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Project Max Effort 1967 Cougar Engine Placement - Position Of PowerWritten by on June 1, 2012 We set the optimum location and angle for the driveline in our '67 Cougar project car
It's admittedly been a while since we last wrenched on our ultimate incarnation of a street-legal road racer known as Max Effort, but we're ready to get serious again. [Editor's note: Last time was the Nov. '11 issue, when we built the '67 Cougar's rollcage.] Now we've got a big step forward to kick things off again: We're dropping in the drivetrain.
But this isn't just a simple bolt-it-to-the-mount operation. Since Max Effort makes use of CorteX Racing's vintage competition suspension, which includes a complete swap over to a K-member much like modern muscle cars use, our options are wide open for engine placement. Typically, the CorteX K-member would be equipped with standard mounts for a small-block Ford, modular Ford (including the Coyote), or GM LS, depending upon the customer's engine plans, but ours is sans mounts of any type. That's intentional; we have no plans to use the block mounts. We're going for the kill and building an engine plate.
Why an engine plate? Well, we've got two thoughts working together here. First and foremost we can create increased rigidity on the front of the chassis by strategically tying the two sides of the rollcage and the framerails together. We're also planning to set the engine back and down significantly for better weight distribution, so trying to use stock-style mounts becomes more of a chore than a convenience. Besides, by eliminating the block mounts we gain the added benefit of a very open area for the custom headers that we'll need to build down the road.
For rodders who aren't so concerned with those points, there are several other key benefits to positively locating the engine. You've likely seen racers at the track who've added a torque link to one side of the engine to prevent torque roll. That's essentially because any side-to-side motion of the engine is just wasted energy that's only doing two things: creating a slight loss of power since ideally we want the driveline to transmit all of its power through the crankshaft, and straining the mounts and the bosses they are bolted to. Additionally, that sideways roll can affect how a car handles as it creates a rolling force to one side of the car. That's never good when you're hard on the throttle.
Solid engine and trans mounts might be the obvious go-to choice for eliminating the twist, but solid engine mounts transmit a massive amount of stress into small points on the sides of the block. The higher the horsepower, the more of an issue this becomes as the pushing and pulling forces can actually slightly deform the block under WOT. At a minimum, damage to the engine mount bosses can occur. By contrast, an engine plate works to distribute the stress on the block more evenly. Our 715hp 438ci Clevor from Ford Performance Solutions generates plenty of power to make all of that a concern.
To make sure we're channeling all of that power where we want it and not creating any adverse conditions for handling, we're once again trusting the experience of talented fabricator Ryan Kertz at Kertz Fabrication in Sonoma, California. His years of experience building road race and extreme street cars are exactly what we need to make the most of our engine placement.
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As a refresher, here's what we'll be putting into place in Max Effort: the FAST-injected 715hp 438ci Clevor pieced together by Ford Performance Solutions (FPS) from the Oct. '11 issue. We've got several things to consider clearance wise, most notably the Aviaid dry-sump pump. By the way, CorteX Racing has partnered with FPS for a new Street & Track engine program, so if you'd like your own version of this engine, give 'em a call.Running a proper one-piece engine plate requires accounting for the added thickness of the plate. Luckily, factory Ford timing covers have plenty of extra material we can mill off without creating any issues.Remember what we said about setting the engine back a bit and tying in the chassis for optimum rigidity? The math told us that to get it where the two coincided perfectly we were going to have to trim the firewall a bit. Well, actually a lot. Want to see the sparks fly? Check out the video of us using Miller's Spectrum 375 Xtreme plasma cutter on PHR's YouTube channel. This thing cuts like a hot knife through butter!We'll be running a �-inch aluminum engine plate on Max Effort. For perspective, here's how much we removed from the timing cover to fit it in.Building the engine plate and determining the setback really requires the whole driveline. Our trans of choice for Max Effort is Rockland Standard Gear's (RSG) road race–prepped T56, called the Tranzilla. RSG specializes in building bulletproof racing transmissions for professional teams competing in the Grand-Am Cup endurance series, the Speed World Challenge, and SCCA T1 and T2 classes, so we really couldn't ask for a more perfectly prepped six-speed for a track car. We went with the close-ratio option: 2.29, 1.60, 1.21, 1.00, .85, and .76. We'll delve a little deeper into the specs on this bad boy later.This is the ideal location that we want; the Aviaid oil pan is completely behind the steering rack with the ATI balancer just barely clearing it. From a handling standpoint, it's always beneficial to get the weight as low as possible in the car, and sliding the engine this far back gave us the additional benefit of dropping the engine roughly 3 inches lower in the chassis than stock.Thanks to our friends at Ford Racing, we got our hands on the schematic for the location of the all the boltholes on the factory Ford 351 Windsor small-block. Our block is from Dart, but the measurements were, of course, dead-on all around.Since all the specs were identical, rather than try to transfer them from the paper, Ryan Kertz decided to use a spare small-block Ford with transfer screws (essentially an array of center punches) placed in all the appropriate holes.
