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LOL. Thanks for the review, although our timing together sucks :P. I don't mind reviews like yours at all, because they weren't telling me what happened. Any review that isn't a "recap" of what was said, I like, no matter the content. Yours had plenty o' content, and t'was nice. The only thing I'd have to say to you is that Lance Storm turned face just after Halloween Havoc, in October... although the turn probably was in the first show of November. He was offered a spot in the nWo, and his face turn coincided with turning down the nWo offer. He's dropped the whole 'Anti-America' gimmick and such, and now is just, uh... a face? :P.
But yeah, our timing sucks. I'll drop you a review on your next show though.
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Szumis NITRO Feedback
Sorry I didnt drop any comments on your last show man, I read over it though, so Im still up with things.
No matter how hard you try to convince me of otherwise, I still hate Schiavone and Tenay, but I feel obliged to read what they have to say just because I enjoy and eagerly anticipate your smartass remarks that you throw in for good measure, such as the That youre a fucktard, Tony comment in the last show. Funny stuff.
I dont know much of Larry Zs persona or character, so thankfully you didnt have too much dialogue for him in this promo. I liked the fact that you didnt have Booker say anything when he first arrived and that he didnt even acknowledge Zbyskos existence, he just signed the contract. I think thats a good way to demonstrate Bookers desire and focus to win the championship. This was a really gutsy promo mate, some of the content was great. You did a really good job at putting over just how personal the feud between these two, the comment about the guaranteed world title shot from Booker really made it hit home. You put over both Jarrett and Bookers characters very well, but I felt Bookers last part of dialogue was really a bitch to read because it had a heap of slang, but thats exactly how Booker sounds anyway so the I guess it was good in terms of realism but all the slang took away from the flow a little bit. The ending wasnt a real shock to me, but I was a little bit surprised to see Booker make the first move as I thought Jarrett was going to explode, particularly after the comment about the World Title. I totally forgot about Larry Z, so the Scoop Slam to Eric made me giggle until Jarrett blasted his head off, cool stuff though, instant heat magnet those actions. None the less, electric opening to the show, the hype for this match has been awesome and it just got even better in my opinion, youre doing a really good job of portraying just how personal and intense this rivalry is as well as just how much the World Title means to both men. I honestly have no idea as to which direction youll head as to wholl win at Starrcade but Im definitely leaning towards Booker because I cant see you renaming the title the nWo World Heavyweight Championship, but I know you like to be a controversial motherfucker, so who knows. Shock me, I say. Im rooting for a Jarrett victory just because I want to see what happens if the nWo go over but some how I think youll throw the strap on to the Book man.
I like that you go into the descriptions of what each man is wearing, it definitely helps create a better visualisation as to whats going on. Its definitely something that not enough people around here do, myself included, I do it sometimes but other times I forget all about it, none the less, good shit. I still dont know who the fuck Mike Sanders is and its annoying me. Lol. Stock standard stuff here with booking the regulation one on one match as hype to a tag team match at the PPV while I like seeing OHaire go over as I feel this feud is simple a filler to further establish the Young Lions team as you seem to be quite high on them. Im intrigued by the fact that this Mike Sanders chap held back Johnny Stamboli thus preventing him from breaking the cover. So this Sanders bloke has the authority to book his own Tag Titles matches at Starrcade too? Interesting. Anyway, I liked his promo albeit short. His arrogance shone through brightly and I liked the way you had him try to get into the heads of the Young Lions, I still dont think theyll win.
Before Tony can make any more of you contemplate suicide, the show cuts to the back.
And there it is, the regulation smartass comment making note of Tonys stupidity. I love it.
Very entertaining stuff with Scott Steiner and the slut. I made me laugh. Particularly the Shut it bitch and service the big bad booty daddy line. Fucking awesome. The mind games on Stings behalf are cool too, definitely a creative way of pissing off Steiner. The Emo bitch call made me laugh too as did the Syringe comments. Good shit Szumi. Im loving this show thus far.
Lance Storm generally comes across quite bland but you did a good job avoiding that here. His dialogue was very good, you kept it interesting and made his passion and drive in particular very evident. The only thing I didnt like about this promo was the fact that I felt it was a little too similar in content to what Mike Sanders had to say as it had the same sort of feel in terms of Storm knowing exactly what Awesome is going to throw at him. This is another match Ill be interested to see pan out. You seem quite high on Lance Storm but I think he could indeed fall victim to the numbers game of the New World Order.
Okay, dont know who The Wall is. I dont think your bagging of certain talent will ever grow old. Please continue with it. You were right, extremely random tag match and its only here to get the Cruiserweight Title match some hype and to have it noticed. Helms leaving the match was another nice way to build him and get him over even more as a heel while Crazy picks up the win over The Wall, keeping some solid momentum for him too. Lol @ the Sugar Babies being loose. The promo afterward was nice too, Helms was spot on for mine. Youre really getting him over as a heel very nicely. Super Crazy was awesome man, I was about to say his first line cracked me up, but the whole thing cracked me up, right down to the stuff with Tenay and Schiavone after it. Crazy was great, you wrote his character very well although I have absolutely no doubt that Shane Helms will go over at Starrcade.
Mike Tenay:
What a shocker that is, Tony!
Tony Schiavone:
I know, Professor! Super Crazy can speak English!
Mike Tenay:
Yeah, me too, Tenay.
Funny shit, your sarcasm and wit will never grow dry.
Steiner bashes a stagehand and then bashes a cardboard cut-out of Sting? Odd. It seems Steiner is pissed off.
Big match next week, thatll go a fair way to determining as to who will go over at Starrcade imo.
Steiner is pissed. Alex Wright is dead. Ahahaha. Ohh. Im loving Steiner tonight. His reaction when the lights went out was priceless, his character did feel a little generic but I still felt the promo was very good. Once the Stinger got involved, the promo picked up even more to be honest. Stings character was brilliant. The mind games hes playing are better than anything Ive seen anyone in BTB produce with Sting or so called Master of the Mind Games The Undertaker. I liked how Sting alluded to the fact that once Starrcade is done, he and Steiner will head their separate ways. This match is another one thats very hard to predict. The build and the booking for all your feuds thus far have been great, and its certainly tops that the outcome of your matches are hard to predict. Im a little bit lost though, I thought Sting was done with WCW for the short term? Anyway, the baseball bat shot makes this even more personal and it builds up the rivalry more so while the bat shattering over Steiner is lame and gay, it definitely puts over his strength well. Great segment.
