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Last year in Texas, a scared little white pup named Diamond arrived at the City of Abilene's municipal shelter. She was dirty, painfully matted and very scared. No one knew it at the time, but she was also deaf.
If Diamond had arrived at the shelter a year earlier, she may never have found her happy ending. But the folks who work at the City of Abilene shelter are especially dedicated and strongly committed to saving animals' lives. Naturally, they jumped at the chance to take part in the ASPCA's Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project, unveiled in September.
Part of the ASPCA Animal Relocation Initiative, the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project helps cash-strapped municipal shelters like Abilene's relocate dogs to off-site adoption programs, rescues or private shelters by providing municipal shelters $50 per dog placed. That money can be spent on vet care for an animal, transportation of the pet, or on anything else that will help move the animal out of the shelter.
For Diamond, this program was a godsend. Abilene was able to use the Petrie subsidy to move her to The Pawed Squad rescue. After a desperately needed grooming, Diamond revealed herself to be an adorable little Bichon Frise! She also came out of her shell and showed she would make a wonderful companion.
Soon after rescuing Diamond, the Pawed Squad was able to place her in a loving home that cherishes her every day. Her deafness was never an issue for these awesome adopters.
Congratulations to Abilene, The Pawed Squad rescue and Diamond's happy family. We're so glad the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project is changing lives like hers and thousands of others.
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She looks so happy, what a big smile. Her parents must be proud!
Brings tears to my eyes -this is why I support ASPCA
It was a delight to see that lovely bichon frise in her glory, cleaned up, shampooed, manicured and happy, and looking forward to her next meal. I care for my daughter's dachshund, Leo, a rescued pooch, from Dachshund Rescue, when she travels for her job, and I often visit Petsmart for his food and treats. There I meet many interesting and happy dogs who are also rescued. I recently met my first long-haired dachshund there. She was sweet and lovely, and much adored by the family that rescued her.
I support my local ASPCA with money, and bags of kibble that Leo has tired of and rejected, and with clean but worn blankets and large towels that augment the bedding provided by the shelter.
I live in Covington, GA and would like to help provide "rides for dogs" - please contact me for details.
This is why I support, through donation, the ASPCA. As a Bichon owner, I cannot understand mistreating any animal in this way, let alone a people loving dog like a Bichon. My Sam is the best, smartest, dog I have ever parented !!!!
what a beauty Diamond is. All dogs are "people loving" no matter what pedigree they are. Glad Diamond has a furever home. xo
You animal rescuers are soooooo AWESOME. Every creature counts!
This article brings tears to my eyes. Tears of sadness that Diamond had to live through a terrifying time, as well as tears of joy for finding a loving home. She looks very happy in her new home. Thank GOD for animal lovers. A big THANKS to the ASPCA and the Carroll Petrie Foundation Dog Rescue Project.
Awesome! ;) Pets should not be "put down"! They can easily be transfered to another shelter then another if necessary etc until they find their furever home. Because if not adopted in one areas shelter once transfered to another areas shelter they may het adopts there. If we just move them around they'll all fund fyrever homes. There's no need these days to just " put down" animals because they werent adopted! Transferung them shelter to shelter us easy enough. That way they're sure to find their soulmate companion(s). ;)
What a wonderful organization/foundation!!! I am so happy for this precious, adorable little girl Diamond, and all the other animals that will be helped by Carroll's foundation project. Thank you Carroll!


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Message from Paul Haradikis, Interim Director for the School of Communication Studies
Join me in congratulating this year's Graduate Student Award Recipients. These School of Communication graduate students were honored Thursday (April 14) at a special reception for their outstanding research, teaching, and service to the School of Communication students and our academic discipline.
Here are the award winners:
Awards from the School of Communication Studies:
- Research Award: Jason Sabo and Jenny Rosenberg
- Teaching Award: JD Ponder
- Honorable Mention Teaching Award: Brian Pattie, Roxanne Hall, and Jenny Rosenberg
- Collegiality Award: Nicole Reamer
Awards from the Communication Graduate Student Association (CGSA):
- CGSA Mentoring Award: JD Ponder
- CGSA Service Award: Jenny Rosenberg
- Dr. Larry Hugenberg CGSA Faculty Mentoring Award: Dr. Jennifer Chakroff, course director for the Human Communication Course and assistant professor.
