in results. Doctor adviced me not to eat any sweets but asked to eat red rice vegies fruits only. My problem is I m trying to avoid surar but unable to completely avoid it , and if I eat I get symptoms. So I m happy about your suggestions to eat non grain diaet. I will post the results soon.
I have been paleo now for about 6 months, and also experienced the detox low energy during the first 2 weeks, and got feeling better as time went on I started noticing how much better I felt! My stomach aches literally disappeared. My headaches were gone. And slowly I was starting to sleep better. I previously had chronic insomnia. My doctor put me on this diet as she diagnosed me as "pre-diebetic" and the diet she called it "insulin-glucose balancing" diet, and I shouldn't find anything online in the way of no grains, dairy,& sugar. Then she said the magic word, she said google PALEO, and a whole new world of recipes and blogs and books were available to me. At last I was not alone. And I could bake again. I really missed my treats and now I can get my occasional goodie and still stick to being Paleo. I go to the gym 2-3 times per week and ride a stationary bike for a knee surgery about 6months ago. People comment and how good I look, I lost 25lbs, lost 2-3 pants sizes, depending on the brand of pants, and I think Im still loosing inches, mainly in the mid section. I have noticed a definite improvement on my nighly sleep on days I work out. Even just a 20 min bike ride makes a difference. Man if I dont sleep well my whole day is a drag, and its huge motivation to excersize knowing I will sleep good that night. Even my color is better. Paleo is a life changing and I just wish I could get everyone eating this way, but so far my husband is the only one convinced. Hes also lost a few inches in the gut and started jogging. Thanks for all of the encouragement and ideas and I hope more and more people will realize how awful grains are on the body. My friend asked me the other day "what do you replace grains with?" I told her grains make me sick, why would I want to replace them? I am so grateful for my newly found Paleo info!
Good times. I started Paleo back in July of this year. I did get this feeling of woah going Paleo at first. When youre switching to Paleo, make sure to add sea salt to your food, I think this is supposed to help with the adjustment period. I dunno, if you feel like woah, im going to faint, just to try to eat something. i definitely felt the detox in the beginning but i felt great and shed crazy weight in the beginning. then my glycogen stores started running out because i was running like a mad man with crazy energy and eventually it caused me to pass out at my friends house and had a high ankle sprain. friend said i was close to banging my head on the refrigerator which would not be a good thing. and so i just went on and started a new full time job for the first time in four years. but i was still not eating enough carbs to get me through the day to keep up with the other dishwashers. i lost the job and i was continueing to do really low carb, i even tried to up my fat very high but i didnt do so well. i havent had energy to work out and look for work. i bought some tapioca starch while back but never used it. i decided man i need some regular non-gluten starch in my life and just try to run on that. i have ibs-c whatever that means and my bathroom problem went away with paleo b4 but its come back. plus im going to follow the low fodmaps which is supposed to stop from feeding any bacteria overgrowth or whatever and on the safe list is tapioca/white rice/ and potato. i love sweet potatoes anyways but they are not low fodmaps. potatoes are ok. i have issues with other nightshades like tomatoes make me sneeze and goji berries hurt my stomach. i havent had a baked potato in awhile so i dont remember if it upset me. I also seem to be drawn to this spanish place that you can go and get a plate of chicken or pork, yucca, and plaintains, both ripe and unripe, it is soooooooooo good. so cheers to all of you, i will see you later.
I am a nutritionist and naturopath and have just read these posts. I love that people are trying to get more healthy. I dont agree with the paleo concept for everybody. Starting a diet like these without support can be dangerous.
The detox effect, the blood sugar irregualrities, the hormone dysfunction can all leave an individual with health issues in serious trouble.
Before you start this diet go and see a health professional and ease yourself in. This way any of the negative effects will be monitored and kept to a minimum.
ALso food is meant to be enjoyed not endured as it seems to be in many of these posts. Creating a lifestyle change be done slowly and easily so that it remains a lifestyle change.
I have a different problem from most people. If I don't weight train, I lose weight. Classic Ectomorph. I rely on protein powder to fuel my workouts and provide the nutrients I need for recovery and weight maintenance. So far the paleo diet has not caused sugar crashes for me, but that might be because of the sweetener in the protein powder.
I don't see much in the blogs about healthy weight gain and paleo. Will paleo work for a skinny guy like me who wants to maintain a healthy level of muscle?
