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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb sophomore Brittany Elmore has been named to the preseason Atlantic Sun All-Conference softball team.
The team was announced by the conference office Monday afternoon.
"Preseason all-conference is a very well-deserved recognition for Brittany," Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman said. "I think there are quite a few girls on our team that could have been in that situation.
"Everything is based off of last year. She had a great year and I think people are expecting her to be one of the top players in the A-Sun again this year."
Elmore, a Mt. Juliet resident and a former standout for Goodpasture Christian, is coming off of an outstanding freshman season. She was an NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete, Atlantic Sun First Team All-Conference selection, a unanimous pick for the A-Sun All-Freshman Team and an A-Sun All-Tournament Team member. She was honored as A-Sun Freshman of the Year and First Team All A-Sun by "College Sports Madness".
She also was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
Elmore set a school single-season record and led the A-Sun in stolen bases with 36. She was second overall in the A-Sun in hits with 70.
"It kind of validates what we she did last year and what other coaches think about her value to our team," Ryman said. "It says a lot for the kind of role she plays on this team.
"She is our lead-off hitter, and everyone knows she is going to lead off. She has been really working hard at swinging away and feeling more comfortable swinging the bat. That was something she did last season, but she wants it to be more of a weapon this season."
The Lady Bisons, runners-up in the A-Sun Tournament last season, were picked by the conference coaches to finish third this season.
USC Upstate, the 2013 A-Sun Tournament Champion, was selected to finish first with seven first place votes (97 points). Florida Gulf Coast was picked second with two first place votes (85 points).
The Lady Bisons, with 78 points, received one first place vote. North Florida, last season's regular season champion, was close behind in fourth with 77 points.
"We were anticipating being somewhere in the top four," Ryman said. "I am not surprised at all that we were picked No. 3.
"The thing about our conference this year is almost every team returns a lot of players. It is going to be dogfight like it always has been. The top six or seven are going to be extremely competitive and you can't count out the bottom three or four. "


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CARSON, Calif. – What began for Chris Klein as a gut feeling in the preseason felt more and more right as the season progressed.
Klein has decided to turn the lights out on his career and will retire from playing following the culmination of the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2010 season.
"I kind of knew coming into the year that this was probably going to be my last year," Klein said. "It's never an easy decision to make, but I believe it's the right time to step away and do something else."
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Klein, 34, has played 10 games this season, easily the lowest output of his career. As a rookie in 1998, he played 16 games and logged 769 minutes for Kansas City but went on to become a fixture for the Wizards and Real Salt Lake before joining the Galaxy.
So much of a fixture was Klein that he set a league record for consecutive games played, having played 141 straight games. The streak was snapped when Arena opted not to play him in a league match at Columbus.
"I'm thankful to God that I was able to be healthy for that long, having in my career two major knee injuries and then to put together that many games in a row, I'm thankful for it and it's something that I'll be proud of," Klein said.
WATCH: Klein's clinical assist vs. Dallas
One of the longest-tenured Galaxy players, Klein is one of just four current players who were with the club during the 2007 season. He has played 79 games for Los Angeles and has scored two league goals, as well as a memorable bicycle kick against Pachuca in the 2007 SuperLiga final.
Klein began his career with Kansas City and before long was starring at right midfield. He earned his first cap with the US national team in 2000 and had 23 in all. He helped Kansas City win MLS Cup 2000 as well as the 2004 US Open Cup.
[inline_node:321326]"Chris has been in MLS his whole professional career, has been part of championship teams, has been an All-Star, has had a great career," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said. "He's going to do well in his next move, whatever that is."
After a brief spell with Real Salt Lake, Klein joined the Galaxy and added some stability when the roster was fluid and victories scarce. But he helped LA get back to the playoffs and reach MLS Cup in 2009.
Having the opportunity play with what he called a top organization with stellar support was a great way to culminate his career.
"Most of it starts with [Galaxy owner Phillip Anschutz] and the foundation that he set, not only for our league but for the team here in LA," Klein said. "That really marks everything we do here. Everything is first-class.
"That bleeds into our fan base. You can't say enough about the fans here in Los Angeles. They've shown up when we were struggling and lately when we do well. That's why we play the game — it's really for the fans, and we definitely feel we have some of the best fans here in LA."
As far as his legacy, Klein said as long as his workmanlike approach to soccer and his unending energy is remembered, he'll be fine.
"I'd like for [fans] to remember that I played the game the right way and gave everything I had every time I was on the field," Klein said. "With my teammates, mostly that I cared for them in a different way. I met a lot of great people through my time with Major League Soccer."

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All books including the Bible are and were written by flawed men. Flawed men interpret the Bible and all other books the way they choose. Other choices that flawed men make include choosing to become patrons of churches that cultivate an atmosphere or in which said patrons have "their ears tickled" to suite their lifestyle choices, as well as many social and societal groups who choose to reason that the Bible was written by flawed men and thus is flawed in itself. It's my opinion that man choose this deduction and many others akin to it to justify their dislike for the information contained within It.
If you could find a way to live being reconciled in your own heart and mind regardless of your actions... wouldn't you do it?
What does this have to do with the Bible? I'm saying that people who feel as if they shouldn't have to justify themselves to a singular higher power don't believe that the Bible is God's Word and will try and justify that belief by any means necessary. Whether it's choosing to believe in the theory of evolution others like it, worshipping inanimate objects with no reasoning capability, focusing on the behavior of others instead of focusing on being the change they expect to see, or the fact that men are the authors of the Bible.
But... the Bible wasn't thought of by men- just written by men. Throughout Bible history, God used angels and men to handle divine tasks for Him. The construction of the Bible itself is a divine task that's was laid out for men to pen It.
(2Timothy 3:16-17) All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.
So, I do believe wholeheartedly that yes - the Bible was written by flawed and fallible men, but It was also inspired of God, so they had holy spirit to complete this great task and in my heart and mind I KNOW that the Bible is the Inspired Word of God.
We all were born with a conscience, and we know deep down if we are fighting against it. Often times, the people who fight the hardest... feel a twinge deep inside that tells them something's is wrong, but many people fight harder, which leads me to another blessing we have... free will. So I'm all about respecting someone else's beliefs because of the free will we have. I'm just not going to pretend to think it's legit, it would be more of an "agree to disagree" type thing.
