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Rating the 2011 Non-Conference Slate: Big Ten
And this time I was right! This is totally not the Big 12. See, for starters, there are twelve teams, so it's obviously the Big Ten. Sheesh.
Ohio State (1.25 legit, 0 DI-AA): Akron, Toledo, @Miami, Colorado. You have to feel for the Buckeyes, and their back-and-forth saga over the past few weeks. When the massive scandal at Miami broke, surely OSU partisans gave themselves a chance against a depleted Hurricane squad. Well, not any more, as most of the current players involved have been suspended for only one game while the Ohio 5 Minus One will still be on the bench. Even so, they should still beat the other three OOC teams.
Michigan (1, 0): Western Michigan, Notre Dame, Eastern Michigan, San Diego State. Here by virtue of not playing any DI-AA teams, pretty much.
Pennsylvania State (1, 1): Indiana State, Alabama, @Temple, Eastern Michigan. If it weren't for the Sycamores (a.k.a, "Hey, remember when Larry Bird went here?" State University) this would probably be the best schedule in the Big Ten, despite the rating. It may well still be. I'll touch on this throughout the season, but I think Alabama will be back in a big way this year.
Minnesota (1, 1): @Southern California, New Mexico State, Miami, North Dakota State. The rating isn't wrong – that's the Miami in Oxford, OH. Unfortunately for the Gophers, a sign of progress will probably be solidly beating NMSU and NDSU, much less this particular Miami (not to mention USC).
Michigan State (1, 1): Youngstown State, Florida Atlantic, @Notre Dame, Central Michigan. Well, CMU just isn't the same with Dan "Rust Belt Tebow" LeFevour, so pretty much all to get excited about here is the road trip to South Bend.
Purdue (1, 1): Middle Tennessee State, @Rice, Southeast Missouri State, Notre Dame. Rated below Michigan State because they get the Irish at home.
Wisconsin (0.75, 1): Nevada-Las Vegas, Oregon State, N-Northern Illinois, South Dakota. I think the only way to get a team more opposite of Wisconsin matched up is if they played Oregon itself, but this will have to do.
Iowa (0.75, 1): Tennessee Tech, @Iowa State, Pittsburgh, Louisiana-Monroe. I have a feeling we underrated Pitt this year, but years of mediocrity of under the Wannstache can do that.
Illinois (0.5, 1): Arkansas State, South Dakota State, Arizona State, Western Michigan. Did you know that Ron Zook is still actually the head coach at Illinois? Yeah, I know! I'm as surprised as you are. Well, suffice it to say that if UIUC managed to drop any of these games beside Arizona State he might finally get canned. And what happened to that matchup against Mizzou? That was fun.
Northwestern (0.5, 1): @Boston College, Eastern Illinois, @Army, Rice. Well, they're Northwestern. Can you blame them?
Nebraska (0.5, 1): Tennessee-Chattanooga, Fresno State, Washington, @Wyoming. I think the most wrong I was about anything all of last season was the damn Holiday Bowl, when Washington stomped on Nebraska. But seriously, I still don't see how the Huskers won't end up 4-0 against this schedule. Well, unless the Wyoming home brown unis simply beat them into submission with ugliness. (Note: they are objectively ugly. I like them, personally, but I also enjoyed using pink/purple/green as a motif in my Create-A-School teams in old versions of NCAA football.)
Indiana (0.5, 1): N-Ball State, Virginia, South Carolina State, @North Texas. The game with Ball State is in Indianapolis, which is understandable. Less so is the road trip to Denton, which I hope was a 2-for-1.
And next, at long last, the Big 12. Provided it still exists tomorrow.
This entry was posted in college football, OOC schedules on August 31, 2011 by ASimPerson.
Rating the 2011 Non-Conference Slate: Big East
I accidentally said that the Big 12 would be next. What I actually meant was that the Big East would be next. Whoops! Let's get this out of the way then.
Pittsburgh (2.5 legit, 1 DI-AA): Buffalo, Maine, @Iowa, Notre Dame, Utah. There aren't very many strong schedules in college football this year. Sure, Buffalo and Maine are gimmes, but a road date with Iowa and home games with Notre Dame and Utah make this a worthy schedule. (I have to admit: I forgot Utah was in the Pac-12 this year when I first computed Pitt's rating.) If Pitt and WVU can get their acts together, each could go into the Backyard Brawl on November 25th with a shot at the national title on the line.
