To setup a standard invoice, not the advance payment invoice, move your mouse over the Create new invoice button and click on it. Do not select the previously mentioned Create advanced bill option because then you'll be creating an advance payment invoice.
The beginning of the standard invoice creation is the same to the creation of an advance payment invoice. Select a client (to whom the invoice is going to be sent), fill out order date, order type, invoice number (bill number) and everything else that's asked of you.
Where things get interesting is the bottom section of the create new standard invoice form. Here you get to add items to the invoice. Start typing item details in the Item details field, and you'll be given autocomplete suggestions from the list of items (that you previously filled out). By selecting items from the autocomplete suggestions remaining fields (rate, tax, etc.) will fill out automatically. You just need to type in the item specific stuff yourself, like quantity, discounts, etc. Pay special attention to the Add advanced payment option at the bottom of the image above. This is where you can add a previously created advance payment invoice that you created for this particular client. That last bit is important to know because you will not be able to add advance payment invoices made towards other people (makes sense). If there aren't any advance payments created for the selected client, the list of advance payments is going to be empty and you won't be able to add any. Advance payments have to be created (and presumably sent) before the standard invoices are created. Which also makes sense.


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The Sky's the Limit for New Culture Editor
Emily Ferguson November 9, 2021 4:43PM
Evan Semon
I moved to Denver in January 2020, lured by a job and drawn by its creative and innovative ethos. How could I not be? Denver is known for its unique art scene, ranging from swaths of murals to the psychedelic behemoth Meow Wolf, which makes an international Yayoi Kusama tour look like a snoozefest.
In my first few weeks, I went to an exhibit on John Denver, explored the Denver Art Museum and enjoyed a tour of RiNo's murals led by my friend Jessica McMillan, a local visionary artist. But then it ended, as the pandemic shut down the state.
COVID disrupted the city's cultural scene, as it has every other aspect of our lives. The Colorado Business Committee for the Arts just put numbers to the pandemic's hit on the nonprofit arts, cultural and scientific centers in the metro area, and the devastation is hard to miss: The CBCA reports that a decade of growth was lost. After peak interest in culture in 2019, 2020 saw a 34 percent decline in economic activity in cultural nonprofit centers, a 28 percent decrease in jobs and a 49 percent decrease in attendance.
But the report also found a beacon of hope. Last year the metro area registered a 5.5 percent increase in philanthropic and public donations to the nearly 300 groups that volunteered data for the report. There is a key observation in that particular shift: Even as the pandemic robbed us of peaceful walks through museums, Denver residents put their money (an even more precious commodity than normal during these strange times) toward ensuring that museums survived.
"One bright spot of the 2020 data reported was that philanthropy and giving to arts and culture in the metro region is up, which provides hope and critical funding needed for the ongoing economic recovery of the nonprofit arts sector," says CBCA Executive Director Christin Crampton Day. "This report will be a vital advocacy tool to ensure arts and culture endure so we can build back stronger."
The pandemic also hit the music scene, of course, with venues shutting their doors and livestreams taking the place of in-person events. But this fall, Denver has been coming back full force, offering a variety of shows that hold their own compared with the lineups in San Francisco, New Orleans or even New York City. Red Rocks is likened to a temple by music lovers across the country, and after attending performances by progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee and the String Cheese Incident there, I can see why. Pair the sheer enthusiasm for the venue from fans and bands alike with the umber rocks, splashed with lights and rising like steeples, and it's clear that Colorado holds the world's premier venue. Now, as cold weather descends on the city, indoor venues from the Mission Ballroom to Cervantes' to Your Mom's House are welcoming an eclectic mix of local musicians and nationally known bands.
Interest in the arts is at once deeply personal and communal, and sometimes generational. My grandpa, whom we lovingly called "Grumps," taught me how to hold a paintbrush, and each holiday, he gave me a new book on art history or how to draw cartoons or use oil pastels. My mom and pop, meanwhile, would spend too much time chasing me around the grand halls of the National Gallery of Art as I searched for my favorite Sisley. When my career turned toward editing and writing, I ventured up and down the East Coast from Washington, D.C., to soak up the genius hanging on hallowed walls at various exhibitions.
The Denver art scene, however, is decidedly sui generis. Far less stuffy and happy to give emerging talent a spotlight, this city has a diverse cast of visual artists and musicians, while nationally renowned names regularly swing through. As Westword's new Culture Editor, I plan to show you the best our city has to offer as it emerges from an unprecedented economic blow, ready to vigorously meet new challenges.

