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  1. 11 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    HISD has been poorly run for my entire life.  Is there any data on whether results have changed under Miles, be it positive or negative?

    Yes. Just go look at the revised performance results HISD reported where almost every single school did worse than previously with even A-rated schools dropping to a C. Apparently Miles rates his own progress as pretty bad. 

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  2. 13 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    The issues facing HISD, the subject of this thread, are due to charter school political donations?

    If public tax dollars are going to out-of-state charter schools founded by the current appointed superintendent of HISD, yes. 

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  3. On 5/11/2024 at 3:56 PM, NWBuck said:

    OK, @Dahobbs, new question...

    I've got a database where folks are filling in information, but there are a lot of categories that are blank. (Specifically, we're hiring, and my database shows all the positions- my staff updates demographic info when the positions are filled)

    I've got another table which pulls out limited info (name, position, pay rate), and I'd prefer that Finance wouldn't have to wade through all the blank rows (open positions).

    Is there a way to create a table that hides rows if one cell (last name, for instance) is empty/blank and then unhides the row if that cell gets updated?

    I'll hang up an listen.

    Sorry, I just saw this. You're trying to do with with excel? You can use the filter function to do what you're asking (or Finance could filter out blanks themselves). 

    Format is: =filter(array, include criteria, optional if empty return)

    =filter(MasterTable([[Position]:[PayRate]],MasterTable[Lastname]<>"")

    The example above would show everything from a table named MasterTable between the Position column and the PayRate column when the Lastname column is not blank. The formula returns an array, so it'll fill in everything for you.  You can modify this to also filter on multiple criteria using the following format for Include Criteria:

    Match All

    (MasterTable[Lastname]<>"")*(MasterTable[FirstName]<>"")

    Match Any

    (MasterTable[Lastname]<>"")+(MasterTable[FirstName]<>"")

    The first one returns anything where both firstname and lastname are not blank. The second one returns where either firstname or lastname is not blank.

     

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  4. 54 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

    NYT making shit up 

    This is similar to a previous poll/article that included extensive commentary from a supposed independent in Arizona. NYT did absolutely no background checking because a cursory glance of the guy's Twitter feed revealed someone who had been all MAGA since 2016. 

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  5. 30 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Surly lawyers...would the driver have a legit civil case?

    Yes. But I don't know if the good doctor has any assets that would be collectable. Homeowner's insurance might be in play. Also, I know that Uber has an insurance policy for its drivers, but I'm not sure if it would cover this. Really, any insurance coverage is complicated by the fact that this was intentional, very likely criminal, conduct as there are usually exclusions for that. 

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  6. 6 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    So far all I have found is that we were both wrong and that NATO expected an attack as well:

     

    West warns military build-up near Ukraine growing, not shrinking

    By Alexander Marrow and Aleksandar Vasovic

    February 16, 202210:54 PM CSTUpdated 2 years ago

    MOSCOW/KYIV, Feb 16 (Reuters) - There is a growing Russian military presence at Ukraine's borders, Western countries warned on Wednesday, as Estonia said battle groups were moving ahead of a likely attack to occupy "key terrain," contradicting Moscow's insistence of a pullback.

    More armored vehicles, helicopters and a field hospital have been spotted, Britain's defense intelligence chief said in rare public comments.

    Up to 7,000 more troops have moved to the border in recent days, including some arriving on Wednesday, a senior official in U.S. President Joe Biden's administration said, without providing evidence.

    World powers are engaged in one of the deepest crises in East-West relations for decades, jostling over post-Cold War influence and energy supplies as Russia wants to stop Ukraine ever joining the NATO military alliance.

    Western nations have suggested arms control and confidence-building steps to defuse the standoff, which has prompted them to urge their citizens to leave Ukraine because an attack could come at any time. Russia denies it has any plans to invade.

    "There's what Russia says. And then there's what Russia does. And we haven't seen any pullback of its forces," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview on MSNBC.

    "We continue to see critical units moving toward the border, not away from the border."

    Estonian intelligence is aware of around 10 battle groups of troops moving toward the Ukrainian border, where it estimates about 170,000 soldiers are already deployed, said Mikk Marran, director general of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service.

