Oct 23
2011

EVANSVILLE –
A new traveling exhibit at the Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville gives children a chance to try their hand at fishing, building campfires and rock climbing.

On Monday, the Downtown museum, popularly known as cMoe, officially opened Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl Home Sweet Home, an exhibit that focuses on the outdoors and environmental themes in both natural and urban areas.

Created by the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum in Milwaukee, Wis., the exhibit is in Evansville through Jan. 29.

The Smokey/Woodsy exhibit is the largest traveling exhibit that cMoe has hosted since the museum opened five years ago.

Stephanie Terry, the museum’s executive director, said traveling exhibits are important for any museum because they can help lure both new and repeat visitors.

“A lot of times a visitor comes and they really won’t come back because they don’t see anything new here,” Terry said.

One challenge that museums face: Hosting a traveling exhibit is not cheap.

Vectren recently gave cMoe a $50,000 grant. Of that amount, $25,000 pays the rental fee for the Smokey/Woodsy exhibit.

Vectren Foundation President Jeff Whiteside said Vectren was pleased to sponsor the exhibit because it fits in with the company’s environmental stewardship efforts.

Terry said Alcoa also gave cMoe a $20,000 grant, and a portion of that money will cover transportation costs for schools that bring student groups on museum field trips.

The exhibit incorporates forest pals Smokey and Woodsy into a range of hands-on activities for children ages 2 to 8.

Visitors, for instance, can climb into a miniature rowboat and grab a fishing pole in hopes of catching a fabric-covered fish.

They can also put on a puppet show featuring Smokey and other forest creatures, listen to radio messages in a fire tower and explore a kitchen stocked with cans, bottles and other recyclable materials.

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Oct 22
2011

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Oct 22
2011

New York (CNN) — If all goes as planned, performance artist Marni Kotak will give birth to her first child within the month — in front of an audience at a Brooklyn art gallery.

Kotak calls most of her work, found performances because it is based on daily experience. In past work she has re-enacted: her own birth, losing her virginity in a blue Plymouth, and the dark aspects of her first marriage. She has also collaborated with her new husband, artist Jason Robert Bell, in a performance piece called The Wedding.

In my work, I aim to convey my real experience of life, while simultaneously engaging in authentic shared moments with my viewers who have likely gone through similar or related events, Kotak says on her website.

Microscope Gallery in Brooklyns Bushwick neighborhood hosts Kotaks latest venture titled The Birth of Baby X. On Saturday, she converted the gallery into a birthing room, bringing in her grandmothers bed and her old rocking chair, so through the month, she can be in the gallery preparing mentally and physically to have her child, according to Kotak.

The exhibit also includes You are My Baby, first performed at Staten Islands Lumen Festival in June, in which Kotak filmed her audience and projected their faces onto her pregnant stomach.

Sculptures and personal artworks by Bell, are also on display, according the gallery.

Remnants from the final days of pregnancy and the birth will be added to the exhibition as it progresses, says the gallery website.

The exhibit was coordinated around Kotakss due date, and the gallery asks visitors to be prepared to witness a live birth. When the time comes, Kotak will have the aid of her husband, a midwife, and a doula as she delivers the baby.

And this is only the beginning for Baby X. This months exhibit launches Kotaks new conceptual work, Raising Baby X, in which Kotak re-contextualizes the everyday act of raising a child into a work of performance art, says the gallery.

The long-term project will ultimately encompass the overall span of the childs life from birth through attending college and developing an independent life, says Kotak.

I believe that our most intriguing performances occur when we are not aware that we are performing. It is only in these moments that we are capable of transcending the issues of spectacle that have come to dominate performance art and much of contemporary culture.

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Oct 21
2011

On a warm, clear Sunday afternoon, many New Yorkers looked up and saw not a cloud in the sky — except for the ones that were talking to them.

Just after 4 pm, a plane began skywriting short phrases over the Hudson River and the West Side of Manhattan as part of an art project, called “The Sky Is The Limit/NYC.”

Some of the idioms were a bit daunting. “Lost Our Lease” read the first batch of fluffy clouds. “Last Chance,” puffed the next (though for what, it did not say). The third, “Now Open,” was somewhat sunnier.

Kim Beck, the artist behind this chatty skyscape and an associate professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, explained that these phrases were taken from the kind of sign you might see hanging in the window of a store, especially in this economic climate.

Theyre advertising messages that are no longer advertising anything specific, Ms. Beck said. Lost Our Lease can speak to the feeling of being exhausted, and Last Chance is everything coming to an end. Now Open means something else as well.

The project, sponsored by the Friends of the High Line, lasted about two hours from start to finish and prompted a flurry of questions on Twitter. Some wondered if it was an advertisement, or a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A few people remarked that the clear blue sky and so many people with their eyes fixed overhead reminded them of Sept. 11.

On the street, Ms. Beck said, people turned to one another and tried to sound out the words together. That moment of community, she said, and the arch of those phrases, ending with Now Open, is a nod toward hope in difficult times.