From those marks, Kertz knows exactly where to drill out the holes so the plate fits like a glove. Note that he also cut out an oval for the timing chain. Once he has the holes drilled, the plate slides into place on the engine to verify fitment. It's also a good idea to have your accessories on hand to verify clearance; that scallop on the left-hand side of the plate is to clear our Aviaid dry-sump pump.While the concept of building an engine plate is very simple, it's time consuming since it requires lots of trial fitments to make sure it fits precisely on all boltholes without any fudge factors. Keeping the holes as tight as possible also helps control fatigue on the plate itself.This is also the point at which we need to set our driveline angle relative to the pinion. Ideally, we want a 0-degree pinion angle that creates a straight line from the crankshaft through the transmission, driveshaft, and the pinion while the car is under load. But to get that we have to compensate for the upward movement of the differential under load with a slightly negative pinion angle. For our purposes we went with a negative 2-degree angle, which should zero-out when under hard throttle.To tie the aluminum plate into the steel of the chassis, Kertz needed to create two steel brackets. To do that, he used this exceptionally useful form finder. By pressing it against the area he wants to attach to, the plastic blades slide and create the exact line Kertz needs to cut to match the bracket to the car.This is the result: a bracket with a perfect fitment on the first try. The bracket gets welded into place here and the engine plate is bolted to it with two ⅜-inch Grade 8 bolts.Here's how it looks fully installed. Note the position of the plate relative to the CorteX Racing mini towers; we purposely welded it in the centerline for the great strengthening of the area where twisting forces from the suspension will be present under hard cornering. Once we have the headers and steering linkage sorted we'll add engine limiters to control fore/aft motion, and a mid-plate of some sort.How far back did we have to slide the engine to get that optimum rigidity? Far enough that it's technically a Front-Mid-engine (FMR) muscle car now! Theoretically that will translate into huge handling benefits, since moving the weight nearer to the center of the chassis spreads it more equally to all tires, which, in turn, reduces the rotational moment of inertia. This enables the chassis to more quickly respond to driver input and should increase stability and traction while turning, braking, and accelerating.With the Clevor securely mounted in place, Kertz turned his attention to mounting the RSG Tranzilla. This was a much simpler operation with tubing leftover from the rollcage.The engine may be solidly mounted, but we definitely don't want that for the trans. That's because any twisting forces will now be transferred into the chassis and even as stiff as Max is, there could be deflection. If we used a solid mount, the tailhousing would be seeing all the twist, and we've witnessed plenty of cracked cases from solid tranny mounts because of this. While it's mostly an issue for drag racers with big power, we opted for the shortest T56 mount available from Energy Suspension.
We're a long way from being able to use the stock trans crossmember mounting location, so Kertz made these simple tabs to take advantage of Max's tube subframe connectors.The tabs were welded to the subframe connectors with the goal of getting the tube as close to the floor as possible for exhaust clearance later.This simple mount style not only gives us extra exhaust clearance, it also optimizes our ground clearance by ensuring that the mount doesn't hang any lower than the body of the trans itself. To strengthen the mount, Kertz boxed in the sides. The holes are mostly for style, though we'll claim there's some weight savings too.The drivetrain is officially positioned as perfectly as possible in Max for now. We don't yet have our driveshaft since we didn't want to guess on the exact length, but you'll see that unique part in an upcoming issue along with the clutch system.


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I have read over the book by R. V. Kadison and J. R. Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras. Vol 1, and have done most of the exercises in it. Now I want to find an alternative book for Vol 2, because I once heard that the content in this book is somewhat out of date and the theories are developed in a rather slow pace. Which book can I choose then?
I guess it depends a little on what you are looking for.
If you want to pay attention to the C*-side, you may want to look at Davidson (very neat presentation of several key topics), or Murphy (maybe more basic, but a favourite in clarity).
For the von Neumann side, an option to get started is Sunder: many things are done in factors, avoiding many complications tackled by Kadison. But if you are going to be into von Neumann algebras at all, I think that you need to have some familiarity with Kadison and with Takesaki. I usually find myself going back to those two fairly often.
I'll add a specific entry for Takesaki's books. I learnt what von Neumann theory I know from these books. Especially volume 2 is a very nice, and concise, guide to an awful lot of the theory around Tomita-Takesaki and Connes' theory of weights.
If you are interested in Tomita-Takesaki, in a gentler fashion, then the old books by Stratila are nice. In particular, they explain the unbounded operator theory somewhat more than Takesaki does.
But it really depends what the original interest is: if you want to get into modern C*-algebra theory, then Takesaki is not the way to go.
Finally, for reference, the recent book by Blakadar is wonderful, and is a great place to look for something, before reading up in more detail somewhere else.
It depends on what you'd like to know. Above answers suggest Davidson and Blackadar for C*-algebras, and Takesaki for some more detailed theory of von Neumann algebras. These are excellent suggestions.
I'd like to add that if you want to learn more about finite von Neumann algebras/factors, you may find it helpful to read chapters 6-9 of Kadison and Ringrose, and then have a look at Finite von Neumann algebras and MASAs by Sinclair and Smith. Then you perhaps should try to read some of Sorin Popa's recent papers and begin backfilling knowledge around these.
A few years ago, a 2 volume advanced text on operator theory (vol. 50: "An invitation to operator theory"; vol. 51: "Problems in operator theory") came out by Y.A. Abramovich and C.D. Aliprantis which is supposed to be excellent and very up to date; it's the only account that gives a detailed treatment of ordered function spaces. A detailed description of the text can be found here:
I haven't done more then browse it and most of it's over my head, but it definitely is worth a look.


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Why was my answer converted to a comment and why was I encouraged to post my comment as an answer?
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To renew Prime, or not to renew prime... that is the question!?
So I've been a Prime Member for a few years now... Student->AmazonMom->Student$39 deal, so I've definitely had a good streak.. but I don't foresee any further deals in my future as I've used them all up lol...
I'm just having a hard time justifying spending $75/yr when there is already free-shipping (standard). The streaming is awful (searching that is), and while I did get a good $25+ mp3 credits for declining Prime and a few mp3 credits for having Student Prime, I don't really see those as worthwhile perks. The 2-day free shipping is the ONLY thing I am really interested in.
My track record on Amazon:
16 orders placed in 2009
107 orders placed in 2010
441 orders placed in 2011
92 orders placed in 2012 so far
TOTAL: 656 orders
I would say at least 75% of those orders were Prime orders.
So I guess rationally speaking, it seems it might be worth it, but after only paying $39 for 3 years, it makes me not want to put up $79 for 1 year..
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You could split the cost with a family member (up to 3 I think). Makes it a lot more affordable.
The past $39 Prime fee is irrelevant to your analysis.
Of the orders placed in any 1 year period, would you have paid more or less than $79 for shipping? If less than $79, do the other benefits make up the difference? If more than $79, then renew.
Yeah, you can avoid the shipping charges by buying at least $25 from the selected items but that means you either have to spend more or save up all your purchases to get at least $25.
The number of orders for 2012 is pretty large. The only question left to answer is if those are over $25 each. If so, I wouldn't upgrade because you generally get free shipping for orders over $25 anyway. If they are generally less than that, it would be worth it for you.
Not only do you pick up the two day shipping you can avail yourself of the instant video (yeah, search isn't great there) and kindle library if that kind of thing interests you.
As previously mentioned you can also share with 'family' members and ask them to kick in.
