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Meet the Press
Meet the Press | |
Created by | Martha Rountree[1][2] Lawrence E. Spivak[1] |
Directed by | Rob Melick[3] |
Presented by | Chuck Todd (2014–present) |
Narrated by | Fred Facey (1984–2008) Bert Pence (2008–present) |
Theme music composer | John Williams |
Opening theme | "The Pulse of Events"[4] (fourth part of The Mission) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 66 |
No. of episodes | 5,100 (as of May 18, 2014) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Betsy Fischer Martin (2002–2012)[3] Robert Myers Yarin (2013–present) |
Producer(s) | Adam Verdugo (Senior Producer)[3] Chris Donovan[3] |
Location(s) | Washington, D.C. |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 1992–present: 52 minutes 1947–1992: 30 minutes w/commercials |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | NBC |
Picture format | 480i (4:3 SDTV) (1947–2010) 720p (4:3 SDTV) (1996–2010) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) (2010–present) |
Audio format | stereophonic |
Original run | November 6, 1947 – present |
External links | |
Website |
Meet the Press[5][6] is a weekly American television news/interview program airing on NBC and hosted by Chuck Todd. It is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history, though the current format bears little resemblance to the original that debuted on November 6, 1947.[7] Under host Tim Russert, Meet the Press was the highest-rated of the American television Sunday morning talk shows in 2006.[8] As of the end of 2013, it was struggling in the ratings and ranked third, with NBC management uncertain as to the future direction of the series.[9]
The show has been hosted by 12 different moderators, beginning with Martha Rountree. Chuck Todd became the current moderator in September 2014, replacing David Gregory, who left the network in August 2014.[10] The show began using a new set on May 2, 2010, with video screens and a library-style set with bookshelves, and different, modified intro music, with David Gregory previewing the guests using a large video screen, and with the Meet the Press theme music in a shorter "modernized [style]... the beginning repeated with drum beats" (see "High-definition broadcasting" below for additional information).[11] Meet the Press and similar shows specialize in interviewing national leaders on issues of politics, economics, foreign policy and other public affairs.
Over the past few years, the program's usual time slot over the NBC network is from 9 to 10 a.m. local time in most markets, though this may vary by markets due to commitments by affiliates to religious, E/I or local news, paid and public affairs programming. It also varies several weeks in the summer due to morning coverage of French Open tennis or the Monaco Grand Prix by NBC Sports. In earlier years, the program would air at noon every Sunday. The program also re-airs Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. ET and early Mondays at 4 a.m. ET on MSNBC (and also over the audio simulcast of MSNBC on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio), along with an early Monday morning replay as part of NBC's "All Night" lineup. The program is also distributed to radio stations via syndication by Westwood One and aired as part of C-SPAN Radio's replay of the Sunday morning talk shows.
The longevity of Meet the Press is illustrated when one considers that the program debuted during what was only the second official "network television season" for American television. One historical landmark of the program is that it was the first on which a sitting U.S. president, Gerald Ford, appeared on a live television network news program, which occurred on the November 9, 1975, broadcast.
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The show's format consists of an extended one-on-one interview with the host and is sometimes followed by a roundtable discussion or one-on-two interview with figures in adversarial positions, either Congress members from opposite sides of the aisle or political commentators. Originally a half-hour program for most of its history, the show expanded to 60 minutes starting with the September 20, 1992, broadcast.[12]
Occasionally, a final segment called "The Meet the Press Minute" airs. It is devoted to topical clips from the show's extensive archives.
Meet the Press originates on NBC in the United States, with additional telecasts on various other NBCUniversal channels, including MSNBC in the United States and Canada, CNBC Europe in Europe and CNBC Asia in Asia. It is also broadcast in Australia on the Seven Network and in the Philippines on 9TV.
Meet the Press is also available as an audio or video podcast,[13] and is simulcast on radio stations by Westwood One (which also handles distribution of all other NBC-produced radio programming, including NBC News Radio).[14]
The following is the list of moderators for Meet the Press:[1]
Martha Rountree | 1947–1953 |
Ned Brooks | 1953–1965 |
Lawrence E. Spivak | 1966–1975 |
Bill Monroe | 1975–1984 |
Roger Mudd and Marvin Kalb (co-moderators) |
1984–1985 |
Marvin Kalb | 1985–1987 |
Chris Wallace | 1987–1988 |
Garrick Utley | 1989–1991 |
Tim Russert | 1991–2008 |
Tom Brokaw | 2008 |
David Gregory | 2008–2014 |
Chuck Todd | 2014–present |
Meet the Press began on radio in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press,[15] a program to promote The American Mercury, a magazine that Lawrence E. Spivak had purchased in 1939. Before the program aired, Spivak asked journalist Martha Rountree, who had worked in radio and had worked for Spivak as a roving editor for the magazine, to critique the plans for the new radio show. Based on her advice, Rountree created a new radio program that she called The American Mercury, on October 5, 1945.[2]
On November 6, 1947, while still on the Mutual Broadcasting System, the show was subsequently reincarnated on the NBC television network and the title shortened to simply Meet the Press. The radio version also adopted the new name. Although some sources credit Spivak with the program's creation,[1][16] Rountree developed the idea on her own, and Spivak joined as co-producer and business partner in the enterprise after the show had already debuted.[2]
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Meet the Press was originally presented as a 30-minute press conference with a single guest and a panel of questioners. Its first guest was James Farley, who served as Postmaster General, Democratic National Committee chairman and campaign manager to Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the first two terms of the New Deal Administration. Its first host was its creator Martha Rountree, the program's only female moderator to date.[2] She stepped down on November 1, 1953, and was succeeded by Ned Brooks, who remained as moderator until his retirement on December 26, 1965.[2] Spivak became the moderator on January 1, 1966, moving up from his role as a permanent panelist. He retired on November 9, 1975, on a special one-hour edition that featured, for the first time, a sitting president, (Gerald Ford), as guest. The next week, Bill Monroe, previously a weekly panelist like Spivak had been years before, took over as moderator and stayed until June 2, 1984.
