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Barr Mansion
At blue hour, I snuck away from shooting a wedding with a friend to get a shot of the Barr Mansion. All the wedding guests were at the reception hall behind the mansion. You can see the lights from it through the porch on the left. I love wrap-around porches like these.
I shot five exposures bracketed and masked parts of the images from various exposures to achieve this image. For example, the windows are from the darkest exposure. The lawn and sky are from the brightest exposure since I shot this after sunset. In escence, I manually pieced together a high dynamic range (HDR) exposure. I had first tried using HDR software to create the image, but was not happy with the results, so I scapped it and began masking the image. I'm glad I did.


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Saw this on Theos site and recognised my uncle! He told us he was working as a waiter in a Tea Shop!
Saw this on Theos site and recognised my uncle! He told us he was working as a waiter in a Tea Shop!
Every now and then in Public Services such as the Ambulance Service, the Police and the Fire Brigade there comes a job where patience is tested. It is not only tested but it is stretched. It is also dragged kicking and screaming away from your compassionate side. In short, patience gets a damn good kicking and suffers from severe bruising for a lonnnggggg time!
Now they do say that "Patience is a virtue".Some people have more patience than others. For some it is none existent for any number of reasons which may stem from a sociological, psychological or pathological dislike or aversion to things not going their way. Patience is like common sense…it is hard to quantify and difficult to measure from one human being to another.
But in the Emergency Services we can call upon bucket loads of the stuff. Patience, having empathy, listening and a core belief in doing the best you can to help someone are all skills which are either inherent, taught or learnt through experience. It is the difference sometimes between life and death. That extra few seconds or minutes can help resolve a difficult situation…..When it is appropriate!
It is night time. Black skies filled with dark clouds shielding any light from the stars in the heavens.
It is late…or is it early? 2 o clock in the morning. I wish I was tucked up in my bed.
It is cold. No. Not cold, it is freezing! The icy grip of Jack Frost is taking hold of my bones and causing me to shiver.
It is wet. It is pouring down with icy rain. I can feel it finding its way between my jacket collar and my neck!
We had just arrived at an address in the city. Parking the truck behind the already on scene police car we gingerly alight from the cab trying to avoid the huge puddles of water with their usual assortment of used condoms, empty take away cartons and human waste. We walk over to the two police officers who stand there looking like two drowned rats!
The call has come in that a female has been assaulted. At the entrance to the address stands a door that has seen a lot of action recently. It resembles a patchwork quilt made of wood due to the many times it has been repaired through previous encounters with boots, bricks and the occasional Police door opener. There is just one door to this address, a converted building housing a collection of flats.
The Police have been talking to the woman on her mobile. She is inside the property. Her assailant has long gone. But she is not making a lot of sense. She cannot come to the door…is she injured?…is she afraid?…has she been locked in elsewhere in the flats?…No. A big fat double NO…with a generous helping of NO relish! She is drunk, mullered, hammered, rat arsed! This we know because this woman is one of our many frequent flyers!
We all stand around outside hunching our shoulders into our jackets trying to make ourselves a smaller target for the incessant rain that is lashing down upon us. All we want to do is get inside where it will be dry, and hopefully warm and sort out this situation. Its now been approximately ten minutes and we still maintain our professionalism and duty of care as we all know that one day one of the many frequent flyers will turn out to be a genuine call!
All the while I can hear the police officer talking to her and letting her know that we will be helping her shortly. Suddenly I catch the end of the conversation…but its not from the officers mobile…its from the other side of the front door! Tentatively I crouch down and peer through the letter box pushing my fingers through the bristles of the draught excluder. It is dark in the hallway but very soon I manage to see our caller…sat in a chair in front of a nice warm fire!
The chair is surrounded by empty cans of beer and pizza boxes.
We are now taking turns at shouting through the letter box to encourage her to open the front door. Each one of us employs a different tack to our requests. The casual laid back approach is a none starter. The logical reasoning and intelligent argument approach also falls on death ears. The urgent imploring and insistence on checking out her possible injuries meets with a garbled alcoholic response. Our last approach uses the age old technique of yelling as loudly as possible in an attempt to wake others in the flats. No effect……
I ask the police officers if they are Taser trained? I put forward the notion of firing a Taser through the letter box and hitting our caller then dragging her to the door! This idea is greeted with appreciative nods and momentary serious consideration. But we all know that it would not go down too well with our bosses. Oh well..just an idea.
Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Police officers bring out the big red door opener. One! Two! Three hits later and the door gives way…we are in!!! The darkness of the hallway is tinged with a warm reddy glow from the fire where our caller is sat. The water is cascading off our jackets as we shake the rain from us. Within an instant the warmth of the fire begins to dry our souls and the murderous adrenaline coursing through our veins is replaced with concern.
After a brief check of our caller for any injuries she may have sustained from the alleged assault over 10 hours ago I let the Police officers began their task of gaining the facts. She is not injured…she has not been assaulted…she has run out of credit on her mobile…she wants someone to contact Social Services so she can get a different flat!
Murderous thoughts once again replace the concern for our caller. We stand there in the semi gloom hovering over her. There is a glint in our eyes. It is that glint of primeval instinct, of dark thoughts, of murderous intention. Could we get away with disposing of the body? Would our unspoken thoughts secure a bond of silence and loyalty between us …?
We leave our caller with the fire keeping her warm. Only this time she will have a draught blowing in from the street through the remains of the front door! Between gritted teeth we bid our farewells and step back out into the dark, freezing rain lashed night. With a knowing nod we jump into our respective vehicles and drive off into the night…each one of us dwelling on the possibilities of murder………
We could have got rid of the body………..could,nt we?

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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:19 am
Post subject: Is there a Bacchus 101/FAQ hidden somewhere in here?
We need one if not. All of you Bacchus vets need to start sharing the wealth (of info)!