South Florida (2, 1): @Notre Dame, Ball State, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical, Texas-El Paso, Mami. I wonder if Miami fans imagine having a rivalry with USF based on actually being in South Florida instead of Tampa. Anyway, between "da U" and a road date with Notre Dame, this is one of the stronger schedules in the Big East.
West Virginia (1.5, 1): Marshall, Norfolk State, @Maryland, Louisiana State, Bowling Green State. West Virginia fans in Baton Rouge? I don't think I would want to be there personally, but I can imagine there will be some great stories from this mixture of two of the craziest fanbases in college football. If it's a night game (and by all rights, it should be), Baton Rogue may well be leveled by sunrise. The road game in College Park is just frosting on the crazy cake, but if WVU can sweep this schedule they will have a shot at a darkhorse national title run.
Syracuse (1.25, 1): Wake Forest, Rhode Island, @Southern California, Toledo, @Tulane. At USC is obviously the highlight here. This is why I usually rank the schedules by their averages, because having five non-conference opponents really dilutes schedules in the Big East. Thankfully, TCU will remedy that next year.
Cincinnati (1.25, 1): Austin Peay, @Tennessee, Akron, North Carolina State, @Miami. Yes, USC+Wake Forest beat out Tennessee+NC State. Sorry. Also, that is a road game in Oxford, Ohio. I would imagine there'll be a lot of Bearcat fans in attendance, though.
Louisville (1, 1): Murray State, Florida International, @Kentucky, Marshall, @North Carolina. Sweet, I can make the "I wish this were a basketball game" joke twice this year for Louisville! Provided what I just said doesn't count, of course.
Rutgers (0.5, 1): North Carolina Central, @North Carolina, Ohio, Navy, N-Army. Playing both service academies doesn't really seem patriotic so much as searching for two easy wins. Of course, considering how Rutgers is doing these days, the Navy game could be kind of dicey.
Connecticut (0.5, 1): Fordham, @Vanderbilt, Iowa State, @Buffalo, Western Michigan. Vandy and Iowa State are about as low as you can go and still claim you play two BCS conference teams. I guess Duke wasn't available, or they would be on here as well.
Next time is still the not Big 12, as the Big Ten is rightfully next in alphabetical order. So, until then!
Rating the 2011 Non-Conference Slate: ACC
As a group this year, ACC teams have the 3rd most prestigious non-conference schedules in the country. Sadly, the ACC also has the only major conference school that plays two DI-AA (better known these days as DI-FCS) teams, North Carolina State.
So how do the individual schools rank? Below I provide their "legit" average and number of DI-AA teams played. Ties are broken by number of DI-AA teams played and then arbitrarily.
Florida State (2 legit, 1 DI-AA): Louisiana-Monroe, Charleston Southern, Oklahoma, @Florida. Florida is a rivalry game of course, but the main reason FSU comes out on top two years in a row is the conclusion of the series with Oklahoma. It doesn't hurt that the Sooners are also the pre-season consensus number one team. I don't generally put a lot of stock in the pre-season polls (other than examining their undue influence on the polls later in the season), but remember this is more about prestige than any real objective criteria.
Maryland (2, 1): West Virginia, Temple, Towson, N-Notre Dame. I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out whether the Notre Dame game at Landover, MD is a true neutral site game. I think it is. I also just realized I don't really have anything else to say about this schedule.
Clemson (1.75, 1): Troy, Wofford, Auburn, @South Carolina. We get Tigers-Tigers once again, and this time at Clemson. I was tempted just now to refer to Clemson as the "purple" tigers to distinguish them from Auburn, but then I realized it's not really unique because LSU uses purple as well. Go figure.
Miami (1.75, 1): Ohio State, Kansas State, Bethun-Cookman, @South Florida. Most folks figure the kickoff of the season will put an end to the "here's a list of everything that is wrong with college athletics and why" articles that have dominated the off-season. That'll all be back for one last gasp during the week leading up to Miami-Ohio State, I'll bet.