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Bartlett: Why the Flat Tax Will Never Fly
Policy + Politics
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times
Tax reform: It's one of the few areas in politics "where I think there's at least the possibility of Republicans and Democrats working together to actually accomplish something," said Bruce Bartlett, Fiscal Times columnist and author of a new book, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take. "Everybody understands that something needs to be done."
That may be wishful thinking, since Bartlett believes that President Obama "threw cold water" on any bipartisan effort in his State of the Union address by asking for several new tax preferences. Obama called for doubling "a special deduction available only to companies engaged in manufacturing, something that most tax specialists think should instead be abolished," says Bartlett. All told, Obama's proposals "do not move in the direction of tax reform."
The leading GOP presidential candidates are no better. Bartlett says that Romney's and Gingrich's tax plans are non-starters. "To be blunt, they're simply lying. If you'd like to say that they're suffering from cognitive dissonance – fine. But they know perfectly well their proposals are complete nonsense. They won't work."
A widely published policy analyst (in addition to writing for The Fiscal Times, he is a contributor to The Financial Times, the Economix blog of The New York Times, and Tax Notes), Bartlett served in both the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations as well as on the staffs of congressmen Ron Paul and Jack Kemp and Senator Roger Jepsen. Bartlett expects continued robust debate on tax reform in the next year or two, although the trick will be how to get "from here to there, both politically and substantively."
Excerpts from our conversation with the author:
'Republicans Deny There Are Two Parts to the Deficit Equation'
The Fiscal Times (TFT): You believe that while government spending should be reduced, higher revenues are also necessary to stabilize our finances. Why should a goal of tax reform be "to make a higher tax burden more bearable"?
Bruce Bartlett (BB): Everybody complains about deficits and the debt. If they're right that this is a problem, then they have to concede that at some point higher taxes are the lesser of evils. The problem is that Republicans simply deny that there are two parts to the deficit equation. You can either have higher spending or lower revenues – and basically our problem is both. But they just pretend that revenues have nothing to do with it, even though revenues right now are at a historical low of about 15 percent of GDP, versus a postwar average of 18 ½ percent of GDP. If we were at 18 ½ percent of GDP in revenues, we would be in much better shape – and that's about where we would get to if we allowed the Bush tax cuts to expire, which nobody wants to do. So I think revenues need to be higher.
TFT: It's the dead-weight cost of taxation, you say – the production, labor, investment that doesn't occur because of the way our tax system is structured – that's at issue. How would you change this?
BB: Taxes on investment and saving are high dead-weight costs, while taxes on property, real estate, wages and consumption tend to have low dead-weight costs. It's why economists always talk about moving to a consumption-based tax system. It would let us raise the same revenue at a lower dead-weight cost. So it's kind of a free lunch. If we're going to have to raise the tax-GDP ratio, it's all the more imperative to reform the tax system so as to reduce the dead-weight cost. You can afford to pay several percentage points of GDP in terms of lost output when the tax-GDP ratio is as low as it is right now. But if we raise our taxes up into the 20 percent of GDP range, then the dead-weight cost becomes much more painful, and we need to reduce it to prevent these higher taxes that I believe are necessary and inevitable from slowing economic growth.
'Replace the Income Tax with a Value Added Tax'
TFT: Would you replace the personal income tax completely, or layer on a VAT as well?
BB: As a practical matter, we'd have to have both, but I'd consider replacing the income tax with a value added tax. The problem is that having no income tax at all would mean the wealthy would pay nothing, basically. And I'm sure that for Warren Buffett, the percentage of his income that goes to consumption is a tiny fraction, whereas for the average person it's very high. So it would be a distributional nightmare. Since nearly half the people who file income tax returns pay no income tax at all, eliminating the income tax would also eliminate things like the earned income tax credit. So the almost 50 percent of the people who now pay nothing would pay a substantial amount of value added tax. That's a real problem.
It makes a lot more sense to use the VAT as a supplemental revenue source to avoid raising tax rates in the future. I estimate we could get about $50 billion per percentage point of VAT. So a 20 percent rate, about what they have in Europe, would raise a trillion dollars a year of gross additional revenue. You could get rid of the alternative minimum tax and make the Bush tax cuts permanent. You could do all those things in a revenue-neutral manner if you had this additional revenue source.
'GOP Proposals to Balance the Budget Are Complete Nonsense'
TFT: With GOP candidates like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich promising to balance the budget, wouldn't the tax overhauls they're proposing rob the Treasury of many billions in revenue – and knowing that, how can they vow to balance the budget?
BB: To be blunt, they're simply lying. If you'd like to say that they're suffering from cognitive dissonance – fine. But they know perfectly well their proposals are complete nonsense. They won't work. They won't be enacted. It's purely a political signaling device. They're just sending a message to the Republican electorate – which is obsessed with taxes – that they're going to be super tough and aggressive on cutting taxes, especially for the rich, which for some reason Republicans are very attracted to. They're just saying, 'Mine's bigger than yours,' in that sense. None of this would come to pass even if a Republican was elected president, because for one thing they'd have to pass it through Congress.
