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Game Courier on Game Courier
Games for Game Courier
Anatomy of a Preset: Chess
Chess Variants PBM Instructions
Game Courier Developer's Guide
Game Courier History
Game Courier User's Guide
How to Enforce Rules in Game Courier
How to Make Your Game Display Legal Moves in Game Courier
How to Program Multi-Move Variants for Game Courier
How to Program Piece Drops for Game Courier
Programming Piece Movement in Game Courier
The Chess Variants Game Courier FAQ
The Fairychess Include File for Game Courier - A Tutorial
Chess Variant Problems on Game Courier
Game Courier Logs
Game Courier Ratings
GAME code generation
The Chess Variants Game Courier
A customizable and programmable online server for strategy board games.
Features for Users
Over 1000 games already available to play, including Chess, Shogi, Xiang Qi, Janggi, Ultima, Alice Chess, Pocket Mutation Chess, Kamikaze Mortal Shogi, Eurasian Chess, Chess with Different Armies, and many more.
Secure Correspondence Play thanks to your own free password-protected account and server-side Game Logs that keep track of all moves. So, no one else can move as you, and there is a central record of all game moves, which also allows you to review past games and watch ongoing games.
Fast Real-Time Play thanks to pages that update shortly after your opponent moves.
Convenient Piece Movement by means of mouse, touch, or notation.
Automation of complicated moves for selected games, so that all you have to do is move a piece.*
Avoid Accidental Moves by previewing them before committing to them.
Avoid Illegal Moves in selected games, thanks to rule enforcement.*
See All Legal Moves in selected games, thanks to the highlighting of a piece's legal moves when you touch it or click on it.*
Customizable graphics. Where available, you can choose the piece set, board images, or colors you prefer to use, even using different graphics than your opponent.† Multiple styles of Asian and western pieces are available for Shogi, Janggi, and Xiang Qi, and multiple styles are available for Chess and common fairy pieces.
Platform independence. All you need is a web browser. Fully compatible with Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android. Play on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone.
Solve and compose Chess variant problems. Even turn game positions into problems.
Sophisticated Time controls.
Game Courier ratings let you compare yourself against other players.
User's Guide and FAQ available to help you get started.
* This feature is available only when programmed for a specific game by its developer.
† Customized graphics are normally available for any game, but when a game uses a specific board image, or there is only one piece set matching the pieces used in the game, customization options may be more limited or unavailable.
Features for Developers
Design and program your own Chess variants and other strategy board games in Edit mode.
For those who can program, you may program rule enforcement or automated moves with GAME Code, a Turing-complete, interpreted programming language with variables, constants, flags, control structures, functions, subroutines, and commands for piece and board manipulation.
To help you get started in programming games for Game Courier, there are several tutorials to help you learn how. The more recent are the more relevant to recommended programming practices.
Anatomy of a Preset (2004)
GAME Code Tutorial (2013)
How to Make Your Game Display Legal Moves in Game Courier (Nov 2015)
How to Enforce Rules in Game Courier (Jan 2016)
How to Program Piece Drops for Game Courier (May 2, 2016)
How to Program Multi-Move Variants for Game Courier (May 5, 2016)
The Fairychess Include File Tutorial (2020)
If you don't want to do all the work of programming a game from scratch, you can modify existing code or use include files.
You may also design and play games without any automation or rule-enforcement. This puts the responsibility for enforcing rules and entering notation for complicated rules on the players, but it lets non-programmers play the games they want, and it lets you play games too difficult to program.
Several piece sets are already available, including multiple styles for Chess, Shogi, Janggi, and Xiang Qi, as well as sets with many common fairy pieces.
Automatic generation of many types of boards, including circular boards and those with square or hexagonal spaces.
Tiled graphic images can be used to automatically generate boards with square spaces.
Graphic images of the whole board can be used for artistically crafted boards, boards with special markings, or boards with unusual topography.
You can draw your own boards or pieces and have us add them to the site.
For boards with very unusual topography, you can map spaces to specific coordinates.
You may have boards rendered as HTML tables, CSS code, or image files.
Developer's Guide available for detailed help and instructions
If you don't already have an account with the Chess Variant Pages, Sign Up for one.
If you are not already logged in, log in. You can do this from the Log In page or at the top of the menubar.
Select a game from the Games for Game Courier page, or accept an open invitation already issued by someone else.
A game begins once someone has accepted another's invitation.
When it is your turn, move a piece. You can do this with mouse or touch. Alternately, you can enter notation and click the Preview button.
Game Courier will then show you your move. Click the Send button if this is the move you want to make, or go back to the previous page if you want to make a different move.
Once you have moved, wait for your opponent to move. You should get an email when your opponent has moved, but you can check when it your turn anytime, even when an email is slow to show up, by following the Your Games on Game Courier link in the menu under your name. If you are playing in real-time, click Continue and wait for the page to alert you when it is your turn.
If you are playing by correspondence, you can check on other games you're playing after you move in one game. Click on the Your Games button, or follow the Your Games on Game Courier link in the menu under your name.
Comparison with other PBM systems
The main advantage Game Courier has over other play-by-mail systems is its versatility and customizability. Other PBM systems will lock you into a closed set of games, but Game Courier will let you play nearly any Chess variant. Even when no one has made a game available for Game Courier, you can still set it up yourself and begin playing it right away. One thing I wanted with Game Courier was an easy way to play my own games online. The features that let me play my games online are also available for you. You can design boards, program game rules with the GAME Code language, and start playing your games with anyone who is willing. You're also free to customize the graphics, to make modified clones of games programmed by other people, and to just setup a board and play games without programming them.
Because of its versality and customizability, Game Courier currently supports over 700 games. Most of these have been provided by users, not by me. There are also many top quality games here, including many of my own that you won't find on any other PBM system, such as Eurasian Chess, Extra Move Chess, and Kamikaze Mortal Shogi.
Game Courier's main drawback, compared with other PBM systems, is that it does not enforce the rules for all the games it supports. But it can and does enforce the rules for many games, and its ability to support games without rule enforcement allows it to support many more games than it otherwise would.
Comparison with Zillions of Games
Zillions of Games is an excellent program for playing Chess variants and other strategy board games. Like Game Courier, it is user-expandable, letting users design and program many different games. The main advantage of Zillions of Games over Game Courier is that it will provide you with a computer opponent. On this strength alone, Zillions of Games is worth getting if you have a Windows OS or can run Windows program with Wine or another Windows API. No other program for playing Chess variants against your computer is as versatile or as customizable as Zillions of Games. Game Courier is as versatile and as customizable as Zillions of Games, but it won't provide you with a computer opponent. Compared with Zillions of Games, its strengths lie mainly in how it is better for playing games against human opponents. It more reliably connects you with human opponents, allows you to play games with more people, and keeps track of all your games for you. Also, its programming language is more of a full-fledged programming language. It includes features lacking in the ZRF language and allows support for games that can't be played with Zillions of Games. For developers who aren't artists or programmers, Game Courier has the advantage of allowing dumb presets that don't enforce rules and of drawing your board for you. This makes development easier than it is for Zillions of Games.
When you play a game by emailing ZSG files, your game will be disrupted if an email isn't delivered. But with Game Courier, you can check on your games even if you don't get any email. When you use Zillions to play a game in real time, your game will be disrupted if your computer crashes or your opponent's does. But with Game Courier, you can play in real-time without worrying about this, because crashing your computer won't affect the log of your game. You can alternate between playing a game in real-time and playing it asynchronously. If your session is disprupted by a computer crash or another event, you can just continue it later. When you move in Zillions of Games while playing in real-time, it is possible to make the wrong move because of a slip of the mouse. With Game Courier, you can more reliably enter the move you intended, because it requires moves to preview and confirm your move before logging it.
