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• Charley Koontz
  Charley Koontz is an American actor best known for his recurring role as Fat Neil in the NBC comedy series Community. Koontz grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from De La Salle High School in Concord, California where he appeared in school plays.He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Theater Arts.
  
  
  
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• Courtenay Taylor
  Courtenay Taylor (a.k.a. Courtenay Kellen Taylor, born Courtenay Kellen Dennis in San Francisco, California on July 19, 1969) is an American actress.
  Taylor is known for her voice-over roles in many video games. She has worked extensively in theatre, film, television, and commercials.^{[citation needed]} Taylor stars in the French comedy thriller film Rubber, which was directed by Quentin Dupieux. Rubber was a Cannes 2010 selection.
  Courtenay Taylor was married to Welsh former footballer and the current assistant manager of Caersws F.C. David Taylor.
  
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• Ethan Cohn
  Ethan Cohn (born April 18, 1979) is an American actor.
  Cohn starred in the films Cry Wolf, Rubber, The Experiment and Lady in the Water.
  He portrays Owen Kellogg in Atlas Shrugged (2011), the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel of the same name.
  He is best known for his role as Zane Taylor in science fiction serial drama television series Heroes. Cohn has worked in many television series, having small roles in CSI: Miami, Head Cases and Huff . However, he advanced rapidly in his career and had a recurrent role in Gilmore Girls as Glenn.
  
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• Haley Ramm
  Haley Michelle Ramm (born March 26, 1992) is an American actress. She played a young Jean Grey in X-Men: The Last Stand and appeared in multiple episodes of the CBS drama Without a Trace throughout 2007 and 2008.
  Ramm was born in Collin County, Texas, 5 weeks early (premature), to Barbara (née Wilson) and Brian Ramm. At the age of three, she began dancing in local studios. Four years later, at the age of 7, she was performing her own freestyle dances in talent shows. Her love of center stage led her to attend acting classes and, following the recommendation of a teacher, her parents started to look for an agent. Almost immediately, she signed an agency contract. Ramm started to audition for independent films and commercials all around Texas and soon appeared in nationwide commercials for Hasbro and Dell computers. By age 9, Haley had appeared on the cover of American Girl for the May and June issues.
  In 2005, she acted in the movie Seventy-8 as April Rowlands. The movie premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival.
  
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• Jack Plotnick
  Jack Stuart Plotnick (born October 30, 1968) is an American film and television actor.
  Born in Worthington, Ohio, Plotnick is based in Hollywood. Plotnick is best known for performances on Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as the voice of Xandir on Drawn Together, and his drag persona, "Evie Harris" in Girls Will Be Girls.
  Along with co-stars Miss Coco Peru and Varla Jean Merman, Plotnick shared the Best Actor Grand Jury Award at Outfest 2003 and "Best Actress" honors at the 2003 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival for his role in Girls Will Be Girls.
  
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  Pedro Winter
  Pedro Winter aka Busy P is a French electrohouse DJ, producer, manager and owner of the Ed Banger Records label. Pedro Winter manages Cassius, Cosmo Vitelli, artists on his Ed Banger Records label, and managed Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008.
  Winter performed on a Rapman synthesizer on "Funky Squaredance" in Phoenix's debut album, United. His Fancy remix single "What's Your Name Again" was a club hit on its release. The music video for this was again created under the Ed Banger Records label. He was married to Nadege Winter, head of public relations at Parisian boutique Colette. His brother, Thomas Winter, has a successful music career as an indie and electro house vocalist.
  
  
  
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  Roxane Mesquida
  Roxane Mesquida (born 1 October 1981 in Marseille, France) is a French actress and model based in Los Angeles.
  Mesquida grew up in Le Pradet, a little town located in South of France. Her mother, writer Françoise Mesquida, is French/Spanish and her father is Italian/American but Mesquida never got to know him. Mesquida is fluent in English and French, and she also speaks Spanish, Italian and German.
  She was discovered at the age of 11, while walking on a road with her mom, by French director Manuel Pradal who was in the middle of the casting process for his movie Mary from the Bay of Angels (Marie Baie des Anges) at the time. She took part in the shooting during the summer after their encounter.
  In 1998, she also played opposite Isabelle Huppert in The School of Flesh (L'École de la Chair) by Benoît Jacquot. A few years later, she crossed paths with the renowned director who would make her well-known and, according to Roxane, who made her learn her craft: Catherine Breillat. First they collaborated in Fat Girl (À ma sœur !), then in Sex Is Comedy, and they worked together again in 2006 on The Last Mistress, with Asia Argento.
  
