Liev Schreiber Takes Naomi Watts and the Kids on a Bicycle Built for Four!

Piling the whole family on two wheels, Liev Schreiber took Naomi Watts and their two boys on a bike ride in New York City on Tuesday (October 15).

The "Impossible" Star balanced behind her beefy beau while Alexander and Samuel rode in child seats on the front and back.

Next month, the 45-year-old actress covers Allure magazine and tells the publication all about how she landed her main man.

Admitting she made the first move, Naomi shares, "It was a lot more ballsy than I would ever normally be. He got up to say he was leaving, and I was like, 'Oh, shit.' So I said something cheeky. 'Don't you want my digits?' It made him laugh."

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CineAsia to Honor Intercontinental Group Holdings Limited’s Terry Lai and Rigo Jesu

Intercontinental Group Holdings Limited's Honorary Group chairman Terry Lai and adviser Rigo Jesu will be honored with the CineAsia lifetime achievement award in distribution at this year's convention.

The duo will be recognized at a Dec. 12 awards ceremony set to take place at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.

"It is with great pleasure that we are able to honor Terry Lai and Rigo Jesu with the CineAsia 2013 lifetime achievement award in distribution," said Robert H. Sunshine, co-managing director of the annual convention. "Both Terry and Rigo have a long and acclaimed history that makes them a 'tour de force' in distribution, production, content creation, video, gaming and live performances."

Lai established Intercontinental Film Distributors (HK) Limitedin 1969 to produce and export Chinese films around the world. This success led to the establishment of Intercontinental Group Holdings Limited in 1996, which today is an organization more than 400 employees with a turnover in the HK$600 million range. Its businesses include film and video distribution, cinema operations, advertising and promotion services, video games distribution, e-commerce and character products merchandising.

Rigo began his career in entertainment at Capital Artists Limited, where he was promoted to the position of acting general manager in 1973. In 1980, he formed his own company, Jesu International Entertainment Limited, and later joined Intercontinental Film Distributors (H.K.) Limited, focusing mainly on the sourcing of foreign films and introducing them into Hong Kong. In 1985, he shuttered his business to focus on the growth and development of IFDL and its parent, Intercontinental Group Holdings Limited, as managing director. From 2005-11, he served as co-CEO of Intercontinental Group before shifting into the role of adviser.

CineAsia 2013 will take place from Dec. 10-12 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will feature screenings of upcoming Hollywood films, sponsored events, timely and informative seminars,and the CineAsia Trade Show.

CineAsia is produced by Prometheus Global Media, owner of The Hollywood Reporter.

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White House: House Republican plan too partisan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the latest proposal from House Republican leaders for reopening the government and extending the nation's borrowing cap is a partisan effort to appease tea party conservatives. It praises bipartisan negotiations in the Senate as a good-faith effort to end the partial government shutdown and avoid an economy-shaking default.

The White House also announced it will meet with House Democratic leaders Tuesday afternoon as negotiations continue and a deadline to raise the debt ceiling moves ever closer.

White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage says a proposal from House GOP leaders that would attach health care law changes to shut-down and debt ceiling measures is a, quote, "partisan attempt to appease a small group of tea party Republicans who forced the government shut down in the first place."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-house-republican-plan-too-partisan-151746336--finance.html
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Obama calls business leaders, governors about debt ceiling, shutdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama spoke by phone to a group of about 150 leaders of major businesses on Friday afternoon to give them an update on talks with Congress on lifting the debt ceiling ahead of a default deadline next week, the White House said.

"The president reiterated that his first order of business is to urge Congress to reopen the government and remove the threat of default, and then he is willing to engage with Congress on a long-term budget," the White House said.

Obama also spoke with a group of 25 state governors about the government shutdown, now in its 11th day, and its impact on state budgets and the economy.

"He argued that the prolonged shutdown is having adverse consequences on consumer confidence and businesses, and is hurting local economies across the country that rely on tourism at national parks and monuments," the White House said.

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; editing by Jackie Frank)

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Review: Bridget Jones older, shallower and boring

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Helen Fielding

Time has dulled Bridget Jones.

It has also left her neither wiser, more relaxed nor comfortable with the person she's become and the people she counts as her friends.

That's both good and bad because in Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," the British heroine — whose sense of self was so strong and so entertaining in the first two novels that it created an archetype of self-determination belaboring amusing bouts of self-confidence — is lost amid social media, parental responsibility and trying to impress the moms at school.

So how, now, is Bridget Jones at 51? Content in marriage to Mark Darcy? Happily ensconced in having quit smoking, raising two children and avoiding the trap of being a smug married woman?

In a word, no. Darcy is dead and Bridget is a single mother to their two children, dating a man whose age is around half her own while her best mates find themselves vacillating between adult responsibility and living their lives as the unfettered and unbound twenty- and thirty-somethings they used to be.

It's been nearly 20 years since "Bridget Jones's Diary" was published in 1996, vaulting Fielding from freelance reporter to one of Britain's best-known and most popular writers. The 1999 sequel, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," continued Bridget's bold, if not brassy, tales.

