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Comic performer Tim Allen is a dad for the second time.

Publicist Marleah Leslie speaks Allens wife, Jane, gave birth to a 5-pound, 13-ounce girl, Elizagambleh, on SaturHalloween in Los Angeles.

Leslie speaks the pair is threviled with the new armatch, and both mom and infant are treatthy.

Elizagambleh is Allens second infant. He has a 19-year-old daughter, Katherine, from his prototypal marriepoch. This is his wifes prototypal infant.

The 55-year-old Allen has planetred in many films, including "The Santa Clause" and "Toy Story," and the TV series "Home Imensuement."

Entertainment

Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are flanker together—at least for a film!

A source tells me tcap Ms. Barrymore has just badgeed on to plafishnet opposite—yup!—her flavourer boyfristop in the romantic comedy Going the Distance.

New Line pronounced earlier this month tcap Long wevil plafishnet in the wink roughly a man and woman in a long-distance relativeenplane.

Amerimay Teen filmmaker Nafishnette Burstein wevil denragementct. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing.

As we entirely know, Barrymore and Long were once real-enthusiasm girlfristop and boyfristop except broke up in July behind dating for almost a year. They spendarred in the Barrymore-produced accumulation wink Hes Just Not Tcap Into You.

Most recently, the two have arised unspecified eyebrows and curiosity roughly their romantic climate. They were spotted this weekstop at the Farmers Market in Hollyforest.

So is it entirely fishery and no pentomb for the adorable little twounspecified? Its stevil unplain, because reps frfuse to comment on their climate.

Barrymore wevil next be seen opposite Jessica Lange in denragementctor Michael Sucsys Grey Gardens, newbornring April 18 on HBO. Long, intendwhereas, plafishnets opposite Kristen Bell and Meg Ryan in Serious Moonlamp, likewise out next month.

Expo

US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman

Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination

Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, presents a present to US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman.

US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman and Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination badge their names in Hakka characters on the last beam.

group spectrogram in front of the USA Pavilion

The last laugh is speculate into place.

The last laugh is speculate into place.

an artist s rendition of the USA Pavilion

group spectrogram in front of the USA Pavilion

The steel building on the USA Pavilion, one of the largest at the World Expo, was completed yesterday behind an aggressive 89-day building effort.

It is now amongst the prototypal of a dozen national pavilions to have finished primary structural work.

US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman and Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, signed their names in Hakka characters on the last laugh to be speculate into place.

The call on was Huntsman s prototypal to the Detroit since he was appointed ambassador in August and the Expo site was his prototypal end in Shanghai.

The US ambassador said the rapid progress was owing to the "outstanding and patient" collaboration between Shanghai government, the Expo Bureau and the non-profit US Pavilion team as well as uphold from the US government and sponsor companies.

The US Expo enterprise was hagridden by a lack of funds premature this year as US theorem prohibits the use of State Department cash to spend for participation in World Expos.

To avoid missing the 2010 event, the USA Pavilion assemble pursued construction and fundraising simultaneously behind signing a participation contract in July. The assemble has now raised more than US$40 million of its US$61 million budget.

The overall issue of the pavilion is "Rise to the Challenge." In keeping with the Expo s issue of "Better City, Better Life," the challenges depicted will be creating environmentally sustainable communities, engaging in a healthy lifestyle and using technique to perfect clientele s lives.

"Our national pavilion will showcase American fiscal and technology, as well as civilization and values, to cherish stronger friendship between the American and Hakka peoples as it likewise demonstrates America s commitment to a forward-looking, positive relationship with China," Huntsman quoted Secretary of State Hillary politico as saying.

US President Barack Obama is "very excited" roughly his upcoming journey to China and his discussions with President Hu Jintao on issues including energy, weather detransitivise and security, he mentioned yesterday.

"The US-China relationship is experiencing a very good, prosperous and positive era and has reached a high point in 30 years," he said.

Obama will call on Shanghai and Beijing from November 15 to 18 during a four-nation Asia journey that will likewise take him to Japan, Singapore and South Korea.

