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1979 Seville Help Please...
Good morning, Just joined recently, haven't participated yet but been reading heavily to gain info, etc on my car, a 37K 1979 Seville. Eventually, as I progress with my project, I'll have a link here to a picture gallery for everyone to view.
There is so much solid info on the EFI system, etc from some very experienced guys here, and it's helping me to gain enough knowledge to feel comfortable maintaining/repairing the system as needed. I have the original shop manual and have ordered the Cadillac EFI diagnosis/troubleshoot supplements as well.
Anyhow, Since my EFI system is still operating and intact, I wish to keep it going as opposed to a carb conversion (last resort). I want the car to be safe (fire risks) so I have just replaced the injector O-rings and next is all new fuel supply lines from JEGS. Because I also want reliability to take a road trip to shows, etc w/o worrying about dying on the roadside, I've been building a shopping list at RockAuto to get as much of the old important parts as I can and found distributor, sensors, including TPS and more. They showed 2 ECM's 1-ACdelco and 1 SMP #8864 (my OE# is 1615173) but they said that SMP doesn't have any more as demand has dwindled away.
Can anyone here help me as to where I can get a properly rebuilt ECM #1615173? I am not looking for a used one, as my car runs great right now. This is a backup for my parts storage box (for the next 30yrs of running
Is it true that there is a member here or on cadillaclasalleclub org who offers to rebuild these, or possibly would sell me a rebuilt w/o core return so I can keep mine? I suppose if I can't find one, it would not be worth buying all the backup EFI parts, as I'd prob have to convert to carb if/when my computer goes.
Any help or info is much appreciated.
Thanks, Mark~
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The weak link regarding the computer is the the multi wire harness that plugs into it. Over time the plug gets loose. Once loose it can melt the connector that powers the fuel pumps! car quits! The computer seems fairly trouble free in my opinion. Spares would be 2 coolants sensors. The same part number works for air temp as well as coolant temp in the intake manifold.
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As I mentioned, the car is running quite well overall. BTW, I did improve a cold start dying/low idle issue after reading all the fast idle control valve posts. Took it all apart, cleaned & lubed it resulting in a steadier idle so far (even w/o shim). Car still has the hesitation accelerating from stop, but it seems to always do that, no matter weather conditions (only driven 1-2K May-Oct), or even after extensive tune-ups.
Thanks again for replying and for all the other help/info I've seen you put out there for others. Mark~
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A bog or hesitation from rest is usually fixed by adjustment of the TPS. I cannt remember the number of clicks you're supposed to hear as you rotate the throttle very slowly from rest to wide open with the key in the ON position, car off! !8 seems to stick out but that's a guess! Its supposed to click just off idle so see if you can move the TPS down if you think it requires too much throttle movement to hear the first click.
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BTW, I found re-manufactured ECM's at west coast Cadillac King via their parts link> http://cadillacking.org/index.php?ma...jihs294pnk7qn5 About $400.00 if you dont plan to return core back, otherwise $300 They don't have my OE# right now, but maybe one of you will need one from them.
I also posted a few pics in my album here for now to get things started. Will be eventually putting all project pics and more into an online link for unlimited access to all.
Everyone have a great weekend, and enjoy those Classic Cadillacs! Mark~
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Hey everyone,
Hope you enjoyed your weekend. I thought I'd post a link at the end of post here with a few pics of 'Christine'... and, yes, I'm a Stephen King fan. Sorry they are not in any real organized manner as of yet, but I will have a detailed album as things progress and I find time to put them in order with more captions, etc
Anyhow... as far as the EFI, engine stuff from last week is going: I'm still working to find the right spot for the TPS. Throttle position sensor does have correct voltage and clicks immediately when even touch open the throttle. The thing is I think I heard like 20 clicks on the way up to full throttle position, not 7 or 8. Is this something that tells of worn out/bad or just an incorrect adjustment? If it is bad, I have that brand new one coming from RockAuto and can experiment with that one. May end up having to disconnect the fast idle unit after all, it is idling too high all the time now and even the adjustment screw has hardly dropped that back down. This car doesn't go out in the cold weather anyhow so maybe I should disable it.
The car is idling smoother (but too high as mentioned), and continues to bog/hesitate accel off stop and on test drive Sunday, got some hesitation/missing while cruising at @ 30MPH. This car has all new ignition parts and fuel filter. I have had my Cadillac factory service manual for a while to reference, but Saturday just received my official 1975 EFI service shop diagnosis guide & 1978 supplemental, so I will read through it and add it to the big bible (and hopefully my memory too
I did not inspect the ECU connector or attached vacuum line yet, but will do so this week after work. The replacement 2-wire EFI sensors are not here yet, maybe they'll make the difference but these symptoms don't correct when at full operating temp, so doubtful i would think. Maybe there is a leak in the line going to the MAP sensor.
Hope you enjoy the pics, and yes the pass side valve cover is still blue, peeling and rusty I'm doing that side next spring or I'll never get to driver her before October hits. You could eat dinner off of 90% of the motor or engine comp now though. The burnt copper color really goes nicely with the car, and harks back somewhat to old Cadillac engine colors. BTW, if you have one of these, the fuel rails & connectors polish up beautiful like chrome with #0000 steel wool pads.
I re-taped alot of the original wiring electrical tape, repaired a few worn wires and add dielectric grease every time I open any connector. There's a K&N lifetime air filter with a billet aluminum ribbed cover. Also repaired the in-op power antenna, but can't get it to go down the final 1" each time. The CB is working again though and so does the 8-track.
As a boy, I collected those Cadillac 8-tracks & showroom brochures, so I have 1974-1979 tapes to use in the car. The brochures I have are from 1956- up to @ 2003 I used to drive the local Cadillac Dealer sales people crazy riding my bike there daily to hang around, stare at the new cars on the lot and showroom, and buy Jo-Han models each year from the parts guys.
Anyhow, there's a couple pics of the JB Weld putty (stuff is a miracle product line), repair on headlamp housing, it is solid as a rock, and painted black applied inside, you can't even see it, it's all behind the bulb supports. Also working on the cloth door surrounds and custom 2-tone on interior parts (doing full dashboard, door panel armrests, pull-straps, center armrest uppers in the contrast dark chocolate with the new Lloyd's mats same color. While in there, changing all the bulbs on telltale panel and checking harness connections.