Wake Forest (1.5, 1): @Syracuse, Gardner-Webb, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt. Technically, Wake Forest plays more BCS conference teams than any other team in the ACC. Technically.
Boston College (1.25, 1): Northwestern, @Central Florida, Massachusetts, @Notre Dame. Yes, the tiebreaker here really was Northwestern over Kansas. I'm not proud of that, but I'd say Notre Dame and Georgia are a push for neutral fans. Unless UGA actually lives up to the hype this year. Well, same goes for Notre Dame I suppose.
Georgia Tech (1.25, 1): Western Carolina, @Middle Tennessee State, Kansas, Georgia. I'm not excited about this non-conference slate. For those of you scoring at home, the game in Murfeesboro is part of a 2-for-1 deal. Man, I hope we beat Kansas this year.
Duke (0.75, 1): Richmond, Stanford, Tulane, @Florida International. If Duke can manage to win three of these games (I'll leave it to the viewers at home to determine which of the three are even possible) they'll be halfway to bowl eligibility! Though that would still require some massive upsets in at least one or two of their conference games (also left as an exercise to the viewer).
North Carolina (0.5, 1): James Madison, Rutgers, @East Carolina, Louisville. I keep thinking ECU is in the Big East. Remember, folks, when TCU joins next year they could instantly be the best team in the Big East.
North Carolina State (0.5, 2): Liberty, South Alabama, @Cincinnati, Central Michigan. This sure is a schedule all right. This is USA's (U-S-A! U-S-A!) first ever year of college football. Liberty is also a gimme. Though thanks to the two DI-AA games, NCSU will need 7 wins to be bowl eligible (with the 2 DI-AA games a given, that is), which they should end up with. If not, Tom O'Brien should be fired.
Virginia (0.25, 1): William & Mary, @Indiana, Southern Miss, Idaho. UVA is, unfortunately, not traveling to the Kibbie Dome this year. I just like saying that. KIBBIE DOME. The other parts of this schedule are really boring.
Virginia Tech (0, 1): Appalachian State, @East Carolina, Arkansas State, Marshall. Nothing like kicking off your darkhorse national title run with a signature win over… oh, wait. There aren't any signature wins here. There aren't any games to be excited about. And yet, VPI could well beat Appy State and ECU by a combined total of 8 points the way they tend to play down to these kind of teams sometimes. An embarrassing schedule for the only ranked ACC team.
That's a wrap, finally. Up next, what remains of the Big 12. Stay tuned!
Rating the 2011 Non-Conference Slate: Prologue
The rules from 2008 still apply, so let's do this.
As per usual, let's run down the list of "1"s, that is, the teams we feel are the most desirable to play this year: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Miami (whoops), Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State (double whoops), Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Penn State, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Southern Cal, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
By conference, that's 3 for the ACC, 4 for the Big 12, 1 for the Big East, 5 for the Big Ten, 1 for the Mountain West, 2 for the Pac-12, and 5 for the SEC.
Taking the entire set of teams for each conference into account, you get the follow averages:
SEC (0.771 average)
Big 12 (0.65)
Big Ten (0.64583)
ACC (0.625)
Pac-12 (0.604)
Big East (0.4375)
The Big 12 seemed to benefit in a big way from gaining another "1" and also losing some dead weight in the form of Colorado, it appears. The Pac-12 didn't get worse so much as everyone else got a little better, well, except for the Big East, which is hurt by having UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, and Syracuse getting 0.25's this year (the lowest possible rating for a BCS conference team).
We'll spend the next seven posts or so examining each conference individually and wrapping things up, as per usual, hopefully in time for the start of the season. First, as usual, is the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Boy, Some Things Sure Did Happen in Baseball Tonight
First off, the Dodgers managed to hit and run themselves into the first 4-6-3-2 triple play since 1972 (h/t: Rob Neyer):
Jim Thome blasted two homers for the Twins in their 9-5 win over the Tigers. Oh, the second one was his 600th:
And it would be remiss to not mention the one nearest to my heart, Freddie Freeman's walk-off single to put the Braves over the Giants, 6-5:
This entry was posted in baseball, Braves on August 15, 2011 by ASimPerson.


