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How to Attract Traffic to Your Site Using Press Releases
As Publisher and Executive Editor of Web Digest For Marketers, I see teeming hordes of press releases and pitches asking for coverage in my newsletter. Trouble is, 99% of them are useless to my readers and me.
Most PR efforts have no news value. Press release writers need to focus on what the reader wants, not what they want.
I've been on both sides of this equation. While I'm the recipient of too many press releases, I myself have sought press attention over the past 13 years. I've gotten press in scores of media outlets including Business Week, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, DM News, Bloomberg News, CNBC, ABC, CBS, et al. Each time I was covered, my site stats rocketed and subscriptions to my newsletter shot up manyfold for that week. Additionally, I noticed similar spikes in consulting and speaking engagements.
Below, I share my Top 10 Tips for making news that drives traffic to your website. Enjoy, and do pass these tips along to those who you feel would benefit from reading them.
Think Content: If your firm gathers statistics in the course of its operations, that may be interesting to your target audience. Well thought-out position statements that run counter to business as usual are another avenue to explore in the content arena.
Visualize Your Audience: Don't write for a "demographic." Too many press releases seem to be writing for some vague audience. Personify the reader(s). Imagine them reading your press release or a lift from it that a reporter might use. If you can't visualize this, start over.
Optimize Your Press Release for SEO: Everyday, more people get their news from Google News or Yahoo News and the like. When writing your press release, think about the keywords your target audience uses to make up that filter. Don't overuse those keyword phrases, but don't ignore them either.
Try New Circuits: Don't just use the same old press release distribution outlets you've always used. I've recently gotten much better bang for the buck by using outlets that send RSS feeds as part of the service for no extra charge which results in "pickups" from more blogs and other sites syndicating content via RSS.
Be Quotable: Say something that is not part of the daily drone. That PR clutter can be your friend so long as you say something relevant and different that breaks through it.
Get Help: Many press releases are terrible because they're written by company insiders who are just too close to what they're writing about. Having said that, there are many PR agencies that put out run-of-the-mill releases too. Before hiring someone to write a press release for you, look carefully at previous campaigns they've conducted. Did they interest you? No? Keep looking.
Be Tough on Yourself: After your press release is finished, read it as if you never laid eyes upon it. If the headline was a subject header in an email, would you open it or delete it? As you read through the copy, where do you start to lose interest and start thinking about dinner?
Jump Page: I sometimes offer 3 out of 10 tips or trends within my press release and a live link thereafter for readers to jump to my site where they can read the remaining 7 tips. Very effective.
Create News: Much news is manufactured, not only for B2B but B2C as well. Creating an event that you can repeat annually, such as a competition or review of something interesting to your target audience, can generate traffic for your site for many years to come. If you establish a "Hall of Fame" or some other perennial competition, you're likely to also create a clamor for other firms to be heralded in your final results that will be announced in your press release and on your website.
Track Your Results: See what works best by tracking your results for days after your press release has gone out. Any press release service worth their salt should offer you this feature for little or no money extra. Furthermore, you yourself should search for citations of your press release in the major search engines for days after to see how well it has propagated.
Bonus Tip: Edit, Edit, Edit. With the onslaught of so much information coming at all of us, editors and readers alike are less and less patient with puffery and prose that don't get to the point quickly. As Direct Response Guru Mac Ross advises, "Make every word work hard." When you finish your press release, have a very tough-minded editor go over it with a fine-tooth comb.
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Eighty watts of amplification will do that. The cool thing with this piece is that it's not a monolithic 80 watts. According to OSD, the Sound Platform provides independent amp channels for each woofer, each set of midrange drivers, and the tweeters. This "bi-amp" design, I suspect, provides nuance and depth as well as raw power. So do, I also suspect, the unit's front and rear panel bass ports, which are two pairs of tuned openings in the cabinet that the company says allow air to release and enhance the low frequencies.
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Jaime: You Go, GirlThough she can't relate to her character's underhanded ways, My Name Is Earl's Jaime Pressly does share some her character's more likable traits. "The tough, go-get-'em strong girl," she says. "The scheming and all this is not me.
And Pressly has also been pleasantly surprised that her TV alter ego Joy has an unexpectedly large fan club. "Women come up to me all the time and say they live vicariously through the character because she says things that every woman wishes they could say, but it's completely uncouth and wrong," Pressly told us at a Crown Royal/NASCAR press event in Richmond, Va. "We all wish we could do that from time to time."
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Massachusetts officials will appeal a judge's decision to grant a convicted murderer's request for sex change surgery at taxpayer expense.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled this month that the surgery was the only way to treat Michelle Kosilek's gender-identity disorder.
Wolf's decision led to outrage among legislators, who say Kosilek is not entitled to that taxpayer-funded surgery.
Republican state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr had urged the state to appeal.
"Requiring the state to fund a medical procedure for a first-degree murderer that many private citizens cannot afford and that those receiving medical coverage from the state do not have the option to receive undermines the public's confidence in government and our institutions of corrections and justice," he said.
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In a hopeful sign for New Orleans' recovery, a study released Wednesday shows that the vast stock of unoccupied residences across the city has diminished during the past year while other American cities with large inventories of blighted or vacant housing have seen their decay grow.
Still, New Orleans remains atop the list of cities with the highest proportion of abandoned homes, with 31 percent of all residential properties unoccupied or blighted in March, according to an analysis of U.S. Postal Service data by the nonprofit Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.
In fact, no other city rivals New Orleans. Of five other cities with large volumes of abandoned homes, Flint, Mich., is next on the list with 20 percent of its residential property unoccupied, followed by Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., researchers found.