Somebody like Mitt Romney, certainly, who's adept at reading spreadsheets, knows this is just political pandering. There's no possibility, no matter who's elected, that the budget's going to be balanced in even the next ten years. Even then, it would take an enormous amount of effort, and that's only if we pass a tax increase and spending cuts that right now are impossible politically. But – we'll see. Maybe I'm wrong.
'I've Given Up Hope on the Politics of a Flat Tax'
TFT: Your thoughts on the flat tax?
BB: I would support a flat tax, theoretically. I've just given up hope on the politics of it. It's utopia. We can strive for it but it won't happen. The flat tax would get rid of all deductions. Just getting rid of the deduction for mortgage interest alone would be very difficult when you have 60 percent of Americans who are homeowners and who depend on that deduction. The deduction is capitalized into the value of homes. If you lose the deduction for mortgage interest, housing prices would fall, and how popular would that be? Then, getting rid of the exclusion for health insurance – that would greatly increase taxes on workers or businesses. It's all just a pipe dream.
'Norquist Has a Very Narrow Idea About Tax Increases'
TFT: In your book you say, "The success or failure of tax reform lies in the hands of Grover Norquist."
BB: Speaking figuratively, that is. When politicians talk about tax reform, they're really only talking about cutting tax rates. I'm not aware of anybody who has put out a list of tax revenues that would be increased to pay for the tax-rate reductions. So it's all sugar and no medicine. For meaningful tax reform, we have to get rid of a lot of loopholes in the tax code. Not just little ones – big ones. We'd have to go after the mortgage interest deduction. Congress was willing to do that in 1986, and Reagan put in place a lot of tax increases. He raised the capital gains tax from 20 percent to 28 percent, for example. What Republican would support that today? The problem is Grover has a very narrow idea about tax increases: He's opposed to all of them, under any circumstances. He says he's in favor of revenue-neutral tax reform in principle, but any time anybody talks about getting rid of a loophole, he comes down on them like a ton of bricks. Look at the fight he's been having for the past year with Tom Coburn over the ethanol subsidy.
TFT: So who's going to buck him? Will anybody have the nerve?
BB: Maybe a Republican president, but I don't see members of Congress willing to do so. They've seen what happens when they try to do bipartisan things. For example, former [Republican] Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah co-sponsored a health reform plan with [Democratic] Sen. Ron Wyden, and he was defeated in the primaries. That was a key reason. Certainly anything involving tax reform would have to have bipartisan support. It just seems that the hurdle is so high that it's hard to see who would be willing to even dip their toe into the pool, let alone jump in. Maybe Grover would come up with his own tax reform plan – and support that. But he's said publicly many times he believes there's a division of labor in politics: Republicans only cut taxes, and Democrats raise them if they need to be raised. That is not conducive to enacting tax reform.
'The Tea Party Takes Its Marching Orders from People Like Grover'
TFT: How does the Tea Party play into this?
BB: That phenomenon is independent of what Grover has done. But the Tea Party takes its marching orders from people like Grover. If he were to denounce some Republican, as he's done with Tom Coburn, that person would have real trouble getting renominated by his party. Most Republicans are more fearful of losing the nomination than they are about losing the general election. We saw in the last election, in states like Delaware and Alaska, that the Tea Party doesn't care if Republicans lose. They're going to nominate people who will stand up and say, 'We're not going raise taxes, at any time, no matter what.' These same people often will say, 'If we have a debt problem, let's repudiate that. Let's just default on the debt.' During the debt limit debate, many Republicans said they'd never vote to raise the debt limit, no matter what. This is the mentality we're dealing with.
'You Have to Hope That People Will Do What's Right'
TFT: You say that the average American citizen should become as educated as possible about taxes and the tax system. How can citizens impact a fractured and politically fraught process?
BB: We do live in a democracy, and at some point you just have to hope that people will do what's right. I tried to write a book that was 'everything you wanted to know about tax policy but were afraid to ask,' as opposed to just a book about filing taxes. I emphasize the word policy here. People need to understand where provisions in the tax code come from. We may not get tax reform, but we're going to debate it – and to follow that debate and understand it, this is a way to get up to speed.
'Romney Knew He Was Going to Be Asked about His Tax Returns'
TFT: Romney has just released his 2010 tax return, plus a summary of his unfiled 2011 return. Your thoughts on this episode in the presidential campaign?
BB: The pressure on him to release many years of tax returns is now going to be relentless. I think he's foolish for the way he's handled this. In the last debate he acted like, 'You're asking me about my taxes? Gee, I haven't thought about that.' Of course he knew he was going to be asked about it. You would have thought he'd have had a much better answer than the one he gave. But it's worth noting that he has never released his tax returns in any previous race that he's run. He's been very jealous in guarding his privacy.
TFT: Doesn't this play right into the Democrats' and Obama's quest for the wealthy to pay more in taxes?
BB: Yes, it does. It's just foolish. Basic PR strategy says if you've got something bad to get out, get it out – bury people in paper. Release 20 years of returns all at once. Make it hard for people to actually sort through all of it. And don't release it electronically. He should have done this last year. Then it would be old news by now. But the longer he keeps dragging it out – well, it's getting to be like the Whitewater papers.
Michelle Hirsch of The Fiscal Times contributed to this article.
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Maureen Mackey
Maureen Mackey served as managing editor of The Fiscal Times for five years, during which time she oversaw scheduling and work flow and handled edits, writing and reporting of many features, news items, interviews and other content. In 2011 she helped The Fiscal Times win a MIN award for Best New Site.