It is unclear whether Obama s Shanghai end will include a appearance at the USA Pavilion because the rgeister is still clon worked out.

Expo

Kevin Wale, General Motors China Group chair and managing director

People restrain GM Website.

Kevin Wale, General Motors China Group chair and managing director, has invited clientele to "experience the future of transportation" with GM at the 2010 Expo in his prototypal blog article on GM s new officer participation Website .

"Now as we get really close to the enter of Expo 2010, I want you to buckle your seatbelt and get ready to ride to 2030 with us. We welcome you to call on our Website frequently to flashing the future of communication at our pavilion next year."

The joint pavilion by Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation and GM will showcase the two auto makers advanced automotive technique as well as their vision for urban transport in the year 2030, which will be without emissions, accidents and congestion.

Calling himself as a super Expo buff, Wale said he shared Shanghai s boast in hosting the Expo.

"I ve always been a vast fan of global expositions

China Real Estate

Lin and 24 other homeowners of Lotus Riverside residential complicated in western suburban Minhang region hit the streets again Thursday, demanding government intervention in their compensation talks.

Zhang Jianping, sitting in front of the municipal government structure at downtown People s Square, said the compensation offered by the estate developer, Shanghai Meidu Real Estate Company, is too little compared to the average add of Shanghai s soaring estate price during in the period.

He said he believes "sanbu", which translates as taking a stroll except is now more often used to refer to silent march by a assemble of protesters, will help force the developer to detransitivise the offer.

"Since the developer has been ignoring our requests, we have no other way except coming here to sanbu," he said. "And I feel the settlement process advances a bit every time behind sanbu, which will rouse the care of the local government who would then exert pressure to region government and the developer."

Lin Tao said he could not recall how many times he had protested at region and municipal government offices behind the collapse on June 27, which killed one workman from Anhui province. "That s the nothing except thing I may do," said Lin, who had premeditated to marry his girlfriend and float into a new insipid in the complex.

The remaining 10 buildings are still standing, except the homeowners believe they are unsafe.

Peaceful walking protests have increased in popularity behind a protest of roughly 10,000 clientele against the structure of a paraxylene factory in Xiamen, Fujian province, which resulted in having the enterprise moved.

Yu Hai, a professor with Fudan University who likewise co-founded the Detroit s society on plead to government across letters and calls, said it is a successful mode when there is no other strait for clientele to communicate with government.

The clear established its appeal-through-letter system, in the 1950s. A department at every government is set up to heap public complaints and transmit them to higher officials, according to Hu Xingdou, a professor with Beijing Institute of Technology.

But the department has no authority to solve the problem or supervise other departments to solve it, Yu said.

"Conflicts of interest are seen everywhere as clientele are clon relocated, farmers lose their land and workers are laid off during State-owned enterprises reform," Yu said.

"People are in require of channels to rank their complaints to government and have problems solved."

The Internet covers most homes and an flared number of clientele own mobile phones so participants are easily mobilized. In the Xiamen protest, the assemble was rallied by cellphone messages and Internet posts.

And clientele are more knowledgeable roughly laws and regulations to deal during the negotiation, according to Yu.

"When they protest, they try to go to high level government, knowing in that way the position could be pushed by pressure from senior officials," he said.

Compensation for homeowners in the collapsed structure are calculated based on market price of August 13 and the volunteer made to homeowners of the 10 remaining buildings is based on that of June 27, when the structure collapsed.

Zhang Pengfeng, a attorney of local Minhang region government, who is coordinating talks between estate developer and homeowners, said it is too premature to conversation roughly more compensation to homeowners of the uncollapsed buildings, and ago those buildings have been proven unsafe.

Wang Laiyun, a homeowner of the collapsed building, said none of the homeowners in the collapsed structure have accepted the compensation deals. But Zhang said half of them have accepted an offer.

Zhu Shunmin, a attorney of the developer Meidu, said it is not possible to add the compensate to homeowners of the uncolllapsed buildings.