The very few times I've had issues with an Amazon order I felt the prime membership was of benefit towards resolving things in my favor.
Might also look into shoprunner for free (or $1). Doesn't work on Amazon but does offer free 2 day shipping on some merchants (mostly I use it on Newegg) as an alternative.
I'm just trying to fathom how a person could place 441 orders in a single year.
I have prime and I'm also wrestling with whether or not I should renew it. But I'm guessing that the savings on shipping for incidental small purchases (<$25 / order) more than makes up for the cost of the membership.
You could be lame like me and wait until you need enough things then order.. My last order was a touch pad cover (decided I needed that 2 weeks ago, with a screen protector.) Stylus for my wife (this weekend), lawn mower part for my mom (needed a week ago). shelf liner for my toolbox. (wanted 3 weeks ago)
What I am saying is change your shopping style or get Prime.
For reference:
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@bls1: lol ya, more than 1 order per day in a calendar year.. But again when the Mp3 deal was out, I would split up my order to 1-item-per-order instead of 1-order with multiple items in it to get more mp3 credits..
@jesseroo: that is actually a good idea..! I forgot all about that.. so $26.33/ea for a year.. is a steal.. although how does it work? I imagine its 3-separate accounts (mine and 2 others)..
I probably wouldn't. If you're such a super-heavy user that you average almost an order a day, you can just save up your orders until they hit that magic $25 free-shipping mark.
I share with a friend who pays half the fee. Worth it to me.
@teenracer6: I didn't know you can share the membership with friends. I will have to recruit one next time I renew.
They should add free shipping from Woot! to the deal....they'd probably grab/keep a lot of subscribers....
@mtrlgrl: We just share the account and password and card info and stuff. He pays for it and I deposit my half into his bank account or vise versa.
you could try going without it for a while and see how your purchase patterns change, if at all. or if you find yourself averagely losing money
i do something similar to @caffeine_dude, i manage my amazon wishlist and combine as much as possible to get free shipping. or pad my order a bit using an amazon filler item
@teenracer6: Thanks for clarifying that.
I find that I buy more when I have Prime than before, but it is very useful when you need items quickly, especially around Christmas/holiday/birthday times. I don't care for the limited amount of streaming videos. Netflix is better for that. And they should make the streaming available for iPads too.
The one (and pretty much only) think making me consider getting Prime is the Instant VIdeo. Now that Amazon Video is on PS3 and 360, I can easily get from them, and prime members can watch a bunch of stuff for free (ala netflix) that non prime members have to pay for each use or purchase on
I feel you. I am not looking forward to my prime expiring but while it seems worth it for 40 bucks, I'm just not sure if it's worth 75.
If the videos isn't a driver for you (or people you know), you can share it without having to actually share your account info. They allow you to share it with up to 3 separate amazon accounts (supposedly in the same household) for the Prime Shipping. Only the paying account gets access to the videos though.
I have been kind of disappointed with the videos and really disappointed with the lending library for the Kindle as far as finding things I was genuinely interested in. A decent amount of stuff available, but not nearly as much as other streaming options - if that was what I was looking for I would have felt I was wasting money.
However, from a shopping standpoint I feel it is worth it to me because it helps me not buy as much (to get to the $25 or stop me from going to a store to get something immediately and then buy extra stuff).
It only matters if you expect you'd pay more than that in shipping. What you used to pay doesn't matter, just what you'd save (or not).
The fact that it was $39 a year before this matters not for the future.
$79 per year is less than 22 cents a day. If you ignore the instant videos, this basically gets you two-day shipping on almost everything without any angst, order combining or other hassles. Plus, if something comes up and you suddenly need something even faster, it only costs you $4 per item.
It boils down to what you think the convenience and hassle reduction is worth. I know many people who will plunk down more than five times that 22 cents several times a day for the convenience of not having to make their own coffee. Even the people I know that use K-cups are spending way more than 22 cents a day for the convenience of watered down coffee and the opportunity to fill our landfills even faster. Some of them think Prime is a horrible idea; others think it is great.
I'd say yes. I do the same thing… order a LOT of stuff..
I spend usually 3-6 months a year overseas where my mail is sent to APO/DPO.
Amazon = free apo shipping at a good price, very convenient. Subscribe & Save big plus.
Wife = $18 for a small crappy flat rate box, gas, kids in the post office line, time out of her very busy day. She and the kids LOVE sending me stuff but it is usually $100 minimum a month in shipping stuff out here.
Just an example, I ordered $300 for our gym overseas. A four 6 packs of 2x2 foot mats, scale, measuring tape (fitness style), body fat thingy, shoes, shirts, shorts, push up bars, pull up bar.. Just those floor mats alone would have cost in excess of $200 to ship b/c of bulk.
Another example, diapers + Subscribe & Save = ballerness. If you are planning it right, get your diapers via subscribe and save. You get a good %off an already good price. In a pinch, $3.99 overnight. My grocery store/target is 15 miles away.
Amazon Prime is baller.
I agree with @baqui63 on this one. How much do you spend on a cel phone per month? That would probably pay for 1 year of free 2-day shipping. How much does it cost to send 1 item somewhere, much less a year's worth? Buy one item per month and you will come out ahead. @jsoko: I hear you. ;)
Do it. Problem solved :). If it'll make you feel better, just blame me.
As much ordering as you do it's more than justified. I'm going to renew my student, I'm just waiting until I get back into ordering much before I do.. squeeze as much out if it as I can :D
Plus..*TWO DAY SHIPPING! Who has time to wait 4 business days for a package of AA's? Not us.
Have you figured out what you've saved in sales tax? I added all mine up for 2011 and I saved $81 in sales tax. Only a few dollars over what prime costs, but add it to the free two-day shipping and it makes a difference.
I received a Kindle Fire for my birthday last month and it came with one month's free Amazon Prime. They are now sending me emails about signing up.
While I do really like being able to shop and just buy without trying to fill up my cart to $25 (and love getting it so fast), I do not like how it's encouraging me to shop impulsively. It's too easy and I've bought more from Amazon in the past 3 weeks of prime than I had in the past 4 months!
@pooflady: The law is, you still owe sales tax if an online seller doesn't charge it.
You are required to file it on your income taxe form, it's called use tax.