We dont really know whats happening in our economy, Ms. Beck said. Im hoping theres an optimism in that final text, and that it comes together as a bit of a narrative. Thats my hope; to think positive.

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Oct 20
2011

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Oct 20
2011

    FORSYTH — The county board of adjustment will hear a total
of six appeals on a $250 million racetrack project during its
meeting next month.

    The project in question is the Branson Motorplex, a 65,000-seat
racing stadium and adjacent road course planned near the
intersection of US 65 and Missouri 86. The applicants are
Hollister businessman Russell Cook and the company he co-founded,
Branson Sports Entertainment Complex.

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Oct 20
2011

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Oct 19
2011

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct 11, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) –
Armada Sports & Entertainment, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DoMark International, Inc.,

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, announced today that it has reached an agreement with CBS Sports to broadcast its four (4) Million Dollar Invitationals in the fall and winter of 2012 and 2013.

2012 Million Dollar Invitational event dates are:

Half Moon Bay, California July 30-August 4, 2012
Glasgow, Scotland September 3-8, 2012
Orlando, Florida October 2-6, 2012
Rose Hall, Jamaica November 26–December 1, 2012

CBS will broadcast the events on Saturday afternoons in the fall-winter of 2012. Broadcast dates are to be determined.

The Million Dollar Invitationals are a series of four golf events known as The Golf Championships, which culminate in a nine hole shootout format. 10 players, who have previously qualified, tee off together on the 10th tee. One player is eliminated every hole, until there are only two players remaining on the last hole. The winner takes home $1 million. The total nine hole shootout purse for the ten finalists is $1.5 million. Along the way to the finals, other competitors vying for the top ten spots for the shootout compete for a total purse of $3.58 Million making the total purse for each Million Dollar Invitational $5,080,000. In addition, Celebrity Golf Challenge team events and nine hole shootouts and, the World Putting Tour Championships are taking place at the same time at the event sites, with prize money for the top celebrities and the best putters. More information on The Golf Championships and Million Dollar Invitationals can be found at
www.thegolfchampionships.com .

About Armada Sports & Entertainment, Inc.

Armada is a sports marketing company engaged in owning, developing and conducting made for television sports & entertainment events. Armada currently owns The Golf Championships, a series of unique competitions in the sport, known as The Million Dollar Invitationals, The World Putting Tour Championships, and the Celebrity Challenges. The events will be televised on CBS Sports for two years beginning in the fall-winter of 2012. More Information is available at
www.TheGolfChampionships.com

Armada Sports & Entertainment, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of DoMark International, Inc.

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Forward-Looking Statements. Certain of the above statements contained in this press release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Actual results, events and circumstances (including future performance, results and trends) could differ materially from those set forth in such statements due to various factors, risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, risks associated with the company's future growth and operating results, the uncertainty of market acceptance of the company's business plan, competitive factors and general economic conditions. DoMark International, Inc. has no duty and undertakes no obligation to update such statements.

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CONTACT: R. Thomas Kidd
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Oct 17
2011

Its understandable that many people who buy a digital SLR would not want imperfect photos. Why spend all that money just to get out-of-focus, soft shots? Well, sometimes, its just fun to think about your photography in a different way. And thats where the Digital Holga lens comes in.

The base Holga lens is just a simple plastic lens with an effective aperture of f8 and a focal length roughly equivalent to 60mm with a manual zone focus. (Its based on the lens design from the plastic Holga film cameras.) The Kitchen Sink kit I tested–available for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, and Olympus digital SLRs–included this base lens, three close-up, two macro, fish-eye, 2.5x telephoto, and wide-angle lenses. All of these additional lenses just slide onto the front of the base lens.

Since youre attaching the base lens to a digital SLR or interchangeable lens compact camera (lenses for Olympus PEN, Panasonic Lumix G, Sony NEX, and Samsung NX are available), youre not going to get the same shooting experience or photographic happy accidents that youll get with a Holga film camera. That mainly means no light leaks and none of the effects of using different films. Vignetting, blur, chromatic aberrations, and lens flare are in full supply, though, and should you have or get one of the film cameras (about $30-$40) you can use all of the add-on lenses with it.

Part of the fun and the challenge of using the Holga lens is its limitations. Basically, you pop the lens on, put your camera in manual, and use shutter speed and ISO to get the correct exposure. With its f8 aperture you need a lot of light or a high ISO to get a good exposure. It wasnt uncommon that I needed to use ISO 800 or above–even with a decent amount of light–so it helps if youve got a camera that produces good high-ISO photos. It also helps if youve got a camera with live view because my viewfinder was frequently too dark to compose photos.

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Oct 16
2011

Mercer County Marks National Fire Prevention Week With Drills, Family Fun Day

A variety of emergency vehicles will be on display during Mercer Countys annual Family Fun and Safety Day on Oct. 16 from noon to 3 pm at Mercer County Park in West Windsor.

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