"Big Time Rush" Actress And Philanthropist Jordan Van Vranken To Raise Money For Cancer Children With Third Annual Bowl-A-Thon

Below is a Press Release by the North American actress Jordan Van Vranken, who played the character 'Gangster Daughter' in the episode of the hit Nickelodeon original musical comedy series "Big Time Rush" called "Big Time Girl Group", from eReleases via PRNewswire:

Teen Actress, Philanthropist Jordan Van Vranken to Raise Money for Cancer Children with Third Annual Bowl-A-Thon

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Teen actress Jordan Van Vranken is hosting her third Annual Bowl-A-Thon Sunday, January 20th to raise money to support kids with cancer, specifically the children housed at Memphis' Ronald McDonald House who are being treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Jordan created the Bowl-A-Thon event as a way to help raise additional funds and allow her Los Angeles-based friends and fellow actors to participate in this worth-while cause.

Jordan was recently in Memphis for the premiere of the indie feature After the Wizard, a film that screened at The International Family Film Festival in Hollywood last year and opened in select theaters nationally. Jordan's enthusiasm and commitment for St. Jude and The Ronald McDonald House was contagious, convincing the film's Director, Hugh Gross , and distributor, Breaking Glass Pictures, to donate the film's proceeds from the premiere.

"I love the Memphis Ronald McDonald House and the St. Jude kids. I know I've said it before...most people don't realize that the young patients being treated at St. Jude and their families stay at the Ronald McDonald House for free....so any fundraising event is critical toward contributing to the operating costs of the House."

Van Vranken also continues to honor her long time mentor and Ronald McDonald House supporter, legendary Memphis disc jockey John "Bad Dog" McCormack, who lost his own battle with cancer in 2011. "Bad Dog asked me to carry his torch....he was passionate about the St. Jude kids. I was always inspired and motivated by his example."

Jordan's third annual Bowl-A-Thon will be held at Corbin Bowl in Tarzana, CA, January 20th.

Jordan can be seen in the indie feature film After the Wizard as Elizabeth/Dorothy, now available via RedBox and InDemand, on television in Criminal Minds and Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush, and in the Cameron Diaz film Bad Teacher. She has completed over 30 independent films and won the Young Artist Award for her performance as the voice and motion of Ripley in the Warner Brothers/HD Films' animated series CHADAM.

For more information visit http://www.jordanvanvranken.com/ or www.imdb.me/jordanvanvranken.

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Viacom Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Below is a Viacom Inc. Press Release from PRNewswire:

Viacom Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2013 /Viacom Press Release via PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB and VIA) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.275 per share on both its Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend will be payable on April 1, 2013 to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 15, 2013.

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About Viacom

Viacom is home to the world's premier entertainment brands that connect with audiences through compelling content across television, motion picture, online and mobile platforms in over 160 countries and territories. With media networks reaching approximately 700 million global subscribers, Viacom's leading brands include MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, BET, CENTRIC, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, Nick at Nite, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, SPIKE, Tr3s, Paramount Channel and VIVA. Paramount Pictures, America's oldest film studio and creator of many of the most beloved motion pictures, continues today as a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. Viacom operates a large portfolio of branded digital media experiences, including many of the world's most popular properties for entertainment, community and casual online gaming.

For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com. Keep up with Viacom news by following Viacom's blog at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/Viacom.

Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains both historical and forward-looking statements. All statements that are not statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect the Company's current expectations concerning future results, objectives, plans and goals, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: the public acceptance of the Company's programs, motion pictures and other entertainment content on the various platforms on which they are distributed; technological developments and their effect in the Company's markets and on consumer behavior; competition for audiences and distribution; the impact of piracy; economic conditions generally, and in advertising and retail markets in particular; fluctuations in the Company's results due to the timing, mix and availability of the Company's motion pictures; changes in the Federal communications laws and regulations; other domestic and global economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors affecting the Company's businesses generally; and other factors described in the Company's news releases and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to its 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K and reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K. The forward-looking statements included in this document are made only as of the date of this document, and the Company does not have any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

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Nickelodeon Australia Job Opportunity - Events Coordinator

According to Pedestrian TV, Nickelodeon Australia has announced that they are on the lookout to recruit a new Events Coordinator (SYD) to join their staff team. As part of the job, you'll be able to assist with coordinating the kid experience of Nickelodeon Australia's adventure reality series for best friends, "Camp Orange"!:

Nickelodeon Australia, the deliverer of all things entertainingly animated and slimy, has a rare opportunity for an Events Coordinator (SYD) to join their team. Yes, you can wear your Sponge Bob hat to work.

Reporting to and working closely with the Events Manager, the key responsibilities for this role include maintaining the Nickelodeon Events website, coordinating the events team’s communication strategy, statistical analysis and reports, ensure the integration of marketing and branding, coordinate the components of Nickelodeon’s tent pole events such as SlimeFest, and all the general event side tasks – scheduling, budgets, travel plans etc… All the fun stuff. First and foremost, you gotta love the kiddy entertainment. You’ll be an organised soul with excellent attention to detail and know how to multi task when other side projects are thrown your way. Making you smile? Apply HERE.