I have made the conversion to Paleo over the last 18 months. I kept falling off the wagon b/c I would get really low blood sugar and insane cravings every 5 days into it. However, One day i just got sick of feeling worse for falling off the wagon, and I have made the switch. No cheats for the past 3 months. I suffer from SIBO, and try to maintain a low-fodmap paleo approach. I would like to train for a half marathon, but the really good carb sources like bananas, sweet potatoes, and coconut meat, milk, and cream, really aggravate my condition. Do you have any tips on how to get over this speed bump?
Thanks — I'm working on this balance as I'm struggling with my workouts since starting paleo, although we are on a challenge with our box that is a bit stricter than regular paleo. I had no idea tapioca was a thing for paleo! I think I'll try it.
I am 11 1/2 years out from gastric bypass surgery which allowed me to finally loses the extra `75 pounds I had been carrying most of my adult life. I was always told that I should eat a high protein, low carb diet but could never quite find the right combination of foods to keep me feeling good and my "pouch" satisfied. I was introduced to Paleo by a co-worker who knows I love to cook and she wanted to eat healthier. I have implemented this plan into my own home and have watched as my husband's belt needs to be tightened and my own jeans are definitely looser. I recently had a check-up with my regular doctor and when I looked at the lab results (you get really good at knowing the normal range numbers as a gastric patient because you have bloodwork done annually), I saw that I was smack in the middle of the normal range. Plus, when I went to my appointment, my blood pressure was 100/70 AFTER a 30 minute walk while I waited for my appointment time. I have lost about 5 pounds in the 2 months I have been eating a Paleo diet. Also, with the coconut oil, olive oil and pastured butter used in the recipes I have not had as dry of skin as I usually have by this time of year. Doc says to keep up whatever it is I am doing as it is obviously working well !!!
That is supposed to be 175 pounds off
I tried tapioca, bananas, sweet potato but they made my toothache worse or gave me other issues like flatulence (banana ). I am still researching the best solution and hope to eventually enjoy these foods. For me the switch to fats as energy source seems to have happened after 2 weeks easing into full paleo. Fruit such as grapes are a fantastic carb source for me and have not affected my toothache. Monkeys I read use fig fruit so i enjoy those too, unfortunately they are only available dried where i live. Looking forward to trying more solutions such as caulibread maybe. Getting away from grains has been well worth it so far for my acne and toothache
I just started eating Paleo about two weeks ago; I have struggled with my weight and weight loss ever since I hit puberty. I use to starve myself in high school because if I ate anything, boom! I would gain weight. Now I am 26, 5'6, and 210 pounds which is very depressing. It was suggested to me to go gluten free by a counselor who I had reached out to about possible depression. I researched it for a few days and then decided that I would try paleo and just go for an all around clean healthy diet. I have lost 9 pounds in two weeks which is AMAZING however I am sooooooooo incredibly tired. I was working out 3 to 5 days a week before I changed my Diet and now I have no energy to even get up in the morning and I am finding that it is getting worse, last night I had to go to bed at 6:00 PM!! I am not restricting my calories and I eat what every I want (with in the paleo guide lines of course) and for the first time in my life I am not scared that what I ate today will haunt me tomorrow or a week from now. I am trying to stay positive and stick to this but it is starting to get hard. I want to say thank you for your suggestions and I am going to try to incorporate more carbohydrates into my diet and hopefully that will help me out a little until this energy lag is gone!
I have started to eat Paleo since june10, 2014. Although I am not overweight or anything, I was hoping that along the way I lose a few pounds (particularly belly fat). Unfortunately, I have not lost any weight. Ok, may a couple of pounds the most (was around 118, now around 116.5). I also have to say that I am a gym rat, I do cardio, lift weight and am an active person. I used to do hours of cardio, but since starting Paleo, I cannot go long hours like before. I also noticed that I often have headache and feel nausea. I assume it is due to being in Ketonic state. I do eat lots of fruits and veggies, nuts, and leans meat (turkey,..)I was never a red meat eater but I have gotten off that obsession that red meat must be forbidden. So I feel good about getting over that obsession. I have to admit that I am only using EVOO and coconut oil is not in my culinary habits. I have not cheated except once on our anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Can anyone tell me why I do not lose more weight, even if I keep my calories on average around 1350 per day?? I think I have messed up my BM so much by yoyo dieting that now I am paying for it. Any advise is appreciated!!
