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For 25 years, Bob Neil ran Cox Radio and Cox Media Group, successfully leading one of the prestige media companies in the country while increasing its size from 13 to 83 stations. Now retired, but still consulting, Bob re-caps his career, tells some great behind the scenes stories, and looks to the future of the medium we all love.
For this week's episode, I checked out Scream 6. The latest in the long-running slasher film franchise and second to be directed by the creative team known as Radio Silence. Picking up where the first rebootquel ended, this one wisely decides to change the setting to New York and feels like a somewhat fresh take on the standard scream formula. Have a listen to find out my thoughts on this one and if its a scream film you should check out or if this film falls victim to too many sequels! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamanalyzes/support
Whether you're considering moving your show to a new station, joining a media team, or trying to coach one as a Brand Manager/PD, this episode is for you! Earlier this year, radio morning star Holly O'Conner experienced It's the end of one era…and the start of a new one. After stops in Ohio, Panama City, and a couple of stints in Tampa, she and co-host Miguel Fuller left mornings after seven years at Cox Radio's Hot 101.5, and segued to https://www.facebook.com/iheartradio/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUTbARE4PQ-p8ucCvV9dXY4h7daE-NuSl1STKg2GTIYspDSScMryE9ziSPT8zUh68em16NDjnYbKRVdWUoqdRzyl46bBmKwGYzdGCxjx3Fi7iujCKOKTHq6m5_cYCsASc71U_T2gtl47vlaDwAQlq0ajQGD_QxcwPUNepcQCDdjq2ddtLXVGPF-H2TQ5Gf9vcg&__tn__=kK-R (iHeartRadio)'s https://www.facebook.com/hits961/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUTbARE4PQ-p8ucCvV9dXY4h7daE-NuSl1STKg2GTIYspDSScMryE9ziSPT8zUh68em16NDjnYbKRVdWUoqdRzyl46bBmKwGYzdGCxjx3Fi7iujCKOKTHq6m5_cYCsASc71U_T2gtl47vlaDwAQlq0ajQGD_QxcwPUNepcQCDdjq2ddtLXVGPF-H2TQ5Gf9vcg&__tn__=kK-R (HITS96.1) in Charlotte. Holly considers Miquel her best friend and radio soulmate, and just before their move, Miquel was married to his husband Abe, with Holly performing the ceremony! In this episode, Holly shares: Valuable tips for moving your show to a new station and market What considerations to look for when ‘hiring a new boss' (that is, consider a job offer) Future industry changes she's preparing for NOW Key Takeaways Not to Miss:(01:50) Holly shares some of the considerations when moving an entire show to a new market. (03:29) Holly digs deeper into how she and Miguel first decided to team up and REMAIN a team as the show moved–even if that meant performing a live morning show from different locations. (06:24) From a morning host perspective, Holly offers some good pointers on what qualifies PDs/Brand Managers as good coaches. She also shares some of the best pro tips and pointers that she's received. (09:50) By now, most good shows know that they need a strong online presence, including social media and their popular podcast, “https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/miguel-holly-uncensored/id1098216886 (Miguel and Holly Uncensored)”. She offers a quick “How To” rundown on how the team divides responsibilities and the interesting criteria used to determine which content goes on your various platforms. (12:12) With the media revolution continuing, Holly shares her thoughts on the biggest industry changes of the past year...and reveals how she's preparing now for things she expects will be different in the next few years One Minute Martinizing: http://rhzrbbwk.podcastwebsites.com/one-minute-martinizing-by-dave-martin/ ("Opposites") Please help us thank these supporters who help keep BRANDWIDTH ON DEMAND free!Musicmaster www.musicmaster.com https://bit.ly/KipperSwag (Radio Swag Shop) https://bit.ly/KipperSwag https://bit.ly/BWODcap (Return to Brandwidth on Demand episodes) YES! https://kippermcgee.lpages.co/bwod-newsletter-welcome-5-22/ (Send me the free SHOW NOTES preview email)
ALPHA CHANGES COURSE ON ZONECASTINGDOES KALILL HAVE A BOOK ON COX RADIO? WHO'D BUY IT?THE NFL OFFERS STREAMING AUDIO & VIDEO AT THE EXPENSE OF LOCAL STATIONS.Welcome to the only podcast/video blog that talks about all kinds of media…and the impact on local sales and management. Two media execs, Jackson Weaver and Keith Samuels do this each Tuesday and Friday. Produced by InTown Media we welcome comments at jackson@intownmedia.com Website www.intownmedia.com
2007 Annual Report Big Cat Rescue is more than just a place that provides permanent care for big cats. It is a movement; a change in the tide of human perceptions and is the combined effort of more than 74,000 supporters. If you are one of them, you are a Big Cat Rescuer and the following is the great work YOU did! If you haven't helped yet, you can do so now at the top right of the screen or here: http://bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm Big Cat Rescue's Mission Statement: To provide the best home we can for the animals in our care and to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abuse, abandonment or extinction by teaching people about the plight of the cats, both in the wild and in captivity, and how they can help through their behavior and support of better laws to protect the cats. Advances: Combined Federal Campaign Best of the CFCIn late November we conquered the web site issues that have made our site inaccessible to all browsers other than Internet Explorer resulting in a 33% increase in the number of pages viewed by the 2,510,255 visitors to our bigcatrescue.org site in 2007 and 1,147,174 visitors to our www.CatLaws.com site for a total of 3,657,429 online visitors in 2007. Big Cat Rescue is increasingly listed in world wide publications as a “must see” in Tampa. Began the permitting process for the wall we have been raising money to build for the past 4 years. Big Cat Rescue has been accepted into the federal version of the Combined Federal Campaign. Where we could only be in the local books in years past, we will be in every book that goes out to government employees as a choice for their auto deduction giving. Not only were we accepted, but we were also awarded with the Best of the CFC seal. In the local market we receive upwards of $7,500.00 in donations, so we are hopeful that we will do even better by going national. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity and thank those of you who are participating For the first time in our history, Big Cat Rescue offered a reward for information. When a tiger was found shot to death along side an apartment complex and busy highway in Dallas, TX on Christmas day, we announced a $5,000.00 reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the people involved. The police and animal control authorities told us that they cannot offer such bounties and that our doing so greatly enhanced their ability to pursue the case. See the video plea http://bigcatrescue.org/video/b42008/5000reward.htm Animal Care: Rescued four tigers left to die at the now defunct Savage Kingdom. (TJ, Bella, Modnic & Trucha) Watch this dramatic rescue here: http://bigcatrescue.org/video/b42008/savagekingdom.htm Built & remodeled cat-a-tats for them. Rescued two lions (Joseph & Sasha) and two tigers (Nikita & Simba) from the now defunct Siberian Tiger Foundation which was nothing more than a thin guise for Pay to Play with tigers. Read about that rescue and see the video here: http://bigcatrescue.org/rescuelionsandtigers.htm Built & remodeled cat-a-tats for them. Rescued four native bobcats in four weeks. (Ace, Chance, Kennedy & Will) Read about their rescue and what is being done to send them back to the wild here: http://bigcatrescue.org/rehabbobcats2007.htm Built & remodeled cat-a-tats for them. Rescued a Savannah cat (Diablo) who was abandoned and living in an animal shelter that was not designed for long term care of exotic cats. Assisted in the rescue of another Serval and Bobcat and another two Tigers, finding them permanent homes in facilities that meet the guidelines set out at http://www.sanctuarystandards.com/ Vernon Stairs finished all of the new safety entrances to cages. He built tunnels on the lions cages, Precious Bobcat and The Great Pretender Bobcat, and others to enable easy shifting and introductions. Vern doubled the size of Jumanji the leopard's cage and added a cave and mountain. He joined a number of cages to each other to provide more room for the cats to roam. Catera Bobcat got to move in next to his mom and dad in a huge double sided enclosure. Began renovations to Auroara the tiger's 1 acre, lakefront home to provide better drainage and a hurricane room. Began work on a hurricane shelter for Nyla leopard after moving her next to her brother, Simba after years of them being separated. Moved Bailey Bobcat in with Anasazi and Moses the Bobcats. Moved Rose Caracal to a double cage and introduced her to Cachanga Caracal. Moved the African Civets to Bailey's old cage after it was civet-ized. Reintroduced Dances with Wolves and Shatia the Canada Lynxes. Our cats are altered so that no accidental births will occur from these groupings. Spayed Zabu the white tigress and Bella the tigress. http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00143.htm Raked the