Events Coordinator

Nickelodeon Australia

[...]

Full-time

Based in Sydney

Applications close January 28, 2013.

Description

Nickelodeon Australia has a rare opportunity for an Events Coordinator to join our team! We’re looking for someone who ideally has 2 + years experience in a similar role and can hit the ground running.

Reporting to and working closely with the Events Manager, the key responsibilities for this role include:

* Being responsible for the Nickelodeon Events website;

* Co-ordinating the execution of the events team's communication strategy in conjunction with the Events Manager;

* Provide statistical analysis and reports on the quarterly results;

* Ensure that all marketing and branding guidelines are integrated into all event productions;

* Coordinate the components of Nickelodeon's tentpole events such as SlimeFest. This includes budget tracking, booking travel, booking accommodation, Workplace Health & Safety, catering and staffing;

* Assist with coordinating the kid experience on Camp Orange; and

* Assist with any additional project work when required.

To be successful in this role, ideally you will have:

* 2+ years experience in a similar position;
* Exposure to event management preferred;
* First Aid and WH&S certificate;
* Excellent attention to detail, organisation skills;
* Initiative and drive; and
* A passion for kids entertainment.

If this sounds like the next step in your career then rush your CV and cover letter to Rochelle.Orphin@vimn.com

Contact Name - Rochelle Orphin

Email - Rochelle.Orphin@vimn.com

Apply

Good luck to everyone who applies for the above Nickelodeon Australia job from NickALive!

Curtis Jobling Screens Nickelodeon UK's "Curious Cow" To School Class In St Western Springs, Illinois, USA As Part Of His Latest Tour

The official Patch website, Patch.com, is reporting that during a recent visit to the St. John of the Cross Parish School in St Western Springs, Illinois, USA as part of his latest book tour, the British author and illustrator Curtis Jobling, who was a production designer on the popular preschool television series "Bob The Builder", screened a few episodes of Nickelodeon UK's "Curious Cow" Interstitial series to a class of lucky pupils! "Curious Cow" was first commissioned by Nickelodeon UK in 2000, and was produced as a series of acclaimed stop motion puppet animations by Mackinnon & Saunders. The Nickelodeon Shorts series followed the deadly misadventures of a danger seeking Fresian Cow. You can watch a episode of Nick UK's "Curious Cow" short series here on the official Seed Animation, the producers of the later episodes, website, seedanimation.com:

‘Bob the Builder’ Designer, ‘Wereworld’ Author Visits SJC

On tour for his young-adult series, Curtis Jobling dropped by St. John of the Cross on Thursday to talk animation and fantasy, give a reading and, of course, sketch Bob and friends.

If the words “Bob the Builder” bring any image to mind, it’s likely an image sprung from the mind and pen of Curtis Jobling.

“Everything you see on Bob from day one, I designed it,” he told a group of St. John of the Cross Parish School fifth-graders Thursday in a fast-talking, oft-irreverent book-tour appearance. “Everything that Bob has to interact with—it could be a book, a spade, a hand grenade. If we need it, I draw it, we build it and we animate it.”

If a hand-grenade episode exists, it's apparently been lost to history, though Jobling did screen his Nickelodeon UK “Curious Cow” shorts as Chuck Jones-style kid-friendly black comedy.

He also discussed different types of animation, showed a trailer for his new show Raa Raa the Noisy Lion and sketched Bob and friends on an easel for his knowing and eager audience. (While drawing Spud the silly scarecrow, he deliberately left off the parsnip nose, prompting a chorus of protest.)

Jobling’s major project of late has been his Wereworld young-adult novel series, a dark fantasy in a world where royalty are shape-shifters who assume fierce bestial forms like anthropomorphic wolves, lions and even sharks. He showed multiple video trailers for the series, which has four books in print, and left students hanging with a reading of one of the first book’s dramatic opening scenes.

Main character Drew being a teenage werewolf, Jobling also engaged kids in a game of “Wolf-Man or Hairy Man?” including close-ups of An American Werewolf in London, Taylor Lautner, a hirsute Jack Nicholson and an even more hirsute Jack Nicholson in the film Wolf. (It may not be a coincidence that Jobling’s beloved hometown rugby team is also the Wolves.)

Silliness aside, Jobling had a serious message for students, drawn from his following a childhood passion for fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying.

“If you have a hobby… something that you have a talent for, keep these things going; even when you get to high school, don’t let them fall by the wayside,” he said. “You don’t know where it might take you. At the very least, it’ll be a rewarding pastime for of your lives. At the most, you might be able to make a living out of it, as I’ve been fortunate enough to.”

The fourth book in the Wereworld series, titled Nest of Serpents, is on shelves now. It follows Rise of the Wolf, Rage of Lions and Shadow of the Hawk. Book five (of six), Storm of Sharks, will be released in May.