For the next seven and a half years, the program then went through a series of hosts as it struggled in the ratings against ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Roger Mudd and Marvin Kalb (as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed by Chris Wallace (who would later to go on to a much longer run as host of the rival program Fox News Sunday) from 1987 to 1988. Garrick Utley, then hosting Weekend Today, concurrently hosted Meet the Press from 1989 through December 1, 1991. All this occurred despite the increasing ratings of NBC News' other programs (and those of the network generally) during that period.
Under Russert[edit]
Network officials, concerned for the show's future, turned to Tim Russert, the network's Washington, D.C., bureau chief. He took over on December 8, 1991, and remained until his death on June 13, 2008, serving as moderator longer than anyone else in the program's history.[17]
Under Russert, the show was expanded to one hour and became less of a televised press conference and more focused on Russert's questions and comments, with longer interviews and with Russert hosting panels of experts. Russert signed off by saying, "That's all for today. We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press." Host David Gregory also used that sign-off.
During the football season, Russert, a native of Buffalo, New York and an avid Buffalo Bills fan,[18][19] sometimes added, "Go Bills!", and occasionally would ask panelists, "How 'bout those Sabres?" if the Buffalo NHL hockey team was doing well. Spoofs of the show on Saturday Night Live often reflect this addition.
Russert died on June 13, 2008, of a sudden coronary thrombosis (caused by a cholesterol plaque rupture).[20] Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw hosted a special edition of Meet the Press dedicated to the life of Russert on June 15, 2008, in which Russert's chair was left empty as a tribute.[21]
Guest moderators[edit]
- Andrea Mitchell (August 15, 2004)[22]
After Russert[edit]
Mark Whitaker was named the Washington D.C. Bureau Chief and was given "executive oversight" of Meet the Press.
Interim Brokaw era[edit]
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams acted as moderator of the first show following the June 15 tribute to Russert, with the same guests and subject matter that Russert was planning for when he died.[23]
Following Russert's death, Tom Brokaw was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections.[24] Brokaw followed Russert's tradition by signing off with "We'll be back next Sunday because if it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press." In September of that year, the show was presented with limited commercials.
On August 10, David Gregory moderated the panel discussion during the second half-hour of the broadcast while Brokaw anchored the first half-hour from the Olympics in Beijing. The next week on August 17, he moderated the entire show. It was also reported on December 1, 2008, that the December 7 broadcast would be Brokaw's last, with David Gregory becoming the new permanent host the following Sunday.[25]
Under Gregory[edit]
David Gregory began his tenure as moderator on December 14, 2008. On December 18, 2008, NBC News political director Chuck Todd was named contributing editor of Meet the Press. Under Gregory's tenure as moderator, Meet the Press has significantly declined in ratings since 2008. In the final three months of 2013, the program came in third place for total viewers behind CBS's Face the Nation and ABC's This Week for the first time since 1992 and experienced the lowest ratings in the show's entire history among the key 25-to-54 age viewing demographic.[26]
In response to lower viewership numbers, rumors surfaced in August 2014 that Gregory would be replaced as host. NBC News President Deborah Turness apparently had held discussions with Comedy Central's Jon Stewart to replace Gregory,[27] which Stewart later confirmed in a Rolling Stone interview, saying, "My guess is they were casting as wide and as weird a net as they could. I'm sure part of them was thinking, 'Why don't we just make it a variety show?'"[28]
On August 14, 2014, Turness announced that Chuck Todd, NBC's chief White House correspondent, would take over the role of moderator on September 7, 2014.[10]
High-definition broadcasting[edit]
The set utilized from March 17, 1996 to April 25, 2010[29] had been designed as an experimental set for high-definition broadcasting and several editions of the series (including the first broadcast of a regular series on a major television network in HD) had aired in the format in the 1990s over experimental HD station WHD-TV in Washington.[30] Despite this, the show remained in 480i standard definition television over the NBC network itself. On May 2, 2010 the show became the last NBC News program to convert to HD, and unveiled a new set consisting of large video screens mostly used to display Washington scenery, satellite interview subjects and moderator and subject talking points, along with graphics made for the format.[31]
Locations (outside of D.C. studios)[edit]
- July 17, 1988: Atlanta, Georgia—1988 Democratic National Convention[32]
- August 14, 1988: New Orleans, Louisiana—1988 Republican National Convention
- December 3, 1989: Malta—Malta Summit
- July 16, 1989: Paris, France—G7
- September 9, 1990: Helsinki, Finland—Helsinki summit
- July 12, 1992: New York, New York—1992 Democratic National Convention
- August 16, 1992: 1992 Republican National Convention
- April 4, 1993: Vancouver, Canada—Clinton-Yeltsin summit
- January 30, 1994: Atlanta, Georgia—Super Bowl, Buffalo Bills went for and lost their fourth straight game; Russert publicly prayed on-air with his father[33]
