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From Riverside Theatre's production of GYPSY.
Everything is most definitely comin' up roses for fans of the great musical "Gypsy." There are overlapping productions of them in Titusville and in Vero Beach.
And why not? When it comes to American musicals with staying power, "Gypsy" is a force of nature.
The original 1959 production starred Ethel Merman, one of the biggest names in American musical theater, as Mama Rose and although it was passed over for awards, it ran for nearly two years on Broadway. This giant role has attracted big names to star in four Broadway revivals – Angela Lansbury (1974), Tyne Daly (1989), Bernadette Peters (2003) and Patti LuPone (2008). The much ballyhooed 2015 West End production is scheduled to transplant to Broadway later this year. That one will star Imelda Staunton, who was Dolores Umbridge in the 2007 movie "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."
In addition, Rosalind Russell portrayed her in a 1962 film and Bette Midler took on the role for a television adaptation in 1993.
Now, there are two productions designed to enthrall area theater patrons. One at Brevard's north county community theater, Titusville Playhouse, and another, 80 miles south, at Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach's professional theater.
TPI's production stars popular professional Orlando actor Laura Hodos as Mama Rose. Broadway performer Jacquelyn Piro Donovan will star in the Riverside production. Interestingly, both actors portrayed Fantine in "Les Miserables."
From Riverside Theatre's production of GYPSY
Based on the memoirs of the legendary Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical has book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Subtitled "A Musical Fable," the story begins at the heyday of vaudeville. Mama Rose, the quintessential stage mother, hauls her two daughters, June and Louise, through the vaudeville circuit. Soon, though, June runs off to marry and with the passing of vaudeville, Mama Rose's efforts become less profitable. Trying to make a living, Louise turns to burlesque.
The show has big musical numbers including "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "Let Me Entertain You" and the hysterical "Ya Gotta Get a Gimmick" sung by a trio of strippers.
Steven Heron, artistic director for Titusville Playhouse, chose "Gypsy" because, frankly, he wanted a big hit that women especially love.
"It's the ultimate stage mother show," he said. "I think every woman has to step into her shoes. Laura Hodos heard it described as the 'King Lear for women.' It really is."
The production's director, Alexander Nathan, said his concept was to capture that time when vaudeville was giving over to burlesque.
Laura Hodos as Rose, Danielle Irigoyen as Louise in Titusville Playhouse production of GYPSY
"It's the Depression," he said. "This is not a pretty, glamorous era. It's a gritty era."
Heron is especially pleased that that this is TPI's first production of "Gypsy."
"That's kind of cool since the Playhouse is originally a vaudeville house," he said.
Riverside Theatre brought back popular director James Brennan for its production of the musical.
"Our concept is based on the fact that show business is at the heart of all this ambition," Brennan said. "So we are in the world of theatre in the 20s and so you will see the sets changed around the actors, by the stagehands of the 20s. Our production takes place on a vaudeville stage, populated by vaudevillians, in an era when vaudeville was dying. This is its last hurrah.
"We also find ourselves in the burlesque world, because the economy was about to crash, and people had to survive as best they could."
Brennan is especially intrigued at the mother's story. Rose Hovick was mother not only to Gypsy Rose Lee but also to June Havoc, the 1940s film actress. (Yes, they were sisters.)
"The leading character is a force of nature," he said. "Rose Hovick…is a character that embodies all that is human, good and bad. She is dissatisfied with her life, haunted by disappointment, afraid of being ordinary and scarred by an unhappy childhood.
"She is also ambitious, self-sufficient, strong in her convictions and determined to get what she wants. She has a yearning for life that I envy. Her emotions run deep. And she is obnoxious. There is at least something for everyone to identify with."
Laura Hodos as Rose, Danielle Irigoyen as Louise, & the Torreadorables in Titusville Playhouse production of GYPSY
Those characters traits certainly were embodied by LuPone near the end of her show's run.
Heron was at the performance when LuPone famously stopped the show and screamed at an audience member who was trying to take a photograph of her as she began her big number, "Rose's Turn."
He described the remarkable moment like this:
The scene before "Rose's Turn" is when Rose and Gypsy (Laura Benanti) are in the dressing room. In that production, the director (Arthur Laurents) has them fighting then circling each other in silence, "…like lionesses stalking their prey," Heron said. There was a tense silence when someone's cell phone went off. Then three seconds later, it rang again. Benanti broke the scene, put her hands up to the audience and said "What the hell" and left the stage.
That moment led up to the LuPone meltdown. She was about to sing "Rose's Turn." A curtain went up behind her, revealing the orchestra and apparently encouraging an audience member to take a photo.
She halted and yelled out "Stop it! Stop taking pictures of me. You aren't allowed."
"She went on this tirade, worked herself into a tizzy, left the stage for five seconds, then stormed back on and screamed some more, two or three times," Heron said. "Finally, the usher was like 'Patti, Patti, we've removed them from the audience.'
"She looked at the audience and said 'I'll continue now for all of you who respect the art.' The stage manager came on and said 'Okay, Patti, let's start at the top of the number.' "
While neither Titusville Playhouse nor Riverside Theatre directors expect the same kind of excitement in these more genteel climes, they do expect some big, bold energy to come out of "Gypsy."
"This is such a quintessential stage business show," Nathan said. "The (big) energy is something I've tried to capture in my production."
"A theatrical saga, told in theatrical terms, by theatrical people, about theatrical people, welcoming you into their world of way-back-when," Brennan said. "Who could resist that?"
SIDE O' GRITS, TWO PLATES, PLEASE: "Gypsy" runs through March 18 at Titusville Playhouse, 301 Julia St., Titusville. Tickets are $23 to $29. Call 321-268-1125 or visit TitusvillePlayhouse.com. "Gypsy" opens March 6 and runs through March 25 at Riverside Theatre, 3250 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach. Tickets start at $35. Call 772-231-6990 or visit RiversideTheatre.com or click on their ad.
This is an edited version of a story running in Melbourne Beachsider.
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<?php

namespace Bake\Test\TestCase\Shell\Task;

use Bake\Shell\Task\BakeTemplateTask;
use Bake\Test\TestCase\TestCase;
use Cake\Core\Configure;
use Cake\Core\Plugin;