I hate seeing that pitted chrome on my tail-lamp bezel ... ugh
There's also a pic of my 1999 (build date 10/2008) Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited w/every option, that I've had since new, only 54K on it near mint condition & $20K+ in interior mods, with hi pro engine, German 2piece wheels, exhaust & suspension mods. The last 2 pics are a donor 1978 Seville I grabbed a few things off of last month (not ez to find around here, trust me)
Link>>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6qtr1acy4kdao7i/hrSPijD_PB#/
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I had a 1976 Seville, which I bought new and owned till 1986, one of my all time favorite cars! Your pictures of the headlight baskets from your car, that you had repaired, which brought back the one really bad memory of my Seville and the reason I didn't buy another GM product till the year 2000. The head light buckets on Cadillacs (all models) grew brittle after about tow year's use in the cars. They would break and the head light themselves would fall forward and leave you with useless head lights.This was true of my Seville and my friends' Cadillacs, whether they be de Villes or Fleetwoods. The part to fix the problem was only about $20.00 but a Cadillac agency wanted $200. to fix one side. As I said this part failed about every two years, at least in Los Angeles driving conditions. I contacted Cadillac on several occasions to see if their were places to come up with a sturdier replacement for this part .... and was basically told to shove it! These same defective headlight buckets continued to be used on Cadillacs until well into the late 1980's. Although the failure of these headlight buckets could have been corrected GM felt it was better to save a few cents a car rather than correct a potentially serious safety problem. GM's cavalier attitude this safety problem kept me from buying another GM product, and I am sure many of my friends followed suit, and led to my buying European cars for the next 18 years.
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When I was a young boy, I wrote letters to Cadillac upset in 1977 that they used plastic and fiberglass headers and bumper fillers, in addition to complaining about the crushed in '77 trunk-lid and too short length! They actually wrote back to me in those days with genuine professional replies, reasons & excuses as to why they were initiating these new cheaper materials and downsizing during the Jimmy Carter malaise era we lived through. I sent them a blank check for pictures and brochures, they mailed me back with a huge pile of showroom brochures, 8x10 promo photos, color chips and more. Lastly, they included a note teaching me the mistake of sending a blank check to anyone, telling me to never do that again and returned it to me, (that letter is stored in a box somewhere), I had received all of the material and a valuable lesson all for free, direct from Cadillac Motor Car Division. Those days are surely gone forever. They have destroyed most of the materials and now charge for each item they do offer by mail... different times, certainly. Anyhow, I digress... I too feel that my 1979 Seville is on of my all-time favorite cars (out of 20+). Thanks again for the story and input though.
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Regarding the high idle, with the air cleaner lid off, can you press down on the choke heater and does that lower the idle? This is assuming the engine is at full temperature after 20 minutes of use. The choke heater is beside the aircleaner stud. If it lowers, then remove the heater and place a thin washer under it to shim it slightly. Remove the air cleaner stud, then push down on the heater and turn counter clockwise. It should pop up out of the Throttle body. The choke heater closes off a designed in vacuum leak as the engine warms up. If it doesn't completely close the vacuum leak, it will idle too fast and might bog or hesitate on acceleration.
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recommend adding an external relay to eliminate this source of ECU damage. Info on this is on my
PHOTOBUCKET, and a lot of other 70s EFI stuff in the first few SUB ALBUMs.
I am going to guess, the hesitation is due to running lean from a failing MAP sensor; accounts for
another third of 70s failures. Bruce Roe
(that is a lower case "L"71, not an upper case "i"71)
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Met before?? Don't know. You have no State or Country in your profile! The relay in line is a very good suggestion! The connector was never designed to function for this many years.
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Have to say this...
Bruce Roe and carnut are God's gift to us 1st gen Seville & '70's EFI Cadillac owners. I have already, in such a short time, learned and stored away so much priceless information, ideas fixes, etc.
A BIG THANK YOU to you both. For myself I can't say enough how much I appreciate how giving you guys are.
These 2 Cadillac forums are filled with passionate, experienced and helpful members willing to go the extra mile for someone they may never even meet. Glad to now be a part of it all. It's pretty rare these days to find such passion, comradery and invaluable information laid out on a silver platter.
Thanks to everyone here for working together to help keep our Classic Cadillacs on the road.
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Bruce is a genuine wealth of information! Glad I could help.
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keeping my 79 Eldo running properly. In truth it was far more troublesome than my 79 Toro, but most of
the problems weren't too hard to fix for an electrical engineer. Modified the EFI to run a 403. Correctly,
not that messing with the temp sensor.
I saw a lot of burned connectors, burned PC traces, and failed fuel pump relay contacts. It was pretty
obvious an external relay was needed, as the 2nd gen designers all did. The funny thing was, the contact
where the current came in was always OK, maybe because it was close enough to the PC board to drain
away heat. The output contact would fail, longer lead to the PC. The good news is, there is a second
output contact for the cold idle air valve heater. Tie them together in the car, connect to the external
relay coil, and the burned connector works again. Better to avoid it though.
The next biggie is failing MAPs. I finally designed a solid state replacement that fits the same footprint,
not quite ready to recommend replacing an original before it fails.
Many of the remaining failures are Integrated Circuits, available for less than a buck. But a few
are custom, not available except by killing another ECU. Bruce


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And amidst all the many visits with the many Irish cousins from one end of the country to the other, at some point we visited Blarney Castle, where I of course needed to kiss the Blarney Stone. (Yes, those of you who know me personally – it all makes sense to you now, right?) Kissing the Blarney stone is a little more complicated than you might think. It involves lying on your back with your head hanging upside down inside a kind of high opening which is is sheer drop down to the ground, your legs being held by a guy whose job it is to hold folks' legs so they don't plummet down to earth. You need to be MOTIVATED. Or twelve years old, one or the other.
Although I seem pretty happy about the whole thing, I have to say. This trip also coincided with my twelve year old need to keep scrapbooks of everything I did in life, and this particular scrapbook includes not only various pictures of the trip, but pretty much every scrap of paper I collected along the way. Including the program for the movie that was showing on our TWA flight…
Joe Don Baker, where are you now? I also kept the menu for one of the flights, and from my neat check mark I'm guessing I had the Grilled Filet Steak Thomond.
Which I'm guessing is a reference to the Earl of Thomond restaurant in County Clare, which I only know because I just Googled "Thomond Steak" and that's what I got. I promise I am now getting to the point, which is that like Grilled Filet Steak Thomond, this Guinness beef stew is a warm and wonderful concoction of beef, vegetables and a lovely sauce. You do need to hunt down some of this.
You're going to start this stew on the stovetop just to get things simmering away, but the real cooking is going to happen in a low-temperature oven, so I highly recommend using a Dutch oven if you have one so you only have one pot to wash at the end of all this deliciousness. The oven will concentrate all the beer and broth and other wonderful ingredients down to a flavorful perfect sauce, and although there are potatoes in this dish, if you need some bread on the side to make sure you get every scrumptious drop, I totally understand.
I'll be back on St. Patrick's Day with my all-time favorite Irish recipe ever. Ever! Until then, enjoy this stew, and may the road rise to meet you.
