In this mysteriously leaked DVD commentary for Season 4 of “Game Of Thrones,” author George R.R. Martin drops some MASSIVE plot bombshells. (x)
Hodor.
“their long lost cousin, the creator of the Iron Throne, Tony Stark”
Last month, I wrote an entry about needing help to pay off ambulance and hospital fees after being sent to the emergency room, and I was able to successfully raise a little under one grand five hundred to pay most of it off. I have never been more thankful and appreciative, because who does that? It takes a lot of kindness and consideration to help a stranger in their time of need.
That said, sadly I must report I need more help. I recently received another statement requesting payment for doctor services. $961.00US, specifically. I must admit my ignorance. I didn’t realized both the hospital and doctor charge for treatment, because I never dealt with this situation before. I suppose we all have learn about adult shenanigans like how medical bills are processed when you’re uninsured the hard way, but I want to cry, honestly. The system placed in place here in the United States is such an unfair farce; it shouldn’t be this way.
My employment situation is still the same. I am happily loving my new job, but I have only been averaging fifteen hours a week. There’s no way I will be able to come up with the amount by the June 9th due date, and giving the uncertainty of part-time employment and what I still owe on my previous bills, setting up monthly payment plans will bring me into the red. I am sincerely sorry for asking asking for such large help so very shortly after, but I am not sure what else I can do. I am being charged $59.00US for a non-invasive pulse oximetry (heart monitoring), then $902.00US for exchanging maybe a five minute conversation about how I don’t wish for treatment because I can’t afford treatment with the doctor assigned to the emergency room? $961.00 in total for that?
It’s embarrassing that’s how we do health care in the United States, and I again sorry for asking strangers for help. I just want this all over. Same rules applied. Here’s my little PayPal donation link thingy. Anything left over will be donated to Shade Tree, a local Women’s Shelter in the Las Vegas Valley. Thank you in advance, I still wish I had something tangible to offer, because a simple “thanks” isn’t enough.
Edited to add (May 25): I messed up the donation link in, because that’s how I do things, so if you’ve come from an earlier reblog, hello! It’s properly updated now.
Edited to add (May 26): Thank you so much for your donations. I’ve raised $220US thus far, and I honestly cannot thank you all enough.
Edited to add (May 28): I woke up this morning to another eighty dollars, which brings the total to $300US. I’m so thankful right now. I really don’t know what else to say.
Just a quick question: have you tried calling them and asking either if a) they can reduce the amount that they’ll take, or b) if you can pay via a payment plan? (Especially if you point out that you had to get online donations to pay the doctor’s bill.)
ACCESS DENIED: TUMBLR SIGNAL BOOST NEEDED - London Murder leads to city-wide tensions
Today London has been rocked by the horrific murder of a man believed to be a soldier in a “Help For Heroes” t-shirt (an organisation which helps UK soldiers…
Summary: Help your neighbors. The bad guys have been captured. The EDL is being douchey. Be careful what Facebook pages you like.
link to BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303, BBC Live updates page
Metropolitan Police Emergency Number: 999
Metropolitan Police Non-Emergency Number: 101
Does anyone else get this shit with Tumblr Savior where you can add things to your blacklist just fine and saving and loading works, but if you close firefox all of your settings disappear?
yep.
So I just hope that Yahoo! can get Tumblr to install Tumblr Savior into the dashboard. I have to reinstall every time I close Firefox or else risk seeing NSFW crap on my dash.
Chaplain.
Fury’s invisible thought bubble: “Yeah, we’ll get you a priest… with a PhD in psychology and a clinical specialty in PTSD.”
At risk of starting a firestorm (HA I MAKE JOKE), can I just say pictures of beautiful men smoking gives me such a sad. And not just because of the whole cancer thing, but for a much more selfish reason: it fucks up your skin:
“The nicotine in cigarettes causes narrowing of the blood vessels in the outermost layers of your skin. This impairs blood flow to your skin. With less blood flow, your skin doesn’t get as much oxygen and important nutrients, such as vitamin A. Many of the more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke also damage collagen and elastin, which are fibers that give your skin its strength and elasticity. As a result, skin begins to sag and wrinkle prematurely because of smoking.” (Mayo Clinic)
A sad it gives.