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The Bible is many men's "word", full of historical errors, misconceptions, idiocy, hatred, ignorance, etc.
The Bible (Old and New Testaments) is the first book of fantasy, inspired by legends from many places, Sumer being only one of them. For example, Jericho had been standing empty and already in ruins for nearly 150 years when the hebrew armies arrived. Moise is the legend of a Sumerian prince. It could not be the story of an Egyptian as (1) the Nile had very strong currents and very hungry crocodiles and (2) tar is not found in open air in Egypt while the Euphrate has neither strong currents nor hungry crocodiles and tar is indeed found in easily accessible tar field.
It took more than 40 writers and nearly a thousand years to write it. Just for the NT, approximately 300 years were necessary to fix it as we know it or almost, as some corrections did happen once in a while in accordance with the then current Church politics. Jesus was long gone.
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Bumbling bomb plot exposes Poland's dark side
KRAKOW, Poland – The Polish man arrested for plotting to blow up parliament was not difficult for intelligence agents to spot. Acquaintances say he put up posters advertising classes on home-made explosives, and anti-government comments were posted on the Internet from his email address.
But even if it was destined to fail, the story of this alleged bomb plot reveals some uncomfortable truths about Poland, a country hailed abroad as a success story for its transition from Communism to democracy.
What emerges from the online chat rooms and social networking sites where the suspect purportedly aired his views is Poland's dark side, inhabited by a tiny minority who feel marginalized by the country's transformation and angry enough to want to overthrow the government.
Some of them, say people who track extremism in Poland, could be plotting violent attacks; and next time, they might not be so inept as the man prosecutors say was behind the plot they uncovered.
"This person made a lot of very basic mistakes," said Andrzej Kruczynski, a former officer in the Polish armed forces' GROM anti-terrorist unit. "If this person had a little more imagination, we could have seen a tragedy … We can consider ourselves lucky that acts of terrorism have not reached us."
The allegations of a bomb plot resonated deeply in Poland because it was the first such case in the two decades since the country emerged from Communist rule.
Prosecutors said they arrested a 45-year-old chemistry lecturer from the southern city of Krakow on suspicion of planning to detonate a vehicle packed with four tonnes of explosives outside the parliament building.
They said the suspect had "nationalist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic" motivations and believed the people running the country were "not true Poles".
He drew inspiration from Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year, prosecutors say, and he planned to bomb parliament when the prime minister and president were inside the building.
Prosecutors have identified the suspect only as Brunon K. Officials have confirmed his full name to Reuters, but under Polish law it cannot be published.
He has been charged with plotting to overthrow the constitutional authorities through violence, and preparing to cause large-scale threat to life with explosives.
His lawyer, Wojciech Swiatkowski, declined to comment on the case when contacted by Reuters. Prosecutors said the suspect had acknowledged to them he was in possession of explosives but said that the plot was organized by someone else.
Interviews with the man's neighbours and students, and research on Internet sites he frequented, paint a picture of a man who had a lifelong fascination with explosives, was drawn to anti-establishment conspiracy theories, and was impatient for action to change the system.
Until his arrest, he lived on the sixth floor of a drab, Communist-era apartment building in Krakow, the same place he had lived since he was a child. It is across the street from a local prosecutor's office.
Several neighbours recalled an incident in the early 1980s when Brunon K., then a teenager, set off an explosion that blasted out the windows in his parent's flat and sent furniture flying in the homes of other tenants.
"His mother ran to the ninth floor, to the only phone at the time, to call paramedics," a neighbour, who for decades lived two floors above Brunon K.'s family, told Reuters.
"I ran downstairs and found Brunon all covered in blood. The blast blew off several fingers on both hands. I had to take the bloody remains of one of his fingers off the wall," said the neighbour, who declined to give her name.
Years later, his students at Krakow's Agricultural University said he always kept one hand in his pocket.
The blast did not dim his enthusiasm for explosives. One of his students, Tomasz, 20, said Brunon K. had circulated flyers looking for students interested in classes about pyrotechnics.
"(This was) unusual since this is an agricultural university," said the student.
In a posting on an Internet forum dated Oct. 11, 2012, someone using Brunon K.'s email address complained that, about six months earlier, officials had forced him to stop giving classes in explosives and threatened him with prosecution.
The address used in the postings is the same one which, according to his students, the suspect handed out for them to use to send him academic correspondence.
Few people who knew him from the university and his apartment building could remember him expressing strong views or talking about politics.
"He would ride the elevator in silence without saying hello," said Barbara, a neighbour.
Once in the world of online chat rooms and social networking sites, he adopted a different persona.
A post under his online identity carried a link to a video on the YouTube video-sharing site, entitled "Wake Up Call", an amateur documentary which purported to explain how some rich families were plotting to control the world.
In several posts he made pejorative puns about the party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. One contained a mention of a "ginger-haired bandit" – probably a reference to Tusk.
He appeared to be trying to draw other people in. One post, addressed to several online nick-names, said: "It is high time to stop bull-shitting and start to act. Just talking achieves nothing. One lone person is nothing but a group is already something. I invite you to get in touch in person."
Another post said: "I propose that we organize ourselves against tyranny. Our grand-fathers and fathers fought so that we could live in a free country. The majority of your are all talk and no action. It's time to start."
He made little effort to disguise himself online. Many posts were made under his work email address and he invited people who shared his convictions to contact him on that address.
On Thursday, officials from Poland's ABW internal security agency, who investigated the case, gave a closed-door briefing to members of parliament's Committee on Secret Services.
Committee chairman Konstanty Miodowicz, speaking to Reuters after the briefing, said Brunon K. was seen by intelligence officers as a "lone wolf", someone who had no links to any network of radicals.
But he added that there could be more people like him, even though they were considered a low-level threat.
"The ABW is currently monitoring a few extremist groups and people, who may commit acts of terror," Miodowicz said. "We must take into account the actions taken by such frustrated individuals."
The reaction to Brunon K's arrest shows that, ideologically, he was not alone – and that there are other people who have sympathy with his aims.