- September 16, 2001: Camp David—interview with then–Vice President Dick Cheney in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks
- January 18, 2004: Des Moines, Iowa—24 hours before the Iowa caucuses[34]
- January 25, 2004: Bedford, New Hampshire—48 hours before the New Hampshire primary[35]
- February 1, 2004: Milwaukee, Wisconsin—interview with Howard Dean[36]
- February 8, 2004: Oval Office—interview with then-President George W. Bush[37]
- July 25, 2004: Boston, Massachusetts—2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama made an appearance on the show as he was going to give the keynote address[38]
- August 29, 2004: New York, New York—2004 Republican National Convention[39]
- October 31, 2004: New York, New York—two days before the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election[40]
- October 8, 2007: Des Moines, Iowa—interview with John Edwards[41]
- November 11, 2007: Des Moines, Iowa—interview with Barack Obama[42]
- December 30, 2007: Des Moines, Iowa—interview with Mike Huckabee, two days before the 2008 Iowa caucuses[43]
- January 6, 2008: Bedford, New Hampshire—two days before the New Hampshire primaries
- January 13, 2008: South Carolina—interview with Hillary Clinton during her presidential campaign[44]
- January 20, 2008: New York, New York—roundtable discussion[45]
- January 27, 2008: Tampa, Florida[46]
- June 29, 2008: Jackson Hole, Wyoming—Western Governors' Association annual meeting[47] and Simi Valley, California (Reagan Library)[48]
- July 27, 2008: London, England—Barack Obama's overseas trip[49]
- August 10, 2008: Beijing, China—2008 Beijing Olympics[50]
- August 24, 2008: Denver, Colorado—2008 Democratic National Convention[51]
- August 31, 2008: Saint Paul, Minnesota—2008 Republican National Convention[52]
- September 7, 2008: Wilmington, Delaware—Senator Joe Biden appears on the show
- October 26, 2008: Waterloo, Iowa—John McCain's campaign stop[53]
- December 7, 2008: Chicago, Illinois—Barack Obama's appearance on the show; while the show was taped in Chicago, Brokaw introduced and ended the show in D.C.[54]
- June 14, 2009: Wilmington, Delaware—Vice President Joe Biden appears on the show
- August 29, 2010: New Orleans, Louisiana—special broadcast five years after Hurricane Katrina, moderated by Brian Williams
- January 1, 2012: Des Moines, Iowa—interview with Rick Santorum, two days before the 2012 Iowa caucuses[55]
- January 8, 2012: Bedford, New Hampshire—two days before the New Hampshire primaries
- November 2, 2014: New York, New York - two days before midterm elections
Notable guests and events[edit]
The following is a partial list of notable guests and milestones for the show.[1]
- First guest: James A. Farley, the former Postmaster General of the United States and former Democratic National Committee Chair.
- First female guest: Elizabeth Bentley, a courier for a Communist spy ring, on September 12, 1948.
- Every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy has appeared on Meet the Press, although not necessarily during his presidency. Jimmy Carter used his appearance on January 20, 1980, to announce the United States' boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Ronald Reagan appeared seven times before being elected president, but did not appear during his presidency. Bill Clinton was the guest for the 50th anniversary broadcast on November 9, 1997. The February 8, 2004, interview with George W. Bush was conducted in the Oval Office at the White House. The December 7, 2008, interview was with then President-elect Barack Obama.
- The first live communications satellite television interview occurred on Meet the Press on September 19, 1965, with the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
See also[edit]
References and footnotes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e 60th anniversary background information from msnbc.com
- ^ a b c d e Martha Rountree: Radio/Television Producer, Writer, Host from shemadeit.org, a Paley Center for Media website
- ^ a b c d About Meet the Press
- ^ The Sounds of War, an April 2003 article from Slate
- ^ "Meet the Press: Cast & Details". TV Guide. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- ^ "About Meet The Press". Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- ^ Meet the Press: U.S. Public Affairs/Interview/ Museum of Broadcast Communications[dead link]
- ^ Tim Russert hits ratings milestone - USATODAY.com
- ^ Atkinson, Claire (21 December 2013). "C staff irked as NBC News eyes cuts". New York Post. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Chuck Todd Takes Helm of 'Meet the Press'". NBC News. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
- ^ Mike Allen (2 December 2008). "Gregory to host 'Meet the Press'". Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- ^ David Paul Kuhn (2008-06-13). "Memorable Tim Russert moments". Politico. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
- ^ Free audio and video downloaded to your PC or portable player from msnbc.com
- ^ Meet the Press from Dial Global
- ^ "60 Years Ago in News History: America Meets the Press". Newseum. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007.
- ^ Meet the Press: U.S. Public Affairs/Interview from the Museum of Broadcast Communications
- ^ Fast facts about the longest-running program in TV history - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
- ^ "In the Hot Seat". The Washington Post. May 23, 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Tim Russert's Commencement Address - CUA Office of Public Affairs
- ^ Lawrence, Jill (June 14, 2008). "NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58". USA Today. Retrieved December 14, 2008.