Perhaps it could contain:
1. Models throughout the years and details (neck carves, type of wood, 1pc backs, etc)
2. Changes in the product line and manufacturing (made in China,. Japan, etc.)
3. Models to avoid and why
Just sayin'.
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:19 am
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Well, I find that information on Bacchus guitars is a little sparce at best. Try this site for starters:
It will give you some of the very basics for identifying different models. Although it has yet to be updated to include the Classic Series models.
A simple guide that I use when "sorting out" the lower end models is to avoid any models which include a hundred series number. For example, 500, 600 and 700 ect...and of course the price tag
I'm not saying that they're bad guitars, but I personally don't think they're as good as the Vintage or Classic or Duke series.
I've been looking to these for a year or so now and still find it difficult to attain good information. I'm guessing it's because, for some reason unknown to me, they're just not as popular as the more established MIJ brands such as Greco or Burny. Remember Google is your friend:)
And now for the disclaimer!!!
I am by no means an expert and have never owned a Vintage or Duke series Bacchus but listen to the guys that have them! I know I dearly love my Classic LP and have no intentions of parting with it any time soon.
Couple more sites for you that may answer your construction questions. Check the descriptions, they will usually give you some detail about the body construction, pups, electronics and hardware used.
There is another forum around somewhere that may have a lengthy thread dedicated to Bacchus/Momose/Deviser guitars.
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I've had a few, including some older ones. All I can really say is the MIJ ones are outstanding. Once thing I noticed is that the earlier "Live Road" LPs had noticeably thinner necks than the current Classic series.
The information on japanvintageguitars is a pretty good summary of the history and for current Deviser products including the Bacchus line their direct sales website in Japan has lots of pics here (in Japanese though):
Here are a few I have had or still have. I think that Sneakyjapan has a bunch of Bacchus these for a while and probably knows a bit more about different models firsthand.
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:01 am
Post subject: Re: Is there a Bacchus 101/FAQ hidden somewhere in here?
I've been collecting information on Bacchus and other top MIJ brands:
If there's more to add, email me and I'm happy to add it.
I have a Bacchus BEX-STD Explorer from their Classic line:
And a white Bacchus Custom on the way. I've been impressed with their quality of construction, and its tough to beat them in the price range.
xyrium wrote:
We need one if not. All of you Bacchus vets need to start sharing the wealth (of info)!
Perhaps it could contain:
1. Models throughout the years and details (neck carves, type of wood, 1pc backs, etc)
2. Changes in the product line and manufacturing (made in China,. Japan, etc.)
3. Models to avoid and why
Just sayin'.
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There's a fairly large Bacchus thread here.
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I really liked this?information.
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this is from some olds threads and might be of some use
The Bacchus vintage series by deviser was from 1994 until 2004. There were the fender copies and gibson copies both by them. this info was originally fully by Tokai Joe but also posted on TF by greco-burst.
The early years (1994-1997) There were the models like BST64V.....BST57V.....BST54V......BTE54V.........
All the models had a top lacquer coat on top of urethane finish.
They never used brazillian rosewood basically only indian rosewood. *They used alder and ash, never sen and basswood.
They have the bacchus original pickups made by keiyo.
They have the string retainer at the wrong position........(except BST54V & BTE54V)
They have the wrong bacchus decal which says "begining of the new tradition" instead of "beginning of.......
"V" after the model name means "vintage". *BTE54V has steel bridge saddles. The transition year models (around 1998-1999)
They have the bacchus original shape headstock.
They changed the headstock shape for a while because of fender.
The fingerboard is very possibly laminated maple on 1 piece maple neck. (for maple neck models) The later years (around 2000-2004) There were the models like BST62.......BST57......BST54.......BTL54.......and more..........
They have the yuta pickups made by keiyo.
They have the string retainer at the correct position.
They have the correct bacchus decal possibly which finally says "beginning of the new tradition" much later years.
They still have the old WRONG bacchus decal usually which says "begining of the new tradition
They are basically the correct bacchus copies of the fender guitars.
The later models are better regarded in the japanese market because of the correct specs.
The quality of the bacchus vintage series for BOTH the early models and later models remained very high through the years even the later models have better copy model specs.
Bacchus made the black hard case for an option but usually the guitars came with a gig bag only.
BTL54 has brass bridge saddles.
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Egypt's most popular TV satirist, famed for mercilessly skewering the former Islamist president on his weekly program, dove headfirst back into stormy politics Friday after four months off the air amid the turmoil surrounding the country's coup. His new target for mockery: the over-the-top, pro-military fervor sweeping Egyptians.
CAIRO | Egypt's most popular TV satirist, famed for mercilessly skewering the former Islamist president on his weekly program, dove headfirst back into stormy politics Friday after four months off the air amid the turmoil surrounding the country's coup. His new target for mockery: the over-the-top, pro-military fervor sweeping Egyptians.
Bassem Youssef, the man known as "Egypt's Jon Stewart," returned to the air in a radically different nation, where satirizing the leadership is a far trickier task.
When his final show of last season aired, the president was Islamist Mohammed Morsi — Youssef's favorite target. For months, the satirist flayed him and his Islamist supporters for mixing religion and politics and for botching the governing of the country. Soon after the last show, massive protests began against Morsi, paving the way for the military to remove him on July 3.
Since then, divisions have grown deeper and hatreds stronger. Hundreds have been killed in crackdowns on protesters demanding Morsi's reinstatement. Attacks by Islamic extremists against security forces and Christians have increased. A nationalist fervor gripping the country has elevated the military to an untouchable status, leaving little tolerance among the public or officials for criticism, particularly of military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, lionized in the media as a hero.
So the question was hanging over Friday's episode of "El-Bernameg" — Arabic for "The Program" : Will Youssef mock the military-backed leadership and its supporters as sharply as he did Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists?
His answer: With song and dance and rapid-fire jokes, Youssef satirized el-Sissi-worship — even with innuendos about how the extravagant shows of love for the general have become outright sexual. Youssef imitated the general's soft-spoken, affectionate way of addressing the public, turning it into a lover's romantic groove.
