MacFarlane surprises UCLA class, announces contest

Seth MacFarlane arrives at Variety Power of Comedy at Avalon Hollywood on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Seth MacFarlane arrives at Variety Power of Comedy at Avalon Hollywood on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Oscar host Seth MacFarlane is inviting college students to join him on stage at the Academy Awards.

The "Family Guy" creator made a surprise appearance at UCLA to announce a contest sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and mtvU that will allow winning college students to appear on the Feb. 24 Oscar telecast.

The contest invites students to submit videos on the academy's Facebook page describing how they'll contribute to the future of film. At least six winners will serve as trophy carriers on the Oscar show, replacing the leggy models who usually perform the duties.

MacFarlane spent 40 minutes leading the undergraduate film and television class at UCLA's Westwood campus on Wednesday as part of mtvU's "Stand In" series, which brings celebrities to college classrooms as guest lecturers.

"In re-imagining what we want the Oscar show to be, we wanted everyone appearing on that stage to feel a deep commitment to film and its legacy, and most importantly, its future," said Oscar telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron in a statement. "That was the impetus in creating this special honor for young film students who will inspire a new generation to create the films that will be honored in the future."

The contest is also aimed at drawing younger viewers favored by advertisers to the Oscars' aging TV audience. Like UCLA student Abby Smith, who immediately pulled out her smartphone to share the moment on Facebook when MacFarlane appeared before her class.

"Seth MacFarlane is speaking to my film lecture for the next hour," Smith posted. "I'm having a panic attack."

The 39-year-old entertainer urged the aspiring filmmakers and show-runners in the class to make a "commercially viable student film" before leaving school, adding that "Family Guy" was based on his own student film.

And MacFarlane said "Family Guy" could once again become a film. He said he's already come up with a concept for a feature-length movie and promised "it will happen at some point."

MacFarlane cheekily described the Academy Awards as "a crazy little variety show" and said "all I can do is do what I think is funny and most entertaining."

"The Oscars is a tricky venue," he said. "The (hosts) who have not done well, I would classify them as a noble failure, an honorable failure, because at least they were trying something new... If I can do it without torpedoing my career and getting drummed out of the business... All I can do is my very best."

He paused a beat, and added, "Lame (expletive) answer."

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Marketing and Communications Coordinator - HigherEdJobs

Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Company background
INTO University Partnerships (IUP) is an organization working in partnership with leading US and UK universities and investing in the development of world-class international student centers. It specializes in preparing students for undergraduate and postgraduate study in the US and the UK.

Reporting relationship
Reports to the Marketing & Recruitment Manager, INTO Marshall

Job overview
The Marketing and Communications Coordinator (MCC) will be responsible for coordinating marketing communications activities within and emanating from INTO CSU to build awareness and drive student recruitment from the global markets to INTO Marshall. The MCC is line managed by the INTO Marshall Marketing & Recruitment Manager. The MCC will organize and implement a wide range of activities/tactics as defined within the annual marketing plan, and will provide marketing and sales support for emerging needs.

Key accountabilities and duties
This is a new role in a growing, dynamic organization. Accountabilities of the position may change and develop over time.

The MCC will be responsible for contributing to/and or generating content for the following audiences:

• Center students and staff
• INTO Senior Management
• INTO Marshall JV Board
• INTO Sales and Marketing Staff in Regional Offices
• Marshall University constituents
• Local Media Partners and Audiences

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

INTO Marshall Brochure Development and Production

• Support the development of the annual INTO Marshall brochure by acting as liaison to Center leadership staff, and other key campus stakeholders:

o Managing to a master project timeline, provide project management support within the Center to ensure key stakeholders complete their deliverables on schedule.
o Assist with acquisition of new information needed for brochure and ensure accuracy of existing content.
o Coordinate and provide logistical support for photo shoot(s) including recruiting and scheduling students for shoot(s).

Student Advocacy

• Engage with current students to generate authentic, first person content that can be used to provide

o Develop and organize a bank of print and video student testimonials by proactively recruiting/identifying students (with representation from all programs and all nationalities), creating testimonial content in tandem with the student, photographing students, coordinating with internal or external design resources to produce testimonials in approved design template, and ensuring
o Appropriate distribution of final testimonials including posting on INTO Marshall website and forwarding to INTO Regional offices.
o Maintain INTO Marshall presence on all appropriate social media sites; regularly author and post new content.
o Increase the volume of activity on INTO Marshall social media sites by facilitating greater involvement from current students.

