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Grand Perfecta Issues an 'Across the Board' Update on Progress and Operations
Grand Perfecta Issues an 'Across the Board' Update on Progress and Operations
TOKYO, JAPAN--(Marketwired - July 25, 2016) - Grand Perfecta Inc., (OTCQX: GPIW), the 'front runner' in the horse racing information sector serving the Japanese market, today provides an update for its stockholders on the company's progress and operations.
Grand Perfecta, Inc., is Asia's largest horse racing information company serving the Japanese market. Divisions include Japan-based Link Bit Consulting, its horse-racing data and media platform; Hong Kong-based Umajin HK which provides news, data and media about horse racing and soccer; and Sports Perfecta, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Grand Perfecta which is focused on fantasy sports and online and mobile gaming for global sports.
"We currently have 1.25 million non-paying users and 87,000 paying customers to our Internet and phone services in Japan," says Shuya Watanabe, CEO, Grand Perfecta, Inc. "Customers to our Internet and phone information services pay access fees that range between $4 and $800 depending on the level of information access."
"Japan is currently the largest market for horse race wagering globally, with wagers exceeding $28 billion annually generated by over 8 million racing fans," says Takashi Ozawa, President & COO, Grand Perfecta, Inc. "We continue to enhance and grow our business within Japan but we feel this is an opportune time to expand our model globally."
"We have been positioning the company for global expansion during the past two years," said Watanabe. "Our Hong Kong subsidiary, UMAJIN Hong Kong Ltd., is focused on the expansion of the business in Hong Kong and mainland China. In addition to the horse racing UMAJIN is also active in the soccer market."
In January 2016, Grand Perfecta Inc. announced the acquisition of FanXT operating under the company's US subsidiary, Sports Perfecta. Sports Perfecta is a digital sports media company, offering fantasy sports and digital media platforms to sport leagues across the world. Its digital products include, fantasy sport games, websites, iPhone and Android mobile apps, Facebook and Smart TV apps. This acquisition marked the company's entry into the US market as well as the fantasy sports industry.
"Fantasy sports is a rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar market and our existing data publication and subscriber acquisition model, makes us ideally positioned to capitalize on this market," says Shuya Watanabe, CEO, Grand Perfecta, Inc. Prior launches for Sports Perfecta include fantasy jockey and fantasy sumo. Grand Perfecta also operates Fantasy4All, which is fantasy sports provider for NFL, NBA, MLB, and soccer.
"We are excited about the opportunities ahead of us," says Shuya Watanabe, CEO, Grand Perfecta, Inc. "We feel we the efforts we have been making to position ourselves globally, now have us ready to take advantage of many of the growing trends throughout the world."
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The most money is always made at the worst of times....
Eric Gales:
'I need lunch money,' Alabama school stamps on child's arm
When Jon Bivens' son came home with a stamp on his hand during the last week of school, Bivens didn't think much of it.
"I thought it was a good job stamp," he said.
Upon another glance, Bivens saw that it wasn't a good job stamp. There was a smiley face, and under it a note saying, "I need lunch money."
Bivens' son attends Gardendale Elementary School and just completed third grade.
Typically, Bivens said, he or his wife receives an email when their son's lunch money account is running low. While he mostly brings his lunch from home, the 8-year-old likes to buy ice cream or other treats from the lunchroom.
Bivens said that, on the last week of school, his son had a positive balance in his account. After he bought his ice cream, the child still had a balance of $1.38.
"They herd these kids like cattle," Bivens said.
The father said that his son was "branded."
"When you start stamping a message on a child's body instead of calling...it's not okay."
Bivens' son did not return to school for the last few days of the academic year.
Gardendale Elementary School Principal Laura Ware said that she was not aware of the incident, but that the lunchroom department uses different methods of alerting parents of their child's balance. She said those notices include emails, notes, stickers, and stamps.
She said that the school first sends emails when a child's account balance is low or negative. If parents do not respond, she said that lunchroom workers use the stickers, or stamps, like Bivens' son received.
"It's a form of bullying and shaming the kids," Bivens said.
He said that he had not received an email, and that he wasn't planning to add more money to the account because there were only a few days left of school.
Even if the child had a negative balance and did need money, Bivens thought the stamp was unacceptable.