In one skit, a woman named "the Public" calls into a love advice show raving about the love of her life who saved her from an abusive husband.
"He's an officer as big as the world," she cooes adoringly, punning on a slogan el-Sissi uses in nearly every speech — "Egypt will be big enough to face down the world." Then she adds, "He does have a sovereign streak."
In another, a pastry chef brings Youssef a tray of chocolates with el-Sissi's face on — something that, in fact, has become popular in Egyptian candy stores. "What, don't you like el-Sissi?" the delivery man says suspiciously. "Give me all of it!" Youssef yelped back, as if afraid of being accused of being a traitor.
"Who doesn't love el-Sissi?" Youssef said sarcastically, "but will love make us forget everything?" — referring to the way Morsi also tried to win the love of the public. "We're a free voice. No one can tell us what to say," he said. "We want freedom. The time of fear has passed."
The show had to tread a sensitive line. Criticizing the military risked angering Youssef's mainly liberal fan base, who cheered when he excoriated Islamists and who now largely support el-Sissi for removing the Brotherhood from power. But avoiding it would also appear to be caving in to pressure. Before the show aired, Morsi supporters — some of whom "hate-watched" Youssef as regularly as the adoring fans — were predicting on social media the 39-year-old satirist would sell out.
Youssef's long hiatus between seasons was in part because a curfew in place since mid-August made filming the show difficult and because of the recent death of Youssef's mother.
The surgeon-turned-comedian's "Daily Show" -style program brought an entirely new type of political satire to Egypt. He began with short, self-made YouTube episodes during the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. He was picked up by a TV station popular among young revolutionaries. As his star rose, he moved to another station, CBC, seen as stacked by former supporters of Mubarak.
Many thought Youssef would follow the station's conservative line. But he turned his jokes against his own station, mocking its claims of revolutionary credentials. With sky-high ratings bringing advertising cash, CBC was not about to drop him. Since the coup, the station has been one of the biggest cheerleaders for el-Sissi.
But his biggest target was the Islamist elite that rose to power in post-Mubarak elections — excoriating them so sharply that some credit him for fueling the tidal wave of protests against Morsi. In fast-paced jokes, Youssef lampooned Morsi's clumsy speeches and gestures. He played clips from Islamist TV stations to expose hypocrisy in their mix of religion and politics. He fact-checked the president. One episode in which he played video clips showing 2010 remarks by Morsi, calling Zionists "pigs," caused a brief diplomatic tiff with Washington.
In reply, Islamist lawyers prompted prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant against Youssef on charges of "insulting the presidency." He was questioned and released without charges.
In a column earlier this week, Youssef pushed back against the atmosphere of intimidation, noting that he could be dragged before prosecutors even now, this time "at the hands of other people, who allegedly love freedom dearly — when it works in their favor."
"In reality, there is no tolerance on the Brotherhood side or among those who call themselves liberals," he wrote in the Al-Shorouk newspaper.
Those watching quickly weighed in on the show on social networking sites.
One commenter on Twitter, whose leaning was clear from the Twitter handle "El-Sissi is my love," derided Youssef for knocking the general..
"Do you consider yourself a hero, Bassem? Serious bad on you. El-Sissi is not acting, you clown!" the commenter wrote, using the same insult Islamists often threw at Youssef.
Mostafa el-Naggar, a leading politician critical of the Brotherhood and now of the current authorities, tweeted that Youssef expressed the opinion of "the third party, who represent the majority of Egyptians, even if their voices are faint while the voices of those who claim to represent the people are loud."


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Federal Treasurer Chris Bowen insists low interest rates are supporting the economy but believes the central bank has "considerable room" to make further reductions should they be needed.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the cash rate at an all-time low of 2.75 per cent for a second month at Tuesday's monthly board meeting.
It noted the Australian dollar still remains high, despite depreciating about 10 per cent since early April.
"It is possible that the exchange rate will depreciate further over time, which would help to foster a rebalancing of growth in the economy," RBA governor Glenn Stevens said in statement.
Otherwise, the board decided policy remained appropriate for now.
"The board also judged that the inflation outlook, as currently assessed, may provide some scope for further easing, should that be required to support demand," Mr Stevens said.
Business groups were disappointed the RBA didn't cut when the economy is transiting from the mining investment boom to broader based growth.
In his first media conference as treasurer, Mr Bowen said large parts of the economy would benefit from the dollar's fall, noting an improvement in manufacturing data on Monday as an early indication the contraction in the sector "may be drawing to an end".
He also felt the central bank should resist taking a back seat while the federal election looms.
"The Reserve Bank should exercise its independence and make the decisions it feels are in the best interests of the economy, regardless of any political cycles," he told reporters in Sydney.
Financial markets are factoring in at least one more rate reduction this year.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talked to the Business Council of Australia, following up on a commitment to rebuild bridges with the business community.
Its president, Tony Shepherd, described the meeting as "constructive" and said a range of topics were canvassed.
"The prime minister is keenly aware of the nation's economic challenges, and the need for government to work more closely and cooperatively with business to address it," Mr Shepherd said in a statement.
Last week, Mr Shepherd called for the carbon price to be lowered to the international level, a withdrawal of "damaging" amendments to skilled worker temporary 457 visa laws and the Fair Work Act, and for the repeal of other business-related legislation.
So far only the BCA has had a formal meeting, although Council of Small Business of Australia executive director Peter Strong said he was due to talk with Mr Bowen on Thursday.
He was "surprised" not to be involved in Tuesday's discussion
"We were very disappointed because with Julia Gillard we know we would have been consulted," Mr Strong told ABC radio.
He said when the former prime minister came to power she embraced small business in a way that Labor hadn't been done before, and provided the council with a seat at many forums.


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Jay Leno takes 50% pay cut
(CNN) — Jay Leno took one for the team, in the form of a $15 million pay cut, to protect the staff of NBC's "The Tonight Show" from further cuts.