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Round 7 | Group A – DELO EHF Champions League
FTC Rail Cargo vs SG Bietigheim 24:35 (11:14)
For Angela Malestein (now FTC) and Danick Snelder (now Bietigheim) is was a reunion with their former teammates.
This aside Bietigheim had arrived in the Hungarian capital without injured Karolina Kudlacz-Gloc, whereas FTC's headcoach, Gabor Elek, had his entire squad at his disposal after several setbacks caused by Covid-19.
In the end, Bietigheim beat FTC by 11 goals – an unexpected score considering the presentation of Naidzinavicius & Co. in the 2020/21 DELO Champions League season, thus far. An aggressive effort on the defensive end, outstanding performances of Emilie Sando, Julia Maidhof, Trine Oesteraard and Antje Lauenroth sealed the deal for the 2018/19 German champion, on Saturday afternoon.
After a nervous beginning of both teams, Bietigheim regained their footing first and by minute 10, coach Gaugisch's squad had created a two-goal advantage (5:3) before FTC clawed themselves back into the game , courtesy of right-back Katrin Klujber and playmaker Aniko Kovacsics.
But, instead of caving in, the 700 spectators in Erd Arena witnessed a different Bietigheim team. The German squad stayed focused and the presence of Dutch World champion, Danick Snelder, could be felt on both ends of the court. A well-placed timeout (18th minute) interrupted the rhythm of FTC and from then on Bietigheim would not look back.
In the remaining minutes, FTC was outscored 6:3 and by halftime Bietigheim was leading 14:11.
Only five minutes into the second half, coach Elek was forced to call for timeout and minutes later he had to do it again. Bietigheim was on an 8:3 run but Gabor's actions would not change the direction of the match.
This time Bietigheim would not come apart in the second half of a Champions League game. FTC – with the exception of the omnipresent Aniko Kovacsics – were unable to find an answer to the strong showing of their opponent. Today, Naidzinavicius & Co. made sure that they would leave Erd Arena as winners and stayed in firm control.
FTC never found a recipe against the excellent team effort of Bietigheim. To reduce the first win in the 2020/21 DELO Champions League season to Bietigheim's new addition, Danick Snelder, would be too simplistic.
Emilie Sando in goal (41% saves), flawless scoring by Julia Maidhof (7/7) and Trine Ostergaard (6/6), another outstanding performance of Antje Lauenroth on left wing and the contributions of Anna Loerper in the backcourt are just a few of the many reasons why Bietigheim deserved to leave the pitch as winners.
On the other side, Kovacsics and Klujber showed off their individual skills (both scoring 7 goals each), but all in all it was not enough to protect home court.
Aniko Kovacsics (7), Katrin Klujber (7), Emilie Boelk (3), Hafra Noemi (3), Alicia Stolle (1), Julia Behnke (1), Angela Malestein (1), Nadine Schatzl (1)
Julia Maidhof (7), Antje Lauenroth (7), Trine Ostergaard (6), Kim Naidzinavicus (4), Anna Loerper (3), Xenia Smits (2), Danick Snelder (2), Luisa Schulze (2), Nele Reimer (1), Stiem Jorgensen (1)
Both teams will meet again next Sunday, this time in Bietigheim. Can FTC pay back? Maybe if wing- and line players will be more involved in the game.
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ON THE BALL: The Jamaicans and the English continue their intense rivalry.
DESPITE a few less-than-stellar moments, Jamaica's Sunshine Girls maintained their impressive run in the 2018 Lasco Sunshine Series on Thursday night, defeating the England Roses 55-43 to take a 1-0 lead in their three-test series, which resumes at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston on Saturday.
The Jamaicans stamped their superiority from the get-go, taking early leads of 2-0 and 4-0 before the English girls managed to close the gap and equalize at 5-5. The visitors became even more aggressive in their plays, but the Jamaicans were in a no-nonsense mood and quickly pulled away with consecutive goals to take the score to 11-7, 12-8 and 16-11 at the end of the first quarter.
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Shantal Slater came on for Fowler-Reid at goal-shooter, but England got more of the same treatment in a rather uneventful third quarter, which saw scorelines of 37-26 and 40-28 in favour of the home side. The English shooters gave Sterling and Facey some challenging work as the visitors desperately tried to reduce the deficit. Jamaica stayed in control, ending that quarter 46-32.