"I don't care if my son has a -$100 balance... I don't care. Send me a note home or an email...Where can I draw the line regarding my parental rights?"
Ware, who said that her greatest desire as a principal is to communicate with the parents, said, "we want to communicate in a way that our parents are happy with."
"That's a part of our jobs."
She said that the school would be happy to only send emails and exclude stamps for Bivens' son, and for any other parent that wishes to do so.
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/06/gardendale_elementary_student.html
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Postpone Rio Olympics? WHO to hold emergency meeting about Zika
The World Health Organization's Emergency Committee on Zika will meet to evaluate the risks tied to going on with the Olympic Games in Brazil this summer.
By Stephanie Nebehay and Bill Berkrot, Reuters June 4, 2016
Geneva and New York — With debate growing over the safety of holding the Olympics in Brazil amid the ongoing Zika virus outbreak, the World Health Organization's Emergency Committee on Zika will meet in the coming weeks to evaluate the risks tied to going on with the Games in August, a WHO spokeswoman said on Friday.
"The Emergency Committee meeting will consider the situation in Brazil, including the question of the Olympics," WHO spokeswoman Nyka Alexander told Reuters in response to a query.
WHO makes risk assessments of a public health issue and it would be up to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to decide on holding the event in Rio de Janeiro, due to start on Aug. 5, she said.
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"It is not within our mandate" to make decisions on holding the Olympic Games, Alexander said.
A spokesman for Rio 2016 said they continue to follow WHO recommendations on Zika.
Athletes will have to make their own decisions as to whether to risk Zika for the potential glory of Olympic gold. Cyclist Tejay Van Garderen this week withdrew from consideration for the U.S. team over concerns that the virus could present risks for his pregnant wife.
Other athletes have expressed doubts about going to the 2016 Olympics. The world's No. 1 ranked golfer Jason Day on Friday said that he's not certain he will go. Australian Day had previously been vocal in his support for golf's return to the Olympics after an absence of more than a century but he and his wife, Ellie, want to make "an educated decision" as they consider having a third child.
Dr. David Heymann, chairman of the WHO committee of independent experts, told Reuters on Monday that postponing the Rio Olympics because of fears it could speed the spread of the Zika virus would give a "false" sense of security because travelers are constantly going in and out of Brazil.
It will be winter in Brazil when the Olympics begin, so the mosquitoes that carry the virus will be less abundant, WHO experts said.
WEIGHING RISKS
A public letter was issued last week signed by 150 public health experts and scientists calling for the Olympics to be delayed or moved over fears that the Games could speed up the global spread of the Zika virus.
As The Christian Science Monitor reported, for these health experts the allowing the Olympic games to continue in Rio would be "unethical."
More than 500,000 tourists are expected to travel to Rio de Janeiro during the period when the games will be held, and the doctors argue that the tourists may acquire the virus during the trip and risk infecting people when they return to their home countries.
"Should that happen to poor, as-yet unaffected places (e.g., most of South Asia and Africa) the suffering can be great," the letter read. "It is unethical to run the risk, just for Games that could proceed anyway, if postponed and/or moved."
Top U.S. health officials agreed with WHO experts that Zika did not pose enough of a risk to postpone or move the Olympics. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last week said travel to the Olympics would represent less than one quarter of 1 percent of all travel to Zika-affected areas, and that the risk was low except for pregnant women.
For women who are pregnant or hoping to become pregnant, the recommendation is to stay away from areas with Zika outbreaks.
In hardest hit Brazil, authorities have confirmed more than 1,400 cases of microcephaly believed to be linked to Zika.
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen had asked WHO to examine whether the Games in Rio de Janeiro could accelerate global spread of the mosquito-borne virus.
Alexander said the date for the next meeting of the WHO Emergency Committee was still being decided, but that it would be held this month.
Heymann told Reuters that it was tentatively set for June 21. The panel of independent experts meets every three months and its last meeting was on March 8.
Heymann also said national health authorities should advise their respective athletes and citizens of child-bearing age to protect themselves against mosquito bites with repellents while in Brazil and to practice safe sex on return for at least three weeks.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva and Bill Berkrot in New York; editing by Andrew Roche and G Crosse)
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2016/0604/Postpone-Rio-Olympics-WHO-to-hold-emergency-meeting-about-Zika
BO's approach to having 'relations' with the Mooch.