An NBC Universal representative confirmed to CNN on Friday that the host took a 50% pay reduction.
The representative also confirmed that Leno extended his contract until September 2014.
A source with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN last month that 20 to 25 employees of "The Tonight Show" were let go, and that Leno made the salary concession to prevent even more staff reductions.
According to the source, the layoffs were part of a plan to adjust the show's expenses to be more in line with typical late-night programming as opposed to prime-time fare.
Leno replaced the legendary Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show" in 1992, a job he held for 17 years before he left in 2009 to helm "The Jay Leno Show" with a 10 p.m. start time. But a few months later, in January 2010, NBC announced the comedian would return to the 11:35 p.m. time slot.
The comic's venture into prime time three years ago was pitched as an attempt by the network to parlay his proven popularity into a commercially successful show.
But lagging ratings prompted NBC executives to change course within a few months. That move ultimately led to fellow talk show host Conan O'Brien's departure from the network. O'Brien, who had taken over "The Tonight Show," now hosts the show "Conan" on TBS, which, like CNN, is a division of Time Warner.
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Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
- Herb Alpert
- Jerry Moss
The longest lived independent record label started as two guys in a garage.
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss went from humble beginnings to music industry magnates by trusting their gut. Whether they were totally obscure or fabulously successful, they always recorded acts that they believed in.
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss founded A&M Records, one of the most successful independent labels of the rock and roll era.
Over the decades a number of independents changed music history—including Sun, Asylum, Chrysalis, Island, Stiff, I.R.S., Arista, Geffen and A&M. The last of these had one of the longest runs of all, functioning as an independent label from 1962 to 1989 and lasting ten more years after its sale under the corporate aegis of PolyGram and Universal.
The company began in Alpert's garage as Carnival Records, releasing two singles in 1962. After learning that another record company had "Carnival" in its name, the pair rechristened their label A&M, using the first initials of their surnames.
"We had a desk, piano, piano stool, a couch, coffee table and two phone lines," Moss recalled of the early days in Alpert's garage office. The familiar label logo was light brown with a trumpet beneath the letters "A&M." The first release was "The Lonely Bull," by trumpet player Alpert himself. For the first few years, A&M served as an outlet for the mariachi- and Brazilian-flavored pop-jazz recordings of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, the Baha Marimba Band, and Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66. They also dabbled in softer-sounding pop and folk acts like the Sandpipers, Chris Montez and We Five.
Several key hires were made at A&M in 1964 and 1965, including engineer Larry Levine, general manager Gil Friesen and A&R director Tommy LiPuma. All would have great impact in the music industry in general and at A&M in particular.
In 1966 Alpert and Moss moved their company to the historic Charlie Chaplin Studio, at the corner of Sunset and La Brea Boulevards in Hollywood, where it remained until 1999. A&M began acquiring more rock-oriented performers in the late Sixties. These included such British blues-rock acts as Joe Cocker, Free, Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth, not to mention pioneering American country-rockers the Flying Burrito Brothers. On the American side, keyboardist Lee Michaels and folksinger Phil Ochs signed to A&M. In the early Seventies, A&M struck gold with Cat Stevens, the Carpenters and Carole King (who was signed to the A&M-distributed Ode label). In terms of jazz and R&B, A&M did well with Billy Preston and Quincy Jones. In the mid-Seventies, the label had great success with such arena-rock acts as Styx, Supertramp, Nazareth and Peter Frampton. The double live album Frampton Comes Alive (1976) became one of the top sellers of the rock and roll era. A&M even sold great numbers of comedy albums by the duo Cheech & Chong.
It should be pointed out that even though Alpert and Moss are being inducted as non-performers, Alpert himself has been a prolific musician and recording artist. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass are inarguably one of the most popular acts of all time. Seemingly every suburban household owned at least a few Herb Alpert albums in the Sixties. Their albums Going Places (1965) and Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) each hit Number One, hung on the charts for over three years, and became A&M's first gold albums. In 1966 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass held down the Number One spot on Billboard's album chart for eighteen weeks—more than any other act, including the Beatles. Alpert ultimately released more than thirty albums on A&M. His recordings—both with the Tijuana Brass and as a solo artist—have sold over 75 million copies worldwide, making him one of the cornerstone acts on his own label.
A&M continued to make prescient signings at the dawn of New Wave, including the Police, Joe Jackson, the Go-Go's and Human League. Sting remained on A&M as a solo artist after the Police disbanded. A&M artists who helped carry the label in its later years included Bryan Adams, Amy Grant, Suzanne Vega and Sheryl Crow. A&M also served as a distributor for other independents, including Ode, Windham Hill, I.R.S. and George Harrison's Dark Horse imprint.
In 1989 Alpert and Moss sold A&M to PolyGram for a reported $500 million dollars. Ten years later, the label was acquired by a new corporate overseer: Universal Music Group, which had been bought out by the liquor company Seagram. Huge staff cuts were implemented and the label was effectively shut down.
"I saw that train coming, [with] the sharp contrast between the independent world and the corporate," Alpert told the Los Angeles Times. "I don't think their bottom line has much to do with music or artists."
At the time of its closure, A&M's deposed president, Al Cafaro, observed: "The record business is changing fundamentally. It's a Wall Street world now."
When asked by interviewer Richard Warner what had made A&M so successful, Alpert replied: "We had a feel. What we did was respond to our gut. When we liked an artist, we recorded them. When we didn't, we passed. If we felt good about it, we tried to find a way to do it. We've used that process right from the get-go and not bottom-lined it.
"We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something you feel good about, there might be another person out there who feels the same way. Or a hundred. Or a couple million."
Inductees: Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935), Jerry Moss (born May 8, 1935)


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By: Alison Zeidman
Half-Life is Steve Kleinedler and Nathan Edmondson, two seasoned improvisers playing two scotch-drinking secret agents. They don't get drunk onstage. They don't give each other notes. They did not meet in a bathhouse. But they do have a subtitle (full name: Half-Life: Requiem for the Cold War).