Unlike in New Orleans, however, the percentage of blight in the other cities climbed as much as 2 percentage points between March 2008 and March 2009, according to the analysis. The deterioration has come amid a worldwide economic downturn that has been particularly devastating to Rust Belt cities.
By contrast, the proportion of abandoned properties in New Orleans, which stood at 34 percent in March 2008, dropped 3 percentage points during the subsequent year, the data show.
City officials said Wednesday they were not surprised by the findings. Though blight afflicted New Orleans neighborhoods long before Hurricane Katrina, the flood's destruction would have pushed any similarly sized city to the top of the blight register, they said.
City Hall has managed to beat back some of the decay by staffing up and streamlining departments including safety and permits, code enforcement and environmental health, said Troy Body, a top aide in the city's recovery office, which oversees blight reduction efforts.
Enforcing laws that for years were ignored or selectively enforced, officials have sped up the administrative hearing process and imposed strict fines against violators, he said.
"There were people who knew in the past they could get away with it, and now, that's gone, " Body said. "That's seriously gone."
Code Enforcement Director Winston Reid added that neighborhood groups have been vital in helping officials identify blight and hold offenders accountable.
In March 2009, New Orleans was home to 65,888 vacant or unoccupied properties, down from 71,657 in the previous year, the data show. Over the same period, the total number of residential units in the city dropped by 345 properties to 213,345, likely a reflection of storm-related demolitions.
For each city, the inventory of unoccupied homes was divided into two categories: vacant, meaning the address had not received mail for 90 days, and "no stat, " a Postal Service term meaning that the address was unlikely to receive mail for a long time or was under construction. In parishes affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, no-stat addresses included heavily damaged homes.
In the latest count, a relatively small portion of New Orleans lots -- about 7,000 -- were deemed "vacant, " suggesting that the remaining 59,000 addresses were blighted or empty.
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Afflicted by fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder, he barely could get out of bed. He ended up in a long-term care facility for several months and battled depression, a side effect of the disorder.
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"Quiet Dell" by Jayne Ann Phillips revives a crime committed in the 1930s and shows the way obsession over a distant event unrelated to one's own life still can take over and cloud the emotions - both through Emily Thornhill, one of the novel's main characters, and through Phillips, the novel's author.
The story focuses on a multiple murder committed by a con man, the damage it causes in the surrounding community and the reporter who feels compelled to bring the murderer to justice. Phillips creates the atmosphere with a blend of fictionalized situations and conversations - which make the characters feel more real - and actual accounts from the events, such as photos, court transcripts and newspaper articles.
"Quiet Dell" never glamorizes the serial killer; in fact, the book and its characters are downright disparaging toward Harry Powers (one of many aliases), who wooed women with letters through lonely hearts correspondence clubs and then killed them. In the case of Asta Eicher, Powers also killed her three children (and soundly kicked the dog - depriving it of its bark - for good measure). Instead of delving into Powers' psychology, Phillips focuses on the Eicher family and the way their deaths cause a ripple effect through their community and beyond.
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Starting the story in the Eicher home, where youngest child Annabelle is planning a Christmas play, Phillips carefully constructs the character of each family member and shows echoes of the potential that the children - particularly Annabelle - could have reached had they lived. She also paints mother Asta as a common-sense widow who wants to do what's best for her family, rather than someone naive and desperate for attention, as she and Powers' other "lovers" were painted in the media at the time.
Phillips does not dwell on the details of the inevitable deaths, instead choosing to skip from the fateful car ride with Powers to the moment the bodies are found. One strange and inexplicable aspect of the story is Phillips' decision to turn Annabelle into a ghost. While this is not prominently featured in the story, it adds a strange make-believe element that jolts the reader from a riveting and believable story back to the reality that this is an historical fiction.
The most interesting and complex character in the book is the fictional Emily Thornhill, a Chicago Tribune reporter assigned to cover the trial who ends up becoming the family's post-mortem protector. Phillips clearly lives vicariously through Thornhill, who adopts the Eichers' orphaned dog; saves drawings and family items from a rummage sale; and writes articles about Powers throughout the trial that are passionately biased against him before the verdict is decided. Perhaps because the Eichers have suffered such a terrible fate, Phillips imbues Emily with extraordinarily good luck throughout the story, but it's tough not to root for her. Phillips creates strong supporting characters in Emily's fellow reporter, Eric; Eicher family friend and local bank manager William; and Mason, an orphan boy who becomes Emily's assistant.
In the end the story says more about Phillips than it does about her cast of characters, both real and imagined. Phillips explains on the book jacket that she was unable to let go of the story after hearing it from her mother, who was a child at the time of the murders. Phillips attempts to show the marks this event has left on those who lived through it and investigated it ... but she shows readers that her own preoccupation with the events has deeply changed her as well.


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WELLSVILLE - Two Wellsville High School students were killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash on Bengal Drive that also left several students injured and resulted in two being arrested.
Fortunately, the tragic accident was just a simulation aimed at teaching students to be safer drivers, and no one was actually injured or arrested.
Put on by the Wellsville Fire Department, the annual event also involved firefighters from Calcutta, Glenmoor and Liverpool Township; village police officers; the Lisbon post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol; Tri-County Ambulance; and STAT MedEvac helicopter.
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This realistic accident scene is what first responders and students found as the fire alarm sounded this week for a simulated crash aimed at convincing young people to enjoy their prom but to stay safe. (Photo by Jo Ann Bobby-Gilbert)
As students gathered in the high school parking lot, the village fire siren sounded, announcing as it does in real life that two vehicles had hit head-on.