I had it recorded & I 100% agree... When it was just before 6pm, with a delayed broadcast, I thought McGirt would miss his par putt on 18 and it would be over. It was like 6:03 and they could have all there later shows run a few minutes late. I didn't know it had already ended. It was a good ending, lots of drama.
Because of the advertisements, announcers talking and non-golf Bull $hit, I always record golf and NASCAR, and watch later... I just wait to check Draftkings till after I watch it...
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Scott Adams: The Risks of a Trump Presidency
By Scott Adams
June 2nd, 2016 @ 10:33am in #Trump
What exactly is the risk of a Trump presidency? Beats me. But let’s talk about it anyway.
Your Abysmal Track Record
For starters, ask yourself how well you predicted the performance of past presidents. Have your psychic powers been accurate?
I’m not good at predicting the performance of presidents. I thought Reagan would be dangerous, but he presided over the end of the Cold War. And I thought George W. Bush would be unlikely to start a war, much less two of them.
But it gets better. Even AFTER the presidency, can you tell who did the best job? I can’t. You think you can, but you can’t. And the simple reason for that is because there is no base case with which to compare a president. All we know is what did happen, not what might have happened if we took another path. You can’t compare a situation in the real world to your imaginary world in which something better happened. That is nonsense. And yet we do it. Watch me prove it right now.
So, how did President Obama do on the job? Was he a good president?
If you have an answer in your head – either yes or no – it proves you don’t know how to make decisions. No judgement can be made about Obama’s performance because there is nothing to which it can be compared. No one else in a parallel universe was president at the same time, doing different things and getting different results.
I’m not a fan of everything our president has done, but I feel as if historians will rank him as one of our best presidents. Definitely in the top 20%.
Wait, what? Am I crazy?
Many of you think Obama nearly destroyed civilization. You and I can’t both be right. But both of us can be irrational in trusting our opinions. We are literally comparing Obama’s actual performance to imagined alternatives that exist only in our minds. Maybe you think the imaginary president in your mind is way better than the real one, whereas I think the real one did well compared to my imaginary alternative.
That isn’t thinking. Science is pretty clear on that.
And how about your ability to predict the future of your own relationships? Most relationships end badly, so we know that the majority of Americans are not good at predicting the future. Have all of your relationships worked out the way you expected? Mine haven’t.
I think you’ll agree that humans are terrible at predicting the future. But that’s not the problem. The problem is that we think we are not terrible at predicting the future. Our certainty in the face of overwhelming uncertainty is irrational.
Do you think President Trump would be extra-dangerous to the world? If you have an opinion on that – either yes or no – you’re being irrational.
The FBI Profiler Approach
When FBI profilers are trying to figure out who perpetrated a specific type of crime, they can often narrow it down to people who have done the same sort of thing in the past. Arsonists have played with matches in their youth. Serial killers have probably been cruel to animals. Abusers have probably abused people before. Pedophiles have often been victims themselves. Patterns of this sort can be predictive, at least when viewed by experts.
Donald Trump has about five decades of track record in business that includes no violent acts whatsoever. Nor have we heard stories of any Trump temper tantrums in the business world that go beyond the scope of what any CEO does on a bad day. Somehow Trump built hundreds of business entities, amassed great wealth, and raised a great set of kids. And nowhere in the story is the part where he did something scary or dangerous. That sort of behavior doesn’t pop up suddenly when you’re a grandfather.
The Scary Talk
Trump does talk tough. He talks of expelling illegals from the country. He talks of waterboarding. He talks of bombing the shit out of ISIS. He talks about going after the families of terrorists.
But Trump also openly talks about the value of hyperbole (also known as bullshit). He wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. Trump tells us – in the clearest possible language – that he always sets the table for negotiating by making a big opening offer. If Trump is consistent with decades of history – and with what he says about his approach to negotiating – then his more extreme statements are just psychology. That’s what an FBI profiler would tell you. People don’t suddenly change their basic mode of operation at age 69, especially when it is working.