Hey, I would super love it if you could reply to this post. I went paleo for like 5 months. I loved it, I still like it.
But Ive encountered a problem and was wondering if you could help me so I can work through this problem and see if I could still continue the paleo diet or at least a paleo based diet.
I am 16 years old and I exercise all the time. ALL THE TIME
I mean intense workouts for 3-6 hours a day. For example, I am on a swim team that starts working out with lifting weights and situps and vasca and all that for 1 hour and then does intense 2-4 hour work outs afterwards in the pool like butterfly/freestyle/breaststroke/backstroke 800-25 intervals with up to 40 repeats as an example. Then afterwards I ride horses jumping for an hour. On the paleo diet I didnt really feel fatigued but my mom had noticed that I was losing fat without losing weight to the point that I was losing too much fat. Aka, low body fat. Which I didnt worry too much about but yesterday I was out with some friends and my mom and one of her friends and I was waiting for lunch (we had to eat late so I had nothing to eat for like 4-5 hours more than my body was used to) and I started loosing my vision. I was totally freaked out because nothing of the sort had ever happened to me before. It ended up being my blood sugar I guess because after eating some food I was instantly better. This is really weird for me. I have never had blood sugar issues and am usually fine with eating later if necessary. Also I noticed on the paleo diet I am ALWAYS hungry–like I cant get enough to eat. I eat a lot of fruit, nuts, seeds, vegetables, greens, and try to get plenty of protein. For now I will be eating more carbs and some grains because Im a bit uneasy about what happened yesterday. In your oppinion, what should I do?
Hey there! I love what I see! You have some really good advice and I would like to say that I will be coming back to your site!
I was hoping you could help me. I am ~40 pounds overweight. For a year I've been doing the Atkins diet approach, so adapting to fat isn't new to me. I don't crave sugar, breads, pasta, or candy. However, I'm even heavier than when I started! I find that sometimes I crave a meaty breakfast burrito from Jack in the Box and have been eating tortillas or sometimes breaded foods. My mom can eat like this (eats corn too) and still continues to lose weight! I also got crazy addicted to white potatoes because I thought they were natural. I'm pretty sure my weight gain has been from the tortillas, breading, potatoes, and maybe too many low carb treats. Now I'm trying to start new and for a while even tried a ketogenic approach. That doesn't really work for me because I suffer from chronic hunger after everything I eat! Even when it's super high in fat! It's so frustrating because I go out of my way to prepare things only to be hungry soon after! I will eat more protein and fat and I'm still hungry! It feels like my body doesn't even know how to be full anymore!!! To be honest, I consumed a lot of dairy when going keto. Now I'm sick of this and going paleo with the occasional dairy. I notice that my chronic hunger isn't as severe but in still hungry more than I'd like to be. I've been doing the fat loss plan from Diane Sanfilippo's Practical Paleo and I've added some fruit and have made some paleo treats (high in carbs). I notice when I eat a smoothie with some fruit/carb source (paleo) I feel fuller longer. But I'm afraid of not losing weight because I haven't for a long time.. I also am not as active as I should be. I've been exercising here and there but not consecutively. Should I eat more carbs and just exercise to compensate? Thank you and sorry for my novel here! Just dying to know what it is I need to do to get this darn fat off!
I'm on Paleo for severe health problems… Scoliosis, MS, Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and bulging disc throughout spine.
For me, a woman at 5 ft. 4 in. and walk nearly everywhere I go, it takes a tremendous amount of food to keep weight on. My health conditions cause my body to burn more calories because it has to work harder than people w/out health issues.
That being said, Paleo has allowed me to get off all medications for every health condition doctors wanted to prescribe.
In the beginning I could not keep weight on. However, I've learned what and how often I need to eat. And yes, it is expensive to eat Paleo. But, I can keep pace with people half my age (I'm 60) and feel better than I did at 45.
I now only see primary physician twice a year for blood work and my Physical Therapist once a month for neck and back work.
People don't believe me when I try to explain how Paleo can give back total and complete health. But, that's their problem. It's the way we were designed to eat from the beginning of creation.
I'm on a severky strict paleo diet for stomach problems after a couple of parasites from Asia and the drugs to get rid of them. My stomach is a mess and I'm following a diet for leaky gut syndrome which is basically leafy greens and protein (chicken and fish.) I make protein shakes with avocado twice a day, protein powder coming from hemp or pea. All dairy, grains, starch, fruit, sugars are out. I've been on it nearly 4 weeks and two thing have happened.