- ^ "NBC remembers Russert on first 'Meet the Press' since his death". CNN.com/US. June 15, 2008. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Transcript for August 15 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ June 22: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
- ^ "NBC's Tom Brokaw to moderate 'Meet the Press' through election". Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ Gregory to host 'Meet the Press' - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
- ^ "NBC's 'Meet The Press' hits historic lows in the final quarter of 2013". Politico.Com. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
- ^ Sherman, Gabriel (October 8, 2014). "NBC Wanted to Hire Jon Stewart to Host Meet the Press". New York Magazine Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Greene, Andy (October 30, 2014). "Jon Stewart on 'Meet The Press' Offer: 'They Were Casting a Wide and Weird Net'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Meet the Press reflects on set change - Video on". Nbcnews.com. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
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- ^ Sunday, May 2: 'Meet the Press' to broadcast in HD, debut a new set - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ "THE DEMOCRATS IN ATLANTA; Today's Schedule". The New York Times. 17 July 1988. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
- ^ http://www.livingprimetime.com/tr2.htm. Missing or empty
(help) - ^ January 18, 2004 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ January 25, 2004 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ February 1, 2004 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ February 8, 2004 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Transcript for July 25 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Transcript for August 29 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Transcript for October 31 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ MTP transcript for Oct. 7, 2007 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ MTP transcript for Nov. 11, 2007 - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Dec. 30: Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama — Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Jan. 13: Hillary Clinton - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Jan. 20: Political roundtable - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Jan. 27: John McCain, political roundtable - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ June 29: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D-WY), Gov. Bill Ritter (D-CO), Chuck Todd - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ June 29: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D-WY), Gov. Bill Ritter (D-CO), Chuck Todd - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ July 27: Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Aug. 10: Henry Paulson, political roundtable - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Aug. 24: Caroline Kennedy, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), political roundtable - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ Aug. 31: Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), political roundtable - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ BEHIND THE SCENES: KWWL will host "Meet the Press" this Sunday - KWWL.com - News & Weather for Waterloo, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City, Iowa |
- ^ Dec. 7: President-elect Barack Obama - Meet the Press - msnbc.com
- ^ "NBCNews.com Video Player". MSNBC. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
External links[edit]
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- Booknotes interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press: 50 Years of History in the Making, December 7, 1997.
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Correction: There were two reasons—his sense of the moment and his talent, which allows him to execute shots that lesser players wouldn't try. With the strength he developed in thousands of hours in the weight room, Woods powered his four-iron through the rough, drilling his ball under the branches. The shot then rose, cleared the greenside bunker and landed like a butterfly, checking up on a slippery downslope fifteen feet past the cup. "No other player on the face of the earth is capable of that," said David Feherty on CBS. "Now I've got to have grandchildren, so I can tell them about that shot."
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The shot ignited the biggest comeback of his career. He nearly eagled the next hole as well—his approach at sixteen bit the green an inch short of the hole and stopped two feet past for a gimme birdie. After tapping in at eighteen for a two-shot win over Gogel and Vijay Singh, Woods had won six straight Tour events, the most since Hogan's six-win streak in 1948.
At a press conference that evening, a reporter asked Gogel if he thought Tiger had been destined to win. "I don't know about destiny," Gogel said. "He's just damned good." Woods, reflecting on his comeback and the eagle that triggered it, said, "This ranks right up there."
Final round, 2000 PGA Championship, Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky
He had won the 2000 U.S. and British Opens by a mile, begging the perennial question: Who can step up and challenge Tiger?The unlikely answer was Bob May, a journeyman pro with no discernible abs and no PGA Tour titles to his credit. But the contenders were hardly strangers. May, seven years older, had ruled junior golf in Southern California fifteen years earlier, when Tiger was merely a gifted cub. Now Woods was golf's dominant figure, while May was the nobody, expected to fold. He did the opposite, taking a final-round lead at the second hole and shooting sixty-six that Sunday—with a putt at eighteen that proved he had a champion's heart.
The two were tied as they played the 542-yard par-five final hole. But Woods had the upper hand: May had missed a short putt three holes earlier, then watched Tiger crush a 335-yard drive at seventeen and birdie the hole to catch him. At eighteen, May's putt was eighteen feet; Woods's was six. But May curled in his double-breaking snake, which dripped into the cup on its last revolution. Now, instead of putting to win, Woods faced a cruelly delicate downhill six-footer to stay alive. This was true sudden death: one excruciating putt to force a play-off. He started it rolling, then watched it, willing the ball toward the cup . . . and let out a yell as it caught the left edge and fell in.
What was he thinking?"That this is one of the greatest duels ever," Tiger said after beating May in a three-hole play-off to win his third major of the year. On the first play-off hole he sank a twenty-five-footer for birdie, running after it and pointing at the cup. Newspapers would call that shot the key to his triumph, but the pressure there was far less than on the do-or-die six-footer that made the play-off happen.
"Hats off to Bob," said Woods when it was over. "He played his heart out." So did the winner.
Third round, 1997 Phoenix Open, TPC of Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona
Woods was still a "twenty-one-year-old sensation," the '96 Rookie of the Year, and he wouldn't even win the tournament, but what happened on the craziest hole of the Tour's most raucous tournament showed his star power. A beery throng of 25,000 surrounded the 155-yard sixteenth that Saturday, thirsty for Tiger's appearance on the tee. The scene was so wild that Woods told his then caddie, Fluff Cowan, that he was tempted to jog to the tee like a football star, running through a tunnel of high-fiving fans. For an instant the frat party hushed as Tiger swung his nine-iron. The ball hopped twice and found the hole. An ace!
It was said that the crowd's sonic boom could be heard in downtown Phoenix. "I didn't know who it was," said eventual winner Steve Jones, "but I knew it was something big." Omar Uresti, Woods's playing partner, called it the loudest sound that he'd ever heard. Tiger danced and fist-pumped in a blizzard of beer cups.