Fowler-Reid replaced Slater and Thristina Harwood (Beckford's replacement) got her first taste of the action at the top of the last quarter. The England girls, unsurprisingly, looked hungry for a breakthrough and forced the Jamaicans into numerous turnovers. Several squandered opportunities by the local girls allowed the visitors to rally with several unanswered shots, bringing the score to 50-40.
Determined to maintain a wide margin, the Sunshine Girls refocused on the task at hand, maintaining their ten-point lead at 52-42 and 53-43. Kadie-Ann Dehaney came on for Sterling in the last minute of the match, as the Jamaicans re-established their dominance. At the sound of the final buzzer, Fowler-Reid sank a long-range shot to end the match at 55-43.
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While Toyota, Volvo and Volkswagen work to convince consumers of their green credentials, they refuse to disavow the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which is lobbying on their behalf to roll back U.S. clean car standards that the auto industry agreed to just five years ago.
The Trump administration has reopened this agreement in response to the Alliance's lobbying and is now moving to weaken 2022-2025 vehicle efficiency and fuel economy standards – despite overwhelming public support for the standards and massive economic and environmental benefits. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the standards would produce close to $100 billion in net economic benefits, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 540 million metric tons, slash oil consumption by 1.2 billion barrels, and save consumers $1,650 over the lifetime of new vehicles.
Toyota, Volvo and Volkswagen may point to recent announcements on electric vehicles – Toyota says it will mass-produce EVs by 2020; Volvo has publicized plans to make only electric or hybrid vehicles by 2019; and Volkswagen, rebuilding its reputation after being caught cheating on emissions, has set a goal of selling one million electric vehicles per year by 2025.
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Высота в 10-летнем возрасте около 1,6 м, ширина около 180 см.

Листья тёмно-зелёные, слегка блестящие, 140 × 64 мм. Листья более плотные, чем у 'Catawbiense Boursault' и 'Catawbiense Grandiflorum'.

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4. Give to paint the chance to harden within 2 weeks, then polish the put paint coat to level with the paint surrounding a spot.
5. In conclusion polish the site of a surface of a body by means of wax paste.
6. If scratch, having damaged paint, got into body metal, then, using a tip of a sharp knife, remove a rust from scratch.
7. Apply rust solvent according to its instruction. Further apply with the pallet on scratch spackling paste.
8. After its full drying paint over and polish the damaged site.
1. If the dent is in that area of a body where access from a reverse side is complicated or impossible, then in the deepest points of a dent drill a small opening, in an opening screw up the inertial hammer and extend a dent with using the sliding handle of the inertial hammer.
2. In the course of a pulling of a dent it is necessary to press densely to outer side of the extended area the hammer with a wide shock part. It is required for depreciation of blows of the inertial hammer and for prevention of a flexure of more extensive area.
3. Remove paint from the damaged area and at distance of 20 mm around it. Most easily it can be executed, using the wire brush or an emery paper got on the circle fixed in the electric drill.
4. Body metal in the place of blow is exposed to a pulling therefore the complete recovery of an initial form is impossible. After removal of paint, using the hammer as much as possible level the damaged surface.
5. Prepare the required amount of hard putty for what mix a hard putty basis with a hardener, at the same time strictly maintain a ratio of the mixed components.
6. When performing spackling works it is necessary to have the wide flexible plastic or nylon pallet for giving of a surface of hard putty of smoothness.
7. You make alignment of hard putty on the damaged site of a body so that to give it the required form and smoothness. As soon as it was succeeded to achieve approximately required contour, stop smoothing down hard putty the pallet since at too long smoothing down it will begin to harden, stick on the pallet and to roll down therefore the surface will be damaged.
8. After hard putty hardening, its surplus needs to be removed with a metal scraper or a file.
9. Drawing the subsequent, thinner layer of hard putty should be made after drying of the previous layer and so until the level of hard putty does not begin to act slightly over the level of the processed site. After hard putty hardening its surplus needs to be removed with a metal scraper or a file.