But it seems that fear of being a 51-year-old single parent raising two young children in the age of social media is too much for her.

Fielding strives throughout the book to add relevance to her character's life and all of its foibles, mishaps and happy accidents. It's just not enough, though not for lack of trying. Perhaps that's an echo of the time that Bridget and her readers live in, with the short bursts of information, a focus on the quick and a general intolerance for taking time to do things.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/review-bridget-jones-older-shallower-boring-211157185.html
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Demand Media co-founder, chairman, CEO Rosenblatt exits

By Jennifer Saba

(Reuters) - Demand Media Inc Chairman and CEO Richard Rosenblatt is leaving the online content company he co-founded, its board announced on Monday.

The directors named Shawn Colo, who is also a co-founder, as the company's interim president and chief executive. James Quandt, a board member, was named chairman.

The board said in a news release it would start a search for a permanent CEO shortly.

"I realize that all journeys must ultimately come to an end and want to wish Shawn and the entire team success as they continue to grow the business," Rosenblatt said in the release.

Rosenblatt did not immediately respond to a request for comment and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment beyond the release.

Demand offered scant clues on Rosenblatt's sudden exit. He has led Demand Media and been a constant presence during earnings calls since the company went public in 2011.

Jordan Rohan, an analyst with Stifel, wrote in a note to investors, "The change is not entirely surprising given the pressure from Google's (algorithm) changes on the content business, the overall strategic drift in the company and waning share price."

Founded in 2006, Demand Media was a closely watched experiment in how to create content inexpensively by tapping a network of thousands of freelancers for "how-to" articles and videos. It makes money from advertising when its content shows up high on search results.

It owns sites such as eHow, Cracked and Livestrong as well as a top-level domain business, which it is planning to spin out.

In recent years, Demand Media has been hurt by changes Google Inc has made to its search algorithm meant to weed out content that it said was of lesser quality. Demand relies heavily on Google for traffic referrals.

Shares of Demand Media were unchanged in after-hours trading on Monday after closing flat at $5.85. In the past year, shares are down 44 percent.

(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York; editing by Matthew Lewis)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/demand-media-co-founder-chairman-ceo-rosenblatt-exits-212306003--sector.html
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What's Your Most Positive Tech Support Experience?

One time I called Time Warner customer service because the internet was out in my apartment. The man I spoke to was friendly. He had information about an outage in my area. He had an estimate of how long it would be before service was restored. And he was allowed to tell me that estimate.

This kind service rep even said he was making a special note of my call and gave me his full name so I could reach him again if I needed additional assistance. Out of all the unavoidable calls I've made to big corporations this was the only positive experience I've ever had. I treasure the memory.

Customer service is generally a black spot that grows and eats away at any souls in its path, but every once and awhile it can be okay. Take this exchange (excerpted above) between a customer and a Netflix service rep in which there is a productive discussion about the customer's concern PLUS totally appropriate, G-rated pirate role-play. I mean that just seems like a good time. Share your holy grail of tech support below.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/whats-your-most-positive-tech-support-experience-1444562178
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Goodbye, tracking cookies? Don't celebrate just yet

October 11, 2013

Is there something in the water? First Google, now Microsoft, is rumored to be working on technologies to replace tracking cookies for online advertising.

The secrecy surrounding these projects is no big deal, but what's bound to be a big deal is if they replace a well-known  (if a widely hated) system with a complete unknown.

Word about Google's "AdID" technology started circulating back in September, when USA Today reported about "an anonymous identifier for advertising ... that would replace third-party cookies" for the sake of end-user ad-tracking. The system is allegedly intended to give consumers "more privacy and control over how they browse the Web," and would be used with advertisers that have "agreed to basic guidelines" -- although it's not clear if those guidelines are designed to better favor consumers or advertisers.

USA Today's anonymous source within Google couldn't give more details, in part because the proposal was soon slated to be circulated amongst "industry participants, government bodies and consumer groups."

Speculation has since raged about what Google is planning and to what end. Some believe Google may be trying to follow the same model Apple created for iOS via its iAd platform -- the latter of which attracted unwanted attention from U.S. regulatory agencies back in 2010 (and which may well have been instrumental in allowing Google to purchase AdMob in the same timeframe).

When Google was pressed for more details, a "Google spokesperson" (according to multiple outlets) would only reply: "We believe that technological enhancements can improve users' security while ensuring the Web remains economically viable. We and others have a number of concepts in this area, but they're all at very early stages."

Those two words, "and others", might well have been a hedge, but perhaps Google knew something that everyone else has just now gotten wind of as well.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/web-browsers/goodbye-tracking-cookies-dont-celebrate-just-yet-228652?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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Covered California back online after upgrades

Online enrollment is available for California's new health insurance exchange after technical glitches on the system's opening day forced overnight upgrades.

Covered California spokesman Roy Kennedy says the enrollment portion of the exchange website was taken offline from 8:30 p.m. Tuesday until 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. He said pages were loading slowly and that logos for insurance plans were not displaying correctly.

Click to read more.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/53168295/ns/local_news-sacramento_ca/

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