Recipe lightly adapted from Cooks Illustrated
- 3-4 pounds beef chuck roast, cut into 1 inch chunks
- Salt and pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 onions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- ¼ cup flour
- 3 cups beef broth
- 1¼ cups Guinness Draught
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme
- 1½ pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 pound carrots, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
- Chopped fresh parsley for garnish
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Season beef with salt and pepper. Heat oil in Dutch oven over medium high heat and add onions. Stir until they are starting to brown, about 5 minutes.
- Add tomato paste and stir until well-combined. Stir in flour, and then whisk in broth, ¾ cup Guinness, sugar and thyme. Simmer for 3 minutes.
- Add beef and stir. Transfer the pot to the oven and cook uncovered for 90 minutes.
- Add potatoes and carrots to the pot, stir and continue cooking until the meat and veggies are tender, another 60 minutes.
- Add remaining Guinness, stir and add salt and pepper as needed. Sserve on warmed plates, garnished with parsley.


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Last of the Summer Wine
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Let's do this. One last spree before sunset. A final frolic in the heat and haze. The next time we meet like this, the breezes will be cooler, the leaves will be redder, and the harvest will be almost ripe. It's the last Wine-Off of the summer. And we don't intend to waste it.


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I have to take a DOT physical soon. Is the drug screen monitored, as in do they watch you do it? The reason I'm asking is I have a shy bladder and cannot go when someone is in the room. I cannot even go in public restrooms. Thanks.
#144 Sep 27, 2012
I think that if a person passes the DOT Physical, is honest about their condition and possibly gets a doctor's note stating they are stable enough to drive a truck, then they should be able to drive. this is just like a person who commited a felon gets out of jail and does not get a job and goes back to a life of crime cause our society preaches rehabilitation. but we really don't believe it. it makes me sick. Colonialism sucks
#145 Jan 9, 2013
Unless your company requires you to go to one specific physical provider, you can shop around for price and service.
#146 Feb 25, 2013
No it doesn't and no they don't 18 years and never had a drug screen durring physical ..its just to test urine for glucose and blood trust me I have had many many physical for cdl
...u get drug test when u get a job to drive NEVER IS A DRUG TEST GIVEN at PHYSICAL.
#147 Feb 25, 2013
And there are many truckers on medicine for pain ..they have the worst backs out there ...
#148 Feb 25, 2013
Why in the hell would anyone offer up personal info and medication list ..are you kidding me??? You don't have to tell anyone because the testing facility CAN NOT TELL ANYONE YOUR MEDICATION LIST ITS PRIVATE THEY ONLY TELL THE COMPANY YOU FAILED AND YOU CAN'T FAIL IF YOU ARE UNDER DOCTORS CARE.and prescribed the drug!!! So FN STUPID SOME PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING! NO TESTING CAN TELL PLACE CAN TELL EMPLOYER WHAT YOUR ON ONLY IF YOU FAILED OR PASSED ...MY WIFE GIVES DRUG TEST .NOBODY HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR ON -NOBODY!!! WHY WOULD YOU VIOLATE THE HIPPA LAWS THAT ARE THERE TO PROTECT YOU....WHAT YOU TAKE IS BETWEEN YOU AND DOCTOR DONT DIVULGE YOUR PRIVATE medication list ON ANYTHING .....don't put it on any application for employment! Why would you give information that can never be given to anyone ..
#149 Feb 25, 2013
/I have been getting dot physical fro 18 years and never ever had been given. A drug screen for a dot physical they don't test for drugs on dot physical only blood glucose you get tested when you go for job ...and then you NEVER GIVE YOUR MEDICATION LIST .your employer gets only this----pass or fail. If you fail the facility ask if you have a prescription for whatever showed up in your urine ....ARE YOU KIDDING???? WHY WOULD YOU VIOlate the hippa laws designed to protect YOU.....the results of test given to anyone is pass or failed and failed is only given not the list of drugs that you failed -its against the law.?? The list of medications is private and the pass or fail is given to the perspective employer.
#150 Mar 13, 2013
The medication in the original post is prescribed not for snoring but for sleep disorders. Really loud snoring also is a symptom of a sleep disorder or a cause for sleepiness if you cannot get a restful sleep due to your own noise.
I'm surprised you seem to be unaware of what exactly your prescribing doctor has diagnosed you with to prescribe you provigil. It is your responsibility to fallow up with your doc to either work with the DOT regs or to figure out how you ended up on provigil and if you can get off of it. it is basically a stimulant to keep people awake.
per the DOT
Provigil (Modafinil) is a medication used to treat excessive sleepiness caused by certain sleep disorders. These sleep disorders are narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome and shift work sleep disorders. Provigil has several concerning side effects such as chest pain, dizziness, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, irregular and/or fast heartbeat, increased blood pressure, tremors or shaking movements, anxiety, nervousness, rapidly changing mood, problems with memory, blurred vision or other vision changes to name a few. Many drugs interact with Provigil which include over-the-counter medications, prescription medications, nutritional supplements, herbal products, alcohol containing beverages and caffeine. The use of Provigil needs careful supervision. Provigil may affect concentration, function or may hide signs that an individual is tired. It is recommended that until an individual knows how Provigil affects him/her, they may not drive, use machinery or do any activity that requires mental alertness.
Drivers being prescribed Provigil should not be qualified until they have been monitored closely for at least 6 weeks while taking Provigil. The treating physician and the Medical Examiner should agree that the Provigil is effective in preventing daytime somnolence and document that no untoward side effects are present. Commercial motor vehicle drivers taking Provigil should be re-certified annually
as you can see it also a big deal because of the side effects of taking it. You shouldn't be taking it if you don't actually need it. Talk to your prescribing doctor.
I'm also surprised by the complete irresponsibility some people are displaying. Class A is a special class because we not only drive for a living but we drive big heavy vehicles. We not only accumulate more risk due to odds but accumulate more risks in that we are necessarily more deadly/damaging than the little tinny baby vehicles around us. We are out there more often and have the capacity to cut a wider swath of destruction. You are professionals. Act like and take your duties seriously or get off the road.
Also it is required that you come clean with your history to the DOT and other regulating parties. This is not an instance of abuse but of ensuring compliance and safety for a special class of driver re: the public.
As well while someone is afraid of bipolar disorder- it is a mood disorder and not a personality disorder or multiple personality disorder. It is also usually completely controllable by medication. There isn't much reason a stabilized person overseen by their pysch and the medical officer and the company wouldn't be able to work around the disorder.