Platform Independence
Zillions of Games is a commercial Windows program. This limits your opponents to other people with the Zillions of Games program and a Windows OS. As a server-side web-based program, Game Courier will work for you no matter what operating system or web browser you use. This expands your range of potential opponents to Macintosh users, Linux users, Amiga users, etc.
GAME Code vs. ZRF
The ZRF language used by Zillions of Games is very limited in its capabilities. It has no math, no string manipulation, no functions, no subroutines, and limited control structures. In contrast, GAME Code is a Turing-complete programming language with math, boolean, and string operators, user-defined functions and subroutines, and all the usual control structures normally found in other languages, as well as various functions and commands designed specifically to aid rule-enforcement in Chess variants. It generally takes more programming skill to program game rules in GAME Code, but more can be done with it. It can be used to program rules for games that can't be programmed for Zillions of Games, such as Marseillais Chess. It can easily be used for games that could be done in Zillions of Games only with large, bloated code, such as Xorix Shogi. It can handle the finer details of rules that Zillions of Games can't, such as the Shogi rule against checkmating the King with a Pawn drop. It can easily be used for games with random elements, such as Vegas Fun Chess, and it has a set of commands for using cards, which can allow games similar to Knightmare Chess. This is not to say that it is more versatile in every respect. Game Courier cannot support multiplayer games, whereas Zillions of Games can. But other than that, Game Courier is more versatile than Zillions of Games.
Written by Fergus Duniho
WWW Page Created: 10 July 2001.
Game Server Takeover
By Fergus Duniho.
About Game Courier. Web-based system for playing many different variants by email or in real-time.
Fergus Duniho wrote on 2023-01-12 EST
The problems with Hexagonal Chess and Napoleonic Chess are now fixed.
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Daniel Zacharias wrote on 2023-01-11 EST
Now the default presets for Glinksi's and McCooey's Hexagonal Chesses are broken. Neither one shows any legal moves.
Separately, this preset just shows the board but the rest of the game interface is missing.
Here are a few things to keep in mind about reassigning the value of $pieces.
This does not give players the option of choosing different sets unless you explicitly build this in.
When you use the pc shortcode to display piece images in the description, they may not always be accurate. However, if you are providing only one set, you can get away with direct links to the piece images.
When you go to the Related menu and select Diagram Designer, it will usually display your diagram with the wrong images.
It appears to be fixed now
Okay, there was another section of code to update. How does it look now?
Number of ratings: 18, Average rating: Excellent, Number of comments: 440
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First Created: Wednesday, August 15th, 2001
Last Modified: Sunday, February 26th, 2006
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DIA: Changing corporate culture via G Suite, with actionable insights to serve customers better
International food and household goods retailer DIA operates in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Argentina, trading under five main brands. It has some 46,500 employees and 6,000 points of sale.
Industries: Retail & Consumer Goods
Products: Google Cloud Platform, App Engine, BigQuery, Compute Engine, Google Data Studio, G Suite, Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Sheets, Slides
About Intelligence Partner
Intelligence Partner is a Google Cloud Premier Partner for G Suite, Google Cloud, and Google Maps Platform and the first Spanish consultancy specializing in cloud computing technology and services.
DIA worked with Intelligence Partner to transform internal processes by using smart analytics and G Suite from Google Cloud to gamify personal productivity and reduce the use of email and meetings.
Decreases email volume and time spent in meetings by 20% through smart analytics dashboards
Improves meeting efficiency and efficacy through increased collaboration and timely feedback provided through Google webforms
Transforms workplace and increases productivity by empowering employees with actionable productivity insights
Gains €2m/yr in email and meeting efficiency costs
For many employees, juggling a large number of meetings and emails every day can be a full-time job in itself. At DIA (Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación), one of the largest European grocery retailers, a team of innovative digital workplace technologists had an idea: What if they could improve daily efficiency and productivity simply by changing the company's internal processes? Better still, what if it could repurpose the time spent dealing with meetings and emails, into time spent finding new ways to serve customers better?
Carlos Guinea Castillo, Head of Innovation at DIA, knew that email was a productivity drain and meetings were often inefficient. The company was working with a legacy email system that couldn't provide the kind of granular analytics that could help his team identify potential areas for improvement. The company needed to improve productivity with better collaboration and communications tools, while at the same time avoiding internal spam and improving meeting efficiency. There was also a growing need for field employees to be able to communicate with colleagues at headquarters and have easy access to inventory and other data from their laptops and mobile devices.
The DIA Digital Workplace Area evaluates which technology the company can provide for employees to boost performance, intelligence, and cooperation. Research was being conducted on a huge amount of projects from chatbots to virtual reality, but the team felt they needed to focus on the basics first. DIA was spending a lot of money on advanced technology only to hear from employees that they didn't have time to use it. The Digital Workplace team took a close look at where people were spending their time.
"Every day, DIA office employees sent 70 emails and spent an average of two hours in meetings. They didn't collaborate enough. They answered the same email over and over. Other companies are unsuccessfully trying to fix this problem with training and lectures. We found a solution that works using G Suite and smart analytics."
—Carlos Guinea Castillo, Head of Innovation, DIA
Making actionable productivity insights with Google Cloud and G Suite
DIA consulted Google Cloud Premier Partner Intelligence Partner to see how it could leverage Google Cloud solutions to address these challenges. Specifically, Carlos wanted to use smart analytics to help drive true business transformation. With its previous experience with gamification, the digital workplace team was convinced that the key to changing behavior was to put data in the hands of individual users and make actionable insights fun. DIA had confidence that if individual employees could easily understand where they were being inefficient, they would take steps on their own to improve. Adding an element of competition between departments would provide visibility to the entire organization on the types of productivity gains being made and spur employees to keep getting better.
"Every day, DIA office employees sent 70 emails and spent an average of two hours in meetings. They didn't collaborate enough. They answered the same email over and over," says Carlos. "Other companies are unsuccessfully trying to fix this problem with training and lectures. We found a solution that works using G Suite and smart analytics."
In order to even attempt this behavioral transformation, DIA needed to overhaul its email and office productivity solutions. Intelligence Partner recommended implementing Google Cloud solutions including G Suite, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and App Engine. With Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides being quickly adopted by DIA office employees, Intelligence Partners and DIA's Digital Workplace team got to work developing a hybrid cloud smart analytics solution that would pull KPIs out of these tools and provide them to individual employees in the form of weekly dashboard reports. App Engine collects data from G Suite APIs such as Gmail, Calendar, and Drive APIs in BigQuery, which is turned into "scorecards" in Google Data Studio.
"DIA has plenty of people analytics data, but what were we doing with it? It was being analyzed by data scientists and wasn't helping us. It needed to get directly to employees so they could make actionable insights. With weekly dashboard reports and competition with other departments, productivity increased."
—Pablo Maximiliano Benitez, CIO Spain, DIA
Combining gamification and analytics to transform corporate culture
The result was the Smarteam Analytics platform built on BigQuery and Compute Engine. The platform extracts G Suite metrics and presents a series of individual dashboards to measure and continuously improve productivity and efficiency. KPIs include email quantity and the level of anxiety individual emails create, meeting effectiveness, and the degree of collaboration across shared documents. Smarteam Analytics allows DIA to increase its return on investment for the company's biggest expense, human resources, by freeing employees from non-productive tasks like repetitive email loops. The result has been true culture transformation as measured by engagement with Smarteam Analytics, increased productivity, and new focus on higher value tasks.
"DIA has plenty of people analytics data, but what were we doing with it? It was being analyzed by data scientists and wasn't helping us," says Pablo. "It needed to get directly to employees so they could make actionable insights. With weekly dashboard reports and competition with other departments, productivity increased."
