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The noise online is deafening. But there is also a lot of really great content available on nearly every subject imaginable - from addressing simple ideas to the highly complex. There's a lot of research that shows the first stop for B2B buyers with the need to solve a problem is search. With nearly unlimited search results for any query, your buyer is learning a lot as they browse around looking for ideas, education and opportunities to turn that problem into an opportunity for their company - and their career.
So, do you know what they know?
Most marketers do (or have someone) do keyword research to use to engage their target audiences.
I worked on a project recently where an "SEO specialist" provided a list of keywords for the marketing team to use. I went out and Googled them. Some of them produced results totally unrelated to what the buyers would be interested in, but they had good volume (so what?). Some produced results with competitor content and some of that content was pretty darned good. Some of it was totally off the mark.
The point being that I don't see a lot of marketers actually looking at what the keywords they're using produce for a search. It's strangely a bit like blind acceptance if the words make sense to them. But what's at the end is critical.
So what if you stepped into your buyer's shoes and went online to search for a solution to a problem your buyer might be experiencing by using your keywords? What could you easily learn from the content offered up in the search results? If you click on a link and read it, does it prompt you to search on a new term? (what was is?) And so on.
Or would you hit the back button and keep scrolling through the search results looking for a better option? How far do you get before you realize this keyword isn't giving you what you need and move on to the next one? Do you use a keyword from your list or did your brain come up with a new one.
Remember, you're in your buyer's shoes. Be discerning. Treat the exercise seriously. Heed time - they don't have all day. Look for the rabbit holes that start with the example I proposed in the previous paragraph.
Once you've done this several times, review what your buyer would have learned.
If you know your buyer uses a social platform in their buying process, go try searching on some of those - groups in LinkedIn they may belong to or hashtags on Twitter, for example. What can they learn about solving those problems in those environments?
Now go look at your content. Given what your buyer may have engaged with, is your content off the mark? Is it too advanced or too simplistic? Is it possible that any of the rabbit holes you followed could provide new insights for how your content might be positioned to enter the thread? This can be critical if the keyword isn't one that will allow you to quickly reach page 1 in the search results.
We often plan our content from start to finish as if our prospects will only interact with the story we're telling. Heck, I've been guilty of this at times, myself. But marketers need to recognize that this isn't reality for most of our buyers - if any - and start to figure out how we'll engage them based on what they may already have learned.
In the experiment you did, was what you learned on the mark? Or was it off track, given the thorough research I know you've done while building buyer personas?
If it was off track, can you develop content to set them straight? I don't necessarily mean dissing the other content, but gently guiding them to another perspective. Perhaps something along the lines of "Why X may not be the best choice if you need to do Y" And this isn't to be taken lightly. You better be able to show your expertise where your claim lies.
Buyers are smart. They're evolving quickly. We need to think about what that means for our marketing programs and how we'll evolve them to stay in step with what our buyers know - or think they know - as they navigate through all that online noise to find what matters to them.
You want it to be your content, right?
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Midori Receives Honorary Doctorate from Yale University
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On Monday, 21 May 2012, in recognition of her accomplishments as musician, educator, and community engagement activist, violinist Midori was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree (Mus.D.) by Yale University. Since 1702, Yale has conferred honorary degrees in order to recognize individuals of extraordinary accomplishment and service. This year, Midori joins eight other honorees whose work has made a significant impact in one of the ten fields in which Yale awards honorary degrees:
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"It is thrilling to receive this honorary doctorate from Yale University," says Midori, "and it is truly humbling to contemplate the company I'm in! I started out playing music because of the joy it brings to our lives, but in my work I am also discovering every day the power music has to heal, to educate, to stimulate the human mind in multiple dimensions. It is deeply gratifying and inspiring to know that Yale recognizes and values this work."
Among Midori's fellow recipients of Yale's honorary degrees in the 310 years since the inception of the program are Benjamin Franklin (1753), Noah Webster (1823), Samuel F.B. Morse (1846), Charles Ives (1874), Nikola Tesla (1894), Ignace Jan Paderewski (1917), Marie Curie (1921), Willa Cather (1929), Fiorello LaGuardia (1940), Felix Frankfurter (1961), Jean Piaget (1970), Stephen Hawking (1989), Mario Vargas Llosa (1994) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2003).