Weinstein Gallery announces an exhibition of photography by renowned photographer Vera Lutter.
Weinstein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs of Venice by internationally recognized and celebrated German born/New York based photographer, Vera Lutter. This will be the first solo show of Lutter's work in Minneapolis.
After graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1991, Lutter moved to New York and studied at the School of Visual Art's Photography and Related Media program where she received an MFA in 1995. In order to capture an immediate and direct imprint of her experience in New York, Lutter decided to turn the room in which she lived into a large pinhole camera, or camera obscura. Through a simple pinhole instead of an optically carved lens, the outside world flooded the interior of the room and projected an inverted image onto the opposite wall on. Exposing directly onto wall-size sheets of photographic paper, Lutter decided to retain the negative image and refrain from multiplication or reproduction, making every image unique.
From 2005 through 2008, Lutter began photographing Venice during the anticipated high water seasons, shooting the canals, gondolas, palazzos and the Basilica San Marco with a pinhole camera, which was often an apartment turned camera obscura by blacking out the windows. Through Lutter's camera, the beautiful and romantic city became haunting and ghostly, reduced to striking monochrome contrasts.
Between the use of the camera obscura on an architectural scale and her long exposure times, Lutter's images of Venice are a transfer and compression of the real. The exposure times on the images can range from a couple of hours to a few weeks, all the while whatever comes in front of the aperture becomes part of the image, even if it never appeared long enough to register.
Lutter's images have been exhibited in group and solo shows in many recognized institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dia: Beacon and Dia: Chelsea, New York; Kunsthalle, Basel; the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Neue Galerie New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.


