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The voice of college basketball will have the microphone Tuesday at the Carnegie Hotel.
ESPN analyst Jay Bilas will emcee East Tennessee State basketball's "Holding Court," a fundraiser featuring an accomplished lineup of active and former coaches.
ETSU coach Murry Bartow said Tuesday that Bilas' college coach, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, is expected to join John Calipari, Mark Few and Steve Alford as coaches who will visit one at a time via FaceTime. Joining Bilas and Bartow at the Carnegie will be Sonny Smith, Les Robinson and Bobby Cremins.
Robinson's smile will evoke images of former Bucs such as Keith "Mister" Jennings, Calvin Talford and Greg Dennis.
Cremins coached at Appalachian State when Smith was at ETSU, and they could each share entertaining anecdotes involving the officiating in a couple of games in Johnson City if the scene gets spirited.
Bartow wanted to "kick the season off with a bang," and Bilas was glad to assist.
"Murry Bartow asked me if I'd come speak, and I told him I'd be happy to," Bilas said. "But I left all the details up to him. They've put all this together and I'm just happy to participate.
"I told Murry I am at his service. I'll be there most of the day, and I'm looking forward to it."
Bilas played against Cremins' Georgia Tech teams and was an assistant at Duke when Robinson was coaching at North Carolina State.
"I count Les and Bobby among my friends," Bilas said. "They're great guys."
The event will feature some chalk talk, drives down Memory Lane and the trending brand of Bilas. (See Thursday's Johnson City Press for a story on Bilas' opinions concerning the NCAA and better compensating student-athletes).
"Number one," Bartow said, "we're really fortunate we've got Jay coming in to emcee it. … And then obviously to have Sonny and Les and Bobby here … all three of those guys have been great coaches and they've got a lot of stories. And then … we've got four coaches that will come into the event via FaceTime, and Jay will interview those four and kind of talk back and forth with those four. And that'll be a fun part of the event as well. It should be a lot of fun, a lot of stories and a lot of basketball."
Bilas is perhaps best known these days for highlighting some of the NCAA's more glaring double standards while banging the drum for student-athletes' rights for better compensation. His intelligence, preparation and passion for basketball have essentially made him the new face of college basketball, with all due respect to Dick Vitale.
"I've been a long-time admirer of his," Bartow said. "Of course, I'm older, so I remember his Duke days well even as a player, you know, when he was playing with (Mark) Alarie and Johnny Dawkins and Tommy Amaker and those early (Coach K) Duke teams. I remember those teams fairly well. …
"And obviously he's just taken off in TV, and not just with TV, but really being one of the premier guys with college basketball. He's obviously a very smart guy. He's got a lot of ideas, a lot of thoughts, and obviously, from a social media standpoint, he's really got a lot of followers. He's a really interesting guy, and if you've read his book 'Toughness,' it's a very hot-selling book and it's a really good book."
Bartow has seen Bilas in action at Few's Coaches vs. Cancer fundraisers.
"I've been to some events where he has kind of emceed them," Bartow said, "and he's really, really good."
Bilas admires Few, the reserved Gonzaga coach who had his Bulldogs atop the national polls last season. Who knows, had guard Gary Bell not gone down with an injury in an NCAA Tournament loss to Wichita State, Gonzaga might've made more history.
"I've known Mark (Few) forever," Bilas said. "He's not only a great coach, he's an unbelievable guy. You need to look at the work that he's done with Coaches vs. Cancer and the money he's raised – he and his wife, Marcy. They have raised an extraordinary amount of money and made a tremendous impact in the fight against cancer.
"He's not just a basketball coach, he's a real person. I mean, he's unbelievable."
Bilas has connections with seemingly everyone in college basketball, but his history with Alford has a little more color than most, and some of it is green.
"We were both in rookie camp with the Dallas Mavericks," Bilas said. "We used to shoot for a hundred bucks after practice, and … several times it came down to me and Steve and I could never beat him. He was such a great shooter. And I was a much better shooter than I was given credit for, but he was a phenomenal shooter."
Another Johnson City connection of Bilas is Steve Spurrier, who came to Duke as Red Wilson's assistant when Bilas was playing basketball. Bilas speaks with Spurrier from time to time and has remained close with a couple of his quarterbacks, Steve Slayden and Ben Bennett.
"Steve (Spurrier) was considered a genius, but he was so approachable, you know, such a good guy," Bilas said. "He was the offensive coordinator when I was in college."
Bilas started on Duke's 1986 national runner-up team, which fell to Pervis Ellison-led Louisville. The muscular, 6-foot-8 Bilas matched David Robinson's 10 rebounds in Duke's defeat of Navy in the '86 NCAA Tournament, and matched Danny Manning's five rebounds in a Final Four win against Larry Brown's Kansas Jayhawks.
Not that stats or victories are what best stand the test of time.
"For me, (it's) having played for Coach K and coached under him," Bilas said, "and then having played with the guys I played with, you know, Johnny Dawkins and Tommy Amaker and David Henderson, Mark Alarie, those guys. We've maintained close friendships over the years. … I learned a lot from those guys in addition to Coach K. I was really fortunate to be around such great people."
And in terms of Tuesday, that sums up Bartow's outlook.
"I think for someone who likes college basketball," Bartow said, "when you can sit in a room and, No. 1, talk ETSU basketball, but now you've got Jay Bilas in there, who's so well known, and then obviously you've got Sonny, Les and Bobby, that's really enough. But then when you add Few, Krzyzewski, Alford and Calipari – again, if you like college basketball it's certainly the place to be."