Student "victims" trapped inside the car were made up with a variety of injuries that kept them immobilized as firefighters began the arduous task of removing doors, windshields and roofs to extricate them.
Meanwhile, a medical helicopter circled the parking lot, preparing to land and take on one of the victims while police officers administered sobriety tests to the two student "drivers."
What may have looked like mayhem to the students was the actual scenario of a crash scene, according to firefighter Tim Long, who narrated, telling the students, "We never know what will be involved (when they arrive on a scene)."
The students saw the evidence of that first-hand as not only firefighters but ambulance personnel - who are often also volunteer firefighters - were brought into the rescue effort, helping with the extrication so they could get the victims onto waiting backboards.
They also saw the lengthy process of removing both living and dead victims from a tangled piece of metal.
Junior Codie Jackson was one of the students "killed" in the crash, and she said it was "pretty cool to be in a body bag," but she was in the minority, with the other students expressing their apprehension at what they experienced.
"I was in there shaking. I'm still shaking," victim Shayla Hall. She also found herself under arrest after being made to perform several sobriety tests, as the drunken driver of one of the vehicles.
Junior Dante Colella said sitting in the vehicle while it was carved apart by a Jaws of Life was actually the scariest part of the exercise for him, saying, "It made me think."
Colella was removed from the wreckage and taken aboard the STAT MedEvac helicopter, which actually flew him from the scene.
Later, he lightened the mood a bit by admitting to his fellow students that he had taken a "selfie" (cell phone photograph of himself) while flying.
Tri-County EMT Marty Thorn addressed the crowd of students, telling them, "In 2011, 32,637 people didn't make it where they were going. That's seven times the population of Wellsville."
He said such a crash is a life-altering event with the best-case scenario that a victim ends up with a minor injury and $50,000 in emergency transport fees, whereas the worst-case scenario means a lifelong disability from an injury or death.
"It's one of the scariest events you'll ever be faced with," Thorn said.
Speaking from experience, teacher Robin Weeda agreed, relating her own accident en route to class one morning when her vehicle was struck by a drunk driver, pinning her inside for 90 minutes.
The driver, who had no license, gained his fifth OVI arrest while Weeda's injuries kept her from working for three months.
"It can happen to you, so be careful," she warned.
Sgt. Craig Wetzel from the OSP told the students, "We want you to enjoy your prom season, but we want you to make wise choices. (The participating agencies) are here today for a reason. They want you to be safe."
He admitted, "We never get used to rolling up to this stuff," and cautioned students that they do not want to have the death of another person on their conscience the rest of their lives.
Long pointed out it is not always impaired driving that causes such crashes but actions as simple as taking a "selfie" or texting, all of which he said can wait until they get home.
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The last 8 days in the WWE have been pretty hectic to say the least. It all started last Sunday at Money in the Bank when CM Punk won the WWE Championship from John Cena and then left the company. Last Monday on Raw, Mr. McMahon attempted to move on and forget that ever happened by creating a new WWE Title and crowning a new champion. In a brutal 8-man ladder match, the real WWE Champion, CM Punk appeared on the titantron and reminded the men in the ring they were fighting for a prop. This set in the men's heads and soon exited the ring. Mr. McMahon was pissed and soon John Cena came out and made things worse. Mr. McMahon blamed this whole situation on Cena and promptly fired John Cena!! He has stated until he has the WWE Championship back in his possession, Cena will not be rehired.
Despite many people within the WWE not agreeing with the chairman's decision of creating a new title and erasing all the history and prestige the real title has, McMahon promises that tonight on Raw we will crown a new WWE Champion. As confirmed earlier this week on wwe.com, there will be a triple threat match to determine a new champion. Mr. Money in the Bank, Alberto Del Rio, Rey Mysterio, and The Miz will look to usher in a new era as the first new WWE Champion. With McMahon so determined to move on rest assure we will get some closure tonight.
Last week, Zack Ryder made the most of a rare appearance on Raw by upsetting the United States Champion, Dolph Ziggler. The champion of the internet will once again get another shot to impress as this week on Raw there will be a 6-man tag team match. Zack Ryder will team with Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne to take on the team of United States Champion, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, and Drew McIntyre.
Last week the tag team champions, Michael McGuillicutty and David Otunga successfully defended their titles defeating Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov. After the match, then fellow Nexus member, Mason Ryan felt disrespected by the two and took out his rage on the champions. What does this mean for the future of Nexus? The massive Mason Ryan also will be in action trying to further send a message to the tag team champions.
With all the controversy happening this surely affects everybody on the roster. How will the rest of the roster cope with what has transpired after losing 2 of the biggest stars on the roster and the most prestigious championship in the company? Also what lengths will Mr. McMahon go to make sure his company once again goes back to normal? Tune into Monday Night Raw this Monday @ 9/8ct only on USA to find out.
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Thank you once again Julien for your excellent coverage of this fine event. I see you found a whole lot of new places to photograph from this time also. Really great to see not only one but two Veritas sports racers, their appearance belies their age. No photograph of the S L R Morgan?, surely one of the most beautiful cars present, and so well driven also, showing a lot of potential faster cars the back view of the S L R… I always look forward to your coverage of this event, and it gives me a chance to show friends your photographs, and just what they are missing by not being there. I wonder if anyone captured a photograph of the Porsche that blew up so spectacularly in a ball of flames, that had to be the biggest ball of fire blow up, in the history of Historic Racing. Thanks again Julien. Cheers from Sweden. GRAHAM.
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HARRISON TWP. — The township's water treatment facility will be getting an updated, important piece of equipment this year, as the township committee has approved $1.3 million to replace the plant's sludge press.
