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Irene Ettre didn't overlook anything, including travel insurance, when she paid $4,000 in March for an ambitious 10-day trip through Prague, Vienna and Budapest.
What she didn't consider was whether, at age 83 and limited by a stroke and several mini-strokes, she could physically make the trip.
"I realized almost immediately that I could not travel," she says.
So Ettre, who so dearly hoped to see her late husband's home country, Hungary, called it off. Luckily, she had that travel insurance. She contacted the local travel agency, New Horizons Travel of Durham, which quickly refunded $2,150. The remainder, minus a 25 percent fee according to the travel-insurance contract, would come from Brendan Vacations, the travel company the local agency used to book the tour.
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- As If I Am Not There
- Production year: 2009
- Countries: Ireland, Rest of the world
- Cert (UK): 18
- Runtime: 109 mins
- Directors: Juanita Wilson
- Cast: Fedja Stukan, Miraj Grbic, Natasa Petrovic, Nikolina Kujaca, Stellan Skarsgard
Irish film-maker Juanita Wilson has made a gruellingly tough drama about the nightmare of the Bosnian war, based on a 1999 novel by the Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic. It shows Samira (Natasha Petrovic) from Sarajevo, taking a summer job in a remote village as a replacement schoolteacher; she is rounded up with everyone else as part of a brutal exercise in ethnic cleansing and kept in an internment camp where she is repeatedly raped, and is finally forced to make sickening compromises in order to survive. There are some pretty unwatchable scenes here and the film brings back the unspeakable horror of a conflict in which barbarities were carried out under the very noses of European governments whose postwar mantra had been "never again". Petrovic gives a good performance in this grim and bitter film, but in some ways it comes alive most in its final section, an eerie coda taking place some time after the conflict, in which Samira must come to terms with what she has lived through and the legacy of the brutality. An impressive work from Wilson, already an Oscar-nominee for her short film The Door.

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I read with interest a recent article passed on by a Sullivan/Schein sales rep. In it, the management consultant wrote at length about math and demographic exercises you should apply to decide whether to join or stay in a PPO. What interested me the most and I found glaringly lacking was that there was no mention whatsoever of the need to eveluate the past practices of the PPO - has this PPO been improving the offers either to the patients or to the provider? Let me call this "track record". It should be viewed as a forecast of what's in store. If you discern a postitive trend, then perhaps you can take the numbers generated from following the advice of the consultant at face value, but if the track record is negative, you will be wise to introduce a modifier for this effect. Maybe 10% cut in your income projections would be wise for a PPO that has a mild negative track record and for one that has a moderate negative track record it might be better to apply 25% or greater cut in future income. Probably you would do well to increase your modifier significantly for situations where the track record is severely negative.
If you could rely upon your numbers generated from today's decree from the PPO, the consultant's advice might be relevant. If history tells you this would be risky and foolish, it probably is.
I've heard and seen advice from other consultants in addition to the one mentioned. This includes those commissioned by our WSDA recently for a webinar. Some of these I have known and admired over the years and in some cases decades. I have not seen any of them introduce or mention this concept or factor, if you will. It tells me we have our collective heads buried in the sand. We need to wake up!
-John Barrett, DDS
Port Hadlock, WA
I'm wondering if any other dental practices are having problems with WDS approving, allowing and stating an amount they will pay for a procedure, on the Predetermination, then denying final payment based on a history violation that was not stated on the Predetermination. Patients are making what they believe are educated decisions to proceed with treatment based on these documents. What's next?
-Deb Boardman
On April 4th, Washington Dental Service announced they were lowering the fees for all Premier and PPO programs. As many WDS member dentists have reported, the fee decrease is an average of 15 percent of their existing filed fees. WDS explains in a letter to members that the decision was necessary due to the challenges they are experiencing with increased competition from their competitors, particularly "low cost insurers." In order to reduce the cost of their premiums, they had to reduce the fees paid to providers. On their web page, in the frequently asked questions section for providers, they state it is unlikely that provider compensation will go up again.
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Click on the link below for "A primer of "DOs, DON'Ts and HOW TOs" . This resource lives in the ADA's Member's Only section so you will be required to login.
As a reminder of why collective action should be avoided, please read "FTC Settlement Order Bars Texas Doctors' Group from Joint Price Negotiations" at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/05/southwest.shtm
Quality, Comprehensive, Conservative, Beautiful…this is the kind of dentistry that I would want for my family, my friends, my patients, my self. These are the things I would like to emphasize to my valued patients. I truly believe that if you care for people and take the time to listen to patients, they will place their trust in your care and not the care of a third party insurance company. The problem in the last few years has been the volume of patients that need to be seen for sufficient reimbursement to occur. When the volume is high, the relationship between the doctor and patient is sacrificed and the trust quickly declines. Patients begin to question treatment, dentists begin to work on strangers and the quality of dentistry and communication goes down. I am embracing the changes that WDS is making as an opportunity to spend more time with my health centered patients and less time trying to get reimbursed from insurance.
-Kelley Fisher DDS
Copy of letter, dated May 6, from WDS to patients, announcing reduction in remibursment rates to dentists.
In other posts I have said that I think dental insurance is becoming irrelevant but I have not said what I think that means for the future. I don't think dental insurance should or will go away completely. I believe in the future, the value of dental insurance will be to make it easy for people to get preventive care thus providing for fundamental hygiene and diagnostic procedures. Most care beyond that will be purchased out of pocket by the patients. Getting them in the chair provides them with the opportunity to learn what is happening in their mouths and what ought to and can be done about it.
The handwriting is on the wall as I see it. By lowering their standards, WDS, up until now THE pre-eminent leader in dental prepayment is affirming this concept, but by trying to force all dentists to deliver expensive care without adequate compensation it is bringing about a paradigm shift among patients, dentists, and following that, employers who must realize that there is not enough will or incentive for group plans to provide coverage for comprehensive dental care in the face of other rising costs.
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April 15th, 2011
To Mr. James Dwyer and the WDS Board of Directors,
This is a letter in response to the recent letter I received from the WDS board of directors dated April 4th 2011. The letter states that WDS is considering restructuring its dental fees effective June 15th by lowering fees for most providers because employers are demanding lower premium rates from WDS. I contend that not only is this unnecessary but that it is not in the best interest of WDS.
As hard working dentists, we have labored over the years to provide quality dental care in our wonderful state of Washington. It is on the backs of our labor that that WDS has become the company that it is today. In return, WDS has helped dentists in Washington State prosper and provide excellent dentistry for its subscribers. In fact, I feel that our state offers its citizens the best dental care available any where in the world partly because of the partnership that the dentists have with WDS. The relationship that Washington State dentists have with WDS is symbiotic and has resulted in benefits to the providers, WDS, and all of our wonderful patients. Brewing from this is a unique and wonderful benefit to employers, as well as their employees. I have always been appreciative of this excellent relationship and have conveyed that often to my patients and other dentists who have talked poorly of WDS. Now, I am shocked and hurt that WDS is choosing to be quite short sighted and is back stabbing us, the providers, who have made them the great organization that they have become.
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Our world is different and will never be the same. Faced with a 15 percent cut in reimbursement by WDS, many practices must make a choice: Accept the reduction in reimbursement or drop off as a contracted provider. Which will you choose?