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• Stephen Spinella
  Stephen Nicholas Spinella (born 11 October 1956) is an American stage, television, and film actor.
  Spinella was born in Naples, Italy to a father who was an American naval airplane mechanic. He grew up in Glendale, Arizona and graduated from the University of Arizona drama department. He also attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1982. He won consecutive Tony-awards for Best Featured Actor and Best Actor for his performance as Prior Walter in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika respectively. He was also nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead.
  
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• Wings Hauser
  Wings Hauser (born December 12, 1947) is an American actor, director and film writer.
  Hauser was born Gerald Dwight Hauser in Hollywood, California, the son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and Academy Award-winning director and producer Dwight Hauser (1911–1969). His brother is actor Erich Hauser.
  In 1975, Hauser released an album for RCA entitled Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets. For this LP he used the name Wings Livinryte. Fans can read an interview with Hauser and experience the album for the first time in its entirety via streaming at the online-cult film magazine website, mondo-video.com. Hauser first attracted notice in 1977 in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Greg Foster. He has appeared in 41 television series, including recurring roles in Beverly Hills 90210, Murder, She Wrote and Roseanne.
  In 1983, he wrote and produced the Paramount box-office hit, Uncommon Valor. Hauser has also managed to sustain an eclectic movie career, highlighted by rather eccentric, intense character portrayals in movies such as Vice Squad, Deadly Force, No Safe Haven and Tough Guys Don't Dance. Hauser is set for the lead role in the French natural flick Rubber, which is directed by French musician Quentin Dupieux.
  
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Tomic stars as injury hits Hopman Cup

Sydney Morning Herald

30 Dec 2012

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Petkovic beat 16-year-old Queenslander Ashleigh Barty 6-4 in the opening set of the women's singles rubber ... "It's unfortunate for Andrea, she's a great player," Barty said ... Haas looked to have the rubber in the bag after winning the second set and edging out to a 5-3 lead in the third ... Spain beat South Africa 2-1 in the tournament's opening tie, despite Fernando Verdasco losing his men's singles rubber 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 to Kevin Anderson....(size: 3.5Kb)

Tales of Bangsar

New Straits/Business Times

30 Dec 2012

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Bangsar began as a rubber plantation, the Bunge-Grisar rubber estate or Bungsar Estate,” he ruminates. The name Bungsar was derived from the names of the London-based rubber plantation company’s first board members, Edouard Bunge and Alfred Gisar ... I had worked on landscape paintings before and I also grew up in a rubber plantation, so to interpret that historical bit in the context of Bangsar wasn’t difficult,” he says....(size: 8.1Kb)

Hill stripped for oil palm projects

New Straits/Business Times

30 Dec 2012

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INSENSITIVE. Aggressive land clearing choking up streams with silt.   GUA MUSANG ... Travellers using the road linking this town with Kenyir Lake in Terengganu would not miss the spot near Km65, as the eyesore is clear even from a distance. The deforestation is alleged to be part of a massive oil palm and rubber estate project, in which Perak DAP chairman Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham and his cousin, Nga Kor Ming, reportedly have a stake ...   ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)

Inside Lines: Hearn puts more ping into pong with new table plan

The Independent

30 Dec 2012

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"Ubiquitous" is a word that might have been coined for Barry Hearn. He is everywhere, and into everything. You name it, he's done it, from boxing to bowls via an assortment of telegenic activities, some of which he has jazzed up and reinvented, others he has simply invented ... Ping pong. Not table tennis, you'll note ... Out go the pimpled rubber-and-foam bats – instead 64 international competitors will use ones covered with sandpaper....(size: 3.7Kb)