/**
 * SimpleBakeTaskTest class
 */
class SimpleBakeTaskTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * setup method
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();
        $this->_compareBasePath = Plugin::path('Bake') . 'tests' . DS . 'comparisons' . DS . 'Simple' . DS;
        $io = $this->getMock('Cake\Console\ConsoleIo', [], [], '', false);

        $this->Task = $this->getMock(
            'Bake\Shell\Task\SimpleBakeTask',
            ['in', 'err', 'createFile', '_stop', 'name', 'template', 'fileName'],
            [$io]
        );
        $this->Task->Test = $this->getMock(
            'Bake\Shell\Task\TestTask',
            [],
            [$io]
        );
        $this->Task->BakeTemplate = new BakeTemplateTask($io);
        $this->Task->BakeTemplate->initialize();
        $this->Task->BakeTemplate->interactive = false;

        $this->Task->pathFragment = 'Model/Behavior/';

        $this->Task->expects($this->any())
            ->method('name')
            ->will($this->returnValue('behavior'));

        $this->Task->expects($this->any())
            ->method('template')
            ->will($this->returnValue('Model/behavior'));

        $this->Task->expects($this->any())
            ->method('fileName')
            ->will($this->returnValue('ExampleBehavior.php'));
    }

    /**
     * Test the main method.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testMain()
    {
        $this->Task->expects($this->once())
            ->method('createFile')
            ->with(
                $this->_normalizePath(APP . 'Model/Behavior/ExampleBehavior.php'),
                $this->stringContains('class ExampleBehavior extends Behavior')
            );
        $this->Task->Test->expects($this->once())
            ->method('bake')
            ->with('behavior', 'Example');

        $this->Task->main('Example');
    }

    /**
     * Test the main with plugin.name method.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testMainWithPlugin()
    {
        Plugin::load('SimpleBakeTest', ['path' => APP . 'Plugin' . DS . 'SimpleBakeTest' . DS]);
        $filename = $this->_normalizePath(APP . 'Plugin/SimpleBakeTest/src/Model/Behavior/ExampleBehavior.php');
        $this->Task->expects($this->once())
            ->method('createFile')
            ->with(
                $filename,
                $this->stringContains('class ExampleBehavior extends Behavior')
            );
        $this->Task->Test->expects($this->once())
            ->method('bake')
            ->with('behavior', 'Example');

        $this->Task->main('SimpleBakeTest.Example');
    }

    /**
     * Test generating code.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testBake()
    {
        Configure::write('App.namespace', 'Bake\Test\App');

        $this->Task->expects($this->once())
            ->method('createFile')
            ->with(
                $this->_normalizePath(APP . 'Model/Behavior/ExampleBehavior.php'),
                $this->stringContains('class ExampleBehavior extends Behavior')
            );

        $result = $this->Task->bake('Example');
        $this->assertSameAsFile(__FUNCTION__ . '.php', $result);
    }

    /**
     * Test bakeTest
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testBakeTest()
    {
        $this->Task->plugin = 'TestBake';
        $this->Task->Test->expects($this->once())
            ->method('bake')
            ->with('behavior', 'Example');

        $this->Task->bakeTest('Example');
        $this->assertEquals($this->Task->plugin, $this->Task->Test->plugin);
    }

    /**
     * Test the no-test option.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testBakeTestNoTest()
    {
        $this->Task->params['no-test'] = true;
        $this->Task->Test->expects($this->never())
            ->method('bake');

        $result = $this->Task->bakeTest('Example');
    }

    /**
     * Test baking within a plugin.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testBakePlugin()
    {
        $this->_loadTestPlugin('TestBake');

        $path = Plugin::path('TestBake');

        $this->Task->plugin = 'TestBake';
        $this->Task->expects($this->once())
            ->method('createFile')
            ->with(
                $this->_normalizePath($path . 'src/Model/Behavior/ExampleBehavior.php'),
                $this->stringContains('class ExampleBehavior extends Behavior')
            );

        $result = $this->Task->bake('Example');
        $this->assertSameAsFile(__FUNCTION__ . '.php', $result);
    }

    /**
     * Provider for subclasses.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function subclassProvider()
    {
        return [
            ['Bake\Shell\Task\BehaviorTask'],
            ['Bake\Shell\Task\ComponentTask'],
            ['Bake\Shell\Task\HelperTask'],
            ['Bake\Shell\Task\ShellTask'],
            ['Bake\Shell\Task\FormTask'],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Test that the various implementations are sane.
     *
     * @dataProvider subclassProvider
     * @return void
     */
    public function testImplementations($class)
    {
        $io = $this->getMock('Cake\Console\ConsoleIo', [], [], '', false);
        $task = new $class($io);
        $this->assertInternalType('string', $task->name());
        $this->assertInternalType('string', $task->fileName('Example'));
        $this->assertInternalType('string', $task->template());
    }
}