Change is difficult
Good leaders, however, gather information, analyze the possibilities and then make the hard decision. The decision you make is personal; the factors that influence your decision are based upon your practice demographics, overhead and personal philosophy.
To answer the question, "Should I stay or should I go?", you need accurate reports about your patients on the plan and the comparative fee schedule. What part of your income is derived from this patient population? You may need support from your software management company to obtain accurate information; then rank the plans from best to worst.
Look at the ramifications of eliminating plans. If you're looking at elimination, consider eliminating the plan that affects the fewest number of patients and pays the poorest. Don't be hasty — before elimination, you may need to consider ramping up your marketing efforts to replace these patients. Depending upon your practice style, most general dentists need 10-20 new patients/month to maintain their patient base. You will have patients leave based upon insurance reimbursement. If you would like to grow your practice, you'll need at least 25-40 or more new patients/month per doctor. The need for new patients varies by specialty provider.
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The uprising in our dental community regarding WDS is warranted. In my opinion the solutions are doomed to failure. Our best solution, I believe is our patients. We all need to be square with our patients about the upcoming risks to both of us. We all have patients who are employees, managers and decision makers with companies throughout Washington State. They need to hear from us!
Dentists have been supportive advocates of dental plans written by WDS for the simple reason that the essence of the company was to encourage and support dental health while supporting the concepts of freedom of choice and the economics of private practice. WDS has abandoned this commitment to both of us.
Dental insurance is an employee benefit that is under fire. Employee centric companies have seen their generous commitment to a health care package undermined by economic pressures and run away medical premium costs. We understand. Small businesses like dentistry have all been impacted (we must pay the medical premiums too!). Employees (patients) have been impacted. We understand; and have held the line on increases in fees. This in turn has impacted our employee's income and our investments in patient care. The cost of doing business does not go down. We understand that too.
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The following is text of a letter I intended to send to WDS as a resignation statement. After some thought, I decided it would be better to post these comments in open forums such as this and restrict the resignation itself to the first line.
Open letter to Washington Dental Service:
I hereby submit my resignation as a member dentist effective June 13, 2011.
Washington Dental Service was once the leader in dental prepayment promoting better dental health and relationships among patients, purchasers and dentists in a way that insured the best dental care could be offered to patients throughout the State of Washington. When WDS was created in 1954, it was the very first dental prepayment company anywhere. Who could have predicted the amazing access to care that this organization would have created for so many people over the next three or four decades.
That leadership role has been abdicated apparently in the desire for WDS to grow financially and to become a bigger player in the game or perhaps just to save its existence. It appears that WDS will sell any scheme to any purchaser in order to hang on to or grow its book of business and it is very apparent in our offices that the patients' and purchasers' premiums, however cheap or expensive they may be, buy them very little in the way of dental health. Annual maximums are so low that they go almost nowhere for the patient who needs significant dental care whether the need is brought on by accident, genetic predisposition, neglect or other cause. The plans we see from WDS continue to shock us in the ways they have been degraded from the standards we used to expect. They have become strikingly similar to competitors' schemes that member dentists, WDS board members and staff have always viewed as shoddy and uncaring about whether better dental health resulted from their activities.
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I just now realized why WDS is called a "not-for-profit" — it's a "not-for-profit-for dentists." Finally, the shoe has dropped, and we should all realize that WDS is just another PPO driven insurance company whose customer is big business, Boeing and others. Its insured are an incidental nuisance, and dentists merely a necessary evil.
When the ballots came out for the vote regarding making the board "more independent," did anyone have any doubts that the result would not be good for either dentists or their patients?
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Ed. note: The Kodak economic study projects the calculated effects of fee increases and decreases. It is based on assuming fixed percentages of cost and profit, so it presents a mathematical outcome rather than an accurate economic assessment.
Executives at Eastman Kodak were concerned about increasing competition in their industry. They decided to conduct a study to determine the effects of price increases and price decreases on their profitability. The Kodak study assumed a 25% profit percentage (75% overhead) which is rather convenient for our purposes because it is fairly close to the 30% net income the ADA reports as the average dentist's net income today. Using this 25% profit assumption and the corresponding 75% cost assumption, here's what the study determined:
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Register here http://www.deltadentalwa.com/Home/Guest/Public/DentistWebEx.aspx


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During the 2008 election, we heard from our current president a message of hope and change. Something else he was very insistent on was government transparency. The mainstream media ate it up and regurgitated the rhetoric to a voting base desperate to get away from the disastrous presidential policies of Bush Jr.
Glen Greenwald reports "In 2008, candidate Obama hailed whistle-blowing as "acts of courage and patriotism", which "should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration". My how things have changed.
On the president's own campaign website he says that The Obama administration has prosecuted twice as many cases under the Espionage Act as all other administrations combined. But of course, those in power on both sides can leak all kinds of classified info like the name of an agent or details about a raid--they won't get persecuted, sleep deprived, indefinitely detained.
Since president Obama has taken office, America has been involved in more wars, a surge in Afghanistan, more drone strikes in countries that congress has not declared war on, and more prosecutions of federal whistle-blowers than any previous president.
Sure, troops have (air quotes) drawn-down in Iraq, and there's a "plan" to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 ... But you're not reading the small print. NATO says they will stay after the 2014 draw-down date for training missions. That sounds like when America sent (air quotes) advisers to Vietnam.
We've conducted (air quotes) kinetic military humanitarian mission in Libya, looking the other way as al-Qaeda stepped in ... and NATO and the US are revving up to intervene in Syria. In our name, the US has conducted an incredible number of drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, places where our congress hasn't declared war.
Obama has even killed an America citizen and his 16 year old son, without trial, using a drone in a country where war has not been declared. We've got drones over the skies of Somalia and a suspected US drone even crashed in Iran not long ago ... BTW, a company in Iran is sending the president small pink models resembling the drone that went down in Iran ... they did it for the lolz.
How could I go without mentioning the first time a drone has been used to arrest an American citizen in America? Can we say historic US Supreme Court case?
What's can be arguably more devastating that autonomous drones flying around the world dropping bombs on wedding parties and funeral processions in foreign lands .... is persecuting, not just prosecuting, but persecuting the people who find it necessary to tell the world what they saw behind the scenes, or when there is serious impropriety going on in our government.
Let's just go back throughout history to take a look a few examples that, if there were a whistle-blower, massive devastation to human life, human thought and our understanding of history would look very different.
The Golf of Tonkin incident lead to the garnering of public support for the Vietnam War. It was reported in the papers that there was an attack on American forces in a Southeast Asian gulf ... an attack that did not happen. If there were a whistle blower in that one, tens of thousands of Americans and Vietnamese would still be alive.
Operations Mockingbird, MKUltra, Paperclip -- If there were a whistle blower in these cases, we would have learned more about how this Government, post World War II, brought over Nazi scientists to work on rockets and even behavioral modification, or that CIA has journalists embedded in all the major American newspapers, writing propaganda to brainwash the public.
If a whistle-blower had been there in the early stages of these atrocities, we would have an entirely different world. I mean, come on ... you don't think that the media would pick up that the US Government was using Nazi scientist to study behavior modifications ... that's not scandalous or sexy?