The bad part is that I'm already thin and can lose weight at the drop of a hat. Most 40 yr olds would love that but it drives me crazy and this diet is awful for it. I'm also weak as hell. Super low energy and have pretty much spent the month at home or working. It's clearly not for me but for now I have to stick to it for ny stomach.
The good part… I've had a dodgy shoulder for years, torn tendon. Haven't been able to do any kind of work out with my arms since. I took to cycling.
Noe on this diet I've been doing push ups, pull ups, dips, rows and the shoulder is great. No pain.
Hoping to get the stomach sorted soon abd add a bit of carbs in like sweet potatoes, yucca etc. And fingers crossed find a balance between the anti inflamatory effects of the diet but avoid the low energy from zero carbs and fruit.


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I've updated the first post to reflect where we will stand as of tomorrow.
Yep, Mojo's the man to get spikes from.
Yay, I've had a **** couple of weeks but it looks like it's lifting. I received my boots today, they're really good, I'm impressed!
Thank you very much Wes for this run, and my apologies for the innane questions.
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Both the RussRep and Mojo spikes will go fine with these boots...
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Please put me down for a pair of size 9 boots. Thanks!
Thanks for that Deadland. Again, will end the auction early for a reasonable offer....
My size 9s arrived today. had to pay £38 on import tax, lousy UK government, but the boots are ACE!!
Thanks for getting these Wes.
Got my size 8 today and I am wearing them at my office desk as we speak!!!! Funny thing no one has noticed.
tap them in the shin and maybe they will :P
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ANCHORAGE – The U.S. Coast Guard and good Samaritans are searching for a man who fell overboard a fishing vessel into the Bering Sea Wednesday morning, authorities said.
A Coast Guard helicopter crew and good Samaritan vessel crews are combing the waters where the man fell overboard 10 miles northwest of Unimak Island, said Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Grant DeVuyst. The Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley crew is also en route to assist, he said as of around 3:45 p.m.
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We featured an interview with Kara of Kara's Cupcakes in San Francisco at our sister site Wedding Paper Divas's Diva Dialogues blog. Because Kara does adorable, fun and perfectly sweet cupcakes for a variety of events we thought you'd love to read about it here. So get comfy, grab a sweet snack and enjoy getting to know a little bit about my favorite confection, a cupcake store, and the girl behind it.
Kara's Cupcakes is so original in that it only sells cupcakes! How did you come up with the idea of having a cupcake store?
Well I always loved sweets. I was deprived of things like candies and cakes growing up because I had a father who was a dentist. I was passionate about sweets and I always, always knew that I wanted to start business. I enrolled at a pastry school with the goal of starting a cupcake business. At that time, cupcakes just started getting popular. It was of course, popular with kids for a long time but then adults started to see it's a great way to have an indulgent little treat without the guilt.
How did you get started?
I used to be the Northwest Director of sales for Allure magazine where I met with clients such as Gap and worked with their Marketing department. Working in fashion and beauty products was an extension of creating cupcakes. For example, what flavor you pick says to me the owner what kind of style you have. I think designing cupcakes is similar to working with fashion because both start with really cool artistic ideas and are creative outlets.
What inspires you?
I get inspiration from a lot of things in fashion and by what's in season. For example, our Fleur Del Sel (chocolate cupcake with caramel filling, ganache frosting& fleur del sel) was inspired by chocolate makers that make fleur de sel candies. Our Meyer Lemony (lemon vanilla cupcake with a tart lemon filling and lemon buttercream) was at first seasonal but now year long. Seeing what's fresh in the market place and observing other confections has brought on a lot of great ideas and flavors as well.
What is your most popular flavor?
Everyone always loves good old fashioned chocolate and vanilla which is why our Chocolate Velvet and Sweet Vanilla are our best-sellers. But it's also nice to mix things up every once in awhile and add something different. Some days you might feel like trying Passion Fruit and Java.
yummy sweet vanilla!
I know you use a lot of local and sometimes organic ingredients in your cupcakes-why is that so important to you?
I think it brings together the community. And the bottom line is that it's just a great way to keep things close, lowers fuel and energy, keeps relationship going with the community and helps support local businesses.
Any trends you're noticing for parties in terms of colors or themes?
