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If you are tired of learning about whales from TV documentaries, specialty magazines, or the Internet, it is time you tried a more direct approach, a whale watching expedition. Besides the relaxing trip on the water, you can observe the lovely creatures playing, swimming, communicating and feeding in their natural environment.
Bellingham is a popular destination for whale watchers around the world, being said to hold a special charm, due to the imposing Douglas fir trees that surround it like sentinels. The Puget Sound and a great number of natural lakes are other attractions of this area, but nothing lives up to the magnificence of the Gray whales and Orcas populating the waters surrounding the town and thrilling tourists and locals alike, almost all year long.
Besides the whales, porpoises, seals, sea lions and various species of birds put on a show every day, for the delight of nature and outdoor activities lovers. Nothing beats a sunny afternoon on the deck of a Bellingham ferry.
You can enjoy the sun or lie back in the shadow, have lunch, breakfast or an afternoon snack, enjoy a cocktail to compliment the salty breeze or just explore the waters and listen to the talk of the mammals with the binoculars and hydrophones, offered for free on most ferries'.
The crew includes at least one guide or marine biologist ready to offer provide detailed information on the whales "family life", mating rituals and foraging techniques, so every expedition is not only relaxing and entertaining, but also enriching.


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by Leslie O'Neill
Happy Friday!
I've been in Austin, Texas this past weekend participating in a business mastermind where I was working on the vision for Be Well Meals. One morning, three of us decided to take a break to enjoy a bike ride around the city and somehow, I ended up leading the group. Our intended destination was a beautiful bike path that winds around a lake in the middle of the downtown area. As we approached a one way street I didn't want to ride down it in the wrong direction, so I went left and had a big surprise. To find out what we discovered, hop over to find out that not all that wander are lost.
Which leads me to wandering around my house. I love this time of year and I always feel renewed when the sun is shining bright. It is a great time to clean out the old stuff laying around your home (especially your refrigerator) and bring new and fresh items into your life.
This week I am sharing a juice combination I had while visiting Austin that will surely awaken your senses and give you tons of energy. I had this combination in juice form but you can certainly put the same ingredients into a blender and enjoy them as a smoothie.
Coco Lilly was the name of the drink and I got it at a very popular juice bar called Juice Land. What a wonderful name, sounds like a place I would like to live!
Ingredients: Coconut Water, cucumber, celery, kale, parsley and spinach.
Now if you are juicing with a juicer you can add these in any combination and any amount you like. If you are doing a smoothie, I would do 2 cups of coconut water and then a mixture of the vegetables that equals 2 cups. I would probably not add the celery since it is stringy and it won't breakdown well in most blender as will all the other ingredients.
I had a great time visiting all the juice and smoothie bars they have in Austin and came home with some great ideas for the new Café and Juice Bar that I am opening up. Juicing and Smoothies are such a fun and nutritious way to give your body energy and are perfect as the weather gets warmer to stay hydrated.
I hope you all have a great weekend and get out to enjoy the sunshine! "Great health starts on your plate"
To find out more about Leslie and her wellness company you can visit her website at www.thebewellcoach.com. Leslie is opening up a Juice Bar and Café in the Carolina Forest area of Myrtle Beach so sign up for her newsletter and stay updated on the grand opening.

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Beyond The (Familiar) Text: A #AAA2015 Roundtable Review
Beyond The (Familiar) Text: Anthropological Innovations In Method, Form, And Content
Organizer: Yarimar Bonilla (Rutgers University) Chair: Steven Feld (VoxLox) Presenters: Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University), Jason De León (University of Michigan), Natasha Myers (York University), S. Lochlann Jain (Stanford University), Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Elaine Gan (University of California, Santa Cruz) Sponsored by: Society for Cultural Anthropology
This roundtable showcased projects that extend ethnographic methods and forms beyond text. The five presentations explored sensual and affective modes of storytelling through film (Povinelli and Feld), photography (De León and Gan), drawing (Myers and Jain), and exhibitions (De León and Gan). I will briefly discuss these presentations and offer readers the opportunity to further explore the projects through their respective digital platforms, as well as an archive of the roundtable created through Twitter and Storify.
While ethnographic attention to sight, sound, texture, and movement reveals novel objects of inquiry and goes beyond writing, the panelists did not specifically address the extent to which these avenues are new in anthropology and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Following the discussion, I am left contemplating the ways in which "tradition" in the discipline seeps into practices like presenting at a conference, even at time when we are talking about innovation, creativity, and experimentation.
Elizabeth Povinelli first introduced the work of the Karrabing Film Collective, an indigenous media group based in Australia. After showing their short film Salt, Povinelli discussed how Karrabing challenges the oppression of settler colonialism through the aesthetic form of film.
Jason De León similarly explored the ways in which undocumented migrants tell their stories through narratives and photography, as well as the materiality of living sparingly (e.g. out of backpacks) in precarious conditions. Povinelli and De León both showed how visual forms in ethnography demonstrate struggle differently than text alone, making visible the lives of those rendered invisible by state domination and colonial violence.
Natasha Myers reflected on her bodily and sensory engagements with the cultures of life sciences. Myers sees herself as a sensor in the field, asking questions like, "How might I become a nose to better sense the smells?" She demonstrated how she transformed the energy of bodily movements into visual media through drawing in her fieldnotes—curved, dynamic lines representing energy forms that "leap off the page."
S. Lochlann Jain similarly discussed how drawing and art can disrupt reliance on text. Jain showed Things That Art Cards, small rectangular cards that challenge categories and provoke critical, analytical thought. Bringing the possibilities of art to her students at Stanford, Jain developed an Empathy Lab as an interdisciplinary space to explore the aesthetic, performative, and bodily in research.
Lastly, Elaine Gan presented multimedia projects that provocatively explore ecological relationships between time, landscapes, plant life, and human life. Her three-dimensional installations show how art in ethnography is not only about adding images to text but also about crafting new modes of inquiry for critical analysis. For Gan, employing multiple genres in ethnography is like working with a loom, selecting from array of materials to weave a story together.