- All the CGSA officers were also recognized at the award ceremony.
- President, JD Ponder; Vice President, Nicki Reamer; Treasurer, Kathryn Golsan; Mentoring and Social Chair, Jared Hargis; Research and Information Chair, Phillip Reed; Graduate Student Senate Representative, Jared Hargis; Graduate Studies Committee Representative, Jenny Rosenberg; Representative to Communication Undergraduates, Java Murniadi; College Doctoral Program Policy Committee, Margaret Garmon
And a special thanks to Alice Kopunovitz, Administrative Assistant who arranged for the catering and special set-up of refreshments and centerpieces at the Masonic Center; Dr. Mei-Chen Lin, Graduate Coordinator and the Graduate Studies Committee; Kelly Schobinger, Special Assistant; Jared Hargis, Social Chair for CGSA, and the CGSA Awards Committee for working together and making the reception a success.
As a note of interest, this year's reception was held at the Masonic Center in Kent, historic family home of the Marvin Kent and his family for whom the City of Kent is named. Kent State University is named for Marvin Kent's son, William, whose donation of land helped lead to the established of Kent Normal School that would become Kent State University.

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It was the repeat of the 2011 tournament final (which Boland won convincingly in Wellington), but this time the Kings did the business to secure their seventh win of the campaign.
The hosts ran in eight tries, with the returning Luke Watson grabbing a brace. Flyhalf Wesley Dunlop also added six conversions and a penalty.
Boland only managed to cross the chalk on three occasions, which proved to be consolation tries.
In other results, the Pumas downed the Leopards 38-27 in Nelspruit to jump into second place in the standings (they trail the Kings by seven log points, with six league matches remaining). SWD and the Griffons picked up tight wins over Border (33-27) and the Valke (39-36) respectively.
EP Kings 57 (36) – Tries: Clint Newland, Cornell du Preez, Luke Watson (2), SP Marais, Tiger Mangweni, Wesley Dunlop, Wimpie van der Walt. Conversions: Wesley Dunlop (6), George Whitehead. Penalty: Dunlop.
Boland 19 (5) – Tries: Nolan Clark, PJ van Zyl, Senan Van Der Merwe. Conversions: Eric Zana, Jacquin Jansen.
Pumas 38 (18) - Tries: Coenie van Wyk, RW Kember (2), Shaun Venter. Conversions: JC Roos (3). Penalties: JC Roos (4).
Leopards 27 (10) - Tries: Allister Kettledas, Jaco Grobler, Philip de Wet, SJ Niemand. Conversions: André Pretorius (2). Penalty: Pretorius.
Border 27 (24) – Tries: Chumani Booi, Frans Laatz (2). Conversions: Jannie Myburgh (3). Penalties: Myburgh (2).
SWD 33 (19) - Tries: Jeff Taljard, Johan Herbst (2), Shaun Raubenheimer, Theuns Kotze. Conversions: Kotze (4).
Griffons 39 (22) – Tries: Chris-Erich Ehlers, Nicky Steyn (2), Oshwill Nortje, Reinhardt Erwee, Rudi Britz. Conversions: Hansie Graaff (2). Penalty: Tiaan van Wyk.
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Shoot sightings and snow!
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I suspect many of our pots will be under snow for the next few days! This will mean that many schools will be closed. If you do get snow please put a note in the comments section when you send in your weather records. Follow this link to see the all the weather records that have been sent in so far. Select a school then 'weather'.
Here are some pictures of my shoots. You will see that those I planted in autumn 2011 have grown much more than those I planted last autumn.
If you have shoots already, take a look at my pictures to help work out - which shoots are which.
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St Mary's CatholicPrimary School: We have no records for Monday because it was an inset day. Some of our daffodil bulbs have come through the soil. We have taken photographs and will send them by e-mail. Prof.P: I look forward to seeing them St.Mary's.
Ladybank Primary School: Thank you for our new thermometer! Prof.P: No worries, thanks for letting me know it arrived safely.
Glyncollen Primary School: Our bulbs have started to grow over the holidays. We hope the frost doesn't get to them. Yr.4. Prof.P: Don't worry year 4, they are quite tough.