DIA was able to launch the Smarteam Analytics platform with just a 30-minute kickoff, designed not as regular training, but as an interactive and practical session. The time was spent on helping employees take stock of what the challenges were and showing them how to look at the data. Introducing the element of competition by comparing KPIs at the department level has proven enough to get the needle moving on behavioral change. Despite originating in the IT department, the project soon became a collaboration with the HR department as well. As the project's greatest supporter, HR worked with Technology to get good traction for behavioral change. Sent email volume is down by 22%, while received emails are 19% lower. Meetings are 20% more efficient in terms of punctuality, attendees, and actionability. A full 97% of employees say that using G Suite tools such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides makes them more efficient.
Collaboration has also increased offline. Empowered with their individual productivity data, employees see exactly where they can make changes to improve their efficiency. They're making team agreements that go directly towards reducing redundant email load. For instance, an employee who sees that their manager is sending a lot of emails each week might ask them to schedule a 15-minute meeting each Friday to talk about things in person instead. This is boosting efficiency all around DIA.
Not content to stop with efficiency KPIs, the Digital Workplace team decided to create a Google webform to measure the efficacy of each meeting conducted at DIA. They already had data about how many hours per week people were spending in meetings as well as the resources they were consuming in terms of energy and facilities. But they wanted to get at the data that G Suite couldn't provide. Were the right people being invited? Were the agendas effective? With responses to just three questions that meeting attendees evaluate on a scale of one to five, the Smarteam Analytics platform adds meeting efficacy as a KPI.
DIA gamification system and cards used by employees
Transforming corporate culture by empowering employees with data
DIA piloted the Smarteam Analytics platform with 300 office workers in two countries. They saw an immediate gain of six to eight hours per month per employee and were able to extrapolate a projected €2 million efficiency gain company-wide once the platform was fully implemented. Now that office and field employees in Spain have all been onboarded, the next step is for DIA to roll out the platform to their Argentinian and Brazilian colleagues.
"Google Cloud and G Suite have helped us to democratize data analytics at DIA. We may be a grocery business, but we understand that productivity gains start with individuals, not by company mandate. Giving our employees access to their own data has changed everything."
—Alejandro Grande, Chief Human Resources Officer, DIA
Though DIA remains a successful international grocery retailer, the Smarteam Analytics platform has opened up new horizons for the company. Together with Intelligence Partner, it is commercializing the platform so that other companies can start to drive cultural change in their organizations with smart analytics. The commercialization project has two objectives: to auto-fund other projects from the innovation portfolio and to break internal walls to build business from technology, internal developments, and solutions. DIA plans to use its current array of Google Cloud products to build the solution and enable it to be installed by any large corporation via the Google Cloud Console.
For now, DIA is focused on transforming the culture among its office and mobile employees for a happier, more productive workforce. But in its next phase, the project will bring the same principles of people, analytics, and gamification to store operations, giving its customers something new to be happy about as well. "Google Cloud and G Suite have helped us to democratize data analytics at DIA," adds Carlos. "We may be a grocery business, but we understand that productivity gains start with individuals, not by company mandate. Giving our employees access to their own data has changed everything."
Google Cloud Platform App Engine BigQuery Compute Engine Google Data Studio G Suite Gmail Docs Calendar Sheets Slides

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Burkina Faso vs Ethiopia
Before the last day of this group stage of CAN 2022, Burkina Faso is on track to join the 8th finals. Despite a defeat in the opening match against Cameroon 2-1, Kamou Malo's men were able to revive against Cape Verde 1-0. And they seem to have beaten their main competitor in the race for second place. From now on, to consolidate their second position, the Burkinabé players will have to do at least as well, on their third day, as Cape Verde, who are challenging Cameroon. For its part, Burkina Faso will have to face Ethiopia. And not to depend on the result of the other meeting, Edmond Tapsoba's teammates will do everything to sign a second victory in this last meeting of the group stage. And it's hard not to be optimistic for Burkina Faso.
Ethiopia is far from playing the leading roles in this group A. It first suffered a defeat against Cape Verde 1-0, before suffering a heavy setback against Cameroon 4-1. Despite a good first period, the Ethiopian selection was completely overtaken by the host country after the break. Once again, the deal does not look simple against Burkina Faso. Having long jostled the leader of this group A during the first day, he will aim for nothing but success in this meeting. When we know that the Burkinabés also made Algeria tremble during the qualifications for the 2022 World Cup, we say to ourselves that they can clearly play the spoilsports during the final phase. So they will be full of confidence against Ethiopia!
Burkina Faso have played four matches since securing their place in the Africa Cup of Nations, with no fewer than three of these encounters producing a clean sheet at one end of the pitch. This has also been the case in seven of the previous nine top-flight fixtures involving Ethiopia, so any deviation from this script would come as a bit of a surprise.
Both teams have found the net in just two of the most recent 14 top-flight fixtures involving Burkina Faso, so it is quite rare for this to happen when they take to the field. It has been a virtually identical story as far as Ethiopia are concerned, as 12 of their previous 14 matches at this level have seen at least one of the two keepers emerge with a clean sheet.
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) technology has made enormous strides in recent decades, resulting in millions of successful pregnancies. Nevertheless, disparity in visual morphology assessment results between embryologists has raised serious questions about the efficacy of embryo selection (1). Attempting to solve this problem, Iman Hajirasouliha (Assistant Professor of Computational Biology) and his team at Cornell University the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new tool – the aptly-named STORK – which is capable of driving robust assessment and selection of human blastocysts (2).
"Often, to overcome uncertainties in embryo quality, many more embryo's than required are implanted into the patient," says Hajirasouliha. "Often, this leads to undesired multiple pregnancies and serious complications." Convinced there must be a more efficient way to screen for healthy, viable embryos, the team trained a deep neural network to select the best embryo's using time-stamped images of embryos from a large IVF center. "Our network – STORK – is capable of predicting blastocyst quality with over 98 percent accuracy," says Hajirasouliha. "It also generalizes well to images from other centers. And it outperforms individual embryologists in similar assessments."
STORK certainly builds on the groundwork of earlier studies - for example, (3), but what makes it unique, according to Hajirasouliha, is its mathematical complexity. "From an algorithmic point of view, we really had to study and evaluate a wide range of different deep neural network architectures before we identified a suitable methodology."
Despite its complexity and success to date, STORK has the potential to deliver more (pun intended). "We need to train our AI method on the whole series of time-lapse data and the development of embryos from day 0 to day 5, instead of single images," says Hajirasouliha. "We also hope to integrate several different clinical factors into our model – a process that we'll perform in tandem with further work to improve accuracy when dealing with data from different clinics."
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NBC Sports and U.S. Figure Skating Announce 2019-20 Television Schedule
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (October 2, 2019) — NBC Sports and U.S. Figure Skating announced today the broadcast schedule for the 2019-20 figure skating season, featuring 80+ hours of coverage between October and April.
Beginning with Skate America, NBC Sports will present 30+ hours of figure skating coverage on NBC, with 50+ hours airing on NBCSN. In addition, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will present original programming plus encores of NBC and NBCSN figure skating coverage of several events. Coverage will showcase the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series (including Skate America), ISU World Championships, ISU Four Continents Championships and the ISU European Championships. Every skate is available live and commercial free with the Figure Skating Pass on NBC Sports Gold.
NBC Sports will kick off its Grand Prix Series coverage with 2019 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines, set for Oct. 18-20 in Las Vegas. The entire event will be covered live on NBC Sports Gold, with seven hours on NBC and NBCSN. Every stop on the Grand Prix Series will feature same-weekend coverage on NBC and will conclude with a Grand Prix Final recap show on Dec. 22.