A lot of people like initial cupcakes, teddy bear for baby showers. People generally pick color themes and sometimes requests special fondant flowers on their cupcakes. It's all about the flavor and tastes for any celebration.
What makes Kara's cupcakes unique?
Kara's cupcakes sense of community and our ingredients are important components to making are cupcakes delicious and unique. We bake our cakes every hour making it the freshest cake you can get. Sometimes it's just minutes from the oven.
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We're open 7 days week. Our cupcakes are the best! They're baked fresh with premium local ingredients. Come and try it! It's delicious!


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Houston Texans Coach Gary Kubiak Collapes on the Sideline Sunday Night [VIDEO]
We're you watching Sunday night football? We're you enjoying The Houston Texans vs. the Indianapolis Colts game? There seemed to be a lot of excitement from the Houston Texans as they walked off the field at halftime with a 21 to 3 lead. The excitement quickly turned to worry when their head coach Gary Kubiak collapsed.


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PITTSBURGH at NEW JERSEY — 7:30 p.m. today; Prudential Center; Newark, N.J.
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Records — Penguins 35-11-0 (70 points, first place Atlantic Division), Devils 18-18-10 (46 points, fourth place Atlantic Division)
Season series — 2-1 New Jersey
Last meeting — The Devils beat the Penguins, 3-1, on Feb. 10 in Pittsburgh, completing a weekend home-at-home sweep with wins by identical scores. David Clarkson scored twice for New Jersey and Ilya Kovalchuk added a goal. Pittsburgh's James Neal scored with 15 seconds left to ruin the shutout. Johan Hedberg stopped 23 of 24 shots for the Devils.
Notes — The Penguins play their final regular- season road game, playing out the string from a different perspective than New Jersey, which is out of playoff contention. Pittsburgh has sewn up the top seed in the Eastern Conference. … Center Evgeni Malkin returned to the lineup Tuesday, registering an assist and skating on a line with wingers Pascal Dupuis and Jarome Iginla. Forwards Sidney Crosby (jaw) and James Neal (concussion) are doubtful for tonight, while defenseman Paul Martin (hand) is questionable. … Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (22-7-0, .917 save percentage) is tied for fourth in the league in wins. Tomas Vokoun is 13-4-0 with a .919 save percentage. … Brenden Morrow has five goals and 11 points in his last nine games, and Iginla has five goals and nine points in the last 10.
About the Devils — After making the playoffs 13 straight times from 1997 to 2010, New Jersey will miss the playoffs for the second time in three seasons. The Devils are out of the basement of the Atlantic Division by one point, leading last-place Philadelphia. New Jersey and Philadelphia each have two games left. … Tonight is the Devils' last home game of the season. … New Jersey has won three of its last four. The Devils beat Montreal, 3-2, at home on Tuesday. Patrik Elias, Jacob Josefson and Steve Sullivan scored the first three goals of the game for New Jersey. Martin Brodeur stopped 19 of 21 shots. … Elias leads the team with 20 assists and 34 points and is tied with David Clarkson for the team lead in goals, with 14. Former Penguin Johan Hedberg, expected to start in net, is 5-9-3 with an .886 save percentage. Brodeur is 13-9-7 with a .901 save percentage.
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32-year-old Alton Sherman, and 28-year-old Richard Rodrigue II were sentenced for drug and firearms charges.
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When you stay at Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista - Disney Springs™ Area in Lake Buena Vista, you'll be in the entertainment district and close to Disney Springs™ and Epcot®. This 4-star resort is within close proximity of DisneyQuest® and Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park.
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Enjoy a meal at one of the resort's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access room service (during limited hours). Relax with a refreshing drink from a poolside bar or one of the 2 bars/lounges. Buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
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Charges dropped in Springs HOA fight
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - You may remember the local HOA a meeting that made National headlines earlier this year. A fight broke out,. witnesses say fists and chairs flew, and two people went to the hospital. Two men were also charged with battery.
But today, the Riverside County District Attorney's office dropped those charges. The defense attorney for Thomas Moore and Jeff Berry tells us the DA shouldn't have charged her clients in the first place because they were the victims, not only of assault, but possibly a hate crime as well.
"There were far to many hateful, homophobic statements uttered at the town hall meeting during the fight," said Attorney Melanie Roe.
Roe says pictures of Moore's injuries tell the story.
"He suffered a significant life altering injury as a result of the incident and he continues to suffer from a permanent disability," said Roe.
