Approach this park from Parkhouse Road and follow the directions.
Welcome to The Parks Walks.
So first stop is the entrance to the lower park with Parkhouse Road behind you, here there is a bench which you may like to take a perch on before you read on.
There are two large tree specimens to your right, an Oak and a Copper Beech, both I will talk about later in the walks. The next tree has a silver white smooth trunk and lifts over the stream, this is a Walnut tree. If you turn around to the road there is less crowded and healthier specimen standing by the wall next to the White Cherry. The image above is of the first May buds as the tree springs into life.
Walnut trees, according to Mr M. Robinson's The New Family Herbal were a wonder whose medicinal properties could be turned to almost every eventuality. Cures ranged from Rabies to Carbuncles, Gangrene to a simple soar throat, (green Walnuts mixed with Honey to make a gargle.) Interestingly enough Mr Robinsons book, which was published in the late 1870's has this remark in respect to Culpeppers Herbal which was first published around 1652. Culpeppers had been the go to herbalist book for almost 200 years by this point.
Mr Robinson paports that Walnuts were also a great antidote to many poisons, the kernel also being good for colic sufferers, and half ripe ones able to strengthen weak stomachs.
In Glastonbury there was once a famous Walnut at the side of St Josephs Chapel in the Abbey Churchyard, it was termed 'a miraculous specimen, which never budded before the feast of St Barnabas' (June 11th) and Queen Ann, and King James were said to have given large sums of money for cuttings.
In English Folklore the early flowering of the Walnut heralds a good harvest, with the opposite being the case when there is an abundance of foliage and little blossom. But more importantly if a walnut was placed under a witch's chair, then the witch would become rooted to the spot, and in the interests of modern science I have placed one beneath your very bench to see if this works. So, I wonder, are you able to stand ?!
Harvesting Walnut fruit is completed by knocking them off the branch rather than pruning, which this rather distressing old English rhyme suggests.
Thankfully neither of these three reprehensible acts are condoned these days, but interestingly it is thought that more fruit will grow next year from a broken or ripped tip than a pruned one.
Please now pass over the bridge and down into the park, at the left turn there is a large Ash tree on the corner and the next chapter will reveal there.
I wish I had left thee open the tree.
The large tree in the corner of the park is an Ash tree, and I have enjoyed counting the leaf points with my children to find an even one. This is a good opportunity to test this poem, though perhaps I should not encourage such vandalism, though I doubt the tree will miss a leaf or two!
Ash wood is strong and light, it can be steam bent which is a process involving heating the timber in a chamber with steam, in this hot state it becomes more pliable enabling it to be reformed in a clamp or jig. As it cools the timber returns to it's more rigid self making it perfect for the fuselage of aeroplanes, with the Spitfire being perhaps the most famous example. Today Aluminium alloys take the place of Ash in aeroplanes though the Morgan motor car is still hand built in this way.
In Scandinavia and Ireland individual Ash trees would be hailed as guardians of individual settlements, with the Anglo-Saxons preferring Ash for spear and shield handles, and is still the choice for tool handles today.
If the Ash is out before the Oak, then we shall surely have a soak".
Apparently this saying has been tested against records going back a hundred years and found to be the other way around.
Further along the fence line stands a smaller tree with slowly twisting branches, this is the Judas tree, and has a pinky blossom in the spring. The image shows the blossom springing from bark fissures as well as sprig ends.
This tree gained it's name after Judas Iscariot, one of Christ's disciples who hung himself in shame after selling Jesus to the elders for 30 silver pieces. The deed was sealed with a kiss which Judas placed on Jesus' cheek in the garden, which identified him to the guards. In one version of the story the apostles defended Jesus from arrest by attacking them with swords, a guards ear was cut off, but Jesus would not have them fight over him and healed the guards ear before being taken away.
When Judas realised that Jesus was being tortured and condemned to death he was mortified, he tried to return the money to the Elders, but they would not accept it. Ridden with shame he then took his own life by hanging himself from the Judas Tree. It is said that the flowers turned from white to blood red from that day through the shame. However is more likely that the name derives from the hills of Judaea in the Middle East, where this tree is commonplace.
Now follow the path into the park, at the first central bed the next chapter will reveal.
Turn to your left and face the majestic Weeping Willow, either side of it are Hazel's of different kinds, these are respectively Purple Hazel, and Filbert Hazel, with a second Filbert Hazel to the right of the Willow also.
Hazel is often coppiced with Oak and Willow.
Coppicing is the traditional practice of cutting back the tree to a short stand, the cut shafts can be used for many tasks including bean poles and fences, or hurdles as they are more commonly known. Wattle and daube also requires hazel rods, providing a lattice for a mud and straw mixture, creating walls in timber framed buildings at little cost.
Charcoal is traditionally made from Oak, Hazel and Willow which was essential for smelting and working iron. Two hundred years ago it was common to see transient people referred to as 'the charcoal burners' who would coppice and burn charcoal in a rotation, living a nomadic lifestyle in the woods. In Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons (1929), there is an awkward chapter in which they meet the mysterious Charcoal burners, a curious observation from todays perspective of different societies living side by side.
In respect to the fruits from the Hazel tree, these are obviously the Hazel nuts, which the Celts believed gave one wisdom and inspiration. There are numerous variations on an ancient tale that nine hazel trees once grew around a sacred pool, dropping into the water nuts that were then eaten by the highly venerated fish Salmon. These great fish then absorbed the wisdom from the Hazel tree, and a druid teacher, in his bid to become omniscient, caught one of these special Salmon and asked a student to cook it but not to eat it.
Whilst this student prepared it on the fire a blister formed on the fishes skin, and the pupil used his thumb to burst the hot fat, the juices splashed onto his hand and quick as a flash he sucked his thumb to cool it. Immediately on placing his thumb in his mouth he absorbed the great fish's wisdom, the boy was called Fionn Mac Cumhail, or Finn McColl and is often the central character in many traditional celtic stories.
Culpeppers Herbal, first published in the mid 1600's and has this to say about Hazel.
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Continue along the path into the park, the next stop is the stump of a large Horse Chestnut tree on your right.
The Horse Chestnut is a simple tree to identify, it's long loping leaves, broad dense canopy, and the spiky gourds which hold the conkers every child knows. The blooms of blossoms are often referred to as lanterns or candles and from a distance you can see why.
A Chestnut tree once stood in Amsterdam which was referred to locally as 'Anne Frankbloom', as it was described by Anne Franklin in her diary of a young girl. The bloom could be seen from the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis during their occupation but sadly the tree blew down in a devastating storm in 2010.
During World War I, the Royal Navy needed large volumes of the solvent Acetone to make Cordite which is used as a smokeless gunpowder for firing artillery. Initially the Acetone was made using a bacterial fermentation of grain, however grain was in short supply, fortunately a Mr Chaim Weizmann had developed a technique to ferment Acetone from Horse Chestnuts, an alternative source of starch. So school children were asked by the Ministry of Munitions to gather tons of these nuts from far and wide, which were then stored in six huge silos at Holton Heath in Dorset, at the Cordite Factory.
If you suffer from Arthritis may I suggest you place two in your trouser pockets which I have read will help this chronic condition, it would be interesting to find out whether this is so!
Walk now to the central circular path and the next chapter will reveal itself.
To the left of the path there is the unquestionable silhouette of the Palm, with it's slender trunk and bushy grass topped fronds. This Cordyline Palm tree is indigenous to New Zealand and Polynesia, and is venerated in their culture for being a naturally chewable sweet. The process would involve cutting a tree between 4 to 6 ft high, taking roots and all, which would then be stripped of bark, and then split so the sweet pith was accessible.
This would then be dried and processed over a long slow cooking process, which would finally finish with the production a dark liquorice type gum. It could be chewed or made into a kind a porridge when mixed with water, and was harvested and prepared twice yearly by the Maori people.
Throughout the parks there are many crab apple trees with a good aged specimen to your right.
In this arboretum there are several Apple trees, many of which are Crab Apples, which have beautiful blossom (see photo) and who's fruit will be small, tart and high in Pectin, an active setting agent required for Jams and preserves.
'An apple a day, keeps the Doctor at bay,' is probably the best known rhyme, and late in the year there are several traditions which revolve around the Apple tree.
One of which is Apple Dunking, which involves a barrel or deep bowl with apples floating on the water. The participants hands are tied and they must lift an apple from the water with just their mouth. To get purchase you must boldly plunge your head into the water helping you to bite into the fruit and retrieve the apple.
Traditionally this happened on Halloween though there is a similar Cornish game involving two pieces of wood which were nailed together in the shape of a cross. It was suspended with four lit candles on each arm and apples hanging underneath. The aim being to catch the apples with your mouth without getting molten wax on your face. The game was traditionally played by newly wedded couples as technique requires two people to bite into a single fruit simultaneously.
According to legend if you peel an apple into a continuous ribbon and throw the peel over your left shoulder then the initial of your true love, which is not necessarily your betrothed, will be revealed.
More locally the Apple Wassail, which is a traditional form of folk singing and practised in cider orchards across Somerset. The ceremony is said to 'bless' the apple trees and spirits to produce a good crop for cider in the forthcoming season and is steeped in folklore and tradition.
The village of Carhampton, just five miles east of Minehead is famous for its Wassailing celebration which is thought to be the oldest in the land. The event, which takes place in the old orchard behind the Butchers Arms is a curious affair, all comers are greeted with some proper foggy cider to toast and Wassail the Old man of the Orchard the name given to the oldest fruit tree in the orchard. The Wassail Queen, a young virgin then places cider soaked toast in the branches for the Robins to eat along with any apple eating grubs the tree might be harbouring. Trees are then Wassailed, with song and verse interspersed with the crowd banging pots and pans to make a din of a noise before shot guns are fired over the branches which would chase the last of any bad spirits away.
This is a traditional Wassailing song.
Carry on down the left side of the park just before the park pinches to a narrower width there is a stand of Birch trees.
Birch is a fast growing tree which populated the English Isles as the Ice sheets retreated, it has a deep history inside European Folklore with a broad range of uses. It was apparently hard wearing enough for bobbins, spools and reels for the Lancashire cotton industry. Traditionally, babies' cradles were made of birch wood, and the thin branches even used in thatching or as a mattress when other materials were scarce.
The sap can be tapped as it rises in spring and fermented to make birch wine, a process still practised in the Highlands today, and according to Scottish Highland folklore, a barren cow herded with a birch stick would become fertile or a pregnant cow bear a healthy calf.
In Culpepper 's 'The Complete Herbal' which was first published in 1600's and republished many times since has this to say about Birch trees, with this extract coming from a version printed in 1880.
Walk down the park to the tall poplar tree just before the bridge. You can see it from here, standing to attention.
Poplar trees, are often referred to as the talking or whispering tree due to the rustle of their leaves. It is said that in Greek Mythology Hercules after destroying The Cacus, a fire breathing giant, made a wreath out of Poplar leaves, the inside turned white as they pressed on his sweaty brow whilst the outer darkened due to the heat of the underworld.
Pliny the Elder, the Roman philosopher writing around AD 50 suggested Poplar be used instead of Oak for shields as it is a lighter and more liable as can be steam bent like willow although weaker. In some cultures the catkins or red flowering cases are called Devils Fingers, and if you were to pick them up then you would have seven seasons of bad luck. To lift this hex, you would tuck the catkin behind your ear or between your toes when you slept.
Poplar wood has recently been used as a biomass crop due to it's astonishing growth rate.
To the left of this Poplar is a small tree called 'Hoheria' but more commonly known as the chocolate tree as it's blossom smells of chocolate.
Carry along and over the stone bridge, the next tree is a Eucalyptus.
On the fence line to the left stands a good proportioned tree with a relatively sparse canopy and beautiful red flaky bark (see image). This is the Eucalyptus tree, lean and muscular which is native to Australia and able to withstand spells of heat and drought.
Eucalyptus oil is extracted from both leaves and bark and has identifiable active antibacterial properties. You will find it readily available from modern herbalists and pharmacies, it is commonly used for coughs, cuts and chesty ailments including asthma. Doses must always be small as severe poisoning can easily happen of which children are amongst the most vulnerable.
Interestingly Eucalyptus has an ethanol value and can be made into a fuel like petrol though production costs are too high to make it financially viable.
Pass along the path, there is just one last tree in this park called the Handkerchief Tree, it also known as the Dove Tree or Ghost Tree, and is the last large tree on the right before the pathway shrinks to its smallest width.
The final tree in this, the first of three parks walks, is the Handkerchief Tree, or the Dove Tree.
Scottish plant hunter Augustine Henry found a single tree in the Yangtze river gorges of China and sent the first specimen to England, in 1868 but these were lost on the Han river in rapids. Another plant collector reported finding the tree again up a gorge of the Yangtze river but didn't retrieve a sample, so it was left 1899 to a third entrepreneur the 22 year old Earnest Wilson who set out with a map to locate this very same tree, when he eventually found it, he discovered it had been felled for fire wood!
He did manage to collect seeds from the remains but these again were lost in a capsized boat. However, undaunted he retraced his steps and found replacements, sending seeds back to the UK successfully in 1901, with the tree flowering for the first time in the UK in 1911.
The name comes from the large bracts of flowers which hang down in May and flutter in the breeze like doves or handkerchiefs.
Last section of this walk, including a listing of all trees in this park will reveal at then end of the path.
Park trees beyond the Lower Park and the A39 Porlock road.