SS Philip and James Primary School:
Happy New Year! A few daffodil shoots are peeping out of the ground and in one or two pots. Quite a few shoots are emerging in the 'Mystery Bulbs' pot and they are a red/green colour compared to the daffodils shoots which are green. Prof.P: How exciting, not seen my mystery bulb shoots yet.
Greyfriars RC Primary School:
Some are sprouting already! All is good. I am really enjoying this project! Prof.P: glad to hear the bulbs are starting to grow and that you are enjoying.
St Joseph's Primary School (Penarth)
Happy New Year Prof.Plant. We have started to notice a few green shoots in some of our pots and are very excited about the plants beginning to grow. We have talked about the weather forecast for next week and think that we may be sending you photos of snow covered pots! (St. Joseph's Primary School, Penarth.) Prof.P: Yes you were right. Some snow in Cardiff but not enough!
Rhydypenau Primary School:
when we got back to school after the Christmas holidays, our rainfall gauge was full, so we must have had a lot of rain in a fortnight. Prof.P: Yes, we had lots of rain over the holidays – a bit too much! Many people had flooding which must have been awful at Christmas.
Henllys CIW Primary:
Some shoots but no flowers. Prof.P: The flowers will come soon.
Auchtertool Primary School:
When we came back from our Christmas break some of our bulbs were showing growth - not only the ones in pots but also some of those we had planted in the ground! Prof.P: Excellent news!
Ysgol Porth Y Felin:
hello p.p the plants are growing quite quickly but we didn't write down Monday because of teacher training. Prof.P: Thanks for letting me know.
Ysgol Nant Y Coed:
This week the bulbs have started to grow, mostly the mystery bulb. The weather was warm at the beginning and at the end it was cold. Prof.P: Great update, Nant Y Coed.
Tynewater Primary School:
We had 50mm of rainfall on Tuesday because we had been on holiday for two weeks and nobody had emptied the rain gauge. Prof.P: Yes, mine was the same. Thanks for noting the reason.
New year, new shoots!
Happy New Year Super Scientists! Hope you had a great break and are ready to get investigating!
At this time of year things start to get really exciting. Now is the time to watch your pots to see if anything is starting to grow. My daffodil shoots have already appeared! Anyone else got any yet? Please send me photographs if you do.
It could take another month or even six weeks until my flowers appear. It all depends on our weather - if it turns really cold then the growth will slow down. If it stays warm they will grow faster.
The next step... Please use my PowerPoint presentation to find out how to keep flower records. Remember each of you must let me know when your flowers open in order to receive your Super Scientist Certificates.
2012 was the second wettest year on record in the UK and the wettest ever in England, the Met Office announced.
The downpours that caused more than 8,000 homes and businesses to suffer flooding led to a total of 1,330.7mm of rain for the year, just 6.6mm short of the wettest UK year recorded in 2000 (1337.3mm).
Analysis by the Met Office suggests that the UK may be getting increasingly wetter as climate change causes warmer air to carry more water. Days of extreme rainfall – downpours expected once every 100 days – occurred every 70 days in 2012. For more info on this see this report from the Guardian.
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February 11th, 2013
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. – Pfeiffer University Director of Athletics Mary Ann Sunbury has announced that Chris Vullo will become the new head coach of Lady Falcon softball. Vullo brings years of head coaching experience to Pfeiffer from Daniel Webster College and New England College at the NCAA III level.
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Starting at Daniel Webster, Vullo helped turn around a struggling program from a pair of wins to a 19-win season in 2009. During the 2009 campaign, the Eagles broke school records for wins, hits, RBI, doubles, strikeouts and earned run average to go along with two no-hitters. Vullo helped coach five all-conference players, three on the first-team, and had members of the softball program appear on the all-academic team.
Transitioning to New England College, Vullo again revitalized the softball program moving from a 10-28 season in 2009 to a 20-19 winning season a year ago. Vullo helped achieve the third-highest win total in school history, placed six more on all-conference teams and had the Pilgrims hit over .300 as a team in two of those three years.
"I am excited and honored to be named as the next head coach of Pfeiffer University softball program," remarked Vullo. "I would like to thank President Michael C. Miller, Athletics Director Mary Ann Sunbury and the entire search committee for selecting me to lead the softball program and I look forward to returning the Pfeiffer softball team back to the championship level it achieved only a few short years ago."