NBC Sports' four-day live coverage of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which will be held Jan. 23-26, 2020, in Greensboro, North Carolina, features each discipline, including live primetime NBCSN coverage of the ladies' short program and free skate on Thursday, Jan. 23 and Friday, Jan. 24, respectively. The men's competition will feature two live shows on NBC on Saturday, Jan. 25 and Sunday, Jan. 26. The Skating Spectacular will air Sunday, Feb. 2 on NBC.
Additionally, NBC Sports will televise 10 hours of the ISU European Championships, as well as 10 hours of the ISU Four Continents Championships.
NBC and NBCSN will cover 18 hours of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships, which are set for March 18-21, in Montreal. The ladies and men's free skate will be featured in primetime on Friday, March 21, and Saturday, March 22.
Coverage on NBC and NBCSN is live streamed on NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app. Coverage on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is available on OlympicChannel.com, the Olympic Channel app, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app.
NBC Sports Gold will feature live and on-demand streaming of every skater in every discipline throughout the season through the "Figure Skating Pass." NBC Sports Gold is available on Apple iOS & tvOS, Android, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Xfinity XI, Xfinity Flex, Roku, Chromecast and NBCSportsGold.com.
NBC Sports and U.S. Figure Skating are in the midst of a long-term media rights agreement that will run through 2026.
2019-20 U.S. Figure Skating Broadcast Schedule
All times Eastern, check local listings, subject to change
Date 2019 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series Time (ET) Network
Saturday, Oct. 19 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines 12 – 2 a.m. NBCSN (Live)
Saturday, Oct. 19 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines 6 – 8 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Sunday, Oct. 20 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines 1 – 3 a.m. NBCSN
Sunday, Oct. 20 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines 12 – 1 p.m. NBC
Saturday, Oct. 26 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines 4:30 – 6 p.m. NBC
Sunday, Oct. 27 Skate Canada 4:30 – 6 p.m. NBC
Sunday, Nov. 3 Grand Prix France 4 – 6 p.m. NBC
Sunday, Nov. 10 Grand Prix China 12 – 1:30 p.m. NBC
Sunday, Nov. 17 Grand Prix Russia 12 – 1:30 p.m. NBC
Sunday, Nov. 24 Grand Prix Japan 4 – 6 p.m. NBC
Friday, Dec. 6 Grand Prix Final 9 – 11 p.m. NBCSN
Saturday, Dec. 7 Grand Prix Final 9 – 11 p.m. NBCSN
Sunday, Dec. 22 Grand Prix Final 4 – 6 p.m. NBC
Date 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Greensboro, North Carolina – Jan. 23 – 26 Time (ET) Network
Thursday, Jan. 23 Pairs' Short Program 5 – 7 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Thursday, Jan. 23 Ladies' Short Program 9 – 11 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Friday, Jan. 24 Rhythm Dance 5 – 6 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Friday, Jan. 24 Ladies' Free Skate 8 – 11 p.m. NBC (Live)
Saturday, Jan. 25 Men's Short Program 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. NBC (Live)
Saturday, Jan. 25 Free Dance & Pairs' Free Skate 8 -11 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Sunday, Jan. 26 Men's Free Skate 3 – 6 p.m. NBC (Live)
Saturday, Feb. 2 Skating Spectacular 4 – 6 p.m. NBC
Date 2020 ISU Championship Events Time (ET) Network
Wednesday, Jan. 22 European Championships: Men's Short 11:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. NBCSN
Thursday, Jan. 23 European Championships: Men's Free 7 – 9 p.m. NBCSN
Friday, Jan. 24 European Championships: Ladies' Short 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. NBCSN
Sunday, Jan. 26 European Championships: Ladies' Free 10 p.m. – 12 a.m. NBCSN
Saturday, Feb. 1 European Championships: Men's and Ladies' Free 3 – 5 p.m. NBC
Thursday, Feb. 6 Four Continents Championships: Ladies' Short 3 – 5 p.m. NBCSN
Friday, Feb. 7 Four Continents Championships: Free Dance 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. NBCSN
Friday, Feb. 7 Four Continents Championships: Men's Short 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. NBCSN
Saturday, Feb. 8 Four Continents Championships: Ladies' Free 7 – 9 p.m. NBCSN
Sunday, Feb. 9 Four Continents Championships: Ladies' & Men's Free 4 – 6 p.m. NBC
Sunday, Feb. 9 Four Continents Championships: Men's Free 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. NBCSN
Wednesday, March 18 World Championships: Pairs' Short 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Thursday, March 19 World Championships: Ladies' Short 6 – 8 p.m. NBCSN
Thursday, March 19 World Championships: Pairs' Free 8 – 10 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Thursday, March 19 World Championships: Men's Short 10 p.m. – 12 a.m. NBCSN
Friday, March 20 World Championships: Rhythm Dance 6 – 8 p.m. NBCSN
Friday, March 20 World Championships: Ladies' Free 8 – 10 p.m. NBCSN (Live)
Saturday, March 21 World Championships: Ladies' Free 1 – 3 p.m. NBC
Saturday, March 21 World Championships: Men's Free 9 – 11 p.m. NBC (Live)
Sunday, March 22 World Championships: Free Dance 4 – 6 p.m. NBCSN
Sunday, April 12 Season Recap Show 4 – 6 p.m. NBC


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AGNC Investment Corp. Declares Third Quarter Dividend on Its Series B and Series C Preferred Stock
PR Newswire September 14, 2018
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC) ("AGNC" or the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has declared cash dividends for the third quarter 2018 on its 7.750% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series B Preferred Stock") underlying its outstanding depositary shares (AGNCB) and 7.00% Series C Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series C Preferred Stock") underlying its outstanding depositary shares (AGNCN).
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(1) Per depositary share; each depositary share represents a 1/1,000th interest in a share of the Series B Preferred Stock.
(2) The dividend rate for the Series C Preferred Stock will accrue dividends from and including the original issue date to (but excluding) October 15, 2022 at a fixed rate of 7.00% per annum and, from and including October 15, 2022, at a floating rate equal to Three-Month LIBOR plus a spread of 5.111% per annum.
(3) Per depositary share; each depositary share represents 1/1,000th of an interest in a share of the Series C Preferred Stock.
For further information or questions, please contact Investor Relations at (301) 968-9300 or IR@AGNC.com.
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Back to the Future: Enterprise Edition
Paul Hooper
This article was previously published by Forbes.
Grab your DeLorean and buckle up. Everyone is looking to the future for positive news around a COVID-19 vaccine and a safe return to some sort of normalcy, and business leaders are no exception. Even Bill Gates, who predicted this pandemic five years ago, is turning his attention to what's next — and the simplest way to describe it, he says, is a "semi-normal" version of the past.
2020 seemed destined to continue the growth pattern we had seen over the last few years with some of the largest tech IPOs and financing rounds to date, along with a booming security industry with consolidation and growth occurring in many segments. But with the pandemic, it is clear that we will see a major change from this trajectory, and as a result it is going to feel very different for the next 12 to 18 months. Potentially, for years to come as the global economy adjusts to the "new normal."
Remote work, telehealth and distance learning have become our new normal. Being in a large group setting at work or school, enjoying shared lunchtime or visiting the doctor for a minor checkup are all now legacy thoughts. New models and ways of working have emerged as a result of these challenging times. Forbes notes that a hybrid workforce is likely going to be the future — combining the benefits of the culture and face-to-face collaboration of office life with the flexibility of working at home.