We need to free Picos Nevados and Arena from the Black Hand's control before we can wrap up "Operation Sandstinger." That's going to require two more region strikes, which are our next two stops on our Just Cause 4 walkthrough.
If you swing west a bit and grab Acantilados, which requires you to do another "drive rigged cars into the harbor" region strike, it turns Arena into an SR-positive zone, and Picos Nevados likely already is.
"Atalaya Strike" is a fun one. You probably want to grab a combat helicopter for your initial approach, although you'll get lit up by SAM batteries upon arrival. Strafe those out of existence, along with the giant shiny Chaos-producing fuel tanks near the edge of the trainyard, then disembark for another round of generator hunting.
As with a few other region strikes, the generators you're looking for are tied to a bunch of AI-controlled, indestructible turrets which will target-lock on you if you're anywhere near their direct line of sight. They're easy enough to avoid as long as you're moving at any speed faster than a standard run, so never stop moving, whether it's via the grappling hook or wingsuit, unless you've got an indestructible object between Rico and the turrets.
The generators are all pretty easy to find, as most of them are in carefully labeled ditches built into the floor. Disabling the generator also kills the turret closest to it.
Once you deactivate the last generator, get back topside and hit the labeled console. You need to stay near it so Izzy can finish her hack, but Sargento drops in some backup for you, there are a couple of heavy weapons crates nearby, and the area around the console is equipped with two machine-gun turrets that are covering the Black Hand's only point of entry. From here, it's just a question of how much havoc you can wreak before Izzy's hack wraps up.


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Sad about the death of the Queen?
by Karen Walch | Sep 15, 2022
All the Queen's Men by S J Bennett
Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back. At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. The Queen must deal with the fallout from the Brexit referendum, a new female prime minister, and a tumultuous election in the United States -- yet these prove to be the least of her worries when a staff member is found dead beside the palace swimming pool. Is it truly the result of a tragic accident, as the police think, or is something more sinister going on? Meanwhile, her assistant private secretary, Rozie Oshodi, is on the trail of a favorite painting that once hung outside the Queen's bedroom and appears to have been misappropriated by the Royal Navy. And a series of disturbing anonymous letters have begun circulating in the palace. The Queen's courtiers think they have it all "under control," but Her Majesty is not so sure. After all, though the staff and public may not be aware, she is the keenest sleuth among them. Sometimes, it takes a Queen's eye to see connections where no one else can.
I love to imagine the Queen Elizabeth as a real person who is outsmarting them all.