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either way you need to get educated on mental illness.
re: Benzos I'm pretty sure are not allowed to be taken by a driver at any time.
re: drug test
all jobs will require a drug test for their files,to stay in compliance with DOT rules and will not hire you if you fail.(you might find a dirty co but prepare to get screwed)
I have never had anyone watch me pee but you will have to go into a clean and sealed single person bathroom with nothing (no bags no coats no place to hide anything i suppose). they also color the water with some solution and ask you not to flush. Idk what for.
#152 Apr 10, 2013
You're dead on correct, these guys are the most recent SS incarnations. concentra is the worst, they will fail you just because they don't like your response. The most insulting thing of all is they give that job to a (can u cuss on this site?) G.D. physician ASSistant, usually a 3rd worlder. This did happen to me in ATL concentra. Had to go down the road, tell them they were the first and get passed there. these A.H.'s (concentra) should be run out of business on a rail. The one I talked to this AM told me that it was they're policy to fail anyone they didn't think should be behind the wheel. When I pointed out that that was not what the DOT specified, she said it doesn't matter that was what they were going to do. At least I was able to tell her to piss up a rope. Was B4 I told her my name or company ;)
#153 May 6, 2013
I got into a car accident.I have a Cdl I blacked out in my car driving. The docs say seizure disorder. Can I still Get my med card.
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#154 May 7, 2013
Probobly not seizure disorder will disqualify you..
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#155 May 13, 2013
I take Provigil and have done so since 2003. I don't hav a sleep disorder. I have Multiple Sclerosis. The Provigil is for the fatigue associated with Multiple Sclerosis.
#156 May 18, 2013
Does atrial fibrilation fail a DOT exam?
#157 May 18, 2013
Does atrial fibrilation fail a DOT physical?
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#158 May 20, 2013
Afib will disqualify you, as it is a cardiac event.
#159 Jun 19, 2013
I have had back troubles in the past leading to Major back pains recently, Through pain management and exercise I have manage to get my weight from 220 to 195, I am 5'9", and I take Percocet (Oxycodone), Mobic, and Flexaril. These are Muscle relaxers, Arthritis, and Pain pills. They are prescribed and I have since taken them for a month with no drawbacks, or withdraws. Will I still be eligable for a medical card If I have a clean system with no history of abuse or addiction, but have a long history of taking these medications. I also have 20/17 vision which i was told was better then 20/20,(nurse said I could read the very bottom line with 2 mistakes, 2 Lines lower then the red line "20/20" vision line) I do have some hearing problems, I was told I need to hear a forced whisper from 5 feet. I will be able to hear perfectly if there are no Bass sounds at the time of the whisper. What are my chances?
#160 Jun 27, 2013
Most doctors in Alabama use the 649-F DOT form...it asks on page 2 if the patient/driver can distinguish among traffic control signals and devises red, green, and amber. Sorry!!
#161 Aug 6, 2013
I have driven for about 20 year's on the interstate and intrastate, with total hearing loss in my left ear. I applied for a job in the oil fields and was denied a Dot card due to my hearing issue. I drove for a State Agency and Coke/Cola distribution plant.
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#162 Oct 24, 2013
If I fail a dot exam can I retake it at another clinic
#163 Oct 27, 2013
Failure do to a Heart Murmur,been driving since 1990,now I'm 51, all the sudden it's a problem.Other previous doctors did not have a problem with it.,this one doctor will not pass me for my DOT CARD! Any suggestions ?? This I s in IL.
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I Have A Motorola V551 And I Am Attempting To Setup This Phone With My Vehicle. Can Someone Tell Me How To Setup My Phone To Be Compatible With My Vehicle? What Settings Do I Need To Use On The Motorola V551 And What Settings Do I Use For My Vehicle Under Communications? I'm Confused!!! Help!!! Please Make It Very Basic For Me To Understand!!!!!! Thanks!
You will need to browse E60 user manual as well as you phone's user manual (see bluetooth section)
From waht I know in general, there is a process called "pairing" that is when you pair your cellphone with your car. I did pair up my Sony-Ericsson T68i with my former Acura TL and albeit I don't remember details, I do remember that it was very simlple after reading user's manuals.
Here's the problem.. My Motorola phone worked before but BMW had to reset my computer and now my cell phone doesn't pair.. Oops I lost my Motorola v551 instruction booklet and now I'm stuck.. a little help please... Does my cell phone go inside the console to pair???
The phone can be anywhere inside the car to pair.
I too have a V551 and although I do not remember exactly what I did I do remember that it was very important to follow the BMW instructions to the letter.
The phone - go to the icon with the screw driver and wrench -
then to "connection", select bluetooth and it will look for the car and the car will look for the phone.
then to the "car settings", settings should be Auto answer "off", Auto handsfree "on"
not sure about the others but I have Power-off delay "30 minutes" and charger time "off".
I also recommend that when in the car keep the phone plugged in to a charger. I only get about 30 minutes of talk time if the phone is not plugged in.
Good luck . . .
The combination of the large LCD color display, and 20 second bluetooth seek every 10 minutes, rapidly discharges the battery.
Thank you - I will change the seting.
I can not find the seek setting in the intitial set up menu.
to KYBRIGGS82
I am having the same problem you had. My car went in for service and came back with software rev. 17.2 and my bluetooth does not work :mad:
What did you do to get your V551 to pair to the car?
I did get my phone to pair with the car but only about 40% of the phone book downloads to the car. Strange . . . Also the phone talk quality is worse now. Signal is terrible - I am dropping a lot of my calls or the call fades in and out. :mad:
I've been away all week and plan to call my SA on Monday.
17.2 - there is no longer a (compass) direction indicator in the Nav system! I think the old arrow to north and then you had to figure out the direction was awful - it should tell you what direction you are going. But now there is nothing! :thumbdwn:
The car is now less "touchy". I think they detuned the active steering and the throttle response and/or shifting points (automatic tranny). Anyway I have only driven to and from the airport since I got it back.
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dropped medication without reason,effected medical care for me thereafter,and discriminated against me in my personal medical file which i have copies of.
You are talking about a few different types of cases: 1) Medical Malpractice, for the medication issue, you would need to show that ending the medication would not be the standard of care, meaning other doctors would not have done so. You would probably need to establish this breach in the standard of care with expert testimony. You would also need to show that you suffered permanent injuries or medical bills as a result of the doctor's negligence. 2) You indicate that you have the basis for a discrimination case which is separate - you would need establish that the reason the doctor stopped the medication was due to some basis of race, or ethic, religious basis.
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Dynamic pricing will help the Cardinals more accurately price tickets for individual games and provide fans with more price options. Utilizing advanced computer programming linked to its new ticketing system, the Cardinals will have the ability to adjust ticket prices upward or downward on a daily basis based on changing factors such as team performance, pitching matchups, and the weather.
"We want to provide our fans with the best values possible and bring more fans out to Busch Stadium," said Bill DeWitt III, President of the Cardinals. "This new structure gives us greater day-to-day ticket pricing flexibility that reflects real-time market conditions."