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Research Interests:
I study human memory. Though I study a broad range of issues related to human memory processes
and performance, my primary research interest is in people's ability to show memory when they
experience retrieval failure. For example, people sometimes fail to recall the information that they are
searching for in memory. When experiencing such memory failure, people often still have other infor-
mation available to them about the memory—information that can at times be used to make decisions
with remarkable accuracy. An example is the phenomenon recognition without identification and a
seemingly similar phenomenon, recognition without recall. I am interested in the various ways that
people can show memory when recall fails, and I am also interested in the neural mechanisms that
underlie memory that occurs when retrieval fails. In my lab, we use many methodological techniques
for addressing these questions, including behavioral paradigms, virtual reality technology, brain
electrophysiological techniques, and, in collaboration with other laboratories and facilities, functional
magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI).
Familiarity-based Recognition. One example of a form of memory that can occur in the face of
retrieval failure is familiarity, which is the feeling of having experienced something before, without
being able to pinpoint exactly why the feeling is occurring. One branch of my research aims to study
familiarity as a basis for recognition and how it differs from other processes that enable recognition.
Features that Produce Recognition when Recall Fails. One branch of my research attempts
to identify what features of an item or situation can produce recognition when recall fails. For example,
when retrieval fails, do geometric shapes contribute to a sense of recognition with pictures and objects?
Do phonemes contribute to a sense of recognition with spoken words? Can rhythm contribute to a sense
of recognition with songs? Can more abstract features, such as semantic features, produce a sense of
recognition when retrieval fails?
Subjective Memory Experiences that Occur During Retrieval Failure. The ability to
recognize having had a prior experience with a situation when recall of the exact prior experience itself
fails is related to the subjective experience of sensing that something is in memory. Besides the feeling
of familiarity, an example of one such type of subjective experience is the déjà vu experience, which
occurs when one has a feeling of having experienced something before, despite evidence to the contrary.
Most commonly, déjà vu occurs with places—people experience a feeling of having been somewhere
before, despite knowing that they have never been there. Déjà vu may result from a memory that fails
to be retrieved, as is humorously illustrated in this commercial. One branch of my research aims to
better understand déjà vu as a memory phenomenon, and virtual reality is one of the tools that we use
in my lab to investigate this (click here for a video description). Another example of a type of subjective memory experience that occurs during retrieval failure is the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon,
whereby one feels that a word is in memory, but cannot currently access it. One branch of my research
investigates this phenomenon and how it differs from other seemingly similar subjective memory
experiences that occur during retrieval failure.
Unconscious Recognition. Other ways that people can show memory when retrieval fails may
be unconscious. Recent evidence, from my lab and others, suggests that people may sometimes be
influenced by prior memories to choose certain items over others or to react in certain ways to
situations, yet be completely unaware that situations in memory are driving those decisions.
Another branch of my research aims to study this ability and how it differs from conscious forms
of memory that occur when retrieval fails.
Cleary, A.M. (2012). On the contribution of unconscious processes to recognition
memory. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 210-211.
Ryals, A.J. & Cleary, A.M. (2012). The recognition without cued recall phenomenon:
Support for a feature-matching theory over a partial recollection account.
Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 747-762 . (pdf)
Kostic, B., McFarlan, C. C., & Cleary, A.M. (in press). Extensions of the survival advantage
in memory: Examining the role of ancestral context and implied social isolation.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. (pdf)
Nomi, J.S., & Cleary, A.M. (in press). Judgments for inaccessible targets: Comparing
recognition without identification and the feeling of knowing. Memory & Cognition.
Nomi, J.S., Rhodes, M.G., & Cleary, A.M. (in press). Emotional facial expressions
Differentially influence predictions and performance for face recognition.
Cognition & Emotion.
Cleary, A.M., Brown, A.S., Sawyer, B.D., Nomi, J.S., Ajoku, A.C., & Ryals, A.J. (2012).
Familiarity from the configuration of objects in 3-dimensional space and its relation
to déjà vu: A virtual reality investigation. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 969-975.