The roundtable presentations highlighted the ways in which anthropologists are pushing against the traditional boundaries of ethnography and asking critical questions about the limitations and possibilities of visual, sensory, and digital modes. The innovative methods, forms, and content were refreshing, offering creative imaginings for where the discipline might be heading. However, the question still remains: what are the limitations of visual and sensory forms and, alternatively, what is the value of text? Povinelli suggested that while films such as Salt have an argument, they do not necessarily make the argument. De León adds that his backpack-driven art installations conveyed a variety of messages to the audience but perhaps did not offer quite enough; the installation's audience expressed empathy but also wanted more context in order to understand how they should feel.
Along these lines, discussant Steven Feld commented that his more aesthetic work focusing on sonic media had been criticized for its lack of political engagement, clearly showing that art and politics do not correlate for some audiences. These comments lay bare the challenge ethnographers who are engaged in experimental forms face: navigating between fostering an open interpretive experience for audiences and making their political projects explicit.
The panel did an excellent job of including visual media and offered more to see and watch than most of the other panels I attended at the AAAs. However, with all of this talk about sensory, sonic, and kinesthetic forms and content, I am left wondering how these approaches could inform more conventional practices in the discipline. An audience member raised a similar point, asking the panelists how the roundtable experience might have been different if they had allowed their forms to speak for themselves. We might think about this in terms of the tools employed in teaching, the modes through which we publish and make our work known, as well as the very format of presenting at the AAAs. What if instead of sitting in chairs, looking at the screen and listening to text as talk, the audience was somehow engaged kinesthetically? What if instead of being shown drawings and art, we were somehow engaged in the process of making art? What if obscured ecological relationships were somehow revealed in an interactive moment? What if we were asked to listen to sounds other than talk? Feld noted that sound is often absent in presentations like those of the roundtable because of expectations of literal-ness. It is ironic that a session focusing on experimental ways of doing anthropology ends up adhering to largely conventional forms.
So what do innovative methods, forms, and content look like for anthropologists? Are we on the brink of a "beyond text" revolution, and what will it take to get there? These were some of the questions raised by audience members and by chair Yarimar Bonilla. What was lacking in the discussion, however, was attention to the historical, even though the roundtable abstract promised to question whether such discussions are really new. Arguably anthropologists have been paying attention to multiple sensory modes for decades through the very nature of ethnography; the challenge has been transcribing experiences and conveying affect back to audiences. Feld raised the point that more interdisciplinary collaboration is needed, since artists have been grappling with these challenges for a long time. Disciplinary silos hinder collaboration and make transformations in anthropology slower than they could be.
The panelists agreed that spaces for innovation in method, form, and content can be cultivated through interdisciplinary relationships, "side forms" of research, and experimental spaces—it is a matter of looking for where these sites already exist. While artistic, visual, and sensory research is pushing inquiry and representation, the textual tradition remains important. The panelists suggested that while more training in art, sensory engagement, and bodily forms is needed, the ability to write well is also necessary in order to produce a dissertation, publish in academic journals, vie for tenure, and make arguments explicit. Thus, as much as some anthropologists are experimenting beyond convention, there is also a clear limit to how far anthropologists can and are willing to go at the present moment, at least with respect to this conversation.
The final aspect of the roundtable I want to reflect on is the role of digital platforms. While many scholars are increasingly using digital modes of presenting research and connecting with audiences, the presenters in this panel were exceptional in this regard. Elaine Gan, Jason De León, Steven Feld, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Natasha Myers offer ways of experiencing their research through cleverly made websites. Yarimar Bonilla, Natasha Myers, Jason De León, and Lochlann Jain frequently use Twitter to engage tweeps in their recent work. While these digital forms are still relatively text-dependent, they allow words, conversations, and images to flow differently than typical journal articles. While more could be said here about the value and limitations of these media, we can also keep the conversation going online. You can review the live tweeting from the roundtable via Storify and add to the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #byndtxt. Special thanks go to Yarimar Bonilla for organizing the roundtable and for encouraging us to use Twitter as a way to play with and beyond text.


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These 20 years old C++ application you're talking about *might* still work because they statically linked to all their dependent libraries, or used such low level APIs (most the C one probably) that haven't changed for ages because they're low level, and luckily the ABI of the platform didn't change either. With dynamic linking and/or higher level APIs, forward compatibility is much harder to achieve... Java is dynamic in nature. The 'ABI' didn't change much since Java 1.1 (modulo the new assert stuff in 1.4), it's mostly the libraries that have evolved. Staying back to a 1.1 level of libraries is like writing against the C API as opposed to std C++ lib & STL. You have a damn good 1.5 release that supports 1.1. If you are willing to stay with an old OS that only supports 1.1, you have to bear the consequences of your choice. Don't blame the Ant community for abandoning Java 1.1 compatibility, blame the hardware/OS vendor *you* selected for not sticking to Java (why should SUN to all the work!) Claiming bugs won't get fixed is nonsense. Most bugs appear when trying to support newer features and/or OS's, and you don't see very often someone reporting a bug specific to a 1.1-only platform. The older the platform, the more likely the bugs have been found and fixed. And finally, this is open source software: if you do find new bugs for 1.1, then fix them! The 1.5 branch of Ant will still be active, as active as people fix the (rare) bugs reported. Ant should move on to Java 2, to get URLClassLoader, Java 2 collections, and more. JDK 1.3 and 1.4 features will be part of separate antlibs. Nobody ever said Ant couldn't be used to build 1.1 application. Ant should just not be required to itself run on top of such a VM/JDK lib. --DD -----Original Message----- From: David McTavish [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:33 AM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: Dropping JDK 1.1 support I think another thing people need to acknowledge is that not everyone develops for Windows platforms, or, more specifically, platforms that receive a high-level of support from Sun (ie: Linux, Windows, and Solaris). This means, that in order for them to do Java development, they are restricted to older versions of Java. It's not that they don't want to use cutting-edge software, but rather, JDK 1.1 IS cutting