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Labor Day weekend is just around the corner, and it's time to make holiday-weekend plans! If you're looking for things to do near Chula Vista, CA for Labor Day, you're in luck! The area around Millenia is full of activities and events. Use this list for inspiration on where to spend the long weekend.
The Annual Imperial Beach Arts & Crafts Expo is held at Veteran's Park, Imperial Beach. It features local arts and crafts vendors, live music, a food court, and more.
The Concert on the Green at Chula Vista Marina in South Bay features live music on September 1. It's a lovely event in Chula Vista, so come on out!
Also at Chula Vista Marina, a unique event on September 3: the Foam Party at Sunset Pavilion. It's a one-of-a-kind celebration with food and fun, and a world-record attempt at the largest game of musical chairs ever played!
Otay Ranch Town Center was already a great place to do shop and dine, but the fact that it's within walking distance of Millenia makes it even better! This open-air, pedestrian-friendly destination has more than 90 specialty stores to choose from. And if you're at the mall with kids, don't miss Popper Fountains, where they can cool off after shopping is done. The fountain is perfect for a little splashing, and it's right next to the food court, so you can grab a snack or refreshing beverage as well.
There are so many amazing farmers markets within a few minutes' drive of Millenia! Check out our list of where to find them and what to buy there: Chula Vista Farmers Markets.
The Festival of Sails is the biggest tall-ship festival on the West Coast. Hosted by Maritime Museum of San Diego, this event kicks off as over a dozen tall ships sail into San Diego Bay. The ships are best seen along the Embarcadero between Ash Street and Grape Street. The festival runs until September 4 at the Maritime Museum.
The U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge runs from August 31 to September 3 at Broadway Pier and Pavilion. Master sand sculptors come from all over the world to take part, and their work and creations are a sight to see! This event is family friendly, with kids' activities, live entertainment, and more fun.
The Pier Pressure Labor Day Weekend Super Mega Yacht Party on September 2 is a 21+ afternoon even perfect for singles and couples who want to party in style this Labor Day! This is the area's biggest yacht party, and it's guaranteed to be a blast, with a live DJ and three decks of music and dancing. Go with your S/O or with a group of friends, and see where the day takes you!
Bayside Summer Nights offers a great way to cap off a day in San Diego. The fireworks display set to a live San Diego Symphony Orchestra performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is capped by booming cannons! This special event is something you have to experience at least once. If you haven't been yet, make this your year! Bayside Summer Nights run from August 31 to September 2 at Embarcadero Marina Park South.
The Coronado Concert in the Park, on Sunday September 2, is another great option for lovers of outdoor musical events! Be in Sprekels Park in Coronado at 5 PM to see NRG, a talented group of singers and musicians who put on a fantastically entertaining show. September 2 is the last show in this year's concert season, so don't miss it!
Love the Outdoors? Go Camping!
If your family loves camping, there are some great options for Labor Day weekend camping trips in the area! Visit one of these family-oriented camps for a fun-filled weekend of outdoor activities, evening campfires and s'mores, and more!
Camp Marston offers family camping weekends throughout the year, including on Labor Day weekend. The 200-acre facility has a wide range of activities great for active kids, including archery, canoeing, hiking, paintball, and more.
How about three days in a beachside camping lodge at Camp Fox on beautiful Catalina Island? Relax in a gorgeous outdoor setting, or get active with kayaking, paddle boarding, climbing, and other fun sports. This is the perfect place to do it all!
For a truly unique experience, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park offers a twist on traditional camping. The Roar & Snore Safari is a family sleepover with a twist: It's at the zoo's Safari Park and includes a tram ride and up-close animal encounters. On Labor Day weekend, this family-friendly special event is available only on Saturday 1, so book early!
The Aloha Beach Festival is about three hours from Millenia, but a drive to Ventura is definitely worth it—especially if you book a vacation rental. This festival celebrates both Polynesian culture and the local beach community. It's a long-time Ventura tradition founded by a local legend: Twelve-time world Frisbee® champion Chipper Bell wanted to create an event that would both unite and give back to the community. It remains one of the last festivals in Southern California that's free to enter. With a wide range of family-friendly entertainment and fun, it's a hugely popular event for locals and visitors alike.
In 2018, the festival runs from September 1 to September 2. It's two days of music and dancing, delicious street food, handmade crafts vendors, surfing and Frisbee competitions, and other beach-festival staples.
A long weekend is the perfect time take a break from the hustle of daily life.
For couples who want to enjoy romantic alone time this Labor Day weekend, there are fantastic options around Chula Vista and the greater San Diego area.
You can't go wrong with a relaxing, resort-style, luxury weekend at Estancia La Jolla® Hotel & Spa. Rejuvenating massage sessions, a sumptuous menu with a Baja twist, and a good selection of amenities ensure a great time even if you never set foot off the resort. Of course, you'll want to explore La Jolla, one of the most beautiful towns on the West Coast. It has some of the best beaches in San Diego, as well as shopping, art galleries, and fantastic food.
There are a number of hotels on and around Coronado Island easily accessible to long stretches of beach with views to Cabrillo Point and the Coronado Islands. "The Del" is an iconic island landmark, with all the sun, sand, and sea you could want for a relaxing Labor Day weekend.
If the thought of spending Labor Day wine tasting in Temecula has your taste buds tingling, it's time to start planning! Just over an hour from Chula Vista, Temecula is home to dozens of wineries just waiting for you to discover them. Some popular picks include Callaway Vineyard & Winery, Danza del Sol Winery, and South Coast Winery Resort & Spa.
Rosarito Beach, which is just 10 miles south of the border. There's so much to see and do here, from shopping and spa days to camping and outdoor activities on land, sea, and air. Swim, surf, hike, horseback or camel-ride, or rappel to make your Labor Day weekend as adventurous as you want it to be!
Ensenada, Baja California's third-largest city, just 80 miles from San Diego. Located along a stunning stretch of coastline, Ensenada offers a wide range of fun activities, from adventures on land and sea to shopping, nightlife, and plenty more. Ensenada is also a great place from which to explore the wine region of the Valle de Guadalupe, which is also known for its gastronomy.
Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California's answer to our own wine country, with dozens of wineries in this part of Mexico. This region has also developed a reputation for food. Visit Laja; Corazόn de Tierra; or Deckman's en el Mogor, with its own resident Michelin-starred chef.
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Rather than business-as-usual, 2018 is going to see a flight, not to safety, but potentially, to a more fertile land for software providers: the land of the gig economy. This is where the growth is in our broader economy – Uber drivers, food service delivery like Deliveroo, Foodora, Menulog and Uber Eats, and media contractors like journalists, graphic designers, writers as well as armies of parcel delivery operators thanks to the arrival of Amazon. Microbusiness, often seen as the poor cousins to SMBs are the new potential land grab for software providers, as well as accounting and bookkeeping firms. How are the professionals responding to the massive opportunity?
Look around at your colleagues, friends, new graduates and you'll see a significant portion going into self-employment. Indeed the self-employed market is growing exponentially. And wherever you look you will find automated payment systems that are distributed to the contractor by some form of accounting technology.
Look too at recently retired or retrenched people and you will probably find a significant portion there who are seeking some form of self-employment. And that includes bookkeepers where there is a trend of more practitioners going solo.
A recent survey out of Stanford University revealed a majority of graduate students from engineering and IT seeking self-employment, either through a start-up or as an independent, self-employment professional.
The start-up economy is being further boosted both here and internationally through more democratic fund-raising mechanisms including crowd-funding, which has gained legislative approval in many countries.
Speak to any start-up founder or small business owner, and, irrespective of age, the founder-owner has no desire to spend time doing the books. They need interpretation of the data. This however, will not stop the relentless drive by accounting software providers to swarm into this space with compelling offers and benefits.
The land grab is a place for competitive tension like we have never seen before. Already bookkeeping firms are succumbing and selling themselves into accounting firms (with nil goodwill component) but the desire for independence remains strong. A new mindset is needed for this year and beyond.
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text:
namespace :api_docs_external_git do
  def color
    SSHKit::Color.new(Struct.new(:tty?).new(true))
  end