entire park before freezing weather to try and kill fleas and eggs and may switch products again as efficacy is fading. Refurbished all 18 pools and one of them twice thanks to TJ the tiger being an absolute maniac when it comes to chasing fish. Every year the cats get pumpkins to smash after Halloween http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00062.htm, but this year they also got Christmas trees http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00162.htm. Staff and Volunteer Training: In addition to our monthly, on site volunteer training courses, Tiffany Deavor took several online training courses, Scott Lope and Dr. Liz Wynn are scheduled for Safe Capture course, Sharyn Beach, Howard & Carole Baskin and Susan Mitchell attended D.C. conference on effective grass roots efforts. Carole continues to take online courses and audio seminars to enhance her efficacy in legislation and leadership. Fine tuned some of our training methods and tracking. Education: Joined the International Tiger Coalition with the mission of preserving 10,000 tigers in the wild in the next ten years. More about that here: http://bigcatrescue.org/internationaltigercoalition.htm Assisted WNET and SeaStudios.org in ascertaining the number of big cats in the U.S. for their film about a world without humans. As there is no government agency responsible for tracking these animals, it falls to anecdotal evidence that we have been compiling for many years. The illegal portion of the 15 billion dollar trade in exotic pets is second only to the market for illegal drugs. In 2005, some 210 million wild animals were brought legally into the U.S. and many more were smuggled, because there are just 120 USFWS inspectors to cover 39 International airports and all of the border crossings. In just the legal importations, that means each inspector must view and approve the health of almost 15,000 animals per day, every day of the year. Big Cat Rescue provided the photos and resources for an eBay guide to let buyers and sellers know that it is illegal to trade in many exotic cat furs. We also provided this information to the World Wildlife Fund in Poland to enable them to train their border guards to recognize endangered cat species that are frequently smuggled through customs. Provided bobcat and Canada lynx photos and info for a scientific training / educational presentation on wildlife awareness for Environment Canada. Cambridge University Press selected Carole Baskin's article on Cause Related Marketing for their Professional English in Use Series textbooks called Professional English in Use – Marketing. It is a new addition to the Profession English in Use Series that is a self study reference book that will be used for classroom work and tutoring. Cambridge included Baskin in their 2008 Who's Who Among Executive and Professional Women “Honors Edition.” as well. We implemented our first Artificial Intelligence V-host on a page called Ask the Cat where you can type in any question and the virtual cat will answer you in an intelligent way: http://bigcatrescue.org/askthecat.htm All of our species information pages were recorded and now each page offers the visitor the opportunity to read and/or listen to the information. This can be downloaded onto mP3 players as well. Jamie Veronica's photos of cougars were requested by wildlife biologist Anna Huckabee Smith, AWB for use in her 5 year status report for USFWS and Wildlife Trends which will be covering the topic of captive cougars being turned loose when they are no longer wanted as pets. We harnessed the powerful mapping technology available with google maps and posted online, interactive maps that show the accredited and non accredited facilities (mostly back yard pet owners) who keep dangerous big cats. It took four maps to hold all of the information, but they can all be accessed online here: http://bigcatrescue.org/map.htm This was offered to the FWC as they had stated they would be releasing this data online soon, several months ago, and this saved them the time and effort. It will be helpful to the media when tracking maulings, killings and escapes and to emergency response personnel in the event of natural disasters. Until now, this information has not been immediately accessible to fire fighters, the police or animal services. Visitors: In 2007 Big Cat Rescue had 26,497 visitors for guided tours. 16,424 were adult tours that generated $409,587.03 which is up 2.62% from last year. Our biggest leap was in our kids tours for families with children under the age of 10 and with 3,271 participants that was up 44.31% and generated $54,668.60. All of our tours are guided and are educational. Our Education Program also convenes camps, special field trips and such and those were attended by 4,969 and generated $66,309.71 which is an increase of 15.37%. In keeping with our desire to give back to the community we provided 27 free field trips for Title One schools and others on a needs-based application. Prices: Because we were nearing capacity at the end of 2006 we raised our prices considerably in 2007. This slowed our growth sufficiently to keep the sanctuary a serene home for the cats but increased our bottom line. Prices were raised from $20 to $25 for adults and from $12 to $15 for children under ten. All of our specialty tours were raised to $50 from $25. Our supporters understand that as word spreads about Big Cat Rescue being such a magical experience people have been flocking here, and that we had to raise the prices in order to keep the number of guests down to a reasonable roar. The added benefit is that people who visit really are committed to the animals and we are not just another tourist attraction. Legislation/Education: Presented testimony, statistics and charts to the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commissioners in Destin, Key Largo and St. Petersburg, asking to ban contact with big cats and their babies and to allow counties to enact more restrictive rules to protect the animals and the public. Presented testimony, statistics and charts many times to their staff at planning sessions before and after the Commission meetings. Provided the same to the Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking. Testified at a Congressional briefing about the need for Haley's Act, a bill to ban contact with big cats. The International Fund for Animal Welfare liked the presentation materials so much that they asked permission to reproduce them for their own legislative use, which was, of course, granted. Presented a slide show on using the secret, the law of attraction, to assist in lobbying efforts in the exhibit hall at the Taking Action for Animals conference in Washington, DC. There were 950 registrants and many more visitors throughout the two day exhibit. Through our online video marketing we are educating more people in a week than we have visit the sanctuary in a year! We are changing the way people think about animals and as a result they are acting more compassionately. The recent outcry at Michael Vick's involvement in dog fighting shows that people care about animals more than ever before. As wonderful as that is, however, it isn't enough. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Legislation can't change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.” Knowing this to be the case, we are using our online marketing to change legislation too. In December 2003 we had to turn away more than 300 unwanted big cats and every other year that number was doubling. That same year a new law, that we helped pass, banned the sale of big cats as pets across state lines. The following year, for the first time ever, the number of abandoned big cats dropped to 160. We decided, then and there, the only way to stop the suffering and abuse was through the creation of better laws that would ban the private ownership of lions, tigers and cougars as pets. Thanks to the laws enacted below, the number of abandoned big cats in 2007 has dropped to 72. By December of 2004 we launched a new section of our website www.CatLaws.com that would enable people to learn about pending bills and enable them to connect to their lawmakers to ask for laws that would protect our communities while ending the suffering and abuse of big cats. We believed that if people knew what was happening and knew how to help that they would. Directing the traffic to the legislative sections had to be more creative however, because by and large, people don't want to think about politics. The cat's stories and their photographs had to be compelling enough to overcome this typical aversion to legal matters and we feel that we have had considerable success in doing that since we have been able to track 1,147,174 visitors to our legislative pages in 2007. The combined number of visitors, between our main web site bigcatrescue.org and our legislative website, is now 10,020 visitors per day with an average of 4 pages viewed by each visitor or roughly 40,000 page views per day. Our peak day in 2007 was March 15 with 55,184 page views. The next step was to get a person to take action by composing a letter to their congressman and that is even harder yet, but we believe the numbers speak for themselves: 33,596 letters were successfully sent from the