Among the goals of value-based ticket pricing is broadening the ticket-buying fan base, rewarding fans for buying earlier in the season and protecting Season Ticket Holder value. The new structure only affects the sale of tickets to individual games and does not affect the sale of season tickets. The Cardinals have reassured full Season Ticket Holders, who began to receive renewal notices this week, that single-game ticket prices will never be lower than what a full Season Ticket Holder has paid. Season Ticket Holders will continue to pay a set price for their tickets, and will receive substantial savings over individual game ticket prices, and have the right to purchase post-season tickets.
"Our primary goal with implementing this new approach to ticketing is to get more fans to more of our games," said Joe Strohm, Vice President of Ticket Sales. "We believe this structure will help us reach more fans with attractive pricing options for seats that currently go unsold. It is a win-win for fans and the team."
Strohm said the Cardinals were persuaded to invest in a new, state-of-the-art ticketing system after learning about the experience the San Francisco Giants had this season with dynamic pricing. The Giants reported that their 2010 dynamic pricing structure enabled the organization to lower ticket prices for up to 75 percent of their games as compared to 2009 numbers. The Cardinals' new system will allow seats in sections that do not include Season Ticket Holders to go as low as $5 for games which have excess inventory for sale.
As in recent seasons, the pricing strategy for 2011 will continue to be value-driven throughout the ballpark, with nearly a quarter of Cardinals season tickets priced at less than $20 and nearly half of the existing Season Ticket Holder base receiving no price increase. Some Season Ticket Holder seating locations will actually receive a decrease in their season ticket prices. The majority of the Season Ticket holders experiencing a price increase in 2011 are Ballpark Founders who, by contract with the Club, have not received a price increase since moving into the new Busch Stadium five years ago.
The Cardinals drew 3,301,218 to Busch Stadium (fourth in Major League Baseball) during the 2010 season- the 14th time in franchise history and seventh straight season the team topped the three million mark.


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At least Arsene Wenger now has an excuse.
Arsenal manager Wenger has admitted he wants to sign a new striker before the transfer window slams shut on Thursday night.
But if he refuses to put his money where his mouth is, at least Wenger can point to Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott for evidence that all will not be lost.
Arsenal fans would no doubt prefer David Villa or Stevan Jovetic to arrive this week, but Wenger believes Giroud and Walcott provide him with plenty of quality.
Even though it was against Championship Brighton, that theory was backed up at the Amex Stadium as Giroud and Walcott secured Arsenal's path into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Fresh from scoring twice in the rout of West Ham, Giroud grabbed another brace against Brighton and Walcott stepped off the bench to grab the winner. Giroud, in particular, impressed.
His critics will argue his opposition was not top-class, but there was enough evidence to suggest the Frenchman is coming good.
And just when Wenger needed something extra to make up for the mistakes of Andre Santos and the Arsenal defence, he was able to call on Walcott.
Giroud now has 13 goals and nine assists for Arsenal in his first season in English football.
Walcott netted his 17th goal of the season and continues to prove he is well worth his new three-and-a-half-year, £100,000-a-week contract.
Giroud's first goal came just seconds after keeper Wojciech Szczesny had rescued Arsenal with a great save to deny Ashley Barnes.
Tomas Rosicky ran at the Brighton defence and passed to Lukas Podolski.
The German laid it off for Giroud, who scored with a left-foot curler.
That should have been the prompt for Arsenal to stamp their authority on the game, but a team with Santos in it is always going to give the opposition hope.
The Brazilian left-back, who would be better deployed as Arsenal's left-at-home, gave the ball away and Inigo Calderon's cross was tapped in by Leonardo Ulloa, but the goal was rightly ruled out for offside.
Brighton did not have to wait long to draw level, however, as Arsenal were caught out in the 33rd minute.
Per Mertesacker, Abou Diaby and Szczesny were all at fault for allowing Barnes to charge in unchallenged and head a David Lopez corner powerfully into the net.
Podolski smashed a free-kick against the Brighton bar early in the second half before Arsenal regained the lead – and once again it was Giroud with the finish.
Diaby played a wonderful ball over the Brighton defence and Giroud lost Adam El-Abd to steer it past Casper Ankergren.
Giroud almost completed his hat-trick, but saw Ankergren produce a great save after Rosicky had picked out the Frenchman.
Arsenal shot themselves in the foot again, however, and unsurprisingly it was Santos who was chiefly at fault.
He stood off Barnes, allowing him time and space to pick a perfect cross from the right and Ulloa beat Szczesny with a diving header.
It was a proud moment for Brighton's £2million debutant, who once played for Arsenal Sarandi in Argentina.
Wenger decided it was time to throw on his big guns, as Walcott and Jack Wilshere replaced Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rosicky in a move that ultimately paid dividends.
Santos finally received a big cheer from Arsenal's 4,000 travelling supporters – when it was announced he was being hauled off.
Giroud's overhead kick was then deflected wide and from the resulting corner, Ankergren punched the ball to Walcott.
His first-time volley glanced off El-Abd to give Arsenal their winner.
It was a cruel blow for Brighton.
Manager Gus Poyet admitted: "We are probably more disappointed than we should be because it felt there was a chance for us to do something special.
"But it is tough when Arsenal have Theo Walcott to bring on, and Giroud was outstanding."


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In a statement, Dempsey noted the importance of understanding the challenge that ethical lapse pose to the military, adding that military officials must continue to "see the challenge clearly and precisely", Xinhua reported.
Dempsey said that "this challenge didn't accumulate overnight, and it won't be solved overnight".
The US Air Force and the Navy, in the last few weeks, have disclosed investigations of cheating on tests by officers and sailors involved in nuclear operations. The Air Force also is pursuing a drug use investigation, and sexual assault and harassment cases have surfaced across the services.
"Acts of crime, misconduct, ethical breaches, command climate and stupidity each require a distinct solution," he said. "But the overall solution is attention to who we are as a profession. And that's my focus."


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My Week with Android: Action Items for Apple
My week with Android is over. I am back to my iPhone. I dropped a call on the way in to work. Good to be back.
I truly believe that Apple has the better product right now. The hardware is smaller, lighter, and more attractive. The software is more intuitive, better polished and better looking.
Nevertheless, Android is gaining momentum. Here are the things that apple must do to address some of the advantages of Android.
- Solve the dropped call program in the US. I am putting this separately since there is some anecdotal evidence mounting that the problem is not purely related to ATT and that other ATT phones hold calls better.
- Offer the iPhone on Verizon. Verizon is the strongest carrier in the US. Nearly everyone I meet that owns an Android-based Verizon phone tells me they would have chosen an iPhone over an Android device had it been available.