Messages about Brunon. K were posted to his profile on Nasza Klasa, one of Poland's most popular social networking sites. Some condemned his actions, but others praised him.
"Keep it going!!!! CHASE DOWN JEWS!!!!!!!" was posted by a user describing himself as Pawel Nowak. On his own profile elsewhere on the same site, the user has a picture of a baby dressed as Adolf Hitler, and images of brown-shirted young men giving Nazi-style salutes.
A message from another user says about Brunon. K: "Hail to the great Pole! A great man of principles!" That user calls himself Robercik Biedron SkinheadWhiteHonor. His profile on the site has an image of a knife and the slogan: "Death to gypsies."
People who track violent radicals say this kind of language and imagery is a hallmark of what they say is Poland's loosely-organized far-right movement.
Its supporters rail against Jews, foreigners and homosexuals, they reject Polish integration into the European Union, and have a deep hatred of Tusk's government.
They are a very small minority of Poland's 37 million population and most people do not share their views. But they are dangerous, according to the "Never Again" Association, a non-governmental group that monitors the militant right.
The group says it has logged dozens of murders committed by people with far-right sympathies since 1990, and that incidents involving the far-right were up 30 percent this year – possibly a reaction to hardship caused by the economic downturn.


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A statewide advisory remains in effect for one fish meal per week for all fish not otherwise specified due to mercury still found in fish tissue samples. Mercury poses the greatest risk for women of child-bearing age, pregnant and nursing mothers and children under 15. Fish contaminated with high levels of mercury have been shown to cause neurological damage and impaired development of young children.
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There's more to Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS than meets the eye. If you were hoping to see KELLEY'S HEROES, THE DIRTY DOZEN, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE or even a remake of the original THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, this film probably left you feeling like Tarantino missed some crucial elements of the Men-On-A-Mission/War genre.
In fact, Tarantino, who has exhibited his love of film and genre-filmmaking time and again, has bumped himself up a notch here and twisted our expectations to make a film that is both artistically and historically subversive.
But let me start with a brief introduction to Tarantino and my reactions to his earlier films. While I loved RESERVOIR DOGS and its character-driven and deeply cinematic approach to the Heist-Gone-Wrong genre, I found PULP FICTION (Tarantino's most commercially popular film) to be rather slight. It was cinematically fun and contained moments of truly witty, well-written dialogue, but at the end of the day the film left me feeling empty. And while JACKIE BROWN was entertaining and gave us a chance to see some sorely missed faces return to the big screen, the film didn't knock me out, though I did appreciate it. The KILL BILL movies I found to be terrific. Not deep or meaningful, but filled with a love and mastery of a specific genre that Tarantino knows very well. It is a homage to so many films that one has to share Tarantino's knowledge to recognize them all. Luckily, that's not a prerequisite to the film's enjoyment. It just adds another dimension. DEATH PROOF, the second feature on the GRINDHOUSE double bill, was a mixed bag for me. I found the scenes with Kurt Russell to be mythic and engaging and exactly what I would have hoped for. The long passages of dialogue with the young women, however, particularly the first set, seemed endless and a tad masturbatory. For me, it took the wind out of the GRINDHOUSE sails, particularly after Robert Rodriguez's rousing zombie actioner that preceded it. All this said, I believe each and every one of the above-mentioned films deserves another look as INGLOURIOUS proved to be so much more than I initially thought.
Upon leaving the theater after the brief closing credits for INGLOURIOUS, I thought to myself that I had just seen a truly captivating and fun Tarantino film. Already one of my favorites. But there was something nagging at me; areas of the film that seemed "underdeveloped" or misdirected. But Tarantino's no dummy and he knows his genre films better than most. So what exactly was I feeling? What was that brewing just beneath the surface?
Well, through conversations with friends and my own inner dialogue, I started to see the film Tarantino had made, instead of the film I had expected him to make. And like some of the greatest filmmakers of all time (e.g. Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavetes) Tarantino's new film will elicit different reactions based on expectations and might easily be dismissed and/or misunderstood. At least initially. That said, I don't consider Tarantino a director of the caliber of a Kubrick or Cassavetes (yet), but I think in this age of lowest-common-denominator filmmaking, Tarantino still understands the word "cinema" and has placed his own stamp on it. This puts him leagues above many of his working contemporaries.
Let's start with the Basterds themselves. A seemingly familiar team of rag-tag rebels thrown together by circumstance and talent to create the perfect unity for accomplishing a near-impossible task at great risk to themselves. And like all Men-On-A-Mission films, the lives of thousands, maybe millions, hang in the balance. However, the main thing that appears to be missing from Tarantino's take on the genre is time spent getting to know these characters. In INGLOURIOUS, the Basterds are sorely lacking in dimension. We know little about most of them and, as a result, have little investment. Naturally, this seems to be the antithesis of the genre as we know it. Especially since one of Tarantino's specialities is finding ways to make even the smallest character unique and three-dimensional. Take the scene in the underground bar, for example. The celebrating Nazi soldiers are given moments that tell us something about their personalities and interactions. When the female soldier (Petra Hartung) puts her pal in a headlock and teases him by twisting his nose (an iconic image of youthful innocence and playful — albeit somewhat masculine — affection), the young man's anger, resentment and humiliation is present even as the camera pans away. Relationships, personalities and hierarchies are established almost instantaneously. Even the frightening Maj. Dieter Hellstrom (August Diehl) seems to be the only one present who recognizes that the film KING KONG was a reflection of America's fear of the black male. While playing a name game, Hellstrom asks Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) "Am I the story of the negro in America?" When Hicox answers "No", Hellstrom replies with "Well, then, I must be King Kong." It is Hicox's oblivious denial and lack of awareness that allows Hellstrom to be certain of the correct answer. So it takes a racist Gestapo Major to recognize an allegory for America's fear and racism when we ourselves may not see it. And this, without question, tells us quite a bit about Hellstrom. It also serves as a hint to the audience that the film we ourselves are watching may be richer in social meaning than its facade suggests.
