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hi everyone
hope you are all doing well

I just learned that there is going to be a benefit concert from 2 to 5 pm at the Lyric in Blacksburg on November 5 featuring Snake Hollow and two other bands

this will benefit Community Opportunities, a wonderful NRV organization that is helping people with disabilities in a unique & powerful way. please visit communityopportunities.org to learn more about this effort, or to learn more about the Mountain Music benefit concert.

also here is some art news: A'Court Bason will be having a reception at Over The Moon in a few weeks for his new exhibit there, which will go up on October 13. A'Court will be playing music at the gallery reception starting at 8 pm. I will post more details on this once I confirm times and dates, but I believe the reception will happen on Friday October 21 from 6 to 9 pm.

Billy Miller & Chris Luster will be playing at Oddfella's in Floyd tonight. If you go there you might wish to ask them if their new CD is ready yet. this is an extremely good CD from what I have heard so far.

If the CD is not ready yet please ask Billy what the heck? do you just read sci-fi magazines all day? a small army of adopted pets is depending on you, please finish the CD.

I have heard that the Lee Boys show tonight at the Sun is supposed to be very very good, although I have not heard them myself yet. There is also music at the Pine Tavern tonight, courtesy of Scott Perry.

If you are in Floyd around lunchtime today please stop by Over The Moon, Chris will be playing there with Bernie Coveney. Bernie is also working on a new CD. I think this will be released on Mountain Fever records, but I am not sure when.

I need to go now, have a great day & thanks for reading

-Suzy

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tags for this post - floyd virginia art music

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image tags - jacksonville center floyd virginia

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a memo to readers of the Traces Stone Sculpture Journal

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hi everyone
hope you are well

if you are reading this post via the Traces stone sculpture journal, thank you for your visit, and thank you for your patience!

this is a note to let you know that I am still in the process of re-organizing the Traces stone sculpture archives. I apologize for the fact that this process has taken so long, but

A) good stone sculpture information does not exactly grow on trees; and
B) lots of perfectly good links have been broken when folks didn't renew their domain names, and
C) I have gotten pretty darn sidetracked lately with the Marsh Fork issue.

Anyway please visit the eastern-most point of the ideapark.org loop if you are searching for information related to stone sculpture, as this is where I will be posting whatever I can salvage.

Have a wonderful day & thanks for reading.

-Suzy Nees

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tags for this post - stone sculpture

a memo to readers of the Traces Stone Sculpture Journal

hi everyone
hope you are well

if you are reading this post via the Traces stone sculpture journal, thank you for your visit, and thank you for your patience!

this is a note to let you know that I am still in the process of re-organizing the Traces stone sculpture archives. I apologize for the fact that this process has taken so long, but

A) good stone sculpture information does not exactly grow on trees; and
B) lots of perfectly good links have been broken when folks didn't renew their domain names, and
C) I have gotten pretty darn sidetracked lately with the Marsh Fork issue.

Anyway please visit the eastern-most point of the ideapark.org loop if you are searching for information related to stone sculpture, as this is where I will be posting whatever I can salvage.

Have a wonderful day & thanks for reading.

-Suzy Nees

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tags for this post - stone sculpture

Labor Day parties today & tomorrow

Hi everyone

Larry Gibson is hosting a Labor Day party today at Kayford Mountain
The party starts at 1 pm. Here are details.

Also the town of Shepherdstown, West Virginia will be hosting a party tomorrow at the train station starting at 2 pm

Ed Wiley will be a guest of honor and music by the Speak Easy Boys will be featured
Here are the details on that party

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend, take care.

Suzy

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tags for this post - labor day, mountain justice, pennies of promise, kayford, shepherdstown

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hi everyone

below is a boingboing post describing something new from Google, Inc - AKA the Lords of Relevance...

oops! sorry. did that sound snotty?

if Google showed just a teaspoonful of interest in our region I might be much less jaded about fun "games" like this...

and once I understood what kind of profits they were making from paid search engine placement I lost an enormous amount of respect for Google.

Be less evil than what, Google?

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Google uses game to get good image metadata with Image Labeler

Google's new Image Labeler service is a game that asks you and a random partner somewhere on the Internet to come up with tags to describe an image. The tags you two independently create are applied to the picture. This simple game corrects for many kinds of bogus or poorly thought-out entries (though it will limit the aggregate intelligence of the two raters to the lowest of the two). This is at least the second time I've seen this approach to getting metadata for images -- what Tim O'Reilly calls "bionic software" that's part human, part machine.

You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show you the points you've earned throughout the session.

Link

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hi everyone
it sure was a pretty day here today
I love the light this time of year and the sky was so perfectly blue

I did a bit today to get ready for firewood time but I am very behind on gathering pokeberries, they have been ready for a while. I need to get to that soon but I just had too much desk work to catch up on

a web page fairy's work is never done...

speaking of which man am I ever sorry I was too busy to go see the Snake Hollow band at the country store last night. there was a giant camera there. I do not know whether Snake Hollow got their picture made but the pictures I saw on the Internet looked very interesting.

anyway Snake Hollow String Band will be playing there at 9:30 on the first Friday of every month.

by the way all you pet welfare advocates don't forget there are a few pet welfare events coming up soon, one is at Cross Creek in Floyd next weekend

I need to dig up those pet welfare page finders again and plug those in...

Cleo is giving me a big headache, she has been a pain as of late because I am keeping her indoors. apparently she didn't learn her lesson too well with the tire-bitin' thing cause she is still chasing cars.

I guess from her perspective she is maybe wondering why the stupid old car didn't learn its lesson...

well I guess I will go now and set up those page finders. have a great evening

-Suzy

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