I am so glad someone actually had the guts to stand up and say this. It breaks my heart to see anyone smoking because I saw what cancer can do to you at a veyr early age. I never understand why young women smoke because of the way it wrecks their skin. And its not as if people have the excuse of ignorance these days.
Be daring - be rebellious - don’t smoke!
And not to beat it into the ground—but wouldn’t an actor need to preserve his lung capacity? I’ve thought about that more than once. Mystifying.
IMHO, the only people who look cool and/or sexy when smoking are the people who look cool and/or sexy when they’re NOT smoking.
What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, who don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world?
With that said, I’ll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x – 3 = 19 and knowing x = 22 can be useful. I’ll even say knowing x = 7 and y = 8 in a problem like 9x – 6y = 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x – 3)(x – 3i)??
And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can’t become a psychologist, a future lawyer can’t become a lawyer, and I can’t become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.
Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don’t take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn’t need to know that The Phantom of the Opera was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. Get my point?
The board of education should sit down with universities and high schools alike and create options for students. Let us take business classes that substitute all the same credits as algebra. I guarantee a semester of learning how to start a small business would benefit people much more than knowing: ax^2 + bx + c = 0
Chris Colfer, Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal (x)
Nobody’s ever going to give me back the time I spent desperately struggling to get a barely adequate grate in Maths in high school. Nobody’s ever going to give me back the money I spent on additional tutoring for something that I have now, two years after my graduation, almost completely forgotten.
Don’t fucking dare call it laziness. I wanted to do heaps of additional work in subjects that interested me; instead I spent hours and hours doing Trigonometry problems. I’m a writer. I study Philosophy. I’m never going to need this shit in all my life.
Basically, millions of talented students spends enormous amounts of time, money, and nerves, trying to learn highly complicated things they’re never going to need, just so they can get through the system and, you know, do things they are actually interested in and that they’re actually going to use in their professional lives.
The next time someone says how students are just lazy, I’m punching them in the face.(via moranion)
I haven’t been through all the responses to this post, but I haven’t seen any critical responses, and as a mathematician who studied subjects that even fewer people use in daily life (set theory, anyone?), I just can’t let that stand.
Okay, first of all: Complex numbers are not engineering. Let’s just get that out of the way.
Secondly, the complex number example Colfer gave is not that difficult. If my lawyer wasn’t able to figure out that question while studying complex numbers in high school I wouldn’t want them calculating damages in my tort case. (I may give them some leeway if I’m only seeking non-monetary remedies, but there are very few causes of action for which only non-monetary remedies are appropriate. For example, the Proposition 8 case is asking for non-monetary remedies, but the other same-sex marriage case on the docket is a tax case and thus is asking for money.)
Third: I can understand why people think that Trigonometry is a waste of time for humanities majors. The only reasons I can give for studying it if you’re fifteen and you want to be a writer when you grow up is that a) it’s best to keep your options open and b) it does help you in crafting.
But.
We as a culture are staggeringly scientifically illiterate. So I understand *why* Boards of Education want people to take more math and science courses. However, I wonder if a course in formal logic might not be a better high school graduation requirement than Trigonometry or Algebra 2, especially if the course included applied logic exercises in spotting deceptive advertising, breaking down poor arguments, and what “the exception that proves the rule” actually means. (Hint: It does not mean “a convenient way to ignore counterexamples that contradict your thesis”.)
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(Source: expectodraco)
“As I left the hotel and my husband went to the ballroom for the dinner, I realized he still had my keys. I approached the escalators that led down to the ballroom and asked the externally contracted security representatives if I could go down. They abruptly responded, ‘You can’t…
“We have to protect against gate-crashers.” Uh, wasn’t the most notorious Washington gate-crasher in recent history A WHITE LADY, like the ones you were letting in without a second glance?
Deadline.com, on the contract negotiations on The Avengers 2 (x)
“He’s (RDJ) not going to work for a place where they treat his colleagues like shit.”
(via iwantcupcakes)
“Let’s do a head count. Between us we’ve got five Oscar nominations, two Globes, two BAFTAs, and enough major critics’ awards to cover a reasonably sized coffee table.”
“I have Disney.”
“Scarlett has a Tony.”
buttonChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TedxEuston (x)
THIS...
This may or may not be an ongoing series.
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Saw the video floating around so I gif’d it for anyone who doesn’t wanna actually watch it haha.
the last one though. so accurate.