10. You make further processing, using a set of an emery paper. Begin processing with use of a coarse-grained emery paper and in the subsequent you pass to fine-grained. An emery paper have on wooden flat whetstone, otherwise it is impossible to achieve a plain surface.
11. On a closing stage of grinding the waterproof emery paper should be moistened with water periodically. It gives to the processed puttied surface special smoothness.
12. The puttied dent has to be surrounded on perimeter with a layer of pure metal. For removal from the processed site of dust and fats wash out the processed site water and wipe with the degreasing solution.
13. Using the spray using compressed air, raise dust on the site a thin layer of light soil dry up it. It will help to reveal all defects allowed when processing in hard putty.
14. The found defects level by means of a new layer of hard putty and again to a zashkurta a surface. Continue this procedure before receiving an ideal surface.
15. After that the field of repair is ready to final painting.
16. Aerosol putting paint has to be carried out in the warm, dry, windless and easy atmosphere. When carrying out painting indoors it is necessary to moisten half of the working platform with water for prevention of hit in dust air. When coloring only of one panel, other parts of a body have to be covered from hit of paint on them with the newspaper attached by an adhesive tape.
1. Remove paint from the damaged area and approximately on 20 mm around it. Using a metal brush, clear the showered rust from the surface of the bared metal on the damaged area.
2. Process the damaged area rust solvent according to its instruction.
3. Close an opening from a rust or a hole the metal gauze or a strip of aluminum foil.
4. Cut out the piece of a grid which is approximately corresponding to an opening form, enclose it in an opening so that its edges did not act over the level of the panel surrounding an opening. Fix it by means of several lumps of spackling paste on perimeter.
5. Using the screw-driver handle, level the ends of a grid so that it densely adjoined to body metal.
6. Further produce filling, painting and polishing of the damaged site of a body.
When performing spackling works it is necessary to have the wide flexible plastic or nylon pallet for giving of a surface of hard putty of smoothness.
1. You make alignment of hard putty on the damaged site of a body so that to give it the required form and smoothness.
2. As soon as it was succeeded to achieve approximately required contour, stop smoothing down hard putty the pallet since at too long smoothing down it will begin to harden, stick on the pallet and to roll down therefore the surface will be damaged.
3. Drawing the subsequent, thinner layer of hard putty should be made after drying of the previous layer and so until the level of hard putty does not begin to act slightly over the level of the processed site.
4. After hard putty hardening its surplus needs to be removed with a metal scraper or a file.
5. You make further processing, using a set of an emery paper. Begin processing with use of a coarse-grained emery paper and in the subsequent you pass to fine-grained.
6. An emery paper have on wooden flat whetstone, otherwise it is impossible to achieve a plain surface.
7. On a closing stage of grinding the waterproof emery paper should be moistened with water periodically. It gives to the processed puttied surface special smoothness.
8. The puttied dent has to be surrounded on perimeter with a layer of pure metal.
9. For removal from the processed site of dust and fats wash out the processed site water and wipe with the degreasing solution.
10. Raise dust on the site a thin layer of light soil. It will help to reveal all defects allowed when processing in hard putty.
11. The found defects level by means of a new layer of hard putty and again to a zashkurta a surface. Continue this procedure before receiving an ideal surface.
12. After that the field of repair is ready to final painting.
13. Aerosol putting paint has to be carried out in the warm, dry, windless and easy atmosphere. When carrying out painting indoors it is necessary to moisten half of the working platform with water for prevention of hit in dust air.
14. When coloring only of one panel, other parts of a body have to be covered from hit of paint on them with the newspaper attached by an adhesive tape.
15. Before putting primer shake up capacity with it, apply primer on a trial surface and achieve that she laid down evenly.
16. Put a thick layer of primer by drawing several thin layers.
17. Polish the grounded surface a waterproof emery paper. At the same time do not forget to sprinkle the ground area water and to periodically moisten an emery paper in water.
18. Before further coloring dry up the processed site.
19. Drawing a paint coat is made by a spray. Thickness of a paint coat is reached by drawing several thin layers.
20. Coloring needs to be begun from the center of the painted area and to move to edges back and forth motions until all painted surface, and also about 20 mm around it are not painted.