Alison Zeidman: How did you guys meet?
Nathan Edmondson: It was at a bathhouse.
Steve Kleinedler: No. At the the Philly Improv Festival. That was the first time I saw you onstage.
NE: The first time we hung out though, it was after that one Troika.
SK: So we'll back up. Besides the bathhouse. Did not happen. I saw him perform at a festival, and about a year and a half later some of my troupe in Boston came out to do a one-off Troika night. It was one Philly person and one Boston person and one out-of-town person, and I was on a team with whoever and he was on a team with one of my teammates, and that's where we met.
AZ: And when did you decide to form Half-Life?
NE: Well Steve moved from Boston to Philadelphia 13 months ago, and Greg had him shadow my [PHIT 201] class, which was kind of funny.
SK: Yeah. I'd been teaching in Boston for seven years and I was gonna teach here. So the first class i shadowed him just because it's a different curriculum and everything.
NE: So we did that, and about halfway through we decided to do a rehearsal and then we did a show as—what was it, Kleinedmondson?
SK: Yes. Kleinedmondson(sinjin). It's a reference to A Fish Called Wanda. Anyhow. We did that rehearsal where we were just dicking around after class, and we did a show, and we realized that a lot of our scene work had in common this sort of Twilight Zone element..like we're being watched, or there's an "others" quality to it.
NE: They were really serious. And some of the shows we did there would be some of that spy element, kind of. And then we actually had an espionage scene. It just happened and then Steve called me one day and said I know what we should be doing instead of this show that isn't really working yet.
SK: I identified—and this is what I would do with any troupe that asked me to direct them. I see what they do and then I identify their strong points and base the show around them. Obviously our strong point was this espionage style thing. So we developed this format around that.
AZ: Can you describe your format?
NE: Steve's smart, and I'm kind of stupid, and we're both spies, in the Cold War era. It's pretty much a monoscene.
SK: We get from the audience an event that happened during the Cold War. It can be a real political thing, or—this hasn't happened yet, although we allow it to be like, "oh my grandfather got married," or anything. We take that and we put ourselves in that situation, and go from there.
NE: Another thing that's fun about the way we've been doing this is we always play the same two characters, so any backstory that develops, we try to hang onto it.
AZ: How do you keep track of that?
SK: You just do.
NE: Steve remembers everything.
SK: But it's basic stuff.
NE: But it helps us because it gives us stuff to pull form.
SK: He has a wife named Sheila who he fools around on.
NE: Yeah and I have a kid. Although we've never decided if that was a boy or a girl.
SK: So yeah, every show builds on the other, and they've been really well received.
NE: Yeah, they've been really fun. And we drink whiskey during it. Scotch?
SK: Scotch.
NE: We drink scotch.
AZ: Can you explain that decision?
NE: Well, I think Steve had the vision of us just being onstage in a spotlight. If we were to produce it on our own it'd be like a dark stage with us in a spotlight. Not a lot of movement. So we started the show with the idea that we're just standing there, and I think we did a rehersal where we just had drinks in our hands?
SK: I think so.
NE: But it fit. It made sense to the era.
AZ: Are you drinking enough alchohol to impede your abilities onstage?
SK: It's real alcohol, but over the course of a show, it's maybe a shot.
NE: Maybe two shots.
SK: At most, but over twenty-five minutes. And we start completely sober.
AZ: So drinking isn't a pre-show ritual. Are there any others?
NE: Bathhouses.
SK: What?
NE: We go to a bathhouse. Nah, we don't really do anything. We dress up. We wear ties.
SK: We wanted to go with the black and white look. The footage we've shot for the web is black and white, just because it evokes that era. And a shirt and tie…
NE: We're just like company men, from the '50s and '60s. But no, we don't really have any pre-show rituals.
SK: We don't even warm up. We just hang out and connect. When you find the right scene partner and it just kind of clicks, the warm-up comes from us knowing each other, and our weekly banter whenever we see each other.
NE: And in shows where things didn't feel like they were going well, I've noticed it's because we aren't looking at each other or checking in. As soon as we actually look at each other, and make eye contact, it's like oh fuck, ok, it's easy. And the show gets better.
AZ: Do you guys have any sense of what's behind that connection? Or specific strengths that you each have that make the two of you a good fit?
SK: I think it's idiosyncratic. I think it's just the personalities.
NE: Yeah, I think we complement each other well. I 'm not a total idiot, but Steve knows so much factual information, it's mind-blowing, and I don't remember that kind of stuff, so he's kind of the brain of the group, and—
SK: He's the sex symbol.
NE: [Laughs] Yes, I'm the sex symbol. Embarrassing. But yeah, it's a good dynamic, because I personally always love the "Joey" character from any show, the dumb guy, so this is my opportunity to play that. Although I wouldn't say that my character's totally dumb.
AZ: It seems like you guys have given a lot of thought to this act conceptually, visually…have you thought about doing something more with it, doing a Fringe show, or something like that?
SK: Well we're doing Duofest, and we've applied to Baltimore and Detroit. We'll apply to some other things. We've done some web shorts.
NE: I would like to do more of those, too. We'll probably get two or three videos out of our first footage.
SK: I live in a loft building, so we spent a day there.
NE: We shot like twenty-five minutes of footage, and we've just been mining it for little thirty-second skits.
AZ: You've both had the experience of being on a duo and also on a team. Can you talk about things that you prefer about being in a duo, and/or things that you dont like as much about being in a duo, if there are any?
SK: It sounds silly, but honestly it's huge: Logistically, it is so much easier to arrange stuff when you only have to deal with one other person instead or five or six other people.
NE: From rehearsals, to who's in the next scene.