- Include turn by turn navigation on the iPhone built in. This will require an enormous capital outlay to get permanent and unfettered access to the dataset needed. Navteq is owned by Nokia. So that is pretty much out of the question for Apple. Tele Atlas is owned by Tom Tom. Tom Tom's market cap is only (Euros) 1.09B. Apple should just buy them and include as much of their tech as possible in iPhones. Mapping and navigation are core to smart phones and Apple needs to remove the dependency on Google.
- Better integrate voice-to-text on the iPhone. Being able to hit the microphone button in all contexts (SMS, email) and include a sentence by voice is very convenient on the Droid X. Apple could possibly license the tech from Nuance, or buy Nuance for stock. Voice is a critical part of the mobile experience.
- Provide Mobile Me (email, contacts, calendar) for free for Apple customers. One of the best things about the Android experience is the tight support between Gmail and Android. There are built in Calendar and Gmail apps for Android that integrate better with Google's services than Apple's Mail and Calendar program do. Phanfare uses Google Apps and I will miss the built in apps.
- Provide a 3G mobile hot-spot for the iPhone. Can cost extra. I wound up trying Android because I continued to maintain an Verizon MiFi for business when I switched from ATT to the iPhone. When the Droid X started shipping with the mobile hot spot, I realized that for maybe $20/month more, I could move service from the MiFi to the Droid X and have not only a mobile hot spot when traveling but also a verizon phone for calling. I realize the mobile hotspot will kill the battery. That's ok.
If Apple addresses these issues, I believe that Android momentum will stall. Long run, Android may still win with their multi-vendor low-cost approach. But it will take a lot longer if Apple takes care of these items.


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Is Neuromarketing On Your Roadmap?
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So I was sitting on the beach with my family recently when one of those planes trailing a banner passed overhead. I didn't think too much of it, but noticed that the banner advertised insurance products and featured that cute little gecko. My four year old son however, stopped playing in the sand for a few moments and looked up at the airplane. As it passed, he said aloud (more to himself than to anyone else) "Geico" and then went back to his sand castle. My wife and I looked at each other and laughed because our boy cannot yet read, but clearly the power of advertising created an indelible impression on our young son.
This event caused me to think about marketing and customer intelligence – but more specifically… How would this brand would leverage the fact that a four year old maintains an acute awareness of its existence, which is likely to remain tucked away somewhere in his consciousness?
Enter Neuromarketing. If you're unfamiliar with this term, tune into the recent 60 Minutes segment, where Leslie Stahl reports on the fMRI process.
It involves detecting cerebral response to imagery, messages or bluntly speaking – the effects of marketing on human senses. According to 60 Minutes interviewee, Paul Root Wolpe, the Director for the Center For Ethics at Emery University, he believes that there is no science fiction anymore because nearly anything is possible. He goes on to say that throughout history coercion tactics such as torture and persuasion don't work – and scientists are now attempting to resolve this problem through Neuromarketing. It may occur at the state level or in private practice, but these capabilities are available now. Sounds scary doesn't it? Before your thoughts meander to the devious possibilities, let's shift gears to examine how this emerging science can impact digital marketing on a more honest and benign level.
Major global brands such as Unilever, Intel, McDonald's and Proctor & Gamble are currently using Neuromarketing tactics to understand the way that consumers react to - and interact with - their organizations. Author and world-traveling marketer, Martin Lindstrom wrote a book on the topic called Buy-ology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy. In his research he uncovered some startling evidence of how humans react to brands and brand related imagery. For example, he discovered that Tiffany's branded color of blue actually stimulates the hearbeat rates among women by up to 22%. Or more startling – he discovered that the more graphic and horrific the warning images displayed on cigarette packages were, the stronger the cravings they generated among smokers. This is both appalling and fascinating at the same time. Yet, throughout his research, he illustrates that customer behavior – while seemingly erratic can be attributed to specific responses derived from the brain. Moreover, marketers who understand these cerebral responses can generate instinctual reactions, sometimes compelling the desire to buy, thus improving their marketing effectiveness.
These findings and the science of Neuromarketing are coming into play within many marketing programs today. Yet, before you go install fMRI scanners in your POS systems, consider the power of your brand and how you are mining Customer Intelligence from the data that you currently posses regarding your customer's behavior. Neuromarketing is an inevitable technology that marketers will use to sell consumers more goods. Is it on your roadmap?
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F-ing amazing. And I thought Social Media was cool for marketing.Social Stevewww.socialsteve.wordpress.com
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Undrafted rookie Matthew Dellavedova has signed a two-year contract with the Cavaliers for about $1.3 million, but only a small portion of this season's deal is guaranteed, a league source confirmed Thursday. The signing was first reported by Australian media.
Dellavedova averaged 2.8 points and 3 assists in five summer league games with the Cavaliers after leaving St. Mary's as the school's all-time leader in scoring, assists, games played, free-throw percentage and 3-pointers. He played for the Australian Olympic team last summer, but the biggest knock against him is a lack of athleticism.
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Stop the Fiscal War Against Our Children Now: Laurence KotlikoffLaurence Kotlikoff
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Our war in Afghanistan may be ending, but our war against our children continues in full force.
The Congressional Budget Office just released its annual long-term fiscal forecast. It shows, after some simple calculations, that our government's fiscal gap -- the bill presumably being left to our children -- has grown enormously over the past year.
The fiscal gap measures, in present value, the difference between all projected federal spending and future taxes. By including all spending on the same footing -- whether official debt service, entitlement programs or discretionary government purchases -- the fiscal gap makes no distinction between official and unofficial spending obligations, and properly so.
In fact, the government's classification of obligations such as interest payments as official and others, such as Social Security payments, as unofficial is a labeling game with no basis whatsoever in economic theory. It's a strategy politicians have used for decades to disguise the true nature of our country's indebtedness.
How big is the fiscal gap? By my own calculations using the CBO data, it now stands at $211 trillion -- a huge sum equaling 14 times the country's economic output. To arrive at that figure, I assumed that annual noninterest spending, as well as taxes, would grow indefinitely by 2 percent a year beyond 2075, the point at which the CBO's estimates end.
Growing Gap
The gap was $205 trillion last year, measured in today's dollars. That's an increase of $6 trillion. By contrast, the government's count of official debt held by the public is $10 trillion -- $850 billion more than last year's figure, after adjusting for inflation. Hence, the real deficit we should be worrying about is more than six times larger than the $850 billion official deficit capturing all the attention.
In other words, Congress and the president's administration could agree to run a balanced budget, making this year's official deficit zero, and the nation's true indebtedness would still rise by $5.15 trillion!