Chemical Cyborgs
In my view, we are already in the Age of Cyborgs. You probably have a friend who has one kind of personality without drugs (legal or illegal) and a completely different personality when using drugs, including alcohol. Maybe the drugs are curing depression, or anxiety, or loneliness, or something. But people are different when they are on them. That’s the point of taking drugs.
Trump doesn’t drink. He never has. He doesn’t take illegal drugs either. He’s the same guy at night that he is in the morning. He’s not a chemical cyborg with a personality that is driven by big pharma.
Clinton, on the other hand, is part human, part pharmacological grab-bag. Her personality is at least partly determined by whatever cocktail of meds and wine are in her system at any given moment. In other words, she is just like most adults. Our personalities are the product of the drugs in our system, for better or for worse.
Do you make the same decisions when you are tired? Do you make the same decisions when you’re angry, depressed, or in pain? Probably not. So if meds are fixing those conditions, those meds are also controlling your decisions. And that introduces risk.
Trump brings with him all the risks of being Trump, but he does seem to be the same person every day. Clinton brings with her all the risks of being Clinton, plus any extra risks from a glass of wine or doctor-prescribed meds. That risk could be nearly nothing. Or not. We have no way to know.
Scaring Foreign Leaders
I hear voters say they worry about Trump offending world leaders and triggering wars. But keep in mind that world leaders have been putting up with dangerous and shitty U.S. presidents for hundreds of years. It hasn’t been a problem yet.
One of the things Trump has going for him is that he’s a well-known entity. People hate surprises. Any foreign leader would know exactly what they are getting with Trump. Like Reagan, a President Trump would talk tough – for effect – but he is likable in person, and he has a strong bias to avoid any problems that are bad for business. China would have no problem with any of that. Putin would have no problem with Trump either. They know what negotiating looks like.
Do foreign leaders WANT a President Trump? Hell, no. Trump says he plans to negotiate better deals for America, which means worse deals for everyone else. Of course foreign leaders are going to tell us Trump is risky, scary, and anything else bad, just to stop him.
I doubt any foreign leader is literally afraid of Trump. But they might want you to think they are afraid of him, so you won’t elect him. Foreign leaders are not idiots. To some extent, they are playing us.
Racism
What about all of Trump’s racism? An FBI profiler would assume a person’s pattern of racism would continue, maybe worsen.
But Trump’s racism exists solely in the minds of his opponents. He has proposed no racist policies and he has no racist acts in his past.
Trump opposes illegal immigration. But he loves legal Americans of every color and flavor. He says so often. That’s not racism. That’s more like the opposite.
Trump did say Mexicans are rapists. But you’d have to be dumb to think he meant every single Mexican coming into the country is a rapist. Literally no one – ever – has believed all Mexicans are rapists. If you think Trump believes it – or wants us to believe it – you have abandoned any hold on reason.
But we agree that Trump says outrageous things, because doing so gets him elected, apparently.
Religious Discrimination
What about Trump’s idea to temporarily ban Muslim immigration until we figure out what the problem is? Isn’t that religious discrimination?
Yes, it is. But it is the legal kind because it would only apply to non-citizens trying to enter the country. And keep in mind that Islam – as commonly practiced in Muslim countries around the world – is not compatible with the Constitution of the United States. That’s different from the situation with Presbyterian immigrants, for example, whose beliefs fold neatly into the current system.
I don’t have an opinion on the best way to handle Muslim immigration because I don’t know how effectively we can screen people. But common sense says we should treat different risk classes in different ways. That’s the way we price car insurance, and it is the way we make all data-driven decisions. Ignoring risk is noble, but it isn’t always smart.
Trump also suggested creating a government list of which residents of the country are Muslim. That’s some scary shit. Until…you realize the government already has that list. You know they do, right?
And if they don’t, they can pull it together from existing Big Data any time they want. That risk is already baked into our current situation. The government knows what you are up to as well. They know your religion (with high probability), your spending habits, your porn preferences, and your health. Or at least they can know those things any time they want.
The privacy ship already sailed.
War Crimes
Trump famously suggested we use torture to fight terrorism. Torture is not legal. And he suggested going after the families of terrorists. That’s a war crime too.
Did he mean any of that?