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Rebuilding the Ship Canal & Its Piers, 1896-1902
The south pier of the Duluth Ship Canal in the mid 1890s, just before this old wooden pier was removed, the canal widened, and new concrete piers were built between 1896 and 1902. (Image: Lake Superior maritime Collection)
While Duluth officials had been stymied in its efforts to bridge the canal, the city was actually fortunate it did not build a bridge prior to 1898, when the canal was widened: Thereafter, any bridge would have been too short to span the canal, and a tunnel would have been in the way of new piers.
By the early 1890s, Duluth's canal and harbor needed major improvements: The old fourteen-foot deep channel wasn't up to par, not since the locks at Sault Ste. Marie (or "The Soo") on the other end of the lake were enlarged back in 1881. And the iron ore industry had finally arrived in Duluth by way of mines on the Merritt brothers' newly opened Mesaba Iron Range, creating more shipping traffic through Duluth. But the canal's and the harbor's shallow depth prevented bigger ships from carrying larger, more profitable loads.
Plans for the new piers of the Duluth Ship Canal. [image: LSMC]
So in 1893 Duluth's Captain Alexander McDougall—inventor of the Whaleback Steamer, which revolutionized the Great Lakes shipping industry—went to work organizing the Duluth-Superior Harbor Improvement Committee, whose first task would be to petition Congress for funds. In 1896 Congress "appropriated $3 million . . . to make Duluth-Superior harbor the most modern in America." The project called for twenty- foot channels throughout the bay, a connecting channel between the Duluth Bay and the Superior Bay, and an "immense anchorage basin" behind Park Point. Both the Superior Entry and the Duluth Ship Canal would receive new concrete piers. The appropriation also brought Duluth and Superior together: On June 3, 1896, the same act of Congress that appropriated the funds declared that "the harbors of Duluth and Superior [are] united." The two separate towns—once bitter rivals—had come together; in 1910 the two cities became known collectively as the Twin Ports.
Plans drawn up in 1896 called for a major renovation of the canal. It would be widened to 300 feet and stretched 400 feet to a total length of 1,600 feet. Substantial concrete structures would replace the rickety, crooked wooden piers that lined the canal. The work would take almost a thousand men and seven years to complete.
The steam dredge Old Hickory set to work making the canal deeper and wider: It had to cut another one hundred foot swath out of Minnesota Point, dig a trench twenty-four feet deep where cribbing would be set atop wooden pilings to support the new piers, and clear the rest of the canal to a depth of twenty feet. To widen the canal, dredging would take place south of the south pier; the old wooden pier would remain in place until the new one was completed. While engaged in this digging, Old Hickory hit a submerged obstacle: the wreck of the two-hundred-foot, three-masted sailing schooner Guido Pfister, which had stranded on the point adjacent to the canal in 1885; it was then abandoned and sunk. Engineers used dynamite to extract the wreckage.
As the Old Hickory dredged the canal deeper and wider, contractors began driving more than 5,100 wooden pilings, made of fifty-foot Norway pines, into the lake bottom every four feet; these pilings were later cut to a uniform level at twenty-four feet below the waterline. Workers then set cribbing on top of the pilings. Each crib, assembled at various places around the harbor, measured twenty-four feet wide, one hundred feet long, and twenty-two feet tall. Constructed of twelve-inch square pine beams, each crib featured a one-inch band of iron across the top to prevent ice from damaging the wood. Contractors assembled sixteen cribs for each pier. Each was towed into place, aligned, and sunk onto the pilings with the weight of stones. Once properly aligned, the pier had a solid foundation one foot below the waterline. Engineers then sank nine thousand tons of rip-rap stone along the base of the new piers to prevent erosion.
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Steam derricks placed concrete footing blocks atop the cribbing. After the footings were aligned, huge monolith concrete blocks— which would form the canal's deck and parapet walls—were set atop them. Unlike the footings, these blocks, which measured ten by eighteen feet and weighed fourteen thousand pounds each, were molded and cast on site by "large gangs of men working around the clock." These men, mostly Swedish and Finnish immigrants, received two dollars a day for their efforts. Thousands of tons of concrete were used to make the 334 monoliths used in the piers, 1,200 barrels of Portland cement for the South Pier alone. A center channel along the bottom of each monolith was left with a half-circle opening. When set in place, this opening formed a tunnel. A pulley-and-cable driven rail system was installed so that lighthouse keepers could reach their posts during treacherous conditions that would make walking atop the piers highly dangerous. Unfortunately, during storms the tunnel itself became half filled with water; it was little used for decades and later filled in as a safety measure. (With the old wooden pier, lighthouse keepers reached the South Pier Light by walking over a trestle walkway, so the keeper could reach the light even when the pier was submerged by large waves.)
Work began on the South Pier in 1898 and was completed in 1900. New South Breakwater and Rear Range Lights sat atop the South Pier by September of 1901. In 1902 workers finished the North Pier. Not once did the reconstruction of the canal interrupt shipping. The new century was still young, and Duluth had a brand new canal that would serve it far into the foreseeable future. But on the other side, Park Pointers still had no safe, reliable means of crossing the canal.
Detail of a photograph of the Duluth Ship Canal, Duluth, Minnesota, by W.H. Jackson, 1899. The concrete piers were constructed between 1896 and 1902; note that while the light poles are in place, their diffusion globes have yet to be installed. (Image: National Park Service)
From Duluth's Aerial Bridge and the Canal it Crosses by Tony Dierckins (Zenith City Press, 2022) featuring over 125 historic photos, sketches, maps, and diagrams. Click on the cover to preview the book.


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Q: How do I use Rails Selectize in my Rails Project? I'm getting the error
Selectize: Dependency MicroPlugin is missing

Make sure you either: (1) are using the "standalone" version of Selectize, or (2) require MicroPlugin before you load Selectize.

application.js:
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require selectize
//= require turbolinks
//= require bootstrap-sprockets
//= require jquery.validate
//= require jquery.validate.additional-methods
//= require_tree .

A: I changed my application.js to
//= require selectize/standalone/selectize

I figured it out by looking at the load paths
~/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/rails-assets-selectize-0.12.3/app/assets/javascripts

and found standalone was in /selectize/standalone/selectize.js
I knew to look there by looking at their examples.

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[APK] Download Xiaomi Mi FileExplorer App: Expect a few flagship devices like Google, Motorola and OnePlus, most smartphone manufacturers install a custom and an exclusive skin on top of the stock version of Android to give their users with a unique experience. While there is a disadvantage that these custom skins might take longer to receive the official Android update and sometimes might affect the performance and the battery life of your device, they are used most of the times.
A lot of custom skins currently exists in the world of Android like Samsung's Touchwiz OS, Huawei's EMUI and Lenovo's Vibe UI. But the most popular and the extremely customizable of them all is the MIUI from Xiaomi. Right from the initial stages, Xiaomi released its devices, both budget and flagship with MIUI built in. It came with a lot of additional features over stock Android like custom themes, custom apps and even custom ringtones and wallpapers.
One of the best thing about the Xiaomi's MIUI is it comes with apps that don't even exist in the Stock version of Android. For instance, Xiaomi comes with a default file manager app called the Xiaomi MI FileExplorer. This file manager app comes with a lot of features like FTP support, junk files detection and cleaning and it is also ad-free. The app was a MIUI exclusive but it is now available for download for all Android devices.
If you own a stock Android phone with no proper file manager app or if you have already tried out different file manager apps from the Google Play Store but are disappointed by their lack of features, limited availability or the annoying ads, then chances are that you might actually like using the feature-rich Mi FileExplorer. Here is how to download the APK file of the file manager app from MIUI and install it on your Android device.
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The 2019–20 Washington Capitals season was the 46th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on June 11, 1974. The Capitals entered the season as the 4-time defending Metropolitan Division champions. They would go on to win the division for the fifth year in a row.

The season was suspended by the league officials on March 12, 2020, after several other professional and collegiate sports organizations followed suit as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 26, the NHL regular season was officially declared over with the remaining games being cancelled. The Capitals advanced to the playoffs, but were eliminated by the New York Islanders in the first round in five games.

Standings

Divisional standings

Eastern Conference

Schedule and results

Preseason
The preseason schedule was published on June 17, 2019.

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| 1 || September 16 || Chicago || 4–3 OT || 1–0–0
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| 2 || September 18 || St. Louis || 3–2 || 2–0–0
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| 3 || September 21 || Carolina || 3–2 || 3–0–0
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| 4 || September 25 || @ Chicago || 6–0 || 4–0–0
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| 5 || September 27 || @ St. Louis || 3–4 || 4–1–0
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| 6 || September 29 || @ Carolina || 4–3 || 5–1–0
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Regular season
The regular season schedule was published on June 25, 2019.