"People were going crazy," he said. "It was ridiculous how loud it was." The moment demonstrated the young Tiger's rock-star allure, setting off the biggest noise in golf history.
Final round, 1997 Grand Slam of Golf, Poipu Bay Golf Course, Kauai, Hawaii
Woods trailed Ernie Els by three in the final round of the season-ending Slam when he hit his second shot into a greenside bunker at the 501-yard par-four sixteenth. The ball found an almost comically bad lie: buried in wet sand on a sharp downslope. "I was a dead man," he wrote in How I Play Golf. "Or was I?" Knowing that bogey would kill his chances altogether, Woods spotted a steep, grassy embankment near the bunker. If he could get the ball there, it might pop straight up, then release onto the green: "It was a 100-1 shot, but I had to try it. I didn't swing the club back so much as lift it straight in the air, then brought it down into the sand as though I were swinging an ax." On the downswing, he shut his eyes.


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We've had some drama... X asked me when I wanted DD back and I asked for a week buffer before school starts and for her to fly into a specific airport. Well, he "couldn't" find a plane ticket until Saturday night, and apparently no planes fly from his state to LAX. LOL. So I'll have one day with her before school on Monday. (and he paid over $800 for a one way ticket). Boo.
That, the helmet-less riding, the lack of tutor (that he's promised for the last two years), as well as a few other things... well, let's just say I was less than pleased with him this summer. But... he's taking her school shopping, he had her working with him (which is a lot of metric math and reading) and paid her for her work, and he said she's "ready to come home". So I've readjusted my irritation and am counting down the days. I could not be more excited. |
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- Posted by parent_of_one (My Page) on Wed, Aug 17, 11 at 14:13
sounds like my ex, not doing things in a right time frame, normally people buy tickets ahead of time, but that's what "normal" people do LOL |
- Posted by ashley1979 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 17, 11 at 17:46
Oh, Silver, that's what most people call passive-agressive. LOL! BM does stuff like that all the time. If she is FORCED to do something she doesn't want to do, she tweeks it just a little so she still feels in control. For instance, BM did not want to send SD for a beach vacation until DH spilled the beans (before we were even officially engaged) that we were getting married on that vacation. So in order to have some sort of say-so over a situation she has no say-so over, she drags her feet buying the plane ticket then comes up with some activity SD HAS to do the day after the wedding so SD flies home at 6am the morning after our wedding. Only got to be with us for 3-1/2 days of a 6-day vacation. DH does the passive-agressive thing, too. If he doesn't want hto commit to something, he'll keep putting it off until either something comes up that gets him out of it or it's too expensive to do. Then he'll complain about how much it cost until I let him out of it. Once when SD was like 9, my friends wanted to go out for New Years Eve. He didn't want to go, but didn't tell me that. I knew BM wanted SD with her so he really had no excuse. Then, after plans were made and I was almost ready to go, he saunters in and says he has to pick up SD because he promised BM he would have her. Well, after TONS of fighting and crying, it comes out that he actually asked to have SD that night just so he wouldn't have to go out with us. Nice, huh? LOL! I've learned to spot this crap from a mile away. Oh, and Silver, the ultra-expensive plane ticket is a pretty good way to get you to leave him alone about the other stuff. JMO. |
- Posted by silversword (My Page) on Thu, Aug 18, 11 at 12:15
Hmmmm. I didn't even consider the passive aggressive aspect. Good thing he's responsible for the cost of the ticket. He admitted he messed up and should have gotten it a lot earlier (or at least started looking) than 6 days before travel. He lives in a very rural area so it can be difficult to get tickets out if you don't plan ahead. But EVERYONE flies into LAX... so... it's not like I asked him to fly her into the rural airport where I live. "tweaks it so she feels in control" That's it in a nutshell. |
- Posted by momof3_stepof1 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 18, 11 at 13:15
What was the point in asking you when you wanted her home if he wasn't going to abide by that anyway? Geesh... should've just told you when she was coming. We got my ss back the Saturday before school started on Tuesday. So it wasn't much time to get him back on schedule either. Oh well. Is LAX LA? Cause that's just odd he couldn't find one then. Does he have to pay for all the air fare for her to visit him? |
- Posted by silversword (My Page) on Fri, Aug 19, 11 at 9:41
LOL, who knows what his point was? Like Myfam said, it's passive aggressive. LAX is LA, and yes, it's pretty odd that he couldn't find more than one flight coming in. Even puddle jumpers eventually get a person there. Yes, he pays airfare, most of the time. I have paid on occasion, but that was my choice. |
Is she home yet is she home yet is she home yet is she home yet???!! |
Welcome home Little Silver. Hope she had a good flight. SS and SGS were here this weekend on the way to taking SGS home from his summer with Dad. While they had a great summer, SGS was so anxious to get home to his BM and get back into school, see his school friends and get back into the school year routine. |
- Posted by silversword (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 13:07
WAHOO!!! She's home :) She had a great flight, she gained 5lbs and at least an inch and has new school clothes and backpack and shoes. She started 4th grade today, AMAZING how time flies. |
- Posted by lovehadley (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 17:21
Welcome home to your sweet girl! Hope her first day of school was great! |
So glad she's home. Isn't it amazing how they can grow so fast over a summer? Yay for 4th grade! Hope she had a fabulous day!! |
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Lillington Library is throwing its doors open to local people following its recent transformation into the latest Warwickshire Direct 'one stop shop'.