In 1992 Midori founded Midori & Friends, a non-profit organization in New York which brings music education programs to thousands of underserved children each year. Two other organizations, Music Sharing, based in Japan, and Partners in Performance, based in the U.S., also bring music closer to the lives of people who may not otherwise have involvement with the arts. Her commitment to community collaboration and outreach extends beyond these organizations to her work with young violinists in master classes all over the world, and to her Orchestra Residencies Program in the U.S. Midori plays up to 100 concerts a year, dividing her time between recitals, chamber music and concerto performances worldwide. She has an extensive catalogue of recordings, and in recent years has devoted a great deal of energy and resources to commissioning and performing new music. In the 2012-2013 season - the 30th anniversary of her performing career - she will play the world premiere of a violin concerto by Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös, newly commissioned for her by the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the BBC Proms and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition to being named Artist of the Year by the Japanese government (1988), Midori has won the Avery Fisher Prize (2001), the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis (2002), the Kennedy Center Gold Medal in the Arts (2010), the Mellon Mentoring Award (2012), and the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum, for her "20-year devotion to community engagement work worldwide" (2012). In 2007, Midori was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and in 2012 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is Distinguished Professor of Violin, Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin, and Chair of the Strings Department at the Thornton School at the University of Southern California.
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Seafair hydros to feature more pre-race jockeying
Fighting for lanes before the start of unlimited hydroplane races is back on for the 2011 season.
The Seattle Times
Fighting for lanes before the start of unlimited hydroplane races is back on.
The H1 Board of Directors approved a rule change earlier this week. For the past two seasons, lane assignments for all heat races were given before the boats hitting the water.
The 2011 rules will still have restrictions on position and racing speeds before the start but lane choices will not be determined by points from the preliminary heats.
The boat with the most points after the preliminary heats the past two seasons had first choice of lanes in the championship heat, giving the boat a huge advantage going into the first turn.
The last time boats jockeyed for lanes in the pre-race milling period in Seattle was the 2008 Seafair Chevrolet Cup. The race ended in controversy when Jean Theoret, driving the Miss Beacon Plumbing, led from start to finish in Lane 1 but was assessed a one-minute penalty for going off plane before the start. Dave Villwock in the Miss E-Lam Plus took the checkered flag and later that week was declared the winner after a protest was denied.
Another change for the upcoming season is that each boat will carry two onboard cameras. The cameras will be fitted in the cockpit and in back. The video will be another tool for the race judges to use when verifying the official results.
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Raney, who group up in Seattle watching the hydros, has been involved with the unlimited series since 1989 when he wandered into Bill Wurster's U-8 shop and was given the task of sweeping the floors. Raney was the crew chief the past few years for Billy Schumacher's team.
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Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of Paris 1919. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam.
For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews.
The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War.
A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt the world still.
"Ms. McMillan's approach to history is to get under the skin of the figures, to see them as all-too-human actors struggling with a task of monumental difficulty. . . . Among the many strengths of this work is its completeness. Ms. McMillan. . . provides a lucid primer on many of the less widely understood parts of the picture. . . . honest, dispassionate and thoroughly engaging. . . ." —The New York Times
"MacMillan deftly reviews the conference's great controversies and decisions (and non-decisions)...." —Claremont Review of Books
"Scrupulously researched, very fluidly written and closely argued…Splendidly revisionist and daringly politically incorrect." —Andrew Roberts (The Sunday Telegraph)
"Compelling…Exactly the sort of book I most like: written with pace and flavoured with impudence based on solid scholarship; illuminating tangled subjects with irreverent pen portraits of the individuals concerned; and with a brilliant eye for quotations." —Roy Jenkins, author of Churchill (The Sunday Times, London)
"It's easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference…This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift." —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph
"MacMillan is brilliant at evoking the atmosphere of the conference…Everyone who was anyone — from Elinor Glyn to Marcel Proust — hung around on the fringes of the conference. MacMillan enlivens her narrative with very funny stories about the regions whose affairs the negotiators sought to settle." —Richard Vinen, Financial Times
"Fascinating and funny…most of the problems treated in this book are still with us today — indeed some of the most horrific things that have been taking place in Europe and the Middle East in the last decade stem directly from the decisions made in Paris in 1919. It is instructive and sobering to read about the passions, the humbug and the sheer stupidity that gave rise to them." —Adam Zamovski, The Sunday Times
"The First World War was an unprecedented experience for the human race, involving so much change and upheaval that the peace conference that followed it was, in turn, unlike any other in history…Now at last we have a book that does justice to the Paris peace conference in all its aspects…No figure of any consequence is introduced without a vivid character-sketch. The result is a thoroughly illuminating study, which reads racily." —John Grigg, The Times
"One of the most important books of the year…Paris in 1919 was the place to be: an epoch-making city with an illustrious past...Into it poured the world's politicians and diplomats, the occasional king and queen and celebrities like Lawrence of Arabia and Ho Chi Minh…Macmillan, in a brilliantly lucid narrative, succeeds in placing the Paris conference within an era of warring and demanding factions that could not have foreseen the prospect of a resurgent Germany…The sheer attractiveness of her grand-scale book lies in the penetrating portraits and underlying sentiments of dueling personalities against the noble backdrop of Versailles." —Colin Gardner, Oxford Times