What accounts for the extra $5.15 trillion? In part, the CBO is now projecting somewhat smaller future taxes. But the main reason is that we are one year closer to having to pay 78 million baby boomers roughly $40,000, on average, per year in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Because the fiscal gap is a discounted present value, one year makes a big difference.
Dire Position
Our fiscal position is so dire that it's showing up even in our phony official deficit accounting. Last year the CBO projected that official U.S. federal debt would first exceed 90 percent of annual economic output in 2021. This year it projects 2018 as that critical date. That's a three-year deterioration in just 12 months. Including the debts of federal agencies to one another, such as those of the Treasury to the Federal Reserve, the number has already passed 90 percent.
Why is 90 percent a critical debt-to-gross domestic product threshold? Because two prominent economists, Ken Rogoff of Harvard and Carmen Reinhart of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, studied the historical record and have found that countries passing this threshold face sharply lower rates of economic growth.
Rogoff and Reinhart are outstanding scholars, but I take issue with their analysis. Were they to form official debt-to-GDP series for each country in their sample using alternative labeling conventions, they would find a different threshold. Indeed, depending on the set of labels applied, Rogoff and Reinhart could arrive at any threshold they would like for the critical value.
Different Labels
The fact that governments choose a particular set of words to characterize receipts and payments does not prevent others from using their own set of labels and making up their own historical time series for deficits. For example, I could call last year's FICA contributions "borrowing" rather than "taxes" and label a portion of the contributors' future Social Security and Medicare benefits as return of principal plus interest on this borrowing. Voila! Last year's official deficit would be 15 percent, not 10 percent of GDP.
The 90 percent official debt-to-GDP threshold is important only because Rogoff and Reinhart take governments' inherently arbitrary fiscal labeling as meaningful and have persuaded themselves and others that 90 percent is the threshold.
No Arbitrary Measure
Again, the fiscal gap, measured over the infinite horizon, is the only label-invariant measure of fiscal solvency, and its message is loud and clear. We aren't broke in 2021 or in 2018. We're not broke when some arbitrary measure of official debt exceeds some arbitrary threshold. We're broke today because the fiscal gap is huge.
Furthermore, because the government's cash flows aren't well defined, there is no label-invariant distinction between long-run and short-run fiscal policy. There is only the present value of the policy's path of promised outlays net of projected receipts, no matter how they are labeled. Consequently, the assertion by some prominent politicians that our fiscal problems are long-term and that we have time to fix them is, economically speaking, mindless. Time may be on our side, but it's certainly not on our kids' side.
Fiscal Order
What would it take to get our fiscal house in order? One answer is to raise all federal taxes -- personal income taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate and gift taxes -- immediately and permanently by 64 percent. Another option is to cut all noninterest spending by 40 percent.
Alternatively, if we wait 20 years to change policy, these two figures become 77 percent and 46 percent, respectively. If we wait 40 years, until all the baby boomers have safely taken their leave, the requisite permanent tax increases and spending cuts are 93 percent and 53 percent.
Thus, the longer we wait to address the problem, the larger the bill our children must pay either in higher taxes or lower benefits. This is the awful zero-sum nature of our generational dilemma and the moral challenge of our day.
The growing fiscal gap leaves no doubt. Intentionally or not, we have placed our children in grave economic danger. Their protection must be our highest priority. Our leaders, if they actually care about their children and ours, need to stop playing word games. They need to forget about the "official" debt, forget about the "official" deficit, forget about the "official" debt ceiling, start seeing the economic forest for the trees, and set in place policies -- policies that go far beyond what's being considered -- to eliminate the fiscal gap.
(Laurence J. Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University, is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Re: Eigenvalues works very slow
On 10/24/12 at 3:30 AM, lapajne.jure at gmail.com (jure lapajne) wrote:
>Hello, I'm trying to calculate eigenvalues of different sized
>matrices (from 10x10 to 1000x1000) using mathematica's built-in
>function - Eigenvalues. For smaller matrices it works ok, but for
>larger matrices it's just too slow. I tried writing the code in
>another system and it finds eigenvalues very quickly (in a second or
>two at most) even for big matrices. I'm not sure whether am I doing
>something wrong or is the speed difference really this big. My code
>(you only need to change d to change the size of matrix):
>d = 25;
>q = Table[Table[1/2*Sqrt[i + j + 1]*KroneckerDelta[Abs[i - j], 1], {j, 0, d-1}],{i, 0, d - 1}];
>h0 = Table[Table[(i + 1/2)*KroneckerDelta[i, j], {j, 0, d - 1}], {i, 0,d-1}];
>lambda = 1/2;
>q4 = lambda*q.q.q.q;
>N[Eigenvalues[q4 + h0]]
Your code asks Mathematica to obtain the exact value of each
eigenvalue and later convert these values to machine precision
numbers. I am certain the reason the other system is so much
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Instead of doing:
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Eigenvalues[q4 + h0//N]
and you will find it is much faster for large matrices.
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2010 Tennessee Track & Field Schedule
By Eric Trainer, Associate Director of Media Relations
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- J.J. Clark, who is in his first season as the director of track & field for men and women at Tennessee after spending the previous seven years leading the Lady Vols to a pair of NCAA Championships and three SEC titles, released his squads' 2010 schedule on Thursday. The grueling six-month itinerary stretches from the indoor season-opening Kentucky Invitational in Lexington on Jan. 15-16 to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., on June 9-12.
The schedule, which features a handful of new events sprinkled in with some tried-and-true meets, was constructed with input from the entire coaching staff and offers multiple meets on several weekends to help the various event groups try to accomplish their goals against good competition throughout the season.
"We came together as a staff and decided for some of the schedule to do what is best for the individual event groups," Clark said. "Some meets don't offer quality competition across the board in all events, or they don't offer an ideal setting to qualify someone for NCAA Indoors in the distances, so we picked the best meets that would allow us to do that. That results in us splitting up for some of the weekends, especially indoors."
With the newly-formed coaching staff and teams under the same leadership for the initial time, the first two meets of the campaign, the Kentucky Invitational and the Virginia Tech Hokie Invitational, will offer back-to-back weekends of team-staff bonding on Jan. 15-16 and Jan. 22-23. The third weekend, though, will allow event-specific opportunities on Jan. 29-30 at the Rod McCravy Memorial in Lexington, Ky., the Penn State National in University Park, Pa., and the J.D. Martin Invitational in Norman, Okla.
"It's nice to travel together, get to know each other and become one unit," Clark said of the early season weekends where UT has only one destination. "It will help us forge a united front as we prepare for the rest of our indoor schedule. Even though we are in the middle of cross country right now, I believe people are really getting excited about the upcoming indoor season."