What if there was a whistle-blower involved in the Tuskegee syphilis experiments when they were going on decades ago? Could we possibly have had some accountability from people involved in shooting up minorities with syphilis? Absolutely ... instead we have to find out about it a full generation later.
I could go on to talk about other instances of whistle-blowers like Sibel Edmonds. She tried to go through internal channels to report on the illegal, unethical and, quite frankly, dangerous things that were taking place at the translation office of the FBI. There she went through her superiors who didn't act. There she was chastised and then spied on by her colleagues. There she was even put under investigation herself for reporting illegal activities. After all else fails with internal reporting and getting the inspector general involved ... She even went to congress. No help there. She wanted to testify to the 9/11 Commission, because a lot of the questionable content she had seen being altered and labeled "not important" was very pertaining to 9/11. The commission wouldn't have her. She then went to the media and they played here as this cute, helpless immigrant trying to make it big in the FBI.
Or how about I tell you about Smedley Butler, whose speech and short book "War is a Racket" details about how in the early 20th century, Butler--a marine general--was tasked to take his forces around the world in order to make things safe for corporations--how the US military was being abused to grow and maintain corporate (not US) interests abroad.
Butler was fed up and wanted no more. He then was approached by certain elites of the day, many whose dynasties still have immense power and wealth today ... he was approached by these people to be the leader of a 400,000 person military to advance a fascist coup in America.
Butler went along with the plot long enough to get names and other information to congress. He testified to congress. There were media reports back in the day about what was termed in that day a "Business Plot" ... but what's sad is how Smedly Butler, one of America's true heroes--right up there with the likes of our founding fathers--has been forgotten, or scrubbed from the history pages. Do you're kids in public school learn about Smedly Butler? They should!
Let's talk a bit about media coverage of whistle-blowers.
You mean if somebody actually leaked to the media something, they'd report it, right? Not necessarily.
Here's the amazing thing about Wikileaks--the documents released are so expansive and thorough--hundreds of thousands of documents with millions of pages of data. Putting a number on it is silly, really, unless you plan on going through it yourself.
Here's the deal: if the press doesn't report on it, are you going to hear about it? If MSNBC's primetime anchor (which I don't even know who that is anymore because I shut my cable off years ago because it's nothing but propaganda to control our frame of reference in reality ... I suggest you do the same) but if MSNBC's primetime anchor or the stooges on FOX news don't report in excruciating detail what's in the millions of pages of information contained in Wikileaks, will you hear about it?
What came first ... the chicken or the egg?
Surely there is some citizen journalist or an investigative blogger online that will have stories about the Afghan war diaries or the idiosyncracies of world leaders as found in the leaked diplomatic cables, but you will have to seek those channels out.
What the New York Times or other elite press, like the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post, don't report on, an incredible amount of Americans won't believe! It's up to us to become informed. It's up to us to be the media.
The first amendment gives us all the right to freedom from religion, free assembly, free speech and freedom of the press. Freedom of the press doesn't mean that the New York Times can get away with printing propaganda or that Fox News can claim to be fair and balanced and not be held accountable. Free Press means YOU ARE THE PRESS! YOU ARE THE REPORTER, YOU ARE THE JOURNALIST, YOU ARE THE FORTH ESTATE!!!
I was asked this past week to be a guest speaker for a media ethics class at Benedictine University here in Springfield. I talked about citizen journalism.
Ahh …. Citizen journalists--the people who have the access to a smart phone with a an on-board video camera, a blog with the ability to write and an inquisitive mind to piece things together and get the word out ... oh, wait ... that you!
Now, we've gotta acknowledge that there is criticism of citizen journalists by the dinosaur media, or the "presstitutes" that one Wall Street critic calls 'em. That criticism usually targets the accuracy of citizen journalists ... or the lack of unfettered access to the power brokers. But that criticism is out of fear.
Because it's citizen journalists who are keeping the so-called mainstream media accountable. Citizen journalists also have the ability to put out information instantaneously without the blocking arm of well placed editors or gatekeepers.
The Internet is a powerful tool for citizen journalists. The internet is also under attack by our lawmakers. This cannot go unchecked. The assault on our information freedoms must be front and center in our fight for transparency.
Something else that citizen journalists must also fight for, especially here in Illinois, is accountability of public officials and law enforcement and reform the Illinois Eavesdropping Act!
While they're conducting their duties in public, do they have an expectation of privacy? I say no!
But Illinois's Eavesdropping Act says they do! Police can record you in public, but if you want to record their activities in public, you have to get their permission. Good luck getting that permission from an officer who is doing something unethical while serving the public, in public.
If you're caught recording a police officer in public without their permission, you can be charged with a felony and could face 15 years in prison. Just ask Michael Allison or Tiawanda Moore--both were charged with violating the eavesdropping act here in Illinois. Allison was recording his conversations with local police in an effort to prove intimidation. Moore used her phone to record an internal affairs police officer telling her to drop her sexual assault charges against another police officer.
Judges threw out both cases as unconstitutional, but the law is still on the books! Let's change that law and have a truly free press in Illinois!
Another quick note, be sure to get our there and research the candidates this election. I'm not talking about the presidential race. Honesty and integrity have already been knocked out of that race as is evident with the fraud of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
You want a real and honest, a free and equal debate for president, you've gotta visit Free and Equal dot org This Tuesday evening. Free and Equal dot org! They'll have the Green, Libertarian, Constitution and Justice Parties represented to debate the real issues. Obama and Romney, who are funded by the same banks, are squabbling over social issues the Federal Government has no jurisdiction in dealing with. So, instead of debating whether or not to torture suspects or even detain them indefinitely--both of these things Bradley Manning is said to have endured—Obama and Romney are muddying the waters talking about which one is going to bring the biggest government.
But when it comes to the local elections--seriously, do your homework.
Get to know the candidates for every office on that ballot! Know the issues in your community. Get our there and get involved. And vote!
Oh wait who am I kidding --- There is a contingent of people worried about voter fraud and urging states to pass laws for voters to show photo ID in order to vote.
But what's even more troubling than the potential of someone not showing ID at their polling place is that fact that electronic voting machines are so prevalent.
Here in Sangamon County we have optical scan machines ... but votes are still counted electronically.
The minute you feed your vote into a machine, your vote is compromised ... demand your vote be legitimately counted.
Settle for nothing now or settle for nothing later.


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Haunted Mill & Zombies!
Come to the Iola Haunted Mill and listen to the story about John Edwin Wipf and see the Zombies. You never know what else you may see; it might even be the ghost of John Edwin Wipf on Oct 24, 25, 30, 31st & Nov 1st. On October 26th there will be special kid friendly fun from 4pm -6pm. On Oct 31st, check out the Zombie Walk and see the Free movie at the Historical Society on your way to the mill.
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Jo Masterson 1x11
Oh Rico… <3
"Jo you're the most incredible person that I have ever met."
"We're gonna get through this, the three of us, right?"
"Goodbye Danny."
My reaction
Why not? It was not my intention to dis anyone. It was just for fun. Plus, I didn't know who to ship before, mainly because I like all the characters on the show so it was hard for me to decide. But now I'm all in for Dacey and Jico/Jyler -although I prefer Jico-. & I'm sorry if you got offended by the set. Again, just for fun. :)
The moment I've been waiting for from the beginning of the season!