legislative site asking for better laws to protect the community and to end the suffering and abuse of big cats kept in backyards and basements. The Legislative Action Center report shows a steady, quarterly increase. The results are measurable in more than just statistics however. In the past 2 years seven states banned the private possession and barter in big cats and the numbers we have to turn away continue to drop. The USDA has issued policy statements against the private ownership of big cats and against heretofore accepted practices such as walking a 500 pound cat on a leash in public and allowing people to pet big cats at fairs, malls, parking lots and schools. Details on these here: http://bigcatrescue.org/lawsbigcatbans.htm USDI issued their new rules that went into effect in September 2007 that ban the transportation of big cats across state lines by non USDA entities. They also defined a sanctuary as a place that provides a permanent home and does not breed, sell, trade nor allow public contact with the big cats. Before now there was no definition of a sanctuary and many places that were adding to the problem were doing so under the guise of being sanctuaries. The language used by USDI is practically verbatim from our web sites at bigcatrescue.org and SanctuaryStandards.com. http://bigcatrescue.org/laws/lawscaptivewildanimalsafetyact.htm In 2007 the Florida legislature unanimously agreed to impose a $10,000 bond on anyone in the state who exhibits big cats. This bond is used as a surety in the case of injury to the public and can be used by the FWC to care for dangerous wild animals when they have been abandoned. Big Cat Rescue had been a strong proponent of this bond and our supporters, via our CatLaws.com site had made their wishes known to their legislators. On July 2 Governor Charlie Crist signed the bond requirement into law and the FWC drafted the rules to enforce the new law in 2007. The Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission put together a task force to review their policies that still allow the breeding and selling of big cats in the state with only the addition of a $40.00 USDA permit. Public opinion polls on our web site indicate that 76% of those polled would support a ban on all exotic animals as pets. That same percentage also agrees that hunting should be outlawed. Florida's Wildlife Conservation Commission is funded almost entirely by issuing hunting permits and permits to people to own exotic animals so the fact that they are reviewing their own policies in view of changing public opinion is certainly measurable evidence of Big Cat Rescue's impact on this very serious situation. The FWC staff announced that they are making recommendations to the Commissioners that include proposed rules: 1. Raise the classification of a cougar from a Class II pet to a Class I animal that may not be kept as a pet. 2. Prohibit contact between big cats and their babies in accordance with the new federal bill that is pending which would ban the practice. 3. Prohibit transport of big cats to flea markets, parking lots, etc. 4. Require that exhibitors have all of their animals on exhibit as there is a current issue of meeting the letter of the law by exhibiting one animal while warehousing dozens more in minimum size cages that would appall the public. 5. Require Class II owners to secure a $10,000.00 bond as is now required for Class I. As mentioned above, there is a federal bill called Haley's Act HR 1947 that is gaining momentum in the U.S. House and is expected to pass this session. This bill is being broadly marketed by Big Cat Rescue because it will ban contact between the public and big cats, including their babies. Baby tigers and baby lions are bred to be used as photo props and for petting sessions and then are discarded when they get too big. This bill would stop the unscrupulous breeding for this industry and ultimately would end the biggest cause of the over abundance of big cats in captivity. Using the email targeting feature of the CatLaws.com site we were able to convince the Medieval Fair to not allow a shabby traveling circus to set up shop by having our supporters write Hunsader Farms, the owner of the property, and telling them how they feel about such abuse. 3,236 of our online supporters sent letters to the Chinese government urging them to ban the farming of captive tigers for their fur, bones and organs. All of these advances have been made possible by getting our message out to the people who can make a difference. See below how we got the message out. Fundraising and Marketing: We were in the press 85 times. Howard Baskin was featured in the Nov. 5th issue of U.S. News & World Report for his charitable work with Big Cat Rescue. http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/aboutbcr/usnewsandworldreport.htm Scott Lope was quoted in Newsweek about the escape of Tatiana the tiger from a zoo where she mauled three young men and killed a teenage boy. http://www.newsweek.com/id/82067/page/1 Awards: In January of 2007 Big Cat Rescue was awarded the People's Choice Award by WEDU, our local PBS affiliate. We won again in Jan. 2008. More than 80 charities competed in a 16 county radius for this award, but Big Cat Rescue took 31% of the vote. Next year the contest is going national. Won Parenting Magazine's Best of Tampa Bay Award. In August Big Cat Rescue was Change.org's Pick of the Month. TV: Animal Planet show called Ms. Adventure aired our episode in March and Real Strange aired in Europe. The first episode of “Big Cat Rescuers” ever aired on: April 11, 2007 cable channel 19 7:00 PM and April 15, 2007 cable channel 20 6:30 PM. This one hour episode was created by our own Jamie Veronica, Brian Czarnik and Honey Wayton, and features several of our keepers, partners and of course, Scott Lope our manager. Our big cat expert Scott Lope was interviewed on the History Channel's MonsterQuest‘s search for the elusive big black cats that are frequently reported roaming wild all across the U.S. Roar and Rolling: Lindy Melendez with EGS Printing has generously donated a van “wrap” that is valued at $5000. See the stunning artwork here: http://bigcatrescue.org/images/EasySt/van/index.htm The wrap was done with a lot of love from everyone at ESG Printing. Memory Lane: Our cemetery was transformed from a pitiful little hodgepodge of cage placards to a wall of memories created in stone and inlaid with marble headstones that feature a laser inscribed image of the cat, his or her date of birth and death and the sponsor of the plaque. This was done as a fund raiser for the living cats and in its first year generated enough money to support a tiger for a year. Thanks to Babs Riddle the grounds were luxuriously sculpted to include gardens, a shell path and benches where our volunteers can rest and reflect on the lives they have known who continue to inspire them. Great marble lions that were donated to us now flank either side of the impressive entrance. http://bigcatrescue.org/foreverremembered.htm Google: In today's fast paced environment we have to stay quick as a cat and be as entertaining as a basket full of kittens. We have found mini videos, or podcasting, to be our most effective way of marketing our message. On July 8, 2006 we launched our first video on google. We now have 195 live videos playing and have had 183,514 viewers. Our most popular video is an hour long film about all of the plights faced by exotic cats in the wild and in captivity and it has been played 51,357 times. None of our tracking can tell how many times people play our videos on their iPods after downloading them. YouTube: (the fastest growing web site in the world) In August of 2006 we launched our YouTube account and have 72 of our videos playing that have been viewed 1,752,846 times. We have 881 subscribers to our videos with more joining all the time and are the #2 Most Viewed (All Time) – Non Profit and #9 – Most Subscribed (All Time) – Non Profit. In late December we launched two additional sites dedicated to our Educational Department and our Animal Communicator. MySpace: myspace.com/1BigCatRescue In August of 2006 we launched our MySpace account and are one of the top ranked sites as we have 221,617,683 in our network who have visited our profile page 22,928 times and we have 4,276 subscribers to our videos there. MySpace has become such a popular portal that it now ranks in the top 10 list of referring sites that send visitors to our main website at bigcatrescue.org. That ranks our own MySpace account just behind such powerful referrers as the google, yahoo and aol search engines. VEOH: In 2007 we began posting our videos to Veoh.com We have 143 videos playing and these videos are getting thousands of plays each. Veoh is the next generation in T. V. viewing. Videos can be watched in low resolution for free, or for a fee can be downloaded in high resolution and watched on a television set or computer. We post most of our videos as a free download, but post PSA's in high resolution so that the media can get b-roll from us instantly for less than the cost of mailing a disk. We now film, edit and post 1-2 videos each week. Our videos have been so popular that they have been picked up for use on Current TV and many online content providers. In