    The attack would include missile bombardment and the occupation of "key terrain," he added.

    "If Russia is successful in Ukraine, it would encourage it to increase pressure on the Baltics in the coming years," he said. "The threat of war has become the main policy tool for Putin."

    Russia's defense ministry said its forces were pulling back after exercises in southern and western military districts near Ukraine, and Moscow's ambassador to Ireland insisted forces in western Russia would be back to their normal positions within three to four weeks.

    It published video that it said showed tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and self-propelled artillery units leaving the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.

    But NATO military commanders are drawing up plans for new combat units that diplomats said could be deployed in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

    Such units - designed to buy time for additional soldiers to reach the front line if needed - already exist in Poland and the Baltic states.

    Britain will double the size of its force in Estonia and send tanks and armored fighting vehicles to the small Baltic republic bordering Russia as part of the NATO deployment.

    Ukraine also increased the number of border guards on its frontier with Belarus, Russia's ally, where some 9,000 Russian troops are estimated to be involved in military exercises.

    President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is criss-crossing the country to help bolster Ukrainians' morale, observed drills by his armed forces that included Javelin anti-tank missiles.

    Wednesday was designated a patriotic holiday in response to reports Russia could invade on that day. "No one can love our home as we can. And only we, together, can protect our home," he said. read more

    People raised flags and played the national anthem to show unity against fears of an invasion.

    The government said a cyberattack that hit the defense ministry was the worst of its kind the country had seen, pointing the finger at Russia, which denied involvement. read more

    U.S. officials were as yet unable to say who was responsible, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said.

    'MORE TROOPS ON WAY'

    The risk of Russian aggression against Ukraine would remain high for the rest of February and Russia could still attack Ukraine "with essentially no, or little-to-no, warning," according to a senior Western intelligence official.

    NATO said it could prove Russia's failure to pull back its soldiers with satellite imagery. "More troops are on their way," said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

    Moscow has accused the West of hysterical war propaganda after repeated warnings of a possible attack.

    Russia sees Ukraine joining NATO as a threat to its security and has said it is ready to reroute energy exports to other markets if it is hit by sanctions, which Washington and its allies have threatened if it invades.

    Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said sanctions against Russian banks would be "unpleasant" but the state would ensure all bank deposits and transactions were secured. read more

    Despite the war of words, diplomatic efforts continue.

    Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz underscored the "importance of continued transatlantic coordination" on a call on Wednesday, the White House said.

    Ukraine has asked the U.N. Security Council to discuss on Thursday a bid by Russia's parliament to recognize self-proclaimed separatists.

    British foreign minister Liz Truss is due to visit Kyiv this week and Blinken will travel to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, which starts on Friday, to coordinate with allies.

    "The door continues to be open to diplomacy," said Psaki.

    Coming soon: Get the latest news and expert analysis about the state of the global economy with Reuters Econ World. Sign up here.

    Reporting by Alexander Marrow and Alexander Vasovic; Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu, Nandita Bose and Susan Heavey in Washington, Phil Stewart and Sabine Siebold in Brussels and Andrius Sytas in Riga; Writing by Mark Trevelyan, Philippa Fletcher, Gareth Jones and Costas Pitas; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien and Grant McCool

    Ukraine and Germany didn't think the attack would take place. The UK was mostly on the same page as us but was a bit more equivocal. France was trying to play as mediator the whole time. 

    https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-invasion-predictions-wrong-intelligence/32275740.html

    Spoiler

    On February 22, 2022, Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, took a phone call from the United States’ top diplomat.

     

    According to Borrell, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told him that Russia, after months of building up a massive military force on Ukraine’s border, was, in fact, going to invade.

    “Tony Blinken phoned me and told me, ‘Well, it is going to happen this weekend’,” Borrell recalled in a speech months later. “And certainly, two days later, at 5 o’clock in the morning, they started bombing Kyiv. We did not believe that this was going to happen.

    “We did not believe that the war was coming,” he said.

     

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    I don't know where you are getting that from what he wrote. But since you brought it up, what I remember is a big debate in the US and internationally not denying that there was a troop build up but thinking that an invasion wouldn't happen because the build-up wasn't big enough.