Sales Support

• Source center-specific and university-focused news for use in social media channels and newsletter(s).
• Assist with revisions to existing sales materials (flyers, one-sheets) and the creation of new materials by obtaining new content, confirming accuracy of existing content, and soliciting review/approval from appropriate stakeholders.
• Obtain Marshall-branded promotional items and ship to appropriate locations in support of recruiting events.

Web Maintenance and Content Development

• Ensure timely, accurate web content is uploaded to intohigher.com/marshall.
• Work with Center leadership and staff on ongoing basis to identify new content that can be posted on a regular basis to ensure that the site is dynamic and as current as possible.

Event Planning

• Organize and manage visits from key agents, sponsors and influencers.
• Coordinate with university staff to organize events for the campus or greater Huntington community to learn about the INTO Marshall program

Location
This position is based at INTO Marshall in Huntington, West Virginia

Salary
Under review. Includes a full benefit package including Medical, Dental, Life/ADD, STD, and 401k.

Qualifications

Academic qualifications

Essential
An undergraduate (Bachelor's) degree in marketing, advertising or a related discipline
Experience
Minimum 2 years of experience on a marketing or communications team or in an advertising or public relations agency

Desirable
Experience working in higher education

Experience studying abroad

Knowledge

Essential
Proficiency in PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office applications

Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite (particularly InDesign)

A working knowledge of web analytics (Google Analytics), search engine optimization and social media

Desirable
An understanding of the creative development and production process

Familiarity with website content management systems (Umbraco)

Familiarity with project management software (Basecamp)

Familiarity with email marketing platforms (Dotmailer)

Knowledge of AP style

Proficiency in a second language other than English

Skills/Abilities

Essential
Exceptional writing and editing skills

Highly detailed with strong project management skills

A self-starter who is comfortable working independently with limited oversight and direction

Capable of frequently meeting tight deadlines

Able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and build relationships with peers, senior managers, University stakeholders and external vendors

How to apply
If this sounds like you, please reply immediately with your pay history, cover letter, and your resume to https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=4708542 If you are interested, please submit your required documents by close of business Friday January 4, 2013. Please, no phone calls.

INTO University Partnerships provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. INTO University Partnerships complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

INTO University Partnerships provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. INTO University Partnerships complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. INTO University Partners conducts background checks on all final candidates.

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Analysis: Obama, Boehner seek cliff talks leverage

WASHINGTON (AP) ? One month before the deadline, negotiations between President Barack Obama and Republicans to save the economy from a plunge over the fiscal cliff are still in the throat-clearing stage. Serious bargaining is on hold while the two sides vie for political leverage.

Deal or no deal, nothing is likely to become clear until far closer to the year-end deadline, when the lure of getting away for the holidays will sharpen the focus of negotiators.

"There's a stalemate. Let's not kid ourselves," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Friday, punctuating the end of a week of political theater by divided government. "Right now we're almost nowhere."

He spoke as Obama all but called Republicans heartless louts from a Charles Dickens story. Their failure to pass an extension of middle class tax cuts would amount to a Christmas "lump of coal" for millions, Obama said in Hatfield, Pa. "That's a Scrooge Christmas," added the recently-re-elected president, who claims a voters' mandate to extend existing tax cuts for all but upper incomes.

Boehner, too, claimed a mandate after voters renewed the House Republican majority on Nov. 6. But the speaker's political hand was weakened ? witness his postelection announcement that the GOP would put revenues on the bargaining table. His control seems to have eroded further in the weeks since, as a smattering of the GOP rank and file let it be known they could support the president's tax plan under the right circumstances.

"Rate increase, if the package includes significant entitlement reform that gets you to $4 to $6 trillion (in deficit savings) over 10 years, I would vote for that," a retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, told reporters on Friday.

Rep. Charles Bass made similar comments. "If it gets us past the fiscal cliff and the president is willing to consider meaningful savings in entitlements, it's a legitimate solution," said the New Hampshire lawmaker, who was defeated for re-election this fall.

Yet the speaker also made a little-noticed move this week to shore up his bargaining position.

He issued a statement noting that Senate Democrats are threatening to weaken the Republicans' ability to block legislation in their chamber in the new Congress that convenes in January.

"Any bill that reaches a Republican-led House based on Senate Democrats' heavy-handed power play would be dead on arrival," he warned.

In the talks to date, Democrats have declined to identify a single spending cut they are willing to support, while Republicans avoid specifics on revenue increases they would swallow.