To mark the completion of works, locals are invited to join staff at the special launch event on Thursday 26th March.
'Warwickshire Direct – Lillington' is an exciting joint venture between Warwickshire County Council and Warwick District Council designed to make council services more accessible to local people. It follows the success of other 'Warwickshire Direct' one stop shops around the district in Kenilworth, Whitnash and Warwick.
Residents are now not only able to borrow books and DVDs from the Valley Road centre, but also apply for bus passes and disabled parking badges, report problems on the highways, apply for housing and Council Tax benefits, and much more.
To celebrate the launch, local residents are invited to 'Warwickshire Direct – Lillington' between 11am and 1pm on Thursday 26th March to meet the team of friendly customer service advisors and find out more about the services available; including recycling, benefits advice and PHILLIS - a service which offers information on support services available for older people. Plus visitors can enjoy refreshments and pick up a free goody bag at the same time!
Councillor Heather Timms, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Services at Warwickshire County Council said: "Our partnership working with other district and borough councils to provide 'Warwickshire Direct' one stop shops in towns around the county has been a huge success. I am delighted that residents in Lillington will now also reap the benefits of having a single point of contact for local services on their doorstep.
"The aim is to bring a range of services, including county council services, closer to people in Lillington and I am sure that the new 'Warwickshire Direct' one stop shop will achieve that. It will be a fantastic facility for local residents."
Councillor Les Caborn, Portfolio Holder for Customer & Business at Warwick District Council said: "Our aim is to bring a range of services, including county and district council services, closer to people in Lillington and I am sure that the 'Warwickshire Direct-Lillington' will achieve that. This will be a fantastic facility for local residents who will no longer have to worry about which council delivers which service."
'Warwickshire Direct – Lillington' is open:
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P: Chocolate comes on pretty strong - nutella like. But the peat is obviously still there, it's just more subtle than other Laphroaigs.
F: Has a peaty/phenol kick that I really like.
Really good. One of my favorites in the Laph lineup.
n: Hint of lemon and cinnammon.
p: Lively. Grapefruit and earth. Actually a lot of earth. Dagobah in a glass. Drink it, I must.
P: Thin and astringent. Stale watered down lemon tea. Poor representation of Laphroaig peatiness.
F: Short finish that's salty and a bit spicy.
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Breakfast Topic: Do you miss any of the old content? {WoW}
Jun 19th 2011 9:15AM Yes... Battle for Undercity is one of the things I miss the most.
The thing about Wrath (and BC) content is that we are currently asked to think outside the current storyline - we're seeing events as they happened in the past. Garrosh is in Nagrand in Outland as a whiny little thing, not the Warchief currently reigning over the Horde. And the same in Borean Tundra, Garrosh is there leading the Horde armies. Arthas is very much alive and reigning as the Lich KIng. These are all images of the past, along with all the quests and content still in Outland and Northrend. I would think that by asking us to suspend our ideas of linear timelines as we level, Blizzard could have left the battle for Undercity in the game with the understanding that it's yet another glimpse into past events.
The Queue: Panda ... nope, not going to do it {WoW}
Jun 6th 2011 11:19AM I've often heard that one obstacle of implementing naga as a playable race is figuring out gear models. However, if you check out the naga in Cataclysm, especially in Vashj'ir during the attunement quests, you'll see naga sporting many different gear types, often resembling some of our BoA gear models. Naturally, boots and legplate would have to be completely redesigned for naga, or just don't visibly show those models at all, as they do with several races boots already.
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Saturday, 23 March, 2013 - 10:00 to 17:00
Celebrate National Science & Engineering Week at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, the museum of Norfolk Life, where we'll be steaming up our coal fired Garrett boiler and running stationary engines throughout the day. Come and meet Gressenhall's own engineers - the Steam Up team.
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www.rurdev.usda.gov, Aug 05, 2010 -- DUNN, N.C., Aug. 5, 2010 – Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today highlighted job creation efforts through USDA's strategic investments in rural America. Merrigan met with local North Carolina business leaders to discuss economic opportunities and job creation at the Dunn Area Committee of 100, Inc., a recent recipient of a USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG).
"These grants are part of the Obama administration's ongoing effort to create wealth and job opportunities by ensuring that strategic investments are made in rural America," said Merrigan. "Small businesses drive community revitalization by providing products and services to local residents. Projects like this spur important economic development and strengthen communities across the nation."
The RBEG program helps finance new and existing businesses as well as employment-related adult education programs. The Dunn Area Committee of 100, Inc. received a $150,000 RBEG to establish a revolving loan fund in Harnett County and Montgomery County. The Dunn Area Committee of 100, Inc. estimates that the investment will create 10 jobs and retain 45 jobs in the local area.
RBEG funds can be used for start-up and working capital loans, building and plant renovations, transportation improvements, project planning and other business needs. Additional information on the RBEG program may be found at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/busp/rbeg.htm.
USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, administers and manages more than 40 housing, business and community infrastructure and facility programs through a national network of 6,100 employees located in 500 state and local offices. These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America. Rural Development has an existing portfolio of more than $142 billion in loans and loan guarantees.
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All right, I admit it: Upon hearing, almost instantaneously, the news that Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili had died during an Olympics-training accident last week in Vancouver, I went straight to YouTube looking for footage. When I was stonewalled (the video provider pulled down replays by the dozens, almost as fast as they went up), I hit the news wires in search of photos. Eventually I found both, sating my all-too-increasingly-normal curiosity about the last moments of a stranger's life.