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| 1 || October 2 || @ St. Louis || 3–2 || OT || Holtby || Enterprise Center || 18,096 || 1–0–0 || 2 ||
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| 2 || October 4 || @ NY Islanders || 2–1 ||  || Samsonov || Nassau Coliseum || 13,917 || 2–0–0 || 4 ||
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| 3 || October 5 || Carolina || 2–3 || OT || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,506 || 2–0–1 || 5 ||
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| 4 || October 8 || Dallas || 3–4 || OT || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 2–0–2 || 6 ||
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| 5 || October 10 || @ Nashville || 5–6 ||  || Holtby || Bridgestone Arena || 17,386 || 2–1–2 || 6 ||
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| 6 || October 12 || @ Dallas || 4–1 ||  || Samsonov || American Airlines Center || 18,532 || 3–1–2 || 8 ||
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| 7 || October 14 || Colorado || 3–6 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 3–2–2 || 8 ||
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| 8 || October 16 || Toronto || 4–3 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 4–2–2 || 10 ||
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| 9 || October 18 || NY Rangers || 5–2 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 5–2–2 || 12 ||
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| 10 || October 20 || @ Chicago || 5–3 ||  || Holtby || United Center || 21,187 || 6–2–2 || 14 ||
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| 11 || October 22 || @ Calgary || 5–3 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Saddledome || 18,002 || 7–2–2 || 16 ||
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| 12 || October 24 || @ Edmonton || 3–4 || OT || Holtby || Rogers Place || 17,144 || 7–2–3 || 17 ||
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| 13 || October 25 || @ Vancouver || 6–5 || SO || Samsonov || Rogers Arena || 18,871 || 8–2–3 || 19 ||
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| 14 || October 29 || @ Toronto || 4–3 || OT || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 19,258 || 9–2–3 || 21 ||
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| 15 || November 1 || Buffalo || 6–1 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 10–2–3 || 23 ||
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| 16 || November 3 || Calgary || 4–2 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 11–2–3 || 25 ||
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| 17 || November 7 || @ Florida || 5–4 || OT || Holtby || BB&T Center || 14,085 || 12–2–3 || 27 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 18 || November 9 || Vegas || 5–2 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 13–2–3 || 29 ||
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 19 || November 11 || Arizona || 3–4 || SO || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 13–2–4 || 30 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 20 || November 13 || @ Philadelphia || 2–1 || SO || Holtby || Wells Fargo Center || 18,159 || 14–2–4 || 32 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 21 || November 15 || Montreal || 2–5 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 14–3–4 || 32 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 22 || November 16 || @ Boston || 3–2 || SO || Holtby || TD Garden || 17,850 || 15–3–4 || 34 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 23 || November 18 || Anaheim || 5–2 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 16–3–4 || 36 ||
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| 24 || November 20 || @ NY Rangers || 1–4 ||  || Holtby || Madison Square Garden || 17,239 || 16–4–4 || 36 ||
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 25 || November 23 || Vancouver || 1–2 || SO || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 16–4–5 || 37 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 26 || November 27 || Florida || 4–3 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 17–4–5 || 39 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 27 || November 29 || Tampa Bay || 4–3 || OT || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 18–4–5 || 41 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 28 || November 30 || @ Detroit || 5–2 ||  || Samsonov || Little Caesars Arena || 19,190 || 19–4–5 || 43 ||
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|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 29 || December 3 || @ San Jose || 5–2 ||  || Holtby || SAP Center || 17,562 || 20–4–5 || 45 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 30 || December 4 || @ Los Angeles || 3–1 ||  || Samsonov || Staples Center || 16,102 || 21–4–5 || 47 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 31 || December 6 || @ Anaheim || 3–2 ||  || Holtby || Honda Center || 15,945 || 22–4–5 || 49 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 32 || December 9 || Columbus || 2–5 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 22–5–5 || 49 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 33 || December 11 || Boston || 3–2 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 23–5–5 || 51 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 34 || December 14 || @ Tampa Bay || 5–2 ||  || Samsonov || Amalie Arena || 19,092 || 24–5–5 || 53 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 35 || December 16 || @ Columbus || 0–3 ||  || Holtby || Nationwide Arena || 16,602 || 24–6–5 || 53 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 36 || December 20 || @ New Jersey || 6–3 ||  || Samsonov || Prudential Center || 15,021 || 25–6–5 || 55 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 37 || December 21 || Tampa Bay || 3–1 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 26–6–5 || 57 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 38 || December 23 || @ Boston || 3–7 ||  || Holtby || TD Garden || 17,850 || 26–7–5 || 57 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 39 || December 27 || Columbus || 2–1 || OT || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 27–7–5 || 59 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 40 || December 28 || @ Carolina || 4–6 ||  || Holtby || PNC Arena || 18,680 || 27–8–5 || 59 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 41 || December 31 || NY Islanders || 3–4 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 27–9–5 || 59 ||
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|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 42 || January 3 || @ Carolina || 4–3 ||  || Samsonov || PNC Arena || 18,680 || 28–9–5 || 61 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 43 || January 5 || San Jose || 5–4 || OT || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 29–9–5 || 63 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 44 || January 7 || Ottawa || 6–1 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 30–9–5 || 65 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 45 || January 8 || @ Philadelphia || 2–3 ||  || Holtby || Wells Fargo Center || 18,595 || 30–10–5 || 65 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 46 || January 11 || New Jersey || 1–5 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 30–11–5 || 65 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 47 || January 13 || Carolina || 2–0 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 31–11–5 || 67 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 48 || January 16 || New Jersey || 5–2 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 32–11–5 || 69 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 49 || January 18 || @ NY Islanders || 6–4 ||  || Samsonov || Nassau Coliseum || 13,917 || 33–11–5 || 71 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 50 || January 27 || @ Montreal || 4–2 ||  || Holtby || Bell Centre || 21,302 || 34–11–5 || 73 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 51 || January 29 || Nashville || 4–5 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 34–12–5 || 73 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 52 || January 31 || @ Ottawa || 5–3 ||  || Samsonov || Canadian Tire Centre || 14,279 || 35–12–5 || 75 ||
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|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 53 || February 2 || Pittsburgh || 3–4 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 35–13–5 || 75 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 54 || February 4 || Los Angeles || 4–2 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 36–13–5 || 77 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 55 || February 8 || Philadelphia || 2–7 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 36–14–5 || 77 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 56 || February 10 || NY Islanders || 3–5 ||  || Samsonov || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 36–15–5 || 77 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 57 || February 13 || @ Colorado || 3–2 ||  || Holtby || Pepsi Center || 18,146 || 37–15–5 || 79 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 58 || February 15 || @ Arizona || 1–3 ||  || Holtby || Gila River Arena || 17,139 || 37–16–5 || 79 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 59 || February 17 || @ Vegas || 2–3 ||  || Holtby || T-Mobile Arena || 18,399 || 37–17–5 || 79 ||
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 60 || February 20 || Montreal || 3–4 || OT || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 37–17–6 || 80 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 61 || February 22 || @ New Jersey || 2–3 ||  || Samsonov || Prudential Center || 16,514 || 37–18–6 || 80 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 62 || February 23 || Pittsburgh || 5–3 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 38–18–6 || 82 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 63 || February 25 || Winnipeg || 4–3 || SO || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 39–18–6 || 84 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 64 || February 27 || @ Winnipeg || 0–3 ||  || Samsonov || Bell MTS Place || 15,325 || 39–19–6 || 84 ||
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|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 65 || March 1 || @ Minnesota || 4–3 ||  || Holtby || Xcel Energy Center || 17,388 || 40–19–6 || 86 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 66 || March 4 || Philadelphia || 2–5 ||  || Holtby || Capital One Arena || 18,573 || 40–20–6 || 86 ||
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 67 || March 5 || @ NY Rangers || 5–6 || OT || Samsonov || Madison Square Garden || 17,277 || 40–20–7 || 87 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 68 || March 7 || @ Pittsburgh || 5–2 ||  || Holtby || PPG Paints Arena || 18,656 || 41–20–7 || 89 ||
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 69 || March 9 || @ Buffalo || 2–3 || SO || Holtby || KeyBank Center || 16,539 || 41–20–8 || 90 ||
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|- style="background:#;"
| 70 || March 12 || Detroit || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 71 || March 14 || Chicago || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 72 || March 16 || Edmonton || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 73 || March 19 || @ Columbus || Nationwide Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 74 || March 20 || Ottawa || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 75 || March 22 || @ Pittsburgh || PPG Paints Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 76 || March 24 || St. Louis || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 77 || March 26 || NY Rangers || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 78 || March 28 || @ Detroit || Little Caesars Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 79 || March 30 || @ Buffalo || KeyBank Center
|- style="background:#;"
| 80 || March 31 || Toronto || Capital One Arena
|- style="background:#;"
| 81 || April 2 || Minnesota || Capital One Arena
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| 82 || April 4  || @ Florida || BB&T Center
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Playoffs

The Capitals played in a round-robin tournament to determine their seed for the playoffs. Washington finished with a 1–1–1 record to clinch the third seed for the playoffs.

The Capitals were defeated by the New York Islanders in the first round in five games.

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| 1 || August 3 || @ Tampa Bay || 2–3 || SO || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 0–0–1 || 1 ||
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 2 || August 6 || @ Philadelphia || 1–3 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 0–1–1 || 1 ||
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 3 || August 9 || Boston || 2–1 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 1–1–1 || 3 ||
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| 1 || August 12 || NY Islanders || 2–4 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 0–1 ||
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| 2 || August 14 || NY Islanders || 2–5 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 0–2 ||
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| 3 || August 16 || @ NY Islanders || 1–2 || OT || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 0–3 ||
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| 4 || August 18 || @ NY Islanders || 3–2 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 1–3 ||
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| 5 || August 20 || NY Islanders || 0–4 ||  || Holtby || Scotiabank Arena || 1–4 ||
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Player statistics

Skaters

Goaltenders

†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Capitals. Stats reflect time with the Capitals only.
‡Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Capitals only.
Bold/italics denotes franchise record.

Transactions
The Capitals have been involved in the following transactions during the 2019–20 season.

Trades

Free agents

Waivers

Contract terminations

Retirement

Signings

Draft picks

Below are the Washington Capitals' selections at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, which was held on June 21 and 22, 2019, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Notes:
 The San Jose Sharks' third-round pick went to the Washington Capitals as the result of a trade on June 22, 2019, that sent a fourth-round pick and Buffalo's fifth-round pick both in 2019 (118th and 129th overall) to New Jersey in exchange for this pick.
 The San Jose Sharks' fifth-round pick went to the Washington Capitals as the result of a trade on June 22, 2019, that sent a seventh-round pick in 2019 (211th overall) and 2020 to San Jose in exchange for this pick.