It's only February in Miand the local word is someone went down already. I thought I'd share this friends reminder as more of us are coming back into riding season by the day and a number of us are priviledged enough to ride year round.
Sorry it it's a re-post!
This was taken from tristatesportbikes.com and gixxer.com. Have fun and keep the shiny side up.
I found it on my local riders forum.
1. We crash on cold tires. Respect them by giving them a few miles to warm up, especially if they're brand new. After stopping to eat or something, remember you're not the only thing that has cooled down, allow your tires sufficient time to warm up again.
2. We crash on overloaded tires. If you are new to riding or rusty after a winter layoff, applying too much throttle or brake while leaned over could be very costly. Our tires can provide amazing levels of traction but they're not immune to "lead" hands. The instinct of grabbing a handful of front brake while leaned over will put you in the guardrail.
3. We crash trying to keep up. Ultimate speed on a back road has little to do with the bike and everything to do with the rider. Once you realize this, twisting the throttle WFO to keep your friends in sight on the straights while losing them in the corners becomes a non-option. Ride your own pace.
4. We crash because we want to go fast. Sometimes, even the posted speed limit is inappropriate. Coming over a blind crest at 45mph might be too fast if you can't stop the bike before hitting the hazard you only see when it's too late. Speed reduces time to react and adds distance to react in emergency situations.
5. We crash because we bail out. How many posts have there been about entering a corner too hot, standing the bike up and running out of road before getting the bike stopped? Too hot means your brain is probably freaked out but there is still plenty of tire traction available. LOOK through the corner, LEAN the bike until hard parts drag, BELIEVE in modern tire technology.
6. We crash because we lose our focus. The bike travels 88 feet per second at 60 mph. A moment's inattention puts you that much farther into a corner. Think about the next corner, not the one you just blew. That one is over, focus on getting the next one right.
7. We crash because we rush corner entrances. Slow in, fast out works for racers season after season. It works for road riders too. Slow down a bit on your corner entrances and see how much smoother you become.
8. We crash because we can't keep up with the motorcycle. Make sure your software is the equal of your bikes hardware. The bike has the ability to go 160mph, that doesn't mean YOU do.
9. We crash trying to look cool. If it takes wheelies, stoppies and other stunts to impress your friends...you need new friends.
p.s. Alcohol dosen't help either. Use your head.
looks like about 45F here tomorrow. good day for me.
This... and things like this, is why we crash.
Nice one nate.. I am taking the msg course as a refresher before I go into this season.
well i will make sure i dont ride fast and im not going anywhere far.. around the block few times.
but reading through those points did make me think about a lot of things. this is why im here... to learn about the bike but most importantly about safety.
****in a kuro. Zachs sights and sounds post is still there. You've moved my sh*t twice in 3 days man !