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ALBANY -- Albany police responded to at least 50 incidents Wednesday into the early hours of Thursday, according to available police reports. Police responded to incidents including:
-- Recovered property, a silver Jaguar sedan with a 9mm Ruger handgun in it.
-- Missing juvenile on the 200 block of South Carroll Street;
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-- Motor vehicle theft on the 2500 block of Dawson Road;
-- Theft by taking on the 1800 block of West Broad Avenue;
-- Injured person on the 400 block of West Third Avenue;
-- Aggravated assault, battery (domestic) on the 1800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive;
-- Battery (domestic) on the 700 block of Corn Avenue;
-- Assault (domestic) on the 800 block of Rood Street;
-- Domestic (unfounded) on the 2400 block of Dawson Road, the 2200 block of South Madison Street, the 900 block of Friendship Drive, the 1600 block of Gardner Drive, the 500 block of North Westover Boulevard, the 1700 block of Dorchester Drive, the 1600 block of Gardner Drive and the 200 block of Frost Street.
DOUGHERTY POLICE: Dougherty County police responded to at least 10 calls, according to police reports.
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-- Motor vehicle theft on the 100 block of Holton Lane;
-- Family violence (verbal) on the 400 block of Philema Road.
DOUGHERTY COUNTY EMS: The Dougherty County Emergency Medical Service responded to 67 calls on Wednesday.
There were 44 medical calls, 19 trauma calls and four other calls. Medical Calls: Four chest pain, eight respiratory issues, three faint, a diabetic issue, two seizures, four miscellaneous pain calls, one cardiac arrest, an allergic reaction and 20 various medical; Trauma calls: 13 vehicle crash victims, four falls and two lacerations. Other type calls are typically medical alerts or standby.
ALBANY FIRE DEPARTMENT: The Albany Fire Department responded to nine incidents.
-- Unattended Cooking, a fire prevention program, three activated alarms, electric short on power pole, air conditioner short, cardiac arrest and a structure fire.
-- Compiled by Pete Skiba
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Salma Agha
|Salma Agha
Aagha in 2011
October 25, 1946
London, England, UK
|Singer, actress, producer
|Rahmat Khan
(m. 1999–2010; divorced, 2 children)
Manzar Shah (m. 2011–present)
|Sasha Agha (daughter)
Liaqat Ali Khan (son)
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Salma Agha (born October 25, 1946) is a British singer and actress of Pakistani origin[1] who sang as well as acted in Indian films in the 1980s and the early 1990s. Her first film was B.R Chopra's Nikaah for which she won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the ghazal "Dil Ke Armaan Aansuon Mein Beh Gaye".
Early life[edit]
Agha was born into a Pathan Nasreen (born as Zarina Ghaznavi) and Liaqat Gul Tajik.[2] Her father was given the title of Agha, as he was a reputed businessman of precious stones and antiques in Iran. Salma's maternal grandparents are actor Jugal Kishore Mehra and actress Anwari Begum(actress) who starred in the first ever made Heer Ranjha (1932). Salma's biological maternal grandfather was Rafiq Ghaznavi. Nasreen was later adopted by Jugul Kishore Mehra, who converted to Islam and took on the name Ahmed Salman.[3]
Salma along with sister Sabina produced and sang for a record called ABBA AND AGHA – Salma and Sabina Aagha sang ABBA hits in Urdu. The record made a few waves and was applauded by critics.
]] to meet him. Using her uncle Raj Kapoor's connection, Salma was soon hired.
When the music directors heard Salma's ABBA hits they signed her on to sing her own playback songs. The songs were a huge success even before the movie was released. The movie got stuck with the Islamic clerics who were to approve the movie before its release. They insisted on a name change and Chopra rechristened the movie Nikaah. The movie went on to be a huge success and is considered a classic. It is one of the strongest debuts for an actress and a huge vehicle for a newcomer. She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. In addition to winning the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the song "Dil Ke Armaan," which was a great honour for salma being a newcomer since the nominees were Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle she also earned two Filmfare nominations: one for the song "Pyar Bhi Hai Jawan" and the other for the song "Dil Ki Yeh Arzo".
After a film which would give her looks and screen appearance a total change, and even though it took a while before she signed on to her second project, her music kept playing in every corner possible. She finally found the right project that would ]]. The movie was publicized with huge pictures of Salma, which in turn upset and overshadowed Mithun. This movie became Salma's second release and another hit. She earned a Filmfare nomination for the song "Jhoom Jhoom Baba" which was a super hit back in the day and still is known to be one of the songs which people love to even now.
Salma Aagha was later approached by producers and directors in Pakistan for films which were being made as co-productions between Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Far East, which turned out to be a contract for a large number of films. Salma was known for her singing and acting in all these countries as well. She sang songs in Bengali, Rajasthani, Gujarati and won a number of songs.
She did a Pakistani film called Bazaar-e-Husn which was the first in Pakistan to win awards in Russia. Her performance was outstanding and as a music was again a hit by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Salma kept going strong which lead to a title role called 'Salma' By Ramanand Sagar starring Raj Babbar, Salma Agha, Farooq sheikh Shoma Anand. The musc by Bappi Lahiri again was outstanding .
Personal life[edit]
Her father (Liaqat Gul Tajik)and mother Nasreen Aagha debuted opposite KL Saigal in Shahjahan (1946) while noted actor Jugal Kishore Mehra (Raj Kapoor's mama (maternal uncle))was her maternal grandfather and grandmother Anwari Begum, a singing star in the '30s and the '40s.Her husband famous Pakistani squash player Rehmat Khan, daughter Sasha Agha will be seen in film Aurangzeb and teenage son Liaqat Ali Khan, a gold medalist in badminton, is also interested in films.[4]
See also[edit]
- ^ Seema Sinha, TNN Sep 4, 2012, 10.05AM IST (2012-09-04). "Salma Agha's daughter Sasha bags Yashraj's film". The Times of India. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
- ^ "Salma Agha: What's the Big Deal if I Married Twice?". Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- ^ "Rafiq Ghaznavi". Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- ^ http://idiva.com/news-entertainment/salma-agha-whats-the-big-deal-if-i-married-twice/20158
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salma Agha.
- Salma Agha at the Internet Movie Database
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- Salma Agha to raise funds for Indian hockey – Times Of India