Wow. Flair wins clean, I thought for sure wed see some sort of interference from the New World Order here but not to be. Its definitely good for Flair as he builds a little momentum heading into Starrcade.
Huge promo to end things with an absolutely mammoth announcement. Flair was brilliant. His character was spot on, the same can easily be said about Hogan and Nash but for me, Flairs part was easily the best. This promo had everything passion, intensity, humour. Like the first promo this one almost broke the barriers of kayfabe at certain points, I like that you do that but I think itd grow a bit dry if you do it regularly. The references to the WWE/Vince about Hogans safe haven were interesting and I think its definitely something we wouldve seen in that era because its a way of WCW suggesting that the WWF wouldve taken talent that they no longer had any use for. The stipulation for the triple threat is huge, I have absolutely no idea wholl win again and I think thats great. It certainly has me asking plenty of questions, as do most of your feuds. I liked the fact that this one didnt end with a brawl instead a simple stare down. Great promo again, all the characters were spot on and you did a great job of creating an easy visual of what was going on.
Overall mate, this was a great show. The build towards Starrcade is going fucking brilliantly to be honest with you. None of the matches were overly gripping or enthralling but it was definitely your booking skills that shone through here and they and the promos were of a very high standard. Literally EVERY segment served its purpose in hyping the PPV and when thats the case your booking obviously shines through brilliantly. Well done man, this thread is quickly becoming my favourite simply because of its originality and your dare to be different. The match banners are awesome too btw, great job Crazian.
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Wow... that was a damn nice/good/awesome piece of feedback, Para. Spanks dude.
Larry Zbyszko really doesn't have much of a character at this point. He's a WCW staff member, and will sort of be an on-screen guy for WCW board of directors (the always off-screen, faus pax owners of WCW). He's a WCW loyalist, and erm, The Living Legend
. Not a whole lot to say, really.
Mike Sanders was a Power Plant graduate, and is a former WCW Commissioner and Cruiserweight Champion, although as the latter, he sucked. I'm not fond of him as a wrestler, but he was a solid mouthpiece me thinks. Also, it wasn't Sanders making the match himself, more was him announcing that the match had already been made by the board of directors (at Sanders' request/challenge, of course). It flows better just having Sanders announce the match then going through the whole explanation. Although, speaking of Sanders, you bring up a good point with the Lance Storm promo. In general, some sort of promo in terms of they know their opponents very well; I probably should've seperated the two promos further out in the show. Good catch. Also, here:
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Some of the stuff I book/write, I don't really want to. Tony Schiavone on commentary (and commentary in general) is not my favorite thing to write, so I make it much more fun and easy by adding in the wit. Same with just writing shows, period. Sometimes I'd rather do something else, but I want to get the show done, so I throw in a line or two so I can get a good chuckle. I'm glad to see that it is liked so well.
The Wall is pretty much your generic big man. He got onto WCW TV because Nash noticed him, but there's nothing special about him. Green in the ring, and not very over. He improved in 2002 once TNA came around, but nothing special at this point. He got really out of shape by WCW's end as well; he had a bad drug habit, and it was a big cause for his death.
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To be honest, I didn't like writing Sting until I wrote the promo for him at Mayhem. It was just something so new and fresh, that it helped me create this new character for him. He's arguably my current favorite character in TTO. And yeah, breaking the bat over Steiner's chest was incredibly lame, but that's our dear WCW for you; gimmick and cheaping a weapon
. <3.
Glad to see that the ending promo was a hit, and no shocker that Flair was the best. He's pretty awesome to write for, although Hulk Hogan is still awesome as well,
. Glad to see that Nash was better than as of late; I've had some problems getting into a rhythm with Nash, and getting inspired by him. I haven't enjoyed writing for him too much, and it's showed. However, definitely happy to see that the show came off as a major success, as I wanted to make it something great before I head back to uni. From here, updates will be less frequent, although I do hope that I can have Starrcade up by the end of February. I want to write a 3rd Starrcade match, and then the 4th and final Nitro before Starrcade. That will give me 4 matches to write for Starrcade (and all the promos, commentary, etc.) in one-shot, instead of the usual everything.
Any other reviews would be welcomed, and they'll most likely be returned. And Reney, I am expecting one from you, Aussie.
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I'll have all you bookers know he held a gun to my head 'til I agreed to comment his show. Opinions on banning plz...
Larry Z, meh. I'm so/so over him but whatever, Booker T getting straight to the point without anything said was a little surprising. Bischoff and Jarrett getting on the mic was quality and then Bookah! BOOKER TEEEEE! Great speech from the Book Man, hilarious ending line on the slap nuts insult, fucking gold. Totally awesomeness to open the show imo. Damn, Larry gets wasted by Jarrett. Holy shit Jarrett just took out Booker aswell, he's looking strong for the title win methinks, but I'd still love to see Book win. Overall a great opening segment in every way
rofl Marky Mark. Interesting to see two halves of the original Natural Born Thrillers feuding with each other, with of course no more Shawn Stasiak (Billy Gunn wanna be) and Reno (Ugly version of Maven) around. Sanders still running things for the NBT it seems and it should be a nice tag match to see
Bahaha Steiner gets cock blocked. Sting > Steiner plz. Midajah's acting makes porn stars look like Oscar winners tbh. I lovve Steiner on the mic tho, never holds back from the cussin', "emo bitch"
OMG how about giving Lance a dose of charisma in his breakfast. He's bland. Gonna get serious? lolz. Good promo from you here, despite Storm being very vanilla on the mic
Very weird combinations for this tag match but the story is told afterwards in a very comical promo. Super Crazy vs Helms shall be a good match and with the title on the line you can see Shane Helms retaining. I had to laugh during the whole thing, Super Crazy talking like a retard
Steiner is getting messed with something cronic, Sting must be having a field day with this idiot. Steiner crushes some no name, fair enough. Sting = ratings. Great promo, you capture Sting perfectly every time. This match is gonna be sweet, I like this feud the most atm
Main event was solid but wow, the ending promo, wow. I marked. Awesome announcement from Nash and for both to accept is big, BIIIGGG. I think Flair retires, but I can't be sure, they are all as you say, past it. But whoever loses, it'll still be a massive match. Flair, Nash and Hogan all sounded fine here and made it a class promo
Good work Szum, now if I give you a "modest" mark you'll put the gun away, rit?