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The Lady Falcons kick off its season on Sept. 6 when they take on Newberry for a 5:00 p.m. match in the Lenoir-Rhyne Classic. The home slate begins on Sept. 15 as Pfeiffer hosts Queens at 1 p.m. and conference play starts on Sept. 21 when they travel to Bristol, TN to take on King at 2 p.m. Four of the Lady Falcons last six matches take place on N.E Lefko Field.
Conference Carolinas Womens Soccer Preseason Poll (# of First Place Votes in Parenthesis)
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You might have noticed that the forum isn't as busy as it used to be, which I think is a shame, so I'm asking you all the following question.
What do you think we can do to get more people around here, both creators and readers?
Fixing the forum bugs is the obvious answer, but what else?
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Forum bugs yes, please.
Honestly, the only reason I don't come around here as often as in the past is that the tube which connects this portion of the internet to ANYWHERE IN ANN ARBOR is painfully congested and doing anything on this forum is slooooooooooowwwww... I have to work up the fortitude to dig through things.
Of course, the new shiny is always calling people away, and a lot of the talk that was here is on G+ and what not.
Also be sure to read ttallan's
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I'm sure somebody somewhere has a pretty solid outline on the life-cycle of an internet forum that might be germaine, but I also have some ideas that relate directly to this forum in particular.
So back in the forum's hayday (yes, it is "hay" not "hey"; the word refers to the warm-but-not-hot days of early summer when hay is cut and the year is considered to be at its zenith), three things were demonstrably true:
The world economy was still at least good enough that people didn't walk around with a constant nagging dread of impending disaster.
Webcomics were still fairly new, and we were all learning what we were doing together.
Webcomics were a computer thing; cell phone use was prevalent, but there were not useful tablets and by no means were people walking around grafted to the modern equivalent of a magic mirror.
Needless to say, things have changed. The economy has forced a number of our old comrades to take their time more seriously, including not wasting hours screwing around on an internet forum (just plain old life did that for others--I'm pretty sure Oppy's girlfriend is now his wife, and the demands of his (paying) job were starting to turn him from the wacky scrawny hippy we all knew and loved into a polite yet mildly conservative (in the social, not political, sense) Dutch working man even before he mentioned her.
There are Oodles of guides and FAQa on the web that people can refer to without needing to dip into the unsafe waters of forum conversation, which has probably conrtibuted to the lack of new users (that aren't Azerbaijani spyware bots trying to
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But I think the greatest part of the blame rests with those plastic-and-glass pustules that people cradle in their palms. Internet forums are created for computers, and tablets and phones are not ideal for reading and typing in long rambling threads. This means that the smartphone-addicted mass is less likely to even stroll by here while they google "somethng that might engage my flagging attention span while I wait for my GPS to reload directions to my mother's house which she's had since 1963 and I grew up in".
I honestly can't think of a suggestion to change any of that. So, err, yeah...Forum bugs.
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It seems to me that the majority of new folk we do see around here are newly-minted webcomic creators looking for a place to talk shop (rather than webcomic readers looking for a place to talk about their favourite strips). Unfortunately, TWCL members have a habit of making them feel like idiots because they're new and making mistakes and they were dumb enough to pick this medium to express themselves. And poof, they're gone.
I remember my experience of going up to a comic artist at a comic con artist alley with my crappy portfolio, and how a few kind and encouraging remarks really helped and gave me something to work towards. I've heard more than a few tales from other wanna-be creators having their dreams utterly crushed by grumps in artists alley. Honestly, I don't see the value in that. It's a much more useful learning experience to try and fail than to be talked out of trying at all.
Which is not to say that sometimes you need to be blunt and tell it like it is. But I think that kind of strong medicine should only be doled out as necessary, not as a first treatment.
To continue my artist alley comparison: a young artist with a portfolio looking for critiques and advice can choose which person to approach-- the friendly-looking up-and-coming artist, or the serious but clearly experienced established artist, depending on what kind of an attitude they're ready for. On the forurm, the newbies don't get to pick, they just get bombarded with opinions from all sides. Perhaps what we need is a forum section like "Gentle Advice for a Newbie" and another one "Gimme the Truth, I Can Take It." So we can ease the newcomers in gently, before we drown them in our collective cynicism.