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We continue to get better at radio, and think it's directly related to our lack of Jeff Odom the last couple weeks.

This week Josh Appel & Collin Sherwin discuss the lack of progress on most fronts seen by USF in the Memphis game. Why isn't USF getting better? Why the continual seemingly plan-free rotation of quarterbacks? What's the plan here?

Also Collin launches into a diatribe about why he hates the UCF "rivalry," and we discuss the upcoming Black Friday game that will end the Bulls season.

We also talk about the incredibly fun USF men's basketball team that has quickly captured our hearts, Sting joining the WWE, and USF athletic director Mark Harlan joining us on the podcast next week (or the week after, whatever, he's coming)!

Check it out on iTunes and make sure to subscribe so you never miss, or you can listen below:

 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/26/7296723/voodoo-fivecast-the-ucf-rivalry-hurts-so-much-edition Collin Sherwin 2014-11-26T13:23:10-05:00 2014-11-26T13:23:10-05:00 George O'Leary is Confused About the USF-UCF Game
It's a rivalry! Wait, we beat them once? NO IT'S NOT.

For better or for worse, USF is finally embracing the rivalry with UCF. Through a combination of their own failings, the changing landscape of college football, and, perhaps, the need to create some late-season enthusiasm with the Bulls failing to qualify for a bowl this season, USF has been hyping this game up like they never have before. They've registered BeatUCF.com (and BeatUSF.com for that matter-- well played, athletics department), are tweeting out the hashtag #BeatUCF at every opportunity, have some cool new uniforms for the game, are putting up flyers and billboards and made an intense hype video. For us USF lifers who never thought we'd see the day that UCF was considered a rival, this is kind of sad. But it's necessary, and the athletics department is doing a fine job of raising excitement for the Bulls' Black Friday matchup with the Knights.

Wow, so UCF finally got what they wanted! A real rivalry game with USF! I bet they're pretty excited, right?

Been working on transcribing early afternoon interviews at UCF. Constant theme from players: USF is just another game, not a rivalry.
 — Brandon Helwig (@UCFSports) November 24, 2014

Wait, what?

UCF WR Josh Reese: "What we prepare for is winning the conference championship. We're not caught up in the hype of a rivalry."
 — Brandon Helwig (@UCFSports) November 24, 2014

But--

UCF S Clayton Geathers: "It's an important game because it's the next game. It's conference play. We're just looking forward to playing."
 — Brandon Helwig (@UCFSports) November 24, 2014

Okay, okay. George O'Leary, you've only been calling this a rivalry game for the last nine years. Surely you're happy that USF is finally embracing it?

On tonight's radio show, GOL took shots at Taggart and his players for "running their mouths" and using the word "hate."
 — Brandon Helwig (@UCFSports) November 26, 2014

Really, George? You're not into players and coaches talking up the USF game? Let's take a look back over the past decade.

September 14, 2005: George O'Leary on playing USF every year: "It's a natural being that they are only two hours away."

July 30, 2006: "I would sign the contract right now-- today, tomorrow, whenever. I've made it very clear that I'd like to continue that series every year." - George O'Leary

"This is a game that will come close to filling both stadiums. It's a game the fan base and student bodies look forward to." - George O'Leary

August 17, 2006: "It's a great rivalry-type game." - George O'Leary

September 15, 2006: "I'm just saying what looks like a good situation for both schools. It's something we'd like to see continue." - George O'Leary

October 11, 2007: Everyone says this game doesn't matter-- the hell it doesn't. If it doesn't matter, then why [does USF] throw it in your face during recruiting?" - George O'Leary

The article continues: "O'Leary reasons that 'common sense' dictates this game should be played every year."