  def print_message message
    SSHKit.config.output << SSHKit::LogMessage.new(Logger::INFO, "[#{color.colorize("unknown", :green)}] #{message}")
  end

  set :doc_git_repository, nil
  set :doc_repository_name, "api-docs"
  set :rails_root, Pathname.new(Dir.pwd)
  set :rails_root_tmp_path, fetch(:rails_root).join("tmp")
  # You should set with ApiDocs.config.docs_path
  set :api_docs_path, fetch(:rails_root).join("doc", "api")

  task :setup do
    print_message "Updating API documentation"
    invoke :'api_docs_external_git:clone_repo'
    invoke :'api_docs_external_git:copy_files'
    invoke :'api_docs_external_git:add_files_git'
    invoke :'api_docs_external_git:remove_files'
  end

  desc 'Clone documentation repository to tmp folder'
  task :clone_repo do
    print_message "Cloning #{fetch(:doc_git_repository)} for temporary folder"
    @git_repo = Git.clone(fetch(:doc_git_repository), fetch(:doc_repository_name), path: fetch(:rails_root_tmp_path))
  end

  desc 'Copy documentation files from local respository to documentation repository'
  task :copy_files do
    files = Dir.glob(fetch(:api_docs_path).join('*.{yml,md}'))
    destination_folder = fetch(:rails_root_tmp_path).join(fetch(:doc_repository_name), fetch(:api_docs_path).relative_path_from(fetch(:rails_root))).join(fetch(:application))

    FileUtils.rm_r destination_folder, force: true

    print_message "Copying documentation files"
    FileUtils.mkdir_p destination_folder
    FileUtils.cp_r files, destination_folder
  end

  desc 'Remove documentation repository'
  task :remove_files do
    print_message "Removing documentation repository"
    FileUtils.rm_r fetch(:rails_root_tmp_path).join(fetch(:doc_repository_name))
  end

  desc 'Add files to documentation git'
  task :add_files_git do
    print_message "Saving documentation files on git repository"

    @git_repo.add(all: true)
    begin
      @git_repo.commit_all('Automatic add documentation')
      @git_repo.push
    rescue Git::GitExecuteError => e
      invoke :'api_docs_external_git:remove_files'
      raise e unless e.message.include?("nothing to commit")
    end
  end

  before 'deploy:finishing', 'api_docs_external_git:setup'
end


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Q: error visualStudio y sql conexión
No se encontraron recursos adecuados para la referencia cultural
especificada o para la referencia cultural neutra. Compruebe si
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Providers.SqlServer.SqlViewSupport.xml"
se ha incrustado o vinculado  correctamente en el ensamblado
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Providers.SqlServer" durante el tiempo de
compilación o que todos los ensamblados satélite requeridos pueden
cargarse y están completamente firmados.

A: La respuesta la encontré aquí, me funcionó ya que tenía el mismo problema.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Could-not-find-any-resources-appropriate/1505966#T-N1506125
Descargas el archivo zip y lo copias reemplazando los actuales en la siguiente ruta:
(Para mi es la versión professional)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE
Saludos

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Ben says one of our Covenant mottos is, "Don't be mean." I really like that in a church. There are more Scriptural-sounding ways to say the same thing, but something about stripping wisdom of its religious jargon seems to keep us more honest.
Trying to rush something at Covenant Baptist Church is like trying to sprint in waist-deep water. It doesn't work. Every time we think about cranking it up, some invisible force slows us.
They tell me that when they built this building, they plotted its location just so, where as few trees as possible would have to come down. To this day, there are trees in the middle of the parking lot because no one wanted to take them out.
Dying. I've been thinking a lot lately about dying. How things die and people too. Dreams die. Traditions die. The roles we've played die. Marriages, friendships, partnerships, institutions, buildings. So many things pass away.
Imagine that you are 92 years old looking back on your life, trying to determine whether or not you have lived. Imagine there is one thing you did, or one thing you had, or one thing you were, that lets you know: yes, you lived and you can rest in peace.
Dream with me. Let's say, you are a Christian. But you are sometimes embarrassed by this. Those other Christians have given you a bad reputation, you feel.
Imagine your ears are a plot of land in the countryside. Imagine everything you hear with them is seed with the potential to sprout. Imagine all seed is good seed.


