Thank you for running this again. I need this every year. It helps so much.

You are correct. istari rises doesn’t understand the math concepts behind this. This reminds me of the political websites that used google translate to create their Spanish pages. Just because Google said it was the correct translation doesn’t mean it was right. Programs and calculators treat / as a division symbol…

Just because 6÷2(3) is LIKE 6÷2*3, they are not the same, just like how 6÷2(3) is not the same as 6/2(3).

The / is a division symbol. It is not a fraction symbol.

No, you can’t. You have to do the multiplication and division from left to right. You have to divide before you can distribute since distribution is multiplication.

It is not 1. It is 9. Order of operations says it is 9. I have a Masters in Math and have taught math for 25 years. Writing 6 divided by 2(1+2) is not the same as writing it as a fraction. When you write something as a fraction, it is the same as using parenthesis around the numerator (the top) and parenthesis around…

The picture of the crying child is heartbreaking. Kids lives are more important than guns. We have another set of emotionally scared kids. This has got to stop. 

Did she even try to give him first aid? Did she just stand there and watch him die? You say “i’m so sorry” while you are trying to stop the bleeding. She needs to go to jail but I would like to know what she was doing during that call. For me, her actions would be the deciding factor between life in prison or 20 years…

We bought snacks at our local theater because the owners were generous. They would donate movie passes to the library to give out at prizes during summer reading. My son won some tickets at his elementary school for student of the month, also donated. Unfortunately, our theater will not reopen. It is in Paradise, CA…

I will be using my netflix streaming money to buy used dvds of the shows I like. I don’t watch much anyway. They no longer have the dvds I like to borrow. 95% of their original content is terrible. It’s like they don’t want my money.

I am wondering if the cop did this in case the grandma had been dead for days and the kid hadn’t eaten in that time. It would make for a more morbid headline.

I was teaching at a high school in Wheat Ridge when Columbine happened. I had interviewed for a position at Columbine for that school year. I quit teaching public school the summer of 1999. I have the Columbine book but still need to read it.

When their mistresses gets pregnant, these guys are all for abortion.

Her hairline looks like it is already receding.

That is why I stopped going to Panera Bread. They added a tip jar and a tip line on the receipt. The most those people do is put a bagel through the slicer. I don’t think they need a tip for punching buttons. I doubt the kitchen staff sees any of it and they are doing the real work. 

I am sick of having to tip people for doing their job. I don’t get to carry around a tip jar at my job. It is just another way of employers getting out of paying a living wage. 

I feel that zoos are keeping these animals from being extinct. It’s not a perfect solution but nature reserves don’t seem to work. Poachers would wipe out species given the chance. I would rather have an animal in the zoo than no animal at all.

Hated him on 90210 but loved him in everything else.

He was so funny in that episode. He was great on Major Crimes too. He was the star of a cop show that one of the detectives was a consultant on.

I didn’t like that part either. I wished it had been better established that his size was based on his anger.