8.5./10 tbh
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Segment 1 - Yuck
Segment 2 - Meh
Segment 3 - Blah
Segment 4 - Meh, again...
ROFLMAO. J/K of course. Hatchet = Buried? If not, fuck off. No, really.
Anyway, I am psyched to get into this. Great to have a realistically good" WCW thread, unlike anything else, ever done, by anyone else. I remember seeing this float around way back when I was headed out from my first run. You hadn't made your name yet. It was intriguing then, and obviously still is. I LOVED WCW with a passion. Still do. Still watch all the old tapes, as I own just about every piece of wrestling filmed since 1980. And Im proud to say that during the 83 weeks Nitro beat Raw, I was part of the reason. Nitro got watched, and Raw was lucky to get tivod. But tbh, I hated WCW by late 1999, and I switched back to WWF. I literally had to watch tapes to catch up on the year 2000-2001, which I did long after the company was dead. Just really hard to watch. Horrible angles and Title matches, and the Hudson-Madden-Tony team was enough to induce vomiting, tbh. I really thought it sucked. Glad to see you using Tony and Tenay. Iron Mike was so great back in WCW. He sucks beyond belief now. And I know you have a passion for good wrestling and crisp storylines, so I am sure the company will be in good shape. Starrcade looks good, and the banners rule. Although the two titles matches at the top are far less intriguing than the rest of the card unfortunately. Glad to see you still using the big name guys, and hopefully you'll keep them around a while longer. Especially considering they've all continued, in one way or another, right on through today. Anyway, looking forward to reviewing Starrcade. Ironically, that will be my next/first "in full" offering as well. Mine will obviously stomp yours.
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Jamie1 Review
Szum this is my first time doing a review so it may not be great but I will try anyway J
First of I would just like to tell you that this is the first show of yours I have read but as I can see with the Starrcade card its shaping up to be a great night, I am a huge WCW fan and thought even though during 2001 and so on WCW was heading to a close I still felt they had some of the best talent in the company to ever belong on a WCW roster and I hope you can do with the talent that I dont think WCW could do
And what Tony says, goes . So we cut to the ring classic J I have heard about the funny comments you stick in and I liked this one, hopefully more to come
Booker T. Jeff Jarrett and Eric Bischoff Promo: First of all how dare that piece of crap Bischoff talk to like you said the living legend Larry Zbyszkos like that, I was so hoping that Larry Zbyszkos was going to answer Bischoff back with no you shut the hell up and then hook him, was not to. Anyway this match is really heating up, Jarrett and Bischoff promising to kill WCW, if Booker doesnt win WCW will be dead and NOW will take over, I dont think so, well I hope not, Booker T was as intense as ever walking down to the ring not like his usual self, he never even done his trademark entrance, flying down that stage LOL, Now onto the actual contract signing, due to this being the first time reading your show I have to say it is the best promo I have seen you do, character wise was brilliant and your little comments in between passages of people talking, really does crack me up. Anyway Bischoff was in great character, really excelled yourself to me as a great booker with how good you got the characters, Jeff Jarrett calling Booker T black I was not sure about until I read on as I started to love this slating, All the jokes about how he is just a ghetto boy and I really loved Booker T, you can believe in God, you can believe in karma, or even Buddha, at the end of it all, its the good who win out in the end. The black souls, the horrible people, the Booker Ts of the world, they come out losers. This was definitely the best line in this promo, so much like Jarrett, cocky arrogant bast***. Booker T once again showing his really emotions which I loved, I knew he was going to fly across at Jarrett and what would a contract signing be without a little scrap. The walking legend taking down Bischoff, Oh what I would do to see that. .. . ..! Even though I would be screaming at my TV screen if this was on TV you definitely done the right thing making Jarrett take both men out, I always feel it is better with the heel going into a pay-per-view on top.
I have one question about this last promo, Maybe its because I havent read any of your shows before but Jarrett is champion! And he said when he wins the title he is going to turn it into the N W O belt, why has he not done it already!!!!!!
The opening match of the night I feel would have been a good match with two men with a lot of talent. I know this doesnt seem like I am saying a lot about the match but I just do not know what to say, prefer reading promos.. . . Me! Anyway afterwards in the match I found interesting, I always liked Mike Saunders for some weird reasons but anyway I did, I thought you had him in good character and this adds to the already great Starrcade card. Really getting hyped up for Starrcade and the rest of this show
Before Tony can make any more of you contemplate suicide, the show cuts to the back
Another funny comment throwing in, I love it Szum, maybe it isnt your writing abilities that gets you noticed on WF maybe it is your funny comments! . .. .. Nah only joking but It did make me laugh
Scott Steiner Promo: Scott Steiner wants some .. . .. Eh Sting!!!! J LOL, Steiner and Midajah A.K.A Slut and I love it, no only joking, Sting trashing Steiners locker room is a brilliant idea to intense this feud up, what man wouldnt be happy if they were just about to get the sort of thing Steiner was, I wonder!
Lance Storm interview. I was wondering how the most boring man to ever grace this earth interview would go and it actually went quite well, see to tell you the truth Szum I actually cannot remember Lance Storm doing many interviews so I was not sure about his character, All I did know is if he seemed boring then his character would be fine. I picture him in my mind with what he was saying and yes I can see him saying stuff like that, I am not trying to slate Storm as I like him and I think he is a great athlete but Szum please keep him of the mic!