Not doing so makes you a tax cheat and a lie teller in that you sign the form saying it is accurate when it isn't. Unfortunately, over 90% of people who owe the tax are those tax cheats.
@craig234: You're right but also wrong. If the merchant doesn't charge sales tax, you do still owe it; however, you do not file it with your income tax form. It is called Use tax and has it's own form for this exact purpose.
In Florida, for example, you file your Use tax on a DR15 form. That is if you do it with paper. As for me, I pay mine electronically so I go to a different page which requires a taxpayer ID and password. Here's the link to the Florida version of the form:
I'm lucky to know someone who is now my "nephew". His family is loaded and doesn't even think twice about paying his Prime membership, despite the fact that I'm not sure he even uses it.
I had this question in January. My membership was up, and I didn't wantr to pay the $39 for a student account. Two days later my daughter came home and said she needed an English Lit text book. Like, Yesterday.
Book without Student Prime: $68, shipping next day $36. Book with Student Prime: $58.99, next day shipping $3.99.
I happily bought Prime. Saved me $5.
@craig234 & @cengland0: Also, use tax is usually cheaper than sales tax. You are not paying county and city taxes, just state tax. In Texas use tax is 6%, where sales tax in my county is 8.25%. Not a significant amount, but helpful when purchasing frequently and large amounts.
Texas will be paying sales tax to Amazon starting in July.
Actually, it depends on the state. Starting about four years ago in NY State, sales (or use) tax can be filed on and paid with the yearly income tax form.
One can also file and pay sales/use taxes separately, for example when registering a vehicle.
Reasons I still have prime:
I live in an expensive area and do not have a car. Sometimes it's cheaper and easier to just order stuff I need for everyday life from Amazon and know it's coming in 2 days.
When I need to send a gift, I almost always find something on Amazon. That way I don't waste money I could be putting towards the gift on shipping it. And when the holidays come around, I ship my family's gifts directly to wherever we're celebrating and gift-wrap them there. That way my apartment doesn't get cluttered and I don't have to schlep anything from the city.
I don't have to waste time or money looking for items to meet the $25 free shipping threshold.
Yeah, the streaming selection isn't great, but it's getting better and it's a nice little add-on. They finally added a queue a week or so ago!


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ERS holding E-Waste event
BELLAIRE Electronic Recycling Service in Bellaire is sponsoring an E-Waste Challenge this spring, with 10 area high schools set to participate.
The event will run from April 14-20 and each school will designate three successive days during that span to begin and end their official collection.
"The contest is based on poundage that each school provides to ERS," explaine'd John Sochor, head of sales and marketing for ERS. "We will add up the weight collected and the first place team will receive $650 in prize money and second place will receive $350.
"There will also be bonus money for each cell hone collected.
"We're providing all the bonus materials to run the event to each school, as well as t-shirts."
There will be five head-to-head matchups between area schools, so five schools will walk away with $650 and five with $350.
The matchups are comprised of: Bellaire vs. Shadyside; Martins Ferry vs. Bridgeport; St. Clairsville vs. Wheeling Central; St. John Central vs. Bishop Donahue and Barnesville vs. Union Local.
"We wanted to start out small with 10 schools and see how it went," said Roger Myers of ERS. "Eventually, we'd like to have an OVAC-wide competition. But every school that we contacted about participating was more than happy to sign up."
Representatives from the 10 schools were at ERS on Friday morning for a press conference and a guided tour of the facilities.
Sochor explained all electronics will be collected. However, tube-style televisions will not be part of the challenge. Flat-screen televisions are still accepted.
Other items available for donation include: all computers and related accessories; copiers; telephone systems; VCRs; mp3 players; radios; cd players; cameras; video game consoles and many other options.
Sochor wanted to remind the public that the products donated will not be resold.
"Nothing is refurbished or resold here," he said. "Everything is destroyed, shredded and recycled and sent to other facilities for reuse."
Once the competition is under way, each school will notify ERS which three consecutive days they wish to run the collection. ERS will then go to the school, set up the collection bins and at the end of the collection drive, return and pickup the electronics for recycling.
"We'll bring it back, weigh it and count the number of cell phones," Sochor said. "Each school has designated a group or organization to donate the money they win to.
"This is a win-win, both for the environment and also the schools, communities and organizations that will benefit from the competition."
Sochor and Myers were joined by fellow members of the ERS sales team Jose Davis and Ty Masciarelli during Friday's presentation.
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Kids these days! With their computers and fancy software, they get up to all kinds of fun, doing things like freaking out the internet, for example. Oh to be young!
Earlier this year, it was a bit of a thing in China for teens to post altered photos of themselves with pointy chins and enormous eyes—a culmination of the ideal anime face and anime eyes.
Now, that trend seems to have reached critical mass in neighboring South Korea. (Because it wasn't at critical mass before?) According to reports, these photos were uploaded by a self-professed 13 year-old in South Korea, who apparently wrote, "I wish everyone would get plastic surgery like mine!"
These photos do look like arcade sticker pictures that have had the hell Photoshopped out of them, just as those photos emerging out of China earlier this year did, too. Online in Japan, where the images have spread through numerous blogs, many are saying the pics look like they've worked Photoshop to death—as well as saying the snaps resemble Picassos. Modern art!
Even though they appear to be altered and even though gamers see all sorts of manufactured horrors in the titles they play, that doesn't stop these photos from being this: scary as hell. Sweet dreams.


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TBoGT lag problems
Since 2 weeks my game stopped working correctly
When i am on foot, anything is good, but when i play more than like 5 minutes
and try to drive a car, my frame rate drops to less than 5 fps until i get out of
the car. I got the self problem with .net scripts that are using a menu
(http://www.gta4-mods.com/script/car-...f6647#download as example ) I never got that problem before and i don't
know what happened. I already reinstalled the .Net Script Hook, Asi loader and ScriptHook.
Used mods:
Most are from HippieCommunists modpack.
I've tried all the mods individually, but i got the problem when i just use the .Net Script Hook.
Is there a way, that my game randomly becomes incompatible with the .Net Script Hook.?
I haven't installed new mods..
Anyone know, what i can do now? I don't want to play without the nice mods :/
And.. It will not help to turn settings lower, i got 5 fps in 640x480 and in 1600x900.