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2020 CAS Announces Fourth Annual What Drives Her Luncheon
FOURTH ANNUAL WHAT DRIVES HER LUNCHEON
CHICAGO (Dec. 23, 2019) - In partnership with A Girls Guide to Cars and Women in Automotive, the fourth annual What Drives Her Luncheon is during the Chicago Auto Show's Social Media Preview on Friday, Feb. 7 at McCormick Place. Influential women will be invited to come together for a robust lineup of presentations and panel discussions surrounding the impact that females have on the automotive industry, with a special focus on hiring and recruiting female leadership.
"During the 2019 program, we brought two really important conversations to the stage," said Scotty Reiss, founder of A Girls Guide to Cars. "Our mission is to inspire the women out there to see the opportunities ahead; not only for themselves, but for other women who want to find a role in the automotive industry."
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Our Young Explorers return back to Château-d'oex after a very strenuous two days of the Pangaea Raid.
The Young Explorers, divided into three teams, raced each other as they tackled a mountain of challenges set before them. Three experienced Swiss guides, Fred Roux, Claude-Alain Gailland and Ewan Lelann accompanied them as they trekked high in altitude, climbed treetops, surmounted nearly impassable walls, flew down flying foxes, kayaked and abseiled in the canyons.
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The names of the 11 mostinfluential cinematographers of all time as voted by members of theInternational Cinematographers Guild (ICG) will be unveiled on a 'wall offame' at the opening of the ICG's new national headquarters inHollywood on Nov 8.
Billy Bitzer, JordanCronenweth, Conrad L Hall, James Wong Howe, Sven Nykvist, Vittorio Storaro,Gregg Toland, Haskell Wexler, Gordon Willis, Freddie Young and Vilmos Zsigmondwon the most votes during a recent survey.
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What Is Balance In Art?
The general proportion of visual weight in a piece is referred to as balance. A well-balanced composition is pleasing to the eye. Each visual element of artwork carries a certain amount of visual weight. Visual weight, unlike actual weight, cannot be calculated and the results must instead be viewed.
The visual weight of the artwork is balanced around its axis. When the axis is vertical, visual elements on both sides of the axis are balanced. Visual elements may also be balanced from top to bottom in artworks that balance around a horizontal axis.
WHAT IS VARIETY IN ART?
What does the term "balance" signify in the context of art?
The visual weight of forms, colors, texture, and space is distributed in balance. These elements should be balanced if the design is a scale to make it feel stable. Within the work of art, such movement might be guided along lines, edges, shape, and color.
How is balance important in art?
Balance is something that most artists aim for when creating their work. A balanced work appears steady, helps the viewer feel at ease, and is attractive to the eye since the visual weight is dispersed evenly across the composition.
Unbalanced art appears unstable, produces tension, and makes the viewer uncomfortable. Balance is a crucial aspect to remember because it conveys a lot about a piece of art and can contribute to the overall impression, making a composition energetic and alive or restful and quiet.
How the elements of art influence balance?
Artists take note that certain components and characteristics have more visual weight than others when making artwork. Although each composition is unique, and pieces within a piece always behave with one another, the following criteria apply in general.
Colors have three primary qualities that influence their visual weight: value, saturation, and hue. Transparency might also be a factor. Darker colors appear to have a larger visual weight than lighter ones. Visually, black is the darkest color and has the heaviest weight, whereas white is the lightest color and has the lightest weight.
Nevertheless, the size of the form is also important. A shorter, darker shape, for instance, can be balanced by a bigger, lighter shape.
Color saturation: More intense Colors tend to be heavier than colors that are more neutral (duller). When a color is mixed with its counterpart on the color wheel, it becomes less vivid.
Shape in balance
Greater complex shapes (trapezoids, hexagons, and pentagons) have more visual weight than simpler shapes squares, circles, and ovals. The scale of the shape is critical; larger shapes appear to be heavier than smaller shapes, but a collection of little shapes might visually match the weight of a large shape.
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF FINE ARTS
What are the types of balance in art?
Balance is divided into three types: symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial.
Symmetrical balance
Symmetry is a technical balance in which two parts of the artwork are mirror images of one another. This form of equilibrium is very prevalent. The human body, like our planet, cars, clothes, and furniture, is symmetrically balanced. Both the composition and the subject are given a solid sense of order and stability through symmetry.
Formal balance is a term used to describe symmetrical balance. Symmetrical arrangement achieves left-to-right balance, but vertical balance is equally crucial. When an artist overemphasizes either the top or bottom section of a composition, it might throw off the artwork's coherency and consistency. When feelings of order, formality, logic, and stability are desired, symmetrical balance is typically used in educational architecture and religious and secular art.
Asymmetric balance
Asymmetry is more casual and unorganized than symmetry. The two halves of a balanced asymmetric artwork do not appear to be identical, but their visual weights are similar. Both symmetry and radial symmetry are more objective than asymmetric balancing. In comparison to perfectly balanced designs, asymmetry provides for more variety in the composition.
It achieves the same "comfortable" effect as symmetry without requiring the use of like pieces on opposite sides of a central axis. Asymmetric balance is preferred by many artists because it is less rigid and more natural than symmetric balance. While symmetry demonstrates the artist's goal to create a visually balanced image, uneven balance demands design and effort. In comparison to symmetrical balance, asymmetrical balance is less formal and more dynamic. It may appear to be less formal, yet it demands meticulous planning.
Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" is an example of asymmetrical balance (1889). The bright circle of the moon in the top right corner optically counterbalances the dark triangular shape of the trees that visually anchor the painting's left side.
Radial balance
Radial balance is a symmetry that exists in several planes. Radially balanced designs are frequently circular. Squares, hexagons, octagons, stars, and other shapes give themselves to radial symmetry as well. Radial symmetry is a type of symmetrical balance in which the components are evenly distributed around a central point, such as the spokes of a wheel or the waves created when a stone is dropped in a pond.
Radial symmetry has a considerable focus point. Radial symmetry can be seen in many places in nature, including tulip petals, dandelion seeds, and some marine life, such as jellyfish. It can also be found in religious art and sacred geometry.
WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL ART?
What does formal balance mean in art?
Symmetrical balance, also known as formal balance, is an anesthetic notion that involves equal weight and significance on all sides of a constituent.
What does radial balance mean in art?
The scope of elements around a center point is referred to as radial balance. When each element has an equal perceived weight, radial symmetry is achieved. The attention to detail and the way the shapes flow into one another make the composition new and intriguing, although it is symmetrical.
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN ART
Balance art examples
Examples of asymmetrical balance in art
Alexander Calder, Mobile
Yinka Shonibare, Dysfunctional Family
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Paul Strand, Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
Examples of radial balance in art
Charger of Charles II in the Boscobel Oak
Melozzo da Forlì, St. Mark's Sacristy
Examples of symmetrical balance in art
Precolumbian, Presentation of Captives to a Maya Ruler
John Singer Sargent, El Jaleo
American 19th Century, Cutout of Animals
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
Judith Leyster, A Boy and Girl with a Cat and an Eel
Why is design balance so important?
The visual weight is uniformly distributed with symmetrical balance. The visual balance would be distributed evenly if you drew a straight line thru the middle of the design in either direction. This gives the composition a more steady and tidy appearance.
WHAT ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF RENAISSANCE ART?
What is crystallographic balance, and what does it mean?
A vast number of elements are given equal weight in crystallographic (or mosaic) balance. The outcome is a type of balanced chaos in which numerous different pieces merge to form a coherent whole, rather than a precisely symmetrical pattern.
Because the eye can't find a single focal point on a crystallographic image, the observer is fooled into viewing the image as a balanced whole, although it contains a plethora of disparate and random pieces.
What Is crystallographic balance and how so I use it?
By crowding the layout with varied aspects, you can promote mosaic equilibrium in your designs and images. The eye will be able to detect individual elements in sparse layouts, reducing the impression. Consider the works of Jackson Pollack. Even though his art is chaotic and different, the overall impact is one of serenity and uniformity.
To produce a crystallographic effect, use different or similar elements and repeat them. Because these images are typically perceived as background noise by the human eye, they perform well as backgrounds and backdrops for more prominent designs or typography.
You can also use scale and proportion to your advantage. When used in a crowded mosaic pattern, slightly bigger pieces will not overpower smaller ones. In reality, a clever mix of disparately sized pieces can make an image appear more appealing and natural. You may also pick a color scheme that is similar to or complementary to the mosaic images to bring them together and make them feel even more balanced.
In a composition, how do you express balance?
To balance a composition, positive elements and negative space must be arranged in such a way that no one section of the design dominates the others. Everything works together and blends into a unified whole. Individual pieces contribute to the whole, but they don't attempt to be the whole.
CHARACTERISTICS OF MINIMALIST ART
How to Make Art That Is Balanced
The four variables that influence a composition's balance are listed below. Although the list of balancing forces that follow is not extensive, it might serve as a starting point for researching balance in your creativity.
When all else is equal, larger items have more visual weight than smaller objects. If two things of different sizes must be balanced, the smaller one will require an increase in apparent weight. Additional smaller objects or plenty of negative space around the object could provide this visual weight.
Use of color
Bright colors appear to be heavier than drab colors. Furthermore, if two colors have similar intensities, the warmer of the two has more visual weight.
The two-dimensional arrangement of visual components is influenced by our real-world experiences with weight and physics in at least one way.
Pattern and texture
In painting, texture and pattern are similar notions. Each is characterized by regular contrast shifts, which are usually achieved through the use of value (the lightness or darkness of a color). Visual weight is added by texture and pattern. In art, you can adjust the balancing forces by increasing or decreasing the amount of texture and pattern in a certain location. With a little area of pattern/texture, a huge area of smooth, even values will balance.
WHAT DOES MUSEUM QUALITY MEAN?
What role do textures have in art balance?
A form or shape that lacks texture appears to be lighter in weight than one that has. In most cases, the texture is combined with other elements of art. A texture made up of tighter lines or densely drawn lines will appear heavier than one made up of open lines. Dark colors or a complicated appearance will be heavier than a plain appearance.
In art, what is the symmetrical balance?
When design elements on the left side of an image mirror design elements on the right side, or when the top of the composition mirrors the bottom of the composition, this is known as symmetrical balance.
Symmetrical balance example
The proportion of a Human by Leonardo da Vinci. Once divided in half along the central axis, the objects on the two sides would precisely match each other, as if reflected by a mirror.
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ABSTRACT ART