addition to our online video marketing we have been in the press 427 times and if you haven't heard of the Fur Ball, you don't watch TV, listen to the radio or read the papers. We have been blessed with complimentary ads from all of the biggest media outlets such as Cox Radio, The Tampa Tribune, The Tampabay Business Journal, the Maddux Report and the St. Pete Times to market our biggest annual fundraiser each year. We also have Public Service Announcements running on Brighthouse cable TV and nationally on Animal Planet. Search Engine Ranking: Our goal was to increase the number of web visitors by increasing our web site's visibility on the Internet. The most dramatic breakthrough was in revamping the underlying html so that browsers other than IE could view the site. The second more important feature was implementing navigation that enabled visitors to see every level of our 12,000+ file site. Even though this was not accomplished until November the pages viewed increased 33% in 2007 when the even though the number of new visitors only increased by 12%. For the first time in history we have risen to the top page of google's search page for the keyword “tigers” and are number 18 of more than 43,000,000 competing sites. To see the ranking on our most important key words visit: http://bigcatrescue.org/get_more_hits.htm Party of the Year: That's what a lot of people in the know call it. The Fur Ball netted more than $120,000.00 with a sell out crowd of 700 people. That's up $80,000.00 over last year! See the entire recap including photos of Bo Derek and our colorful, cat themed guests here: http://bigcatrescue.org/000archives/2007FurBall.htm Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats: The Jaguar Trust. Trapping is the furthest thing from our mission, except when it comes to camera traps for tracking and aiding wildlife. Our own Big Cat Rescue president Jamie Veronica went to Guyana, South America with a fellow volunteer on a mission for the sanctuary. Jamie and Justin Boorstein were in Guyana for ten days setting new digital camera traps with video to track Jaguars, Ocelots and Pumas. Our partner, Foster Parrots, tells us that with the recent import ban of all birds into Europe, Guyana now finds herself in a position to change the long practiced wildlife export industry there. Many trappers are finding that there are no markets for their “products”! Many of these trappers now find themselves unemployed and the government may start to look at the potential revenues of eco-tourism to fill the gap. If we can make a concerted effort with our conservation project we hope to serve as an example and to garner the support of Guyana to create the world's premier rainforest destination. Our plans include the promotion of our project here in the US and a marketing strategy to heighten the visibility of this important move in Guyana. Visitors to Guyana will have a choice of tour itineraries ranging from an ambitious 3 and 4-day Kanuku Mountains hike that will bring them to the realm of the Harpy Eagle, to more leisurely tours that will encompass sightings of Red Bellied, Scarlet, Red and Green, Blue and Yellow Macaws, Giant Anteaters and a wide variety of primates. Horseback and canoe excursions will let tour groups experience the wilds of Guyana at an intimate level. Visitors can also travel to Kaeiteur Falls to witness one of the world's tallest single-drop waterfalls of 741 feet. Construction on the first of two planned lodge complexes, located in Nappi Village, has been completed by the local tribes with funds from Foster Parrots and Big Cat Rescue. Contact SaveTheCats@bigcatrescue.org to spend your vacation dollars saving the wildcats in the rainforest. Africa: President Jamie Veronica and volunteer Barbara Stairs also toured Africa to see the issues first hand that have resulted in game parks being virtually the only lands left that house wild cats. She will work with relatives there to check out sources for offering handmade products in our gift shop that could help preserve wildlife there as we currently do in the Jaguar Trust. (Barbara Stairs funded this excursion) Since 2005 Big Cat Rescue has provided both funds and volunteers to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya . Lewa relocates problematic wildlife to protected areas and provides education to children in the area who would not otherwise be able to read or write. In addition to the funds that Big Cat Rescue donates, we also provide a U.S. market for Kenya ‘s craftsmen and send clothing with our volunteers to distribute when they visit. Our volunteers take their skills and attitudes of compassion for all life into these barren regions and share a message of hope. China, India, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Pakistan: Every year since 1997 Big Cat Rescue has donated to the countries that are home to the Himalayan mountain range where the elusive snow leopard is found. One whole corner of the gift shop explains how the sale of items made by the villagers helps save the snow leopard in the wild. In 2006, Dr. Tom McCarthy, the Conservation Director for the Snow Leopard Trust, came to Big Cat Rescue to explain just how crucial each sale was to protect these exquisite cats. The snow leopard lives in regions where the average person makes the equivalent of $1.00 per day. Most of the people who share the same highlands with the snow leopard are herders and to them, the loss of one sheep or goat can mean the difference in their survival. Most of the snow leopards that are killed are retribution killings; meaning that the cat has been blamed for killing one of the herd and the herdsman has killed the next snow leopard he saw. The herdsman can eat the cat and sell the hide for 25.00 which for them is a month's wage. There are many other middle men along the way who are anxious to get their hands on a snow leopard pelt or penis for the Asian medicinal trade or for the black market. The pelt dramatically becomes more valuable as it goes down the line and can cost $5,000.00 or more to the final buyer. The Snow Leopard Trust members in China, India, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Pakistan work closely with the local people to find out what they need. In some cases, they can create handicrafts like those we sell and make five times what they can make from herding. The programs are structured with reducing reliance on Snow Leopard Trust funds for each consecutive year and to remain in the program the community must ensure that no snow leopards are killed. If anyone in the community kills a snow leopard, the entire community risks losing their right to participate in the program for a year and that is enough to keep everyone watching out for the snow leopard. Their claims of protection must verified by the game wardens and governmental agencies who actually have incentives to discover poaching because they are often paid a portion of the confiscation if they can catch a poacher. Big Cat Rescue is the second largest retailer for Snow Leopard Enterprises. We collected fecal samples from our captive snow leopards for the Snow Leopard Trust to use in training dogs to be able to tell one wild snow leopard from another just by sniffing the scat left behind. This will greatly enhance conservation efforts and is a cost effective method as well. The video we produced is being aired on our sites, and also being used as a marketing tool for the new program and the Snow Leopard Trust. The U.S. State Department enlisted our help in saving the critically endangered Amur Leopard because of our ability to reach so many people who care about wild cats and their habitat. You can learn all about what is happening with the Amur Leopard & Tiger here: http://bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/leopard_save.htm. For more details on our International work visit: http://bigcatrescue.org/000archives/2007AttachmentAInternational.htm Other: Big cat breeders, dealers, collectors and exploiters hate us because as we educate the public about the truth behind their abusive practices such as breeding white tigers, ligers or babies for photo booths their profiteering opportunities are drying up. There is no justification for their activities so their only recourse has been to file a plethora of false complaints with authorities who regulate us and to make false accusations to anyone who will listen. The only gain they could expect was to keep us busy proving ourselves so that we would be diverted from our mission of ending the abuses that result in so many unwanted big cats. Now the regulators are on to them as we have proven time and again our integrity which is illustrated in our perfect inspection reports and our continued accreditation by The Global Federation of Sanctuaries and the Better Business Bureau. Only one media outlet in 2007 repeated their slanderous accusations, but the article went on for many pages explaining that the reason such libelous statements are made is likely due to our success in exposing the activities that result in Florida having the highest incidents of maulings, killings and escapes by big cats. Created pages devoted to the cats who have live and died in cages here with tributes from the keepers who loved them and who work ceaselessly for