I just had to add the last part LOL. Because now I'm all in for DACEY & JICO!<333
Dacey 1x11
"If you ever need to talk to somebody, you should call me"
This is how it would've went down if I was directing this shit!
This part wasn't rehearsed!
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5866 Dorsett Shoals Road has a Walk Score of 22 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
This location is in Douglasville.
Nearby schools include Dorsett Shoals Elementary School, Yeager Middle School and Bill Arp Elementary School.
The closest restaurant is Hog Wild Barbeque.
5866 Dorsett Shoals Road is near Fowler Field Park, Douglasville Commercial Historic District and Wortham Park.


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Red Robin Burgers
- ReelMike84 Apr 16, 2008 11:22 AM
If you had to choose one burger from Red Robin, what would be your choice?
re: ccbweb
I like the garlic mushroom and swiss too but the OP said to choose one.
re: ccbweb
I third this. I always order the Royal Red Robin when we go there. I've tried a few others but nothing beats this.
re: Kari
I used to get the Whiskey River Burger, but I wasn't particularly fond of the sauce. So now I get the Stampede Burger (chipotle mayo instead of BBQ sauce). The Stampede burger was off their menu for awhile, so I had to order an altered Whiskey River. apparently I wasn't the only one, though; it's not back on their menu!
Really, it's all about the crispy onions for me!
re: miss_bennet
I was just there. They changed the menu at ours recently, and they vary by locale more than you might think. (The menu on the web site appears to be correct if you plug in your own location.) Probably not more than a few months at any given time have gone by without us visiting since it opened a couple years ago, and I don't think we've ever had the Stampede burger. (We try to make the visits a few months between rather than a few days. ;-)
We have the Jamaican Jerk Chicken burger now. Tried that, not bad, has a nice kick.
If I had to pick one, though, I'd go with the Royal as well. Bacon, cheese, fried egg, crazy but good. Shake a bit of the Red Robin seasoning on it if you like.
I tried the garlic fries exactly once and would not get them again. On our menu they are standard with certain burger choices, but I would make sure to get regular fries.
Santa Fe Burger minus the crispy tortilla strips. I also love the Garlic Fries. They had a New Orleans (cannot remember the real name) special one (never made the menu - it was on a table tent) about a year ago that I really liked but it is gone now. It isn't the Blackened Bayou one on the menu currently.
re: danhole
I think their menu is really varied from state to state. My first experience with RR was in Pennsylvania when I was visiting my mother in the hospital. They had Fried Zucchini Planks in a Tempura Batter that were really good. The texture was nice and they weren't too mushy I believe due to the way they were cut. They don't serve them in our local RR which is frustrating!
Mushroom swiss burger, a little pink, with a side of salad instead of their fries, which I don't like at all. I've tried some of the other burgers but they don't seem to be as juicy as the mushroom swiss.
Banzai burger, hands down favorite (or should I say 'hands full'?). (I order it with the Boca patty.)
Love the blue cheese burger or the stampede burger. The teriyaki chicken burger is also very good.
But I agree about the onion crisps - they are the reason I go to Red Robin.
Turkey burger no lettuce. Love that chipolte mayo. Pass the seasoned salt.
Great fries... ask for bbq mayo (aka campfire sauce) on the side for dipping nirvana.
I used to eat the Monster Burger when I was a teenager and could knock it out with a couple baskets of fries without feeling gigantic afterwards, but now I tend towards the 5 Alarm ("Crank up the heat with Pepper-Jack cheese,jalapeños, fresh tangy salsa, sliced tomato,crisp lettuce and Chipotle mayo") or the Guacamole Bacon ("Homemade, zesty guacamole and three stripsof hickory-smoked bacon with melted Swisscheese, onions, lettuce, tomatoes & mayo"). I try not to go too often because I'm trying to get into shape, but my sister loves the place so when she's home from DC, we end up there fairly often.
red robin is ok. my kids like it so we go there once a month or so (it helps when our elementary school doles out free kids meal certificates if they read every night and turn in a log at the end of the month - last year it was pizza hut). i usually try a new one each time we go. they are usually good but they are not great.
however, the single thing that i do not like is the bun that they use for the burgers and chicken sandwiches. they are too fragile for all of the stuff that they heap on the burgers and mine usually starts to disintigrate half way through. that is probably why it comes wrapped in a piece of paper. improve the bun and they whole place takes a step up for me.
re: xman887
At any given time they should have at least 3 or 4 varieties of buns available because some of the burgers utilize different types. The grilled salmon has some kind of multigrain bun I think, and some of the others use a ciabatta bun. You should be able to mix and match however you like, I would think. I tend not to vary my orders from the menu much because I like tasting their combos, but you should be able to make your own concoction from the ingredients you see all over the menu.
Maybe none of the other buns are really what you want, but it is an option.
re: Davwud
No it's not a must try in my book. It's a perfectly fine "there's nowhere else that really stands out" option and for me and my wife, we go occasionally when we're feeling like we want something easy and fairly inexpensive, comparatively, because they have a variety of turkey burgers (she doesn't eat red meat) so we can both get what we like and can eat. I think most of what they have is pretty good, but I wouldn't urge someone to go if there's anything else they're intrigued by.
re: Davwud
I like it, but have to confess that my favorite thing there is the Cobb Salad. They have a wide variety of foods, and are a cut above a Bennigan's, Denny's, Chili's, etc. That's just my opinion, though.
re: Davwud
Agree with both above. Not a must try, just a decent option at reasonable price. Also appealing with kids, I would think, as there are typically plenty of them in the place when we go. It's more kid-friendly than most casual chains, I'd say, almost as kid-friendly as McDonalds, but you can get a beer/adult drink too. ;-) Do not expect it to be quiet! Extremely loud, although in another newer location we went to once there was more carpet and therefore was somewhat quieter.
re: Davwud
It's THE location when you're in the mood to go deaf while eating a mediocre burger and unlimited greasy fries. Bonus: you don't have to move your head more than 10 degrees to look at a television.
Well we had our first taste or Red Robin the other day.
We each had the RR bacon cheese burgers. They of course came with fries and we split an order of rings.
I was slightly disappointed about the rings. They were good but made from frozen.
The fries were okay as well. Also from frozen I think.
The burger its self was good. Nothing more, nothing less. A good solid burger offering. I don't see the need to pay $10 for it though. For four people, 2 burgers, 2 soup and salads, an order of rings and 2 drinks (The other two had water) the bill was over $55. Too much for my book. I'd go back but I think it's over priced and I wouldn't rush back either. We almost ate there a couple days earlier but it was a convenience thing.
re: Davwud
Is it better than Fuddruckers?
re: callitasicit
re: callitasicit
Never been.
I'll try on my next trip. I'd also like to try 5 Guys.
re: baccimi
i'll take a chili cheeseburger!
The Burnin' Love Burger
... "crisply fried jalapeño coins, tangy salsa and spicy Pepper-Jack cheese layered on top of our cayenne-seasoned burger. It's topped with lettuce and fresh tomatoes to cool things off and served on a jalapeño-cornmeal kaiser roll with chipotle aioli."
I get the low carb with blue cheese, no ketchup or mayo. RR makes a good burger.