December 16, 2010: "I've voiced my opinion. I think it's something that needs to happen. It would be a win-win for both schools." - George O'Leary

November 1, 2011: I think it's a great game for both fan bases. I think it's a natural game." - George O'Leary

Okay, George. Just another game. Sure.
 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/26/7294773/george-oleary-is-confused-about-the-usf-ucf-game Ryan T. Smith 2014-11-26T09:01:02-05:00 2014-11-26T09:01:02-05:00 Let's Make The UCF-USF "Rivalry" Mean Something: The Battle For The Gold Jersey
If we're going to play this game annually, then let's play for keeps. Or at least our mutual color.

Some background and thoughts:

* Made up trophies for games like this are usually stupid (except for this one which OMG SO AMAZING!!). Unless there's something really cool that symbolizes the history between the two institutions, forget it. So if you want to make a Doug Woolard Tire Trophy, I would support this. Otherwise I can't think of anything that would make sense.

* The War On I-4 is already taken and trademarked, and that's lame anyway.

* We can't collaborate with a C. Florida blog on this, because they're incapable of maintaining a fan blog of any presence whatsoever. Possibly because most of their fanbase can't write in complete sentences. Or because those pizzas aren't getting delivered by themselves HAHAHA SEE IT'S SUCH A RIVALRY I MADE FUN OF YOU KNIGHTS. Or I just plugged the same lame tropes that every "rivalry" uses agains the other one. Hey internet, stop doing that this week. Both sides.

The above being stipulated, we have an idea: our former writer and resident genius Andrew Pina came up with this, and in the opinion of this blog it is fantastic:

"The Battle For The Gold Jersey"

The team that wins the UCF-USF game each year gets to wear gold jerseys during the game the next season. They can also wear a gold jersey for whatever game they'd like during the regular season, while the losing team cannot wear gold jerseys all year against any opponent under any circumstances.

Both teams share the color, and both teams haven't been shy about using multiple uniform combinations this season. We like this idea for many different reasons, but here are the biggest:

* When you buy a gold jersey as a USF or UCF fan, you'll now be making a statement. That statement is "I love my school, and that school over there can go to hell." I like this. Also think of the marketing implications: the next USF jersey you buy is much more likely to be a gold one (you're welcome, Under Armour and Nike), and tell me you're not wearing that gold jersey every day, week, and possibly month after the game to taunt your co-worker that graduated from Central Florida or vice versa.

* Players will want to win this game so they can wear that gold jersey with pride. Symbols of victory in games like this can be pretty cool, such as Ohio State and the gold pants given to players when they beat Michigan. But with this it's even better because getting that gold jersey will be something that can only be earned one way: by beating the opponent that wants it just as bad as you do.

* Not having worn a gold jersey for years on end will drive one of the two fan bases completely insane. Like borderline psychotic. We love this part.

Important point we've already thought of: Yes we know USF hasn't worn gold jerseys before while UCF does on a more frequent basis. We don't care. We also think USF underutilizes the gold side of the color palette they have, which can be really sharp when well-executed. We're also giving the Bulls a reason to sell more swag. We can't imagine they'd be opposed to this.

This shouldn't ever have become a rivalry. USF made some awful administrative decisions, and failed to stay ahead of the team they were clearly better than before, during, and after the 2005-2008 series. But it is what it is, and we are where we are.

Portions of both fan bases are going to continue to make a big deal out of this game. For reasons which I expressed on the podcast this week, as an older USF fan that always looked at Oviedo with a combination of disdain and pity it sucks that they will be the favorite two years in a row. But it shows the teams are on relatively equal footing over the long-term now. So let's acknowledge the obvious, and have some fun with it.

Someday I hope USF will develop a great rivalry with another school, but that day is not now. Since our marketing people are all in and our administration is all in and our coach is all in on this, let's #DoSomething.

C'mon, USF Athletics and UCF Athletics: let's make this happen.

#GoldJerseyGame

@GoldJerseyGame
 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/26/7282419/lets-make-the-ucf-usf-rivalry-mean-something-the-battle-for-the-gold Collin Sherwin 2014-11-25T16:20:42-05:00 2014-11-25T16:20:42-05:00 Underdogs Poll, Week 13
We're reaching the end of the season, and little has changed up top. This is probably good news for Marshall.