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hi ijust play tbogt.
i havepentium4 and geforce9600 pc with lot of mod and enb.
and my graphic settings are medium and detail distance is 100 and view distance is 100 and vcync is on and texture filtering is
*16. and resolution 1600*900.
and there is no lag. but you can download amingo360 and razer game booster .
if it doesn't fix open your task manager and click on {processes} and have right click on eflc.ex and click on set priority
and set it on realtime maybe it's work .
and you can discuss your problem with me .
here is my email :
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Try out Razer Game Booster , it really will boost your frame rates !!
Make sure your drive is empty as GTA 4 requires lot of extra space in the drive to run smoothly .
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Can someone please help me understand the rpm command. From the rpm man pages:
rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...
This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to a newer version.
This is the same as install, except all other version(s) of the package are
removed after the new package is installed.
My understanding is that if I indicate a
PACKAGE_FILE that is an upgrade of something I already have installed, it will replace the files... upgrading the package.
Specifically I am trying to upgrade VirtualBox on a Fedora 14 OS. I am running the following command:
rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.4_74291_fedora14-1.x86_64.rpm
and am getting (many) errors saying there is an older version of the file
... <similar output omitted>
file /bla/virtualbox/bla/powernotification-r0drv.c from install of
VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.4_74291_fedora14-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from
package VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.12_72916_fedora14-1.x86_64
... </similar output omitted>
I am obviously not understanding something here. Can anyone shed some light on this?


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I know the proper thing to do is to buy an amplifier for this purpose. But can I connect to my computer and get the output from the speakers? Works fine with recording, but not direct output. Is there any software available that can act as an amplifier on my computer(along with certain processor capabilities as well?)?
Absolutely. There are many amp simulators available---I like Amplitube, but there are plenty of others.
If you're using an external audio interface to plug your guitar into your computer, you will probably want to set up your software to use the audio interface for output as well; otherwise you're likely to run into latency issues.
You don't mention the OS/computer system you are using.
For windows, many sound cards have ASIO drivers bundled with them. If you are not able to find ASIO drivers, then you can use FREE software called ASIO4ALL.
You will need this to be able to get low latency. If you do not, you will experience a perceptible delay between what you play and what you hear from the speakers. Even then, because you are using an acoustic guitar, you might still notice some delay.
After you get an ASIO driver, then the next step is an amp simualator. One decent freeware software package is VSTHOST ( http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm ). This is a host application which allows you to "run" VST amp simulations. One decent freeware amp and effects package is SimulAnalog ( http://www.simulanalog.org/guitarsuite.htm ).
Once you get these 3 things together and get your latency down, you can decide if the computer amp thing is right for you, and then invest in commercial packages.
Reaper is a decent shareware recording package which can also act as a host for VST effects.
For an unpowered guitar you want to use the mic jack. But the other commenters are correct: if you use a powered output (or even a preamp built into an acoustic) you MIGHT risk damaging the soundcard.
Yes, but be aware of the difference of microphone-in and line in: line-in () takes an amplified signal, while a mic jack socket takes an unamplified signal. Plugging an amped signal into the mic jack can damage your sound card. A strongly amped signal (like the output from a guitar amp) might also damage it even if you use line in, although it should be ok if you start with the volume down low.
If there is any kind of pre-amp in your guitar (like those with a battery-powered equaliser), it won't be strong enough to cause damage, but you might get a little bit of clipping if you use a mic jack.
For getting direct output, that depends on your sound card and your operating system. On most operating systems that I've used, if you go into the audio setup, you'll see that the mic channel has the volume up, but is muted. The muting only affects the through-put to the audio-out. Try un-muting it, and see if that lets the sound through.


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Not sure if this is the best place for this question, but here goes anyway. I recently got myself the Logitech Revue to stream Netflix etc. However, my TV has extremely poor 7W speakers and that makes me want to use my computer's speakers (2.1). Now the Revue only has an Audio optical output (S/PDIF) and my computer's speakers use a 3.5mm jack. Does anyone know of a way to connect these, or if it's even possible? TIA!
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You can't connect them with an ordinary audio adapter like one might expect, because the signals are fundamentally different. Your computer speakers expect an analog audio signal, but S/PDIF is a digital format.
So you'll need some kind of device to accept digital S/PDIF in and translate it into analog audio out. I wouldn't know what to call them if I were trying to go find a device for this specific purpose, but many recording interfaces include S/PDIF and can perform this function, so I imagine they exist.


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Why doesn't the Moon, or for that matter anything rotating another larger body, ever fall into the larger body?
The moon does not fall to Earth because it is in an orbit.
One of the most difficult things to learn about physics is the concept of force. Just because there is a force on something does not mean it will be moving in the direction of the force. Instead, the force influences the motion to be a bit more in the direction of the force than it was before.
For example, if you roll a bowling ball straight down a lane, then run up beside it and kick it towards the gutter, you apply a force towards the gutter, but the ball doesn't go straight into the gutter. Instead it keeps going down the lane, but picks up a little bit of diagonal motion as well.
Imagine you're standing at the edge of a cliff 100m tall. If you drop a rock off, it will fall straight down because it had no velocity to begin with, so the only velocity it picks up is downward from the downward force.
If you throw the rock out horizontally, it will still fall, but it will keep moving out horizontally as it does so, and falls at an angle. (The angle isn't constant - the shape is a curve called a parabola, but that's relatively unimportant here.) The the force is straight down, but that force doesn't stop the rock from moving horizontally.
If you throw the rock harder, it goes further, and falls at a shallower angle. The force on it from gravity is the same, but the original velocity was much bigger and so the deflection is less.
Now imagine throwing the rock so hard it travels one kilometer horizontally before it hits the ground. If you do that, something slightly new happens. The rock still falls, but it has to fall more than just 100m before it hits the ground. The reason is that the Earth is curved, and so as the rock traveled out that kilometer, the Earth was actually curving away underneath of it. In one kilometer, it turns out the Earth curves away by about 10 centimeters - a small difference, but a real one.