Ryals, A. J., Yadon, C. A., Nomi, J. S., & Cleary, A. M. (2011). When word identification
fails: ERP correlates of recognition without identification and of word identification
failure. Neuropsychologia, 12, 3224-3237. (pdf)
Cleary, A. M., & DeLosh, E.L. (2011). Wireless response systems: 'clicker' uses and
benefits in and out of the classroom. In L'Abate, L. & Kaiser, D. (Eds.) Handbook
of Technology in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neurology: Theory, Research and Practice. New York: Nova Science Publishers. (pdf)
Cleary, A. M. (2011). Face recognition without identification. In Corcoran, P.M. (Ed.) Reviews,
Refinements and New Ideas in Face Recognition. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech Publishers. http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/face-recognition-without-identification
Muir, G. M., & Cleary, A. M. (2011). Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning
Using "Clicker"-based Interactive Classroom Demonstrations. In Dunn, D.S,
Wilson, J. C., Freeman, J., & Stowell, J. R. (Eds.) Best Practices for Technology-
Enhanced Teaching and Learning. Oxford University Press. (pdf)
Kostic, B., Cleary, A.M., Severin, K., & Miller, S.W. (2010). Detecting analogical
resemblance without retrieving the source analogy. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,
17, 405-411. (pdf)
Cleary, A. M., Konkel, K. E., Nomi, J. N., & McCabe, D. P. (2010). Odor recognition
without identification. Memory & Cognition, 38, 452-460. (pdf)
Eslick, A. N., Kostic, B., & Cleary, A. M. (2010). True and false memory for color
names versus actual colors: Support for the visual distinctiveness heuristic in
memory for color information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
63, 1104-1126. (pdf)
Cleary, A. M., Ryals, A. J., & Nomi, J. N. (2009). Can déjà vu result from similarity
to a prior experience? Support for the similarity hypothesis of déjà vu.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 1082-1088. (pdf)
Cleary, A. M. & Reyes, N. L. (2009). Scene recognition without identification. Acta
Psychologica, 131, 53-62. (pdf)
Kostic, B. & Cleary, A. M. (2009). Song recognition without identification: When
people cannot "name that tune" but can recognize it as familiar. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 146-159. (pdf)
Morris, A. L., Cleary, A. M., & Still, M. S. (2008). The role of autonomic arousal in
feelings of familiarity. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1378-1385. (pdf)
Cleary, A.M. (2008). Recognition memory, familiarity, and déjà vu experiences.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 353-357. (pdf)
Cleary, A. M. (2008). Using wireless response systems to replicate behavioral research
findings in the classroom. Teaching of Psychology, 35, 42-44.(pdf)
Kostic, B. & Cleary, A. M. (2008). Memory Assessment. In H. E. A. Tinsley &
S. H. Lease (Volume Eds.), Encyclopedia of counseling psychology.
Editor-in-chief: F. T. L. Leong. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Langley, M. M., Cleary, A. M., **Woods, J. & *Kostic, B. (2008). Picture recognition
Without picture identification: A method for assessing the role of perceptual
information in familiarity-based picture recognition. Acta Psychologica, 127,
Cleary, A. M., **Winfield, M. M., & *Kostic, B. (2007). Auditory recognition without
identification. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1869-1877.
Langley, M. M., Cleary, A.M. & *Kostic, B. (2007). On the use of wireless
response systems in experimental psychology: Implications for the
behavioral researcher. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 816-823.
Cleary, A. M. & Specker, L. E. (2007). Recognition without face identification. Memory &
Cognition, 35, 1610-1619.
Cleary, A. M. & *Langley, M. M. (2007). Retention of the structure underlying sentences.
Language & Cognitive Processes, 22, 614-628.
Cleary, A. M., Morris, A.L., & *Langley, M. M. (2007). Recognition memory for novel stimuli:
The structural regularity hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 379-393.
Cleary, A. M. (2006). Relating familiarity-based recognition and the tip-of-the-tongue
phenomenon: Detecting a word's recency in the absence of access to the
word. Memory & Cognition, 34, 804-816.
Cleary, A. M., & Greene, R. L. (2005). Recognition without perceptual identification: A
measure of familiarity? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 1143-
Cleary, A. M. (2005). ROCs in recognition with and without identification. Memory, 5, 472-
Cleary, A. M., **Langley, M. M., & *Seiler, K. R. (2004). Recognition without picture
identification: Geons as components of the pictorial memory trace. P
sychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 903-908.
Cleary, A. M. (2004). Orthography, phonology, and meaning: Word features that give
rise to feelings of familiarity in recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,
11, 446-451.
Cleary, A. M., & Greene, R. L. (2004). True and false memory in the absence of
perceptual identification. Memory, 12, 231-236.
Curran, T., & Cleary, A. M. (2003). Using ERPs to dissociate recollection from
familiarity in picture recognition. Cognitive Brain Research, 15, 191-205.
Cleary, A. M. (2002). Recognition with and without identification: Dissociative effects
of meaningful encoding. Memory & Cognition, 30, 758-767.
Cleary, A. M., & Greene, R. L. (2002). Paradoxical effects of presentation modality on
false memory. Memory, 10, 55-61.
Cleary, A. M., Curran, T., & Greene, R. L. (2001). Memory for detail in item versus
associative recognition. Memory & Cognition, 29, 413-423.
Cleary, A. M., & Greene, R. L. (2001). Memory for unidentified items: Evidence for the
use of letter information in familiarity processes. Memory & Cognition, 29, 540-545.
Cleary, A. M., & Greene, R. L. (2000). Recognition without identification. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1063-1069.
Anne M. Cleary, PhD
Human Memory Lab
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Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876
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A view of damages on an empty street in the Aleppo district of Salaheddine December 5, 2012. Picture taken December 5, 2012. REUTERS/Aref Hretani
DAMASCUS: Troops waged fierce assaults on rebels around Syria on Thursday, focusing on the capital's outskirts, amid growing concerns that an increasingly desperate regime might resort to chemical weapons.
Those fears are likely to be raised during Thursday talks in Dublin between the top Russian and US diplomats and the international peace envoy, with the UN chief saying President Bashar al-Assad must face justice if he uses his chemical arsenal.
Assad forces shelled Douma and Zabadani to the northeast of the capital and Daraya and Moadamiyet al-Sham to the southwest, official and activist sources said.
As the army escalated its assault on rebel-held Daraya, the scene in August of the single worst massacre in Syria's 21-month conflict, additional troops were deployed to the town.
"Syrian army units continued today to pursue terrorists loyal to (the radical Islamist) Al-Nusra Front, which is part of Al-Qaeda, in Daraya," state news agency SANA said.
Citing an unnamed military source, the agency also said "Daraya will be completely cleansed of terrorists soon," using its standard term for rebels.