 Rank	 Team	 Points	 Last Week

 1	 Marshall Thundering Herd	 29	 1

 2	 Colorado State Rams	 28	 2

 3	 Boise State Broncos	 28	 3

 4 (tie)	 Northern Illinois Huskies	 21	 5

 4 (tie)	 Cincinnati Bearcats	 21	 8

 6 (tie)	 Memphis Tigers	 20	 5

 6 (tie)	 Utah State Aggies	 20	 7

 8	 East Carolina Pirates	 16	 9

 9	 Air Force Falcons	 15	 4

 10	 C. Florida Knights	 12	 9

 11	 BYU Cougars	 11	 13

 12 (tie)	 Georgia Southern Eagles	 6	 14

 12 (tie)	 Western Michigan Broncos	 6	 NR

 14	 Navy Midshipmen	 4	 NR

 15	 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs	 2	 11

Dropped Out: Nevada, Louisiana-Lafayette
Receiving Votes: Toledo (1), Houston (1)

- Some critical G5 games this weekend: Northern Illinois and Western Michigan kick off the Black Friday action bright and early at 11 a.m. for a slot in the MAC Championship game. Colorado State and Boise State both have big games-- at Air Force and vs. Utah State, respectively-- that could affect the race for the G5 New Year's Day bowl. Memphis, C. Florida and Cincinnati could all go a long way toward earning a share of the AAC title with a win this weekend. Memphis hosts UConn, Cincy hits the road to play Temple, and I shouldn't need to tell you what C. Florida is doing.
 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/25/7287021/underdogs-poll-week-13 Ryan T. Smith 2014-11-24T09:06:23-05:00 2014-11-24T09:06:23-05:00 Memphis Aftermath: The Clock is Ticking
The fact that the Bulls won't be bowling isn't nearly as troubling as how they got there.

Time moves fast in college football. It doesn't seem like it at the time-- every week between games feels like months of argument and analysis and politicking unfolding in slo-mo. But seasons aren't evaluated on what happens from Monday to Friday; it's the sixty-minute blips on Saturday that decide everything, and when you only get twelve of them per year, dreams will be created and fulfilled and destroyed faster than Lindsey Lamar in the open field. Halfway through this season, Willie Taggart still had the majority support of the USF fanbase. A few sixty-minute blips later, through a menagerie of coaching blunders and awful personnel decisions, the fire burning underneath Taggart's seat has gone from zero to 100 really, really quick.

For the fourth straight season, the USF Bulls will not be going to a bowl. 2014 was a little different than its predecessors-- it fluttered around the .500 mark long enough, did just enough to keep treading water that it seemed that maybe the stars could align and the Bulls would, in spite of themselves, fall backwards into the postseason. On Saturday, the pipe dream was officially extinguished by a six-foot-seven man with the nimble legs of a gazelle, to the tune of a thousand Bulls fans yelling expletives in unison as Quinton Flowers lobbed the ball off Marlon Mack's chest on some sort of reverse from hell.

Four and seven stings. Not because we expected a better result, necessarily-- in fact, pretty much all of us had the Bulls pegged at sub-.500 before the season-- but because no matter what the win-loss record says, USF was barely improved, if at all, this season. It's a harsh, uncomfortable truth that no one wants to hear, but it's a truth nonetheless: the Bulls ranked 99th in F/+ last season, and are currently ranked 120th. 120th! There are 128 teams in college football, and only eight of them have played worse than the Bulls have this year.

"But they've doubled their win total!" someone will inevitably point out. Thank you, kind mathematician. USF beat three teams with a combined record of 4-27, plus an FCS school-- all by a possession or less. The 2014 Bulls were 2013 UCF, minus the "being good at football" part. We could accept this if USF was one of the eight least talented teams in the nation. They're not. We could accept this if USF was playing smart, strategically sound football. They're not. We could accept this if USF was engineering a devious plot to play possum for eleven weeks before awakening and completely trouncing UCF on Friday. They're (probably) not.

So that's that, then. We can't accept this season, and saying that we can on the basis of a marginally improved win-loss record is an insult to expectations. The Bulls didn't progress nearly enough in 2014, and much of the progress that they did make was rendered irrelevant by incompetent coaching.

 The penultimate insult came in the form of the Bulls putting together one of their better games of the season on Saturday, at least on the offensive side of the ball. They were hamstrung by their usual nemeses-- chop blocks, which for some reason became a problem that could not be fixed in a week's worth of practices, a self-inflicted carousel at the quarterback position, and a handful of inexcusable playcalls. What was the logic in bringing in Flowers for two plays after Mike White led an impressive opening drive? Why would Willie Taggart call a draw on 3rd and long in the red zone? And then the reverse, that hideous reverse, deserves its own special place in USF infamy. At this point, poor Quinton may as well have a sign around his neck that says "I AM GOING TO RUN THE BALL UP THE MIDDLE" every time he enters the field. If you don't trust him throwing the ball, why even burn his redshirt in the first place?