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MBTA repair shutdowns could extend into 2020,…
MBTA repair shutdowns could extend into 2020, weekdays
BOSTON, MA- AUGUST 12, 2019: Charles/MGH MBTA on August 12, 2019 (Staff Photo By Faith Ninivaggi/ Boston Herald/ Media News Group)
By Sean Philip Cotter | sean.cotter@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: August 12, 2019 at 6:01 p.m. | UPDATED: August 13, 2019 at 12:34 p.m.
The T's plans to shut down major downtown train stations for work on weekends this fall could extend into 2020 and even into weekdays — and it's already infuriating straphangers.
"We are looking at what we can do in 2020 to accelerate construction on the system, so it will definitely include more weekend diversions, and we are exploring the possibility of weekday diversions," MBTA general manager Steve Poftak told reporters outside Monday's T board meeting.
Poftak briefed the board about the T's $27.5 million plan to close the busy downtown stretches of the Red and Orange lines this fall so the struggling transit agency could speed up repair work.
The schedule includes closures on the Orange Line on six straight weekends from Oct. 5-6 through Nov. 9-10 on the central stretch of line from Tufts Medical Center to Sullivan Square. The Red Line from Broadway to Kendall/MIT then would be shut down on weekends from Nov. 16-17 to Dec. 14-15.
Some of the projects such as track replacement, Poftak said, could take five to 11 months longer without the shutdowns.
"We understand it's an inconvenience," Poftak said, but, "We heard loud and clear that folks wanted a faster pace and they wanted to see results."
But riders expressed outrage online Monday — particularly in light of the subway fare hike that went into effect last month as the T struggled with derailments.
"All of these delays and closures and you still raised prices?" wrote Twitter user Nicholas Tran.
"Actions providing actual relief to riders, like lowering fares, would go a long way to making this believable," tweeted Harold Sipe. "Given the history of your … lack of honest disclosure on issues this is a good start but tough to believe."
"All the maintenance issues, all the lack of planning, all the system failures. This was all a surprise to you?" Bob Donahue wrote. "You couldn't have made a more TONE DEAF announcement. #mbtafail"
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce chief James Rooney, however, praised the T for taking the more drastic action after criticizing the agency earlier this year for being too meek with its plans.
"It's long overdue for the T to have a more bold approach to dealing with the backlog of work that has accumulated over many, many years," Rooney told the Herald. "It's a safe bet that this work will prevent something disruptive from happening in the future. … It will be managed inconvenience as opposed to chaotic inconvenience."
Poftak also highlighted one bright spot on Monday: Six of the shiny new Orange Line train cars that have been zooming up and down the test tracks for months will enter service by the middle of the day Wednesday, replacing one of the aging trains on the line after months of delay. More of the 152 scheduled new trains will follow in September, he said.
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Sean Philip Cotter | City Hall Reporter
Sean Philip Cotter is a reporter covering Boston City Hall and whatever else goes on around town for The Boston Herald. A South Shore native, he previously covered Quincy City Hall for The Patriot Ledger and local politics and crime in Pennsylvania for The York Dispatch, winning awards for his reporting at both papers. Sean's a graduate of Syracuse University and fan of Patriots football, long drives, overly strong coffee and bad puns.
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The subject of the present paper are interactions of the lexical senses of Russian verbs (a) with the grammatical forms of aspect, tense, voice, mood and the like and (b) with the meanings of certain grammemes (such as IMPERF) in cases of their polysemy. An instance of the latter are constraints imposed by the given lexical sense of a verb on the possibility of its use in certain aspectual meanings (progressive, praesens historicum and the like). The focal point of the paper are non-trivial, i.e. lexicalized interactions. Dictionary is the only place where such interactions can be described exhaustively, yet they are completely ignored in most authoritative explanatory dictionaries of Russian. All such interactions are broken into two large groups - paradigmatic (like the ones pointed out in (a) and (b)) and syntagmatic. In the latter group aspect turns out to be the most active grammatical category capable of multifarious interactions with a number of syntactic phenomena, especially w...ith various syntactic forms of implementing the verb's semantic actants, and also with such contextual factors as modality, negation, and parenthesis.