I like to eat a few of the sweet potato fries too.
re: cstumiller
No, the choices are "pink" and "cooked through".


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The very lovely Yassammez was kind enough to share her experience with me, which is definitely worth a read to have a sense of how Benedict is in his working environment.
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'Benedict walked up to her and then fell dramatically onto his knees, threw his head back, spread his arms wide, shook his body and made a weird squealing noise, as she took hold of his head and got the eyedrops in….'
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I've been asked to write a report concerning my days as an extra on the set of "The Fifth Estate". I was fortunate enough to be present for 4 days, two of which were with Benedict Cumberbatch on set. If you're only interested in those parts, skip both Sundays (10th and 17th) ;) I tried to avoid any spoilers, as it would lessen your viewing in November and I might get sued by Dreamworks :P
Also: even though I technically would have had the chance to go up to Benedictand talk/ask for an autograph, it's my personal opinion that a set is not the time, nor place to do so. He's concentrated on his job after all and the last thing I'd ever want to do is bother him. So i'm afraid I won't be able to regale you with such a story ^^ For me it was amazing enough to have been privileged to be (an insignificantly small) part of his first major Hollywood film as lead actor. To say that it was awesome, is still an understatement - he's fascinating to watch and I cannot wait to see the film. He'll blow us all away!
TFE Set report Sunday 10th of February:
This was to be my very first contact with Hollywood film magic, and as I was rather nervous, I was happy to be able to share it with my sister and brother in law. They don't have my level of obsession, but agreed that it would be a once in a lifetime experience and so had applied together and got booked. Benedict was not expected to be present that day, but I was perfectly fine with this as I had more days on set to look forward to. The shoot was to take place in Brussels, near the Central Station, and we drove there by car from Antwerp. The meeting point for the extra's was a large and fancy hotel and several orange clad crewmembers and film production vans led the way. We registered ourselves and sat down in a room which was steadily filling up with more people. The parts we had been booked for stated "hackers", so most people around us were fairly young and some had apparently been contacted by the casting agency itself for their more unusual look/hairstyle. We had been asked to dress casually, with older, worn out (possibly slightly nerdy) clothes/shoes. For the first time ever, I regretted having thrown away all my baggy (X-files) t-shirts from the 90's…. I had however, discovered a silly hat with communist star, that I had recently bought as souvenir from China, and thought it made me look fairly geeky.
In the "waiting room", as I'll call it from now on, I also met two other lovely girls – one from Belgium who I knew via Twitter, whereas the other had come from the Netherlands especially. I must say: it's fairly stressful to go up to someone unknown and say "hi", with only a small twitter profile pic as guidance….We started chatting until the time came when we were asked to present ourselves at the costume department for "inspection". Just prior to this, someone from the production came into the room and asked around for someone with an approximate height of 1m82. We weren't sure what this was about, until a while after. We had all been asked to bring three sets of clothes, wearing one of them, but the costume ladies had a whole array of clothes as well, to fit us in, if ours weren't adequate. I'm not sure whether it was a good sign, but I was approved (hat included) immediately. Apparently transforming myself into a geek doesn't take much :P My sister got a blue t-shirt with a text saying "Privacy is not a crime". Outfits ready, we went upstairs toward the make-up room, where we had to queue once more. Thankfully, we also discovered a large table with cookies, bread and drinks in the hallway leading there, which we took advantage of. I was impressed by the professionalism of the make-up department and it felt rather "filmstar-like" to be sitting in front of the mirror, while a nice lady is putting several products on your face ^^ Half an hour later, we were ready for business (or so we thought). Unfortunately though - more than half of the other extra's (and there must have been around 200) still had to go through the make-up at that point… In exchange for my passport, I received an old laptop from a crewmember, to serve as prop for the scene later on. As the hallway was very full, we moved back down to where we had been sitting initially and so the waiting began….
After a wile, we suddenly saw someone pass by with a platinum blond and quite ridiculous looking wig. It wasn't Benedict, but the person who had earlier that morning been selected for his height. Apparently he had now become stand-in. Later on, I heard that Benedict had in fact been on set that day, but shot his scene very early on, with no extra's needed. For anyone mocking B's hairdo, let it be known that it looks far, far worse on pretty much anyone else! Unfortunately this was as much excitement as we'd be getting for the coming 2 hours, as we waited, and waited. At a certain point, 10 people were picked to go to the set, which made us hope we might be on soon after, but no such luck. Eventually though - after what seemed eternity - a group of around 20, uncluding the three of us, were asked to follow a few crewmembers downstairs, through some narrow hallways to the place where the set had been built. Oddly enough, we ended up in part of a fairly empty shopping center, where we first could leave some of our stuff (jackets) behind. Normal shoppers passed by and I was thankful this was all taking place in Brussels…a city I never go to and where noone would recognize me in my "hacker" outfit :P Part of our group was then selected and brought to the set, but I stayed behind and waited some more… When they returned and I finally thought it was my turn, lunch was announced. I confess to having been slightly disappointed, but also hungry, so that compensated for the frustration.
Back up we went, to the room that was previously used for make-up, and we all received a bag containing an egg sandwich, a wrap, cookies and some fruit. The fans I met earlier got a banana, which was the start of some cabin pressure hilarity. We sat and waited some more, until at last we could go back to the set - which I still hadn't even seen at that point. It was set up in a large open gallery, with stairs going up on either side.
Inside the gallery, they had re-created a hackers conference. I won't describe the set, as that would be spoilerish, but it was fun and very big. We'd be acting as either visitors of the conference or co-workers explaining some of the things present. After everyone had been given a spot and or walking pattern through the various tables/items, the scene was about to begin. The hardest part of the scene was preventing the extra's walking about, to not hit one another, or the camera, as they traversed the room :P Daniel Brühl was suddenly standing very close to me, at what was going to be his starting point for his scripted walk through the room. He looked almost exactly the same (outfit and all) as in the only officially released pic from iceland. The whole scene existed of him walking through the room from one side to the other, ocasionally looking at a display. He brushed past me at a certain point, but I was focused on my tiny, insignificant part of explaining the thing I was standing next to. The scene was shot several times, from different camera angles and my sister, who was sitting at a table actually got told by the director that she was doing very well :P She brightened considerably after that, especially considering she initially wasn't that keen on coming along for the day at all ^^ It's likely she will have her millisecond of fame from that scene too, as the camera was very, very close by.