Part of the process of treating the water and sewage that runs through the plant is removing solid waste, or sludge. However, the current equipment that the township uses is not efficient enough to effectively handle the amount of sludge that has been produced since the facility was upgraded a few years ago.
"We currently have a machine that does it now, but it is not size appropriate for the plant upgrade that took place in 2004," said Mike Gonserkevis, the wastewater plant's superintendent. "We are increasing the capability of the press by going with different technology."
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December 23rd, 2010 (Hyderabad, India): BlueGiant Interactive, an independent game developer, has announced that it has reached open beta for its latest game, entitled APOX. BlueGiant Interactive has recently completed several rounds of closed beta testing, lasting several months and involving hundreds of beta testers. The open beta is being hosted exclusively on Steam and is expected to last two weeks. Beta serial keys are freely available at the APOX website ( www.apoxgame.com).
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Draft remarks for the candidate on taxes, dependency and the 47%.
Mitt Romney has been taking a beating for his remarks, taped at a May fundraiser, that 47% of Americans would automatically vote for President Obama because they are "dependent" on government. We could pile on, but instead we can report that we've been leaked pages of draft remarks that Mr. Romney might have delivered on the same subject but curiously didn't.
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"One tragedy of the Obama Presidency is how many more Americans have become dependent on the government. I know it's not their fault. Most want to be self-sufficient, to provide for their families, but they can't because there aren't enough jobs.
"That's why 46 million Americans are on food stamps now, compared to 30 million in 2008. That's why 10.6 million were on Social Security disability in 2011 compared to 9.3 million three years earlier. That's why 40% of the unemployed have been out of work for six months or more, and the smallest share of the U.S. population is looking for work than at any time since 1981.
"This is a national scandal. Not because those fellow Americans are free-loaders, but because they aren't able to get a good job that pays enough to be self-sufficient and lets them fulfill their human potential.
"I want Americans to be less dependent on government not because it costs too much. We will always help Americans who need our help. I want Americans to be independent so they can realize the pride of accomplishment and the dignity of work and contribute their God-given talents to build a better country.
"I think the success of a Presidency should be measured by how many fewer people need food stamps, how many fewer need disability, not how many more people are added to the rolls. I don't want to take food stamps away from Americans in need. I want fewer Americans to need food stamps.
"Sometimes I wonder if President Obama shares that view. He and his economists keep saying that food stamps and unemployment benefits are a form of 'stimulus.' Well, we've sure had a lot of that kind of stimulus, and all we have to show for it are more people on food stamps and more people on welfare and more people looking for work. I think a real stimulus is a job, and I intend to help Americans create more of them.
"You've probably also heard some people—some even in my own party—divide Americans between 'makers' and 'takers.' As if half the country wants to live off the other half. I've never believed that. That's no different from the kind of divisive politics that the President practices when he pits the wealthy against everyone else.
"We want a society in which one person's success lifts everyone else. The job of government is to create the incentives and opportunity so everyone can become a maker. But too often government wants to take more from Americans so it can make more Americans dependent on government. That's when we lose our way, and too many Americans lose hope that they can work and prosper.
"It's the same with our broken tax policy. You may have heard some people say that about half the American people pay no income tax. That's true. But I know millions of those people do pay Social Security taxes, which are a tax on work. They're making their contribution to our government, and I don't want to—and will not—raise their taxes.
"In fact, I want to reduce the tax on work by repealing ObamaCare, which will force employers to pay a tax if they don't offer health insurance. That means they'll hire fewer workers, as many companies are already doing.
"But I don't want to stop there. I also want to fix our tax code so everyone plays by the same rules, and that includes the richest and most powerful. You know, the President seems to say every day that 'millionaires and billionaires' should pay higher tax rates.
"But what he doesn't say is that if you raise tax rates, those millionaires and billionaires will hire lawyers and lobbyists to avoid those rates, to exploit loopholes and tax shelters, or to get special favors. Like Solyndra did. The government will get less revenue, and that means the middle class will end up paying more. The President won't tell you that either.
"Think about it. Do you have a lobbyist in Washington? Do you have a guy you can call to get you in to see the Treasury Secretary or the Senators in Gucci Gulch? Of course you don't. But the millionaires and billionaires do.
"That's why so many people in both parties support tax reform that lowers tax rates and pays for it by closing loopholes and helping the economy grow faster.
"That's what Ronald Reagan did with Democrats like Bill Bradley and Dick Gephardt in the 1980s. That's what Democrat Alice Rivlin and Republican Pete Domenici have proposed. And that's what the President's own deficit commission—led by Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles—proposed.
"I don't agree with all of the details in these plans, but I do know they have the right general idea. We have the most complicated tax code with some of the highest tax rates in the world and yet it doesn't raise the revenue we need to fund the government.
"We need tax reform to spur faster growth and to make American workers more competitive. But we also need reform to make the tax code fairer, and less open to exploitation by the rich and powerful who have friends in Washington."
That's where the speech excerpts end. No doubt there's more, sitting in the PC of some young wordsmith in Boston who's working for Mr. Romney. Somebody should sneak it past Stuart Stevens. Surely a man as smart as the former CEO of Bain Capital can give a better speech on taxes and dependency than he delivered at that fundraiser. If he can't, he'll lose, and he'll deserve to.