Match 2: Nice partners for both men, I read through the match and it was alright, I think it would have been good to see on TV
I loved the aftermath of match 2, It was very good, Super crazy can speak English and Szum I have to tell you I didnt no they could speak English either. Anyway another match set for Starrcade, it really is getting better and better as this show continues
Steiner taking down the plastic cut out was creative genius, I feel it is small things like that which make the show more entertaining and sometimes bring in the ratings so I was glad to see this, Steiner seems to be getting more angry and I am thinking someone Is going to get hurt.
Scott Steiner match LOL is all I can say
Sting and Scott Steiner it was like an Undertaker moment, Scott Steiner I knew would come out to the ring and demand Sting came out and that is what he did, Steiner was in good character acting cool when the lights flicked back on but when the lights were off probably crapping himself, Sting coming out and smacking Steiner with the bat across the chest I felt was a little lame after all the build up, I think you could have done a little better with this
The Main Event was good and their was only one man that could have won and that was the nature boy, Ric Flair, my complete idle, this guy carried WCW and I loved him for it and still do love him, This was an alright match and a match that would also be good to see on TV
The Big Ending: Oh My God Szum I thought you had gave all you could get for a normal weekly show with the opening promo but after reading this one it totally throws that out the window, you made me feel like I was sitting in the arena, What a match for Starrcade, the winner getting a shot at the title with the loser retiring, I personally hope Hulk Hogan is forced to retire, I just think this would be a great way for him to go out, I would then like to see Flair win back the title and retire on that note!, What a ending for both men s career. Anyway what a way to end the promo, Ric Flair going crazy around the ring that is why I love this guy, he is just the best and at Starrcade we will see if Hogan and Nash can beat the best . . . .. .! Hulk Hogan was also in character and I really felt the emotion of all three men, If only WCW could book like this it would be them making a fool of there self creative wise today instead of the WWE.
Overall Szum this is the first ever show I have reviewed on this forum and it was an honour to review yours, like I said at the start the review might not be brilliant but I certainly tried, Great show anyway Szum and expect a better review for Starrcade, might not get a review in for the next Nitro. Sorry!
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I'm not going to give ya a full review, I'm afraid, due to time restrictions, but I will give some of my views on the latest Nitro.
The thing that stands out the most imo is that Nash-Hogan-Flair is being treated as being bigger than the WCW World Title match. Rightfully so though, as those three men are better than the Bookman or Jarrett(I hate that guy) could ever be even in their wildest dreams.
Another thing that I find particulary neat is how the roster seems divided in two groups, two poles almost. A WCW-group, pro WCW and a anti-WCW group, the nWo. I really like how you manage to incorporate that into almost every feud, bar the Cruiserweight feud I believe.
The Sting promo was brilliant. Loved how there were Sting-Steiner segments throughout the show, culminating with a brilliant promo, as stated before. This feud is definitely one of the top-feuds you have going, imo, and it'll make for a good match (psychology wise) at Starrcade.
While Booker T's promos have drawn me in the feud to a certain extent, the WCW-title feud actually doesn't interest me as much. I'd love for Booker to go over and it being the beginning almost of the implosion of nWo, or at least nWo's reign of terror(lol).
One thing I didn't like, Curt Hennig, loses clean to Flair. Sure, Flair's better and I don't mind Hennig losing clean to him in itself, it's just that this was the main event, the match only got 8 minutes and Hennig looked almost like Flair's whipping boy out there.
Otherwise a great show, Szum, and I can't wait for the final show before Starrcade and of course, Starrcade itself. And kudos to you for drawing me into this the way you have. I must say this has to be the first time I've actually been looking forward to the next shows and such, so yea, great job.
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Nitro Review:
Booker/Jarrett Promo-Excellent promo to start the show. Really gave more heat to the feud, because before this Nitro, the feud was kind of average. Looking forward though to the next part of the buildup, as this feud has me interested.
Match 1: Really O Haire winning the match does nothing more, than confirm that the NBT will remain the champs at Starrcade. With the build that the team is being given, Ill be shocked to see a title change take place. Sanders promo drove home that thought even more.
Steiners Promo-This was an excellent promo written in true Szumi style. Steiner was great in this segment, and it adds to the upcoming match between the two.
Storms Promo: Glad to see that youre continuing with Storms WCW gimmick. While by the time Storms gimmick became well, I was already watching more WWE than WCW, Storm was one wrestler who was actually good in WCW. The Storm/Awesome match should be good, come Starrcade.
Tag Match: Really this match was just average. Crazy and Morris gets the win, as expected. Thankfully Helms picks up the segment with his promo, before Crazy finally announces that the title match between the two at Starrcade is made official. Crazy speaking in English was well booked as well.
Steiner/Wright-While Im a fan of Alex Wright, this obviously was not even a match. Steiner wins obviously, and finally it looks like Steiner and Sting is going to come face to face.
Steiner/Sting Promo: I loved the way this promo was booked. Steiner saying some of his comments was done in true Steiner form. However the four vultures segment was done quite well, and was original. The pre taped promo from Sting, before he actually appears in the ring was great. Thats not something that is used in BTB as much, so it was good to see it was done in this feud, as it fits the feud perfectly. Sting hitting Steiner with the obviously gimmicked bat was good booking as well. I have a feeling that this match, somehow, can be a Match of the Night Candidate.
Main Event: Despite it being Hennings return match from his injury, he was never winning the match against Flair. However the promo was greatly done, even for a WCW promo, during this time frame. Honestly this match has the easiest buildup of any of the other matches on the card. I know youre a fan of Hogan, so I dont think hes losing, neither is Flair. In all honesty, I see Nash losing this match. Reason being, I have a feeling that Hogan v. Flair will take place either at Superbrawl, Uncensored, or at the latest Spring Stampede.
Overall Comments: Obviously this Nitro was written, just to continue the feuds, as the matches were really decent at best. However its understandable that the matches were kept short, so that the promos can help the feuds continue. Im looking forward to the upcoming news in this thread, regarding the future of WCW in this thread. Im looking forward, to the next Nitro in this thread as well.
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Just wanted to drop in here and say "Hey, thanks" for the comments ya'lls. Para, NB, kid o, Jamie, Alco, and of course, Reney bo Beney. I was hoping I'd have more free time this weekend, especially since it was a 3 day weekend, but my sister was in town and t'was my mom's birthday, so didn't get much accomplished. If I get any free time over the week, I'll look to hit Alco with some feedback, or if any other of you's have a new show up.