Sick? Maybe. Sicker still: You and millions like us were pursuing this exact same thing...
Of course the media most proactively The Huffington Post, the world leader in equal-opportunity prurience from where that horrific video came, naturally did what it thought it had to do to make sure all our needs were met. This will no doubt continue throughout the Winter Olympics, where replays of skiing tumbles, figure-skating wipeouts, and other violent, ruinous crises will be replayed as frequently as medal ceremonies, if not more so. And all of those images will join the ones coming out of Haiti, Iraq, and Afghanistan or anywhere else viewers might seek the state-of-the-art in real-life horror. If there were a Disaster Channel, the ratings would skyrocket.
Except there is a Disaster Channel many of them, in fact, from CNN to MSNBC to every other mainstream news outlet subsisting on a steady diet of destruction. Not that the phenomenon is especially new "If it bleeds, it leads" is a hoary news cliché for a reason, and it's probably the reason CNN and MSNBC (and their Web sites) continue to exist. But now more than ever, more than after 9/11, America loves a good cataclysm. Hell, everyone loves a good cataclysm, because we're finally desensitized enough to the drama of woe as to require the real thing, and right away.
It's natural to be defensive about this, or to argue there is no such thing as a "good cataclysm." To the extent that such events cost one or one million lives, I guess that's accurate both on paper and in the hearts of those left behind. It's also protesting too much a lot of increasingly absurd grandstanding in the face of contrary conventional wisdom. Face it: The drama and spectacle of catastrophe is no longer the lone domain of Hollywood, which released no fewer than four apocalypse-themed films in the last six months (the biggest of which, 2012, earned a global box-office take of $769 million). News media who've long capitalized on despair and dystopia have struck their own collusive bargain with the mass-cultural mood. The result is a specific, never-ending narrative of how individuals grapple with fear, panic, paranoia, and death mostly by watching these dynamics played out on anybody but themselves.
And hopefully anywhere but here. After all, the only thing more viscerally affecting than watching a tsunami swallow Indonesia or an earthquake level Haiti is America's moral imperative toward tending to each also known, in modern English, as "guilt." The obvious entertainment subculture around the aftermath of disasters is as much a nervous reaction as it is altruistic, one acknowledging our unique position as both the foremost consumers and redeemers of cataclysm. Witness:
It's not just Paul Haggis and Lionel Richie or George Clooney and Wyclef: We're all striving to prolong the stories of suffering as if there were any end in sight besides our own attention spans. And in doing so, we've embraced the appeal of an exotic, ruined culture made knowable by satellite feeds, cell-phone video, and "dramatic new pictures from Port-au-Prince," or whatever Wolf Blitzer is calling them these days.
Not that he nor Anderson Cooper nor Brian Williams nor Katie Couric nor scores of more pedestrian local-news anchors are especially wrong. "Dramatic" is the primary criterion of Disaster Channel news judgment. (It seems redundant to even mention, as though we'd expect banal new pictures.) And domestically speaking, whether you want to admit it, this quality accounts for much of why tragedies like Virginia Tech, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 commanded the imagination the way they did. Beyond the appalling casualty rates and the latter's geopolitical implications, the events made stunning mini-dramas in one nation's long, fraught historical narrative. Moreover, they yielded the equivalent of snuff movies authentic horrors on which filmed news has thrived since at least the Hindenburg explosion and which culture demands as a shared reminder that history actually occurred.
Yet the Internet has irrevocably complicated that relationship, availing the extreme record to anybody with a computer. The result is an ethical quandary not unlike the one Tom Junod explored in "The Falling Man" of 9/11 only now the viral appeal of such devastation carries a whole other, complementary dimension. Footage of Kumaritashvili's doomed run made for a similar phenomenon up in Vancouver, taking hold on the Web as a sort of sideshow to NBC's opening-ceremony parade. Still, eerie as it felt at the time, tracking down the video amounted to much more than a macabre lark it was the true motor of a reinvented 21st-century news cycle humming into action. And as a counterpoint to the Georgian team's entrance, its viewing anchored the somber pageantry with the kind of world-uniting gravitas you don't get from any freakin' torch.
It should go without saying that no one should have to die or be injured or washed away or left homeless for American culture to achieve such perspective, which requires constant stimulation through even more carnage. Which then, of course, provokes more mainstream bloviating about how used to the violence we've all become. But I'd rather we were a nation of rubberneckers than one of hypocrites. Protests against the Disaster Channel and other misery speculators on moral grounds are the epitome of denial; even in Washington, where at least the high-profile bloodshed is metaphorical, no one can look away as gridlock, class warfare, and spinelessness turns a once-hopeful president into political roadkill. And anyway, as vicious, deadly fighting resumes in Afghanistan, playing and replaying Olympics woe is the equivalent of the bright side for ruin-starved news networks. You can choose not to watch, and you can choose to participate, but you can't choose not to admit the news will get worse before it gets better. I, for one, can't wait.
S.T. VanAirsdale is a senior editor at Movieline.com. His film criticism and industry analysis have appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, the Huffington Post, Defamer, and The Reeler, which he founded.
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Downplaying the need for the government to ensure that every person has health insurance, Mitt Romney on Sunday suggested that emergency room care suffices as a substitute for the uninsured.
"Well, we do provide care for people who don't have insurance," he said in an interview with Scott Pelley of CBS's "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday night. "If someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care."