    You remember the debate from others. The US was adamant that Russia would attack. Example:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/11/biden-ukraine-us-russian-invasion-winter-olympics

     

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  8. 5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That may be the first time I have ever seen a talking head on Fox or that side of the aisle demand or suggest that Trump explain one of his lies. Granted, I don't pay much attention to those outlets.

    I don't think the implication was that Trump was lying. The talking head wanted Trump to say more shit.

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  9. 23 hours ago, PTINS said:

    The Eastern European baby boomers grew up knowing and living through the suffering of their parents and grandparents under Soviet Russia's thumb.

    They've seen and prospered under a different life, no way your getting that toothpaste back in the tube.

    The EU & NATO recognized that their complacent acceptance of the recent past has put them in a position they don't want to be in. They are increasing defense spending in a manner that they can defend the front lines, in the belief that their allies have their backs, the isolationist behavior of the US be damned.

    Now, more than ever, the world economy is interconnected as never before, with the causes and effects manifesting in days and weeks rather than months and years. The longer this drags on, the more Europe is at risk, and the higher the probability for economic shocks, which will ultimately gets the US to open their eyes.

    Ukraine voluntarily gave up their nuclear weapons, based on representations by the powers that be. Given the fucked up non-response by the US in 2014, and our on-again off-again mindset, I don't see many countries compromising their nuclear "security" in the future.

    Hard to believe that Russia and China would jeopardize their piece of a multi $ Trillion world economy over a few trinkets, but here we are.   

    100% Ukraines decision.  But somebody need to have their back, or it doesn't matter.

    The US gave Ukraine 3 days, and they are now in year 3.  Pretty embarrassing to be that wrong given the amount of "intelligence gathering" in the world. Everyone here knows that US support now costs pennies on the dollar v. defense spending to fortify Europe with a Putin mindset of getting the band back together. 

    If a choice must be made, the red line is preferable to conceding Crimea. The main issue being the line of demarcation is no more significant that a red line on a map.

    Acceptance of the status quo and waiting for Putin to die is okay, but has implications that Ukraine is going back later to get what is theirs. That means Ukraine "violates" the cease fire, or there was never a real agreement in the first place.  So why wait.

    Now is the time to stop this. If not, it continues to go on forever.

     

    Somehow you're twisting one of the best performances of our intelligence services, correctly predicting that Russia was going to invade Ukraine despite Ukraine and many other countries saying otherwise, into a failure. We we're yelling from roof tops about what Russia was planning (take Kyiv in 3 days) and no one was listening. 

    That said, you're conclusion that we need to fully Ukraine now is right on. 

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  10. 3 hours ago, NWBuck said:

    Borrowed from an online forum, adapted for my parameters:

    Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
        ' define Timestamp output column
        Const TimeStampColumn As String = "I"
        
        ' Observe C2:E1048576 for changes
        Dim RangeToObserve As Range
        Set RangeToObserve = Me.Range("A3:E" & Me.Rows.Count)
        
        ' Get all changed cells within the observed range
        Dim ChangedCells As Range
        Set ChangedCells = Application.Intersect(Target, RangeToObserve)
        
        If Not ChangedCells Is Nothing Then
            Application.EnableEvents = False
            On Error GoTo ENABLE_EVENTS ' make sure in case of errors events get enabled!
            
            Dim Row As Variant ' write timestamp for every changed row
            For Each Row In ChangedCells.Rows
                With Me.Cells(Row.Row, TimeStampColumn)
                    .Value = Now()
                    .NumberFormat = "dd\/mm\/yyyy hh:mm"
                End With
            Next Row
            
            On Error GoTo 0
        End If
        
    ENABLE_EVENTS:
        Application.EnableEvents = True

        If Err Then
            ' make sure to raise the error otherwise it will be silent and you will never notice that anything went wrong.
            Err.Raise Err.Number
        End If
    End Sub

    This is tough. N.B. I know just enough VBA to be dangerous. That said, I'm pretty sure that code will not update based upon a re-calculation of a cell. This is really something you want a proper database with an audit trail to do and not a spreadsheet. The only way I can think of to do what you're wanting is to modify the same code above to also track the reference points for the range you're tracking. You'll need to trace that back to whatever reference requires manual input, as this code will only get activated with a manual change.  You also might be able to do this with a formula if you enable circular functions/iterations, but I'm not sure if it will work on re-calculations. 