Once each side moves beyond opening gambits, Republicans will have to decide whether they are willing to raise income tax rates on upper incomes, as Obama wants, or hold fast to closing loopholes as a means of producing increased tax revenue.

Boehner condemns raising rates, yet didn't flatly rule it out during the day. It was a step Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., took. "We don't want to increase tax rates, we're not going to increase tax rates," he told reporters.

For their part, Democrats will decide how much savings to pull from benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid and possibly Social Security without cutting guaranteed benefits, a line they vowed not to cross in earlier budget negotiations.

Obama's opening proposal, delivered to Boehner and other Republicans by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Thursday, calls for $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, a possible extension of the temporary Social Security payroll tax cut and enhancing the president's power to raise the national debt limit.

The new federal revenue would include $950 billion generated by raising taxes on families with incomes over $250,000 and by closing certain tax loopholes by the end of this year, according to administration officials who described the offer Friday only on condition of anonymity. The remainder would be achieved through an overhaul of the tax system next year and would not become effective until 2014, said the officials, who were not authorized to provide the details by name.

Obama is seeking new spending to help the unemployed, homeowners whose property's value is less than their mortgage, doctors who treat Medicare patients and wage-earners.

In exchange, the president would back cuts of an unspecified amount this year, and savings of as much $400 billion from Medicare and other benefit programs in 2013.

Republicans said they were surprised at the plan, and Democrats wondered aloud why.

"Each side said they'd submit a down payment. We have. Our preference is revenue. What is theirs?" said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Republicans have an opening offer of their own, in line with their conservative anti-tax views, much as Obama's is designed to solidify his own political position. While agreeing to new revenue, GOP lawmakers want to extend expiring income tax cuts at all levels, including the top brackets. They also want to raise the age of eligibility for Medicare and curtail future cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and other benefit programs. The same adjustment would raise revenue for the government by making a change in annual adjustments of tax brackets.

"We're the only ones with a balanced plan to protect the economy, protect American jobs and protect the middle class from the fiscal cliff," Boehner said on Friday.

That was a jab at Obama, who campaigned for re-election advocating a balanced approach to avoiding the fiscal cliff that combines higher taxes on the wealthy with spending cuts.

Said the president: "In Washington, nothing's easy, so there is going to be some prolonged negotiations."

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? David Espo is AP's chief congressional correspondent. Associated Press writer Alan Fram contributed to this report.

An AP News Analysis

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The govt. wants your 401(k) plan | CalWatchDog

Nov. 30, 2012

Katy Grimes: With the recent Democratic reelection win by the Obama administration, get ready for more than tax increases.

The government now wants your private 401(k) retirement plan. ??As Washington debates what to do about the fiscal cliff that it foolishly created, many potential sources of new revenue will be thrown on the table. One of them is likely to be 401(k) plans,? Investor?s Business Daily?reported?Thursday.

?Retirement is an American?s reasonable expectation. We put money into investment plans so that our work today funds our hard-earned leisure of tomorrow. But many in Washington see our investment accounts not as the expressions of well-planned, disciplined decisions but as untapped reservoirs of wealth they can drain to fix the problems that they caused.?

There?s a great deal of money saved by private sector employees in 401(k) plans. But liberals in government say that these retirement accounts aren?t fair, and that they are the retirement plans of the wealthy.

More than 60 million American workers have a 401(k), 403(b) or 457(b) plans. But taxing these accounts or lowering the amount that can be contributed to them tax-free would do little to close the deficit and cut the debt, IBD said.

?Total assets in 401(k)s are roughly $3 trillion. So even if they were seized in their entirety, they would merely retire less than 19% of Washington?s $16.3 trillion debt.?

Since first election Barack Obama, his government liberals have been saying that our 401(k) exist on the backs of the poor, as if they had all the money and it was stolen by the rest of us.

The truly scary part is that I have no doubt that a majority of the people who voted to reelect Obama will not have a problem with the government claiming ownership of Americans? 401(k) plans.? It?s the only fair way to level the playing field.

?But?many in Washington see our investment accounts not as the expressions of well-planned, disciplined decisions but as untapped reservoirs of wealth they can drain to fix the problems that they caused,?

The war on women is nothing.??The war on retirement, particularly 401(k)s, is quiet now. But that?s because it?s a cold war,? IBD said.

In 2008, ?Teresa Ghilarducci,?an economist from the New School, first suggested to Congress the idea going after 401(k)s. One of California?s Congressmen, George Miller, a Democrat, loved the idea.??George Miller, who runs a congressional committee, Democrat in California, came out with the first notion of just getting rid of your being able to deduct for your income your contribution to your 401(k)?? He said we have to eliminate the ?401(k) tax subsidy? back in 2008,? Rush Limbaugh reported on his radio show Thursday.