An anti-regime activist told AFP over the Internet that the army is advancing little by little into Daraya, though the rebel Free Syrian Army is fighting hard to keep the troops out of the town.
"The army has been able to enter into around 30 percent of Daraya in recent days, and there are serious fears about what would happen to the town if the troops do reclaim it," said the man, who identified himself as Abu Kinan.
At the same time, there were clashes in Irbin to the east, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
In the capital itself, security forces swarmed the southern district of Zahra after a car bomb exploded, with the Observatory saying no one was killed.
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Damascus province is now a key battlefield, as regime forces battle to retake control of an eight-kilometre (five-mile) belt around the capital, analysts say.
In the embattled northern city of Aleppo, several districts saw clashes, while shells slammed into zones in the southern province of Daraa, the Observatory said.
The Observatory said the fighting had claimed 104 lives across the country, according to a toll compiled from a network of activists, lawyers and doctors.
The Britain-based watchdog has tallied more than 41,000 deaths, most of them civilians, since the uprising erupted in March 2011.
In Dublin, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and UN peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi amid fears the regime could be preparing to use chemical weapons as it battles the rebels.
Clinton warned Damascus on Wednesday that this was a clear red line that must not be crossed.
"Our concerns are that an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons or might lose control of them to one of the many groups that are now operating within Syria," Clinton said.
Speaking in Baghdad on Thursday, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Assad should be "brought to justice" if his regime uses chemical weapons.
He said he had warned that whoever does so "will have to be brought to justice, and it will create serious consequences to those people."
Clinton also again pressed the Assad regime to make "the decision to participate in a political transition, ending the violence against its own people."
Moscow has been a staunch ally of Assad and along with China has vetoed UN Security Council resolutions aiming to sanction the regime.
Washington has long been calling for Moscow to use its leverage with Assad to try to persuade him to step down, and open the way towards a political transition.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday on a trip focused on resolving sharp differences over the conflict.
Last month, Erdogan said Russia held the key to the Syrian conflict, and that if Moscow took a "positive" stance in the Security Council it could push another key Damascus ally, Iran, to review its policies.
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Radioman runs pretty much the same exact ones on his F800GS!
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Day 3- getting to the good stuff
June 18 Mon
I didn't wake up too early, all the work trucks were gone, only my bike & the HD were sitting out there. You can kinda see the electra glide in my photo from the balcony. Since I can't take photos, I promised myself to always take a photo where I stayed at night. My neighbor Marty told me, bring a tarp & wrap it around your tent, a 101 uses he said. I asked about parking my bike under the overhang on the sidewalk somewhere but the hotel clerk said no. Didn't want to just let it sit & get rained on. I kept re-organizing my luggage.
It was cool out, overcast looking, I could smell rain in the air.
Enjoyed my free breakfast & thought about my power outlet situation. Luckily the 2011-12 winter Wi season was mild & I rode my bike a lot, & wired a aux power socket & placed it in the "glovebox" because it was better than having a wire loose & running over or under my handlebars to the factory outlet. Could only have one accessory plugged in now, I choose the Gerbing that day. But you had to duct tape the connection or it would loosen after awhile. Also had to duct tape my rain jacket, as it was coming apart at some seams( I had a mini roll of gorilla tape!).
Meet the HD guy, cool guy, strong Texas accent, was heading to Anchorage for a HD rally. Right off the bat mentions " I do not like having to wear a helmet or traveling with out my pistol" He got at least a half hour jump on me leaving.
Rode for a couple hours, light rain on & off, then the landscape began to change dramatically, reminded me of Washington, huge valleys, thick forests, flashing moose warning signs, the interstate was huge & open, lots of RV/campers, light traffic & spread out at that. I remember thinking, getting to the good stuff. Rode through a little city but then the route turned into a two lane hwy. I was wearing a brand new Kali carbon fiber street helmet(light!), was fine the first two days but then it started bothering my eyes from the wind coming through by my chin, making my eyes water bad, figured it would go away...but this went on for hours. Covered the chin area w/duct tape, fixed!
Rode into Dawson Creek, begining of the AK HWY It began to thunder & lightning in the distance. Fueled up & lubed up the chain(tried to do that at least twice a day), minding my buisness. It was approaching dinner time, some local prick next to me at the pumps says, exact words "whats with you damn americans?...you all have to drive to Alaska?". I looked at him & shrugged my shoulders, said "dunno", that was it. It was Monday, maybe he had a bad day at work. As I looked into the main st in Dawson Creek, there was a steady flow of RV/camper traffic.
It started to rain hard, jumped a curb w/the Katoom at a storefront that looked closed, to hold up for a while. Talked to a lady for 45mins about everything. She told me, Dawson Creeks population was roughly 10k at that time & is expected to reach 100k in 10 years b/c the pipeline & dam projects in the area. I guess Americans are migrating there for the good jobs. I figured out Canada's economy is booming, everything was expensive up here. She told me where to pick-up some bear spray, I wanted some, it was illegal to sell/buy in Wi.
Talked to the guy at the sporting goods store for quite sometime as well, he gave me lots of advice, he said I'll be driving through BC's serengeti. I held up in Dawson Creek for like three hours. Meet more nice people than pricks The sporting good store was literally just 200ft north of the famous begining of Alaska hwy white rock monument. I skipped that photo, was raining a bit yet.