21. Remove a protective film and newspapers 10–15 minutes later after drawing the last paint coat.
22. Give the chance to fresh paint to harden within at least 2 weeks, then by means of an obnovitel of paint or thin abrasive polishing paste even the edges of the painted area to the level of old paint.


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Q: How to restore the files that removed with the git command 'git clean -fdx' I was so stipud run that command git clean -fdx, and lots of my untracked files had been removed. I searched google again and again for any solutions, but it seems there is no way to get back those removed files by git.
I guess there may be two ways to restore the removed files:

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*As most of my files are *.js, and they were cached in Chrome browser, so is it possible to view the contents of those cached files?

*Restore the removed files with the file system. as my computer is Mac, so how can I do this in mac os?
Or is there any way else to restore those files?

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Originally trained as a typographer and designer, Manfred Heiting joined Polaroid in 1966. Meeting Ansel Adams shortly afterwards, he was inspired to start collecting photography, amassing a world-class collection of prints which was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2002. He also started collecting photobooks in the 1970s, turning to it in earnest in the 1990s and creating a library that was considered one of the most complete in the world, including a copy of most of the important photobooks that appeared from 1888-1970 in Europe, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan. This collection formed the basis of several compendium books published by Steidl, including "Autopsie" – German Photobooks 1918-1945, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941, and The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990 – but sadly, it was decimated in the California wildfires of 2018, when it went up in smoke along with Heiting's home in Malibu. As Steidl publishes a new book by Heiting, titled Czech and Slovak Photo Publications, 1918-1989, BJP caught up with him.
British Journal of Photography: How did you get into photography in the first place?
Manfred Heiting: I met Ansel Adams in around 1967, and he taught me what a perfect print is, and most importantly, to have respect for the photographer's image selection, dark-room-print-quality, and the cropping of a print (or not – "…do not cut pieces off to fit a design…"). I was grateful for his advice and passionate about it ever since (and as a designer, always "lived" by his rule). In building my encyclopedic collection of photographic prints, and in a similar way my book collection, I was always guided by his unique and high standards. He was a great mentor and I am always indebted to him for being able to stand on his shoulders.
I started to buy photobooks to educate myself in the mid-1960s – I do not consider this collecting, but I acquired about 7000 books that way through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In the beginning of the 1990s, I was more focussed and looked for specific books published after the invention of the half-tone process (in around 1886), as complete as they were published, and in as perfect as condition as I could find. This of course also meant that I often had several copies of the same book, because I found a 'better' copy later. This was the time I consider now as collecting.
BJP: Your collection largely focused on books published in Europe, Soviet-Russia, and Japan, why was that?
MH: Until World War Two, most of the better photobooks came from, or were published, in those countries. Of course, there are some great American photo books before World War Two, and naturally, the books and magazines that included illustrations in the photogravure process, such as Camera Works or the books by Coburn, were stunning, and I treasure those. But all in all, the output was a far cry from what was published elsewhere. Paper manufacturing and printing processes where all invented and improved, to incredibly high quality, in those countries.
BJP: What are you interested in when collecting photobooks – do you think of the books in terms of historical interest, or aesthetic, or both?
MH: Aesthetics, and craft. Ansel Adams has stated that photography is like music – the negatives are the notes, the print is the performance. On that basis, I would argue that to perform music to a large audience you need an orchestra, with all its instruments; to present photography to a large audience, you need a photo book with all its contributors – the writer, editor, designer, typographer, printer, binder, and of course photographer. That is what I am looking at when selecting a photobook, and naturally the subject matters as well.
BJP: You've put together books on German, Japanese, Soviet-Russia and now Czech and Slovak photobooks. Germany, Japan and Russia seem more obvious, why did you want to do something on Czech and Slovak books?
MH: Czech and Slovak photographers made an important contribution to our field – Funke, Dritikol, Sudek, Styrsky, Rössler – of course Koudelka – and many more, are all giants known in the West. But most of the photobooks made there are not so well known, particularly the ones from before World War Two – and are a testimony of the highest quality in creativity and craft.
BJP: Why did you choose to focus on Czech and Slovak photobooks from 1918-89?