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You're probably all over the fact we shouldn't be using products with BPA in it right? If you're not sure why, its because BPA is an endocrine disruptor. That is to say, BPA is a chemical that interferes with the function of our hormones and has been linked to increased risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.
You're probably already using BPA free plastics and tinned goods from the supermarket, but did you know there are some sneaky sources of BPA in circulation that you can easily rid yourself of?
Plastic coffee cup lids! The heat from the coffee softens the plastic and you guessed it, BPA leaches into the coffee with every sip. What a great excuse to drink your coffee at the cafe in a real mug. (Come on! 10 minutes out of your day won't kill you!). Or if you really must drink on the go, take your reusable cup with you. If you forget to pack it, just say "No Thanks" to a plastic lid (and walk away REALLY carefully).
Thermal receipts. Yep every time you get a thermally printed receipt there it is again. BPA. So if you don't need that receipt another polite "No Thanks" is a great way to skip the exposure. And you will be doing the cashier a favour too. Same at the ATM, skip those too.
Err, cask wine…Yep sorry. The plastic lining leaches BPA into your wine. What a great excuse to buy a lovely bottle of organic wine next time you are at the bottle shop.
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Where have you gone my peace? All I've carried, all I've lost; Only you I miss. This is part of the "Juxtaposition" project of artists inspiring poets and poets inspiring artists. This painting was an interpretation of the haiku above.