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day 3 cont
June 18
With in a half hour of leaving Dawson creek, things were different, I could tell I was way up here now. I honestly did not see so much as a deer the past three days. Had the camera on a lanyard around my neck like a tourist. Rode by this guy, busted a u-turn to get a pic, no one was around, & he just stopped in the road & so did I, we just starred at each other for a few seconds. First bear I've ever seen not in captivity, from the seat of a bike of course. little brown bear
this got my blood going
only photo not a complete blur
only cruised @ 50mph for a long time, scanning for wildlife, saw another little black bear by the tree line
then outta no where, the HD guy rips by me & waves
We just cruised together for a while, was nice not being by myself
stopped at a A&W root beer for food in Fort Nelson, he insisted on buying, he only had roughly two weeks to do his trip as well. He said he has done the Iron butt run. He joked he was riding to AK to get a t-shirt and then riding home. He got the oil changed on his bike that day. Told me I looked young to be doing this alone. He was only wearing a half helmet and the skin was literally peeling off his face. I told him your face looks a little sunburned, he said so does yours, my cheeks were only a little red. Good guy. Hoteled it. 536mi
Looking over the Ktm at the hotel, this trip was taking its toll. decided I need to fix my power outlet situation . Heard a rattle from the rear over bumps @ low speeds, the rear floating rotor was really loose. And some bolts were now missing for some of the body work, typical v-twin. Experienced my first real night of no darkness this night. Remember 3 kids rode their MX bikes right through town at 11 @ night while I looked over my bike & thinking some jag off would probadly dial 911 for that where I grew up.
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Day 4 AK HWY!
June 19 tues
Woke up to the HD guy knocking on my door, 7:30ish,all the work trucks were gone, and he said he's hitting the road in 15-20min. There was a NAPA type auto parts store in town. Told him thanks for the invite, but I'm gonna fix a few minor issues w/my bike before I leave town. We said goodbye. I could have went with him, but I'm pretty anal about my bike & wanted to address a few things now, not later.
Was beautiful outside, sunny & warm!
Went to the auto parts store & set-up shop right out front by the main door, so I can see my bike when inside. I try never to let my bike leave my sight. Cannot believe I did not get a pic of this operation. I was giving the bike a full, quick, once over.
I had an amazing amount of tools & supplies on my bike, so much so, I forget where it all is hidden. I've read plenty of RTW reports, got all that stuff! I went into the store & bought pretty much all there male & female auto power sockets. Got wiring & connectors, spare fuses. I had spares of everything now. I spent like $25
some bike maintanence :
1 repaired my satelite radio mount w/epoxy,good to go.
2 ended up repairing the male end of my multi(3)power port assy for the tankbag, made it more rain friendly & ran the wire in to the glovebox now.
3 bike bolt check, swapped some bolts around
4 chain adjustment & lube
5 the rear rotor was no big deal, wasn't gonna fail but a nuisance. seen it before on sportbikes @ the track.
*felt better now
My Ktm
-Has the Akrapovic tune map on it, so she was sucking fuel down like a champ, esp day 2 when running 90mph in the wind. fuel light came on a few times after a 130mi worst mpg 31, best 38mpg. (I know, I shoulda set it to stock for the trip, shoulda woulda coulda)
-but easy on the throttle...could go 200mi on a tank of fuel, running with fuel light on for 35-40mi. Ran it outta fuel once in Wi on purpose to see...rode 57mi w/the light on before it started to cough & sputter.
-had the DB killers in the exh
-didn't use my aux fuel yet-but was a peace of mind having it
-this beast felt like a dirtbike w/these tires! whole bike would vibrate when coming to a stop now compared to the stock pirellis
-can still rip wheelies fully loaded!
worked on the bike for a good hour, just relaxing & taking my time, my stuff sprawled out every where, guys from the store came out & asked if needed anything, someone drove by & stopped and took pics of me working on my bike! I remember a lot of the locals that went into the store would leave their cars idle when they went inside for 10-20min, must be habit from winter.
I felt like a traveling freak show at times, esp at fuel stations.
Now sit back & enjoy this next installement of pics, AK HWY was awesome, not too many people, you never had to stop
because it never got dark now! Was amazing
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Day 4 AK HWY!
June 19
I could never get a shot of a bear looking at me!
Watson Lake, I chose to continue on the Ak hwy,rather than taking the Robert Campbell hwy, I had plans to ride the South Canol rd! Picked up a mini bottle of Grand Marnier & beef jerky ( I always have a big bag of beef jerky in the tank bag, than you can skip a meal if nec)for camping this eve, I had a camping stove & some dehydrated food w/me.
South Canol rd entrance time for a 100+mi backcountry dirt road with nothing on it, it brings you to the Campbell hwy....wanted to camp off that road
I wish rode down the road about 3-4mi & it was gated off due to wash-outs
I was disappointed a bit...but hit the Ak hwy & kept trucking towards Whitehorse
finally camped, & hung out with my neighbors til late, cooked mac-n-cheese for dinner. 1am photo
no flash photo
not too shabby thus far
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Just love Alaska Ride Reports, Yours is very good.
You really missed out on the South Canol though.
One of the best roads up that way.
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Big adventure, my friend. I'm with ya and thanks for sharing.
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Missed it?
I don't think I missed it, but what are the dates of your RR?
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Heck of a ride....
Anywhere is home
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good point
*I should mention when staying in Ft Nelson the previous eve, I talked to the hotel owner for a long time,who only was there in summer, he explained to me why I've seen nothing but BC, YT, Oregon & Washington plates on cars, he said "welcome to the Cascadians", Our little country on this side of north america. BC & YT had just jaw dropping views BTW! And he told me that if I was coming through a week earlier, I would have been stuck here cause all the wash outs on the Ak hwy from the heavy rains, he said some towns ran low on food in a weeks time, b/c they could not even re-stock.(don't qoute me on this, but I think RTW Noah was coming south at this time & ran into these delays, also ruffntuff had a delay I think as well, did start to see more adv bikers but all seemed to be heading south).