Even the new Nazi father, Master Sgt. Wilhelm, played with drunken delight by Alexander Fehling, immediately gains our sympathy and understanding. We don't want him to die. We want him to go on to see his son Maximilian grow up. And there is an air of sorrow when he does not.
So why not make the Basterds equally as sympathetic? As revealing? Why not give them equal presence? It is Hellstrom and Wilhelm who steal the bar scene. It is they whom Tarantino chooses to explore. By comparison, Fassbender's Hicox is shown to be both arrogant, dimensionless and sloppy. It is he who singlehandedly undermines the entire mission with his lack of self-control and self-awareness.
At first, one starts to think perhaps crucial footage was cut from the film in order to accommodate a shorter running time. In fact, some footage was cut (as is always the case), but I'm starting to think that may have been a wise, insightful move. The Basterds are presented as brutal, Nazi-scalping killers. And if one is to keep score (as you should), the most graphic violence in the film comes from these men.
By contrast, let's take a look at the Germans, the Nazis, the "villains"? They are, oddly enough, more developed characters than our "heroes". Christoph Waltz's star-making turn as Col. Hans Landa, while being a frightful man in may ways, is also portrayed as engaging, intelligent and, at times, somewhat charming. He's the German Sherlock Holmes. Only he's hunting Jews. And we admire his skill, as appalling as its intent may be. And though he may not necessarily be "likable", his time onscreen is nothing short of mesmerizing. And while he is responsible for the death of an innocent Jewish family early in the film, this massacre is shown with bullet holes in the floor as opposed to a splattering of blood and guts. Not like the graphic nature of the Basterds whose scalpings are shown in gory detail throughout the film. And both Landa and Brad Pitt's commanding Basterd, Lt. Aldo Raine, each let one survivor go, both scarred in their own way. Both men are playing God. The difference is that Pitt's Raine is presented as the quintessential American caricature. He's dimensionless and boiled down to a series of stereotypes. This is, essentially, how we have portrayed Nazis and villains in film after film. The Aryan-featured SS officer with a scar down his cheek, a thick, repulsive accent, and a kind of sadistic glee. Pitt's "Nazi Killer" is just that. Only he's the American version with a scar across his throat.
We're also reminded here of the Hollywood stereotype of American Indian "savagery". After all, Raine claims to be part Indian and thinks of his merry gang as "Apache Jews" and is himself known as "Aldo the Apache." The fear tactics used by the Basterds are the same tactics used by American Indians against the U.S. Cavalry; essentially, being outnumbered, the Indians created an overwhelming degree of fear in the minds of their enemy through unspeakably violent and humiliating acts. So much so that the enemy believed it would be better to kill themselves and their families rather than be captured. In contemporary terms, these tactics are commonly known as "acts of terrorism." Even Col. Landa, in his face-to-face conversation with Raine toward the end of the film, makes a similar comparison. "And your mission–some would call it terrorist plot– is still a go…" If one stops for a moment to look at the Basterds' final plan, it is to strap explosives to themselves and blow up a theater full of people. One need not stretch one's imagination too far to make the necessary comparisons to today's threat of suicide bombers. Nor would it be inappropriate to draw a line between some of the Basterds' tactics and American military methods used at facilities such as Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
Lt. Aldo Raine's interrogation of Bridgett von Hammersmark (played by the lovely and tough Diane Kruger), is nothing short of brutal and heartless torture as Raine calmly presses his finger deep into Hammersmark's fresh and oozing bullet wound. What makes this scene even more subversive is that it is intercut with a quick "fireside chat" with a vulnerable and all-too-human Adolf Hitler as he explains his reasons for wanting to attend the upcoming screening of "Stolz der Nation." Placing these two contrasting images side-by-side competes with our desired concept of heroes and villains, Americans and Nazis. To portray Hitler as more sympathetic than the American soldier trying to stop him clashes head-on with our collective self-perceptions by twisting and shattering beloved and much-needed icons. As a result, Tarantino successfully blurs the lines between heroes and villains and what happens when human beings lose sight of their own humanity. No matter what side they're on. And it is in that same conversation mentioned above between Raine and Landa, that Landa compares the two men as equals. "Tell me Aldo, if I were sitting where you're sitting, would you show me mercy?" To which Raine replies with unabashed honesty, "Nope." This is soon followed by Landa's disgruntled observation, "Lt. Aldo, if you think I wouldn't interrogate every one of your swastika-marked survivors… we simply aren't operating on the level of mutual respect I assumed."
Two peas in a pod.
But Landa is not the only character Raine is compared to. Despite claims that Pitt's performance came across as if he were in a different film from the rest of the cast, Pitt plays the part of Raine with a full understanding of his role within the big picture. It is Martin Wuttke's committed portrayal of Adolf Hitler as an angry, spoiled child that comes across equally as broad and stereotyped. Raine and Hitler inhabit similar worlds within the genre. But unlike Pitt's Raine, Wuttke's Hitler is never shown enacting any violence himself. In fact, in one scene, Hitler and the soldier Raine set free are essentially crowned with a halo of sorts. And Hitler never questions the surviving soldier's lame alibi, but instead sets him free, though the weight of history and Hitler's childlike relish at watching Americans slaughtered in the film within a film "Stolz der Nation" still keeps him a dangerous, buffoonish sort of villain worthy of a bloody end. But those same childlike qualities and vulnerabilities make his death just a tad less satisfying than, say, if he'd killed the surviving soldier as one would expect a villain like Hitler to do. He does not interrogate this "swastika-marked survivor" as Landa or Raine would.