SK: I've been in a fair number of troupes, and I love them dearly, but when there's a lot of people you have to take all these schedules into account. On the flip side, I know I have a very narrow range. I'm primarily a teacher and a director. One reason I like Half-Life is the character I play is about the only character I can play. That's not exactly true, but it's close enough.
NE: Well it's playing to your strength. And it works really well.
SK: So in that regard, something like this suits me better than a team that is doing montages. I think what's key for any improviser is to find a group that plays to your strengths, and the fewer the number of people in the cast, the more you have to find a structure that plays to your strengths.
NE: Yeah. And just to go back a little bit, I don't think we responded to [your earlier question] much, we did think about what the show was going to be like. There was a lot of thought put into it over a long period of time.
SK: Our first rehearsal was last summer, and then we goofed around for a couple months before we had a show.
NE: As soon as we had a concept that fit, it made everything so easy. And I think it's good to put that work in for groups, like, "what are we doing? what are we trying to accomplish?" It's just easier.
AZ: How much time do you guys spend discussing things and working out details for the show?
SK: For regular shows and festivals and stuff, it's just taking into account what space we're in, and making tweaks, but as we've done it the show has been tweaked here and there, and before the first show we did a couple rehearsals where we would just run twenty minute scenes and see how it felt, and we would just try different techniques. Originally we were going to have a certain number of flashbacks done in a certain style, and it's kind of morphed into this thing where there's probably one flashback in a twenty-minute scene.
NE: Every show we learn, and we talk about it right afterwards.
AZ: Can that be difficult, when you're sort of directing your own show and maybe even critiquing each other's performance?
SK: A lot of people in the community have heard me rail against improv troupes that don't have a director or a coach, and as a general rule I think that's absolutely [necessary]. Improv groups need a coach. This is a little different. You have a little more leeway when it's a two-person show I think, because when you get more than two people a tiny bit of ego gets in the way, whereas when you're paired up with someone you work well with that's less of an issue. And I've done this long enoguh that I kind of have a sense about what we're doing. I still encourage people to have coaches, but I'm just not following my own advice. And we don't really give each other notes. We talk about what we like and what didn't work and we're usually in agreement.
NE: I think also, we're very self-critical. So we're giving ourselves notes constantly. A lot of the note-giving is me talking about my stuff, and then him giving response, gauging whether my interpretation of what happened is right or not.
SK: And vice versa. I've been doing this off and on for thirty years, and after about the ten-year point, things just kind of click in a way, and then after you start directing and teaching it clicks even more, and the more you direct and the more you teach, the easier your work becomes.
NE: And also at a certain point you realize if you get your hands too much in it, you're just gonna screw it up. You just have to let it breathe and let it happen.
SK: And that's what I do when I direct groups too, or scripted plays. I just come up with a format and let them loose. After the first table read I get them up ontage with a script and have them move around and I write down what they do, and a lot of that works its way into my blocking. So I guess I'm giving myself—oh no, I'm not going to say that, that sounds so pretentious.
NE: Giving yourself a blowjob?
SK: No, giving myself the trust that I give other actors.
NE: Oh OK. That is pretty pretentious.
AZ: So just to wrap up, what are you guys looking forward to about Duofest?
SK: I did Duofest two years ago [when I still lived in Boston], and it's a lot of fun, and there's a lot of really great groups, and it's nice to be in Philly representing Philly.
NE: I'm looking forward to being interviewed by WitOut. And I've missed every Duofest, because I've been either out of town or had other commitments, so I'm looking forward to just seeing shows, and being a part of it. And I like that it's specific. Are there other Duofests?
SK: No. There are so many improv festivals, but this is something—every city has a festival, but this is a very specific thing unique to Philly.
NE: And duos are an important part of the improv world, so I think people that do them appreciate it. I think it becomes this thing that happens to most improvisers if they stick with it, so it's a different kind of show than a group of even three or four. It's a whole other entity. It's nothing really special, but it's something.
See Half-Life perform in Duofest at the Shubin Theatre on Thursday, June 7th at 10 pm. Get advance tickets (or full weekend passes) online.
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LeTourneau University has again ranked in the top tier nationally in U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings of "America's Best Colleges."
LETU ranks 6th among schools in Texas for 2013 and was ranked above all state universities in Texas in its category of "Best Regional Universities in the Western Region." LETU is ranked 36th among all the universities in its category in the western region, which extends through 14 states from Texas to Alaska.
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GRAHAM � Garrett Hodge and Kevin Burns blasted solo home runs to lead a 19-hit attack by Western Alamance and the Warriors blitzed host Graham 16-5 in a non-conference baseball game Monday night.
Sam Foster (3-for-6, three RBI), Blake Deatherage (3-for-5, two RBI), Trey Pierce (3-for-5, three RBI) and Breydan Gorham (3-for-5) contributed for the Warriors (17-4).
Maurisio Mendoza had three hits and an RBI and Daniel Graves added two hits with an RBI for the Red Devils (5-13).
-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 6, EDEN MOREHEAD 2:At Eden, Blake Walters (4-3) and Zack Littell combined to scatter eight hits and give up only two runs as the Eagles picked up the Mid-State 3-A Conference victory.
Matt Pate went 3-for-4 with two RBI and Littell added an RBI to lead the Eagles (10-8, 8-4).
McCray Williams had a double and J.T. Kirby slapped a triple for Eastern Alamance.
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Hogan Lambeth of Southern Alamance shot 76 to finish in a tie for third place with Mitch Ellis of Greensboro Page. Alex Burris of Greensboro Grimsley placed second with a 75.
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Dillon Albright had four goals and Ian Brady added three to pace the Eagles (12-2, 9-1). Joey Stump found the net twice and Jonah Turcotte and Gabe Turcotte also scored for Eastern Alamance.
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Camille Abbott had a goal and an assist for the visiting Royals (9-3-3, 4-2-2). Mikhayla Turner and Ally Howerton also scored for BCA, which led 3-0 at halftime.