As you throw the rock even harder than that, the curving away of the Earth underneath becomes more significant. If you could throw the rock 10 kilometers, the Earth would now curve away by 10 meters, and for a 100 km throw the Earth curves away by an entire kilometer. Now the stone has to fall a very long way down compared to the 100m cliff it was dropped from.
Check out the following drawing. It was made by Isaac Newton, the first person to understand orbits. IMHO it is one of the greatest diagrams ever made.
What it shows is that if you could throw the rock hard enough, the Earth would curve away from underneath the rock so much that the rock actually never gets any closer to the ground. It goes all the way around in the circle and might hit you in the back of the head!
This is an orbit. It's what satellites and the moon are doing. We can't actually do it here close to the surface of the Earth due to wind resistance, but on the surface of the moon, where there's no atmosphere, you could indeed have a very low orbit.
This is the mechanism by which things "stay up" in space.
Gravity gets weaker as you go further out. The Earth's gravity is much weaker at the moon than at a low-earth orbit satellite. Because gravity is so much weaker at the moon, the moon orbits much more slowly than the International Space Station, for example. The moon takes one month to go around. The ISS takes a few hours. An interesting consequence is that if you go out just the right amount in between, about six Earth radii, you reach a point where gravity is weakened enough that an orbit around the Earth takes 24 hours. There, you could have a "geosynchronous orbit", a satellite that orbits so that it stays above the same spot on Earth's equator as Earth spins.
Although gravity gets weaker as you go further out, there is no cut-off distance. In theory, gravity extends forever. However, if you went towards the sun, eventually the sun's gravity would be stronger than the Earth's, and then you wouldn't fall back to Earth any more, even lacking the speed to orbit. That would happen if you went about .1% of the distance to the sun, or about 250,000 km, or 40 Earth radii. (This is actually less than the distance to the moon, but the moon doesn't fall into the Sun because it's orbiting the sun, just like the Earth itself is.)
So the moon "falls" toward Earth due to gravity, but doesn't get any closer to Earth because its motion is an orbit, and the dynamics of the orbit are determined by the strength of gravity at that distance and by Newton's laws of motion.
note: adapted from an answer I wrote to a similar question on quora
Moon is continuously falling towards earth but missing all the time! Same with other planets too.
In general, in an inverse square central force field one can calculate the trajectory of a particle and verify that the trajectory is either a parabola or ellipse or hyperbola (conic sections) depending upon the initial position and initial momentum of the particle. For a two body system with certain initial conditions, it is a stable elliptical orbit. In case of the sun and the earth it is an ellipse (ignoring gravitation of other objects and also ignoring the relativistic precision of orbit).
Another way to look at it: In the frame of reference of earth, the moon has angular momentum. Angular momentum is preserved if no torque is applied ($\tau=dL/dt$).
The gravity forces between earth and the moon are in the direction of the center of mass, so they produce no torque ($\tau=mv\times R$), so the angular momentum ($L$) cannot change.
Gravity is perpendicular to the moon's speed, so it changes the direction and not the magnitude of the speed itself. $L=mv\times R$ and if $L$, $m$ and $v$ are constant, $R$ must remain constant as well, so the radius doesn't change.
The truth is that the moon IS constantly trying to fall upon the earth, due to the force of gravity; but it is constantly missing, due to its tangential velocity.
To understand this, think of whirling a rock, tied to the end of a string, around and around, with your hand just above your head. As the rock travels in circles it is constantly being pulled toward you by the force on the string (which is like Earth's pull of gravity on the moon). Why doesn't the rock come bonk you on the head, if you are constantly pulling it toward your head? The answer is that the rock is always trying to change its velocity vector to come do just that; but the change is only enough to just keep it in a circular path, like the pull on the Moon is just enough to keep it in a circular orbit around Earth.
The Moon does not fall towards Earth right now because Earth rotates itself. The energy from the Earth's own rotation around its axis is gradually tranferred into energy of the Moon's orbital motion. That's why the Earth's rotating speed decreases but the distance to the Moon increases.
This process will continue until Earth's proper rotation will slow to the point where it has the same angular velocity as the Moon's orbital motion. From that moment on the Moon will start to gradually approach Earth.
The best simple answer I can think of are this: An orbit of one body of an another is essentially a degree of balance among forces, real and fictitious. These would include centripetal force (gravity) attracting the orbiting body ("the fall") and centrifugal force which arises out of the orbiting body's inertia (the orbiting body's tendency to remain in a constant linear motion away from the body it is orbiting). In General Relativistic terms, the orbit is the result of a body moving in a straight line through the curved space that exists around the more massive body. If the lesser body moves with the sufficient combination of momentum and distance it will continue to pass the more massive body onto other regions of space. If that combination is not sufficient to overcome the curvature of space in the region around the more massive body then the lesser body will continue it's tendency to travel in a straight line but it must it do so in a curved space that it cannot "escape". If it has a sufficient minimum momentum, it's tendency to move in a straight line away from the more massive body will overcome the downward curvature. These two conditions will cause the lesser body, per Newton, to become the perpetual satellite of the more massive body because the lesser body must stay in motion unless an equal and opposite force is applied to it's motion. The lesser body doesn't experience resistance from friction or air in space and the gravitational force is perpendicular, not opposite to the motion of the lesser body so absent an equal and opposite force, the lesser body continues its trek about the more massive body indefinitely while it's momentum is in balance with the massive body's gravity.
The original question is:
Why doesn't the Moon, or for that matter anything rotating another larger body, ever fall into the larger body?
Others have answered that the centrifugal forces equal the centripetal forces, so the moon stays in an orbit of the earth.
Satellites orbit the earth for the same reason. However, satellite orbits sometimes decay, so the satellite "orbit" changes to a collapsing spiral, and eventually the satellites do come back down to earth (normally burning up from atmospheric friction). Orbits can end in the other direction too, where the satellite moves away from earth in an enlarging spiral, eventually escaping earth's gravity entirely.
as we know that the moon is revolving around the earth in circular path where centripetal force is developed by the gravitation and then outward force the outcome of the circular motion "centrifugal force is balancing the centripetal force.
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Brainteaser Thursday: Guess the Game for March 27thWritten by: / / 2 Comments
Today is one of those weird days – is it Friday or Thursday? Well all I know is, it is Guess The Game day! The game where we challenge you to name the games and share your memories, too!