After quite a while of shooting this scene from every possible angle, Daniel Brühl had reached the other side of the room and we were all asked to leave until the crew had prepared the set for the second/last scene to be shot that day. We were herded outside in the hallway and waited. We had become very good at that - together with fake-explanations. As we walked out, I noticed some fancy black chairs, with either "The Fifth Estate", "Director" or an actors name, written on it. They'd have looked so good on my terrace tbh. At a certain point during the wait, a crewmember came up to our large group and asked us to please not bother the actors with requests for autographs or pictures. I rather hope noone was planning to do so, but you never know. It made the level of excitement rise considerably though, as many assumed the statement meant that Benedict would be present for the next scene. When we finally were allowed to return to our spots, I noticed several things. Firstly, there was now a large crane with camera mounted on one end of the room. Secondly: someone had broken part of the set piece I stood by. Thirdly: Benedict still wasn't there :P I alerted a crewmember to the shabby state of the close by set piece and after he jokingly told me that I must have done something very wrong and pay up, he took a better look at it, uttered a choice swear word and ran off, never to return. I am therefor rather curious as to whether the finished film will show an obvious continuity error there ^^. This second scene - which still involved no actual conversation - had Daniel Brühl walk up the stairs. We had to look up in amazement at something that happened in the room, but I have to say ….looking up in surprise after the 10th take, is rather more hard than after the first go :P Daniel Brühl got quite a work-out too, as he spent more than an hour walking up and down the same staircase. The idea of filming being glamorous, rapidly evaporated that afternoon. It's not all fun and games for an actor :P Meanwhile my body was feeling the hours of standing still on set, and my foot got cramps and my back ached like hell. At around 8 though, we finally heard someone say it was a wrap and there was some applause. Everyone filed out and went back upstairs to the hotel to queue in chaos, as clothes/laptops had to be returned, passports recovered, and payment received. Eventually the three of us were all ready to go home - 35 euro's richer. One has to start small, I guess ^^ We retrieved the car and set out to spend our hard earned money on dinner…..in MacDonalds. it had been a long, but exciting day, with lots of waiting, but that - I'm afraid - is life for an extra on set. :)TFE Set report Saturday 16th of February:I had to get up terribly early at around 5 am, and was not feeling too optimistic about the day to come. - I had done some research on the part I was playing and the setting and I was almost certain Julian Assange would not feature in it. I was to be a journalist for the Guardian and Dan Stevens would be our chief editor, so I presumed the scenes would mainly concern him. Moreover, I was stressed out about the dresscode and the requested make-up, which I had totally ignored in the end. I was asked to bring 3 sets of clothing, wearing the one I thought best. The instructions given to me were "look like a British journalist". The remaining clothes and shoes were packed in a suitcase that I took with me. At 6 'o clock I was picked up by my sister and brother in law, for which I am eternally grateful now. They have to cope with so much when I am around, being an obsessive fangirl. Though - in my defense - ironically, it was they who introduced me to Sherlock over a year ago and started this madness ;) We drove off to Sint Niklaas, and more specifically a company on a nearby industry-terrain that had granted permission to use their site for the weekend, taking about 20 mins to get there. The weather was gloomy - dark and raining, which wasn't improving my already darkened and pessimistic mood. I went inside to the cantina, where I could get some tea or coffee. There were about 60 other extra's - most of them older than me, as I had only just qualified for the requested age limits for this particular part. (30+) I chatted to some of them and noticed that most had already done "extra" work, albeit for small Belgian productions. The name Benedict Cumberbatch was unknown to pretty much everyone….After a relatively short time, we were herded off to the costume and make-up department, which was located in the same part of the building as where the set was constructed. I got an approval for the second set of clothes, and after seeing most of us, can only conclude that to look "British", is an equivalent to looking excessively boring and old fashioned :P. Sorry to all you Brits! Some people started to complain already about having to wear clothes they despised, which I thought ridiculous….the whole point of acting is to pretend you're someone else! And sometimes that includes being someone with a bad fashion sense…or someone with platinum blonde hair ;) Then it was time for the make-up, which generally takes ages, as most people who did it themselves hadn't done so well enough, so had it removed before it all could be re-applied. Go me for being totally lazy and turning up with no make-up whatsoever :P Costume and make-up ready, we were consequently asked to place our luggage/spare clothes in a side room and return to the cantina to await further instructions. There were now finally cookies and croissants to serve as breakfast and the waiting began.It took a surprisingly short time before we were called to the set for the first scene of the day. Prior to entering the building we were divided into two groups - I was part of group 2 and at the start regretted that. Looking back on it now though, I have to say that this was the choice (together with some others I made myself) that made my day, a day with capital D :) Group 1 was taken in first and got a spot on the lower floor of the office building, which was a large open rectangular place, with a lot of desks set up in the middle to recreate the feeling of a newspaper office, a high glass ceiling and 1st floor hallways with adjacent offices, looking out on the large open office space below. Group 1 was all seated on a desk, or got various tasks around the area, where the action was going to take place. Then group 2 was led inside and was directed toward the first floor (hallway and offices) Some people were asked to walk around from one hallway to another, or enter an office, whereas others, including me were asked to sit inside an office and just move around a bit behind the glass(darkened, so you could hardly see through it). I was fairly upset at this prospect, as it'd mean that I wouldn't be able to see anything at all, which proved about right during the first take, as we didn't even hear the words "action". Below on the office floor, I had spotted Benedicts stand-in with "fancy wig", as well as Dan Stevens (our chief editor). The other extra's thought the stand-in was our lead actor….shame on them! No other recognizable faces were present at that moment, not that I could see anything from my vantage point inside the gloomy room. The office I was in was not cleared and was still full of personal stuff from its poor owner who probably had no idea what was happening that weekend. After 2 takes however, one of the "extra- directors" came into our room and said that they were having sound issues with people walking too loudly - mainly women with heels, which was unavoidable on that sort of floor. But it was causing a significant problem, so they asked some men to swap and go outside. I saw my chance and immediately said that I could walk really, really silently (conveniently ignoring the rather large heels on my boots, as there was NO WAY I'd be spending the rest of the day in some dodgy office). My back will possibly forever be angry for this decision, but it was the best one I made that day… I went outside and tested my newfound skills by walking ridiculously tiptoed - but…silently. They agreed that it was fine and I felt I had achieved a personal victory, having now secured a spot on the balconied hallway. I got a walking pattern explained to me and went to stand in hiding behind a corner until it was my turn to walk past, talk to someone, and pass over to another "safe spot"(place where you're out of camera sight) After one take, it was decided that the other extra's upstairs were still not silent enough and we were all asked to remove our shoes. Thank god I had socks, albeit silly striped ones, whereas many women would be spending the rest of the takes barefoot on the cold floor. It was then that I noticed that Benedicts stand-in had been replaced by someone else with platinum blonde hair and I silently screamed out in joy. He had earplugs in at times,carried two backpacks for the scene and wore a black t-shirt and white open shirt/vest over it. His hair was noticeably shorter than on the pic from Iceland, so I suppose these scenes took place later. Daniel Bruhl and D. Stevens were also there now and when the scene began, I heard Benedict speak for the first time. I noticed two seperate things immediately: the acoustics of the builing were amazing and his voice easily carried through it and gosh….the accent! I'm not an expert when it comes to english accents, but to me it sounded very Australian indeed, which was odd at first. He really was channeling someone else entirely, both through the accent as through the way he spoke. I walked my little walk, but since it was on