* So...at the South Canol rd barricades, I sat there for a good 10min thinking, no one to ask any advice, thinking I shoulda took the Campbell hwy but would of had to backtrack a couple hours. It was approx 8pm. I planned & packed for this road the entire 6 months! Got a taste of the skeeters right then & there, I could have easily gotten around the barricades, but I wasn't on a little thumper, recent heavy rains & the size of the Katoom made me a bit nervous,I hadn't even dropped the beast yet! I did love the idea of being far far off the beaten path, but didn't want to get into a sticky situation with no one around, I wanted to get off the super slab & get muddy, my rear tire was wearing flat. The AK hwy didn't seem too touristy though, unlike my Yellowstone expereince, which all the damn people began to ruin it for me a bit, the world seems greatly overpopulated to me & only dumb people seem to breed at times, as my friend puts it, I can be a bit of a misanthropist. Which I think may have been a big reason why I was on this little journey, to get away from everyone. Don't get me wrong, I love meeting new good people! But in heinsight, I shoulda went around the barricades & had a go at that road...I could have always turned around, I had plenty of damn fuel & riding experience
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Day 5 klondike hwy & Dawson city
June 20-Wed
Ahh first night in my tent, I bought a compact air mattress for camping this trip, woke up to the pitter patter sound of rain on the tent. No rush to get up early, I knew Dawson was close. Packed up everything in the drizzle. Used my butane powered Thermocell mosquito repellent(from Cabelas on sale $40), for the first time that night & also in the morning, I think it worked well, was not windy, I hate bug spray(but had some & a head net just in case).
My camping neighbors from last night were Whitehorse locals, a mom & daughter, they live out of there very nice, 30ft camper, she had an almost brand new lifted chevy 4x4 truck to pull it, daughter had her own car as well, she didn't like that I was a FORD guy! They can only stay at each campground for 30 days, so every 30 days they move, she said the housing costs in the area are ridiculously high. She said there were others in the park doing the same thing.
I hit the Klondike hwy quickly, & just started hitting it, I was gonna arrive in Dawson a day early. Came up on some bikes & was gonna overtake them, then they just started hitting it! Stopped at some famous place known for their cinnamon buns(its in milepost somewhere), they were huge, had a monster sized cookie & milk for breakfast. Topped off with gas there, they only had 87 octane,whatever. A beautiful young Austrailian girl worked there, she said it was just a summer job, she ran the register & was suppose to pump fuel for people & was gonna try to put some in my bike, I can't even put fuel in the Katoom with out spilling it, I told her I got it. We talked & she told me a lot of people were heading to Dawson for the summer solstice this coming weekend. I remember purple "fireweed" covered the ditches on the Klondike hwy, looked cool, of course I didn't get a photo.
Weather started to get nice! Stopped at one more fuel station before Dawson after the klondike meet the Robert Campbell hwy. Adv bikes everywhere, we were a freakshow for the locals
This guy with the white GS1150, had Wi plates he was from madison, he liked my Ducati jacket since he still owned a monster. He was mad that he brought so much luggage & said he was gonna ship some home when he got a chance. He rode the Campbell hwy & said it was terrible, heavy traffic & extremly dusty.
Drove by the start of the Dempster Hwy, looked dusty!
Everyone always talks about the miles of stone piles stacked up from the years of dredging for gold while driving into Dawson, here were the piles along the road
got to Dawson early afternoon.
330mi Day
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Amrit Adhikari (Chelsea fan) says...
Come on chelsea,you can do.Football game is like that sometimes win and sometimes lose,no problem.Chelsea will surely win agnaist blackburn.We are not dissapointed at all and we will win the champions league soon someday for sure .i love you chelsea,i love lampard.Enough of manchester united wins now,and enough of arsenal's fan stupid and biased comments.Barca should win the champions leagyue.
Posted 03:51 21st March 2010
Kris Caldwell (Arsenal fan) says...
As much as id like to see pauls prediction come true i doubt it and why is every one saying chelseas exit was such a shock inter are far to underestimated. I mean they drew with barca in the home tie of the GS and they didnt play well in the game. Is it obvious that im an inter fan as well aha Wenger and Mourinho (The Speacial Ones)
Posted 03:40 21st March 2010
Besim Batusha (Chelsea fan) says...
I have to agree with most of the comments made that man u have a tough game in hand and chelsea might not pick themselves up from that defeat to inter...however the league will definetely be decided when man utd meets chelsea at old trafford. all the best to arsenal ...
Posted 22:55 20th March 2010
Adrian Page (Charlton Athletic fan) says...
With spurs winning today the pressure is on Liverpool tomorrow as they know that anything other than a win at old Trafford and they are almost certainly not going to be in the champions league next year so that puts the pressure firmly on Liverpool and last season they knew that the league was over so they had the opportunity to play freely and won 4-1 without creating a single chance 2 of the goals were punts upfield which 99 times out of 100 Ferdinand and vidic will deal with 1 was shocking control from vidic leading to his rugby tackle on torres his red n a great aurilio free kick and the other was a reckless challange by evra in the box with gerrard goin nowhere. I just don't think Liverpool will have that much luck and lack of pressure and just can't see them getting a result.