edge for that particular platform. I find the suggestions to switch to JDK1.4 laughable at best, seeming as 80% of deployed Java software is implemented as 1.3 code. If Java users wish to deprecate their language every two years, you will soon start finding people no longer wanting to buy Java-based solutions. I know of C++ applications that were written twenty years ago that still function properly without having to be re-written. If we are going to force every piece of software to be rewritten JUST to stay current with the versioned compiler of the week, the Java industry is indeed dead. If we can't support backwards compatibility and support for older implementations of the language, then who in their right mind would want to invest in developing Java solutions when there is a realization that the project will have to be re-done in one or two years to ensure support. That being said, if the Ant group wishes JDK1.2 or JDK1.3 to be the base line to "COMPILE" ant, I'm fine with that, but if the suggestion is that support for building projects under older JDK frameworks is going to be deprecated, then this is a serious issue. As the de-facto build tool for java, Ant plays an important role in the industry. I don't believe that this decision should be made lightly, or even on the merits of the people who were willing to respond to this thread. I would strongly recommend considering the impact this has on providing Java support to more platforms, and ensuring some level of backwards-compatibility. Without these aspects, Java is no better than any other programming language. I know most people here are responsible for managing the build process for their respective projects, but it sounds like nobody has the experience of managing multiple projects that are either in the stages of on-going development, or are "functionally" complete. Not all products require infinite development, and if the required objective of the product is fulfilled, the amount of effort required to ensure its functionality should be extremely limited. If this is not the case, then we should all just go back to writing C++ code. d. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Cohen [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:17 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Dropping JDK 1.1 support The fact that previous versions of ant are not going away doesn't help when the previous versions have bugs or lack some particular piece of functionality that is added later, which might be perfectly compatible with 1.1. I'm not a committer and I have no vote, and I'm not necessarily opposed to migrating compatibility at this point to 1.2, but there is a downside to this sort of thinking and it needs to be recognized which I don't think you do. -----Original Message----- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:13 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Dropping JDK 1.1 support >-----Original Message----- >From: Jesse Stockall [mailto:email@example.com] >Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:02 AM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: Re: Dropping JDK 1.1 support > > >On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Chappell, Simon P wrote: >> >> >>>> MacOS only supports 1.1, and will never see anything >newer. The free >>>> VM's (Kaffe, SableVM, etc) do not support all the 1.4 >>> features, MacOS X >>>> just got 1.4.1 a couple days ago. OS/2 has 1.3.1, OS/390 has 1.3.1, >>>> Linux on pSeries (RS/6000) has 1.3.1, Linux on 31 bit >>> zSeries has 1.3.1. >>> >>> It seems that the only system in the above list which would be >>> affected by a shift to JDK 1.2 would be MacOS. As long as Ant 1.5.x >>> continues to >>> be supported (only for bug fixes, obviously) I don't see >any problem. >> >> Actually, given that MacOS (i.e. all versions previous to OS >X) is now >> official in end of life status, and that all new development >is going >> into OS X, this does not seem like a huge concern to me. I use OS X >> and have just upgraded to Java 1.4.1, so I'm not having a >problem with >> this personally. :-) > >So are you offering to to purchase new Macs for all those still using >MacOS 9? No. >Just because Apple has decided to EOL MacOS 9, does not mean that >everyone upgrades over night. Only about 20% - 30% of all Mac >users are >using OS X, that leaves quite a few with Java 1.1 The previous versions of ant are not going away. You can continue to use them. The absolute worst case here would be that you could continue to use ant 1.5 with JDK 1.1 on older Macs. >Jesse Stockall - email@example.com >CRYPTOCard Corp. Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Full of sunshine, friendship and relaxation!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
May your day be...
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These kittie sunbathers are a hoot, so funny! They have the right idea, wish I could join them.ReplyDelete
Lol! soooo funny! oh my the kitties...this is fun idea for summer. i have to tell mu neighbor!ReplyDelete
they are funny aren't they, can't imagine the time it would take to put a bathing suit on like that! lolReplyDelete
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Hi !!!
Today I am sharing this oval shaped crochet doily with you.
This is basically made by joining two halves and then finished off with a fine edging using trebles & picot stitch.
For this I have used a 10 sized crochet steel hook and Red Heart Crochet Cotton.
You can find the pattern HERE.
After completing the doily I found it a wee bit simple .....so I added these poppy flowers (tutorial for the same can be found in youtube) to give it more colour.
I hope you like it as much as I do.
I would like to hear from you on the above project.
Till next time happy crafting !!!!:)


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Disclaimers: Gene Simmons Family Jewels belongs to A Day With, the A and E
Television Networks, the Gene Simmons Company and The Greif Company. This
story is not-for-profit, but I own it.
Date: 07/05/2007
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Strong language, voyurism, female solo sex, male/female sex, male
solo sex, female/female sex
Categories: Het, slash, bi
Pairing: Nick Simmons/Sybil Danning/Carina Persson, Shannon Tweed-solo
Feedback: Yes, I want feedback.
Archive: Yes
Other Notes: This AU story is based on the two pictorials in the August 1983
Issue of Playboy Magazine.
Summary: Two of Shannon Tweed's best friends -- Sybil Danning and Carina
Persson -- arrive at the Simmons residence for a little visit, only to have
the both of them show her son -- Nick Simmons -- just how friendly they are.
Dedications: None so far.
Gene Simmons Family Jewels: A Nice Friendly Visit
by Andrew Troy Keller ([email protected])
It had all began on one hot summer afternoon at the home of Gene Simmons and
his longtime partner, a hot-looking blonde babe known as Shannon Tweed, who
live in that exact same house with their teenage kids, 18-year-old Nick and
15-year-old Sophie.
Anyway, it was after Shannon has finished putting out some refreshments for
a couple of friends that she was expecting to arrive at the Simmons mansion
for a nice friendly visit that Gene has left to go meet with his agent about
a possible movie on his days as a bass and vocals member of the heavy-metal
band known as KISS -- whose stage name was 'The Demon' at the time -- and
Sophie has gone over to a friend's house to do some studying for a big school
As for Nick, he has decided to just stay home and lounge around in his own
bedroom, but that was before a car has pulled itself up into the driveway and
two hot-looking babes -- another sexy blonde babe whose name is Sybil Danning
and Playboy Magazine's August 1983 Playmate of the Month known as Carina
Persson -- had stepped out of the car just in time for a smiling Shannon to
rush herself over to her two fellow sex goddesses and gave them a big
friendly hug.