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US takes new action on some Chinese exports, citing forced labor
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By VICTOR ORDONEZ, ABC News
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration implemented new economic pressure on China over alleged human rights abuses Wednesday — banning imports from a cotton distributor based in Xinjiang province.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Trade announced a withhold release order against cotton products made by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps based on information that "reasonably indicates" the use of forced labor, including convict labor.
"Be careful buying gifts this holiday season," said DHS acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli. "'Made in China' is not just a country of origin, it is a warning label."
Cotton is Xinjiang's largest export and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps accounts for 17% of those exports — making this potentially the most impactful of the six past withhold release orders CBP has issued over the past month.
"You're looking at potentially billions of dollars," Cuccinelli said at a press conference Wednesday.
The six enforcement actions that CBP announced in the past three months cite goods made by forced labor from China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
"China's systemic abuse of forced labor in the Xinjiang Region should disturb every American business and consumer," said CBP acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan. "Forced labor is a human rights violation that hurts vulnerable workers and introduces unfair competition into global supply chains. CBP will continue taking decisive action to prevent goods made with forced labor from entering the United States."
CBP officials estimate that somewhere between 1 million to 3 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and others are being detained in what U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has dubbed "internment camps" throughout China's Xinjiang province. There are about 1,300 of these facilities scattered throughout the region and they've allegedly forced detainees to work without compensation in nearby factories, according to those same officials.
ABC News has reached out to XPCC for comment.
CBP officials would not disclose whether they've identified American companies that used this company's cotton, but urged both American and international companies to investigate their own ties to the Xinjiang region.
"We believe the bigger impact is the cooperative impact by American and international businesses who care about their reputations and who care about the quality of their products to police their own supply chains and to extricate themselves from doing business with XPCC and in the Xinjiang region more generally," said Morgan.
However, Morgan added that any company, "American or otherwise," caught engaging in trade with suspicious actors in Xinjiang could be subject to similar penalties.
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The women's qualification process in the NORCECA Confederation will take place over three rounds including first round AFECAVOL, CAZOVA and ECVA zonal qualification tournaments in 2016. USA qualify automatically for the final round in Japan as the reigning women's world champions and will be joined by six other teams from the NORCECA Confederation.
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Five pools make up the first round of the qualification process for Asian men's teams. And again the best teams will progress to the second round to be played in 2017. Four Asian men's teams will qualify for the Men's World Championship in 2018.
In South America, 2015 South American champions Brazil are qualified for the Women's World Championship in 2018. They will be joined by one team following a South American qualification tournament to be confirmed. The same is true for the men's teams, where 2015 South American champions Brazil will be joined by one other South America country following a qualification tournament to be confirmed.
Finally, two women's teams and three men's teams will qualify for the 2018 World Championships from the African continent. The details of the qualification process will be announced in due course.


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Heather Graeme
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Heather, a licensed massage therapist since 2003, is owner of the Therapeutic Massage Center where she and her team specialize in soft tissue pain. An educator at heart, she has been teaching at the Cortiva Institute since 2011 and recently has begun developing curriculum for continuing education of licensed massage therapists throughout the United States. She is passionate about the body, mind, and soul connection and the way it manifests in the physical world.
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Comencen la seva feina durant la nit i l'acaben a la matinada; bàsicament assisteixen a banquets i festes d'homes de negocis (el preu per contractar una geisha és molt elevat, uns 800 € l'hora) i amb la seva conversa i el seu domini de gairebé tots els temes alegren els llocs on assisteixen. Una maiko és una aprenent de geisha.