Progress will be slower from here on out. I am dilligently working on the 12-12 Wednesday Nitro right now, and maybe I'll be able to get the preview and the show up by Friday night, maybe I won't. However, I still have 4 matches for Starrcade to write after this, as well as the promos, additional commentary, and what will probably be a potentially lengthy preview and of course, the predictions contest. I would like to have Starrcade up by the end of February, but honestly, it could very well end up being as late as March before I get it up. College takes up so much of my time, and that's much more important than writing BTB, obviously. And to be honest, I'm in no hurry to write this show and make it some awesome, great, spectacular piece of art. I'm looking more to just trying to enjoy actually writing a full PPV for once, especially since I plan on it being the last time I write a PPV in full. Despite what the ignorant will say and think, I'm not egotistical enough to worry and fixate myself on winning a Best PPV award for Starrcade, or anything like that. Fuck that. I'm just looking towards enjoying my writing, and hoping that Starrcade gives you, my readers, some entertainment. And that, my kiddies, is my homily to you for now. So until then, be sure to take care of yourself, and each other
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Re: WCW 2001- The Trio Ownership
lmao no excuses for being sloppy plz. We've heard them all tbh.
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Historically, courts have grudgingly accepted the professional plaintiff in class action practice. As Judge Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit once said, in the context of a FCRA class action, the word professional "implies experience, if not expertise." One law student note offered one possible strategy for arguing that professional plaintiffs are inadequate class representatives: focus… Continue Reading
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HOHENWALD, Tenn. - In 2009, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman introduced you to a couple of very unlikely friends who couldn't have been more different. But from the moment Tarra the elephant met Bella the dog, they were inseparable.
The Elephant Sanctuary south of Nashville is more than 2,000 acres of freedom for elephants. But for a resident named Tarra, there's not enough room in Tennessee to escape the bad news she got last week.
"Certainly her whole demeanor changed," said Rob Atkinson, the sanctuary's CEO. "She became more reserved, quieter, she was depressed."
Tarra displayed all the symptoms you'd expect to see in someone who lost a good friend - which is exactly what happened.
For nearly a decade, Tarra had been best friends with a dog named Bella, a mutt who wandered onto the sanctuary grounds and into the heart of the gentle giant. Tarra clearly loved her little dog and Bella obviously bonded right back.
They were so close, in fact, that when Bella got injured a few years ago and had to spend three weeks recuperating in the sanctuary office, guess who held vigil the entire time? Twenty-two hundred acres to roam free, and Tarra just stood in the corner waiting. Home video of their reunion shows how inseparable they'd become and remained, right to the end.
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Tarra moved her? "Tarra moved her," Smith said. Steve's theory is Tarra carried Bella possibly a mile or more to bring her home. Whether it really happened that way or not, no one doubts Tarra was that devoted.
"There's nothing we can do to take away her pain," said Atkinson. "The only ones who can help now are the elephants. And that is already happening."
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State Sen. Annazette Collins (D-Chicago) was not pleased Thursday when I called.
Are you in Springfield?
"No," she said.
Are you in Chicago?
"Yes," she said, adding, "I don't like talking to you all."
At that, she hung up.
I was asking only because a major vote had just taken place in Springfield to abolish legislative scholarships, a century-old, favorite perk of lawmakers. But a perk that had fallen into ill repute after being abused by politicians who handed out free state tuition like candy to the children of clout-heavy pals and campaign donors.
Collins was a no-show on that vote. Then again, she has had a bad few months.
In March, Chicago Sun-Times Springfield bureau chief Dave McKinney broke the story of how the senator had doled out scholarships to five students who claimed Collins' former house as their in-district residence though three of them lived far outside her district.
A couple of weeks later, Collins lost the primary election to Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins, who had made the abuse of legislative scholarships a key campaign issue.
For many legislators, this was not a happy vote. But a necessary one. After all, the feds had come knocking, as the Sun-Times first reported last August, subpoenaing the legislative scholarship records of former state Rep. Robert Molaro (D-Chicago).
Molaro, now a lobbyist, had no comment on that Thursday when I called. But $94,000 worth of his tuition waivers went to the children of a campaign contributor.
Other lawmakers whose scholarships have come under close scrutiny are Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Cicero); Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago), and Rep. Robert Rita (D-Blue Island).
Gov. Pat Quinn maintained, "Abolishing a political scholarship program is the right thing."
Senate President John Cullerton, who had hoped to reform the program rather than repeal it, was more reserved.
"There were relatively few cases of abuse," he said by phone on Friday. Still, those abuses, coupled with an apparent federal probe, said Cullerton, "Was, in part, why we responded."
But Cullerton, pointing a finger at the press gallery, questioned other state tuition waiver programs, including for public policy graduate students from the University of Illinois at Springfield who spend a semester working as interns for news outlets such as the Sun-Times.
"It's kind of ironic I'm being interviewed by a reporter about legislative scholarship abuse when the reporter is getting the scholarship themselves," Cullerton said.
You could argue that's sour grapes on Cullerton's part because the only abuse uncovered has been connected to lawmakers, despite a range of other tuition waiver grant programs benefitting student athletes or veterans.
However, I take his point.
In a state that's broke, everything, including the $414 million handed out in tuition scholarships of all kinds, deserves to be studied by the task force he's impaneling.
Personally, I hope those U. of I.-Springfield reporter-grad students will always get the same shot at a tuition break that a basketball player receives.
And I have one other hope.
It's that Sen. Collins realizes that, for the next seven months, while taxpayers are still on the hook for her salary, she ought to show up for the votes.


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Public officials remain free to speak their minds to reporters without running afoul of Arizona's Open Meetings Law, Attorney General Terry Goddard concluded Monday.
Goddard rejected the contentions of attorneys for several cities and school districts that officials risk violating the law by commenting before an upcoming meeting about proposals they intend to make or how they plan to vote.
The attorneys argued that by talking about upcoming meetings, the officials could be telegraphing their plans to other council or board members.
Goddard said that could occur, but the fact that such comments also can be heard or read by everyone else removes the possibility of a legal violation.