Trump is always operating on the dimension of emotion and persuasion. He wants you – and the terrorists – to know he’s the most bad-ass player running for president. That gives him an edge in getting elected and it gives him a psychological advantage against ISIS. If you’re a potential suicide bomber, you don’t worry about President Obama killing your family. But President Trump? You’d better think this through.
Personally, I think it would be a terrible idea to torture terrorists (unless it works), and always a bad idea to target families. But saying you might do those things is effective both for winning a Republican primary and for keeping the enemy off balance.
I think I’ve mentioned that Trump says things for effect.
Risk of Business as Usual
Have you wondered why Republican Bill Kristol and others are looking for a third-party candidate who will guarantee a Clinton win over Trump? That’s probably because they know Clinton is in the pockets of the defense industry, and perhaps so are they.
The defense industry needs America to fight wars. History suggests Clinton will be a normal president who starts wars when the defense industry tells her to do so. Trump is less likely to play that game because he doesn’t need their money. That makes Trump the lower risk of starting a war. He has no profit motive.
When to Increase Risk
As a general rule, you want to keep risks low when things are going well and nothing is broken. But when things are heading in the wrong direction, sometimes the only way to fix the situation is to introduce a reasonable, entrepreneurial risk.
So, if you think the country is heading in the right direction, you probably don’t want someone like Trump as president. Trump is more likely to introduce change than Clinton. But if you think the government is broken, you might want some Trump-like entrepreneurial risk in your future.
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Speaking of risk, my book doesn’t have any.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145309172876/the-risks-of-a-trump-presidency
Judge Presiding Over Trump University Case Is Member Of La Raza Lawyers Group
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/01/judge-presiding-over-trump-university-case-is-member-of-la-raza-lawyers-group/
Rigged: The Trial of Trump University
http://spectator.org/rigged-the-trial-of-trump-university/
Stunning Hidden Agendas Exposed – Trump University Lawsuit Brought By Firm Who Paid $675,000 To Bill and Hillary Clinton…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/05/31/stunning-hidden-agendas-exposed-trump-university-lawsuit-brought-by-firm-who-paid-675000-to-bill-and-hillary-clinton/
Posted on May 31, 2016 by sundance
Bloggers and researchers doing the digging MSM reporters refuse.
Research by Lawnewz has discovered the legal firm behind the Trump civil action lawsuit paid Bill and Hillary Clinton massive amounts of money for speeches and advocacy during and after Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State:
President Obama, Officials Attend 9/11 Memorial Museum Opening Ceremony
[Via Lawnewz] Donald Trump has undoubtedly made the class action lawsuit against Trump University a prime campaign issue. For the last several days, he has been on a tear against federal Judge Gonzolo Curiel who is overseeing one of the class action lawsuits against Trump University. In the lawsuit, former students claim that the University and Trump violated federal law by luring them to sign up with false promises and then defrauded them once they handed over their checks.
LawNewz.com discovered that when it comes to politics, Robbins Gellar Rudman & Dowd, the law firm behind the class action lawsuit, is not exactly neutral either. Our analysis, using data compiled by The Washington Post, found that Robbins Gellar Rudman & Dowd paid the Clintons a total of $675,000 in fees for speeches since 2009. Hillary Clinton gave a speech for the law firm as recently as September 4, 2014.
Bill Clinton also gave a speech for the same fee back in 2014, and another one in 2009 before the firm had been renamed (they used to be called Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP). In fact, of the five law firms that paid for Clintons to speak in the last few years, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd paid out the most money. (read more)
In addition GotNews is reporting on the Open Borders immigration position of the judge overseeing the Trump civil case.
Donald Trump has accused Judge Gonzalo Curiel as having a bias, a specific agenda bias, to the benefit of the plaintiffs in the case; and it appears he is correct.
Judge Curiel, an activist for illegal immigration, even went as far as to work on behalf of San Diego La Raza activists to select illegal aliens for scholarships.
judge Gonzalo Curiel
(pdf link)
http://sdlrla.com/scholarship/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/La-Raza-Dinnner-Program-2014-FINAL.pdf
More on the La Raza connection to Judge Gonzalo Curiel is HERE
WOW: Trump Hatin’ “Mexican Judge” Awarded Scholarships To Illegal Immigrants
http://gotnews.com/mexican-judge-gonzalo-curiel/
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Darwin Award?