References

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We haven't written for a while for all the best reasons. We've been busy! And successful! We are also increasingly sharing info via other social media; check us out there to stay up to date.
The Facebook page for Mary A. Whalen carries images and info about the ship restoration and worklife aboard, the page for PortSide is more about waterfront policy and news. Our Twitter account shares all of that and is therefore has most comprehensive and timely info.
Spring is a time for growth, and PortSide is sure doing it!
We have significant new partners helping us maintain the ship; more on that in the future. Much of our work is out of view, working with new consultants and advisers to grow the board and make new business and fundraising plans. We are also creating several volunteer committees, if you would like to be involved, shoot us an email!
We just succeeded in securing a commitment of FEMA recovery funds for our Sandy damages (reimbursement funds for money we have to first raise and expend in order to receive).
We negotiated many hurdles and much paperwork along the way, starting from the point of "you are an ineligible non-profit" in November 2012. Negotiating is something PortSide has learned thanks to eight years of seeking a home while simultaneously arranging for program permits at diverse sites. PortSide became resilient in many ways well before Sandy. Please donate to support our ongoing recovery and growth.
Goltens Marine, founded in Red Hook, has sadly closed its Red Hook shop but continues operations in 16 countries, including the USA. This is a major loss to Red Hook's maritime portfolio and the whole harbor. Goltens could fabricate or fix just about anything relating to a ship as Rik Van Hemmen explains in this tribute. PortSide made more video interviews and photos of Goltens before they closed to preserve this Red Hook history for our WaterStories project.
Goltens' closure affects our Sandy recovery, since Goltens was going to refurbish the replacement parts for the MARY A. WHALEN's engine that were stored in the pier shed and flooded by Sandy. Goltens had worked on the MARY's engine in the past, so we have lost local knowledge about our ship. PortSide now needs quotes from other engine restorers.
Just over a year ago, we were at the White House receiving an award for Sandy recovery work (prevention and aid delivery). Sandy broadened PortSide's water-themed mission to include helping communities recover and prepare for water disasters.
We developed community preparedness plans. We dedicated pages of our website (See the Sandy tab), and much of blog, Facebook and Twitter activity to info about recovery and resiliency. One of our webpages is dedicated to making sense of the welter of resiliency plans just about Red Hook.
The eight-month NYS NY Rising resiliency planning process has concluded. (See final plan or shorter Executive Summary.) Our Director Carolina Salguero was a member to the Red Hook committee. Her proposal to install solar-powered, emergency lights in NYCHA public housing (as a pilot project) was one of two projects from the plan presented during its rollout in Albany (see 09:16 of video) The PortSide office supported Carolina's work on the committee with considerable research which we have put on line so it is accessible to all.
The 9/11 Memorial Museum recently opened, and we are proud that PortSide NewYork bettered that museum in covering the mariners' response to 9/11, which we presented in our 2012 multimedia exhibit. The 9/11 museum does not describe - as we did - how mariners pumped in water to fight the fires, supplied ground zero, removed rubble and set up emergency ferry networks for two years.
The museum understates the magnitude of the evacuation, the largest boatlift in history, and relegates it to a small nook. Getting the 9/11 story right is NOT just a backward-looking exercise, it helps prepare NYC for future disaster response and resiliency.
We push ahead with ship preservation work!
We overhauled the galley on the Mary A. Whalen over the winter, removing massive amounts of paint, restoring original colors, polishing metals. Check it out!
To finish remaining details, we could use help restoring floor tile, the wood-paneled fridge-freezer, and the galley stools and banquette. Please refer such professionals to us, and please donate!
PortSide is partnering with photographer Jonathan Atkin to promote his Hero Project and provide a501(c)3 conduit for his grants.
The Hero Project is "using the majesty of dance on behalf of the maritime heritage of our nation." It combines three arts, naval architecture, dance, and photography, to make dramatic photos and a unique, preservation advocacy project.
The 76th birthday of the MARY A. WHALEN on May 21, 2014 was observed at the opening of the Hero Project exhibit.
See the Hero Project photos yourself on the ship LILAC in Tribeca until June 30, Thursdays 4-7pm and weekends 2-7pm. For a twofer, you can catch the North River Historic Ship Festival there on the weekend of 6/21-22.
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Home Innovation #T-TeC - Telespazio Technology Contest #T-TeC 2019
The ReBUS project studies how to cultivate crops on the Moon and on Mars
Telespazio is a member of a consortium of universities, research institutes and companies working on the Italian Space Agency's ReBUS project, figuring out how to cultivate plants on other celestial bodies using locally available resources.
In the movie "The Martian", Matt Damon is left alone on Mars and has to plant potatoes to survive. Though we all hope real astronauts will never have the same traumatic experience as his character, Dr. Watney, there is no doubt that if we are to guarantee the sustainability of future human missions to other celestial bodies, such as the planets of the solar system or the Moon, we must learn to produce a large part of the resources required on site, as in Ridley Scott's movie.
This is the concern of ReBUS (In-Situ Resource Bio-Utilization for supporting life in Space), the project begun in response to a call for tenders announced by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and presented on November 18 following the first two years of work.
In addition to Telespazio, ReBUS involves a number of Italian universities and research centres, such as Federico II University of Naples, which is coordinating the project, Pavia University, Tor Vergata University of Rome, the National Agency for New Technologies and Economic Development (ENEA), the National Research Council (CNR), the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health) and two of Italy's biggest aerospace companies, Thales Alenia Space Italia and Kayser Italia.
ReBUS is inspired by the awareness that long-term missions to the Moon and other planets in our solar system must necessarily produce at least some of the resources necessary for life, such as oxygen, water and food, in situ. At the moment, the principal human outpost in Space – the International Space Station (ISS) – is served regularly by cargo capsules bringing the astronauts on board all the supplies they need.
But human missions to other planets would be so far away that this would become very complicated.
In the case of the ISS, loss of a single cargo shuttle is a serious but solvable problem, but for a mission to another planet, the absence of supplies could put the astronauts in serious danger, with increasingly scarce supplies.
Hence the importance of plants: they not only represent a source of food, but convert wastes into resources, triggering a virtuous circle of independent production.
A scene from 'The Martian', with Matt Damon growing potatoes on Martian soil. Courtesy of 20th Century Fox
But reality is more complicated than it would appear in "The Martian", and there are still many unsolved problems with plant cultivation away from Earth.
It is not entirely clear, for example, just what role gravity plays in plant growth and how this would be altered in space, or how plants might react to ionising radiation, which is screened out by Earth's magnetic field so that only a minimal amount reaches our planet. Nor is it clear what the impact of a different day/night cycle might be for plant growth, or the ability of plants to adapt to different soils and substrates – like those on the Moon or Mars, where of course there is no organic component and there may be substances such as perchlorates which, if absorbed by the plants, would be toxic to humans.
In search of answers to these open questions, the ReBUS consortium is focusing on three main areas of study, each with its own specific goal.
The first line of study involves identification of the best species for cultivation away from the planet Earth, understanding the effects of adverse environmental conditions on other planets and identifying the type of soil, fertiliser and cultivation strategies most appropriate for their growth.
At the same time, the ReBUS project studies methods and techniques for creating appropriate fertilisers and soils from waste materials produced directly on site, such as food scraps and organic human waste, using microorganisms, alone or in combination, as consortia of bacteria, fungi, and even insects and cyanobacteria, which are organisms capable of surviving and multiplying in extreme environments.
Lastly, special attention is being paid to analysis of the quality and safety of the food produced and its effects on the astronauts' health.
Producing food in a future base on the Moon or Mars is a challenge that still presents many unknowns, which is why the International Space Station and, in the future, the Moon Gateway offer vast potential for studying how plants behave in environments other than Earth.
This is why ReBUS aims to follow up on the study by suggesting a number of new experiments to be performed directly in orbit or on the Moon. At present, the many proposals include the possibility of cultivating particular varieties of edible plants on board the ISS or using soil from the Moon in one of the European Lunar Lander's first missions, one of the first programmes likely to benefit from the communication and positioning services offered by Moonlight.
Telespazio, with decades of experience preparing and conducting experiments on board the ISS and other microgravitational platforms, is ready to help the consortium outline and implement the subsequent phases in the project, so that one day astronauts may, perhaps, really be able to eat potatoes grown on Mars.
Just like Matt Damon in Ridley Scott's movie!
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Oceans and seas, rivers and lakes, rice paddies and canals – the world's waters provide not only fish, but also other foods that help mankind face the complex and critical challenges of nutrition, public health, climate change, resilience, gender equity, social inclusion and sustainable growth across the globe.
The winners of #TeC 2021, the Open Innovation competition promoted by Leonardo and Telespazio, were awarded today on the stage of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.