And after his mother has stepped back into the house with her two good
friends, Nick has plopped himself down on the bed and placed his own pillow
over his eyes, because he was unable to believe that the one woman who was
also known as Playboy Magazine's November 1981 Playmate of the Month would
allow herself to have two fantastic babes as her best friends.
Just then, after the three good friends had stuffed their faces with the
refreshments and shared wonder memories of the past, Shannon has taken the
plates into the kitchen to be cleaned, while both Carina and Sybil had
decided to go ahead and check out the rest of the house.
That was before Nick has decided to step out of his bedroom in order to go
down the stairs and into the kitchen and get himself something to snack on,
but just as he was about to do that, Nick has suddenly bumped into his
mother's two good friends and said, "Whoa!I'm sorry about bumping into you
guys. It's just that... I mean, I didn't know that... wholly, shit!"
But then, after Nick has placed his hands over his face to cover-up his
embarrassment, the two hot-looking babes had looked down at the young hunk's
pants and noticed that his cock has suddenly stiffened-up, causing the Queen
of the Action Flicks and the Stockholm, Sweden-born Playmate to look and
smile at each other just before they had grabbed Nick by the arms and dragged
him into one of the guest bedrooms, where the two babes had stripped off all
of their clothes and exposed their bare-ass naked bodies in front of him.
And just as the young stud was about to ask his mother's two best friends
what they were doing, Carina has started pumping two of her fingers in and
out of her hot, wet pussy and carressing her own tits with the other hand
just before Sybil has moved herself closer to a reluctant Nick, placed her
gentle hand on his chest and asked, "What's wrong, Nick? Don't you like what
you see? Don't you even want to touch?"
And then, after he had looked at Carina and her wonderfully-built body, Nick
has taken all of his clothes off and kissed Sybil ever so passionately on the
lips just before he had started licking all over her nude body -- all the way
down to her hot, moist snatch and carressing her firm breasts and stroking
his stone hard dick.
Then, as soon as Shannon has walked up the stairs to check on her two best
buds, she has heard the sounds of a small group of people having hot and
steamy sex inside one of the guest bedrooms, causing her to take a peek
through that room's slightly-opened door and discover what Carina, Sybil
and Nick were doing with each other.
And of course, even though she might be shocked and disguested by the whole
thing, there was something about that particular scenario that has caused
Shannon to drop her pants and start pumping two of her fingers in and out
of her hot and steamy cunt just before Sybil has placed her hands on Nick's
bare shoulders and said, "Aaaahhhh, yeeeessss! That's it! Do it, Nick! Touch
me! Touch me there! Suck my wet pussy dry! Aaaahhhh!"
And then, after Carina has moved herself closer to the two newfound sex
partners and began sucking on Sybil's stiff mounds, Nick has suddenly
realized that he was able to experience the one thing that he has never
experienced with two such hot-looking babes before, for he was experiencing
pure and untamed erotica... and enjoying every minute of it.
Just then, after Nick has placed his stiff cock inside Carnia's pussy and
started licking on Sybil's snatch, the blonde movie-star has placed her hands
on the Sweden-born Playmate's silky-smooth naked thighs and began sucking on
her tits, causing a sexually-energized Carnia to place her hands on Sybil's
bare back and yell at the top of her lungs, "AAAAHHHH, YES! THAT'S IT! DO IT,
And then, after the three newfound bi-sexual lovers had started moving
themselves harder and faster and their lovemaking has finally made its
appearence at the latest KISS concert, Nick, Carnia and Sybil had came
and collapsed due to exhaustion and fell asleep with their naked arms
in a lover's embrace just before Shannon has started pumping her fingers
in and out of her cunt harder and faster, until she had finally came,
lowered herself down to the floor of the hallway and thought to herself,
*Oooohhhh, to only be an 18-year-old again.*
Just then, after the three best friends had given themselves a big 'goodbye'
hug and Carnia and Sybil had gotten into the car and drove themselves away
from the Simmons residence, Shannon has walked back into the house and
noticed that Nick was in the kitchen munching on some corn chips and drinking
a small bottle of Pepsi.
And after she has placed her gentle hand on her son's shoulder and said,
"Look, Nick. I'm sorry about what happened during my friends' visit," Nick
has turned himself around, looked at Shannon with a small smile and said,
"Actually, Mom. It was really cool."
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Methadone withdrawal will be required one way or another, after methadone maintenance or a pain management program making use of methadone has actually begun. If your feeling enslaved by having to go to a Glendora CA center or a drug store day-to-day and also undergoing hell if you wish to travel, there is a way out.
Methadone usage creates a numb feeling to living, significant belly issues and physical reliance that beats all others; that's the short list. All type of various other illness that methadone usage created are uncovered when starting methadone withdrawal. I'll provide you some answers to aid today, and additionally options to take care of the trouble to ending methadone reliance permanently.
Methadone Use Is Epidemic
Addictions medical professionals as well as pain monitoring clinics in California are busily suggesting methadone for opiate abuse as well as persistent discomfort, but just what are the repercussions of methadone use? I have actually noted several listed below. If you have actually currently tried Methadone withdrawal and had issues, I've obtained some assistance you wouldn't have actually located elsewhere.
Once it is time to start methadone withdrawal, many individuals are having BIG issues finishing their methadone use. Exactly how does one take out from methadone in Glendora California? What difficulties will they have to get rid of?
Methadone Withdrawal Challenges
- Methadone use makes people unfeeling, numb
- Even stepping down from methadone can expose hyper sensitivity to discomfort and nutritional depletion symptoms — cramping, aches, nervousness, sleeplessness
- Methadone withdrawal is often 4 times longer and more difficult than heroin once the drug has been abused or used incorrectly for long periods of time
- Withdrawing from methadone can give pains and aches which people can mistake for stress and pain from past accidents
I'm writing for those having difficulty with methadone withdrawal. If you are experiencing not a problem withdrawing from methadone, do not fret you're one of the fortunate ones.
The truth is that many dependencies physicians and pain administration specialists in Glendora are acting on the recommendations from their peers and experts. They are not informed of the fatalities due to recommended methadone use neither the problems that sometimes take place when taking out from methadone usage.