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  11. 7 hours ago, Da Fino said:

    Can he get us a refund on all that money spent on the 59s-610 exit?

    That fucking change made everything so much worse. Fucking idiotic to make the lane split so counterintuitive. Whoever came up with that should be shot into space, preferably on a Boeing product. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Fatwa'd

    Somewhat sad is the fact that they will internalize this as another instance of unfair liberal censorship rather than someone being punished for outright trolling. And eventually you'll see reference to it in DT for the same reason. 

  13. 6 hours ago, NWBuck said:

    OK, I'll play... 

    Excel sheet with a macro to datestamp when a cell in the row changes. 

    Can't get it to fire when a cell auto-fills in response to another sheet being updated (using xlookup). So, the cell isn't empty (per se) since it's got that formula in it. But I'd like it to datestamp when it goes from blank to showing data. 

    Thoughts? 

    Post the code. 

  14. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It's really not.

    This brings up a point though.  There are elements of proof of an offense that the prosecution must meet to legally have proven their case.  If they fail on even one of the elements, a conviction cannot be sustained and should not be delivered by the jury's verdict or should be reversed on appeal.

    That said, there are elements of persuasion that prosecutors feel they must meet in addition to the elements of proof in order to have a jury convict on the offense.  The classic example is "motive, opportunity, and means" to commit a murder.  You will find those elements nowhere in any statutory definition of murder or a related homicide offense.  Therefore, they are not elements of proof.  Some seem to think that they are required elements of persuasion, though.

    Whether he fucked Stormy Daniels or not is utterly irrelevant to the case at bar.  Whether someone believes the jury must be persuaded of that in order to convict is a different story and likely an unknowable proposition.  They certainly will not be asked any jury questions on that issue.

    Yup, but I might say it a bit differently. Murder doesn't require proof of motive, but it does require proof of intent. Evidencing motive is one way to prove intent (arguably the primary way). It is like you have a puzzle with a square piece to fill in. You may have multiple pieces that fit the square intent space (e.g., motive, confession, etc). Legally, it doesn't matter which one you put there, but you do need to choose one of them. 

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  15. 7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    I vaguely recall someone posting a Tweet that Ukraine's domestic ammo production was ramping up, too, so maybe we should see these as supplements upon which they're not wholly reliant? Plus, it doesn't include what the US is providing.

    Just trying to throw a positive spin on the situation.

    They have very limited ability to produce 155mm shells, although they are working on it. They also have some capacity to produce shells for their older Soviet equipment, but that is far less important than 155mm shells at this point. Further, their total domestic production is extremely tiny compared to their need. Hopefully it keeps ramping up, but they will remain heavily reliant on allies for artillery ammo for the foreseeable future. 

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  16. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    They need 6,000 per day to match Russia's firing.  So....180 is one month's worth.  If they only fire half of what Russia fires, it's just two months' worth.

    This is an artillery war.  They need ammo.  Lots of it.

    The Czech Republic being able to source that much ammo on top of everything else from Ukraine's allies is a big fucking deal.

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  17. 23 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    No no no, we shouldn't be funding battery storage! We should be writing checks to crypto miners from China so that we can induce demand to induce supply! Why on earth would Texas take a direct step towards addressing a problem when they could instead enrich a business with public funds and hope for a second or third order desired outcome?

    Frankly, I don't think we need to do anything to fund storage. The economics are favorable enough that it is getting built at scale anyway. 

  18. 1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    What the heck is that discharge?  

    At that peak, storage providers were getting paid at a rate of $16 million per hour ($5,000 per MWh x 3,200). Neither the peak price nor the peak discharge lasted a full hour obviously ), but you can see how potentially lucrative storage can be.  Real time pricing averaged just under $3,000 per MWh from 7pm to 8:30 pm. 

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