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General News 12/1/2007 at 02:28:12
Iran Press Watch: Annapolis
By Chris Gelken (Page 1 of 3 pages) (View How Many People Read This) 2 comments
Iran's press predicted a failure at Annapolis; they may well be proved right
As widely expected, the Iranian media were less than supportive of the Annapolis Peace Conference. It wasn't that they hadn't been invited - the average Iranian is used to being snubbed by the West and has developed a thick skin to this sort of thing. Instead, local pundits amused themselves by stating the obvious flaws in the process.
The English language Kayan International, for example, quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, "When the real representatives of the Palestinian resistance groups did not attend the meeting, and the rights, votes and will of this nation were not recognized, the conference would be fruitless."
True to form and never one to miss an opportunity, the president added that, "It is impossible that the Zionist regime will survive. Collapse is in the nature of this regime because it has been created on aggression, lying, oppression and crime." According to translators who viewed the original Farsi, the president said Zionist regime, as in government, and not Israel as a state.
It's a bit like saying we'd like to see the end of the Bush administration and their policies, not necessarily the end of the United States of America as a country. Too subtle a difference for some to grasp, perhaps.
The three main protagonists, the U.S. , Israel, and Palestine agreed to seek a peace deal by the end of 2008 that would create a Palestinian state, Kayhan said, but the core issues like the status of al-Quds (Jerusalem), the borders of a future Palestinian state, and the fate of Palestinian refugees remained unresolved.
Well, at least there was some progress. Or was there? Kayhan reported that within a few hours of the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the 2008 deadline for a deal might not be reached. Translation: It won't be reached. The status of Jerusalem will see to that. The borders, the security walls, the settlers, the refugees.. well, they are just supporting intractable problems.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the forum's only achievement was a couple of documents that haven't actually been finalized by the signatories. "It was a show."
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In geometry, a nonagon () or enneagon () is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon.

The name nonagon is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin (nonus, "ninth" + gonon), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French nonogone and in English from the 17th century. The name enneagon comes from Greek enneagonon (εννεα, "nine" + γωνον (from γωνία = "corner")), and is arguably more correct, though less common than "nonagon".

Regular nonagon
A regular nonagon is represented by Schläfli symbol {9} and has internal angles of 140°. The area of a regular nonagon of side length a is given by

where the radius r of the inscribed circle of the regular nonagon is

and where R is the radius of its circumscribed circle:

Construction
Although a regular nonagon is not constructible with compass and straightedge (as 9 = 32, which is not a product of distinct Fermat primes), there are very old methods of construction that produce very close approximations.

It can be also constructed using neusis, or by allowing the use of an angle trisector.

Symmetry

The regular enneagon has Dih9 symmetry, order 18. There are 2 subgroup dihedral symmetries: Dih3 and Dih1, and 3 cyclic group symmetries: Z9, Z3, and Z1.

These 6 symmetries can be seen in 6 distinct symmetries on the enneagon. John Conway labels these by a letter and group order. Full symmetry of the regular form is r18 and no symmetry is labeled a1. The dihedral symmetries are divided depending on whether they pass through vertices (d for diagonal) or edges (p for perpendiculars), and i when reflection lines path through both edges and vertices. Cyclic symmetries in the middle column are labeled as g for their central gyration orders.

Each subgroup symmetry allows one or more degrees of freedom for irregular forms. Only the g9 subgroup has no degrees of freedom but can seen as directed edges.

Tilings

The regular enneagon can tessellate the euclidean tiling with gaps. These gaps can be filled with regular hexagons and isosceles triangles. In the notation of symmetrohedron this tiling is called H(*;3;*;[2]) with H representing *632 hexagonal symmetry in the plane.

Graphs
The K9 complete graph is often drawn as a regular enneagon with all 36 edges connected. This graph also represents an orthographic projection of the 9 vertices and 36 edges of the 8-simplex.

Pop culture references
They Might Be Giants have a song entitled "Nonagon" on their children's album Here Come the 123s. It refers to both an attendee at a party at which "everybody in the party is a many-sided polygon" and a dance they perform at this party.
Slipknot's logo is also a version of a nonagon, being a nine-pointed star made of three triangles, referring to the nine members.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have an album titled 'Nonagon Infinity', the album art featuring a nonagonal complete graph. The album consists of nine songs and repeats cyclically.

Architecture
Temples of the Bahá'í Faith, called Bahá'í Houses of Worship, are required to be nonagonal.

The U.S. Steel Tower is an irregular nonagon.

Garsų Gaudyklė in Lithuania.

See also
Enneagram (nonagram)
Trisection of the angle 60°, Proximity construction

References

External links
Properties of a Nonagon (with interactive animation)

Polygons by the number of sides
9 (number)
Elementary shapes


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Ace Ghanaian award winning OAP, tourism and destination marketing expert & CEO of West Africa's leading travel and tours provider, Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey, known famously as Abeiku Santana in proper proceedings attended and participated entirely as an international hosted buyer in all tasks at the year's Africa Travel Indaba 2018, which stand in as the largest tourism marketing show on the African calendar, proudly organized by Synergy Business Events on behalf of South African Tourism.
At Indaba this year, over 1747 buyers from countries all over the world experienced the authentic spirit and soul of the continent of Africa, capitalized on the opportunity to immerse in the culture and traditions of no less than 22 exhibiting African countries.
Exhibitors met at Africa's Travel Indaba 2018 qualified buyers who are really interested in selling Africa, whilst buyers had access to the biggest variety of products on the continent, from the hidden gems in South Africa to the luxury experiences across Africa as a continent.
In an official report written by the CEO of the award winning Travel & Tours provider, Kaya Tours in West Africa – Ghana, a number of about seven thousand participants from 80 countries with 22 countries from Africa employed in matchmaking, speed marketing and studying innovative technological ways in tourism stock delivery.
Abeiku Santana then quoted how the Hon.Tourism Minister of South Africa, Derek Hanekom called for upgrading of tourism product, in order to entice supplementary investment in Africa.
Mr. Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana attended the 2018 Africa's Travel Indaba in the City of Durban with ither high-size and prominent West African tourism delegation, counting from the Head of Nigeria's Tour operators association, Mr. Kwesi Eyison – the newly elected President of the Tour operators Union of Ghana, Mrs. Nancy Sam – President of Women in Tourism Ghana and the Editor in chief and Publisher of Africa's leading Travel and Tourism magazine ATQ among others.
Africa's topmost travel and tourism expo #INDABA2018 has successfully come to a close in Durban, South Africa.
About 7000 Participants from 80 countries with 22 countries from Africa including government Agencies, Destination Management Companies, media, exhibitors, hosted buyers, tourism professionals from all around the world engaged in Speed marketing, Matchmaking, Networking and learning innovative technological ways in the tourism product delivery.
Africa's Travel and Tourism Expo, Indaba plays an integral role in the shaping of the continent's success stories.
The exhibitors showcased assortment of products with over 500 smaller enterprises known as "Hidden Gems" from startup entrepreneurs.
South Africa's Minister of Tourism, Derek Hanekom called for the improvement of tourism products to attract more investment in Africa.
The west African tourism delegation among others were Hajia Barkisu ,President of the Tour Operators Association in Nigeria ????????, Mr Kwesi Eyison ,The President of the Tour Operators Union in Ghana ????????, Alhaji Rabo Salih, Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria ,The President of The Travel Agents of Nigeria , Mr Bankole Bernard , The Chief Editor and Publisher of Africa's leading Travel and Tourism Magazine ATQ, and Founder of West Africa's biggest tourism expo , Akwaaba Nigeria , Weizor Accra , Mr Ikechi Ucko , Mrs Nancy Sam the President of Women in Tourism Ghana , Mr Abeiku Aggrey Santana , CEO of Kaya Tours Ghana , Ameyaw Debrah, Francis Doku were among the 26 West African Delegation drawn from Ghana and Nigeria.
In a closing remark the CEO of South Africa Tourism, Mr Sisa Ntshona praised the Africa delegates for cooperating to promote and integrate the continent as one destination through tourism.
Africa's Travel Indaba is the result of collaboration between the bid parties, South African Tourism and the South African Government at all levels, and the owners and operators of attractions and facilities.