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It makes those long-iron distances more manageable without forcing you to revise your entire set.\n\n NOT: Some hybrid users might want more draw bias.\n\n INFO: adamsgolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $200\n\n LOFTS: 19, 22, 25, 28 for X2 Hot (shown); 16, 18, 20, 23 for X2 Hot Pro\n\n TECH TALK: To generate faster ball speed, the X2 Hot has a cupface that's up to 28 percent thinner than the face insert on last year's X Hot. The center of gravity (CG) in the X2 Hot Pro is 40 percent lower than it is in the X Hot Pro, which helps the Pro version produce less spin and a penetrating trajectory.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "The flight is boring, so it would be a great club in the wind." ... "If you like to play a wide variety of shots, this thing visually says you can do so."\n\nM: "Distance and dispersion stayed in a tight window."\n\n HOT: It's compact enough to look like a hybrid that lets you shape shots, and it has enough technology to make it perform like the high-lofted fairway wood you didn't know you needed.\n\n NOT: Less-skilled players might want a little more offset.\n\n INFO: callawaygolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $190\n\n LOFTS (adjustable): 2-3H (16 to 19 degrees), 3-4H (19 to 22 degrees), 4-5H (22 to 25 degrees)\n\n TECH TALK: The crown is thinner than last year's AMP Cell and includes a web-like structure that allows weight to be redistributed low and around the perimeter. The high-strength 455 steel face insert is thinner near the perimeter for more consistent ball speed accross the face. It comes in five colors.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "It looks aggressive, but it's actually inviting. I like that combination. I'd play this right off the rack."\n\nM: "This head is super workable, and I could easily turn the ball over and flight it."\n\n HOT: Serious work on the crown and face to make a powerful hybrid that includes two draw settings per head.\n\n NOT: We wonder if having eight settings per head and half-degree loft increments might be overkill.\n\n INFO: cobragolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $180/$230\n\n LOFTS: 17, 20, 23, 26 for Covert 2.0 (shown); 3H (17 to 21 degrees), 4H (21 to 25 degrees) for Covert Tour 2.0\n\n TECH TALK: The Covert 2.0 features larger (more forgiving) clubhead shapes for the lower lofts and progressively smaller heads as the lofts get higher (for better control). The Tour hybrids have a hosel that allows for five lofts and three independent face-angle settings.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "The flight is piercing, and I can work the ball. It plays like an iron."\n\nM: "It launches easily and gives you that heavy wood thump at impact."\n\n HOT: Most golfers use low-lofted hybrids to advance the ball and high-lofted hybrids to attack greens. Kudos to Nike for engineering a line of hybrids that matches these needs.\n\n NOT: The adjustable hosel is the largest of any hybrid.\n\n INFO: nikegolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $200\n\n LOFTS: 17, 20, 23, 27, 31\n\n TECH TALK: The CG location changes throughout the five heads. The higher lofts have a more forward CG to reduce spin, and the lower-lofted heads feature a more rearward and lower CG to improve stability on off-center hits and increase launch angle. The 17-4 stainless-steel body features squared-off heel and toe regions on the face for improved performance on strikes lower on the face.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "A nice solid crack, really feels like it's plowing through the ground and the ball."\n\nM: "Sleek, but also inviting and user-friendly. It launches the ball high and long without making you do too much work."\n\n HOT: Powerfully functional and forgiving. Plus, Ping's nFlight fitting system makes developing your set simple.\n\n NOT: We wish the clubheads with higher lofts were smaller.\n\n INFO: ping.com\nSTREET PRICE: $220\n\n LOFTS: 17, 19, 22, 26\n\n TECH TALK: The CG changes as the loft changes. On the higher lofts, it's more forward to control spin; on the lower lofts, it's farther back and lower for greater forgiveness and a higher launch angle. The compact, squared-off head shape is designed to make the club perform more like an iron (meaning extra control and workability). \n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "The compact look is not too small, it's just what it should be." ... "The sound and feel are out-of-this-world pure."\n\nM: "It was phenomenally reliable; it hit the center of the face every time."\n\n HOT: A true iron-replacement club. Also, Ping's hybrid shaft fitting takes swing speed and shot shape into consideration.\n\n NOT: We think there's more technological room to explore, especially in terms of face design and materials.\n\n INFO: ping.com\nSTREET PRICE: $200\n\n LOFTS: 17, 19, 22, 25, 28\n\n TECH TALK: It has a lower profile, a lower CG and a shallower face than last year's RocketBallz Stage 2 hybrid, making it more workable and playable from a variety of lies. The new slot on the sole is smaller to save weight. It has a cut-through opening for more face flex, ball speed and less spin.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "Extremely straight—if you want to curve it, it'll only go a hair either way. So it's pretty much a one-trick hybrid, but straight is a good trick."\n\nM: "There's just enough bulk to the shape to breed the right amount of confidence."\n\n HOT: TaylorMade has rethought the sole slot to help reduce spin in addition to enhancing face flex. Pretty smart, but also making it easier to hit puts this in special territory.\n\n NOT: It wouldn't hurt if the crown graphics weren't there.\n\n INFO: taylormadegolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $220/$290\n\n LOFTS: 17, 19, 21, 24\n\n TECH TALK: To increase ball speed and lower spin, the CG is farther forward than on all but one adjustable hybrid in company history. The special nickel-cobalt steel face is stronger than it was in last year's RocketBallz hybrid and thin (1.8 millimeters) to flex more at impact for optimum distance. The hosel allows you to adjust the loft by 1.5 degrees up or down.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "You can tell you're giving the ball a solid punch when you hit it because of the sound. This is a hot-rod hybrid."