The series of statutes collectively known as the Open Meetings Law is designed to ensure matters subject to a public meeting are dealt with entirely in the public's view.
Goddard's latest decision differs from a conclusion he made two years ago that e-mail messages from elected officials to others about pending matters do violate the Open Meetings Law.
At that time, Goddard said the electronic messages can create virtual meetings of public bodies.
He said even an e-mail from one board member to everyone else can trigger a violation of the law, even if no response is sought.
But on Monday, Goddard said comments made to reporters are different.
"The distinction is that an e-mail to a quorum of the board involves a 'gathering' of a quorum," Goddard wrote. "A member's comment to the media does not."
In fact, he said, putting public officials in fear of talking to reporters undermines the very purpose of the Open Meetings Law.
"If members of public bodies refrain from speaking to the media, then government becomes less open to the public; not more," he said.
Rep. David Lujan, D-Phoenix, said he and Rep. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, sought Goddard's input after a flurry of what they considered bad advice being given to some public officials.
Earlier this year, for example, Scottsdale City Attorney Deborah Robberson advised City Council members during an ethics training session that their comments to the media could get them in trouble with the law.
"I'd be cautious and avoid public comment on an upcoming precise matter," Robberson had told them.


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Posts Tagged 'T. S. Eliot'
Eliot's Darker Side, and Other News
February 10, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- "Everyone wants to be clever—it's hard to give up that side and go blindly for stupidity. But even more frightening was the fact that it was so easy … I guess I have a talent for humiliation." An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.
- On the shortlist for Britain's new Folio Prize, open to all English-language writers: Rachel Kushner, Anne Carson, Sergio de la Pava, George Saunders, and more.
- Since T. S. Eliot has been lionized as Britain's favorite poet, let's all take a step back and remember: he was one of the most "daemonic poets who ever lived."
- "O where are they now, your harridan nuns / who thumped on young heads with a metal thimble / and punished with rulers your upturned palms": RIP Pulitzer-winning poet Maxine Kumin, who died last week, at eighty-eight.
W. H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y
January 22, 2014 | by Cynthia Ozick
"75 at 75," a special project from the 92nd Street Y in celebration of the Unterberg Poetry Center's seventy-fifth anniversary, invites contemporary authors to listen to a recording from the Poetry Center's archive and write a personal response. Here, Cynthia Ozick reflects on W. H. Auden, whose readings she remembers attending as a Poetry Center subscriber in the fifties.
There must be sorrow if there can be love. —From "Canzone"
Ah, the fabled sixties and seventies! Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs! The glorious advent of Howling! Of Getting Stoned! The proliferation of Ginsbergian Exclamation Points! To secure the status of their literary subversion, these revolutionary decades were obliged, like the cadres of every insurrection, to denigrate and despise, and sometimes to blow up, their immediate predecessor, the fifties—the middling middle, the very navel, of the twentieth century. The fifties, after all, were the Eisenhower years, stiff and small like Mamie's bangs (and just as dated), dully mediocre, constrained, consumerist, car-finned, conformist, forgettable, and stale as modernism itself. Randall Jarrell, one of its leading poets and critics, named this midcentury epoch "The Age of Criticism"—and what, however he intended it, could suggest prosiness more? And what is prosiness if not the negation of the lively, the living, the lasting, the daring, the true and the new? The reality was sublimely opposite. It was, in fact, the Age of Poetry, a pinnacle and an exaltation; there has not been another since. Its poets were more than luminaries—they were colossi, their very names were talismans, and they rose before us under a halo of brilliant lights like figures in a shrine. It was a kind of shrine: the grand oaken hall, the distant stage and its hallowed lectern, the enchanted voices with their variegated intonations, the rapt listeners scarcely breathing, the storied walls themselves in trance—this was the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in the heart of the twentieth century. Read More »
T. S. Eliot's "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"
December 18, 2013 | by Casey N. Cep
In 1927, Richard de la Mare had an idea for some Christmas cards. Because he was a production director at London's Faber & Gwyer, his cards were festive poetry pamphlets that could be sent to clients and sold to customers for one shilling a piece. Because two years earlier Geoffrey Faber had lured a banker from Lloyd's Bank to work as an editor at his publishing house, Faber & Gwyer had T. S. Eliot to contribute to the series.
Named for Shakespeare's sprite, the Ariel poems each addressed the Christmas holiday or a seasonal theme. G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, and W. B. Yeats all contributed. The Ariel series followed a strict formula: identical cardboard bindings; title, illustrator, author, and occasionally an illustration on the cover; and two interior sheets folded to make four pages. The first page repeated the title information; the following three featured the poem and an original illustration.
T. S. Eliot wrote six poems for the series: "The Journey of the Magi" (1927), "A Song for Simeon" (1928), "Animula" (1929), "Marina" (1930), "Triumphal March" (1931), and, later when the series was revived, "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" (1954). Only thirty-four lines long, that final poem is like a whisper in the whirlwind of dramatic plays and long poems that characterize most of Eliot's later work. "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" came decades after "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917) and The Waste Land (1922), years after Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) and The Four Quartets (1943).
I think of Eliot's Christmas trees every year around this time: when firs, pines, and spruces appear in living rooms, storefronts, and town squares around the country. Eliot wrote the poem when he was sixty-six years old. His voice is wizened, yet wistful as he reaches through all the years of his life to recover "the spirit of wonder" from his earliest Christmases. Though formal and serious, the poem seems almost saccharine when compared to his earlier work. It will surprise many that the poet of fragments and ruins eventually turned his attention to the pretty packages and bright lights of Christmas. Read More »
Let the Memory Live Again, and Other News
November 21, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Alice Munro, Laureate, and Other News
October 10, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Poetry Must Still Dance: An Interview with Ange Mlinko
June 17, 2013 | by Tyler Bourgoise
The Spring issue of The Paris Review includes a long poem by Ange Mlinko, "Wingandecoia." It took me a few rereads, but, after a bout of Google searching, I saw this poem trace its arc in several directions—those of time, of place, and of musical imagination. Along the way to understanding, Mlinko treats the reader to lines that feel both alive and spectral. Some are even like incantatory but welcome earworms.