MH: Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918, and 1989 was the days of the Velvet Revolution and the end of the communist regime. In some way the photobooks published there after 1989 became like all Western photobooks, and lost most of their local identity and quality – they may have been made more for "us" than for "them".
BJP: How do you decide the time-frames you cover? For example, the Japan book covers 1912-1990, the Soviet 1920-1941, do the time frames just suggest themselves? Is there a reason you haven't included more contemporary work?
MH: First we have to except that after the 1970s most photo publications looked alike – printed (colour) photographs, one on a page, each with a white border . . . . Most contemporary photo publications are not important enough to have an effect on history – and there are so many. Maybe the photographs they show are sometimes the exception, but as books – in terms of the design, layout, type, graphics, printing, binding, text, and so on – no effort is being made.
Also, because of limited paper and printing techniques (all invented and improved in Europe), most influential books and publications happened before World War Two in Europe, in Japan a bit later – particulate – very important – in the 1960s. Art and Design movements such as the Bauhaus, and thousands of illustrated magazines made photography the medium of choice between in Germany and beyond – between 1920-1940 every famous photographer, including Moholy, Munkascki, Brasssaí, Kertesz, Pecsi, Umbo, Eisenstaet and their like, made their debuts in magazines – mostly German magazines.
In Soviet Russia nothing was published before 1920, as there was no paper, no printing machines, no printers, binders, and so on. The first publication about the 1919 revolution was published in 1920; when Nazi Germany invaded Soviet Russia 1942, everything stopped.
BJP: The publications included in Czech and Slovak Photo Publications feel really comprehensive – over 800, and including documentations on human suffering from the Nazi era, catalogues of meat products, and books about cats, as well as well-established photographic greats. How do you choose what's included and what's not?
MH: The selection should include all the various subject matters, as well as variations in book design and book categories, but also – and always – be about photography during these periods. The historic documentation in the book of what happened in this country [during the Nazi occupation] is nearly incomprehensible, so I wanted to show this as well – so we never forget. Of course there are more publications, I have tried to show what quality was possible in photography, design and printing. Even with 800 photobooks, it is only a selection representing the enormous spectrum of photography in Czechoslovakia, and the Czech and Slovak Republic.
I do feel that in our world we seem to concentrate too much, if not always, on art photography, which is the least of my concerns. The most appealing, often stunning, achievements of photography in the 20th century were in commercial, advertising, and fashion photography – and important work made by all the great photographers, from Walker Evans and Robert Frank, to Richard Avedon and William Klein, was work made for companies for product advertising, annual reports, and commemorative publications.
BJP: Some of the spreads from books on the Nazi occupation are quite shocking, did you have to make some decisions about what to include and how to represent it?
MH: Well, yes. This is not a catalogue raisonnée of the Nazi atrocities, nor the Czech photobooks showing them. But I hope I got the message across.
BJP: How many of the books in Czech and Slovak Photo Publications come from your own collection?
MH: There were only a few books I did not have at the time – now it's different. Many were going to be transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston [which had acquired a selection of about 20.000 books from my library prior to the wildfires], but until 2023 they were in my house in Malibu for me to complete my research and documentation. All in all, I had about 1800 photo books relating to this country.
BJP: We were terribly sorry to hear about the destruction of your library in the wildfire. Have you been able to rescue anything, or is the whole collection lost? Was any of it digitised?
MH: Yes, it is devastating and certainly a great loss, and not only for me personally. A portion of my library was already legally owned by the MFAH, but contractually still in my house until 2023 for further research, and for my book projects. Although my own books were not insured, the ones on the museums transfer list were insured by the museum and we are now planning and working on the replacements of most of the lost books.
95% was digitised, and I had my low-res database with me in Europe where I was when the fire happened. With the latest technology it is now possible to convert low-res into high-res, so I can continue to work on books [Heiting is currently working on forthcoming publications on the bibliography of Dr. Paul Wolff and Dutch and – possible – French photobooks]. I still have the knowledge and know where books are [in other libraries and collections] when I need them. I will continue to collect and look for publications that are "complete as published" and in fine condition. Also, for me, it was not always the catch, but the hunt.


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Thinking ahead and learning what to expect can ease stress and help you enjoy your travels.