By the same token, Raine and his men are only heroes to us in that they're killing Nazis and history has shown us just how horrible and atrocious the Nazis were. But, as we're starting to realize, in Tarantino's Nazi occupied France, the Germans are presented in a somewhat different light than we're used to from the genre. And though Tarantino is clearly relishing his ability to rewrite history, he is not presenting the Nazi's as innocents or heroes. He's not glorifying or forgiving them. Hardly. That's not the history he's rewriting. But he manages something fascinating. When Richard Sammel's Sgt. Werner Rachtman is asked by Raine to divulge the whereabouts of his fellow soldiers, their weapons and mission, he "respectfully" refuses. Even though he knows that he will face a brutal and painful death. But even though this man is a Jew-hater and murderer, there is also a bravery and strength of character, something admirable about him. And when he answers with a "Fuck You" to Raine, we understand and hope that we would have a similar conviction and commitment to our own beliefs. Yet his "Fuck You" is also followed by "And your Jew dogs", forever reminding us who this man is, what he represents and, at the same time, instilling a sense of bewilderment at our own conflicted reactions to him. It is this depiction against the dimensionless brutality of Raine and his merry gang of mercenaries that we, as the audience, start to experience something that, at first, seems "wrong." Isn't Aldo Raine the hero? Aren't the Basterds the good guys? Shouldn't we be admiring them? Perhaps, but Tarantino concludes the sequence with Sgt. Donny Donowitz questioning the purpose of a medal hanging from Rachtman's chest: "You get that for killing Jews?" "Bravery," is Rachtman's answer. And brave he is, by any set of standards. Even Rachtman's walk to his inevitable death is given to us in slow-motion as a stirring spaghetti-western-flavored score — usually reserved for heroes and stoic characters — unspools in the background. Rachtman is then ceremoniously beaten to death with a baseball bat. And Tarantino trains the camera on every skull-cracking, brain-squashing moment. And we do recoil somewhat. Even though we know that this Sgt. has committed atrocities possibly worthy of such a death. And yet there's something else in the air, something off in this interpretation of the genre as we know it. Even the young terrified Nazi soldier who is given his freedom gains our sympathy. We "feel" for him, his fear, his humanity. We don't want to see Raine and the others beat his head in, too.It should be pointed out that the American who wields the bat that crushes the life out of Sgt. Rachtman is horror/torture-porn director Eli Roth (CABIN FEVER, HOSTEL). Not personally a fan of Roth as a filmmaker, I carry that slight aversion onto his acting and presence in the film. He's not awful, not by a long shot, but he's also not of the caliber to be acting alongside the likes of Waltz, Pitt and others. There is also something definitively unsettling about seeing this guy who directs pornographically violent films, wielding a bat and series of machine guns and acting out what seems like a disturbed childhood fantasy. I'd like to think that Tarantino made this choice on purpose; that it was meant to be a statement in and of itself. That would certainly coincide with the rest of the themes inherent in the film and filmmaking. But Tarantino also used Roth to annoying effect in DEATH PROOF and produced Roth's HOSTEL, so one can assume he's fond of the guy. But Roth's own take on INGLOURIOUS just adds to my distaste: "It's almost a deep sexual satisfaction of wanting to beat Nazis to death, an orgasmic feeling…. My character gets to beat Nazis to death. That's something I could watch all day." This led Roth to tag INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS "Kosher Porn." Perhaps this is the place Roth needed to go (or was led) in order to play the character of Sgt. Donny Donowitz, a.k.a. The Bear Jew, but I do not believe it defines the essence of the film. It is a simplistic interpretation that I believe speaks more to Roth's sensibilities than to the film's. Which brings me to a slight aside: Is a film its filmmaker's intent? If Tarantino shared Roth's interpretation of INGLOURIOUS, would that make it so? I believe, unequivocally, no. Like the makers of KING KONG who may not have intended their film to be an allegory for the slave trade, we do not know how many of the connections made here regarding INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS were intentional on the part of Tarantino. And truth be told, it doesn't really matter. Once a piece of work is put out there for public consumption, it no longer belongs to the artist; his or her intentions are secondary to the experience of the film itself, as Tarantino himself will attest to:
"When I write, I'm not very analytical about it, I don't ever deal with the subtext cause I just know it's there… I just keep it about the scenario, I keep it on the surface, all my concerns… And one of the fun things is that when I'm done with everything, now you get to be analytical about the process, and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface. But I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm making it or when I'm writing it… because, again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly. But that's one of the things that I love the most about when I do write film criticism and stuff, is getting into the subtextual areas."
In fact, when confronted with similarities between the Basterds and Al Queda, Tarantino answered:
"I wasn't trying to necessarily make a political point in there. It literally was just the next step in the story as far as I was concerned. However, once I did it, the irony was not lost on me at all."
By the same token, Tarantino wasn't completely oblivious either, as his statement here on his intentions suggests:
"I wanted the film [to work] sort of the way 'Bonnie and Clyde' worked when it came out. It was an old genre that took place in the '30s, but it was actually telling you something about the time today. And that was what I was trying to do with this in this genre."
It is what is inside the filmmaker that comes out in his or her art and finds its way into the subtext. Any artist who trusts their talent and is not stifled by some predetermined formula knows this to be true. Tarantino again:
"My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie…. It's my job to invest in it and hide it inside of genre…. Most of it should be subconscious, if the work is coming from a special place. If I'm thinking and maneuvering that pen around, then that's me doing it. I really should let the characters take it. But the characters are different facets of me, or maybe they're not me, but they are coming from me. So when they take it, that's just me letting my subconscious rip."
With that, I'll continue.
In the above-mentioned Sgt. Rachtman death scene, we are given a glimpse into the background of one of the Basterds. Til Schweiger's Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz. At first, I assumed this was a device that would be used to reveal the histories and personalities of all the Basterds. But this turned out not to be the case. Again, no mistake. Sgt. Stiglitz was a Nazi turned Nazi-killer. He was inducted into the Basterds for his skills. He is still a German. And he is given more development than any of the American or British characters in the film.
I was told there were scenes shot detailing the past of Eli Roth's Donny Donowitz. If true, I don't know why the scenes were removed, but judging from the structure of the film and the themes present in this cut, I believe that better serves the film.