Mlinko has also published three books of poetry—Matinees, Starred Wire, and Shoulder Season. And this fall her next book, Marvelous Things Overheard, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Between books, she writes on language and the arts for The Nation.
Like the two poems you published in issue 199 of The Paris Review, "Wingandecoia" contains many unfamiliar words and names. How do you see these poems, and that idea, figuring into your forthcoming book, Marvelous Things Overheard?
The book is partly an exploration of time. The sixth-century brigand poet, the Macedonian general, and the ineffectual managers of the lost colony at Roanoke are allowed a measure of strangeness through the language each poem invokes. It amounts to a kind of foreign language within our familiar one. I grew up listening to languages my immigrant parents didn't want to teach me, so I get a regressive pleasure out of feeling my way through sounds to their possible meanings. Not "getting" a word, or a line, or a poem at first read was never an obstacle for me—in fact, it was a seduction.
And then, obviously, these words are beautiful. Wingandecoia is a beautiful word. So is psittacines. So is pot pot chee. They suggest rhymes, anagrams, and puns. They make music, which I think is an indispensible pleasure. Read More »


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I built a pyramidal bow out of ash back in the 80's. I designed it for 30# at 29", and even today, it delivers 28#. That's pretty wimpy... so what if I made a composite bow out of two laminations of ash? Often people laminate different materials, but what can I do with just two laminations of the same stuff?
It's cool. Instead of a 1/2" constant limb thickness like my ash bow (thus leading to a nearly pyramidal shape), take two stick bows like mine that are 1/4" thick and laminate them together. Without pre-stressing them in any way, you just get back the bow I built. Don't do that. Instead, warp both laminations in a circular arc to the point of almost breaking, and glue them together. When the glue sets, and you unclamp everything, the bow will snap back by 1/4th of the arc that you used to stress it. When you force the laminated limb straight, you will have nearly every fiber of the wood maximally stressed, with one of the laminations uniformly in tension everywhere, and the other uniformly in compression throughout it's entire volume. This is very unlike the stresses seen in my original bow, which are maximum on the surface and taper off linearly to zero in the middle. The new laminated limb should pull without breaking with 50% more force than the original. It will also bend 50% farther, storing 2.25 times as much energy!
Now we have a bow that can't be strung because it reaches the breaking point when the limbs are pulled straight. We have to pull the limbs backward to string the bow. So, introduce a riser, and have the circularly recurved limbs start off pointing back towards the archer in a reflex/deflex configuration. Also, use constant thickness in the limbs and a true linear width taper all the way to the nocks. Angle the limbs back so that at full draw the string makes a 90 degree angle with the now straightened limbs. This minimizes the limb mass required to hold the bow string at full draw, which should be good for arrow speed. This is basic tapered cantilever stuff, which applies exactly to my straight limbs at full draw.
Here's a diagram showing the idea for the new bow:
For physics geeks out there, here's how you can figure this stuff out in your head. When the two laminations are bent to nearly breaking, the glue intersection is interesting. One surface is under maximum tension and the other is under maximum compression. When the glue dries, assuming both laminations are identical and behave linearly in both compression and tension, then this boundary will remain in this state of maximum stress permanently. As you straighten the bow, the rest of the volume of one limb becomes entirely compressed, while the other is entirely under tension. This stores 3 times more energy than the original limb, but the rest state of the laminated limb stores 75% as much as the original limb, so the total usable increase is 2.25X. Remember that when we take the limb out of the mold, it unbends by 25%, which is why the limb does not still contain 100% of the maximum original energy used to bend the laminations. When we straighten the bow, we push the laminated limb, which is 8X more stiff, through 3/4ths of the original arc. The original limb could only be pushed through 1/2 of this arc before reaching the breaking point. So, we push the limb through 50% more arc and reach 50% more force, so the new energy is 1.5*1.5 = 2.25 times more than the original, which is the same answer as before.
Naturally, most "new" ideas are reinventions of old ones. Here's a great article discussing the history of archery in America. The most important inventor was probably Clarence Hickman. Check out his bow design in the paper. It's exactly the same as mine! In his patent, all his math works out exactly like mine as well, confirming the 2.25X energy improvement.
Hickman took the idea even further, showing that with more than 2 laminations, we can have beneficial prestress with whatever bow limb shape we like. Oddly, this idea is not used in modern commercial bows, but for accuracy, modern limbs optimize stability rather than efficiency. However, for "flight" bows, modern designers are on top of this. "avcase" on an archery forum says:
Beneficial pre-stress doesn't have to be so strange looking in a bow. All you need is two laminations that are Naturally deflexed, but glued together in reflex so that the resulting unstrung profile looks like a normal straight bow. I used to glue two sets of three thin laminations in deflex then glue the sets again into slight reflex to produce a similar effect. The resulting "super stave" was very strong bending in one direction but extremely weak when bent the opposite direction. It took awhile to perfect, but I made a few up and for a trick would hand it to someone in such a way that they would try to break it by bending it in the strong direction. When they failed at the attempt and handed it back to me, I sneakily flipped it around and bent it the opposite weak direction. For me, it would snap like a twig. Fun stuff. Hahaha! Alan
Here's a picture of Hickman's original bow, which blew away all competitors in flight distance competitions. Here's a picture of the two limbs I crafted. They each pull 24.5# when drawn flat, and combined, including the riser attachment portion, they weigh 9 oz. I'd guess the active portion is about 3.5 oz each. They're 19" from riser attachment (first node) to node at the end, where made the nocks.
My craftmanship stinks, so it's surprising they came out close to what I wanted. I'm only angling them back from vertical by 36 degrees, rather than the 60 degrees I'd started with, or the 45 degrees Hickman used. It makes it look almost look like a conventional highly recurved bow. Also, I tapered the limb thickness slightly rather than keeping it constant, which is why the limbs curve a bit more at the tips. This requires high-end wood glue such as Unibond 800. I delaminated a couple of limbs I built glued with Tightbond III.
