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East Texans 'playing it safe' with storm shelters

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POSTED: Friday, March 2, 2012 – 9:44pm UPDATED: Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 9:45pm TYLER — Larry Smith owns Maverick Manufactured Homes. He also installs storm shelters right here in East Texas. "Our primary product line is fiberglass. We do a concrete shelter and we do a steel shelter," Smith said. Smith tells KETK, the FEMA-tested [...]

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Huntsville, Alabama German Restaurants – The Schnitzel Ranch

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If you're looking for an authentic German restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama, you've got several fine choices to select from. Huntsville is home to a lot of Americans of German heritage, and many of them are fairly recent newcomers to the Rocket City, thanks to the wave of scientists who immigrated to the area to work [...]

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Hugh Grant renews Fort George museum cash appeal

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20 February 2012 Last updated at 06:31 ET Share this page Fundraisers in the Highlands are close to reaching their £3m appeal target to revamp the regimental museum at Fort George Actor Hugh Grant helped fund-raisers renew their appeal after they revealed they still need to find £350,000 towards the £2.9m revamp of a military [...]

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Andy Baggot: A year after accident, Daubenspeck embraces life, family

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Sitting down to lunch with Kirk Daubenspeck last week, listeningto him embrace his extraordinary life, I couldn't help but recallone of the best, most underrated movie scenes of all time. The final frames of the World War II epic "Saving Private Ryan"are winding down when the Tom Hanks character uses his finalbreaths to give the [...]

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Billy Bob Thornton – Thornton's Dad Inspired Duvall Character

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Billy Bob Thornton will be giving movie fans an intimate look at his tough childhood in new movie Jayne Mansfield's Car – he modelled his onscreen dad, Robert Duvall, after his real-life father. The dark family comedy centres on three World War II veteran brothers and their struggle to connect with their cold and cruel [...]

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Movie Review – Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) (PG)

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A Literary Story for Non-Literary Audiences This is going to sound crazy, but when I originally saw the trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, I had no idea it was a sequel to 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth. Perhaps I would have known this had I been aware of Jules Verne's [...]

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Movie Review of Red Tails

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According to several articles I have read lately, it has been George Lucas' intention to make a film about the Tuskagee Airmen since the 1980's, but he hasn't been able to find a studio that would support it, claiming that audiences wouldn't be interested in seeing a movie with an all black cast. I don't [...]

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President Obama's State of the Union: Readers respond

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Win McNamee/Getty ImagesU.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on January 24 in Washington, D.C. Let readers decide: Print State of the Union in full I listened to President Obama's State of the Union speech with an open mind. The next day, I read the reporting in The Star-Ledger. The president's [...]

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Immigration Front & Center

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As the GOP contest heads to Florida, and later to Nevada, New Mexico and other states with large Hispanic populations, watching the candidates tie themselves into a pretzel over the issue of immigration reform will be like the scene in “Men in Black II” when the worms engage in a game of Twister. It ain’t [...]

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Movie Review – Red Tails (2012) (PG-13)

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Lucas' Historical Flop Red Tails is caught in a fatal tug-of-war between two narrative approaches. On one side, we have serious drama; the film is an historical account of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first ever group of African American fighter pilots to serve the United States military during World War II. On the other side, [...]

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Next Factor: Elijah Kelley Soars in 'Red Tails'

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Elijah Kelley takes to the air in "Red Tails" as one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. It's only recently that the Airmen have gotten their fair share of honors for their military service during WWII, despite Jim Crow laws and rampant racism. Kelley plays young pilot Samuel "Joker" George alongside Cuba [...]