Now let's take a look at the characters of the French Jew Shosanna Dreyfus and her unrequited Nazi suitor Pvt. Frederick Zoller, played by Melanie Laurent and Daniel Brühl respectively. Shosanna is cold and distant, but understandably so. Her family was brutally murdered by the Nazis under the command of Col. Landa. This "other" storyline has richer characters than any concerning the Basterds. The persistent Zoller is a walking contradiction; a German war hero who singlehandedly slaughtered upwards of 200 Americans in a 72 hour period, and who is also charming, sincere and extremely likable throughout most of the film. We can't help but like him despite the fact that he has committed mass murder. After all, he was just a soldier doing his job and his affections for Shosanna seem downright innocent and boyish. However, the closest thing to a friend, or perhaps a mentor, that Zoller is shown as having is none other than Joseph Goebbels, played with disarming vulnerability by Sylvester Groth. Certainly not the Goebbels of our history books nor of American films past. This Goebbels has a genuine love of cinema and even sheds a tear of pure unadulterated joy when his Führer/father-figure proclaims that Goebbels' newest film may be his best ever. Ironically, the German director responsible for the Führer's new favorite film is nowhere to be found. He is not seated in the private booth with Goebbels and Hitler, nor is he (or she) ever mentioned or congratulated. This is especially noteworthy as Zoller is the star of the film within a film and Shosanna pangs him earlier with the line "I'm French. We respect directors" when he asks her why she included director G.W. Pabst's name on the marquee for an earlier film showing at her cinema.
Meanwhile, Shosanna's true love, her projectionist and partner in crime Marcel, played with understated pride by Jacky Ido, enacts a crucial role in the events to take place and in aiding in the development of Shosanna's onscreen character. Sadly, he himself has far too little screen time and the film yearns for the possible inclusion of a scene that was supposedly shot and removed before release detailing how Shosanna became the owner of the theater and met and fell in love with Marcel. Not having seen this footage, I obviously cannot comment on the actual benefits of its inclusion into the story. Nonetheless, the result is once again going against convention and not giving equal attention to our typically heroic characters and, though we like Marcel, we are given little of him.
But Shosanna has another man in her life. Col. Landa. The scene staged between these two is filled with all the tension one would hope for from such an encounter. It is almost Hitchcockian in the way its deceptively simple dialogue places you on the edge of your seat. Like the film's opening scene between Landa and Denis Menochet's strong and sympathetic Pierre Lapadite. Few films can claim such a riveting opening consisting almost entirely of 20-plus minutes of pure conversation (as well as appropriately inspired camerawork).
But back to the scene at hand… One wonders fearfully if Landa knows who the woman he is sharing strudel with actually is? Was his ordering Shosanna a glass of milk to compliment her dessert an innocent gesture or a subtle torture? Or is all this insistence on milk and creme just Landa's way of weeding out Jews by seeing who will consume dairy products not in sync with proper Orthodox dietary laws? We never find out. Shosanna's plot to kill the Nazi elite, though successful, is never revealed to Landa, whose job it is to prevent such actions from occurring. Shosanna gets her revenge, but the man who killed her family is not there to witness it. He never knows who was behind it. Tarantino pulls the rug out from under us yet again as he denies us, as well as Shosanna, that moment of gleeful, personal revenge. In fact, Landa is too busy working out the details of his happy future living the good life on Nantucket Island to notice much else!
And here is where the lines blur even deeper as we find ourselves spiraling toward our climax. The charming and terrifying Landa gets his hands truly bloody for the first time in the film as he strangles to death German actress turned British spy Bridgett von Hammersmark. There is a brutality here that we have not seen before. Though he is responsible for the killing of Shosanna's family, he has his soldiers do the actual dirty work. It is an important distinction and somehow manages to change how we feel about this character when he decides to do exactly what von Hammersmark was attempting by betraying his country and his comrades. It is he who carries on her work! His killing of von Hammersmark is not a product of national pride, but of personal pride. It has more to do with her foolish attempt to trick him than with what it is she is trying to achieve. Landa becomes truly monstrous at this point, beyond his already unsettling presence. And this, ironically, just moments before he decides to become a willing U.S. ally and let the Basterd's plan run its course. It's almost as if he had to prove his brutal worth within the context of the film before trying to become a Basterd himself.
At the same time, Shosanna's boyish Nazi suitor shows another disarming quality as he exhibits a level of disgust at watching the film version of himself massacring the "enemy." But just as we think we know where this is going, Tarantino throws us for another loop as Zoller shows us the dark side that allowed him to kill those people in the first place. Gone is the charming suitor, and in his stead we find a wrathful bully angered by Shosanna's apparent lack of feeling. But it's only after Shosanna has shot him down, both literally and figuratively, that she finally shows any real signs of sympathy and remorse. But it's a direct result of her glimpsing Zoller's "innocent onscreen hero" projected on the big screen before her and not Zoller himself. She, like the film's Nazi audience, is taken in by the propaganda machine responsible for so many mistruths and untimely deaths. And it results in her own. Her moment of weakness (or humanity–you decide) is met with her brutal shooting at the hands of the real Zoller whose final act is one of bloody vengeance. Shosanna doesn't live to see the fruits of her labor. By this point in the film, Shosanna is inexorably linked to her Nazi audience both physically, emotionally and psychologically. When she puts on her rouge to prepare for the evening's bloody proceedings, it is clearly more war paint than makeup, and the swastika looming in the background completes the picture. It should also be noted that it is film itself, the highly flammable 35mm nitrate prints Shosanna has collected, that is used to spark the fire that destroys everyone in the theater and ends the war. Like its effect on Shosanna's feelings toward Zoller, it is both creative and destructive, truth and lies, as our characters are both beautiful and ugly simultaneously. They are flip-flopping now at a rapid pace. The distinction between villains and heroes narrows even further. All victory, for the characters and audience, is marred.
And it is around this point in the film that we start to realize that Tarantino is truly playing God, not only with our moral conscience and our genre expectations, but with history itself. While we're busy wondering how Hitler and Goebbels and the rest of the Nazi elite will escape the impending arson (because history insists that they must), Tarantino gives us the one thing no film in this genre has attempted before. He lets them all die. The war comes to a screeching halt and millions of lives that were lost in actuality, are spared. We are permitted to celebrate the fantasy death of these historical monsters as the film's opening statement "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France" comes to fruition. But all at a price.