their freedom: https://sites.google.com/site/bigcattributes/home Thanks to the work of our AdvoCat LaWanna Jones we added hundreds of new e-Cards here: http://www.bigcatfun.com/ecards/ and added hundreds of new online puzzles, new bookmarks and hundreds of new free online games here: http://bigcatrescue.org/game/games.htm. Then and Now Our CFO, Howard Baskin, compiled a ten year snapshot of the sanctuary and its growth. This is just a comparison between 1996 and 2007. Wildlife on Easy Street to Big Cat Rescue 1996 2006 Visitors 85 26,497 Total Expenses $1,686,386 *$708,607.00 Total Income $0 $1,236,237.00 Total Net Assets $148,455.00 $2,419,227.00 Spent on Program Services 100% 91% ** *funded by Founder **4% spent on Management and 5% spent on Fundraising Officers and Members of the Board of Directors in 2007 and meetings: • CEO and Founder Carole Baskin (not compensated by BCR) • President and Chairman of the Board Jamie Veronica • Vice President & BOD Cathy Neumann (not compensated by BCR) • Secretary Jen Ruszczyk (not compensated by BCR) • Treasurer Howard Baskin (not compensated by BCR) • Director Dr. Liz Wynn, DVM (not compensated by BCR for her role as a Director) Paid Staff: We went from 3 paid staff to 7 and now provide worker's comp insurance. We still can offer no other benefits than the peace of mind in knowing their work is changing the world. • Operations Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Scott Lope $35,000.00 incl. bonuses • Staff Manager, Editor & Creative Director Jamie Veronica $24,700.00 (compensated but not for her work as a member of the board) • Social Science Director Brian Czarnik $18,400.00 (leaving for Chicago early 2008) • Gift Shop & Guest Services Bridget Czarnik $18,400.00 (leaving for Chicago early 2008) • Gift Shop & Guest Services Honey Wayton $22,800.00 • Intern Director & Lead AdvoCat Tiffany Deavor $25,000.00 • Education Directors Dr. Beth Kamhi & Coleen Kremer $14,000.00 combined • Vernon Stairs Cage Builder and Maintenance $35,600.00 All of our animal care is done by volunteers or by staff who also volunteer time before & after work. Volunteers: Big Cat Rescue had 107 volunteers in 2007 who clocked in 57,302 man-power hours in addition to staff and Volunteer Committee member hours. Roughly the equivalent workforce of 27 more full time staff. Created the S.A.V.E. award for Scratch's Award 4 Volunteer Excellence. The recipients were January – Julie Hanan, February – Cathy Monroe, March – Tiffany Deavor, April – Glen Yancey, May – Kym Marszal, June – Merrill Kramer, July – Barbara Frank, August – Marie Schoubert, September – Edith Parker, October – Babs Riddle, November – Anne Canterbury and December – Angie Gabor (the first Red Shirt to ever win) Winners of the S.A.V.E. award are allowed to direct $500.00 to the cat project of their choice. Created pages devoted to our dedicated volunteers at: http://bigcatrescue.org/hero/000hero.htm and our 2007 Volunteer of the Year is Barbara Frank. I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.
2004 Annual Report Advances: The biggest advance in our history was this year when we went from “Tampabay'sBest Kept Secret” to a Household Name in the local area. This was due largely to the great media exposure donated by six local Cox Radio Stations. Hillsborough County gave us big green directional signs in 5 locations to direct visitors to our door. For the first year ever, in our 12 year history, we were able to cover all of the sanctuaries expenses from its own income! Thank you everyone! Howard Baskin was able to find a reasonable CPA, Marsha Weiss, and an accountant who completed an audit for our finances for grant writing purposes. This enabled us to apply to the Combined Federal Campaign and to apply to the online version of The Better Business Bureau called Give.org. Christy Anderson launched our first E-zine that carries AdvoCat issues to 5000 subscribers and links to our electronic version of The Big Cat Times. Jamie finished a movie that was nearly five years in the making called “The Big Cat Picture“. This has been widely distributed and 2 minute clips on every species of wild cat has now been added to our website from the movie. We wrote a 20 year plan and began taking steps to reach our goal of eliminating the cause of so much suffering and abuse. Animal Care: We took in five new tigers and a lion, but had to turn away 114 big cats. We submitted our anesthesia machine parts to have one usable unit rebuilt. We built 5 new Cat-A-Tats with pools and dens and another multi-acre enclosure with dens and a pool. Built new dens for Esmerelda, Tobi, and Little Feather and cage enhancements for Sultan, Canyon, Genie, Maharajah, Bailey, Scratch, Baby Cakes and Hercules. Shere Khan and China Doll got a hurricane shelter and we repaired cages that were badly damaged from the four hurricanes in six weeks. The Enrichment team is growing stronger and more professional in their collaboration with others, such as Disney, to help write a comprehensive Enrichment Guide. Operant Conditioning has been led by Jennifer Ruszczyk with marvelous results. The cats are learning their cues and are much easier to handle for check ups. All of the volunteers have retaken their animal care classes this year and have re certified their credentials via testing. Dr. Liz Wynn, DVM has been donating time every week as a liaison to Dr. Stacie Wadsworth, DVM. We began using Truly Nolan for regular flea spraying and for rodent control with marvelous results. Staff and Volunteer Training: Attended the USDA's Big Cat Symposium. Jamie Veronica attended AZA's weeklong college course, Managing for Success. Jen, Howard and Carole attended and presented Operant Conditioning and Cage Building at The Association of Sanctuaries' annual conference in Stone Mountain, GA. Susan Mitchell attended Karen Pryor's Clicker Expo and spent some time with Gary Priest from the San Diego Zoo and quite a bit of time with his top trainer of cats. Susan also completed the Safe Capture course that some of our staff attended last year. Our volunteer program was overhauled to create an administrative branch for the first time in our history. We now have red through green level requirements on both the Keeper side and the Partner (admin) side and the proud recipients of those levels of accomplishment. We began our first Intern program with three interns. Cathy Mayeski has been screening applicants from around the world and by the year's end we have had 3 successful graduates from the program and two of them moved here to stay in the volunteer program. By the year's end we have 6 full time interns and by next year hope to have 12-15. They have come from Wales, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Peru and all across the U.S. The interns work all day, six days a week for three months in exchange for housing and the experience of a lifetime. They are a volunteer force unto themselves and now have their own Den Mother, Gale Ingham who keeps them busy and makes sure they get the most out of their time at Big Cat Rescue. Education: Hired Kathryn Quaas as our new Education Director and started offering regularly scheduled kid's tours every Saturday at 9 AM. Summer Camp 2004 was a big hit. We created, with the help of creator LaWanna Jones, and a grant from Ken and Terri Pereira, an interactive CD called The Truth About White Tigers and distributed 1000 free copies. With the help of PeTA we were able to distribute 1000 copies of their CD about veganism. Produced a new screen saver called 12 Tigers that has tiger photos and facts. Created an online game with the help of Point 2 Nature that children will be able to access online for free. It is a memory game of matching the cats with their fur and their sounds for fun fact rewards. Created hundreds of pages of online games, puzzles, calendars, free screen savers, quizzes, polls and colouring activities for children of all ages. These interactive games are part of our campaign to reach the schools and day care centers with activities to teach children about animals and to inspire awe and respect for their beauty and their rightful place in nature. Our Big Cat Expedition continues to be our most pervasive educational tool and Susan Mitchell has trained countless people in the Operant Conditioning program portion that we offer to illustrate the medical needs of the cats and how we meet them. Our tours continue to increase and this allows Denny Mitchell, Brian Czarnik, Bill Lewis and many other great tour guides to educate people about the plight of these animals in the wild and in captivity. The most frequent response that we still hear from guests is “I had no idea!”