Posted 18:40 20th March 2010
Scott Williamson (Blackburn Rovers fan) says...
I'm not entirely sure how we'll do agianst Chelsea, we've beaten on penalties in the cup ion a tremendous game that only saw Chelsea level thanks fo a Paul Robinson howler. Robbo is obviously out now and we've recalled Mark Bunn? The only time I saw Mark Bunn was earlier in the season during the cup match where both Salgado and Kalinic score their first goals for the club. He's terrible so I'm really hoping Big Sam actually knows what he's doing this time. Last week against Spurs, taking Emerton off and putting Andrws on was a foolish move, you're 3-1 down and put on a defensive midfielder in place of an attacking mid? Either way I don't think we'll get the same 5-0 drubbing we got in the last league encounter but I do think we'll get beat. I'm gonna say 3-2 Chelsea
Posted 16:16 20th March 2010
Conor Hannon (Blackburn Rovers fan) says...
i agree with paul and think that chelsea and united will drop points at the weekend.chelsea will no doubt feel the affects from the inter game and goin to ewood wont be easy.remember only spurs and city have left there with 3 points.
Posted 13:57 20th March 2010
John mutame Malamo (Manchester United fan) says...
Come sunday.21st MARCH,10 LOSER POOL will lose to Man u.I dont foresee Man U losing a game at home at this stage of the competetion.They always rise to occassion when things matters a lot.Please Sir Ferguson DONT retire we still need your guidance.John Malamo,Zambia
Posted 12:35 20th March 2010
Thufayel Chowdhury (Chelsea fan) says...
chelsea will thrash blackburn after what happened in the mid week blackburn will have a go on chelsea but chelsea are in a mood that no other team will be on after what happened against inter
Posted 12:22 20th March 2010
Gregor B (Chelsea fan) says...
The issue is a referee. Usually ref is United 12th player. If the ref on Sunday is good, United will drop points. Prediction: at the end of the game United are in trouble and there is 5 or 6 minutes added!
Posted 11:21 20th March 2010
Nick Armstrong (Blackburn Rovers fan) says...
I agree with you paul i can see us getting a point but with the derby with burnley next weekend i think the players will want to go into that game in a confident mood. Dunn knows what the derby means to the fans and he will be in inspirational in the week biulding up to it form. i think we could push and maybe beat chelsea.
Posted 11:13 20th March 2010
Tomusange Abdul (Manchester United fan) says...
liverpool can't stop manchester utd fm winning the trophy utd 2- liverpool -1
Posted 10:00 20th March 2010
Malc Sinnott (Chelsea fan) says...
I have to agree with my fellow Chelsea fan Steve Wright, everything he posted is spot-on, the way things are panning out, we will do well to finish 3rd..Bring back the "Special One" all is forgiven!..
Posted 09:49 20th March 2010
Keyse Xaraga (Arsenal fan) says...
I hope and pray arsenal win the league this year,pairing with barcelona is very scary specialy when we play second leg away.since we haven't spend any big money over the last few years it would be fantastic to win it ,but it won't be easy.
Posted 08:44 20th March 2010
Abdiwali Awil (Arsenal fan) says...
i think that this prediction good 4 gunners because that man and chelsea will play together so i am saying that this the turn of arsenal
Posted 08:28 20th March 2010
Ologunde Kehinde (Manchester United fan) says...
Tomorrow's gonna be another great day for united.i wonder why liverpool victries over pompey and lille are being over hyped,let them repeat those feat and united re enact the blistering form that swept milan away or that humbled fulham.come on united,glory beckons,march out in victry over this old foe.crush it and stamp ur authority and superiority on her.united for life!
Posted 08:21 20th March 2010
Homzie D (Manchester United fan) says...
First of all, Happy Birthday Merse! As a former Arsenal player, I can understand why you're hoping for United and Chelsea to drop points! United will be pumped, Old Trafford will be rocking and the fans know that we cannot afford to drop points at this stage in the season, least of all to our bitter rivals! Having beaten us the last 3 times, the players know that Liverpool cannot be underestimated. They always seem to turn up against United, which is why, it will be a difficult match. The key is Vidic v Torres. I think United will win 3-1. In the other game, Ewood Park is not an easy place to visit. Chelsea will be fired up after their CL exit. They will want to forget their midweek loss by winning at Blackburn. I reckon United 3 Liverpool 1 and Blackburn 1 Chelsea 3.
Posted 08:10 20th March 2010
Mohamed Sulub (Manchester United fan) says...
I disagree with paul, man united is in the best form of the season and they must have learnt from last year's heavy defeat at oldtrafod by liverpool and ofcourse Vidic's last 3 red cards as well rested the whole week while liverpool played on thursday, however, Rooney can take the lead as he s on his way to crown the worlds best player at the end of the season therefore i wish united wins 2-0 and liverpool plays europe league next season. By Sulub
Posted 06:59 20th March 2010
Mohamed Sulub (Manchester United fan) says...
I disagree with paul, man united is in the best form of the season and they must have learnt from last year's heavy defeat at oldtrafod by liverpool and ofcourse Vidic's last 3 red cards as well rested the whole week while liverpool played on thursday, however, Rooney can take the lead as he s on his way to crown the worlds best player at the end of the season therefore i wish united wins 2-0 and liverpool plays europe league next season. By Sulub
Posted 06:58 20th March 2010
Sanketh Menon (Chelsea fan) says...