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Yeah I think a lot of the reasons given so far are valid. Forums meet different needs for different people. I'm looking for a good community as much as a source of information forum. This forum seems to me to be...let's see, not unfriendly but far far from the feeling of walking into a bar, seeing some buddies and feeling comfortable. More like walking into a store with shelves and shelves of expensive glass items lining very narrow aisles. But I'm new so that's to be expected from my perspective. Yet the place still seems kind of serious and business-like. Maybe it had a strong sense of community in the past and that has soured? It happens to forums. And I guess nowadays of lot of social community type needs are being met by the relatively new social media stuff.
Perhaps we could have a two or three person Welcoming Committee? When we get a first-poster we could jump in and make them feel wel- OKAY I SEE YOU ROLLING YOUR EYES THERE MISTER. YES YOU. SEE THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 6:41 am
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mcmasters wrote:
Maybe it had a strong sense of community in the past and that has soured?
I don't know about soured, but a lot of the old "faces" I remember from here are gone, and the new ones tend not to stick around long enough to become familiar. There's not much action, so they don't post, so there's not much action, etc.
I think part of the problem is that the webcomic list itself isn't exactly relevant anymore. It's getting really hard to find good webcomics amid the oceans of discontinued titles, and everyone already knows where to find Penny Arcade or XKCD if they want them. I don't really know why you'd go to TWCL if you were interested in finding a comic rather than, say, Google. The list just doesn't have much functionality.
One thing I remember really liking about this forum were the times when we did those round robin critiques, I thought that was really helpful and a good way to get to know the other forum goers. Then I realized that nowadays it would probably be split off in the "jams" subforum or something, which I rarely check. Maybe more of that kind of thing would be nice, some activities related to webcomics but which are more social than sitting in front of a desk drawing. Like, I dunno, a webcomic themed book club or something.
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:31 am
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I can't say much because I'm new, but I don't come here as often as other forums I frequent because most of the posts are either "look at my comic," "help me find this comic that I lost," or stuff dealing with ads. For any question about script writing or 'favourite comics', there's already a thread/FAQ that one can read without actually being a member.
Then there's also my personal feelings with the bugs and layout. The bugs are annoying and this forum is very bright. All the other forums I frequent are grey to dark grey/black. Coming here from there tends to burn my eyes a little.
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 6:34 pm
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Here's something really simple:
Change the look of the forum.
Not so much with the color scheme, but in the corner you got this big 'ol logo for the site that made the forum software. Then in the middle you have a bland piece of text that says "TWCL"
It just makes the forum seem low-budget and unprofessional. People drop in here, look around, and decide not to stay. You want something more polished so it doesn't feel like a forum someone's running in their garage.
You really ought to put up a graphic with the site's logo.
For that matter you might want to have a real logo for the site.
And if you wanna REALLY get some people involved, make that a contest. Just open up a contest to let people design a new logo for the site, and let people submit their designs. Perhaps even let the community vote on the designs. Then update the header for the forum so it looks more polished and professional, instead of out-of-the-box.
Idea number two:
It also looks bad for the site when people can't customize their profile. When they have no capacity to edit their own signature and so forth, it really makes the site feel broken. Newcomers see that and lode interest.
Enable people to edit their own profile.
If there was a restriction that said "you must be a community member for X-duration" or the like that was displayed if they tried to change such things, at least that would be understandable.
I also think it would be great if in the box on the side what shows your avatar also had webcomic-specific info their. In particular, let people specify if they are a webcomic creator, former creator, or just an avid fan. let people click this declaration to take them to their comic's entry on the list, or a list of the comics they read.
My webcomic: Mischief in Maytia
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:56 pm
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Marscaleb wrote:
It also looks bad for the site when people can't customize their profile. When they have no capacity to edit their own signature and so forth, it really makes the site feel broken.
Totally agree.
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:39 pm
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Marscaleb wrote:
It also looks bad for the site when people can't customize their profile. When they have no capacity to edit their own signature and so forth, it really makes the site feel broken.
That's because it kind of is. That's the main thing I meant with the forum bugs. Believe me if it was within my abilities to fix that I would have done a long, long time ago.
Me and oppy can do things like ban users, create new boards, create user groups and so on, but to fix that requires top level access which neither of us has.