This constitutes a dramatic reversal in position for Romney, who passed a universal health care law in Massachusetts, in part, to eliminate the costs incurred when the uninsured show up in emergency rooms for care. Indeed, in both his book and in high-profile interviews during the campaign, Romney has touted his achievement in stamping out these inefficiencies while arguing that the same thing should be done at the national level.
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TAKE THAT: A few weeks ago New York Times executive editor Bill Keller wrote a column that lashed out at Arianna Huffington, calling her the "queen of aggregation." "I can't decide whether serious journalism is the kind of thing that lures an audience to a site like The Huffington Post, or if that's like hiring a top chef to fancy up the menu at Hooters," said Keller, adding a little more fire power regarding AOL's purchase of the site. "Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter."
Huffington struck back on Monday by poaching yet another Times journalist, the third in six months to leave the Gray Lady for the glories of the Internet after Tim O'Brien and Peter Goodman jumped ship to HuffPo. WWD learned that T: The New York Times Style Magazine's travel editor Maura Egan will become the Web site's deputy entertainment and culture editor. "It makes it easier to move, jumping into the pool after my colleagues have already done it," Egan said. "It's really almost heartbreaking to leave, but this was an opportunity that I couldn't refuse."
She joins John Montorio, who was recently named culture and entertainment editor for the Huffington Post Media Group. He started on Friday after having been a managing editor at the Los Angeles Times. "A lot of people keep asking me about my grand plan here, but to be honest, it's too early to say," Montorio said.
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2751 was a cigar box for 50 cigars. The rectangle box has top & bottom border of grapes & leaves. There are 3 medallion looking decorations spaced between the 2 borders. Same thing is on the ends. Top of box is plain except for the complete stag standing on it. The "horns" are quite long & without them worth greatly reduced. Price when new was $14. each made in 1890's. Value in 1997 for 1 in perfect condition was $300-$450. Don't know what value it would have after a repair & prices are very different than in 1997 with bad economy now. Hope this helps. Might find it on Internet. 1894 reprint of Pairpoint Co. Catalogue (their spelling) by New Bedford Whaling Museum |
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Y'all. I'm taking a leave of absence. Luff you oodles but damn if I'm not in over my head. We have a few trips coming up and I have a few jobs to finish. I'll be back at the start of October. (Ah, comeon now, that's only two weeks if you think about it. Hell, the good shows haven't even started yet!) If you've registered and haven't been approved, I'll do that when I return as well. I won't be updating fitness posts but you should still see my runs increase on the sidebar.
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[I stood in the isle and started to cry. It had been a long week, a good week, long in the way you hope summer will issue its good-bye and fall will gently take over. It had been full of new friends, new babies, and new houses. It never seemed more like this was our home. The realization wasn't only comforting, it warmed me in small tingles. It was the sudden grasp of the distance, however, that brought the familiar sting of emotion to my eyes. This was now our home and our home was so very far away from where I started...]
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It isn't at the Mom-and-Pop store. Or even the Mom-and-Pop accounting firm.
"Firms with receipts over $50 million accounted for more than 40 percent of pass-through revenues [in 2005]," Donald Marron of the centrist Tax Policy Center told a congressional subcommittee in 2011, citing data from the Joint Committee on Taxation, "and those with receipts over $10 million accounted for almost 60 percent of pass-through revenues."
If the profits that flow from these revenues are taxed at a lower rate or not at all, Gardner said, "sure, there are benefits to actual small businesses, but they're almost incidental."
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So if wealthier business owners are the biggest beneficiaries, will they use their newfound tax savings to create jobs in their states, as the Show-Me Institute and like-minded groups promise?
Not according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The center-left fiscal think tank argued against the Kansas pass-through exemption in March 2012, claiming that "[a] substantial share of the profit exempted from taxation under the proposal is earned by the wealthy owners of large investment funds and other business entities that have no employees." The CBPP authors also noted that new jobs tend to be created by young small companies that aspire to become big—but because businesses typically earn little profit to pass through to their owners at that stage, they would see little benefit from the cut.
It's possible that the statistics on the concentration of revenues among an elite set of pass-through corporations is skewed by financial centers like New York, and that the picture is a bit different in Kansas and Missouri. Private companies aren't required to disclose their tax status, and state-by-state data on pass-through entities is hard to come by.
But these objections do raise the question that reporters need to be asking lawmakers as these unprecedented tax cuts zoom through their legislatures: What is the evidence that the benefits of these untested measures—in jobs created, economic growth, or new opportunities for entrepreneurs—will outweigh the costs, in terms of diminished tax revenues, distortions to business decisions about corporate structure, and in all likelihood a more regressive tax burden?
With the revised bill clearing the legislature this week, it's almost too late to put this question on the news agenda. But Young's article in Thursday's Post-Dispatch, about Senate passage of the measure, is a good start. The story notes up high that the pass-through provision is a "centerpiece" of the bill; farther down, it notes the benefits for well-heeled consultants, and the doubts about how many jobs those benefits might create.
Here's hoping her fellow statehouse reporters will start asking some of the same questions as the measure heads to Nixon's desk.
Author's note: Lest the reader detect any bias here against the beneficiaries of the pass-through tax cut, it may be noted that, in researching this story, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I am one of them. As a Kansas-based "Mom-and-Pop" freelancer—a sole proprietor—I am greatly indebted to Gov. Brownback for his largesse. Whether I will make use of this windfall to join the ranks of the job creators remains uncertain. I will at least have more cash in my pocket to head out to the mall and goose the Kansas economy, although the governor's proposed sales-tax hike extension may give me pause.
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