Fast-forward to 2021, and we have to discuss what this "new normal" means for infrastructure and our dependence on the cloud. The pandemic accelerated the timeline of many organizations' digital transformation journey from years down to months and as a result, cemented the need for the cloud. Given this acceleration, there are three characteristics that highlight how the enterprise cloud — both private and public — is here to stay:
Providing a compelling and hard ROI for customers of infrastructure vendors is top priority: The phrase "pets and cattle" is an often-repeated description for the way people think about infrastructure and the move to the cloud. The "pets" are parts of the infrastructure that are indispensable or unique and attract close attention. On the other hand, "cattle" are the components of infrastructure that are replaceable, numbered not named and, during failure events, requiring no human intervention to be replaced. Amid the pandemic, business leaders are forced to look at the "animals" they have across their environment, and how the emphasis has changed in the ways they are managing their "farm" The cost of that management — albeit remotely — has come down to levels we have never seen before as the shift from "pets" to high volume "cattle" has become commonplace. As a result, our customers are looking for strong and tangible ROI measures and a clear understanding of the total cost of ownership of their technology investments. It is our job to answer those questions.
Agile businesses and business operations are key to long-term success: Our customers are evaluating their infrastructure investments through a different set of lenses as their business model adjusts to evolving conditions. Business leaders are being forced to be more flexible to meet rapidly changing employee and customer demands. As a result, IT must evolve and become more agile to meet the needs of the business and ensure long-term relationships with business units, partners and vendors remain intact. The faster an IT organization can provide required solutions, the faster they can deliver an ROI-focused model to their customers.
Don't forget security, transparency and analytics: The technology and security industries need a spotlight on these three capabilities, both now and into the future. Organizations must respond and evolve in these times and need to develop and maintain a security-first mindset. They need to be transparent about challenges, and how they respond to the new opportunities while trusting in analytics to help measure, adjust and thrive in these unique times. As leaders, we must set an example for our employees and partners while demanding it in our product innovation teams so that we can all emerge stronger.
It's no secret that most businesses were forced to fit five years' worth of digital transformation efforts into a few short weeks in order to support the immediate transition to a remote workforce in March and thereafter. With the initial shift behind us, business leaders that have learned from this experience are better equipped for the challenges of the next wave that are sure to come. It is time to take what we've learned over the last seven months and fully commit to the new tomorrow. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures — what will you do to become stronger in times of change and disruption?
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A WOODSOME HALL duo triumphed at the Halifax, Huddersfield and District Union Fourball Betterball Championship.
Andy Lister (9 handicap) and former Yorkshire cricketer Matthew Wood (11) took the title with a blistering score of 63 in sunny and benign conditions at Crosland Heath.
Two shots behind were the Bradley Hall pairing of J Smith (1) and L Hopkinson (12). West End's James Dix (9) and Paul Thrush (19) came in third with 67 points, the same as Crosland Heath's N Bell (5) and N Jackson (13), who were beaten on the count back.
Woodsome Hall, Bradley Hall and West End are the three clubs to qualify to enter four teams in next year's Fourball Betterball Championship.
Union secretary John Lawrence said: "The day was successful, starting with the weather. All competitors arrived in good time, and the winners and runners-up recorded their scores early in the day and could not be knocked off the leaderboard.
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5 F Scholefield (3) and E Pickles (6) (L) 67, 6 M Haigh (8) and Phil Smith (12) (DD) 68, 7 J Hirst (3) and M Colcombe (0) (WH) 68, 8 A Burke (6) and D Baxter (14) (CH) 68, 9 K Beaumont (9) and G Headey (16) (WH) 68.
10 S Minto (5) and P Ratcliffe (7) (HH) 68, 11 C Shuttleworth (17) and J Ratcliffe (7) (HH) 68, 12 M Shea (8) and S Peel (10) (BH) 69, 13 N Leader (6) and E Whiteley (10) (M) 69.
14 S Ruta (10) and J Ruta (11) (LP) 69, 15 I Nicholl (6) and L Higgins (8) (CN) 69, 16 C Dyson (2) and M Broadbent (2) (WH) 69, 17 D Pullen (4) and S Pullen (3) (S) 69, 18 S Horrocks (5) and G Brazier (12) (WE) 69, 19 N Day (8) and J Burke (6) (CN) 69.
20 G Burns (6) and D Davison (4) (HO) 69.
21 M Atkinson (12) and P O'Flynn (13) (O) 69, 22 A Westacott (13) and M Baker (12) (M) 70, 23 N King (6) and R Wilby (5) (E) 70 24 R Pollard (7) and B Thompson (10) (HH) 70.
25 D Hill (16) and Chris Hill (20) (C) 70, 26 M Fenna (11) and A Chapman (13 ) (R) 70, 27 G Brodie (8) and J Hunt (7) (H) 70, 28 M West (18) and M Wainwright (19) (DD) 70, 29 D Nicholson (14) and M Tooby (14) (E) 71.
30 A Hubberd (20) and A Witeszczak (20) (WV) 71, 31 D Hollows (8) and D Setterfield (12) (Tod) 71, 32 R Head (7) and A Bemrose (16) (BP) 71, 33 J Jennings (6) and P Newall (12) (HO) 71, 34 M Spriggs (20) and D Hibbert (20) (H) 72.
35 D Jennings (10) and I Jackson (18) C 72, 36 C Darbyshire (3) and J Awork (10) (DD) 72, 37 S Smith (20) and D Talbot (18) (O) 72, 38 D Kilvington (11) and M Sykes (14) (HH) 72, 39 D Keast (9) and J Neill (17) (R) 72.
40 J Allingham (8) and E Kokans (18) L 72, 41 M Smith (17) and R Lucas (20) (WE) 72, 42 F Leek (18) and R Badrock (14) C 72, 43 B Whitham (6) and N Whitham (10) (T) 72, 44 A Taylor (9) and M Edgar (15) (CH) 73.
45 C Shepherd (11) and P Day (17) (WV) 73, 46 G McLean (1) and J Fish (7) (M) 73, 47 A Shrivell (12) and N Regan (14) (L) 73, 48 D Corbett (10) and I Kirby (13) (Ma) 74, 49 S Bradley (5) and S Crossley (18) (BH) 74.
50 J Hey (13) and G Houghton (14) (LP) 74, 51 I Crabtree (16) and M Goodall (17) (WV) 75, 52 L Dearden (11) and M Murray (2) (T) 75, 53 B Moorhouse (15) and B Stacey (11) (LP) 75, 54 S Castle (11) and D Midgeley (13) (S) 76.
55 P Cheesebrough (10) and B Hill (15) (Q) 76, 56 S McKenzie (8) and C Moulson (17) (O) 76, 57 A Sheldon (14) and D Simpson (13) (CN) 76, 58 S Spencer (12 ) and J Cockroft (10), (HB) 76, 59 S Kennedy (15) and A Delacy (20) (Q) 76.
60 J Wild (17) and P Webster (18) (Ma) 77, 61 J Farley (11) and M Golding-Smith (13) (Q) 78, 62 T James (15) and A Brady (20) (BP) 78, 63 M Harrington (2) and G Simpson (5) (S) 78, 64 B Heslop (0) and C Spencer (0) (HO) 80.
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KEY: (L) Lightcliffe, (WH) Woodsome Hall, (DD) Dewsbury District, (CH) Crosland Heath, (HH) Hanging Heaton, (BH) Bradley Hall, (M) Meltham, (LP) Longley Park, (CN) Crow Nest Park, (S) Saddleworth, (WE) West End, (HO) Halifax Ogden, (O) Outlane, (E) Elland, (C) Castlefields, (R) Ryburn, (H) Huddersfield, (WV) Willow Valley, (T) Todmorden, (BP) Bradley Park, (Ma) Marsden, (Q) Queensbury, (HB) Hebden Bridge).