It allegedly happened last February during an HOA election meeting at The Springs in Rancho Mirage. Moore's partner, Donald Searle, ran for a seat on the board.
"Mr. Searle tried to make a statement, he was not allowed to speak at the podium, he was not given a microphone, he was told to speak from the audience. Heckling began, hate speech was uttered by various people in the rec-room," said Roe.
Searle lost the election. After the HOA meeting ended, Roe says a newly elected board member pushed Moore down.
"After Mr. Moore fell to the ground several men attacked him, dog piled on top of him, gave him quit the beating," said Roe.
Roe says Moore, who suffers from epilepsy, had a seizure. Jeff Berry, Moore's live-in caretaker, came to his defense.
"He was taken down to the ground and later held at gunpoint outside of the room," said Roe.
Moore spent a week in the hospital. Moore filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit for his injuries and for negligence and discrimination.
"They are saying you can't discriminate against us because of our sexual orientation, that is just not going to be accepted," said Roe.
The attorney representing The Springs and the HOA declined to comment on the case, but disputes this version of the events.


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We would like this blog to be a place where ideas are discussed in different languages and where we try to discover together how the Spirit of Pentecost is at work in our different contexts. On the 19th July we published some of our pages in Spanish, today we have launched those pages in Kiswahili with thanks to Revd Mote Magomba for the translation.
As Phil wrote in his post in May.
The Pentecost Spirit soon broke the idea that the message was for the Jews alone. Language is far more than a collection of words; language reflects a culture and a world view… A person who speaks a language also thinks in that language and absorbs the culture. The Holy Spirit was declaring that Jesus is the Lord of all humanity, not the property of one ethnic group.
Pentecost means that no single language and no single culture can contain the complete story of God's love for us. There is no single 'Christian' culture and there is not a single language capable of expressing the greatness of the triune God. This is what Max Warren meant when he said 'Only the whole world knows the whole truth.
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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
TCN Malabar series: Part 3
If you are forced to choose only one mosque to visit in Kerala that is still representative of the historical mosques of this region, then choose Nakhuda Miskhal Mosque. The masjid was named after the trader and ship-owner Miskhal, who was originally from Yemen. Miskhal built this masjid in Kuttichira which is in present day Kozhikode. You want to choose this masjid because its structure is almost in its original shape with ample evidence of Hindu artisans who made and decorated this Muslim place of worship.
Nakhuda Mishkal Mosque
Not only do you get a sense of rich architecture from visiting this masjid but also visit it for some history lessons. You will learn of the bitter battles between the Portuguese and Mappilas to control the maritime trade in the Persian Gulf. Just a stone's throw from the coast this masjid was partially destroyed in 1510 during a Portuguese raid. And yet another reason to visit this mosque is to show the communal harmony that existed between Muslim subjects and Hindu rulers. Zamorin, the ruler of the time donated wood to repair the damage done to the mosque by the Portuguese raiders.
This masjid, which was initially five floors tall, was reduced to four when it was repaired after the Portuguese attack. At first glance, its imposing wooden structure is still capable of taking your breath away. Only the ground floor is made of permanent material and one wonders how this huge structure is still holding up for the last 650 years. Internally, the mosque is not much different from other historical mosques except that it has a bigger prayer hall and a simpler design. Each wall has several mihrab style doors that keep the area illuminated and well ventilated. A wooden mimbar was added much later. It is highly decorated with motifs that resemble what will be found in a Hindu temple. It is colored in red and green which does not really go along with the rest of the masjid.
Qazi of Miskhal Mosque, Kuttichira
Mimbar of the mosque.
Mihrab is in white with simple designs and floral motifs.
Nakhuda Miskhal Mosque is also home to a Darul Qaza. It has continuously maintained a seat of Qazis since 1343 CE. Unfortunately, the qazis have split since 1860 and now two qazis hold their offices here. In their old dusty register they maintain the names and dates of births, deaths, and marriages for the community.
Not far from Mishkal Mosque is Kuttichira Juma Masjid which is about a thousand years old. This building is a simple structure from the outside and not much different from its surrounding buildings. But step inside and you can't help but notice the lotus that beautifully decorates the roof of the portico. In perfect visual harmony with the lotuses, is intricate Arabic calligraphy. Inside, columns supporting the structure are simple with no pattern on them.