Add the finishing touch to your dining room table with The Caravan Trail Penzance Coasters (Set of 4). Included in this set you'll find four matching coasters, enough for the whole family to enjoy drinks together around the dinner table or perhaps the perfect gift idea for a friend.
The Penzance style of each of these coasters offers an attractive blue and white presentation. Flowers, leaves, animals and hearts make up a charming pattern that has been inspired by nature.
Co-ordinate The Caravan Trail Penzance Coasters (Set of 4) with complementing Penzance Placemats and dinnerware available in store and online at Palmerstores.com.


The NRDC Action Fund, a national environmental organization, today announced its endorsement of Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas.
O'Rourke's pro-environment voting record earned him a 100 percent score from the League of Conservation Voters in 2017. His opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R), earned a score of zero.


The register of apprenticeship training providers will open for a third time starting on Monday, FE Week can reveal, and the window will last for one month.
An email from the Department for Education said applications would "reopen for applications on Monday, 25 September".
"This reopening will close on Friday, 27 October," it continued. "This opening is open to all organisations, including those organisations that have not previously been successful.
This is the third time the register has opened for applications.
The first window ran for a month in November 2016, while the second window opened in March – just days after the first register was published.
That first register prompted shock across the sector as many established providers – including all of Birmingham's general FE colleges – failed to make it on, while large numbers of new, untested providers were successful.
Although many of those who failed first time around made it onto the second register, published in May, a number of one-man bands also made it on – including one provider with no previous experience, and no registered office address except for a semi-detached house in Birmingham.
In June, the apprenticeships and skills minister Anne Milton announced that the register would not open for new applications while the new procurement process for delivering apprenticeships to non-levy payers was open.
That process closed on September 8.


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package org.olat.course.nodes.projectbroker.service;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.olat.core.logging.OLog;
import org.olat.core.logging.Tracing;
import org.olat.course.nodes.projectbroker.datamodel.CustomField;
import org.olat.course.nodes.projectbroker.datamodel.Project;
import org.olat.course.nodes.projectbroker.datamodel.Project.EventType;
import org.olat.modules.ModuleConfiguration;

public class ProjectBrokerModuleConfiguration {
	private OLog log = Tracing.createLoggerFor(this.getClass());

	private static final String ACCEPT_SELECTION_MANUALLY  = "accept_selection_manually";
	private static final String AUTO_SIGN_OUT              = "auto_sign_out";
	private static final String NBR_PARTICIPANTS_PER_TOPIC = "nbr_participants_per_topic";
	private static final String CUSTOM_FIELDS_SIZE                = "custom_field_size";
	private static final String CUSTOM_FIELDS_NAME_               = "custom_field_name_";
	private static final String CUSTOM_FIELDS_VALUE_              = "custom_field_value_";
	private static final String CUSTOM_FIELDS_TABLE_VIEW_ENABLED_ = "custom_field_table_view_enabled_";

	private static final String TABLE_VIEW = "_table_view";

	public static final int NBR_PARTICIPANTS_UNLIMITED = -1;

	private ModuleConfiguration moduleConfiguration;

	public ProjectBrokerModuleConfiguration(ModuleConfiguration moduleConfiguration) {
		this.moduleConfiguration = moduleConfiguration;
	}

	public boolean isAcceptSelectionManually() {
		return moduleConfiguration.getBooleanSafe(ACCEPT_SELECTION_MANUALLY);
	}

	public int getNbrParticipantsPerTopic() {
		return moduleConfiguration.getIntegerSafe(NBR_PARTICIPANTS_PER_TOPIC, NBR_PARTICIPANTS_UNLIMITED);
	}

	public boolean isAutoSignOut() {
		return moduleConfiguration.getBooleanSafe(AUTO_SIGN_OUT);
	}

	public void setAcceptSelectionManaually(boolean acceptSelectionManually) {
		moduleConfiguration.setBooleanEntry(ACCEPT_SELECTION_MANUALLY, acceptSelectionManually);
	}