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Continental Evolution: The Geology of Morocco: Structure, by André Michard, Omar Saddiqi, Ahmed Chalouan, Dominique
By André Michard, Omar Saddiqi, Ahmed Chalouan, Dominique Frizon de Lamotte
Morocco is among the so much interesting lands on the planet from the perspective of its geological constitution and evolution. Our wisdom at the geology of the rustic has been vastly stronger over the past many years, in response to a number of seismic profiles and boreholes, seismological research of focal mechanisms, seismic tomography, gravimetric/geodetic modelling and, however, in response to an immense nationwide software of Geological Mapping together with glossy geochemical analyses (trace components) and trustworthy isotopic datings (39Ar-40Ar, U-Pb zircon, Sm-Nd, etc). furthermore, a few educational reports were played in relation with the expanding variety of Moroccan universities. consequently, there has been an utmost urgency to adopt a brand new treatise of Moroccan geology which can alternative for the classical El?ments de g?ologie marocaine, released in 1976 via A. Michard within the Notes et M?moires du provider g?ologique du Maroc (re-edited two times when you consider that 1976, with greater than 6000 copies offered, and… translated in eastern for engineers!). a brand new treatise has been ready among April 2006 and July 2007 below the coordination of A. Michard, assisted via O. Saddiqi, and A. Chalouan, via a large panel of authors from Morocco, France or Belgium top-of-the-line connoisseurs of the rustic. with a view to emphasize the final curiosity of the publication, we eventually keep the subsequent name: Continental Evolution: The Geology of Morocco. constitution, Stratigraphy, and Tectonics of the Africa-Atlantic-Mediterranean Triple junction. The enhancing and creation of this e-book was once supported by way of the next businesses: The Geological Society of France (SGF) The nationwide workplace of Hydrocarbons and Mines of Morocco (ONHYM) The overseas Lithosphere application (ILP)
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Michard et al. the Algerian margin that passes westward to predominant strike-slip mechanisms. Maximum horizontal stresses are consistent with NNW-SSE plate convergence, although it is observed moderate clockwise stress rotation along the TASZ. Within the TASZ relevant seismicity is characterized by predominantly sinistral strike-slip faulting associated with some normal faulting, revealing a left-lateral (transtensive) regime. The compressional deformation in the plate boundary resumes in the westtrending segment of the seismic zone up to the Gorringe Bank west of SW Spain (Fig.
1) within the NE-SW oriented Anti-Atlas Paleozoic fold belt (cf. Chap. 1, Fig. 4). Each inlier corresponds to a structural culmination of the Variscan fold belt (Chap. 3), but crops out frequently at elevations lower than the overlying, less easily eroded Cambrian sediments, which explains their traditional name "boutonni`eres" (Fig. 2). The exhumation of the Precambrian antiformal boutonni`eres in the Anti-Atlas axis occurred through erosion of their Paleozoic cover during the Late Carboniferous-Permian, just after the Variscan orogeny, then during the TriassicJurassic, when the Anti-Atlas formed the shoulder of the Atlantic and Atlas rifts, and eventually during the Late Eocene-Pleistocene, contemporaneously with the uplift of the Atlas belt itself.
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23 April 2019 at 3:44pm
'Our future has been sold,' says teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg
Swedish schoolgirl climate change activist Greta Thunberg told a packed room in the Palace of Westminster her future and those of her fellow children had been "sold".
She said: "We probably don't even have a future any more.
"That future has been sold so that a small number of people can make unimaginable amounts of money.
"It was stolen from us every time you said 'the sky is the limit'."
Experiencing microphone problems in Portcullis House, she asked: "Is this microphone on? Can anybody hear me? Is my English OK? I am starting to wonder."
She added: "The basic problem is the same everywhere and the basic problem is that nothing is being done...
"You don't listen to the science because you are only interested in the answers that will allow you to carry on as if nothing has happened."
Greta Thunberg: The 16-year-old Swede who inspired a global teenage rebellion
Extinction Rebellion activists take to the trees in latest stage of protest
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg addressed an audience in Portculis House Credit: PA
When asked what she would say to US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly cast doubt on the evidence to support climate change arguments, Greta said there was nothing she could say as he would not listen.
She said: "If I were to speak to Donald Trump today, I don't think there is much I could say to make him change his mind.
"Obviously, he must have scientists coming to talk to him all the time, so he is obviously not listening to the scientists.
"There is nothing I could say."
Donald Trump 'is not listening' to his scientists, says Greta Thunberg Credit: PA
Greta had earlier met political leaders including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Green MP Caroline Lucas and the Westminster leaders of the SNP and Plaid Cymru, Ian Blackford and Liz Saville Roberts.
But, Prime Minister Theresa May was "empty chaired" - a place left vacant at the roundtable meeting, complete with name sign but with no sign of Mrs May.
No.10 said she was busy chairing a Cabinet meeting, but environment secretary Michael Gove told her at the later event: "Suddenly, in the past few years, it has become inescapable that we have to act.
"The time to act is now, the challenge could not be clearer, Greta you have been heard."
Michael Gove, far left, told Greta Thunberg she had been heard. Credit: PA
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted an image of himself and Miss Thunberg in front of a portrait of Tony Benn.
He wrote: "It was a pleasure welcoming UK youth climate strikers and @GretaThunberg to parliament.
"Young people will be the most affected by climate change - seeing them take charge of their future is inspiring.
"Labour's committed to working with young people campaigning to save our planet."
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Climate change protestors blockade road outside Ministry of Defence
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Animal control officers at Basildon Council are appealing for information after a puppy was found dead at Lake Meadows, Billericay.
Basildon Council's animal control team was called in after two visitors to the park found a dead puppy by the side of the lake on Friday morning (1 July). After examination it was confirmed that the dog, thought to be a four-month-old Lurcher, had been left in the lake for around two days. It is not known whether the puppy drowned or was dead before being left in the water.
A fishing hook and line was lodged in the puppy, and animal control officers believe the body had been pulled out of the water by a fisherman.
Anyone found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal faces a maximum £20,000 fine and, or, six months in prison under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
Anyone with information should call Essex Police on 0300 333 4444.
If you need help, support or advice on looking after your pet, please call Basildon Council's animal control team on 01268 294280.


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Q: How to read dictionaries in list of dictionaries in python I am trying to read some JSON for a leaderboard for my discord bot, formatted like this:
{"915714438273826858":
    [
        {"915714438823313420":
                ["", 0]
        },
        [
            {"747797252105306212":
                [1, 2]
            },
            {"695390884291674153":
                [3, 8]
            }
        ]
    ]
}

I can read the first part fine, but reading this list here is giving me some problems:
[
    {"747797252105306212":
        [1, 2]
    },
    {"695390884291674153":
        [3, 8]
    }
]

How can I read the values of each of the dictionaries in the list? For example, say I want to get the dictionary with the key "747797252105306212"'s sub-list, so I could get [1,2]?
Currently, my method is to get all the keys in the larger list using
all_keys = set().union(*(d.keys() for d in lb))
all_keys = list(all_keys)

and then using the order in all_keys to call the dictionary. For example, sometimes, all_keys shows ["747797252105306212","695390884291674153"], and I can call the dictionaries using the above order, as "747797252105306212"'s index is 0 in both all_keys and in the JSON list. However, sometimes all_keys is out of order, making the program call the wrong dictionary, causing this method to be obsolete. Is there any way to fix this, or a different method?

A: If I understand your issue correctly, the issue is that sets don't maintain insertion order.