Police, LGUs told: Implement ban on burning rubber tires

Sun Star

29 Dec 2012

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MANILA -- The Philippine National Police and local government units have been ordered to strictly enforce the ban on the burning of rubber tires on roadways in time for the New Year revelries ... "Burning of rubber tires on the roadways, ......(size: 1.2Kb)

Petkovic injury hands hosts dream start (ITF - International Tennis Federation)

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29 Dec 2012

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Spain and South Africa opened up proceedings and it was Kevin Anderson who gave the southern hemisphere side a surprise early lead after defeating Fernando Verdasco 76(5) 64 in the first singles rubber. Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues levelled the tie with a comfortable 64 62 win over Chanelle Scheepers to send the clash into a deciding doubles rubber....(size: 3.1Kb)

Petkovic injury gives hosts dream start (ITF - International Tennis Federation)

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29 Dec 2012

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Spain and South Africa opened up proceedings and it was Kevin Anderson who gave the southern hemisphere side a surprise early lead after defeating Fernando Verdasco 76(5) 64 in the first singles rubber. Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues levelled the tie with a comfortable 64 62 win over Chanelle Scheepers to send the clash into a deciding doubles rubber....(size: 3.1Kb)

Everglades Park offers “anti-vulture kits” to protect visitor cars

The Miami Herald

29 Dec 2012

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But none of it has curbed the curious appetite that migrating vultures have developed for windshield wipers, sunroof seals and other rubber and vinyl vehicle parts ... Worse, just about every piece of rubber and plastic on his sunroof, windows and hood was ripped away and shredded ... One is that rubber releases an aroma that attracts the birds, possibly from some chemical or other ingredient in the material, such as fish oil ... 1 . .. ....(size: 3.8Kb)

Ana vs Schiavone (Ana Ivanovic)

noodls

29 Dec 2012

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Ana takes on world No.35 Francesca Schiavone in the second rubber of Serbia's Hyundai Hopman Cup tie against Italy on Monday ... Djokovic will be overwhelming favourite to defeat the world No.23; if he does so, Ana could clinch victory for Serbia, before the third and final mixed doubles rubber ......(size: 1.8Kb)

Everglades Park offers ‘anti-vulture kits’ to protect visitor cars

The Miami Herald

29 Dec 2012

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But nothing has curbed the curious appetite that migrating vultures have developed for windshield wipers, sunroof seals and other rubber and vinyl vehicle parts ... Worse, just about every piece of rubber and plastic on his sunroof, windows and hood was ripped away and shredded ... One is that rubber releases an aroma that attracts the birds, possibly from some chemical or other ingredient in the material, such as fish oil ... 1 . .. ....(size: 3.8Kb)

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Tomic shines in Hopman Cup win

Canberra Times

29 Dec 2012

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Tomic produced two spirited fightbacks to beat Germany’s Tommy Haas 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 7-5 in 135 minutes in the mixed teams event ... Spain earlier clinched a 2-1 victory over South Africa, winning the mixed doubles 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 10-8 after the two singles rubbers were split ... Haas looked to have the rubber in the bag after taking the second set and edging out to a 5-3 lead in the third set ... "It was a very tough first set ... AAP. ....(size: 2.6Kb)

Some drivers would kill to crush a turtle

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

29 Dec 2012

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CLEMSON, S.C. -- Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up getting a glimpse into the dark souls of some humans. Mr. Weaver put a realistic rubber turtle in the middle of a lane on a busy road near campus ... Several more apparently tried to hit it but missed ... Herzog said ... He counted 267 vehicles that passed by, seven of them intentionally hitting his rubber reptile ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)

Cambodia-Vietnam trade, investment see marked rises in 2012

CNTV

29 Dec 2012

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PHNOM PENH, Dec ... dollars in 2012, a 18 percent rise from 2.8 billion U.S ... Meanwhile, Cambodia exported agricultural products including rice, corn, cassava, rubber latex and furniture to Vietnam ... It added that 40.7 percent of Vietnamese investment went to agriculture, especially rubber plantation, 34.2 percent to energy, 10.5 percent to banking and finance, 6 percent to telecoms, 4 percent to aviation and the rest went to mining ... Xinhua ... ....(size: 5.8Kb)

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