I had a ton of fun with hard to characterize bamboo. These two limbs are made from a raw pole I bought from Brightside Bamboo, about 3 miles from my house, where they harvest locally grown bamboo. I split the pole in quarters, and got 4 staves, which I use to make 4 almost identical blanks, so if I mess up, I've got spares. I went against experienced advice on bow building message boards, and heat treated my bamboo, first at 180 degrees for 3 hours, and then 12 minutes at 350 degrees. I did it in our oven, which was possible because the limbs are so short. That's a slightly toned down version of what is used to make bamboo fly fishing rods. This will reduce the max tension my bamboo can take, but reduce the set a ton, which is what I need to take full advantage of beneficial pre-stress, which is sometimes called "Perry reflex". I would have taken off the enamel, but my son loves it. Here's a picture of the scrap bamboo I threw out while trying to get this right.
Here's the riser I built. I laminated some cedar with scraps of IPE with TB3 glue. I needed a combination of light weight and strength, because my son complains that his fiberglass recurve is too heavy, and this riser is quite a bit bigger. There's IPE on the back where the arrow might bang against the riser, and IPE on both sides of the handle to give the riser strength at it's most stressed point. The complete bow weighs 1.25#.
My son loves it!
To help the kids understand a lot of physics about energy storage, levers, gear ratios, coefficients of friction, and such, I helped my daughter build this bow-limb powered "car". She won her school's racing competion with it.
Continuing the fun, Here's a weird recurve design that can have nearly constant weight pull for a significant portion of the draw.
Here's a weird recurve design that can have nearly constant weight pull for a significant portion of the draw. I am considering building one to see how well it works.
First, take Clarence Hickman's bow, with circularly recurved limbs, and curve them even more. This would work best, I suspect, with solid fiberglass limbs. Angle the limbs back from a very short riser at 45 degrees, just like Hickman did. This bow has a good force-draw profile already for a flight bow, though it is unstable for target accuracy. I'm just trying to improve the arrow speed, not stability.
Next, add two stiff forked limbs angled 45 degrees back, between the archer and the limbs, solidly attached to the riser. The forked limbs have a slot in them for the string to pass through. The point of these limbs is to support portions of the flattened curved limb as it's drawn. Instead of a tapered width, as in Hickman's bow, use a constant width for most of the curved limb, and only taper near the tips. Use a very short brace height.
Once the string is pulled to 45 degrees, which happens early because of the short brace height and short riser, the circularly curved constant width limbs will uncurl with constant string tension, and the string will stay at 45 degrees as it's drawn further. At some point, the tip loses contact with the string, and the leverage we have between the nock and the point where the limb is resting on the fixed forks begins to increase. That's why we need to taper the width near the tips.
In reality, constant force would be bad in a design like this, since the arrow nock could move up or down freely during the draw. There is a trade-off where the draw has more stability and predictability vs how flat we want the draw-force curve.
Here's a diagram showing the rough idea.
Here's what it looks like mid-draw when the draw-force remains constant:
If I were shooting very heavy arrows... say a javelin... then this would work well. As the limbs of any bow I've seen are heavier than the arrows, it's amazing that we can get in the 80% efficiency range. That can only be explained by the way the string acts as a brake as the limbs pull the string close to the brace position. This design fails to capitalize on this braking effect. I think Hickman's bow has a similar issue, though probably not as bad.
So, can this design be modified to provide braking? How about something like this:
The idea here is to have a bow shaped more like an efficient flight bow that will brake limb movement near the end of a shot. At some point during the draw, the limbs contact the fixed support structure, and the draw force becomes close to constant until full draw. I think the initial acceleration of the arrow will be higher with this design, because initially only a small portion of the limbs near the tips move at all, allowing most of the energy to be imparted to the arrow rather than limb movement. However, as the limbs roll along the fixed support structure, the moving part increases in weight, and a higher portion of the energy is imparted to the limbs rather than the arrow. At some point, it becomes more important to start braking the limbs to get the energy out of them than to continue accelerating them, and that's why we should leave contact with the supports and go into the traditional braking mode near the end of the shot.
Now this design will have heavier tips, since there will be a portion where the limbs don't taper. That will lower efficiency. On the other hand, we get more energy storage for the same draw weight. My gut tells me that there is an overall benefit in arrow speed for reasonable arrow weights if this is designed properly. I doubt this would improve arrow speed for the very light arrows used with flight bows, but I'm thinking it might help propel arrows in the 10 grains/lbs a bit faster.


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Mobile speed: Ericsson LTE demo photos
Summary: Everyone's talking about mobile. They want to access the internet while they're on the go, and they want it to be fast. Ericsson is one of a swathe of vendors conducting trials for the next generation of mobile technology — Long Term Evolution (LTE).
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Video streamed smoothly over LTE at all bitrates and was extremely watchable on the high-resolution flat-screen monitors. Note the meters in the bottom right-hand corner, which show historical bandwidth usage and latency figures.
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The second demonstration is a mobile healthcare system, in which location services and the network's IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) capabilities are used to establish connections and manage a variety of communications sessions between a central dispatcher and an LTE-enabled device in the field.
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Marilyn Quagliotti
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Ms. Quagliotti was nominated by President Obama and confirmed on June 30th, 2011 by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Director for Supply Reduction in the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Ms. Quagliotti provides executive leadership in the interagency and international environment to reduce the supply of illicit drugs in the United States. Her office develops and coordinates national policy and strategy of U.S. drug control programs and activities involved in achieving the supply reduction goals of the National Drug Control Strategy. Ms. Quagliotti's roles include supporting cooperative interagency and international programs and efforts in the Andean region, Mexico, Central America, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ms. Quagliotti was also appointed as the United States Interdiction Coordinator, ensuring United States drug control agency interdiction assets are sufficient and their use is integrated with overall United States international counter-narcotics policy.
Prior to joining the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Ms Quagliotti served 32 years in the United States Army, rising to the rank of Major General. She was the first woman to attain the rank of General Officer in the Signal Corps and first woman to command a battalion in a combat division. As an Army officer, she served multiple tours throughout the continental United States, South Korea, Germany, and Panama. In Panama, she was the Brigade Commander, in command of a unit supporting interdiction efforts to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
Ms. Quagliotti is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and holds a M.S degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College and a B.S. degree from the Louisiana State University.


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