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-- WILLIAMS 9, EASTERN ALAMANCE 2: At Mebane, Lauren Koury scored five goals and Kelsi Peters added two as the Bulldogs cruised past Eastern Alamance in a Mid-State 3-A Conference game.
Mackenzie Self and Mallory Bartles added goals for Williams (14-1, 11-0).
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Caitlyn Kyles scored in the fourth minute for Eden Morehead and Taylor Leamey scored for Eastern Guilford in the 16th minute.
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LG Optimus G Pro to launch "next week" in Korea
posted by Alan F. / Feb 17, 2013, 10:38 PM
As you can see from the pictures, LG sliced the width of the bezel to give the display an edge-to-edge appearance. QSlide has been improved, still allowing you to turn one app transparent so that you can use another at the same time. Using curved glass on the display gives it what LG calls a "2.5D" effect and high-quality photos can be taken even with a moving subject. The phone has been priced at 968,000 Korean Won which works out to about $897 U.S. Dollars.
Based on the release, it looks like a North American launch of the LG Optimus G would take place sometime in the second quarter.
source: LG (translated) via AndroidCentral
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1. rallyguy
Posts: 620; Member since: Mar 13, 2012
I'm interested, especially with a removable battery.
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 10:43 PM 4
18. _Bone_
Posts: 2155; Member since: Oct 29, 2012
Spec-wise it's spec-tacular, it's a however a complete knock-off of the Note II but lacking the sylus and AirView function. Also, the photo render with the no bezel design is a bit of a bull, the screen actually has quite noticable black bars around it. http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/arti
posted on Feb 18, 2013, 3:12 AM 1
21. dynamo.one
Posts: 63; Member since: Feb 14, 2013
horrible stuff
posted on Feb 18, 2013, 2:22 PM 0
2. belovedson
Posts: 1060; Member since: Nov 30, 2010
how does lg continue to get the latest hardware before what seems the other manufacturers.
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 10:55 PM 0
4. apple.comm
Posts: 3; Member since: Feb 17, 2013
they paid more money DUHH? it's like apple able to get the best stuff in the business. Apple has always been a game changer through innovations and buying the best there is unlike crapdroid using last gen tech... cough... cough the gs3 using old a9 and mali 400 that the s2 did cough.
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:17 PM 0
11. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
looks like someone is butthurt today ...cough ..cough same design since 2007 cough...cough ..same ui since 2007 ..cough cough ...samsung cpu's ...cough
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:58 PM 6
12. homersimpsons
Posts: 16; Member since: Jan 07, 2013
Apple did: 1) Come up with their own "unique" Maps App which has garnered International reactions 2) Introduced a new feature in their OS 6.1 upgrade which allows you to view photos/contacts even if your locked out
posted on Feb 18, 2013, 12:28 AM 5
15. Berzerk000
Posts: 4275; Member since: Jun 26, 2011
The Exynos 4210 in the Galaxy S2 used 45nm technology, while the 4412 uses 32nm HKMG, which is NOT the same, and the ARM A9 Exynos 4412 still outperforms the Apple A6 Swift in Geekbench. Also, the Mali 400 in the Galaxy S3 was clocked much higher than the Mali found in the Galaxy S2, which gave it more than enough GPU power. Who needs new generation power when we don't have software to utilize it? That goes especially for Apple, whose iOS hasn't changed much since 2007 and barely even needs a dual core processor running at 800 MHz and a dual core variant of Imagination Technologies' current 4th place consumer available graphics to run smoothly. Meanwhile, Android has been renovated and flipped multiple times in its existence, and actually uses the CPU power that it's given. Also, Android doesn't even need much more CPU power than the Exynos 4412, it just needs more GPU power to push all the pixels on the new high res displays, especially with the new line of tablets coming out. Android is running on phones with true HD displays, and WQXGA tablets. The only iDevices that actually uses the GPU power it has are the 3rd and 4th gen iPad's. The only thing that Apple gets that is the best is their GPUs, and only one line of products from them actually uses it.
posted on Feb 18, 2013, 1:41 AM 3
3. apple.comm
Posts: 3; Member since: Feb 17, 2013
BWAHAHAHA if the s4 comes out with this pos soc than you can be sure that the next iphone will kill it. I mean that adreno 320 is just a little better than the mali 400 in the s3 and almost the same as the gpu on the iphone 5...
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:15 PM 0
6. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
its called the Snapdragon 600 ..its a new class of processors using a improved design over the s4 ....this will be a rocketship for some time ....say bye bye to the mali 400 and SGX gpu in the iphone 5
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:30 PM 3
8. apple.comm
Posts: 3; Member since: Feb 17, 2013
lmao--- r u just...? nervermind. the adreno 320 will never be better than the gpu that going to be on the new iphone. No phone out this years, next, or ever will have a gpu as good as the one on the iphone.
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:38 PM 0
9. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
well who knows ...adreno might not ..but Samsung is planning on using the same SGX GPU ...
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:52 PM 2
10. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:53 PM 2
16. Berzerk000
Posts: 4275; Member since: Jun 26, 2011
The Adreno 320 and Mali-T604 are already better than the SGX543MP3 in the iPhone 5. The next iPhone is probably going to use a tri-core variant of the SGX544 (which is what the Exynos Octa is rumored to use) or 554, the latter of which will put it around the same performance level of the current iPad if they increase the clock speed. And if that's the case, then the Snapdragon 800 and Tegra 4 should pretty much be on par, if not better, than the next iPhone in terms of GPU if Nvidia's claims of outperforming the A6X chip and Qualcomm's claims of superiority to Tegra are right.
posted on Feb 18, 2013, 1:59 AM 2
17. Berzerk000
Posts: 4275; Member since: Jun 26, 2011
Dude, are you just spewing out random nonsense? Have you seen the raw performance tests of these GPUs with Egypt HD Offscreen? I'll give you the numbers; Adreno 320 (Nexus 4): 30.5 FPS SGX543MP3 (iPhone 5): 27 FPS Mali-400 (Galaxy S3): 13 FPS The Adreno 320 gets more than double the Mali-400, much more than your "just a little better" statement. The Adreno 320 also scores about 10% more than the SGX543MP3, which you appear to claim is the best smartphone GPU on the market right now, obviously on false information.
posted on Feb 18, 2013, 2:27 AM 3
5. hide0us
Posts: 3; Member since: Feb 17, 2013
LG has always been top of the chain right from the Tegra 2 days, when it comes to hardware. Its their software thats the dealbreaker. They are too lazy to push the latest android versions into their phones.