The concern sadly lies with the consumer.
Vital: extensively research drugs or medications on your own before you buy or take them. The impacts can be gruesome. They additionally might have harmful interactive effects when taken with various other drugs.
Numerous if not all of methadone effects are caused by dietary deficiencies. Methadone usage creates nutritional depletion – specifically calcium and magnesium exhaustion. An additional is B vitamin deficiency. This is exactly how these deficiencies are manifested.
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Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms
- Anxiety over sensations, pains and discomforts returning
- Sleeplessness
- Sneezing
- Cramping of legs and arms
- Bone aches
- Flu or dope sick
Methadone withdrawal will certainly call for a great deal of added dietary supplements. That means it's time to feed the body. Calcium and also magnesium will help with the cramping etc. But there will certainly be some difficulty numerous will certainly have taking their nutrients – a bad gut.
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A Negative Gut
Methadone and also stress and anxiety meds tend to destroy the digestive tract cellular lining. A dripping intestine provides pains when consuming or allergic reactions, vulnerable to illness and skin issues. One more signs and symptom of a dripping digestive tract is irritation and a 'attitude problem'. The attitude can have physical causes unmentioned by the individual.
An excellent idea to helping the gut trouble is consuming lots of high quality yogurt with online probiotics in it, like acidophilus and also bifidus. One could likewise supplement with big quantities of glutathione – an antioxidant to assist the cleansing procedure.
The quantity of nutrients needed during methadone withdrawal is ignored so usually that I shake my head in wonder.
Medicines Like Methadone Are Contaminants
The issue with methadone is that it is poisonous to the body. Your body knows it, however you could not. Taking methadone obstacles your organs to cleanse the body and also secure the essential organs prior to they are severely damaged.
Contaminants give the body a tough time. If you have actually seen drug users with dark circles under their eyes, gray skin, poor skin, hair falling out, reduced energy, weird ailments, etc. they're got dietary deficiencies. Those shortages are difficult to recuperate from with food alone. Sometimes that food isn't really being correctly absorbed = bad intestine.
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Methadone Detox
Cleansing the body is more than simply quiting drug use. Substance abuse develops interior body damages you might not right away recognize. Nevertheless, the body will certainly aim to detox right after drug use and also heal itself making use of any nutrients offered. If the nutrients typically aren't readily available, the body will borrow (take) them from the bones, nerves or other vital functions.
Some will require medical detox from methadone – the problem is that most Glendora methadone detox centers don't use nutritional supplements as part of their program. They just give more medications, and often not the right ones. The lack of full understanding on Methadone detox creates a brutal scene to withdraw from.
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Praise God. Isn't that wonderful to know that, after God, you are the most powerful being in this universe? Apply your anointing in your life and rejoice that your trample over the enemy and there is literally nothing that can defeat you because you are empowered and you have the anointing in you. I want you to get one thing really clearly: at the Cross, because of the blood of Jesus, the evil one has been defeated forever. He can never ever recuperate or change anything about it. The Blood of Jesus bought you your supernatural enablement. Use it, so that Jesus' sacrifice is not in vain or useless. (We will discuss this in detail afterward, so you can really understand why it's so powerful and why the enemy is eternally defeated.)


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Monday 25 January 2010
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My usual Jerk warm up and some exercises to warm up the muscles in my lower and mid back.
Snatch--1x2@40, 40, 60, 80, 90, 100, 105 1x1@110, 112 which I just missed. I will nail this later in the week and I am already looking forward to it! I tried a slightly different set up at the start of my pull and I did not spend as much time before initiating the start as usual. I will avoid over-analysing it and see how it feels over the next two weeks or so.
Back Squat--1x2@126, 135 6x2@144--80%
This was my recovery session and I was going through the motions. I am happily anticipating the challenge of the 6 sets of 6 reps at 80% on Wednesday, so I will keep the Snatch beforehand nice and light.
I am really enjoying the basic program of lots of squats, lots of Snatching and a few Clean and Jerks thrown in for good measure. The Jerk skill warm up is going well and I am feeling more and more comfortable all the time and getting my positioning better bit by bit.
David and Pete made some particularly interesting comments on training camps the other day and I agree mainly with what they say. If one uses them as a crutch, they can have a detrimental effect. However, if they are used as an occasional stimulus and lifters learn from them, push themselves that little bit harder and have more fun than training on their own, I believe thay can affect lifters in a very positive manner.
14 comments:
- GoLift said...
Think I need to get the skill work in for my jerk. Have done a lot of speed work for snatch in warm-up but to the detriment of other things. What you been doing for the jerk skill work? Robbie
- 26 January 2010 at 10:04
- bigphathar said...
Skill work/warmup for the Jerk:
1. Jerk Dips
2. Jerk Catches
3. Split Jerks
You have to make sure your feet are hitting the right positions every time and that the balance is on the right part of the front foot (and that the weight is properly spread between the two feet.)
The more skill work you do as your warm up, the better your lifts will get, the more you progress.
It doesn't mean lifting light all the time, but it does mean doing a longer, more structured warm-up than most weightlifters do and emphasising quality (of lift) more than quantity (an extra few kilos with sloppy form.)
There is a place for quantity however.
The more I learn as a coach (often more from lifters with different sports backgrounds to mine than from anywhere else) the more I realsie that warming up efficiently, preparing your body with proper skill training and stretching effectively afterwards should amount to the same amount of time that you actually lift on the platform.
- 26 January 2010 at 11:38
- Anonymous said...
Not sure I agree with that last statement. As I see it a 'warm up' serves two functions: to raise body temperature and to rehearse the movement pattern. Both of these goals can be (quickly) achieved with specific bar work. My lifters do power snatches with a bar for 5 sets of 5 reps and emphasise making each rep faster and more precise.
I think it's illuminating that when Barry asked John Broz what stretching his lifters do he replied simply, 'do the lifts'. I think you'd get a similar answer from Steve Gough or Ivan Abadjiev. My advice: don't get bogged down with faff.