While watching the film version of Zoller's "heroic" massacre of American soldiers, the Germans cheer and celebrate each and every brutal killing. And in doing so, they disgust us. But suddenly the tables are turned as we find ourselves cheering the deaths of Hitler, Goebbels and others trapped inside the burning theater. As they panic and claw at one another in an attempt to escape the flames and smoke that will consume them (oven and gas chamber references welcome), two Basterds mow them down with machine guns. Men and women, in their best celebratory attire, drop like flies, their bodies riddled with bullets. Meanwhile, Shosanna's laughing face is projected onto the smoke from the flames like that of a crazed demon or the devil herself. She has placed herself in the film. She is the film. And the propaganda of her final act is now aimed at us. This is truly a scene of genuine horror. Heroes and monsters are suddenly lumped together as the audience watching INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS becomes a mirror image of the audience of Nazi elite watching Stolz Der Nation or Nation's Pride. We are denied our moment of pure vengeance, of having done the right thing, of the heroes overcoming the villains. Everyone here is a villain. Even Donowitz's frenzied destruction of Hitler's face is both satisfying and sickening all at the same time. Hitler's long dead by the time Donowitz turns his machine gun on him one last time. It all happens so fast that we are never given a moment to revel in Hitler's realization that he has been outwitted and undone. It simply doesn't occur. Our fantasy scenario has been marred and we are left unsure as to whether we should cheer or put our heads down and mourn the loss of all humanity.
And this is carried out right up to the last frame in the film. Though we know Raine's carving of the Nazi swastika deep into Landa's forehead is just and deserved, it is also shown in such graphic detail as to be simultaneously sickening. In fact, it is through Landa's (and, in an earlier scene, a young Nazi soldier's) point of view that we witness Raine's final deed of "just vengeance," making us, the viewer, the recipient of his knife-wielding handiwork. These shots, consciously or unconsciously, are disturbingly reminiscent of a famous publicity still (used on the film's soundtrack LP cover) from Wes Craven's chilling and bloody 1972 revenge-fest, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, taken from a scene in which one of the film's sadistic killers, while out in the woods, carves his name into his victim's flesh and then leans back to admire it, while his equally twisted partners-in-crime look on, impressed.
As a result, in the final shots of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, Raine and his Basterd partner (B.J. Novak) seem a bit more demented than heroic, even though we can't flaw them for their actions and, to a degree, celebrate them. But Tarantino makes it just a tad harder to revel in their deeds without infusing a small tinge of something else there too. Something lacking humanity.
And so, like Cassavetes' use of the public's expectations of the Hollywood Romance genre to turn the audience on their heads in MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ, Tarantino takes our expectations of the Men On A Mission and American World War II genres and completely subverts them. He gives us our cake, and lets us eat it, too. But he purposefully leaves out the sugar.


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Georgia House Bill 875: Guns In Church Would Make Georgia New Wild West
All these -- inside a church as well?
Places of worship are sacrosanct. The houses of The Lord are supposed to be set aside for the uplifting of God's most holy name through song, praise, prayers, teaching and preaching, fellowship, discipleship, and stewardship.
The holy Bible tells us so. Our upbringing tells us so. Common sense tells us so. Much to my chagrin, these things are apparently not so within the great state of Georgia. Here in the Peach State, a majority of our legislators –public servants elected by us to govern with our best interests in mind – have inexplicably deemed it appropriate for Georgians to have the legal right to bring weapons into The Lord's house.
Loaded weapons. Such is life in the new, Old West.
Georgia House Bill 875 would be a hilarious piece of legislation if it wasn't so dangerous and so potentially all-encompassing. If this bill is enacted intolaw, do not be deceived. Georgia won't immediately become a much safer state in which to live and work. Georgia will instantly become a much morelethal state in the "Bible belt."
While you're reading this and expecting me to zig, I'm going to zag instead. This Op-Ed isn't about the National Rifle Association or its vociferous spokesperson, Wayne LaPierre. This isn't about the United States Constitution or the 2nd Amendment. This isn't about you or imposing against your freedoms as an American citizen. It's about American gun lobbyists.
All they care about is dollars – not sense. Hear me well. The vast majority of Americans and Georgians who personally own firearms are God-fearing, tax-paying, law-abiding, hardworking, good people. For the sake of exposition, let's assume that these people make up 99% of gun owners in the U.S., shall we?
These Americans – these Georgians – have taken gun safety classes. They own gun safes so they can safely store their firearms away from their own children. They have passed background checks. They are licensed to own and carry guns. They fully exercise the legal right to protect their loved ones, themselves, and their own protect. To all that, I say excellent! I don't have a molecule of grievance with any of these Americans and Georgians. I don't spend a nanosecond of my time worrying about them or their guns.
We're all on one accord.
It's the remaining 1% I'm very concerned about. The people engaged in the illegal selling of guns and ammunition. The people who use guns in the commission of violent crimes. Those who have a history of violence: such as domestic disputes, battery, assault, and the like. Those who stockpile weapons of mass murder (i.e. fully automatic machine guns, high capacity bullet drums, 3-D printed plastic guns which are virtually invisible by metal detectors, hollow point bullets, and so on).
Those who travel from state to state staging gun shows and peddling these types of weapons to the general public while refusing to run background checks on anyone. Those who use race baiting, scare tactics, and, or, wild conspiracy theories about a certain President or a certain political party to artificially create a buyer's market for guns.
And of course, I'm extremely concerned about gun ownership by our citizens who are clinically depressed or otherwise mentally unstable. If you're in my 99% of responsible guns owners in America and in Georgia, I'm not talking to you. If you're in my 99%, I'm not talking about you. This column calls into question the 1%. Those operating out in the fringe.
Those who are deliberately breaking the law – and using guns to help them do it. Folks, Georgia House Bill 875 is by far the most radical gun legislationproposed anywhere in America. If passed, Georgians could legally carry loaded weapons into libraries, airports, bars, churches, elementary schools,courthouses, and even unsecured government buildings. This is in addition to the laws already on the books allowing for guns in Georgia's parks; aswell as on public transportation within our state. Is nothing sacred? Is no place safe?
So you can legally carry a gun on a train in Georgia in 2014? You could do the very same thing on a train in Georgia in 1874. That isn't progress, friends. That's regress. We're living in the new, Old West.
I long for the day when Georgia will be viewed by the country as a state of big ideas and unity. That day seems very far away to me right now. I'm mailing printed copies of this particular Op-Ed to every single legislator at the state house in Atlanta. They must be reminded that hunters don't hunt for deer with AR-15s.