the far side of where the action was taking place, I decided to expand it a bit and make a turn into a (better) direction after my initial pass… which brought me a lot closer and right overhead of Benedict. In between takes (and there were a lot of them), he was constantly joking around with D.S. and D.B. There was f.ex. a mock fist fight with D.S. He also got administered eye drops - of which he got so many in the course of that day, that I'm amazed his eyes didn't just swim off….poor guy tbh. I have had lenses and couldn't get used to them even after several months, which was hell….This was also the moment where I discovered what I want to do in life…..it's to become the person who takes care of Benedicts head and hair. She constantly went over to re-adjust his hair, to give eye drops (all in all - just obvious excuses to touch his face imo….) Another good job would be the bringer of water bottles…who got an adorable little curtsy for giving one to Benedict. The takes proceeded and I spent a lot of time gazing down in between them. It was fun and I was sad when we got the call that this particular scene was finished and that we would be off for lunch. I noticed Benedict kissing a lady goodbye, who might have been an actress, but unfortunately I wasn't able to see who it was. At that time I thought it might mean that he wouldn't return after lunch. Still - I had seen him act and was happy already :) Before leaving the building though, I wanted to go to the bathroom and couldn't locate it. Wandering around a bit with some others, I rounded a corner and suddenly stood face to back with Benedict. I carefully edged past him and stumbled onto the stairs and to the bathroom. :)Lunch meant we all returned to the cantina and then had to start queuing outside in front of the catering van. Halfway through this queue, a large truck rode past and stopped to pick up septic waste from the building….what excellent timing! >< There were three different types of meals of which one was Boeuf Bourgignon (I was happily reminded of the last CP episode and Arthurs attempts at pronouncing it, but went for the fish anyway ;) It took ages, mostly because any crew that passed by was allowed to skip the line, as they had limited time. I was freezing, as I had left my jacket in the suitcase on set…not the best move ever, but oh well….thoughts of Benedict kept me warm :P I ate quickly and after a while, some people were called up to return to the set, but unfortunately not me as of yet.Half an hour later, a second group was requested, and I could join. Once more I went to my first floor corridor/balcony and got a walk and a talk directed to me. Benedicts stand-in was stood on the balcony right opposite of me, on the other side of the open office space below. I then saw Benedict on a chair, with his back toward us, on the balcony corridor to my left. Yay - h e hadn't left yet! This was the beginning of what the other extra's and possibly actors might call the scene of hell, but for me it was all pure heaven….The fact that I think we reached 53 or more takes, might have had something to do with that :P I did my rehearsed hallway stroll, rounded a corner to a safe zone with some people, where I then waited until I got a signal to walk into another direction. I had chosen to walk to the right, as I felt it was closest to the spot where the stand-in had stood. And so we started what would take up most of the rest of the day. I had a little fake chat with another extra, went on my way and then there was loud shouting from the balcony to my left. Benedict was there, together with D.B., and they were having a rather heated argument. I rounded the corner and went to stand with some other people, among who was one of the guys directing the extra's. The director then decided however, that the corridors were a bit too full and he wanted less walking, so this spot would be the end of my repeated walking adventure. It was to be a very nice spot though. The director told us furthermore to look up in surprise when the shouting began and stop what we were doing for a moment, as anyone would do in the same situation, when people suddenly start to yell in their vicinity. Now, I have no problems at all with staring at Benedict, so it was a task I excelled at. After a second take, I discovered that the place where I ended up, did not only have a great and close by view over the balcony with Benedicts and DB's scene, it also held some crewmembers that were operating the screen where you could actually see "live" what the camera was filming at that point. This was where my mind experienced a terrible and wonderful dilemma, as I had two Benedicts to ogle at the same time. One real version, acting away about 3 metres from me and another one, live on screen in close-up. The screen thingy was amazing, as it actually felt as if I was already seeing part of the finished product - and I can only say: they did well on zooming in on him in that scene. I could hardly have done better ^^ Meanwhile, the takes were not going extremely well, and in between them, Benedict had to walk back to his starting position on the other side of the balconies, where he first sat on a chair to get his eyedrops,some hair/wig adjustments, and occasionally read his script. It was a very difficult and emotion-laden scene, and Benedict was having some issues remembering his lines; as it was a very long part. At the start, the take was ruined once by B getting completely distracted by the "extra director" next to me, who was constantly waving his arms in different directions to instruct us where and when to walk. He was told to stop that immediately :P After one failed attempt, instead of hearing the usual early "cut" from the director or another crewmember, we heard a very, very loud "F.word" by Benedict, which was just as clear a sign that we'd have to redo it. Frustration was visibly mounting though, as a while after, he screamed out even more loudly, clearly annoyed at himself. (being a perfectionist, it must have been particularly annoying) I must admit that I felt two conflicting emotions at this, as one the one hand I felt sad for him that it wasn't going very well at that point, on the other hand: hearing B's voice roar out loudly in a place with such acoustics was rather impressive/ecstatic….I also got quite a surprise after one of my "walks" when upon arriving at my lovely viewpoint and camera screen I was urgently asked to move out of his way by a man seated in a chair just behind me. I looked behind me and discovered that it was D. Thewlis, who was apparently waiting for his queue to get up and walk toward his vantage point for the end of the scene. I quickly scrambled to the side…. After quite many retakes, camera positions were to be swapped, which always took quite a while, as it required a lot of set-up and break down time. D.B. and Benedict were standing on their balcony for a bit and I could freely observe them. He cannot stand still….at all. He was constantly moving about and chatting away. He often - while talking to DB - would suddenly start doing a cute little dance - it was lovely to look upon ^^ I talked to some other female extra's (since the age requirement for this part was 30+, I was the only fan and in fact almost the only person who knew who he was) and we decided to divide the handsome looking men among us. I got some funny stares at my decision to go for "the white one??????", but started off my "convert Belgium to Cumberbatchism" scheme and taught them everything about his upcoming roles and possibly confessed that he was the reason I was there….They understood though and concocted a plan for me to get closer. I had needed to go to the bathroom for some time already, but couldn't as it was somewhere behind the set. One of them said that there was in fact one hidden just next to where Benedict was now seated again, to get his eyedrops etc. I felt a bit odd, but they forced me to follow them as they would "show me the bathroom", so off we went…I walked right past a seated Benedict (all in a professional manner of course) and entered the bathroom. It was there, I discovered that you could actually hear his voice through the wall just next to me….and for a while I wondered whether the production would start to miss me, if I got stuck in a Benedict-voiced dolby surround bathroom….In the end, I decided against staying all too long and happily exited, walked by again and got back to my starting position. More takes were to be done, more eyedrops administered. Time went by and our feet/backs were aching like hell. I got cramp in both feet, but knew I couldn't let on, as I might risk getting replaced by one of the unfortunate people still inside the darkened offices I had escaped from that morning. Camera positions were changed and my walk was slightly adapted to not end at the lovely screen anymore, but now by entering a side office and join some extra's in there. They had been sitting there all day and the conversation was now mainly focused on the ordering of pizza's or fries instead of a "fake" office meeting :P Without drinks and food, most of the other extra's started complaining and mumbling among themselves that they felt Benedict was to blame for the delay. (sometimes I wonder why people even sign up to be extra's tbh…) Benedict meanwhile got an apple to eat, but nothing more that I could see either. We had some eye contact from the other side of the balcony, which gave me a very funny fluttering feeling in my stomach, and at a certain point he applauded the extra's for a moment, most of whom were now strewn around the room, looking not very alive anymore :P In between all of this, he kept on doing his cute little dance moves and jokes with D. Brühl.Eventually though - we actually managed to get the scene finished, which meant that we might be able to get out of the building for a break and some food and drinks - both of which had been sorely missed. All the extra's downstairs got out easily and after a while we got informed that we (first floor) could leave too. We walked the corridor toward the stairway and saw Benedict and a few others sit in a "fifth estate chair" (which again, I'd have loved to take home with me) on the side of the hallway, as we filed past. I glanced and amazed myself once more by not staring. Down we went, but as soon as we reached the exit of the building, people behind us started shouting that we were in fact needed inside again…..Confusion (and some angry whispers) ensued, but we returned, up the stairs, past Benedict in the corridor (I didn't really mind….) and got back to our positions - for a whole 2 mins. Apparently it wasn't just us who was being misinformed that day, as we were for the second time in 5 minutes, told to leave…..A small group of us (including me), who had the furthest to go, weren't exactly rushing out, as we were half expecting the orders to be retracted again anyway and when we reached the hallway just before the stairs, where Benedict had previously been sitting…….we were stuck. Apparently noone knew we had been still inside and a scene was going to be shot in a few moments, meaning that noone was allowed to make any sound anymore and definitely not get in the way. So it seemed we had to wait it out in the hallway. I debated sitting down in the chair Benedict had previously occupied, but someone beat me to it, so I placed myself on the floor, next to a couple of large black pieces of canvas that were put up/hung in between us and the stairway area. There was a gap in between them and I glanced through, only to discover that Benedict was standing just on the other side of it, at approximately 40 cm from me. It was the starting point of a scene involving him and D.B., so they stood there for a bit. I was still lying on the floor when he turned toward our little group of "unfortunate" stuck extra's and asked whether we could move a little bit, as they were going to place the black canvas things a bit more into the hallway. Now if Benedict asks anything, no matter how tired I am, I can move lightning fast and so scrambled a bit backwards, as everything was moved. After that, the view remained excellent though, as he still placed himself right beside (and above) me behind the canvas. At this point someone of the crew who took care of us, had felt so badly that he had smuggled some egg sandwiches upstairs (it was forbidden to eat inside the company premises) and distributed them to us, so I finally had something to eat. Or at least I would have had, if half of it hadn't fallen onto the floor about a minute later. I blame Benedict for this though. I was dreamily staring through my black-canvas opening, when he started doing a funny dance, shaking his bottom right at face level. I froze and lost track of where my sandwich was…..I felt as if my empty stomach had made me delusional and made me dream up a private B peepshow…. Just when rational thought returned, the eyedrop-administrator arrived and this made for another awesome scene. Benedict walked up to her and then fell dramatically onto his knees, threw his head back, spread his arms wide, shook his body and made a weird squealing noise, as she took hold of his head and got the eyedrops in….(I really, really want that job….) After this scene - which I'm afraid unfortunately won't be in The Fifth Estate - the actual shoot continued - Benedict and DB got ready and I saw them walk around the corner, and heard the lines being spoken. 2 more takes followed before we were informed that we should hurry and take the lift down. Still a bit stunned, I got outside and could get some food. At least that was the intention, but we had been stuck for so long, that all the sandwiches had been eaten, so I was left with an apple.:P3 bites into my apple, we were called inside once more for the final scene of the day - which unfortunately would not involve Benedict anymore. Group 1 was once more placed behind their desks downstairs and we were taken up to the corridors again. This time I was installed in a side office with 3 others and rehearsed a little "scene" where we were having a meeting and had to call back a fellow employee who was on his mobile phone outside. It was late though and the topic of our meeting was somehow changed to me and my obsession. They were impressed by my everlasting enthousiasm at being there, when all others had gone grumpy, so I told them why, which was cause to some hilarity, but in a funny sense. The rest of the fake scene was spent by me virtually acting as a one-man PR team, as I promoted all of Benedicts past and upcoming projects, I should get paid for this tbh…. The scene was finished fairly quickly and after the last take, the call came that shooting was finished for that day. It was 10 'o clock, so quite a bit later than was originally planned, and I was the only one who didn't mind at all. To make things even better, the casting agency announced that we'd all earn 20 € extra for the lack of food, lack of information and the delay.We went back to the costume department,got our papers signed and I called my sister and Brother in law to say that we had wrapped. They were not impressed by the hour, but half an hour later, I was picked off and happily drove home…still very much in a state of delirious joy :P
Reblogging mostly because this is LOOOOOOOONG, but I want to read it at some point because it is cute! Mucho de behind...
ok so this is hilarious and i loved it
My favourite bit: At this point someone of the crew who took care of us, had felt so badly that he had smuggled some egg...


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Open Space @ Braz-TESOL9
May 5, 2014 by Willy Cardoso
Last week I had the pleasure to facilitate another Open Space event within a TESOL / ELT conference. This time in Joao …
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Box-ticking or mind-mapping?Leave a comment
April 18, 2014 by Willy Cardoso
Originally posted on unwrapping the education box :
This is a joint post between Willy Cardoso and Divya Madhavan on questions about ELT professionalism.…
What's your CPD level?4
March 20, 2014 by Willy Cardoso
In a recent interview, to be published soon at SEETA, I said: … how can you possibly measure and grade …
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Importing language teaching methodology2
February 28, 2014 by Willy Cardoso
To deny that there is a conflict in contemporary ELT, particularly but not exclusively in the 'importing' of new techniques associated …
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A lesson based on the teacher's ignorance1
January 14, 2014 by Willy Cardoso
I was kindly invited to submit a lesson idea for the Disabled Access Friendly Campaign in April 2013. Many …
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January 9, 2014 by Willy Cardoso
1. Is it the role of language teachers to address social issues in the classroom? Why (not)? 2. If languages …
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November 24, 2013 by Willy Cardoso
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A personal reflection on the Bengals last game, and their mysterious season.
Their away games at Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh seem to mirror their game against San Diego.
If so many knowledgeable NFL people think this is one of the most talented teams in the NFL, why do they lay an egg in the national spotlight time after time?
I would hope the Brown family would, at some point, decide that continually being out-coached is unacceptable.
Lee Watts, West Chester
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Thousands protest in Cambodia over Khmer Rouge denial
U.S. voices concern over Cambodia assembly purge
Denying Khmer Rouge atrocities now crime in Cambodia
Soldier testifies about Cambodian massacre
Khmer Rouge leader fit to stand trial
Khmer Rouge figure fit to stand trial
Ex-Khmer Rouge deputy found fit for trial
Khmer Rouge tribunal told to get to work
Court ends case against deceased Ieng Sary
Former Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary dies
Translators strike at Khmer Rouge trial
Court may weigh regime's forced marriages
The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម) was the totalitarian communist ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, notoriously led by dictator Pol Pot. This organization is remembered primarily for its policy of social engineering and genocide, pursued with terrible savagery and giving rise to the term "killing fields".
After taking power the Khmer Rouge leadership renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea. The Khmer Rouge subjected Cambodia to a radical social reform process that was aimed at creating a purely agrarian-based Communist society. The city-dwellers were deported to the countryside, where they were combined with the local population and subjected to forced labor. About 1.5 million Cambodians died in waves of murder, torture, and starvation, aimed particularly at the educated and intellectual elite.
Losing power following a Vietnamese military intervention in December 1978, the Khmer Rouge maintained control in some regions and continued to fight on as guerillas. In 1998 their final stronghold, in Anlong Veng District, fell to the government.