There is a tendency within BWLA to teach the lifts via 'reverse chain' (i.e. snatch balance, snatch from full extension, high hang snatch, low hang snatch, snatch from floor). I have generally found that this approach leads to a. 'stagey' lifting and b. paralysis by analysis. IMO once an individual has achieved a basic technique, all lifting should be done from the floor. Then you refine technique by addressing each technical error one by one.
It's significant that when you watch elite lifters, many have them make significant technical errors. The fact is, they've found a technique that works for them. I can imagine a conversation that might happen with a typical British coach:
Coach: Bend your back leg when you jerk / don't jump back when you pull
Lifter: Why? I broke the world record using this technique...
You can effectively address technique within the constraints of regular heavy lifting (there will be at least 10 lifts before you get to 90%) but beyond the very early novice stages I see minimal value in specific 'technique' training.
- 26 January 2010 at 13:53
- Anonymous said...
I also have to comment on the so called 'Russian Squat' routine. Some herald this as a 'magical' solution to leg strength. In reality it is just two basic 'pyramids':
1. Increasing work by increasing reps - 6x2; 6x3; 6x4; 6x5; 6x6
2. Increasing work by increasing load - 6x6, 5x5, 4x4, 3x3, 2x2, 1x1
The other sessions are simply active recovery and could be replaced by any exercise mode - swimming, cycling, light Olympic lifts etc.
I instead refer people to the Texas Method as outlined by Rippetoe and Kilgore in Practical Programming. This works on a weekly cycle as follows:
Session 1 (mon) - 5x5reps at 90% 5RM OR 6x3r @ 90% 3RM
Session 2 (wed) - Arbitrary active recovery
Session 3 (fri) - test 5 or 3RM
The Westside System is really a variation of this using lower reps:
Session 1 (mon) - 8 to 12 x2reps at 60% (+ bands)
Session 2 (thur) - test 1 or 2RM
The Bulgarian system instead calls for maximum singles or doubles multiple times per week. In my experience however 3 or 4 sessions provides insufficient volume to continue gains beyond the first couple of months.
At the moment I am experiementing with single sets of maximum 5's... Which I guess is really a form of (whisper it) HIT...
Sorry more thoughts...
- 26 January 2010 at 16:09
- brendan said...
I am very interested in any comments relating on how to improve the jerk/split. On paper, it sounds like a simple action but no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to nail it.
Also relating to squad sessions. I would love to attend one of these in the near future but realise I am not an elite lifter. My pb's are only 77+107 but if I can improve and not get in the way of the top lifters, I would love to come along. I am close to qualifying for the euro masters which would be a big achievement for me. I would love to get the opportunity to watch our top lifters more often.
- 26 January 2010 at 19:02
- Barry said...
I agree that the Russian squat routine is very basic and unimpressive when on paper. However, it is helping me improve my squat and the fact that I have that part of my workouts planned and I know I have to hit those targets is really beneficial. When I finish this I would love to give the Texas program a bash and see of that helps too. I have been squatting with no particular goal in mind for far too long, so I find the structured nature very beneficial. Your points about the different squatting systems were very interesting, so thanks for taking the time to put them up.
In regards to warm ups being skill related and specific muscle related, I think they have a place if you want to remain injury free. Working on your muscular imbalances helps you stay healthy and it is obvious what the skill warm ups help with. In saying this, sometimes you have to just get on with it and get lifting. For half my workouts I would have a more comprehensive warm up than others and usually my mood and fatigue levels dictate this.
Thanks for the comprehensive response. I could not have phrased those same thoughts nearly as well.
Next time we are having lifters up you are more than welcome. It is looking like there will be a bit of a get together on the 15th of Feb on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. You and whoever else would like to come just needs to get in touch.
- 26 January 2010 at 22:41
- Barry said...
I forgot to mention that none of us are elite lifters either. I consider myself still a beginner as I have a long long way to go. 19 months training in the sport makes me a beginner/intermediate lifter and I have no illusions otherwise.
- 27 January 2010 at 12:17
- bigphathar said...
I agree with you to a point David, especially on the point that "you refine technique by addressing each technical error one by one."
Too often people tend to throw in exercises into plan without any reasoning behind why they need to do that exercise. Need speed under the bar? More extension? Stronger legs?
And I agree that the ideal situation, for an experienced international lifter is to just do the lifts.
If you have access to lots of lifters with great flexibility, if you don't need to worry about replacing a lifter who gets injured, then just doing the Snatch, Clean & Jerk and Squat would be enough and ignoring flexibility, core work, skill work and all the other faff would be fine.
But most weightlifters don't have a long enough background in the sport to train like senior international athletes:
By the time a young Bulgarian/Pole/Russian gets to even a Junior international team they've already done thousands of hours of weightlifting, including skill work and they and they have worked out the technique that works best for them and their levers.
If you're a 20 year old lifter in Ireland or the UK who's been lifting for two years you might have almost a thousand hours of lifting experience. The same lifter in Russia would have at least 7 or 8 times that much training.
And there are examples of elite lifters who have succeeded despite their technique, not because of it. But whatever the technique, they do the same movement every time, irrespective of the weight:
For a beginner who only been doing the sport for a few hundred hours, that's not the case.
If you're a mortal who wants to get as good as you can be, you need to make sure that you have good technique, speed and flexibility as well as strength.
And flexibility imbalances can cause injury: you can't train when you're injured.
- 28 January 2010 at 19:54
- brendan said...
Thanks Barry. It is great to see the progress you are all making and more importantly, really enjoying it.
- 28 January 2010 at 23:32
- Anonymous said...
'Flexibility imbalances'?? I think you might have been reading too much Men's Fitness! Once you have the flexibility to hit a full snatch position, you have the flexibility to do the lifts. In my experience lifters who are very flexible look 'soft', i.e. they lack stability in the catch positions.
I took a novice 80kg lifter from 50 and 75 kg in his first session with me to 101, 121 in 7 months. He did only 2 session per week and only 3 exercises total. Another (69kg) girl I worked with went from 47 and 67 to 73 and 93 in 5 months. Did these athletes have perfect technique? No. But their technique was being addressed and was improving with each training session.
Steve Gough and John Broz are doing a similar thing with novice lifters in the states. Are we all just being lucky getting the right athlets?!