Last time was said to be way too easy, but maybe it was just because you're all a clever bunch of gamers? Here are the answers to the last Guess the Game challenge:
– 1. South Park (1999)
– 2. Adventure Island 3 (1992)
– 3. Spartan X (1984)
– 4. Battle City (1985)
– Bonus Game: God of War 8bit
Game Trivia: Spartan X was based on the Jackie Chan movie 'Wheels on Meals.' The movie was also known as Spartan X in Japan.
It's time to challenge you all again! Do you know these games?
Game 1:
This is the sequel to a game with one of the funniest characters. It wasn't very popular back in the day and was one of those 2D games gone 3D.
Game 2:
This game must have one of the best visual displays of a nuke going off. An RTS game where everything can be destroyed!
Game 3:
At first I didn't think I would enjoy this game, but once I figured out how it really worked I was hooked. Sad we never saw a sequel to this.
Game 4:
I just know this is going to be an easy one. I remember back in the day when I bought this and then a couple weeks later I got another copy with a graphics card I bought. So I own two copies of this game (same here! – Ed).
Bonus Game:
This sound was taken from one of the games in an action horror game series… but which one? (check your volume!)
Do you have any good memories of these games? Good luck and let us know if you can identify any of them.
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Men's Golf Finishes Ninth at Tennessee River RumbleApril 8, 2014
LOUDEN, Tenn. – Senior Sean Shelton paced the Trojans with a two-day nine-over-par 153, as the Anderson University men's golf team wrapped up their regular-season slate by finishing ninth at the Tennessee River Rumble Intercollegiate, hosted by Lincoln Memorial at the par 72, 7,163-yard Tennessee National Golf Club.
North Greenville (286-301=587) nearly lost its opening-round 12-stroke advantage, but held off Walters State Community College (304-286=590) to win the team title by three shots. Lee University (298-293=591) dropped from second to finish in third by one shot, while the host Railsplitters (303-306=609) remained fourth. Lenoir-Rhyne (312-303=615) and Brevard (305-311=616) flipped spots, with the Bears taking fifth and the Tornados falling to sixth.
Trevecca Nazarene (314-310=624), the LMU "Blue" squad (319-306=625), Anderson (329-319=648) and the LMU "Gray" squad (335-315=650) rounded out the 10-team field.
North Greenville's Tucker McDonald (73-71=144), who started the day five shots off the lead, rallied to claim individual medalist honors by one stroke over both Brad Hawkins of Walters State and Lee's Taylor Davis.
Shelton (77-76=153) closed the two-day event in 21st, while fellow senior Arran Setro (84-80=164) finished 11 shots further back in 45th. Sophomore David Wachter carded a 21-over-par 165 and earned a share of 46th, with freshman Rob Warren (86-80=166) making the biggest jump by slashing six strokes off Monday's opening round to finish in 49th. Junior CJ Messana (89-84=173) finished in 56th.
The Trojans return to action at the three-day South Atlantic Conference Championship, slated for Sunday through Tuesday at the Sevierville Country Club in Sevierville, Tenn.


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Higher Education Act
June 21, 2016
Letter to Reps. John Kline (R-MN) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on the package of higher education legislation the committee will consider on June 22.
Veterans Legislation
June 8, 2016
The U.S. Navy has announced that due to budget constraints, it soon will be closing its Navy College Offices, which provide pre-enrollment advising to sailors interested in working on a college degree or postsecondary credential.
Health Care Reform
May 27, 2016
Providing subsidized student health insurance to graduate students under the Affordable Care Act.
An analysis of the IRS notice from Ernst & Young LLP regarding Affordable Care Act rules for institutions offering subsidized student health coverage to graduate students.
Labor and Employment
May 26, 2016
On May 23, the U.S. Department of Labor released its long-anticipated final rule on overtime pay, which will have a significant impact on colleges and universities nationwide. This issue brief on the new rule will help institutions prepare for when...
Financial Aid
May 19, 2016
Letter to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) in support of the Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically Act, which would significantly strengthen and expand the Pell Grant Program.
May 17, 2016
The Departments of Education and Justice released joint guidance May 13 to help educational institutions understand their responsibilities to serve transgender students. This ACE issue brief looks at select aspects of the guidance and answers...
Tax Policy
May 12, 2016
Letter to Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) in support of the Boost Saving for College Act (S. 2869), an effort to help low- and middle-income families start saving for college by enhancing 529 college savings accounts.
April 28, 2016
Comments submitted by ACE and the five other presidential higher education associations to the Department of Education regarding the distance education provisions in the proposed regulations for teacher preparation programs.
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April 14, 2016
Letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees expressing strong opposition to any effort to use funding taken from the Pell Grant program for any other purpose in the FY 2017 Labor-HHS appropriations bills.


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After searching through state and city laws that determine how cities handle elections and filling vacancies, Dodge City Attorney Ken Strobel concluded that the City Commission seat held by Joyce Warshaw will not be up for election until 2016.
Warshaw was appointed by a unanimous vote of the City Commission in Sept., 2012, after Michael Weece resigned to move to Topeka. As one of the top two vote-receivers during the 2012 election, Weece was to serve a four-year term of office in April of that year.
County Clerk Sharon Siebel, who is also the county election official and will be overseeing the city election, requested clarification from the office of the Kansas Secretary of State, which asked Strobel, as the city attorney, for the opinion.
Siebel contacted the Secretary of State based on a reading of the Kansas Election Standards, a document adopted in 2002 "to promote consistency in election administration across Kansas." It states that elected officials appointed to fill a vacancy commonly must face a mid-term election if they are appointed before the middle of the assumed term.
"We just wanted to make sure we were following what was supposed to be done since that vacancy did occur right after the election," Siebel said.
As a city of the first class, there are few state laws that apply to certain details of Dodge City elections, Siebel said. The laws used to be more explicit, but through ordinances, cities could opt out of the state rules. Opting out was so common among those cities, that many of the relevant state laws have been repealed, Siebel said.
One repealed statute, KS 13-1806, stated that commissioners appointed to fill a vacancy would serve "in such capacity until the next city general election." Despite the clause being "confusing and ambiguous," as was written in a 1981 opinion by Attorney General Robert T. Stephan, he, and preceding attorneys general claimed officials appointed to elected positions needed to face the voters in the next election.