\n\nM: "It's got the feel of an iron at impact, but the power of a fairway wood."\n\n HOT: A robust technological effort (as expected) in a much more efficient and hybrid-like shape than previous models.\n\n NOT: The standard shaft lengths are longer than most of the other hybrids.\n\n INFO: taylormadegolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $230\n\n LOFTS (all adjustable): 17, 19, 21, 24, 27 for 913H; 18, 20, 23 for 913H.d\n\n TECH TALK: The low CG is placed farther back in the lower lofts—to increase stability on off-center hits—and closer to the face for higher lofts—to control spin. The adjustable hosel allows users to tweak launch conditions by changing loft and lie independently.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "This club seems more consistent than others. My dispersion area was the size of a blanket."\n\nM: "It's got a unique combination of letting you hit precise shots and giving you some leeway on mis-hits."\n\n HOT: Titleist has done all the little things right here to make your long irons irrelevant, including tweaking the offset as the lofts change.\n\n NOT: Better players might want an H.d model with less loft.\n\n INFO: titleist.com\nSTREET PRICE: $170\n\n LOFTS: 16.5, 19, 22, 25, 28, 32\n\n TECH TALK: Designed to help shots launch higher, these hybrids feature a low-profile shape and a large low-face area for increased forgiveness. The cut-through sole slot is twice as long as it was in last year's Tech V4. The crown slot is slightly longer and narrower. Less camber is designed for better results on shots hit low on the face.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "It's a fun, easy club to hit, and it flies high and straight. That said, I couldn't work the ball."\n\nM: "This powers through the ground on fat shots. It's one of the easiest-to-hit hybrids I've ever played. I also like how the slot has gotten skinnier."\n\n HOT: Everything here is built on the research that high-handicappers rarely hit the center of the face.\n\n NOT: These players do not need a 2-hybrid.\n\n INFO: adamsgolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $300\n\n LOFTS (all adjustable): 16, 18, 20, 23, 26\n\n TECH TALK: The slots in the sole and crown feature a unique cut-through opening that is closer to the face, allowing it to more effectively flex and increase ball speed. The titanium face, crown and hosel are brazed to a heavier steel sole for a lower CG. The face gets thinner toward the perimeter for better flexibility.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "This thing moves it out there. It adds lots of charge to most of your shots, so if you can get beyond the look it's great."\n\nM: "The slot is growing on me, and I like the smaller shape."\n\n HOT: The brazing joint between the steel sole and the titanium face and crown has been moved to lower the CG. This kind of attention to detail is in every element of this club.\n\n NOT: Not sure those details pay $300 dividends for all players.\n\n INFO: adamsgolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $160\n\n LOFTS: 17, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31\n\n TECH TALK: Designed with more forgiveness than last year's Baffler T-Rail+, the head has 20 grams of tungsten low and back to encourage a higher trajectory and increase stability on off-center hits. Sole weights lower the CG and help reduce spin. Two rails on the sole are designed to decrease surface drag and enhance playability from a variety of lies. The high-strength 455 steel face is built for increased ball speed.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "You could take this club out of the bag without warming up and hit darts."\n\nM: "It only hits high shots, but that might be just what you need. I could use it to drop shots on a green like a wedge."\n\n HOT: The range of lofts is larger than most, and multiple-material technology is delivered at a competitive price.\n\n NOT: A blue finish with extra offset could be a turnoff.\n\n INFO: cobragolf.com\nSTREET PRICE: $190\n\n LOFTS: 16, 19, 22, 25\n\n TECH TALK: The 1770 maraging-steel face is designed thin to increase ball speed, and the large (127 cubic centimeters) clubhead has a deep face for more stability and performance off the tee. An internal sole weight pushes the CG low and back for higher launch. The face is positioned slightly forward of the shaft to aid the way the leading edge slides between the ball and turf for better, more consistent contact.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "The matte-black finish is a little darker than others, and it frames the ball well." ... "I felt I could really get after the ball with this club."\n\nM: "The pronounced thwack at impact is the sound of power."\n\n HOT: The same amount of technology used to tune sound frequencies in Mizuno irons is applied to this hybrid.\n\n NOT: The head's shape borders on fairway-wood territory.\n\n INFO: mizunousa.com/golf\nSTREET PRICE: $160/$200\n\n LOFTS: 19, 22, 25, 28 for the XCG7; 17, 19, 22, 25 for the XCG7 Beta\n\n TECH TALK: The XCG7 has four weight pads farther back in the sole to increase stability on mis-hits. The XCG7 Beta, which uses a thin, lightweight beta-titanium crown, has four weights pads farther forward to lower trajectory and control spin. Both have a cupface construction and a waffled grid section in the sole to improve the way the face gives on contact.\n\n PLAYER COMMENTS:\n\n L: "It feels well-balanced throughout the swing, and it produces a superior flight."\n\nM: "The front-to-back and heel-to-toe proportions are ideal, and it makes a full sound at impact."\n\n HOT: A significant one-two punch, and both models have impressive variable-thickness faces.\n\n NOT: The logo on the crown distracted some testers.\n\n INFO: touredge.com


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Alarm bells! Flashing lights! Screaming meemies! An outbreak of silliness has been reported in London. A cursory investigation eliminates Maggie Thatcher, Wee Willie Windsor, the Queen's midnight visitor and the Argentine Navy as suspects. The truth is far more disturbing: Monty Python is back at work.
Yes, Monty Python, a name to make the stiffest upper lip tremble. Six hardened perpetrators of silliness, comedy recidivists who'd stop at nothing to tickle an innocent victim. Seemingly no form of humor is beyond them, low or high, whether it be the tossing of pastry or the dropping of names like Hegel and Kant. They can. And will. At will.