Training age is really a red herring - you are never too old or too young to start training properly!
- 29 January 2010 at 09:09
- snatch_pete said...
After reading these posts I remembered a message I had read recently on goheavy. Its quite interesting in my opinion regarding age 'elite lifters' start at:
From a personal point of view I found from my own lifting and also helping to coach two other folk being able to work on skill while trying to increase the poundage lifted led to a more interesting introduction to the sport. I remember someone from Hercules showing me a Russian(?) video of skill training years ago and thinking to myself if I had to endure the monotonous training that wee guy on the video had to go through I would never have stuck at the sport!
I suppose there has to be a bit of balance between skill work and increasing poundage to keep lifters interested and I am not arguing with anyones viewpoint!
- 29 January 2010 at 21:31
- bigphathar said...
Hey Pete: Xiaojun Lu is a great lifter and he certainly gives hope that it's possible to take up the sport late and make it to the top.
But I'm sure as a Scientist you'll agree that taking the one lifter that defies the odds and using them as a template is not going to lead to great results.
(Nor do I presume that you're making that point: The glory of the internet is the ability to completely misconture other's points and I hope I'm not doing that in this case.)
Statistical anomalies are just that; anomalies.
Plus, a full time athlete in a sport with certain common traits (fast twitch fibres, short burts of intense training) like sprinting and weightlifting will, clearly have a greater carryover (training age vs. chronological age) than an untrained individual or someone who is training fulltime in a sport with very little in common (long distance running.) It still doesn't make success more likely.
I do agree that emphasising skill is unlikely to bring success is you don't also work on the traits that are also necessary (strength, speed, flexibility) and like you I couldn't train like a Bulgarian: I'm not a robot and I have other opportuniries in life. Working at light weights all the time prepares you to lift... Light weights.
Dave: Can't say that I've ever read Men's Fitness, but I'll be sure to check it out on your reccomendation.
- 30 January 2010 at 00:02
- CathalByrd said...
'Men's Fitness' is like the 'Hello Magazine' of the strength training world. What you want to read is 'Flex'magazine, outstanding read and much more hardcore.
- 30 January 2010 at 19:52
- bigphathar said...
I'll be sure to pick up both of those Cathal: Do you know are they translated into Mandarin? I need to find a good article on blasting my calves...
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6 things food trucks can teach us about social media
Written by Courtney Seiter and published
A few weeks ago, RavenMegan and I got all up on the new(ish) Nashville trend of food trucks when we geeked out and waited in a long-ass line for gourmet grilled cheese sandwich from a mobile eatery parked a block from our office.
If your city is anything like Raven's hometown, you may have noticed this multiplying breed of restaurants on wheels. A lot has been said about how food trucks are using social media to help their businesses succeed. But what I wondered was: could the reverse be true? How can we use food trucks' strategies to help our social media succeed? Chew on these 6 lessons food trucks can teach us about effective social media.
1. Find your audience
What food trucks do: How do food trucks decide where they're going to park for the day? They do research to find the handful of spots where they can reach the largest number of hungry people.
What you can do: The same kind of research is crucial in social media. If you don't know the places where your audience is hanging out and talking about you, you're missing out. Facebook and Twitter aren't all there is to social — your crowd might be on Foursquare, Quora or forums specific to their industry or interest. Tools like Google Alerts, Social Mention, Twilert and yes, Raven, can help you monitor your brand to find out what's being said and where. Once you know where to find your audience, put those spots on your daily route.
2. Plan for speed
What food trucks do: Wheels change the restaurant game. Rain? No problem. Food trucks can change locations and plans on a dime.
What you can do: Plan in advance so you're just as fast. A UK study shows that a sizable chunk of consumers who tweet brands expect a response in an hour. (Mercifully, a larger percentage is willing to wait at least a day.) Social media moves fast, and it pays to have a plan. That means knowing who owns each channel. And defining your goals. And having a crisis communications plan ready to go when/if needed.
3. Time it right
What food trucks do: Food trucks know exactly when their audience is looking for them: 1) at lunchtime 2) late at night, near bars, when we've drunkenly lost all willpower to resist a gooey slice of pizza.
What you can do: You may not have it quite as easy in your social media efforts, but it's worth the effort to research timing your messages so they connect with the biggest section of your audience. Consider who you're talking to: office workers taking a Twitter break during lunch? Internet professionals who are online all day long? Stay-at-home moms with a Facebook habit? Use services like Google Analytics and Facebook Insights to pinpoint your daily traffic trends. Then use tools like Tweriod or Timely to max out your peak times of day on Twitter.
4. Dump the extras
What food trucks do: Food trucks succeed in part because of what they don't have: you know, like chairs, tables, printed menus…taking care of those things takes time and money.
What you can do: The same is true in social media: Short posts that cut out all the extras garner more engagement. A recent study shows that Facebook posts of 80 characters or less got 27% more engagement than longer posts. Is it tough to do? Yup. It's probably pretty tricky to make gourmet tacos in a van, too. We all have our challenges.
5. Make some noise
What food trucks do: Does this look like a business that's trying to create a nondescript, professional appearance?
Um, no. Food trucks have to stand out to be found.
What you can do: You have to stand out, too. The best examples of successful social media—Target's Facebook page, Southwest's blog, Skittles' very weird Twitter account—are those that break the mold and show creativity, personality and life. Find what's unique about your business or product and create excitement around it. Post photos or videos of what's going on behind the scenes at your office. Ask questions and respond to the answers. Put yourself out there in a way that makes you a little uncomfortable at first.
6. Ride the wave
What food trucks do: They're popular now, but who knows if the food truck trend will last. That's not stopping new vendors from getting in the game while the trend is hot, though.
What you can do: The lesson here for social media? Ride the wave of what's hot when you can. Find ways to frame national or local trends for your audience. Monitor the news at large as well as what's going on in your industry or area to find moments you can logically capitalize on. Brainstorm blog posts using Google Trends and Google Insights. Check out this list of 23 bloggable questions about your business or Copyblogger's list of 50 techniques for finding blog topics for inspiration.