	public void setNbrParticipantsPerTopic(int nbrParticipantsPerTopic) {
		moduleConfiguration.setIntValue(NBR_PARTICIPANTS_PER_TOPIC, nbrParticipantsPerTopic);
	}

	public void setSelectionAutoSignOut(boolean selectionAutoSignOut) {
		moduleConfiguration.setBooleanEntry(AUTO_SIGN_OUT, selectionAutoSignOut);
	}

	public List<CustomField> getCustomFields() {
		int size = moduleConfiguration.getIntegerSafe(CUSTOM_FIELDS_SIZE,0);
		List<CustomField> customFields = new ArrayList<CustomField>();
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
			String name = (String)moduleConfiguration.get(CUSTOM_FIELDS_NAME_ + i);
			log.debug("getCustomFields " + CUSTOM_FIELDS_NAME_ + i + "=" + name);
			String value = (String)moduleConfiguration.get(CUSTOM_FIELDS_VALUE_ + i);
			log.debug("getCustomFields " + CUSTOM_FIELDS_VALUE_ + i + "=" + value);
			boolean tableViewEnabled = moduleConfiguration.getBooleanSafe(CUSTOM_FIELDS_TABLE_VIEW_ENABLED_ + i, true);
			customFields.add(new CustomField(name,value,tableViewEnabled));
		}
		return customFields;
	}

	public void setCustomFields(List<CustomField> customFields) {
		moduleConfiguration.setIntValue(CUSTOM_FIELDS_SIZE , customFields.size());
		for (int i = 0; i < customFields.size(); i++) {
			moduleConfiguration.set(CUSTOM_FIELDS_NAME_ + i, customFields.get(i).getName());
			log.debug("setCustomFields " + CUSTOM_FIELDS_NAME_ + i + "=" + customFields.get(i).getName());
			moduleConfiguration.set(CUSTOM_FIELDS_VALUE_ + i, customFields.get(i).getValue());
			log.debug("setCustomFields " + CUSTOM_FIELDS_VALUE_ + i + "=" + customFields.get(i).getValue());
			moduleConfiguration.setBooleanEntry(CUSTOM_FIELDS_TABLE_VIEW_ENABLED_ + i, customFields.get(i).isTableViewEnabled());
		}
	}

	public boolean isProjectEventEnabled(Project.EventType eventType) {
		return moduleConfiguration.getBooleanSafe(eventType.toString());
	}

	public void setProjectEventEnabled(Project.EventType eventType, boolean value) {
		moduleConfiguration.setBooleanEntry(eventType.toString(), value);
	}

	public boolean isProjectEventTableViewEnabled(EventType eventType) {
		return moduleConfiguration.getBooleanSafe(eventType.toString() + TABLE_VIEW);
	}

	public void setProjectEventTableViewEnabled(Project.EventType eventType, boolean value) {
		moduleConfiguration.setBooleanEntry(eventType.toString() + TABLE_VIEW, value);
	}

}

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So I have been looking around for a good Intellisense app for jQuery that is a lot lighter than Eclipse or Visual Studio. Sure either of those work but I have so many apps running on my work pc that I wanted something light. I've been using Notepad++ and that works good but was getting tired of having to reference jQuery for odd parts of projects and I've been trying my best to get the same effects out of jQuery that people wanted in flash. Only reason is that I think flash is like spawn of hellfire on the internet. Then after some searching I found Aptana. Looked pretty sweet, so I installed it and added the jQuery support plugin. I went to go check out the jQuery intellisense and didn't see any support for it.
I looked all over the internet and heard in their forums that people were having intermittent problems with it but they could not reproduce the issue. So I finally decided to just poke around the app and figure it out myself. In doing so I realized that there is a Global References section. In that section the jQuery support was not checked by default after the install of the plugin and creating a new project.
Here are a few images and how-to, to fix this issue and get the full extent of the Aptana software.
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