 Worse yet, why haven't we seen this coaching staff make the slightest adjustment to anything they're doing when we've all clearly seen that it's not working? We've seen no tweaks to the offense, despite the ever-looming truth that we don't have the right personnel to run it. We've seen no tweaks to the defense from Chuck Bresnahan, whose definition of disguising a blitz is sending a linebacker as a fourth rusher. Taggart has gone beyond trying to fit a square peg in a round hole; he's trying to fit a ten-ton boulder into a basketball hoop, and he's trying again and again and again and again until the hoop disintegrates. This is called a typical Stan Heath offense, and is not regarded as sound football strategy.

So we have one more game left, which we'll all be plenty excited to watch because George O'Leary is an insult to humankind. No matter what happens there, in all likelihood, we'll still be watching Willie Taggart coach next year, because there are far too many messy, nasty strings to work through if Mark Harlan were to pull the trigger this offseason. But that doesn't mean USF football is doomed. Taggart has to learn from the mistakes he's made this season and make some major personnel and scheme changes on both sides of the ball. If he doesn't, perhaps the Bulls' talent level will finally win out and it won't matter. Or perhaps someone else will be making those changes for him in 2016.

As for us? We have to demand success. And not marginal, if-you-squint-hard-and-look-long-enough success like this season-- real, tangible progress. That might be a bowl game. That might be seven wins. Heck, with how bad the AAC's been of late, that might be a conference title. But when we figure out where that bar is, don't adjust it and don't accept anything even a hair under it, because the time for making excuses about this program is over. The clock is ticking.
 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/24/7269949/memphis-aftermath-the-clock-is-ticking Ryan T. Smith 2014-11-24T09:00:02-05:00 2014-11-24T09:00:02-05:00 Protect Your Unit Week 13 Results: Snowed Out
Much like the real-life games, this week's pick'em game was affected by circumstances beyond our control.

(DISCLAIMER: This contest is for entertainment purposes only. No actual money is being wagered.)

Due to a database outage from Friday morning to Saturday night, the protectyouru.net website was unavailable, and you had to place bets by emailing or posting to the Friday games thread. This has since been resolved, and you can once again place and view bets as you always could. There was no data loss in the database. All bets that were placed via email or forum post have been added to the database, so everything is correct going forward. As always, you may want to double-check what I have you down for.

It was a light week of action anyway, with only 11 players entering bets. Here are your up to date standings:

 RyanTSmith	 1662.22	 126.36

 collin	 1463.19	 BYE

 jthoma11	 1419.75	 89.13

 kendom	 1327.70	 BYE

 iwaswrongabouthowell	 1184.35	 BYE

 Snafu13	 1120.62	 242.95

 ucscott	 1100.89	 BYE

 danj725	 1066.32	 -35.86

 JimUSFSig	 954.82	 BYE

 shadow68	 922.73	 BYE

 JasonLoughren	 886.36	 BYE

 ElliotMoore	 802.42	 -62.50

 chuckycrater	 772.21	 BYE

 DaGata	 771.63	 6.36

 dsidwell31	 744.20	 -131.58

 zls44	 725.49	 82.42

 tacoman206	 698.37	 -150

 diddybull32	 642.28	 -154.55

 LrdNorman	 639.70	 BYE

 GaryStephen	 628.28	 40.91

 andrewpina	 302.35	 BYE

 ULismyhothotsex	 1000	 WON SUDDEN DEATH BET

 leavitttown	 0	 OUT

Our own RyanTSmith moves into the lead, winning his two major bets: Texas Tech and Northern Illinois against the spread for $75 each. (A $10 bet on the USF moneyline lost.)

This week's big winner was snafu13, who hit all four of his bets, including Missouri +190 over Tennessee and Maryland +205 over Michigan. That yielded $242.95 in fake dollars.

jthoma11 moves into first place among non-staff members by hitting four of his five bets. The one miss was Duke against North Carolina, and I think the whole world missed that one. Indeed, Oddsshark shows that 58% of bettors took Duke at -6.

ULismyhothotsex had to make a Sudden Death bet to stay in the game, and he chose... Cincinnati -9.5. For hitting that one out of the park, he gets an extra $1000 to play with, though he is still down $1000 for the season. His place in the standings will reflect that.

Tacoman206's big bet on a money line between two bad MAC teams (UMass +225 over Akron) wins Floyd's Money Team Degenerate Bet of the Week.

zls44 barely missed a three-way parlay when Indiana running back Tevin Coleman scored a garbage-time touchdown to make the final score 42-27. He had the under 67. (I misquoted this as under 65 in the Week 13 picks thread, but it loses either way.) He does, however, win Randolph & Mortimer Spite Bet of the Week for making the Satan Bet of 6.66 against Florida State.