Likewise anything that relates to the main site is outside of our control as well, but replacing the phpbb logo should be easy enough.
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:17 pm
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If we want a more vibrant and active webcomic community of readers and artists here, we could always mention this forum a little more often on our own sites, even if just in blog posts. It doesn't have to be a big advertising campaign.
Just tell people to come by and hang out.
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Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:41 am
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I think there are a couple of things...
First, on the subject of Webcomic lists being out of date. The appropriate modern equivalent, as I've long felt, is a ranking and sorting system based on the user's profile. For example, if you like artsy B&W comics, then the website will find other artsy B&W comics and suggest them to you.
Second, I'm not sure if the webcomic list and this forum are all that closely linked. I think webcomic readers use the list, and writers tend to use the forum. We've lost a lot of community characters over the years and may not have fully replaced them. We may not be very good at introducing new members into the inner circle, and that may be a little put-offish. Also, at some point, everything that needs to be said about making webcomics has been said. How many times do we need to mention Scott McCloud, or argue where to put your First/Previous/Next/Last buttons? At some point, we stop making new discussions, and become librarians of the old discussions.
We really need to liven things up with the kind of fire we used to have which was based on friendly community banter and topical discussion of how to make webcomics.
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Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:14 pm
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It feels like the owner of the TWCL forum has given up on us. He either doesn't have the time or the inclination to fix the bugs which have been around here for so so long. Frankly, if it wasn't for the great contributors here I would be thinking about jumping ship and looking at other forums.
For what it's worth, here's what I, personally, feel would help:
1. Review of the main categories
Webcomic Gubbins? It feels weird that there is just one topic of 'Webcomic Gubbins' to capture *all* the discussions around the principal reason for us being here. Because almost everything is grouped under such a big umbrella nobody wants to post in
threads such as "How-to" because they fear it will be missed. As such some have not been updated in years.
...but imagine, if you will, if you came to the forum and were greeting with:
General Ramblings
Webcomic Creators Discussion:
----- Webcomic News
----- Tutorials
----------- Art and Drawing
----------- Writing for Comics
----------- Round-robin Critiques
----- Promotion and Advertising
----- Monetising a Webcomic
----- Conventions
----- Looking for Writer / Artist
----- Statistics
----- Podcasts
----- Webcomic Gubbins (<-- With threads moved as appropriate)
Webcomic Readers Discussion:
----- Looking for a Comic
----- Check Out My Comic (<-- note it is in a webcomic readers area)
Forum Community:
----- Jams and Competitions
----- Crossovers
----- Seasonal Comics (ie everyone posts their Valentines day comic etc)
Site Problems etc
2. More consistent use of 'Sticky' threads. At present Some threads go into 50 pages and don't get stickied, other threads happen to catch the eye of a moderator and get stickied (ie Funny things in webcomics?) or are completely out of date (TWCL Chat? Aren't we all tweeting these days?).
3. It would be better if the Webcomic List itself was better linked to the Forum. Imagine if your Profile page showed your comic's rank. Or showed which comics were run by forum contributors and it gave them better visibility on the main site. Imagine if the owner of the forum offered up advertising slots on the main site to the winner of a monthly contest?
4. Fix those pesky bugs! We wouldn't need threads for "Massive list of Stumbleupon/Reddit/Twitter/DeviantArt/Facebook/Skype" if you could customise your profile to include these things.
This is such a good community. I would hate for more people to leave because of technical frustrations.
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Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:30 pm
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Spencey wrote:
1. Review of the main categories
...but imagine, if you will, if you came to the forum and were greeting with:
General Ramblings
Webcomic Creators Discussion:
----- Tutorials
----- Round-robin Critiques
----- The Business of Webcomics
----- Looking for Writer / Artist
----- Webcomic Gubbins (<-- With threads moved as appropriate)
Webcomic Readers Discussion:
----- Looking for a Comic
----- Check Out My Comic (<-- note it is in a webcomic readers area)
Forum Community:
----- Jams and Competitions
----- Crossovers
----- Seasonal Comics (ie everyone posts their Valentines day comic etc)
Site Problems etc
While I agree that we could use a little more organization here, I have been to a few sites that had long lists of multi-layered forums, and it seems to me that over-layering tends to dissuade people from entering at all for fear of posting a new thread in the wrong place.