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text: Though the two worlds of entertainment and politics orbit around different issues and are inhabited by people who are structured somewhat differently, they always tend to meet and intermingle one way or another. Politicians have long been fascinated by leading ladies of the silver screen that made for some great stories of what happens when these two worlds collide. We escape into the world of entertainment when we have had enough of being lost in the twisted maze of politics, but where do we go when we find the two becoming one? Whilst in the past celebrity lives were mostly mysterious to those outside their world, nowadays all thanks to tabloids and social networks, that mystery has been laid to rest. Contrary to what many celebrity publicists will have you believe, celebrities are indeed human beings. Some of them with political and social concerns have chosen to break their silence and take up activism to fight for what they believe is sacred. But this freedom of expression comes at a price.When a celebrity rallies for a cause they are at risk of losing fans, for you might very well love the celebrity but loathe their political position. Here lies the great sacrifice famous people have to face, to forgo their social responsibility knowing full well that they have a great platform from which they can be heard, or forever hold their peace in fear of losing the fame and money they worked so hard to attain. During the uprising in Egypt the then-famous Egyptian singer Tamer Hosny was ostracised from Tahrir Square by the revolutionaries because they recalled that at the onset of the rallies he was sent by the government to advise them to go home. Hosny's political position reduced the voice of Egypt's young generation, who packed stages across the country, to a YouTube clip of the young man crying after being humiliated by the people of the revolution. Meanwhile, as the Libyan people fought to regain control of their destiny it was revealed that both American singers Nelly and Beyoncé have been paid millions of dollars to appear for one of Saif Al Islam Gaddafi's birthday bashes. Knowing full well what kind of reaction this political connection might have on their image, both singers stated that they have nothing to do with the dictator's money and gave it back to the Libyan people. Recently, the Belgian singer Lara Fabian, who was scheduled to sing in Lebanon for this year's Valentine's Day concert, had to withdraw due to an outcry by the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon, because of pro-Israeli comments she had made. The American actor Mel Gibson and Christian Dior's once token designer John Galliano have both felt the wrath of the fans when both were caught voicing anti-Jewish comments. The former has had a hard time getting any of his work produced in Hollywood and the latter was immediately fired from his prestigious position at the House of Dior.This backlash by fans over celebrities' political backgrounds is not reserved only for actors and singers but applies to sports figures as well. During the height of the protests in Bahrain football players, who chose to partake in the rallies, have been named and shamed on Bahrain's local television station, some even withdrew from the league as a result. A work of art should be judged independently from its artist. Would a painting be as magnificent if we judged the hands that held the brush? Would a love poem be as passionate if we had preconceived notions that its writer was in fact cold and distant? Most of us fail to see this distinction.We must realise that diverse worlds such as these exist in a grey universe, where the colours black and white are forever blended. The inhabitants of each must know that stepping out of their territories could bring with it risks they might not be willing to take.


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What I found was that my students were highly motivated by the choice and that our stamina has continued to grow with the more choices they have. They now can pick between Read to Self, Work on Writing and Word Work (right now, they do all 3 everyday). In word work they can write their words on a whiteboard, make their words with bendaroos or make their words with reading rod letters.
When I first introduced Word Work our stamina was around 5 to 8 minutes depending on the day. Today we did 3 rounds of at least 12 minutes each!!!
One thing I've done with my barometer children is to give them a timer, but also to give them a sheet that has a simple 2 row table with the numbers 1-16 at the top. They flip the sand timer over, read/write/work the whole time the timer goes, and when the sand runs out they put a check under 1. They repeat the process the whole time that we are working. This really helped a couple of friends who were struggling with their stamina.
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Given the sharp contrast between the two sides in Libya's civil war, the achievement, if any, of Russian envoy's visit to the opposition base Benghazi is only sending a message to the embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi that his ally is moving further away from him.
Smoke is seen after a strong explosion in Libya's capital Tripoli as NATO airstrikes hit the area on June 7
Analysts in Libya are not expecting big success from the mediation efforts of Mikhail Margelov, Russian presidential envoy on Africa affairs, who arrived in Benghazi Tuesday and met with the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil.
The Gaddafi regime now is having less trust and confidence on Russia, which has changed its stance dramatically from criticizing the NATO-led air operation in Libya to joining the call for Gaddafi's departure, said Fathi Ali, a politics professor of Benghazi-based Garyounis University.
Russia forged a close tie with the Gaddafi regime through decades-long military assistance and emerging economic cooperation. Nearly all the weapons in Libyan arsenals were bought from Russia. The two countries also signed contracts in railway construction and oil exploration in recent years.
However, the announcement by Russian President Dimitry Medvedev at the recent G8 summit that Gaddafi must leave confused the Libyan government and suggested a step towards the opposition in Benghazi.
It seems that Russia wants to pay the price for abandoning its one-time ally in exchange with the West for more influence in other regions of the world, Ali said. "Thus, Russia does not have so much to offer in the mediation."
The disappointed Tripoli will even rely more on the African Union than Russia to find a peaceful solution to the crisis, analysts said.
There has been no confirmed information whether Margelov would travel to the Libyan capital Tripoli for talks.
For the opposition's side, whose firm stand to oust the current regime is fortified by military progress recently, Russia's mediation would not succeed unless it pressures Gaddafi to step down.
Opposition fighters aided by NATO air strikes have controlled the western mountain area, including Zintan, a city only 100 km from Tripoli.
In the deadlocked eastern front, attacks have also been launched to drive Gaddafi's forces from the eastern coastal city of Brega. Once capturing Brega and the key oil town of Ras Lanuf, the opposition's front-line is expected to push westward to Tripoli for 200 km.
The military advance plus increasing contacts with major world powers have boosted the opposition's determination that no initiative could be accepted unless it involves Gaddafi's departure, said Fathi Baja, head of the Politics and International Affairs Committee of the NTC.
If there is any significance of Russian envoy's visit, it is a message to push the people around Gaddafi and his inner circle to leave the regime as soon as possible, Baja said.
"Despite more than 10,000 NATO strikes in three months, Gaddafi will cling to power to the last second, but senior officials seeing the strongman losing more and more allies including Russia would consider where their future lies," he said, "Russian envoy's visit to Benghazi is an indirect pressure on Gaddafi."