. Legislation: We reviewed the Captive Wild Animal Coalition‘s proposed sanctuary standards and wrote and submitted the sub section specific to felid care based upon a compilation of our own standards, those of ACE and Florida's Fish and Game. We assisted Animal Control's approach to the State of Florida in an effort to require owners of dangerous exotic animals to post on their property the dangers that exist and to allow the public to easily determine if their neighbors are harboring dangerous animals. We began promoting a page on our site called Support Legislation and AdvoCats. We partnered with Capitol Advantage to create the first and only online presence in the Animal Welfare industry that is promoted on MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Congress.gov, PBS, the LA Times and E-the-People. In just the first days of creation is already responsible for about 30 letters per day going out to legislators on important animal issues that are currently pending including: Stopping canned hunts, prohibiting steel jawed traps and asking USDA to quit issuing licenses to people who are circumventing the new 2004 law that prevents the sale of big cats as pets. We noted a drop in the number of big cats being abandoned. Every year the number of big cats in need of shelter was doubling and by 2003 we were turning away 312 exotic cats. After the passage of the Captive Wild Animal Safety Act in Dec. 2003 that prohibited the sale across state lines of big cats as pets that number dropped to 114 abandoned cats in 2004. We posted a composite of all state laws and enabled viewers to go directly to their state's online regulations. Our founder became a major donor to the only Political Action Committee fund for Animal Welfare issues called HumaneUSA. Fundraising and Marketing: We purchased a new Point of Sale system with cash register and inventory software. Implementing this software has enabled us to better track inventory, sales and trends. On May 19 our web site received 29,724 page requests to be our largest day ever. By the end of the year our site is currently averaging about 100,000 hits per day. Jamie and Howard attended Scott Moller's Fundraising Seminar in Tampa and Howard, Carole and Jen attended Scott Moller's Fundraising Seminar in Stone Mountain, GA. Scott Lope and Daniel Capiro have been working closely with players of the TampaBay Lightning to raise awareness. Thanks largely to the lion vs tiger ligers thousands of dollars in radio air time donated by six Cox Radio stations, our Fur Ball attracted 850 guests and we netted 50,000.00 as well as had a Roaring Good Time. Jamie created our first Holiday Card with a collage of the cats for our use and for sale in the gift shop. The Adoption Kits have been so successful that she has had to order them by the hundreds from a printer, rather than printing them one page at a time on her computer as she has done in the past. Our online giftshop sales soared from $7,914.00 in 2003 to $32,351.00 in 2004. We began monitoring news alerts at Google for exotic cat issues and proactively writing in to the media. We were in the press 63 times compared to 35 times in 2003. Our newsletter The Big Cat Times (formerly Cat Tales) is now in color and goes out quarterly to 23,000 supporters. Grounds Improvement: At our January zoning hearing, 96 people wrote letters of support and 47 attended the hearing and spoke in support of the fine work we are doing on a global level. At the second hearing more than 200 supporters came to stand before the Board of county Commissioners in favour of Big Cat Rescue's planned development. In the past we had to haul 30 bags of trash, twice a week to the end of the road. This year we managed to get our very own dumpster on site. We moved the golf cart shed, tore down the old green barn and re-routed the fencing to increase parking area. We repainted the cabins, food prep, painted the E-Center and repainted several of the cages. We installed new signs on the buildings so that they are consistently called by name in our documentation and training manuals and to avoid confusion. Sentry Signs enabled us to put new signs on most of the cats along the tour path that states their name, species, date of birth and how they were rescued. We began a fence improvement campaign called the Catter-Wall. Two marble lions were donated for our front gate and we may have someone willing to donate a new front entrance next year. Food Prep was tiled and had gutters installed all the way around. Kiss Cote was applied to the Leopard Cat-A-Tat as a rust preventative trial model in March. The roads were reinforced to prevent inaccessibility to certain areas in the rainy season. We started the process for adding a 4 bedroom, 3 bath dormatory for interns. We upgraded to broadband and now have a wireless Internet connection available for guests. Helping Others: We covered ad costs for The Association of Sanctuaries annual conference in March to insure that the people who need the training will know it is available. We also paid expenses for three of the speakers on Cage Building, Operant Conditioning and the No More Homeless Pets approach to companion animal abandonment. We shared the secret to our high search engine placement with TAOS and CWAPC and members of both organizations. We joined the Sanctuary Workers And Volunteers Association SWAVA and provided material for them to launch their campaign. We send out news alerts to everyone in our new Yahoo group and in the TAOS Yahoo group and include a Tip of the Day feature in which we share ideas that have worked for us. We gave permission to Florida's state government site, at their request, to use our photos to illustrate why we should protect the Florida Panther. Charities that we donated to this year: 100 passes to No More Homeless Pets Adopt-a-thon and gift certificate for a Big Cat Expedition, 50 passes and gift certificate for a Big Cat Expedition to Florida Voices for Animals, 50 passes to Clearwater High school's Project Graduation, 100 passes to Dress For Success, 300 passes to The National Humane Societies spay/neuter and adoption programs. Big Cat Expedition to Clearwater Chamber of Commerce's annual fundraiser. Donated a Big Cat Expedition and several Two for One Passes to Animal Coalition of Tampa for their Spay Day fundraiser. Big Cat Expedition for two and 200 passes to the Tampa Museum of Art. 1000 passes and a 1500. Expedition Package was donated to the Global Understanding's Carousel Ball. There were many, many more that we donated to this year that we did not keep stats on. We offered to let No More Homeless Pets – HC and Florida Voices for Animals utilize our legislative program in a manner that is branded for their constituents. Other: Carole Baskin represented The Association of Sanctuaries at the Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition's conference in San Francisco and was made The Association of Sanctuaries liaison to The Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition. She served as the interim President of the Association of Sanctuaries in 2004. 2004 was a grrreat year and we are looking forward to an even better 2005!!! The narrow mission of Big Cat Rescue is to provide the best permanent home we can for the limited number of abused, abandoned and retired big cats that the sanctuary can afford to take in. However, the sanctuary must turn away over 100 cats per year and the number is growing. The broader mission, therefore, is to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abandonment and abuse by educating as many people as possible about the conditions that lead to the plight of these animals. We do this through our tours of the sanctuary, our school education programs, our 2100 page website that receives viewers from all over the world, by supporting species preservation efforts, and by providing a hands-on experience for interns from around the world. We hope, by setting an example and teaching about how animals should be treated, that this will carry over into how we humans treat each other as well, and in doing so make the world a better place for all living creatures. Our Officers and Board of Directors • CEO Chair of BOD and Founder Carole Baskin • President Jamie Veronica • Vice President & BOD Cathy Mayeski • Secty/ Treasurer Vernon C. Stairs • Director and Operations Manager Scott Lope • Director and Coordinator Brian Czarnik The current board of directors will serve until December 31, 2005. Between now and then, staggered terms of four years and five years each will be set by the existing Board of Directors to insure the uninterrupted good work of Big Cat Rescue. The financial audits for 2004 are posted here and include total income in the past fiscal year, expenses in the same program, fund raising and administrative categories as in the financial statements, and ending net assets. Income Gifts and Contributions cash: 232,597. Program Service Revenue: 314,143. Inventory Sold: 48,076. Rental Income: 31,718. Interest & mortgages 85,041. Events income: 39,631. Total income for the year 751,206. Expenses Animal Care: 363,798. Employee Benefits: 74. Payroll Taxes: 4,650. Accounting Fees: 3,525. Legal Fees: 17. Supplies: 39,322. Telephone: 14,232. Postage & Shipping: 4,911. Equipment Maintenance: 9,970. Printing & Publications: 50,583. Travel: 1,476. Conferences: 3,443. Depreciation: 18,116. Total Expense for the year 574,906 Excess for 2004 $ 176,300 Net Assets at the beginning of 2004 $ 1,142,039 Net Assets at the ending of 2004 $ 1,318,339 While this accounting appears to show a gain, it does not take into consideration money spent on capital improvements and set aside for more capital expenditures. Our complete 990 is available online at Guidestar.org under Big Cat Rescue. Neither the Founder nor any of her family nor friends are paid by Big Cat Rescue. I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.