They must be reminded that the only thing people hunt for in a church is salvation.
People didn't carry guns into churches in the Old West out of r-e-s-p-e-c-t to G-o-d.
Where's that respect now?
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Talk about an unintended consequence. Ever since I've been smoking and reviewing cigars on my blog, I've started noticing crazy things in the food I eat and the drinks I down. Things like flavor. And I'm talking about flavors beyond "good" and "nasty." I think I must have broken something. God, I hope this isn't life-threatening. I have two full humidors of cigars to smoke. Some of them extremely desirable and controversial. (No, I'm not gonna tell you what I mean by that.)
This is kind of new to me, I spent my formative years training for the food Olympics. Food came between me and running around outside or playing video games. And my parents knew this. If I dawdled, they'd tell me things like "the sooner you finish your dinner, the sooner you can go play!" So I earned my nicknames of "Hoover" and "The Vacuum" and easily got in an extra half a childhood more than my more finicky sisters. My folks couldn't have been happier. They still refer to me as the "easy" kid.
In much the same way speed-eating makes tasting food difficult, speed smoking is a liability when it comes to evaluating cigars. In my early cigar smoking days (before and during the 90's boom), I'd suck down a hour long cigar in half an hour. Smoking that way is rough on the tongue and throat, and results in a very consistent smoke across all cigars. Tarry, charred and bitter. A rough flavor I would have called "cigar" a decade ago.
But I started slowing my puff-per-minute down once I got out of college and started smoking decent cigars in decent places with decent guys. (Sorry Shorty, your decency has been compromised for the sake of clever repetition. 😉 ) That made it a more pleasant experience. And recently, I've slowed it down even more and have started really savoring the flavors. More than savor, I hunt for them. Kind of like the way silly folks with binoculars wander through the brush seeking out the Black-Throated Huet-Huet, Red-Footed Booby and Scaly-Throated Leaftosser. (Want more? You know you do. Go here and indulge your need for comical bird-name innuendo.)
I guess this focus on flavor has awakened my existent, but dormant taste buds. Because I'm tasting stuff everywhere now. And I'm afraid this means I'll never enjoy Velveeta Cheese ever again.
This brings me to my Indian Monsoon Coffee. (I bought it last week at the Dekalb Farmer's Market in Atlanta, in case you're interested in picking some up and live in Atlanta. Funny, you can also get it through Amazon!) I bought it because the neat little charts indicated it was a full bodied coffee, but with extremely low levels of acid. In short, the perfect coffee to over consume! 😀 And when I tasted it, I immediately noticed that this coffee has an unusual flavor. While discussing it with some other bean-heads in the office, I realized I was talking about it like it was a cigar. That gave me an idea. Why not review it like I'd review a cigar?
So here goes.
Coffee Stats
Body: Medium to Full
Strength: Seems to have slightly less caffeine than average…
Acid: Very Low
Grind: Coarse
Maker: French Press
Price Per Pound: $5.69 (Farmers Market), $12.99 (Amazon)
I've noticed that the ground beans appear to be of mixed color, with some lighter colors than I expected to see in coffee reported to be full-bodied. The grounds have a rich smell, with a noticeable element of sweet caramel. (Also, I could totally smell the store in the grounds, which is both cool, and a little scary.)
The coffee produced a great thick layer of crema when brewed and I noticed that the coffee has a distinctly more reddish brown color than most of the coffee I've had before.
The most striking thing about this coffee is that it's smooth. Smooth as a stout on nitro. Actually smoother. If you normally like to put creamer or half and half in your coffee, taste this first. You'll probably decide not to.
It definitely has an earthy full flavor, but the most interesting part of the flavor was the aftertaste. I detected dry straw or grain. My first instinct was to say it tastes like dry open desert areas of Eastern Oregon around Pendleton, but there's only a couple of thousand people out there that would know what I mean. (And I don't think any of them read my blog.)
It just occurred to me that the flavor kind of reminds me of Mate (or Yerba Mate), the somewhat popular coffee alternative I've tried in the past. (<conspiratorial whisper> It's tea! </conspiratorial whisper>)
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No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get it to light. Not even with my butane torch. So, not applicable. 🙂
The Verdict
This is a great coffee if you've got a sensitive stomach due to ulcer or just drinking way too much coffee. It's also a fun alternative to the more popular lines of coffee out there. I don't think this is going to become my regular brew, but I will probably buy it from time to time. (Besides, I'm a coffee slut, I can't commit to just one bean.) And you can't argue with that price (from the Farmer's Market), it's well below anything you can buy in the supermarket or coffee shop.
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There is nothing on television, quite like Netflix's Wu Assassins. Set in San Francisco's Chinatown–the martial arts fantasy series centers a young chef named Kai Jin (Iko Uwais). Kai reluctantly becomes a Wu Assassin in order to battle a deadly ancient power called, Wu Xing. In Wu Assassins–Li Jun Li stars as Kai's good friend, Jenny Wah. Jenny is a boss restauranter who is torn between familial obligations and her own aspirations. In addition to the storytelling, the physicality and effects on the series are astounding, but Li–an alum of both Quantico and The Exorcist has never backed down from a fight.
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Paulina Nelega, RH, has been in private practice as a Clinical Herbalist for over 15 years. She has developed and taught courses in herbal medicine, and her articles on health have appeared in numerous publications. She is very passionate about the healing power of nature.
Mandy Tinevez C.H.T. has worked in the field of natural health for 19 years. Through private practice and consulting, she has worked to promote optimal health care for individuals and also towards greater public awareness of complementary forms of medicine.


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About this store
If you live in the Hollywood area, you can save time, skip long lines and avoid the language and cultural barriers of exchanging your money overseas by converting your dollars to Pesos, Euros, Dinar, Yuan or other foreign banknotes before you leave home. And when you get home, you can change your currency back to dollars and cents at your friendly hometown currency exchange.
If you prefer, you can order your travel money online and pick it up in at the US Bank - Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood or we can have it delivered to your doorstep. Ready to convert those Euros to Dollars? Give us a call now!