You can maintain a list (which maintains order) and a separate set (for quickly checking whether you've seen a key already). For each key that you see, check whether it's a member of the set; if not, add it to the list and the seen keys set:
result = []
seen_keys = set()
for item in data:
    for key in item:
        if key not in seen_keys:
            seen_keys.add(key)
            result.append(key)

print(result)

With the given data, this will (deterministically!) output:
['747797252105306212', '695390884291674153']

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Green energy exchange blockchain platform WePower announces registration for the company's fundraiser in the lead up to its official launch.
August 3, 2017, Gibraltar – The Gibraltar-based green energy exchange platform WePower has announced it will accept registrations for the fundraiser as the company prepares for its official launch. The WePower pre-launch fundraiser is structured as a reward-based crowdfunding campaign, where contributors will receive WePower tokens in return for their Ethereum contributions. Part of the green energy that will be produced and traded on the WePower platform will be assigned to Energy tokens and stored in a smart contract. Thus, the WPR token will be tokenized energy stored in a smart contract and accrued with the growth of WePower platform.
WePower invites everyone to join the green energy exchange platform now. The platform already has all partner agreements that would facilitate the launch, and all necessary Letters-of-Intent are in place. The demo product is already working, with another major update coming soon for blockchain and use of smart contracts so that investors can finally enter the green energy market directly. By buying green energy on the WePower platform, they finance the development of green energy producers and make the market more attractive, encouraging the production of more energy. They earn money and help save the planet at the same time.
Manmade climate change and the resulting temperature increase have been proven to accompany the indiscriminate use of fossil fuels. These changes are poised to cause severe damage to the world's ecosystem, food systems, and climate by the end of this century. One of the main strategies to slow this damage is through massive investment in 100% renewable energy. WePower is developing a distributed clean energy network based on blockchain and smart contract technologies to accelerate the shift from centralized dirty energy to local, distributed clean energy.
The WePower platform connects existing and new renewable energy producers with companies and people willing to switch to clean energy and invest in a 100% renewable future. With the help of blockchain and smart contracts, WePower solves multiple major problems of energy sector at once: It brings transparency to the amount of green energy produced, consumed, and how much CO2 emission was reduced. Energy developers cut intermediary commission fees or raise less expensive funds for new projects by selling future energy at today's price. Energy consumers benefit from the cheaper future energy and participation in CO2 or other green energy certificate markets.
The WePower team leverages experience from energy, law, the blockchain, payment systems, security and emerging digital finance industries to design a platform that will change the way how everyone can earn money by producing, buying and investing in green energy. By doing good, users not only make a profit – but also eliminate dirty energy providers from the grid.
The WePower pre-launch fundraiser is structured as a reward-based crowdfunding campaign, where contributors will receive WePower tokens in return for their Ethereum contributions. Part of the green energy that will be produced and traded on the WePower platform will be assigned to Energy tokens and stored in a smart contract. Thus, the WPR token will be tokenized energy stored in a smart contract and which accrues donated energy (i.e. projected green energy production) in the form of energy tokens. WPR token holder can use this energy for its own purposes or trade it on WePower platform, at any time of his disposal. This ensures liquidity option for contributors, especially if contributors are from places where WePower is not connected to the grid.
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Esports Special feature
Le Mans 24 Hours winner on a new esports series with a twist
The virtual racing world of esports and sim racing has undergone two years' worth of growth in a few months this year, thanks to the attention on it during the Covid lockdown. Real racing stopped and fans and drivers flocked to the virtual world. But where does it go next?
Looking into the future, there is no doubt that this momentum will build as manufacturers struggle to justify the costs of going real racing, except in elite and popular series, but still require platforms to communicate their future technology and sustainability credentials to new generations. Esports is a very accessible platform, with a much lower barrier to entry for both spectators and competitors.
One new esports series to recognise all of this is RCCO World eX, which starts next Spring, with short head to head races featuring monstrous electric racing cars, technology and story-telling around climate change.
Esports action
Photo by: RCCO World eX
One of the architects of the new series is Mike Rockenfeller, a Le Mans 24 Hours overall winner, a DTM champion and an Audi works driver. We've seen more and more young drivers from the real world like the Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc using platforms like Twitch and social media to communicate with each other and with their fans, blurring the lines between real racing and sim racing.
After noting how simulators had become a significant part of the real racing driver's life in recent years, Rockenfeller was introduced to sim racing by one of his mechanics who is part of one of its top teams, Team Redline. As he got more deeply involved in competing "Rocky" realised how many other top racing drivers were also active and what potential there was for motorsport to find a new lease of life and a sense of purpose through esports.
"I love it. It's a great opportunity to meet people all around the world when you are at home and to talk to them to communicate, and obviously, to do what we love the most, which is driving cars," says Rockenfeller. "And you go to some racetracks, you click here, and you say, 'Okay, now I go to Laguna Seca', you go there, and drive that car. And you have this same kind of battle feeling (as real racing)."
Mike Rockenfeller
This gave him and two associates the idea to start an esports series with a difference, one that was very much future-facing with the emphasis on spectacular electric racing cars, in a series of short tense head to head battles, with the emphasis on story-telling and sustainability.
This picks up a trend we are seeing with Extreme E as it heads into its maiden season, of putting climate change at the forefront of the proposition.
"We all have to realise that we have to change something in racing, but definitely in our world and the car industry is already transforming. To be honest, I was a bit old style. I always said, 'We need a big engine'. But then I drove a Porsche Taycan on the road. And it really changed my way of thinking about the performance possibilities of electric cars, I realised how cool it is to drive, how different it is."
This prompted the World eX team to want to develop electric cars for esports that are entertaining to drive and to watch, with 1000 horsepower and 1000 kilos, but which also allow for manufacturers and tech companies to tell stories around the races on future technology and sustainability.
"Our platform, thinking forward, we want to have the chance to explain to people how cool it can be but also how important it is now to react (to climate change) all around the world," as Rockenfeller puts it, "To have heroes drive cars to have good battles. And on the other hand, to have the chance to broadcast these innovations. This is a great way in sim racing to combine those things."
Sim race fans - as well real race fans who find themselves being converted to virtual racing - will be pleased to learn that a lot of attention has gone into developing the car, so it is a proper challenge to drive.
"As a driver, you dream about a lot of power in a light car, which is not easy to handle, where you don't hop in and say after three laps 'I'm on the limit of the car.' We need a lot of power, which you can get with the electric engines. Four-wheel drive is cool, because you can play with the power ratio, front to rear, and you have a lot of possibilities to influence the handling of the car.
"We want to have realistic figures, we don't want to have a dream car, which will never be possible to build in real life. We are not only looking for battery cars, it could be fuel cell or battery, but definitely electric engines. Downforce, you need a little bit, but not too much for cool racing. The car you need to slide and still be fast, it looks cool. And it's also a challenge when at let's say 150-180kph you still have the possibility to drift the car."
The way Rockenfeller describes it, World eX strikes a balance between fantasy and reality; elements of the real racing world, but also things that are of the imagination. So what about the infrastructure around it? Fans watching the races will recognise the circuits at the outset already in the rFactor platform that will form the basis of the sim game, but if the series takes off and budget can be allocated, there will increasingly be fantasy tracks also.
Jörg Walz, Harry Unflath, Thomas Biermaier, Thomas Voigt
"It's pretty free," says Rockenfeller. "In the first season we are looking for 10 races. Once a month there's an event and I'm sure we find 10 cool and challenging tracks. But we can imagine in the future also you make a city race or real roads. We'll do a lottery before the event for which track we use, so nobody can know beforehand and test endlessly. We don't want that."
One of the challenges World eX has identified and tackled head on that real racing and sim racing suffer from is the 'point of focus' issue. On a live broadcast or stream, unlike ball sports which have a single point of focus for the cameras to follow, racing has dozens of participants spread out, some in their own battles others circulating alone. And that can be boring on longer format races, especially for younger audiences.