The roof of the main hall opens up to the sky to let the sun light in and illuminate the prayer hall. This moveable roof is not the only "green technology" used in this building. They also harvest rain water to use it for ablution purposes. The second floor of this mosque has big windows. Working in conjunction with the opening that provides light to the floor below it, fresh air is sucked in through these windows and released through the sky light. This makes the second floor a place where resident students can live and it can also hold an overflowing congregation.
Kuttichira Juma Masjid
Lotuses on the roof of the portico
Lotuses, Indian floral motifs and Arabic calligraphy.
Rain water harvested for ablutions
Just walk a little ways south from Kuttichira Juma Masjid on the same street and you will come across another historical and famous mosque. It is called Muchundipalli or Muchundi Mosque. It is about 800 years old and it is famous because of Shaikh Zainuddin Makhdum II, the author of famous book Tuhfatul Mujahidin. It was in this mosque where he had his dars, teaching students and probably this is where he wrote his famous book which chronicles the history of Islam in Malabar.
Another interesting feature of this masjid is that it had a bilingual stone inscription dating back to the 13th century. It is written in Arabic and an older form of Malayalam. Scholars have translated it to read that one Shihabuddin Raihan, a freed slave built this mosque out of his own money on the land donated by the local ruler.
Travel 100 kilometers south of Kuttichira and you will come to Ponnani, a small town in Malappuram district. Ponnani was known as "Small Mecca" for its contribution towards Islamic education. Students from many countries of South East Asia as well as students of South India have flocked to this place and especially to Juma Masjid at Ponnani.
About 500 years ago, Zainuddin Makhdoom I, established this masjid here which also served as the place for religious instructions. The prestige of this place grew so much that "sitting by the lamp" or "vilakkatherrikal," referring to the lamp set up in the middle of the prayer hall to the spot where instructions took place, was enough to certify one's education. The syllabus of education that was setup here was followed in South India and other countries too. As opposed to dars-e-nizami, Ponnani syllabus focused on tasavvuf(mysticism) and ilm (knowledge). The education in this masjid continues even today, though a ghost of its former self. The 40th generation of famous Zainuddin Makhdum who established this masjid, currently runs this place.
As like other historical mosques this is also an example of communal harmony that Muslims of Malabar lived in. This masjid was built by a Hindu carpenter who became friends with Zainuddin and also later accepted Islam. He is now referred to as Ashari Thangal, a name given by the sheikh himself. Ashari is the Malayalam word for carpenter and Thangal is the word of honor given to the descendents of the Prophet. A beautiful example of communal harmony that reminds us that in Islam the best person is one who is pious, honor does not come from money or family ancestry.
Ponnani Juma Masjid, the front view
Facade of the masjid from inside
Upside down signature of the architect who built this masjid
The famous lamp of Ponnani, which has illuminated the lives of many Islamic scholars
A view of the mimbar
Ponnani Juma Masjid continue to function as a Dars
One cannot help but mention the contribution of Malik Bin Dinar, a companion of Prophet Mohammed, who set up at least nine mosques all around Malabar to help establish Islam in South India. Most of these historical mosques that were established thousand and five hundred years ago continue to serve its original purpose and are well looked after by the community.
A sad commentary, unfortunately is that all new mosques that are now built do not reflect the best traditions of Islam in Kerala but rather a transplant of a piece of modern Arabic architecture that some Muslim intellectuals in Kerala refer to as "parachute mosques," for they seemed to have been dropped in Kerala with the help of a parachute since they stand out as something that does not belong to this land.
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The new Cassette Playa Spring/Summer 2009 Collection is about to be released in stores worldwide. As usual the line uses a lot of color, bold imagery and unusual graphics.
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Sikes Hydrometer by Husbands and Clarke, Bristol, England in its original mahogany box. 19th century. The Sikes Hydrometer was used to determine the alcohol content of spirits in determining its proof. This set includes a brass float, thermometer, and 10 weights used to measure the specific gravity of the liquid (labeled 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, plus the calibration cap weight)...
All Items : Antiques : Instruments and Implements : Tools : Pre 1900 item #1073546 (stock #40F52 LP224)
Antiques Collaborative, Inc.
Rare Native American carved steatite two-bear effigy pipe. Great Lakes region. Circa 1850. A museum quality pipe with traces of red and black paint still evident. Excellent condition. Size: 10 7/8 inches length x 3 3/4 inches ht.