Already, in 13 harrowing years, their notoriously silly Monty Python movies, TV shows, records and books have inundated vast areas of the globe, triggering laughing jags in numerous dialects. Even now a film called Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, hot on the heels of The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (starring four of the Pythons), is at large in the unwary U.S. But is all this enough for the archfiends? No! The grim reality is only too apparent: The Pythons are coiling to strike again. They have fleeced a major studio (Universal) of $8 million to foist on us the silliest Python caper yet—something titled, heaven help us, The Meaning of Life, to be released next summer.
Quickly, the perpetrators are tracked to an office suite in a row of graceful old houses across the street from pleasantly verdant Regent's Park—the very lair from which the gang and its six employees direct the sinister Python empire. Yet behind their zany-nutty-wacky-cuckoo-woowoo-yaha image, the Pythons, it turns out, are capable of behaving like six perfectly normal, even dull, middle-aged Englishmen. No pies, no silly walks, no ladies' dresses or Australian drinking songs. Decorum! They sit around a serious table looking for all the world like writers putting the finishing touches on a screenplay. Who are they, then, these men called Python? What are they made of, and will it spoil without refrigeration?
In fact, though their temperaments are wildly diverse, the Pythons are remarkably similar in age and background, all between 39 and 42, with good verbal skills. They hail from unassuming middle-class families; one was fathered by an insurance salesman, others by a banker, an engineer and a cop. All seem British, though one, Terry Gilliam, insists against all evidence that he was American born and bred. All live in separate houses in London with separate wives and sometimes children (the average Python parent has 1.5), except Graham Chapman, the gang's token gay, who rooms with a man just to be different.
And there is this highly incriminating detail, blurted out by John Cleese: All six have very strong mums. As Cleese himself acknowledges, "Most people who have stronger mothers than fathers tend to have a difficult relationship with authority. They're usually more or less anti-Establishment."
We could really stop right there. That admission explains all that follows. But no, the whole story will out. As in so many cases, it was higher education that knocked tender minds from the path of duty and virtue. At Cambridge (alma mater of Cleese, Chapman and Eric Idle) and Oxford (of Terry Jones and Michael Palin), the Pythons joined theatrical clubs and began writing and performing in college revues. It warped their brains. Cleese read the law but never lawyered. Chapman finished medical school but never doctored. Jones had wanted to be a poet. He never poed.
A few years earlier another crew of Oxbridge types, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett, had produced a schoolboy satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe that made it to London and then onto Broadway. Afterward, packs of producers came barking up to school each year to sniff out new talent. The future Pythons had no trouble landing jobs at the BBC. At one point five of them wrote for David Frost. Soon No. 6, Gilliam, arrived. A carpenter's son from Minneapolis, he had worked on humor magazines in the U.S., then in advertising, but not happily. In London he did animation for a kids' show on which Jones, Palin and Idle were writers.
In 1969 the six got together and conspired to start a new show with material more outlandish than the BBC norm. The BBC okayed the concept and suddenly had on its hands a half hour of unbridled madness. The show careened wildly from one sketch to another, glued together precariously by Gilliam's frequently grotesque graphic cartoons.
Only a name was needed—one so obviously meaningless that people would ask for years afterward, "What does it mean?" The program was called Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The rest is pathology.
The new show quickly soared to heights of obscurity. England yawned, except for proper middle-class types who loathed it, possibly because the Pythons delighted in portraying them as idiots. It took years for Python to catch on, infect America via public TV, and find its cult. The show's attraction proved slow to take hold but insidious—not so much Pythonmania as post-Python drip. The program was still in American reruns years after the Pythons had quit filming it.
One reason they quit was that John Cleese got bored. Immensely tall and stately, perhaps closer to being a tree than a person, Cleese looks highly respectable, quite like the people he ridicules. He often portrays cardinals or Cabinet ministers or judges—cross, starchy men who brook no nonsense though they often turn out to be utterly nonsensical themselves.
"John is obsessed with authority figures, father figures, respectability," says Gilliam. "He has a secret admiration for them, I think. He also believes the response he gets is to the way he uses his intellect and his reason, not because of the fact that he looks weird. He could never accept that." "John has a waspish tongue," says Palin. "In the world verbal-abuse championships, he would do very well."
When Cleese quit appearing on the show, some of the other Pythons proved competently abusive themselves. "The ones who were most dependent on the group were fairly rude," he says. "They talked about treachery, which I thought was infantile."
The tensions and disagreements within Python had often polarized around Cleese and Terry Jones, who are emotional opposites. Cleese, methodical, orderly, a champion of rationality, argued for structure. Sketches had to have "internal logic." Jones, the poetic Welshman, passionate, instinctive, a champion of natural-brewed beer and other dangerous causes, preferred grabbing ideas and letting them fly in all directions. Each fought for his way. Once an ashtray was hurled in anger. The other Pythons would variously take sides, cheer, laugh or shout them both down. Comedy resulted.
When Cleese stopped performing, the other five put out a short series of shows without him, then gave it up. But Cleese had not quit Python entirely, just Python TV. The whole gang went off on a concert tour of England and Canada. They also wrote a movie script, a takeoff on the Camelot legend, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
This was the point at which Monty Python could have been stopped. The group had difficulty financing the movie. "No one actually realized how valuable Python was, even though they'd already sold hundreds of thousands of books and records," testifies John Goldstone, executive producer of Holy Grail. The money was finally obtained, partly from the rock groups Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The movie grossed some $12 million in the U.S. alone.
Without really planning to, Python had switched mediums while staying intact, a unique feat for a satirical comedy group. Holy Grail had a plot of sorts, but also some of the sketchy flavor of the TV shows, filled as it was with hordes of loony characters, most played by the six Pythons. King Arthur was Graham Chapman, the troupe's most vivid eccentric—though hardly as eccentric now as several years ago, when he was a major drunk and provocateur. In a restaurant he might have been found crawling under the tables, kissing the feet of strangers, for example. But before the next Python film, Chapman dried out. "I had to stop, really, or I was about to die," he says. "Because of my medical background I'd begun to notice incipient signs of liver damage."