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:26 PM 6
7. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
LG is improving ..but they might have skipped the 4.2 update because there is some error with the code google the Nexus 4 overheating issue and nexus 7 lag afer the update
posted on Feb 17, 2013, 11:32 PM 3
13. PhilTech
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14. btbotimtim
Posts: 272; Member since: Dec 08, 2010
Don't get surprised. When GNote2 launched in Korea, it was a couple of dollars more than that. Also, LG states they will launch internationally in Q2. If this phone attracts many devs, I will buy it regardless of LG's lame software update..
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19. richardyarrell2011
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Time for Lg to fall back Samsung Galaxy Note 2 owns this space. Especially with the Galaxy Note 3 coming later this year. This Lg Optimus G pro is nothing more than a large phone nothing like the Galaxy Note 2.
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We'd have to see what software improvements LG will bring with the new version of Optimus UI, if they release one with it. So far, the hardware is all there and is a fair improvement over that of the Note II, it's just the software that's iffy. But, it doesn't stand a chance against the Note III. It would have a fighting chance if it had the Snapdragon 800, but that's not coming out until June at the least.
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Starting on your left, bring the 1st corner over and tuck snugly behind baby.
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The bottom corner goes up and over baby's left shoulder and behind baby's back. The weight of the baby will help to keep the swaddle secure. The blanket should not touch baby's cheek which may stimulate rooting and wake baby.
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Place baby on their back, face up, for sleep.
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You may also choose to wrap baby with one or both hands down inside the swaddle with baby's elbows in a flexed position. After breastfeeding is established, you may choose to offer baby a pacifier.
Wrap SnuglyA loose swaddle is ineffective, so wrap baby snugly, but not so tightly as to impede baby's breathing. You should be able to slide your hand between the blanket and your baby's chest.
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Our swaddling blankets are designed with good stretch when they are in the diamond position for swaddling.
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Always Place Baby on Back to SleepAlways place baby on his or her back for sleep. The side and tummy positions are unsafe.
The back sleeping position reduces risk of SIDS. Baby should sleep on a firm sleep surface, in a bassinet, cradle or crib near the mother's bed, without any soft toys, pillows or loose bedding.
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Room TemperatureMedical experts recommend a sleep environment of 65-70°F (18-21°C)
It is an important responsibility of the caregiver to dress baby appropriately for sleep based on the temperature of their environment. Parents should not overdress or underdress baby for sleep. As a general guide, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends dressing baby in no more than one layer more than an adult would use to be comfortable in the same environment.
Cool hands and feet are considered okay due to baby's immature circulatory system, but tummy and chest should be warm and dry. A sweaty neck and back is a sign of overheating and a layer of baby's clothing should be removed.
Babies are not good at regulating their own temperatures. No blanket can naturally regulate baby's temperature for them, so parents need to touch and feel their baby to ensure baby is not too warm or too cold.
Smoke-Free EnvironmentAlways keep baby's environment smoke-free by not smoking when pregnant, near your baby, or in an area where your baby spends time or sleeps.
VentilationBe sure air can circulate freely around baby's face. A fan in baby's room can increase ventilation, but should not be blowing air directly on baby.
Allow Baby to Suck on Fingers or a PacifierInfant researchers state it's in baby's best interest to have baby's hands within reach of mouth, so baby may self-soothe by sucking on his or her fingers. Sucking is the most organizing behavior of the newborn – it helps baby with sleep/wake control. Sucking is an early form of communication - by vigorously sucking, a baby communicates that he or she is hungry.
As your baby grows stronger or if you have a very active baby, you may tuck one or both hands down into the swaddle with their elbows flexed and offer baby a pacifier. Babies who suck on pacifiers have reduced incidence of SIDS.
As you learn more about your baby, you will find which hand position works best for your baby.
When to Stop SwaddlingThe AAP recommends to stop swaddling around 2 months of age and to then transition baby into a wearable blanket or sleeping sack. Babies that are able to roll over should not be swaddled for sleep. Babies that can roll over may be placed in a Transitional Swaddle Sack or a Sleeping Sack such as our zzZipMe Sack.
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Benefits of SwaddlingMedical studies have shown there are many benefits to swaddling.
Supine Swaddling Decreases the Risk of SIDS
- Swaddled back sleeping infants have a lower incidence of SIDS than unswaddled back sleeping infants
- When babies sleeps better on their back, parents are less likely to use the unsafe tummy position for sleep
- Swaddling helps sleeping infants remain on their backs
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- Swaddling decreases occurrence of the startle reflex which frequently wakes unswaddled babies
- Infants sleep with fewer awakenings when swaddled and have twice as much REM sleep
- REM sleep is believed to be important for brain development
- When babies sleep better and longer, parents get more sleep, too
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- Snug swaddling soothes babies by reminding baby of the snugness of the womb
- Swaddling helps prevent over-stimulation
- Babies are inefficient at regulating their temperature. Swaddling helps keep baby warm
Helpful When Breastfeeding
- Tucking baby's hands into the swaddle will keep baby's hands from impairing latch-on
- Baby's extra movements are nicely contained when swaddled which can help baby focus and latch on. Once baby has learned how to latch on and is nursing, remove the swaddle so baby and mom can be skin to skin and tummy to tummy.
- Use the blanket to drape over mom and baby for warmth. Skin to skin is best when learning how to breastfeed.