Also Cervix I was diagnosed with Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix, there is also a small cell variant.
All the locations raise my interest, having had pancreatic and adrenal nets found so far, a little tumour in my abdomen wall has been found, it's being removed next week, the biopsy result could be interesting. Having a gallium pet scan next month too, praying no more are found.
Good luck with the scan and biopsy!
Humorous bone but I have it liver, lungs, ribs, lymph nodes, super clavical a few other places, No primary location determined. Inoperable started sandostatin LAR 30mg monthly shots. I find out next week is it working to slow down growth etc. I thought PRRT was promising from studies I read. Hoping it gets approved in the USA. Ronny thank you so much for sharing your research .
'Supra' clavicular – is that lymph nodes supraclavicularfossa (SCF nodes) or the bone? I have left SCF nodes lighting up. You should have PRRT soon which will be approved for inoperable for progressive NETs, pending insurance approval. Can I ask which scan was done to suggest bone mets?
Can you state partoid, sublingual or submandibular? Many other tiny salivary glands are in your lips, inside your cheeks, and throughout your mouth and throat.
Mine is also in salivary gland, lungs, liver and lymph nodes.
Hello Ronny! I am so glad you posted this! My husband was diagnosed with GI Net over the last month after a "polyp" was removed during a routine colonoscopy at age 53. He developed GI bleed one week later. I took him the the ER where I work as a nurse, the doctors in the ER looked up his pathology revealing the cancer. I used several of my connections to get him into the oncologist and a surgeon asap but also did a ton of self education for which I am thankful for. Results from his PET scan revealed a tumor behind his eye. I am still worried that this is mets even though the oncologist said "carcinoid doesn't go there" We were referred to a ophthalmologist and getting an MRI to "make sure there is nothing behind it" (aka cancer) that the oncologist wanted. I was frustrated because I have read several articles on mets to the orbit. This has also made me realize that I want him to go to a specialist in NET caner. I am so frustrated because I thought I was taking him to the best oncologist in the area.
Yes, I have read at least one comment from a patient with eye involvement, perhaps 2. Can't remember if they confirmed a NET (better term to use than carcinoid). I'll try a search but difficult to find sometimes.
Hi, since posting last in January 2016, things have moved on. We asked for a referral to the Royal Free and are now being seen by ~Professor Caplin's team. 2016 was a year of a second lot of chemotherapy after the lung tumour grew by 20%..We pushed hard for PRRT, even though it is off the Cancer Drug Fund list – removed in November 2015 after over 15 years of use in this country because there was no "evidence" it did any good. 3 shots out of four have been given during 2017 (the drug company is funding it, although I found out via a freedom of information request that 18 patients had been referred to the patient fund for this treatment, but only two were successful. This is nothing short of scandalous) At the moment everything is stable – nothing shrinking, which is a bit worrying, but nothing growing either, which is a relief. Meanwhile we carry on. Joe continues to work – because he wants to and he can as he works from home and he has flexible bosses. And I do too, because that is what makes things normal. We have no desire to spend ludicrous amounts of money going to exotic locations and value the ordinariness of our lives – although that sometimes makes it hard for others to understand just how life changing the diagnosis and the disease itself is – Joe suffers chronic tiredness, especially after treatments. Keep up the good work of informing us of our options. If we don't know the names of these drugs we don't know what to badger the consultants for, when this drug stops working!
How long can neuroendocrine patients stay on Everolimus? Can you travel abroad including long haul flight whilst taking this medication?
I can find very little information on Everolimus, do you believe this is a last ditch attempt at life and if you don't get along with it then that's it at the moment. Mine is liver mets 6 months ago had sirt which is shrinking the 2 tumours we aimed at, but 3 more have appeared since the last scan. Had lots of surgery including radicle liver surgery and remainder of the body is stable. How can you make the liver healthier? I have had this disease for 13 years, but in the last 9 have not really had treatment free time, thought sirt would have delivered it!
I am not a member of Facebook and can't see how well/long people are living with Everolimus on netpatients. What I have been able to read emplies it is used to stop new growth and can shrink tumours, but once you stop the effects seem to stop too. Have you any more interesting information on it?
yes I know what you mean, I don't think I can actually remember someone by name who's on the drug. I know there is a facebook group just for the drug but like many it will have turned into a zebra picture sharing site like many of them do (therefore diluting the support they were initially set up for). This link provides actual clinical trial data so will be pretty accurate in terms of side effects. You need to read the aim of the approval which for the US FDA is "for the treatment of adult patients with progressive, well-differentiated non-functional, neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of gastrointestinal (GI) or lung origin with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic disease". So for many it could be a first line treatment (i.e. unresectable) given at an early stage. For others it could be given downstream (i.e. progressive). So I don't necessarily accept that it is a 'last ditch' (…..that would be cytotoxic chemo). Yes, you could look at some form of embolization to tackle liver tumors, surgery if possible is always a good option (they took 66% of my liver which kinda grows back (this was 'debulking surgery' so not everything came out but it helped). Everywhere I look, it says everolimus is a long term treatment taken for as long as it works. Are you on a somatostatin analogue?
My husband was initially diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to his liver, spine and lymph nodes. Consequently he was given 8 weeks to live. A subsequent biopsy of his lung tumour revealed it was a NET and he went from 8 weeks life expectancy to 8 years in 8 seconds! Two years on and monthly Lanreotide injections hold the disease in exactly the same position that it was in when it was first discovered. However, a proposed operation on his spine (to try and reduce pain caused by damage to the vertebrae caused by the cancer) was cancelled at the last minute by the anaesthetist who said the tumour on his lung, which measures 7.5 X 8 cm and is inoperable, is pushing into his oesophagus and therefore it was too dangerous. This was very upsetting, as it seems most people's chances of survival are extended when the cancer is removed surgically. Has anyone else had any similar experience?
Jane, I'm so sorry to hear of your news. Each case can be very different and without knowing all the ins and outs, it's difficult to comment. NETS are normally slow growing but it's also true to say that cyto reductive or debulking surgery can potentially offer better outlook but even so, that needs to be weighed up with other factors. This is it a forum site so will not get many people answering. I can understand why you find your situation upsetting. Were you been treated at a NET specialist centre?
I was diagnosed with carcinoid primary of the gallbladder. Disease free for 13 years and counting!
Have you heard of a group called "Loveable Lungoids" ? You are more likey to find someone similar there I suspect. I'll keep my ear to the ground though.
Hi Ronny, I had a typical in my right lung removed by thoracotomy, but later found to have metastatic disease (positive margins) in 2 of 4 lymph nodes and the parietal pleura (chest wall). I've yet to find anyone with the same. My onc is happy to just watch & wait. If you know of anyone in a similar situation I'd love to know!
has anyone heard of any kind of link between insulinoma (pancreas NET) and breast cancer? I had both, during a PET CT to detect the insulinoma (3), invasive lobular mammary carcinoma was found. The docs I've seen thus far say there is no correlation yet I'm not so sure…insulinoma is so rare! Maybe it just hasn't been documented? BTW, I'm so happy to have discovered your blog! Feel quite alone here in beautiful yet remote southern Germany! Thanks.
I'll have a wee look round Lisa. Nice part of the world! Are you also on my Facebook page?
initial research indicates no direct link but I did note that insulin problems increases the risk of breast cancer (no types mentioned). Are you on Facebook?
My paraganglomia was discovered in the right atrium of my heart. It's removal destroyed my tricuspid valve. It's amazing where these things can pop up!
My hubby was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine carcinoid in his skull wrapped around his carotid artery. It grew out into his ear canal and that is how it was discovered. I haven't heard of that location in anyone else. Have you?
Wow Cara, I knew someone would add that! Was it a paraganglioma?
My dr.just found a mass wrapped around my carotid in my brain left side.Waiting for tests to come back.Im really shocked and scared.
Cara this is what Im facing now.Except not in my ear but ear hurts.Still going through tests.I thought I had trigeminal nueralgia….never in a million years did I think this.


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package org.instantlogic.engine.message;

import java.util.Map;

import org.instantlogic.engine.presence.Presence;
import org.instantlogic.engine.presence.Traveler;
import org.instantlogic.fabric.Instance;
import org.instantlogic.interaction.Application;
import org.instantlogic.interaction.flow.PlaceTemplate;
import org.instantlogic.interaction.util.FlowContext;
import org.instantlogic.interaction.util.FlowEventOccurrence;
import org.instantlogic.interaction.util.SubmitContext;

public class SubmitMessage extends Message {

	private final String placeElementId;

	public SubmitMessage(String placeElementId) {
		this.placeElementId = placeElementId;
	}

	public SubmitMessage(Map<String, Object> fragment) {
		this.placeElementId = (String) fragment.get("id");
	}