Since that statute was repealed in 1998, "no similar statute currently exists," Strobel wrote.
The statutes "were just silent about it," Strobel said in an interview.
In his opinion, Strobel wrote that Charter Ordinance No. 16, passed in 1977 was still in effect and specified that during elections two commissioners would be elected for four years and a third commissioner would be elected for two.
"After looking through all the statutes, none of them said (appointed commissioners) were appointed until the next city election, so there was no indication one way or another. ... In my opinion, there was no real authority" dictating the length of term for elected officials, Strobel said.
Concluding the opinion, Strobel wrote: "I can find no authority requiring, or allowing, the term of a properly appointed member of the governing body to be required to stand for election until such time as the four year term to which said person has been appointed has expired."
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Riyadh Declaration issued
January 22, 2013
Arab leaders concluded the 3rd Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Riyadh today. At the outset of the final session, Arab League Secretary General Dr. Nabil Al-Arabi read the Riyadh Declaration. The document outlined a number of recommended actions for Arab countries "in recognition of the importance of moving forward to develop joint Arab actions to serve Arab citizens, raise the standards of their living and provide them with full health care."
The Riyadh Declaration welcomed the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to increase the capital of common Arab financial institutions and joint Arab companies by at least 50 percent. It also encouraged the promotion of inter-Arab investments through the adoption of the Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital and inter-Arab trade through the realization of an Arab Customs Union and Free Trade Zone.
The Declaration praised the adoption of the Arab Strategy for the Development of Renewable Energy Applications, which maps out a path "to meet the growing demand for energy, diversify its sources, meet the needs of sustainable development, open the way for the establishment of an Arab market for renewable energy, work to provide new job opportunities with the active participation of the private sector, and support Arab developmental projects aiming to develop all renewable energy technologies."
In the document, the Arab leaders stressed the importance of environmental issues, vowing to conserve natural resources, take steps to face climate change, and ensure the safety of nuclear facilities. They also encouraged the implementation of strategies to ensure water and food security.
The Declaration reaffirmed the countries' commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, especially with regards to combating hunger and increasing employment opportunities. It also called for specific actions to improve access to quality education, encourage scientific research and innovation, eradicate and treat diseases, improve maternal and child health care, tackle youth unemployment, increase opportunities for women, and create more effective partnerships between governments and civil society organizations.
Finally, the Declaration expressed gratitude to the Kingdom for hosting the 3rd Arab Economic and Social Development Summit and noted that the 4th and 5th Summits will be held in Tunisia in 2015 and Lebanon in 2017, respectively.


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Charles Allen Young
Published: Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
CHARLOTTE, NC-- Charles Allen Young, 70, of Charlotte, NC and formerly of Spartanburg, SC, died Friday, May 10, 2013, at Levine & Dickson Hospice Center, Charlotte, NC. Born March 18, 1943, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late George Dewey and Lula Mae Simmons Young.
After graduating Spartanburg High School and the University of South Carolina, Allen proudly retired from Ford Motor Company after a distinguished 34 year career.
Survivors include his two sons, Wes Young (wife Lorie) of Houston, TX, and Richard Young (wife Kristi) of Mt. Pleasant, SC; grandchildren, Sydney and John of Houston, TX, and Courtney, Brooke, and Bailey of Mt. Pleasant, SC; sisters, Linda Roddy of Boiling Springs, SC, Kay Arthur and Ann Moore, both of Spartanburg, SC; brother, Robert W. Young of Spartanburg, SC; and many loving nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his sister, Helen Cantrell; and brothers, George C., James E., and John T. Young.
A graveside service will be conducted at 1:00 PM Monday, May 13, 2013, in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, 1300 Fernwood-Glendale Rd., Spartanburg, SC 29307, by the Rev. Clint Pressley. Visitation will be at the graveside.
Memorials may be made to Hickory Grove Baptist Church, 6050 Hickory Grove Road, Charlotte, NC 28215.
An online guest register is available at www.floydmortuary.com
Floyd's Greenlawn Chapel
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I am looking for a bike as primary transportation in the South Bay area. My commute is 5 mi, I like to do overnight trips on weekends and use the bike for shopping, which will involve occasional trips not longer than 30 mi.
My budget is $1500, but I would not mind to spend less in order not to worry too much about theft and maybe even get a second bike.
I went to a lot of bike shops, but they seem to be geared more towards racing or mtb, very few bikes even had rack mounts.
My current favorite is the Novara Randonee 2012 http://www.rei.com/product/816068/novara-randonee-bike-2012 but I am not 100% sure it is the right bike for my purpose.
My concerns with the Randonee are:
-Main concern: Bar End Shifters. I've never had bar ends, but I have the feeling that they are unsuitable for traffic. I have to go through a few streets with heavy traffic I don't feel too comfortable in, even without taking my hands off the brakes. I like integrated shifters.
-Minor concern: The Randonee is not overweight (29 lbs), but a bit too heavily built for my purpose. I won't do any tours of more than a few days, most of my use will be running errands and doing tours (not races) with friends who have mostly cross or road bikes. I don't want to be the slowest.
Are these proper concerns? Did I overlook anything? Does one get used to the bar ends?
Other bikes I looked at:
-Novara Verita, $1200: Goes in the right direction, but sitting was uncomfortable compared to Randonee, and they weren't able to identify the problem in the shop.
-Fuji Cross 3.0, $800: 400318">http://www.performancebike.com/bikes/Product_10052_10551_1094122_-1_400318 I have doubts about the canti brakes, especially when wet.
-Salsa Vaya 2, $1700: BB5 disc brakes probably better than brakes on Randonee, far too expensive
-Fantom Outlaw, $999: http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/motobecane/outlaw.htm Cheaper version of salsa, but bad idea to buy without trying it out.
Anyway, these four only have double cranksets with a lowest ratio of 36:32, I am not sure this is low enough.
Bikes I read about but that I didn't see in any shop: Specialized Secteur, Surly LHT, Trek, Surly Cross Check
Are there other bikes I should look at that -take a rack and fenders -have reliable brakes for all weather use in traffic -preferably have integrated shifters -low enough gear