"We think head to head battles are really cool. And the quick result - you have a winner, you go to the next round, or you are out of the event. It gives us also the opportunity to have many races and to talk about the drivers, to tell stories, to interview the personalities, to talk about future technology and sustainability."
#9 Audi Sport North America Audi R15: Mike Rockenfeller, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas
Photo by: Dirk Klynsmith / Motorsport Images
The success of Formula E is that it gives manufacturers a platform to showcase their electric vehicle technology and that is at the heart of the World eX proposition. Rockenfeller is sure that hybrid cars like in F1 or the new hypercars format for Le Mans and WEC have legs for the next few years, but electric cars will take over. He also feels that motorsport has a strong future, based on hero drivers who demonstrate that there is still huge appeal in man or woman mastering machine.
"I still believe there is potential in motorsport," he says. "But you have to create heroes. Because it's not only the technology, it's the people behind. When you watch racing as a kid, it is really the drivers. Of course the cars are fascinating, but it is the one driver you like, for whatever reason. And I think it is important that you that you somehow transport that to the people, that it's still cool to drive such a car."
Listen to the podcast or watch the video for the full 20 minute interview. For more information on World eX go to https://www.rccoworldex.com
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Realteam Hydrogen and BMW Redline win 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual
Vast global digital broadcast reach for $250k Le Mans Virtual 24h
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How an unlikely tie-up won sim racing's biggest prize
By Josh Suttill
An unlikely partnership between World Endurance Championship LMP1 privateers Rebellion Racing and Williams Formula 1's highly-successful sim racing team yielded victory in the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual. Here's how it triumphed in the biggest sim race ever staged
How seriously should Esports be taken?
As interest in Esports has increased during the coronavirus lockdown, the lines have become blurred between what's real and what's virtual - especially when some high-profile participants seem to be playing for laughs, says Luke Smith
Why Abt's deception left Audi with no choice
By Matt Kew
Daniel Abt's suspension by the Audi Formula E team - and possible loss of his drive - for fielding a ringer in an Esports event could be considered an overreaction. But in a wider context, his employers had little other alternative
How Leclerc is embracing his new mission
By Jonathan Noble
The emergence of Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc as a Twitch streaming star has been one of the pleasant surprises of lockdown so far. He says it is giving fans a greater insight into his nature, but that's not his primary purpose
Leclerc's Virtual GP annihilation deserves great credit
The introduction of Charles Leclerc, Alex Albon, George Russell and Antonio Giovinazzi to Formula 1's Virtual GP last weekend meant it was a step above the franchise's debut two weeks ago. But a dominant performance from Esports newcomer Leclerc stole the show
How the hidden side of being fast has been exposed
The lack of real track action so far this year hasn't stop drivers from keeping their racing brains 'fresh', as former F1 star Stoffel Vandoorne suggested last weekend.
Why entertainment isn't Esports greatest virtue right now
MotoGP's virtual #StayAtHomeGP was a sad reminder of some of the storylines that could be unfolding had the real-life season not been delayed indefinitely by the coronavirus pandemic. While we can bemoan Esports as being a poor relation of the real thing, it has an even more important function to perform
F1's pantomime Virtual GP is fun but unsustainable
F1 Esports' inaugural Virtual Grand Prix last weekend provided brilliant entertainment to those tuning in to watch a mix of F1 drivers and celebrities battle on track, but was a missed opportunity for marketing its own Esports stars. A change of approach is needed if it is to successfully fill the void until the resumption of proper racing


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Emultech retains Scott Fleming as COO and expands scientific staff
Scott Fleming joins Emultech as Chief Commercial Officer to expand and accelerate growth
Mr. Fleming brings nearly 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical and drug delivery industries, with a background that includes management & technology consulting, entrepreneurship and executive commercial positions in both large and specialty pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Fleming co-founded MicroDose Therapeutx, a drug delivery and specialty pharmaceutical company which was acquired by Teva Pharmaceuticals in 2013.
Emultech expands scientific staff
Also joining Emultech this month are Thao Pham, PhD and Freek van der Heijden, MSc.
Dr. Pham is an experienced researcher in bio-based materials and an expert in bio-engineered proteins and carbohydrates used for hydrocolloid formulations and active gels in biomedical applications. After receiving her PhD from Wageningen University, NL, Dr. Pham was a postdoctoral researcher fabricating new proteinaceous nano-capsules and also developed innovative thermosensitive protein-based hydrogels. As a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, she developed nanofibers to be used in hydrogels and membranes for wound healing. Dr. Pham has a Master's in Biomedicine with experience in molecular biology, genetic engineering and neuronal diseases like multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
Mr. van der Heijden is a biomedical engineer who received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research projects included; regulation of osteoclastic activity in an osteoblast/ osteoclast co-culture towards in vitro bone remodelling model, as well as an image segmentation method for automatic resorption pit detection and quantification. He also worked on the implementation of an in silico model for bone cell behaviour in a mechanically and biochemically loaded tissue engineered scaffold.
To support its growing team, Emultech is advancing its analytical capabilities so that we can better help you to accelerate your development and production timelines through improved drug loading measurement and optimization. These new scientific recruits, along with Mr. Fleming have joined the rest of the Emultech team at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven.
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Reagor, Dykes say it's too soon for a judgment in civil case
By Sarah Self-WalbrickFor AGN Media
Jan 28, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jan 28, 2019 at 5:29 PM
Counsel for Rick Dykes and Bart Reagor filed a motion Friday to defer a summary judgment in the civil case between Ford Motor Credit Co. and the principals of Reagor-Dykes Auto Group.
The motion suggests that six months into the case, there are still too many unanswered questions for a fair ruling.
Earlier this month, Ford Credit filed a motion in district court for summary judgment - meaning the case would not go through a full trial - citing enough evidence of fraud for a ruling in the creditor's favor.
The Dykes and Reagor motion states the defendants need proper time for discovery, and that the case is far from over. The court had previously set a Sept. 2019 deadline for summary judgment, and a Jan. 2020 discovery deadline.
The motion questions the relationship between former Reagor-Dykes Chief Financial Officer Shane Smith and Ford Credit Regional Manager Gary Byrd Jr. The two had previously worked together at Ford Credit. The document states the defending counsels plan to obtain personal and professional communications between Smith and Byrd, along with depositions from Smith, Byrd and other Ford Credit employees.
"Based on the inconsistencies between the June and July audits, and Smith and Byrd's longstanding relationship, Reagor and Dykes are certainly entitled to take discovery to determine whether Byrd was complicit in Smith's scheme," states the motion.
Though Ford Credit's quarterly audits were supposed to be random, the filing states Smith was notified in advance. A June 2018 audit reportedly showed results. A surprise audit in July prompted by irregularities in financial information provided by Smith found examples of inventory and financial fraud, court documents state.
Dykes and Reagor were not aware of any problems until after the surprise audit, according to court documents. Smith admitted to the principals that he falsified the reports.
"Upon learning of Smith's disclosure, Reagor-Dykes Auto Group terminated Smith's employment and referred Smith's disclosure to the local United States Attorney's Office, which has commenced an investigation," reads the recent filing.
No response to the most recent motion has been filed.
Ford Credit filed a lawsuit on July 31 against the Reagor-Dykes Auto Group, including owners Bart Reagor and Rick Dykes, claiming the dealership chain owes a total more than $114 million. Six of the dealerships filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection the following day, and give others filed at a later date.
The original civil lawsuit is now between Ford Credit and Dykes and Reagor personally, due to the ongoing bankruptcies.