Our Exciting news Inspired from our growing community is I now have United Souls Book In Development! Listen Now to our #UnitedSoulsCollaborationAlbum #1 - Out Now - http://sptfy.com/unitedsouls! Join our #collabalbum #2 #unitedsouls -UnityInspiresProjects@Gmail.com! - Here is our new company page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/unity-inspires-projects Thank you all for listening - Eli Goldsmith from Jerusalem! - Happy to have featured On the Soundtrack hosted by Jeff Pulver - August 26th, Jeff and co caught up with: Matt Wolfe - Production Manager / Entertainment Contributor at ABC Audio; ex Producer / Host: WBAB, pulverradio, Cox Radio, CBS Radio Brian Dubb - Music industry disruptor, entrepreneur and artist. Founder of Mpal.pro and Centralized.me, working with artists including Imogen Heap (UK) & Nano Stern (Chile). Born in South Africa, blooded in Australia, living now in Israel. Danny Clinch - Danny Clinch loves music. He listens to it, plays it, photographs it, and films it. Through this passion, Danny has established himself as one of the premier photographers across the entire music scene. He has shot and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Pearl Jam to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen. ( Video: The Clinch Method ) Eli Goldsmith - Consultant, PR, Midnight Rabbi, Unity Booking Agent, Manager, Dedicated! Buzz Apollo - Busker of Grafton Street, Dublin; Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist. - The full recording will be posted by Jeff Pulver & Co :)!
Michael Sharkey, The Shark, climbed to the top of his profession in radio, on air and running radio stations nationwide. He accomplished more than he ever dreamed but something was changing in the radio industry and inside him--he knew it was time to make a change. Michael talks about the importance of taking time for yourself after you dive; and how equally important it was to set an example for his kids, it is more than OK to follow your gut.
Check out episode 524 - Thom Singer interviews an amazing entrepreneur, Farissa Knox. She is the founder of RLM, a full service ad agency in Chicago, IL. A native New Yorker, Farissa relocated to Chicago in 2007 and founded RLM Media in 2008. RLM Media is a boutique advertising agency that specializes in media planning and buying and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. RLM additionally uniquely services and works closely with other advertising agencies that do not have media buying capabilities in house by working as an extension of their client-agency teams in order to bring the advertiser’s message to market in an efficient and total market approach. Some of the client categories RLM has been able to be successful in are Politics, Health Care, Recruitment and Higher Education. Farissa has grown RLM Media to gross billings of over $20 million in 10+ years by providing excellent customer service, complete solutions, and a team approach for their clients. Additionally, Farissa founded WhatRUWearing in 2012. WRUW is a production house that focusses on a one-off, series, and cinematic video within the fashion, beauty, lifestyle and reality space, having created the original series, PRGirl, focusing on young women in major markets living and working in the world of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle public relations. Farissa is the creator and Executive Producer of PRGirl and is working on additional projects to be released in 2020. Before Farissa was in business for herself, she worked in advertising sales. Farissa began her career in local radio sales at Cox Radio in Richmond, Virginia for the Classic Rock radio station WKLR-FM where she was able to learn the foundation of some of the same skills she uses today in her own companies. From there, Farissa went on to do national radio sales for Interep in New York and Chicago which, at the time, represented over 2000 radio stations across the country. Farissa lives in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood with her husband and two daughters. Farissa received her B.A. in Communications from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA in 2003. https://farissaknox.com https://thomsinger.com/podcast/farissa-knox
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Interview with veteran radio personality and author of the book "My Crazy Radio Life," Adam Cox. Adam aka Lukas aka Bo Nasty shares how he has re-invented himself time and time again after 30 years in the radio industry.
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Anna Raimondi is a motivational speaker, teacher, intuitive and author who helps others follow their souls' mission. Through her gifts she brings wisdom and healing in from heaven. She is a medium, psychic and channel who also holds a B.A. in Clinical Psychology, an MBA, and is a Hypnotherapist, Grief Counselor and Spiritual Counselor. Anna has been featured on numerous TV shows, People Magazine, and was the host of the Cox Radio show called "Messages from Heaven.” Anna has appeared on the “Dr. Oz Show,” as well as the Dr. Oz podcast. She has been a guest on various national radio shows and has been written about in many publications. Anna has been blessed with the gift of clairvoyance and the ability to hear the voice of Mother Mary since she was a child. She has written several books: “Talking to the Dead in Suburbia – An Ordinary Woman with an Extraordinary Gift,” “One with the Drum – A Journey to the Soul” and “Conversations with Mary.” Anna is currently writing a series of books on what the dead want us to know. AnnaRaimondi.comGet your online platform to sell your products and make passive income. Go to: Thnk.cc/deb
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A compilation of archive material from Sara Cox's years at Radio 1.
Have you meditate and pray to let God, the angels and all of heaven into your heart? Prominent spiritual counselor and medium Anna Raimondi, in her latest book, Conversations with Mary: Messages of Love, Healing, Hope, and Unity for Everyone, channels the Virgin Mary insightful prescriptive as a guide to modern spirituality. For those who loved Conversations with God and Ask and It Is Given, Conversations with Mary unveils a modern Mary, one who encourages meditation and enlightenment, and whose teachings apply to us globally. Regardless of your culture or belief system, Mother Mary sees all humanity as her children, and she wants to teach and let us know that we are all children of the most Divine. Anna Raimondi holds a BA in Clinical Psychology, a M.B.A. and is a Hypnotherapist, Grief Counselor and Spiritual Counselor. She was the host of a radio show on the Cox Radio called "Messages from Heaven." Anna has written two books, “Talking to the Dead in Suburbia – An Ordinary Woman with an Extraordinary Gift” and “One with the Drum – A Journey to the Soul.” Her mission is to give others the tools they need to live their lives in joy, while following their souls' mission. Join Anna Raimondi and me on Tuesday, November 21, 10-11 A.M. CT US. We will be having a conversation about fate and free will, the power of faith, the role of religion and its corruption, the gifts of angels, the path to enlightenment, and how to find harmony in today’s divisive world.