Did Miller call this a ?tax subsidy??

?The government?s losing $80 billion by allowing you to deduct from your gross income, your taxable income, whatever you contribute to your 401(k), and they wanted to take that away. They had a hearing. They actually had a hearing on this back in 2008 where they heard from this professor. Ghilarducci appeared and she said, ?I?ve got a better plan,?? Limbaugh reported.

?What we want to do, we want to take your 401(k) at its August level, before the crash. We?ll give you that equivalent and put it in your Social Security account, essentially, and we?re going to invest that money that we take from your retirement account, your 401(k), at its August level. We?re going to buy government bonds with it, which will guarantee you 3% ? and then we will require that you put 5% of your pay into your 401(k) although it?s not yours anymore,??Ghilarducci said to Congress.

IBD warned that the hostilities might be closer than many of us think. ?The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries launched on Monday, according to Reuters, ?a media campaign intended to educate U.S. employers and workers that the federal government might consider changing the tax benefits of retirement savings accounts.?

?A website set up by the ASPPA advises account holders to tell lawmakers to ?keep their hands off your retirement savings? and explains that ?Congress needs to reduce the deficit, and part of deficit reduction will most likely be ?tax reform? that increases tax revenue? ? the strong suggestion being that Washington is coming after Americans? 401(k)s,? IBD said.

Read more here:?http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112812-634984-401k-on-the-table-for-fiscal-cliff.htm?p=full

Be sure to read the comments left by readers on the IBD story.

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Ex-Nat'l Lampoon CEO to be sentenced in fraud case

FILE - In a Wednesday April 6, 2011 file photo, former National Lampoon chief executive Tim Durham arrives at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Indianapolis. U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson is set to sentence Durham, James Cochran and Rick Snow following their June convictions on fraud and conspiracy charges on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The three were convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Joe Vitti, File)

FILE - In a Wednesday April 6, 2011 file photo, former National Lampoon chief executive Tim Durham arrives at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Indianapolis. U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson is set to sentence Durham, James Cochran and Rick Snow following their June convictions on fraud and conspiracy charges on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The three were convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Joe Vitti, File)

FILE - This undated file photo released by the U.S. Marshal's office shows accountant Rick D. Snow. U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson is set to sentence Snow, Tim Durham, and James Cochran following their June convictions on fraud and conspiracy charges on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The three were convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million. (AP Photo/ U.S. Marshal's Office)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? A former chief executive of National Lampoon and two co-conspirators face possible life sentences Friday after being convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million.

U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson is set to sentence Timothy Durham, James Cochran and Rick Snow following their June convictions on fraud and conspiracy charges.

A jury found each man guilty of securities fraud and conspiracy. It also convicted Durham, a major Indiana Republican Party donor who resigned his National Lampoon post in January, of 10 counts of wire fraud, while Cochran and Snow were convicted on some of those counts.

Prosecutors have said the three stripped Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance of its assets and used the money to buy mansions, classic cars and other luxury items and to keep another Durham company afloat. The men were convicted of operating an elaborate Ponzi scheme to hide the company's depleted condition from regulators and investors, many of whom were elderly.

Durham's attorney, John Tompkins, argued at trial that Durham and the others were caught off-guard by the economic crisis of 2008, and bewildered when regulators placed them under more strict scrutiny and investors made a run on the company.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett said none of the three has shown remorse for their crimes and each deserves the life sentence recommended in a probation report.

"The emails and wiretaps introduced at trial show a brazen disregard ? indeed contempt ? for the largely working-class people that made up the majority of Fair's investors," Hogsett said in a sentencing memorandum submitted earlier this week.

"Durham has earned a place among the greediest, most selfish and remorseless of criminals," Hogsett wrote.

However, Snow's attorney, Jeffrey Baldwin, in his sentencing memo this week, pointed out that former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced to less than 25 years in prison after his convictions on 29 counts of fraud and conspiracy and that former WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of nine felonies including securities fraud in a loss of more than $1 billion.

Attorneys for Baldwin and Cochran have asked for lower sentences than those recommended.

Tompkins has asked that Durham be sentenced to three years in prison and two years of home detention.

The charges against Durham led several GOP politicians, including Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, to return hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions sought by Fair Finance's bankruptcy trustee.

Associated Press

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