	@Override
	public void execute(Application application, Traveler traveler, Presence presence, Instance theCase) {
		SubmitContext submitContext = SubmitContext.create(application, traveler.getCurrentPlace().getLocation().getUrl(), theCase, presence.getCaseName(), placeElementId, traveler.getTravelerInfo());
		FlowContext flowContext = submitContext.getFlowContext();
		PlaceTemplate placeTemplate = flowContext.getCurrentPlaceTemplate();
		FlowEventOccurrence eventOccurrence = placeTemplate.submit(submitContext);
		while (eventOccurrence!=null) {
			eventOccurrence = flowContext.step(eventOccurrence);
		}
		traveler.getPresence().enter(traveler, flowContext.toPath());
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "SubmitMessage [placeElementId=" + placeElementId + "]";
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: Как подружить cin и cin.getline Ребят, я просто сломал себе голову.
После того, как выбираешь пункт меню (1 или 2). Например нажимаешь добавить фильмы, Первый getline игнорируется, как будто в буфере остался текст и уже записался. Сразу просит ввести "режиссера", вводим например "test" и далее вводим "test2". Затем нажимаем показать все фильмы и в поле режиссер и жанр видим какие-то непонятные символы.
Но, если при запуске программы, вначале мы зайдем "показать все фильмы" а затем добавим запись, то при повторном вызове "показать все фильмы" строки заполнятся корректно. Что это вообще такое?
Также, если раскомментировать ввод рейтинга и цены(cin>>...), при добавлении фильма, то результаты весьма странные могут быть.
В чем проблема моих бед и как посоветуете это победить?
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
struct Film
{
    char name[50];
    char producer[50];
    char genre[30];
    float rating;
    float price;
};
int size=2;
Film *VideoArr=new Film[size];
void DefaultEntries() //Заполняем массив значениями по умолчанию.
{
        strcpy(VideoArr[0].name, "Американский пирог");
        strcpy(VideoArr[0].producer, "Пол Вайц");
        strcpy(VideoArr[0].genre, "комедия");
        VideoArr[0].rating=7.3;
        VideoArr[0].price=58.5;
        strcpy(VideoArr[1].name, "Великий Гэтсби");
        strcpy(VideoArr[1].producer, "Баз Лурман");
        strcpy(VideoArr[1].genre, "драма");
        VideoArr[1].rating=8.073;
        VideoArr[1].price=38.7;
}
void PrintArr() //Показываем все записи массива.
{
    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
        cout<<i+1<<".\n";
        cout<<"\n\tНазвание фильма: "<<VideoArr[i].name<<endl;
        cout<<"\tРежиссер: "<<VideoArr[i].producer<<endl;
        cout<<"\tЖанр: "<<VideoArr[i].genre<<endl;
        cout<<"\tРейтинг: "<<VideoArr[i].rating<<"\\10"<<endl;
        cout<<"\tЦена диска: "<<VideoArr[i].price<<" грн"<<endl;
        cout<<"\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------";
    }
}
void AddArr(int &size)
{
        ++size;
        cout<<"\n\tВведите название фильма: ";
        cin.getline(VideoArr[size-1].name, 50);
        cout<<"\tВведите режиссера: ";
        cin.getline(VideoArr[size-1].producer, 50);
        cout<<"\tВведите жанр: ";
        cin.getline(VideoArr[size-1].genre, 30);

        /*cout<<"\tВведите рейтинг: ";
        //cin>>VideoArr[size].rating;
        cout<<"\tВведите цену диска: ";
        //cin>>VideoArr[size].price;    */

}
void main()
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL,""); //Подключаем русский язык.
    DefaultEntries();
    short select;
    cout<<"1 - Показать все фильмы\n2 - Добавить фильм\n3 - Выход\n";
    cin>>select;
    switch(select)
    {
        case 1:
            PrintArr();
            break;
        case 2:
            AddArr(size);
            break;
        case 3:
            return;
        default:
            cout<<"Введено недопустимое значение!\n";
    }
    main();
}

A: Я взял на себя смелость, переписать на чистом С. Этот код не идеальный, но для сдачи в ВУЗе думаю будет предостаточно.
Переписывая код, я понял, почему плохо отрабатывал ввод. У Вас выделен массив на два элемента, а в процессе ввода Вы его не увеличивали. В результате, оно писало данные за пределы массива, а это может приводить к чему угодно (на самом то деле, к чему оно приведет, предсказать можно для каждого конкретного случая, учитывая компилятор, операционку и текую фазу Луны).
студийный компилятор может ругаться на некоторые функции и предлагать заменить их его любимыми аналогами с _s на конце. Это его личные тараканы и если Вам нужно будет запустить код под студией, переделывайте самостоятельно. С помощью gcc и clang код компилируется без единой ошибки на максимальном уровне паранойи (-Wall -Wextra -pedantic).
Также, в коде используются fgets вместо gets. gets на данный момент считается дурным тоном - он не проверяет размер вводимых данных и может организовать переполнение.
Ещё в коде есть goto. Да, некоторые начитавшись Дейкстры, начали кричать во все горло, что goto это плохо. Но проблема не в goto, а в пишущем.
Результирующий код:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

struct Film
{
    char name[50];
    char producer[50];
    char genre[30];
    float rating;
    float price;
};

int size;

struct Film *VideoArr;

/* Удаляем конечные переводы строк, так как fgets их может добавлять */
void strip(char * str)
{
    int len = strlen(str);
    if( str[len-1] == '\n' )
        str[len-1] = 0;
}

void DefaultEntries() /*Заполняем массив значениями по умолчанию.*/
{
    size = 2;
    VideoArr=(struct Film*)malloc( sizeof(struct Film) * size);

        strcpy(VideoArr[0].name, "Американский пирог");
        strcpy(VideoArr[0].producer, "Пол Вайц");
        strcpy(VideoArr[0].genre, "комедия");
        VideoArr[0].rating=7.3;
        VideoArr[0].price=58.5;

    strcpy(VideoArr[1].name, "Великий Гэтсби");
        strcpy(VideoArr[1].producer, "Баз Лурман");
        strcpy(VideoArr[1].genre, "драма");
        VideoArr[1].rating=8.073;
        VideoArr[1].price=38.7;
}
void PrintArr() /*Показываем все записи массива. */
{
    int i;
    for(i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
        printf("%d.\n", i+1);
        printf("\n\tНазвание фильма: %s\n",VideoArr[i].name);
        printf("\tРежиссер: %s\n",VideoArr[i].producer);
        printf("\tЖанр: %s\n",VideoArr[i].genre);
        printf("\tРейтинг: %.4f\\10\n",VideoArr[i].rating);
        printf("\tЦена диска: %.2f грн\n",VideoArr[i].price);
        printf("\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
    }
}
void AddArr()
{
    char buf[256];
        ++size;
    VideoArr = (struct Film*) realloc(VideoArr, sizeof(struct Film) * size);
        printf("\n\tВведите название фильма: ");
        fgets(VideoArr[size-1].name, 50, stdin);
    strip(VideoArr[size-1].name);
        printf("\tВведите режиссера: ");
        fgets(VideoArr[size-1].producer, 50, stdin);
    strip(VideoArr[size-1].producer);
        printf("\tВведите жанр: ");
        fgets(VideoArr[size-1].genre, 30, stdin);
    strip(VideoArr[size-1].genre);

        printf("\tВведите рейтинг: ");
    fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin);
        VideoArr[size].rating = atof(buf);
        printf("\tВведите цену диска: ");
        fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin);
    VideoArr[size].price = atof(buf);

}
int main()
{
    DefaultEntries();
    while (1) {
        int select;
        char cselect[256];
        puts("1 - Показать все фильмы");
        puts("2 - Добавить фильм");
        puts("3 - Выход");
        fgets(cselect, sizeof(cselect), stdin);
        select = atoi(cselect);
        switch(select)
        {
        case 1:
            PrintArr();
            break;
        case 2:
            AddArr();
            break;
        case 3:
            goto exit;
            /*что бы там не говорили обиженные Java программисты,
             у которых goto ключевое слово, но использовать его нельзя,
             в C goto очень нужный инструмент.*/
        default:
            printf("Введено недопустимое значение! - [%d]", select);
        }
    }
exit:
    free(VideoArr);
    return 0;
}


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Q: How to update Android projects from a template? Currently I am working on an application aimed to small local businesses, which serves as a template for other applications (other stores). The base application allows local stores to send notifications to their customers, depending on the business context, notifications can be to report promotions, inform a client that he can pick up his order at the store, notices of new products in the store, etc ... What I do is work on the template for each client and then customize the appearance of the application in the background but the functionality is the same for everyone. My problem is that every time we have more businesses interested in the application and the problem arises when I find bugs or want further improvements, and to update the code in each of the applications can be hell (open each project, add the lines code, recompile, etc ...), and also publish new applications involves a great job because I have to change namespaces whole project, change the authority of the content provider, update references to the namespace associated with the template, etc. ...
Is there any way that I provide update and / or add portions of code in the original template and the changes are automatically reflected in all projects generated from the template?
I have understood Apache Ant can help with the compiling process of  large project with many dependencies, but could be useful in the context of my problem?
The solution that I can think of right now is to create a project library and then put everything common to projects, including resources and Activities. The problem is that for example the application Content Provider could not go there because I need to have a single authority in the Manifiest defined for each application.
In advance thank you very much for taking the time to read my message. Any help or advice is welcome. Thank you again.

A:
My question is there any way that I provide update and / or add portions of code in the original template and the changes are automatically reflected in all projects generated from the template?

Make the core code be an Android library project, and use that library project in all the customer apps.

The solution that I can think of right now is to create a project library and then put everything common to projects, including resources and Activities.

Correct.

The problem is that for example the application Content Provider could not go there because I need to have a single authority in the Manifiest defined for each application.

Your ContentProvider implementation can go in the library project. Your customer-specific project will need the <provider> element in the manifest, with a unique authority, pointing to the ContentProvider class from the library.