Nowadays, at first glance, Chapman has the look of a mild-mannered academic, puffing his pipe, saying "Mmmm" a good deal. Then you peer into his mad blue eyes and you know that he is still quite daft. Cleese says: "Graham is a fascinating mixture of a man who's extremely bright and strangely vague. There's a kind of wonderful, disconnected dreaminess about him, a slightly unfocused quality." Palin says: "Graham is a man who can very often unblock a sketch which has unfortunately fallen into some sort of logical streak. He will come up with something totally out of left field." Idle says: "He produces the bizarre just when you think he's asleep."
It was Chapman who took the title role in the next Python travesty, the blasphemous, unforgivable, hilarious Bible epic, Life of Brian. Originally the story was supposed to focus on an incompetent 13th apostle. But Cleese and Chapman hit on the inspired idea of making Brian a messiah figure. Cleese and Chapman frequently have written together as a group within the group, as have Jones and Palin. Gilliam puts together oddball montages, while Idle works with Idle, except when idle.
Eric is the gadabout Python, the musical Python, the one most plugged into international showbiz. Gilliam says: "He's very, very fast and the most punchy when it comes to laughs. And he's the most chameleonlike in the group. If you talk to him and find out his position, you'll come back a couple of days later and he's adopted a new one." Jones says: "Eric is sort of the best at living. He moves around the globe a lot and he has a house in France, a house in London and lives in Los Angeles. He knows all the people I'd like to know."
The people he knows include stars like Robin Williams, Paul Simon and George Harrison. Harrison came in handy once when Life of Brian lost its first backer after someone foolishly showed him the plot. Harrison forked over $4 million. Not a bad investment. Brian so far has grossed about $22 million in the U.S. and Canada, doubtless aided by the publicity windfall of countless bannings and demonstrations.
Thus Python slithers on. Partly by accident, partly of necessity, the incorrigible six have fallen into a pattern of pulling a Python job every few years and in the interim a rash of capers on their own—enough to cause total consumer confusion about what's an official Python movie and what's just a movie with a couple of Pythons in it.
For instance: Idle wrote a play for London's West End and has directed a cable TV fairy tale starring Robin Williams. Jones wrote a book about Chaucer (a very funny guy) and, with Palin, a TV series, Ripping Yarns, which is still in syndication in the U.S. Chapman wrote a semi-true book, A Liar's Autobiography, and a pirate tale, Yellow-beard, that starts filming soon. Cleese was a big hit in England, and later on public television in the U.S., playing an apoplectic hotelkeeper in Fawlty Towers, a show that ended after only 12 episodes because Cleese got bored again. He then started a highly profitable company that produces training films for business firms.
Palin, who just finished filming his screenplay of The Missionary, with Maggie Smith and Trevor Howard, is the Python closest to normality, an extraverted nice guy whom nearly everyone likes. Most Pythons consider him the group's most talented actor, the one best able to immerse himself in a role. "He's extremely sensible," says Chapman. "It's quite appalling, really." Observes Cleese: "Michael is the easiest and best adjusted of us. But I think he lacks a little bit of steel. He's like a good, gentlemanly public school chap. If he has slightly negative feelings about something, he doesn't show them. But he acts on them in the end."
Haven't we forgotten someone? Oh, yes. Probably the most successful on his own—financially speaking—has been Gilliam, whose comedy adventure Time Bandits, featuring Michael Palin and John Cleese, made $40 million—nearly twice as much as any Python film. A workaholic with boundless energy, Gilliam has a visual imagination teeming with mayhem and as nasty as anything in Grimm's Fairy Tales. Palin defines him thus: "Gilliam is a sort of fierce, fast-moving creature. Gilliam defines his target and homes in on it, not quite as accurate as an Exocet but as relentless. It's the most wild and exciting part of Python, I think, the Gilliam edge. If Python was made up of six Gilliams, there would be this total explosion of creativity and bits of Pythons spattered all over the walls."
Gilliam's problem right now is that he'd rather be doing Gilliam stuff (his new movie is being co-written by playwright Tom Stoppard) than Python stuff. And Cleese is grumping about the dreariness of "committee writing." Hearing them, you'd think Python was going belly-up. Fat chance. The ensemble is already the longest-running satirical group in the English-speaking world. Its concert film, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, has been well received even though it's largely repackaged goods. And its next movie is frighteningly ambitious in scope.
"I think we're looking basically for an audience of fish," said Terry Jones, who is directing The Meaning of Life. "Because, honestly, there is a huge market out there. When you consider the vast shoals of herring, for example. If you could tap that market, it could rescue the whole cinema industry."
By now it should be clear that enough evidence exists to put the Python gang away for a long, long time. Yet silliness is not, legally speaking, illegal. In time this lapse will doubtless be remedied. Until then, be vigilant. The Pythons may strike anywhere, anywhen, anywhom, at any whim.
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updated 08/02/1982 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 08/02/1982 AT 01:00 AM EDT


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LaBrae band night (video)
August 20, 2013
The 41st annual LaBrae Band Night was held Monday at the school stadium. Performing at the area's first band night were LaBrae, Hubbard, Champion, Windham, Middlefield and Jackson Milton bands....
We've used the berets for about four years now.
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Looks like the band grew somewhat since I saw them at the Labrae v. Newton Falls game in 2011. Good to see.
What, no shakos anymore? When did the marching band go to berets only?
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