Above is my edited version of your list. Note all forms of advertising (podcasts, conventions, etc.) are included as part of the Business of Webcomics ("monetizing" is a made-up word for people who think "business" is a profanity). Likewise all of the tutorials would be in a single forum, and Introductions are fine in the General forum.
4. Fix those pesky bugs! We wouldn't need threads for "Massive list of Stumbleupon/Reddit/Twitter/DeviantArt/Facebook/Skype" if you could customise your profile to include these things.
Most of the bugs are related to a plain-bread install of phpBB 2.x and its multiple conflicts with the main site's database handling. Only Ash can fix them, and Ash lost interest in the forum a long time ago.
Assuming that Ash doesn't want to be arsed to rewrite his cutom code for the list, I can offer space on my server to host an updated messageboard; however, if Ash doesn't change the "messageboard" link on the main site sidebar, it will just go the way of the test board that Wendy and Jess set up a couple of years ago.
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What is all this buggy something I'm hearing about? For me, forum loads up, goes quickly to where I click.
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Recipe for Seahawks' elite secondary: coaching, scouting and chemistry
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Seattle cornerback Jeremy Lane (left) defends against Chicago's Brandon Marshall (15) during a recent preseason game. Lane was picked in the sixth round of the 2013 NFL draft.
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Richard Sherman (25) and Byron Maxwell (41), Seattle�s starting cornerbacks, were picked in the fifth and sixth rounds, respectively, of the 2011 NFL draft.
Over and over again the Seahawks add a cornerback to their roster with a late-round draft pick, and over and over again that player turns out to be a star or a starter or at the very least a dependable backup.
Of course, everyone knows All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman was a fifth-round pick (No. 154 overall, he loves to remind you). And this year's starter on the other side of the field is Byron Maxwell, a sixth-round pick in that same 2011 NFL draft who — it's easy now to forget — actually was ahead of Sherman on the depth chart as a rookie.
Nickel corner Jeremy Lane was a sixth-round pick, and top backup Tharold Simon, one of the bright spots in this year's camp after missing last season because of injuries, was a fifth-rounder. Just for good measure, let's throw in Pro Bowl safety Kam Chancellor, a fifth-round pick, and Seattle's backup safeties Jeron Johnson and DeShawn Shead, both undrafted, and the league's best secondary is made up of one first-round pick, Earl Thomas, and a bunch of guys other teams passed over.
So what's going on here? It's one thing to strike gold on a late round pick, but how do the Seahawks keep finding quality cornerbacks late in the draft year after year? Is it coaching, is it scouting, is it something else?
The short answer is, yes. It's all of that.
"I don't think it's one thing; I think it's a combination of a lot of things," Maxwell said. "I think it's the leaders we've got in the room, I think it's great coaching. Coach (Kris) Richard makes sure everyone's attention to detail is where it needs to be — his attention to detail is second to none, and he played the position so he understands what it takes. ... And you've got to have the right attitude. That has to be right, you have to come ready to work every day."
Finding an overlooked cornerback who can become an NFL star begins with general manager John Schneider and his scouting department knowing what kind of player is the right fit in Seattle. Part of that is physical — candidates must have long arms, and for an outside cornerback, height helps, as does speed, though not all of Seattle's corners run a 4.4-second 40-yard dash. But a big part of scouting is also the process of, as Schneider likes to describe it, "knowing what's in a man's heart." There's an attitude that is a must for Seahawks corners. They don't all have to be as boisterous as Richard Sherman, but they all need to be comfortable playing aggressive, press coverage.
"I know we look for guys who kind of fit a profile," said Richard, Seattle's secondary coach. "Those guys certainly have fit the profile in regards to their mentality and how they want to challenge wide receivers at the line of scrimmage down after down. You start with that mentality, then coaches can take someone, teach them a few things, and you'll end up with a finished product. ... Mentality more times than not is going to overcome ability. It's what's in your heart."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. Belmont Abbey College fired a team round of 325 to lead after day one of the 2011 Dana Rader Intercollegiate held at the long and wet Ballantyne Resort and Golf Club on Monday afternoon. The Crusaders lead by six over host Pfeiffer University and 10 over the University of Findlay. Pfeiffers Angela Gimenez posted the low score of the day with a seven-over 78 on the par 71, 5,830-yard layout.
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