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OHSU resident alum, cardiac arrest survivor focuses on better patient outcomes
Only 10% of patients who experience sudden cardiac arrest survive, and for those who experience it out of the hospital, the survival rate is less than 6%. Improving this outcome has become the focus of emergency department physician and OHSU School of Medicine assistant professor and residency program alum Joshua Lupton, M.D., M.P.H., R. '20. His stake in improving outcomes is personal: Lupton is one of the less than 6% who survived.
Near the end of his third year of medical school, Lupton and his then-fiancée, now-wife, Katherine Lupton, had been training to run in a half-marathon competition. On the day of the race, Lupton was nearing mile 13.
"The finish line was finally in sight," he said. "I was eager to get there, enjoy my post-race beer and spend the rest of my weekend away from the hospital, relaxing."
Lupton's next memory is waking up in the Johns Hopkins ICU, the same hospital where he had been studying as a medical student. He suffered from short-term memory loss when he woke and repeatedly asked his fiancée to tell and retell the painful story.
"The first 48 hours, I'm re-asking the same questions over and over again," he said. "She had to tell me probably 50 times, 'You were running this race, then you collapsed, you had cardiac arrest, they did CPR and you were flown by helicopter. Now you're here, you were intubated and you're in the ICU.'"
As a medical student, Lupton understood that if one link in that chain had been missing, he likely would not have survived and recovered. A series of tests revealed no structural problems with his heart. But an abnormality in his electrocardiogram indicated his attack may have been caused by an inherited electrical problem.
"I'm from Oregon, and my hope is that OHSU becomes the world leader in cardiac arrest research and that we develop data that will improve outcomes."
Joshua Lupton
Within a few days of his collapse, Lupton had surgery to insert an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, which nearly eliminates the risk of dying from another incident. He experienced a complete recovery from his cardiac arrest and was able to finish his studies and graduate the following year with an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. A native Oregonian, Lupton was thrilled to return to the Pacific Northwest and complete his residency in emergency medicine at OHSU.
"It really solidified that I wanted to focus on emergency medicine as a specialty, and that my area of research was going to be cardiac arrest, and in particular, the early care of cardiac arrest patients," he said.
In the years following his cardiac arrest, Lupton and his wife, who has vivid memories of witnessing her husband's collapse, realized there was a need for a support group for survivors, as well as their loved ones. They reached out to a national survivors' group, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, and together helped to found the first statewide affiliate.
Their Oregon affiliate group was formed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, so their meetings have all been virtual. Meeting online has enabled them to welcome survivors and their loved ones from throughout Oregon as well as from Washington, California, Utah and Nevada.
"People have joined our virtual meet-ups from all areas because there's a need for this sort of post-survivor kind of care," Lupton said.
At OHSU, Lupton relies on his personal experience as well as his research in early care of cardiac arrest patients to share insights with students, residents, fellows and specialists.
"I try to empower our emergency medicine residents to be experts within this disease process and advocate for patients in an evidence-based way," he said. "A lot of evidence suggests that we're a little too early to withdraw care for cardiac arrest patients. Using my story along with the research can help shift the narrative for those patients."
Lupton's research is focused on optimizing early care for cardiac arrest patients and testing current practices. Some of the areas he is interested in exploring include whether defibrillator pads are currently applied in the best way, whether police officers carrying automated external defibrillators should be more heavily utilized in cardiac emergencies and whether physicians should adjust the order in which drugs are currently administered to cardiac arrest patients. He asks, "Once someone has the arrest, what is the best way to administer care and resuscitation in order to make them a survivor?"
As a proud alum, Lupton says, "I'm from Oregon, and my hope is that OHSU becomes the world leader in cardiac arrest research and that we develop data that will improve outcomes." He is passionate about making OHSU a cardiac arrest center with dedicated teams focused on cardiac arrest patients and care, including follow-up care after patients are discharged.
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Support Dr. Lupton's research through the Emergency Medicine Research Fund
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I CANNOT GIVE YOU MY FOREST
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'I cannot give you my Forest' is a modern day rendition of the David and Goliath story, played out in an Orwellian setting. The film is an intimate poetic window into the lives of th.....readmore
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BHAGYALE BACHEKAHARU (NEPAL EARTHQUAKE: HEROES, SURVIVORS AND MIRACLES)
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On 25 April 2015 at 11:56 local time, a devastating (7.8) earthquake struck Nepal with an epicenter in Barpak, a village of Gorkha district (144 km northwest) of Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal left 9,000 (More than half were female) dead, ma.....readmore
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Hà Nội ensures adequate water supply during summer
Workers at Đuống River surface water plant in Gia Lâm District. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Khánh
HÀ NỘI – People living in the capital city of Hà Nội will not suffer shortages of clean water this summer when four water supply projects are completed, according to Hà Nội Construction Department.
Lê Văn Dục, the department's director, said four water supply projects had been put into operation, raising the city's supply capacity to 1.37 million cubic metres a day.
During the summer of 2019, the city's water demand is expected to be 1.1 million cubic metres per day, while the supply capacity is 1.2 million cubic metres per day.
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"Unplanned incidents or pipeline maintenance may leave people without water for only one day. However, the shortage of water may occur in some urban areas that have just been put into use as the water supply system has not been invested synchronously," Dục said.
During a recent online meeting of the People's Council and Hà Nội City People's Committee with leaders of districts and towns, Secretary of Hà Nội City Party Committee Hoàng Trung Hải, said the clean water supply for Hanoians had increased significantly in recent years with the water supply rate in the urban area maintained at approximately 100 per cent while that rate in rural areas had climbed from 50 per cent to 57 per cent.
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He also said water projects in the city were progressing slowly while it had been difficult to call for investment in a water supply network in rural areas.
In order to ensure water supply during the summer, the city People's Committee also required clean water companies to inspect and take specific solutions to tackle incidents.
So far, the capital city has approved 34 clean water supply projects, which are expected to increase the access to clean water in rural communes to 94 per cent once they are fully operational.
By the end of this year, five water plants are expected to be completed, raising the total capacity by 525,000 cubic metres a day and the rate of rural residents with access to clean water to 73-75 per cent.
During the meeting, the leader of the Construction Department also said in the first six months of this year, the city had removed four more flooding black spots.
The city would implement many solutions and continue to upgrade the drainage system operation centre to handle low-lying points on main roads when heavy rains occur. — VNS


WHEN AN OPPONENT COMES FORWARD, MOVE IN AND GREET HIM; IF HE WANTS TO PULL BACK, SEND HIM ON HIS WAY.
Platte City Aikikai is a dojo located in Platte City, Missouri that focuses on a martial art known as Aikido. Aikido is a Japenese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba(O-Sensei) and is rooted in the Japanese Samurai warrior traditions along with Ueshiba's study of Daito-Ryu jujitsu. Aikido replaces the maiming and destruction of classic jujitsu with control and compassion through blending with the motion of an attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it directly, which is great for younger students learning their first martial art. This results in very little need for physical strength, as the Aikidoka "leads" the attacker's momentum using entering and turning movements. This is great for all ages and abilities as students focus on balance and control instead of the reliance of strength. The techniques are completed with various projection or immobilization arts to diffuse the situation rather than destroy the opponent.
"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace."
The Platte County Community Centers, operated by the YMCA of Greater Kansas City is located just a short distance south of exit 18 from I-29 N/US-71 N or I-29 S/US-71 S.