Вот попробовали себя в новом стиле и представлям вашему вниманию ремикс на Милан Савич - Так и скажи. Качаем трэк и заставляем девушек двигать попами =)
The U.S. services sector grew at a faster-than-expected rate in October boosted by strength in new orders. The Institute for Supply Management's index gauging the health of non-manufacturing industries registered 55.8, up from 54.8 in September.Citigroup Inc. (C) has forced out Chuck Prince as chairman and chief executive amid word the financial-services giant will write down as much as another $11 billion in bad mortgage assets. Robert Rubin, the former U.S. Treasury secretary and co-head of Goldman Sachs, will become chairman. Time Warner?s (TWX) Chief Executive Richard Parsons will step down and be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Bewkes. Bewkes, identified as the heir apparent since 2005, will take over the CEO job on January 1st. Parsons will remain as chairman.IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), the Internet conglomerate run by media mogul Barry Diller, said it will break itself into five publicly-traded businesses. The company said its HSN home shopping network, Ticketmaster ticketing service, Interval time-share business and LendingTree mortgage referral units would be spun off.PetroChina Co. (PTR) shares more than doubled in their Shanghai debut, giving the oil giant a $1 trillion market capitalization and easily surpassing Exxon Mobil as the world's largest company.Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will head to Capitol Hill to give his views on the economy. Bernanke's appearance in front of the Joint Economic Committee on Thursday could be the highlight of the coming week's economic news. In Forex News TodayThe dollar is not getting much respect these days and nothing seems to be able to prop it up. The US currency is getting pushed around with little regard. With the subprime mortgage house of cards falling down and billions of dollars leaving top financial banks - there is an uneasy feeling of crisis; the oil price is approaching the $100/barrel mark, gold continues to advance, many equities are taking a reality check, and jobs are only starting to get wiped out. All these factors are playing a part in the continuing decline of the US Dollar. The Canadian dollar meantime surged to its highest level against the US dollar since the currency was floated half a century ago after surprisingly strong Canadian employment data improved the loonie?s interest rate appeal. The Canadian dollar has risen over 20 per cent against the dollar so far this year. Analysts said the recent jobs data increased the chances that the Bank of Canada would leave interest rate on hold at 4.5 per cent in the coming months. And BNP Paribas chief currency strategist said the dollar may drop to $1.50 per euro by end of the year. The median estimate of 42 strategists is for the dollar to end the year at $1.43. Among those surveyed last week, the forecast ranges from $1.42 to $1.50.Scheduled Economic Reports (Tuesday)Retail Chain Index (Week of November 3rd)In Earnings NewsBurger King Holdings Inc. (BKC) said its fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 23 percent, surpassing Wall Street expectations. The chain earned $49 million, or 35 cents per share. Analysts expected 33 cents.Entergy Corp. (ETR) reported its third-quarter profit jumped 19 percent. Net income rose to $461.2 million, or $2.30 per share. Analysts expected $2.18 a share.Food distributor Sysco Corp. (SYY) reported it earned $267 million, or 43 cents per share. Analysts, on average, expected profit of 41 cents per share.Scheduled Earnings Reports (Tuesday)Cox Radio, Avis Budget Group, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Silicon Graphics, Molson Coors Brewing, El Paso Corp, HealthSouth, Nortel Networks, Ruth?s Chris Steakhouse, Tenet HealthcareStocks in the NewsPepsiCo (PEP) reorganized its business into three units - PepsiCo Americas Foods; PepsiCo Americas Beverages; and PepsiCo International.The Home Depot Inc. (HD) and Lowe's Cos. (LOW), were downgraded by a Deutsche Bank analyst who said that a recovery in the U.S. housing market is further off than he previously thought.And Dell Inc. (DELL) will acquire privately held EqualLogic, a network-storage provider, for $1.4 billion in cash.
Employers added more workers to payrolls in October, according to the government's closely watched jobs report that showed the labor market significantly stronger than Wall Street expectations. There was a net gain of 166,000 jobs in the month. Economists had forecast an 80,000 increase in the period. The unemployment rate stayed at 4.7 percent. Treasuries fell after the government released the jobs report, suggesting that the U.S. economy is weathering the worst housing slump in 16 years. Investors sold bonds as the Labor Department data encouraged traders to reduce bets that the Federal Reserve will cut borrowing costs once more this year. This week the Fed said inflation and growth risks are ``roughly balanced.'' Orders for U.S.-made factory goods rose 0.2% in September on higher gasoline prices. Orders for durable goods, such as airplanes and computers, fell 1.7% on a big drop in orders for defense aircraft and other defense goods. Excluding defense goods, orders for factory goods rose 1.3%.In Forex News TodayThe U.S. dollar fell against the euro in early trading Friday as markets looked ahead to the release of non-farm payrolls data amid continuing worries about the credit crunch. The 13-nation euro bought $1.4471 Friday, up from the $1.4462 it bought in late New York trading, but down from Wednesday's record high of $1.4503. The U.S. currency plummeted Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by a quarter of a point, and has continued to suffer from market jitters about the U.S. economy driven by the sub-prime market crisis as markets looked ahead to the release of information about the October U.S. non-farm payrolls data later Friday. In addition, the euro has been helped by sentiment that the European Central Bank has yet to finish a gradual campaign of rate increases, while the pound has benefited from expectations that the Bank of England will leave rates untouched rather than follow the Fed in cutting the cost of borrowing.Scheduled Economic Reports (Next Week)ISM Services Index, Productivity, Wholesale Trade, Consumer Credit, Trade, Import Prices, and Consumer SentimentIn Earnings NewsChevron (CVX) reported third-quarter net income fell 26%. The company said profit dropped to $3.7 billion, or $1.75 a share, from $5 billion, or $2.29 a share. Analysts expected $2.07.International Paper Co. (IP) said its third-quarter profit declined. Profit declined to $217 million, or 51 cents per share, from $224 million, or 46 cents per share, a year ago. Analysts forecast earnings per share of 57 cents.The New York Stock Exchange (NYX) reported its third-quarter profit more than tripled. NYSE Euronext said net income surged to $258 million, or 97 cents per share, from $68 million, or 43 cents per share, a year ago.Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (MSO) reported a loss of $4.4 million, or 8 cents per share, versus a loss of $25.2 million, or 49 cents per share, last year. Analysts predicted a loss of 13 cents per share.Viacom (VIA-B), which owns MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures, earned $641.6 million, or 96 cents per share, in the three months ending in September, up from $356.8 million, or 50 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.Scheduled Earnings Reports (Next Week)Disney, Ford, Cox Radio, Burger King, Anadarko Petroleum, Valero, Avis Budget Group, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Papa Johns International, Cisco Systems, Time Warner, Ballard Power Systems, Dean Foods, Public StorageStocks in the NewsNapster Inc (NAPS) reported a second-quarter loss of $5.1 million, or 12 cents a share, compared with a loss of $9 million, or 21 cents a share, a year ago.Unilever Plc (UL) reported a 31% increase in profits helped along by lower taxes and financing costs. Sales also increased 1%, led by growth in the Asia-Africa region.Callaway Golf (ELY) reported a third-quarter net profit of $1.27 million, or 2 cents a share, compared with a loss of $11.9 million, or 18 cents a share, a year earlier.
Edition: Vol. 1, No. 5File Size: 15.1MBLength: 35 min. 07 sec. Program features:Ghana Update: Evangelist Raphael Adjei Kingbi, JCEA Ghana Ministry Coordinator. His wife Mavis gave birth to their first child June 2nd while hospitalized with Malaria. We have a very interesting discussion about some healthcare issues in Ghana, West Africa.Interview: Evangelist Bobby Brindle, World's Smallest Evangelist. I met Brother Brindle during the 2005 Little People of America (LPA) annual convention in Orlando, Florida. He discusses his years in the ministry and how God has used his size to open doors.Message: Little People Can Do Big Things For God (part 1) by Evangelist James Croft (e-mail: evangelist@jamescroft.org).Note: You may have noticed a "small" theme for this edition of the program. This is due to the LPA annual convention being held later this month. I am member of LPA, as is Brother Brindle. The voice that opens and closes the program each month and introduces each segment is Matt Ray. Matt has a 3 year old son, Morgan Elijah, that is a "little person". We also met at last year's convention and Matt graciously offered to lend his voice to the program. He and I worked together at radio station WBKF-FM 92.1 in Macclenny, Florida in the early 1980's. He is now Director of Creative Services for Cox Radio in Jacksonville, Florida. His voice is also heard on radio and television stations across the United States.You may also contribute financially to this ministry to help with production costs by following these links:Credit CardCheck or Money OrderMay God richly bless you for your prayerful and financial support!