I have to disagree with Paul regarding the Chelsea match.I know that they are probably still trying to get over the shock of being knocked out of the CL but they thay have to understand that Inter were the better team between the two legs and move on(I really hope they have!).I feel that if they start concentrating on the League again they will definately win.Sure,playing Blackburn at Ewood Park will be tough but this is a pretty good Chelsea side at the moment and even though there are injury problems and they aren't playing their best football by a long-shot(and the fact that the squad is becoming too old and there is an increasing need for fresh young faces in the team),i think Chelsea have it in them to recover from the shock of being knocked out of the CL and beat BLackburn.Although i am sure that if Chelsea do win,it wont be too convincing.
Posted 05:39 20th March 2010
Samuel Mwindula (Manchester United fan) says...
Liverpool have a great chance to stop Man united overtaking their record of 18 tittles but i don't think Sir Alex will let that happen at Old Trafford. I'll go for a 2 - 1 victory for united. Rooney and Torres.
Posted 05:36 20th March 2010


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Agreement between James L. Todd of Phippsburg with John Smith to build a ship. The names on the contract were changed on April 4, 1848.
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Irish Heartbeat
|Irish Heartbeat
|Studio album by Van Morrison and The Chieftains
|September 1987—January 1988, Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
|Traditional Irish folk, Folk-rock
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Irish Heartbeat is the eighteenth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is a collaboration with the traditional Irish musical group The Chieftains, released in 1988. The album was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland and reached number 18 in the UK album charts.
The album was recorded on dates from September to December 1987 and in January 1988. The Chieftains and Van Morrison had met years before at the Edinburgh rock festival. They joined up in Belfast during Morrison's No Guru tour and afterwards, Morrison and Paddy Moloney discussed recording an album together during a walk. They each had a list of songs and reached a consensus to cover two of Morrison's previously released tracks (the title track was one) and the rest from traditional Irish songs.
Recalled Moloney:
I think at that time Van was searching for his Irish roots. It was this man of blues, of rock 'n' roll, jazz and more importantly soul, coming home to his Irishness with The Chieftains and the music we'd been playing for so many years. Musically we were going to meet each other half way.[1]
In October 1987 they performed together at Balmoral Studio in Belfast. The concert was broadcast on St. Patrick's Day in 1988.[2]
The album consists of eight traditional Irish songs, plus re-workings of the Morrison songs "Celtic Ray" (which first appeared on 1982's Beautiful Vision) and the title track "Irish Heartbeat" (which first appeared on 1983's Inarticulate Speech of the Heart). "Carrickfergus" is described as "a melancholic air worthy of Otis Redding" by critic Denis Campbell.[3] "on Raglan Road" was adapted from a poem by Patrick Kavanagh and is the story of "a man ensnared by a beautiful revenant whom he had mistaken for 'a creature made of clay'." [4] In 1994, Billy Connolly recorded a live cover of the song "Irish Heartbeat" during his World Tour of Scotland. The performance was used as the closing theme to the BBC series.
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The album received mostly positive reviews upon its release. It was called "some of the most haunting, rousing, downright friendly music of the year".[8] Rolling Stone gave the album four stars and remarked upon its "splendor and intense beauty".[9] On the other hand, critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "C+" in his Consumer Guide and called Morrison's collaboration with the Chieftains "misguided."[10] Nonetheless, it was voted one of the best albums of the year in the Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop rock critics' poll.[11]
Track listing[edit]
All songs traditional, arranged by Van Morrison and Paddy Moloney, except as indicated.
Side one[edit]
- "Star of the County Down" – 2:41
- "Irish Heartbeat" (Morrison) – 3:52
- "Tá Mo Chleamhnas Déanta (My Match It Is Made)" – 3:31
- "Raglan Road" – (lyrics by Patrick Kavanagh) – 4:43
- "She Moved Through the Fair" – 4:44
Side two[edit]
- "I'll Tell Me Ma" – 2:29
- "Carrickfergus" – 4:23
- "Celtic Ray" (Morrison) – 3:47
- "My Lagan Love" – 5:19
- "Marie's Wedding" – 3:17
- Van Morrison – lead vocals, guitar, drums
- Paddy Moloney – uilleann pipes, tin whistle
- Martin Fay – fiddle, bones
- Derek Bell – harp, keyboards, tiompán
- Kevin Conneff – bodhran, co-lead vocals on "Star of the County Down", "Tá Mo Chleamhnas Déanta" and "I'll Tell Me Ma"
- Matt Molloy – flute
- Seán Keane – fiddle
- Ciarán Ó Braonáin – bass
- Mary Black – back-up vocals on "Marie's Wedding" and "Tá Mo Chleamhnas Déanta"
- Maura O'Connell – back-up vocals on "Marie's Wedding"
- June Boyce – back-up vocals on "Celtic Ray", "Irish Heartbeat" and "Marie's Wedding"
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|UK Albums Chart
- ^ Glatt, The Chieftains, p. 217.
- ^ Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p. 266-267.
- ^ Hinton. Celtic Crossroads. p.269.
- ^ Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence? p. 418
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. Irish Heartbeat at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ^ Rolling Stone 11 August 1988
- ^ Christgau, Robert. Irish Heartbeat. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ^ Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 418
- ^ Rolling Stone, Aug. 11, 1988
- ^ Consumer Guide, Nov. 29, 1988
- ^ The 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll
- Glatt, John (1997). The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-31216-605-2
- Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1-55652-542-7
- Hinton, Brian (2000) Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, ISBN 1-86074-169-X
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