Included in the February sector of the schedule are three weekends of preparation prior to the SEC Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., on Feb. 26-28. The first is the New Balance Collegiate Invitational at New York City's famed Armory Track, Feb. 5-6, where the Lady Vols' distance medley relay set the indoor world record in that event last season. Feb. 12-13, Tennessee splits up again for the Texas A&M Challenge in College Station and the Husky Classic in Seattle, where only a handful of distance runners will make the trek.
The UT women, it should be noted, helped the Aggies open the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium last Jan. 24 in front of 3,000 fans at the Texas A&M Dual and later won the NCAA Indoor title in that venue. This year's A&M Challenge, in which the Big Orange men also will participate, features three schools each from the Big 12 (A&M, Baylor and Texas), SEC (Alabama, Ole Miss and UT) and Conference USA (Houston, Rice and TCU). Rounding out the February slate is the Virginia Tech Challenge on Feb. 19-20.
"The Texas A&M Challenge is an opportunity to run on a good track, see some good competition and continue to become familiar with that venue," Clark said. "We won the NCAA Indoor National Championship there last March, and even though the NCAA meet will be in Fayetteville, Ark., this year, it will no doubt be back in College Station in the near future.
"The New Balance meet has been around for quite some time. We went there last year for the second time, broke an American record in the distance medley relay and had some other good performances. It's just good to go back up there, get our student-athletes in shape and showcase our team in front of a lot of fans in a great venue and city."
After the SEC Championships take place in Fayetteville the last weekend in February, affording UT a preview of the NCAA facility, the squads head back to Northwest Arkansas March 12-13 to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center. The UT tracksters have created some lasting memories in that building, with the men winning their fourth overall NCAA team title there back in 2002 and the women capturing the 2005 indoor crown.
Outdoors, the slate begins on March 26-27, as the squad splits up coast to coast for the FSU Relays in Tallahassee, Fla., and the Stanford Invitational out in California. Five big meets follow, including the Pepsi Florida Relays (April 2-3), the Sea Ray Relays (April 7-10), the Volunteer Track Classic (April 16-17), the Penn Relays (April 22-24) and UCSD Triton Invitational (April 23-24).
The Sea Ray Relays and Volunteer Track Classic are the first two of four home events to be held at soon-to-be-renovated Tom Black Track at LaPorte Stadium in 2010. While teams will compete in the 44th edition of the Sea Ray Relays, college teams will be a part of the VTC for only the second time. A year ago, women's squads from Tennessee, Alabama, Carson-Newman and Ohio State took part in the long-time high school meet. This season, men's teams are slated to join the field, with the competing schools still to be finalized.
"I would like to get more people out to watch our home meets," Clark said. "It's always important for us to do well in front of our home crowd. With Sea Rays and the VTC, those are the first opportunities all season to run at home and have some support from our fans, because we don't have the facility to host indoor meets. We're looking forward to competing at Tom Black Track at LaPorte Stadium and doing well."
As for the Penn Relays, Tennessee has a long-standing tradition of excellence at the grand old meet in Philadelphia. A year ago, the Big Orange put on a show, winning a title in the men's sprint medley relay and capturing women's relay victories in the distance medley, 4x1500m and 4x800m events. The 4x15m unit set world, American and collegiate records, while the 4x8 tandem claimed American and collegiate marks. Both toppled meet, stadium and school marks as well.
"On any given day, you could have 30,000 to 50,000 people at the Penn Relays," Clark said. "It is such a marquee event. Going there last year and having the women break world and American records and win three relay events and the men win the sprint medley was just a banner year for Tennessee.
"We're looking forward to going back in 2010, staying consistent and maintaining our great performances, as we have throughout the years on both our men's and women's teams. This year, it will even be more of a ground-breaking weekend for Tennessee, as we take our teams there together, stand strong as one unified group and hope to get some great things done."
In May, the Lady Vols and Vols will tune up at home for the league meet with the Tennessee Invitational on May 8 and then invite the rest of the conference back on May 13-16 for the SEC Outdoor Championships. It will mark the first time since 2003 and the fifth time since 1981 that Knoxville has played host to arguably the finest assemblage of college track & field talent in the nation.
"It is always an honor to host the SEC meet," Clark said. "It also is nice to have a meet like that at home because we are familiar with the surroundings and don't have to travel anywhere to compete. It should be a great event for us.
"Our stadium is undergoing renovations, so the facility, the surface and landscaping will look great. We are excited to host and will strive to come out and perform at our best, as that meet signifies the start of the outdoor championship season."
Qualifying for the outdoor national championship meet will be a little different in 2010, as the NCAA has tweaked its postseason format. Instead of athletes qualifying for one of the four regionals, they will now try to earn entry marks for two large regional-type meets, designated as East and West Preliminary Rounds. Tennessee will compete in the East Preliminary Round on May 27-29 in Greensboro, N.C. The object there, as with the former four-region format, will be to qualify for the season's collegiate grand finale, the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., June 9-12.
Jan. 15-16 * Kentucky Invitational * Lexington, Ky. * All Day
Jan. 22-23 * Virginia Tech Hokie Invitational * Blacksburg, Va. * All Day
Jan. 29-30 * Penn State National Invitational * University Park, Pa. * All Day
Jan. 29-30 * Rod McCravy Memorial * Lexington, Ky. * All Day
Jan. 30 * J.D. Martin Invitational * Norman, Okla. * All Day
Feb. 5-6 * New Balance Collegiate Invitational * New York, N.Y. * All Day
Feb. 12-13 * Husky Classic * Seattle, Wash. * All Day
Feb. 13 Sat. * Texas A&M Challenge * College Station, Texas * All Day
Feb. 19-20 * Virginia Tech Challenge * Blacksburg, Va. * All Day
Feb. 26-Feb. 28 * SEC Indoor Championships * Fayetteville, Ark. * All Day
March 12-13 * NCAA Indoor Championships * Fayetteville, Ark. * All Day
March 26-27 * FSU Relays * Tallahassee, Fla. * All Day
March 26-27 * Stanford Invitational * Stanford, Calif. * All Day
April 2-3 * Pepsi Florida Relays * Gainesville, Fla. * All Day
April 22-24 * Penn Relays * Philadelphia, Pa. * All Day
April 23-24 * UCSD Triton Invitational * LaJolla, Calif. * All Day
May 27-29 * NCAA East Preliminary Round * Greensboro, N.C. * All Day
June 9-12 * NCAA Outdoor Championships * Eugene, Ore. * All Day
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The Stephens County Indian football team will turn its attention to the regular season after scrimmaging St. Pius Friday night.
St. Pius scored the first time it had the ball Friday night as the Golden Lions outscored the Indians 27-7 in the first three quarters with varsity teams on the field.
Both schools' junior varsity teams scored once in the fourth quarter.
St. Pius running back Dalton Wilson had touchdown runs of 1 yard and 10 yards to lead the Golden Lions.
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