Coming up next week: is it true that you throw out the records for rivalry games? If it is, there are plenty of chances to do it this week. We've got Florida-Florida State, Clemson-South Carolina, Mississippi-Mississippi State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, Tennessee-Vanderbilt, North Carolina-NC State, Virginia-Virginia Tech, Kentucky-Louisville, Illinois-Northwestern, Ohio State-Michigan, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Kansas-Kansas State, Notre Dame-USC, Oregon-Oregon State, Arizona-Arizona State, Nevada-UNLV, and Washington-Washington State. Not to mention a bunch of new, realignment-forced rivalries the college football worlds keeps trying to push on us. We'll talk more about those in Friday's picks thread.
 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/24/7270811/protect-your-unit-week-13-results-snowed-out Gary Stephen 2014-11-22T19:25:30-05:00 2014-11-22T19:25:30-05:00 USF vs. Memphis Haiku
Sometimes it's not that you lost, it's how you lost. USF

I know we aren't good

But the coaching doesn't help

Black, Black, Black Friday

The offense actually moved the ball at times. Mike White had a pretty nice line: 21-35 for 244 yards. Marlon Mack broke one for 75 yards, and surpassed 1000 for the year in his true freshman season. USF would have scored again if not for a White injury forcing the Bulls to bring in Quinton Flowers... who was under center for an ill-fated reverse that became a fumble.

And then there was the defense, in all it's arm tackling and over pursuing glory.

And then there was the decision making. The quarterback bingo. The punting. The multiple decisions that makes you ask: WHAT IS THE PLAN HERE????

 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/22/7269157/usf-vs-memphis-haiku Collin Sherwin 2014-11-21T19:07:28-05:00 2014-11-21T19:07:28-05:00 The Final Drive: White, Davis, McFarland & 'Clutch' Ice SMU
Relive the USF Bulls epic five minute, 21-play drive capped by a back-shoulder fade from Mike White to Andre Davis to ice SMU in Dallas.

I get that SMU sucks. But realize the Bulls stuck it out and won the game, period. I was in San Fran visiting my sister FREAKING OUT during the final drive. When Mike White hit Andre Davis  on the quick back-shoulder fade and you would've thought I won the lottery. I erupted with excitement, which apparently included a scream loud enough to cause every eyeball in the restaurant to lock on in bewilderment.

We were beaten badly on Defense at times, but the unit played HARD. When I ran the film back two days ago I literally could hear the hits. Tajee Fullwood and Devin Abraham were all over the field. Lamar Robbins was laying the wood on everything in sight. Chandler was a force in the middle. Josh Black stuck his nose in the business several times. Eric Lee was pushing hard, even sideline to sideline. Kendall Sawyer brought it when given the chance as well.

Yes, I am being positive.

Andre Davis is the man, show love.'Freakshow' finished with 59-yards on six receptions and hauled in the game winning touchdown. Mike McFarland came up big. McFarland finished with 44 receiving yards on 3 receptions, two of which converted a third and fourth down on the final drive of the game. I think McFarland's nickname should be 'Manimal'!!!

But, no one came up bigger as a true teammate than D'Ernest 'Clutch' Johnson. What else can I say about 'Clutch'...he's a STUD! Johnson finished the contest with 39 receiving yards on three receptions and scored a crucial touchdown, which was only possible because of his burning fire to win. Nothing makes me grin quite like a player from the 239 (Immokalee) shining bright, bursting with moxie under the lights. For his efforts 'Clutch' deserves this shout out!

WE WON. We came from behind and won. As a competitor I don't care if I win by 1 or 100. No, we are not even close to being a great team; at least not yet. Yes, SMU is horrendous this season. Yes, you should be happy we won. Yes, you should be proud of Mike White. You should be even more proud of Quinton Flowers. Flowers made some really nice plays, including three specific passes that were barely out of play or they would've been monster gains.

Mike White's Final Drive: six for twelve for 61-yards and the go-ahead score. White helped convert two 3rd downs and three 4th downs, including the game winning touchdown pass to Andre Davis on 4th down as time ran off the clock. White finished 9 of 16 for 106-yards with two touchdowns.

Below is the final drive highlight reel made by yours truly. Video is a bit crappy, but it does the trick. #BeatMemphis

Link to full highlights

The Final Drive: USF vs SMU 2014

 http://www.voodoofive.com/2014/11/21/7265033/the-final-drive-white-davis-mcfarland-clutch-ice-smu-usf-2014 Matthew Manuri


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Top of dirndl is reinforced with interfacing and is made of black cotton fabric. The bottom is a "homespun" type plaid fabric and the apron is leftover fabric from a Tia Dalma costume a friend and I made years ago for her to attend Pirates and Princesses at Disney.
Dec 24, 2012, 08.49 AMby flowergirl22
something differend then the traditionall german colours,, when I was little I had a pale blue one with a white blouse and a flowery apron,, I should really get myself a new one,, i love your colour choice
Dec 22, 2012, 07.46 PMby watatoe
Just gorgeous! You did an awesome job! I lived in Germany for awhile and was blessed to see so many different dirndls from the different regions……and you brought back some memories for me. Can I just say "perfection" ?
Dec 23, 2012, 08.12 PMby Cynthia Brown
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